Senior Software Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 428 441
Rank change year-on-year -73 +13 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 81 381 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.48% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.51% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 60 339 249
10th Percentile £52,475 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -3.70% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 37,615 74,684 47,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.19% 94.94% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 20,030 52,064 28,905
10th Percentile £25,625 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +13 41 £60,000 -11.11% 21
South West +62 10 £62,500 +4.17% 11
Scotland +51 10 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North of England +12 10 £60,000 - 14
East of England +17 5 £45,000 -25.00% 10
North West -5 4 £59,000 -12.59% 9
North East +39 3 £115,000 +109.09% 1
Wales +36 3 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Yorkshire +25 3 £60,000 - 4
West Midlands +46 2 £100,000 +81.82% 7
Midlands +37 2 £100,000 +81.82% 13
Senior Software Developer
UK

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Senior Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 49 (60.49%) C#
2 31 (38.27%) .NET
3 30 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (30.86%) TypeScript
5 24 (29.63%) React
5 24 (29.63%) Test Automation
5 24 (29.63%) AWS
6 21 (25.93%) Software Engineering
7 20 (24.69%) Software Testing
7 20 (24.69%) .NET Core
8 19 (23.46%) ASP.NET
9 17 (20.99%) SQL Server
10 16 (19.75%) Microservices
11 15 (18.52%) XML
11 15 (18.52%) UML
11 15 (18.52%) C++
11 15 (18.52%) Node.js
12 14 (17.28%) SysML
12 14 (17.28%) MagicDraw
12 14 (17.28%) Data Modelling
12 14 (17.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (16.05%) Serverless
13 13 (16.05%) CI/CD
13 13 (16.05%) Agile
13 13 (16.05%) Degree
13 13 (16.05%) Computer Science
13 13 (16.05%) Azure
14 12 (14.81%) Kanban
14 12 (14.81%) Python

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.23%) CMS
1 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.23%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 24 (29.63%) AWS
2 13 (16.05%) Azure
2 13 (16.05%) Serverless
3 11 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.17%) GitHub
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.47%) GCP
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.23%) Azure WebJobs
6 1 (1.23%) Contentful
6 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.23%) IaaS
6 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Network Security
2 2 (2.47%) Modbus
2 2 (2.47%) MQTT
2 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.35%) DynamoDB
3 8 (9.88%) Relational Database
4 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.94%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.47%) Metadata
6 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (17.28%) MagicDraw
2 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) JIRA
4 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (9.88%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.94%) Banking
2 4 (4.94%) Finance
2 4 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (4.94%) Law
2 4 (4.94%) Private Banking
3 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Retail
5 1 (1.23%) Automotive
5 1 (1.23%) Legal
5 1 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (1.23%) Publishing
5 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (38.27%) .NET
2 24 (29.63%) React
3 20 (24.69%) .NET Core
4 19 (23.46%) ASP.NET
5 15 (18.52%) Node.js
5 15 (18.52%) XML
6 11 (13.58%) GraphQL
7 6 (7.41%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.94%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.94%) Kafka
8 4 (4.94%) RESTful
8 4 (4.94%) Spring
8 4 (4.94%) Vue
9 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (2.47%) CSS
10 2 (2.47%) React Native
10 2 (2.47%) REST
10 2 (2.47%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (2.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
1 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.94%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.70%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.70%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.47%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.47%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.47%) IoT
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Smart City
5 1 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.47%) Windows
4 1 (1.23%) Android
4 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 24 (29.63%) Test Automation
3 21 (25.93%) Software Engineering
4 20 (24.69%) Software Testing
5 16 (19.75%) Microservices
6 15 (18.52%) UML
7 14 (17.28%) Data Modelling
7 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (17.28%) SysML
8 13 (16.05%) Agile
8 13 (16.05%) CI/CD
8 13 (16.05%) Computer Science
9 12 (14.81%) Clean Code
9 12 (14.81%) Kanban
10 11 (13.58%) SDLC
10 11 (13.58%) Unit Testing
11 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 10 (12.35%) Functional Programming
11 10 (12.35%) Propensity Modelling
11 10 (12.35%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 49 (60.49%) C#
2 25 (30.86%) TypeScript
3 15 (18.52%) C++
4 12 (14.81%) Python
4 12 (14.81%) SQL
5 10 (12.35%) Java
6 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.41%) C
8 2 (2.47%) Bash
8 2 (2.47%) Fortran
8 2 (2.47%) Go
8 2 (2.47%) Rust
9 1 (1.23%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.23%) OpenEdge ABL
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (16.05%) Degree
3 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) PhD
6 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Firmware
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.23%) Cisco
2 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle
2 1 (1.23%) Red Hat