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 £58,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 441 459
Rank change year-on-year -57 +18 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 87 349 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.49% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 64 309 274
10th Percentile £52,325 £46,250 £50,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £64,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.40% -10.71% -

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +48 43 £56,000 -20.00% 33
South West +55 16 £60,000 +3.45% 12
North of England +19 12 £60,000 - 33
Scotland +74 8 £55,000 -4.35% 4
North West -12 6 £59,000 -15.71% 22
East of England +19 5 £45,000 -25.00% 13
Yorkshire +44 3 £60,000 - 9
North East +37 3 £115,000 +76.92% 3
Wales - 2 £65,000 - 9
West Midlands +33 1 - - 19
Midlands +30 1 - - 24
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 15 May 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 47 (54.02%) C#
2 43 (49.43%) TypeScript
3 41 (47.13%) React
4 38 (43.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (39.08%) .NET
6 33 (37.93%) Test Automation
7 32 (36.78%) AWS
8 28 (32.18%) Node.js
9 23 (26.44%) GraphQL
10 21 (24.14%) Serverless
10 21 (24.14%) SQL Server
11 20 (22.99%) Kanban
11 20 (22.99%) Unit Testing
11 20 (22.99%) .NET Core
12 19 (21.84%) Secure Coding
12 19 (21.84%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (21.84%) Microservices
12 19 (21.84%) Clean Code
12 19 (21.84%) ASP.NET
13 18 (20.69%) Software Testing
13 18 (20.69%) Technology Strategy
13 18 (20.69%) Event-Driven
13 18 (20.69%) Functional Programming
13 18 (20.69%) DynamoDB
13 18 (20.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (19.54%) Degree
14 17 (19.54%) Software Engineering
14 17 (19.54%) JavaScript
15 15 (17.24%) XML
15 15 (17.24%) Docker

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 (1.15%) CMS
1 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.15%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.78%) AWS
2 21 (24.14%) Serverless
3 19 (21.84%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (12.64%) Azure
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.15%) Azure WebJobs
6 1 (1.15%) Contentful
6 1 (1.15%) GCP
6 1 (1.15%) GitHub
6 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Modbus
1 2 (2.30%) MQTT
1 2 (2.30%) Network Security
1 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.15%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 18 (20.69%) DynamoDB
3 10 (11.49%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.60%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.30%) Metadata
5 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) MagicDraw
2 10 (11.49%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (6.90%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Finance
3 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.15%) Automotive
4 1 (1.15%) Banking
4 1 (1.15%) Electronics
4 1 (1.15%) Legal
4 1 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.15%) Publishing
4 1 (1.15%) Retail
4 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (47.13%) React
2 34 (39.08%) .NET
3 28 (32.18%) Node.js
4 23 (26.44%) GraphQL
5 20 (22.99%) .NET Core
6 19 (21.84%) ASP.NET
7 15 (17.24%) XML
8 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (3.45%) React Native
8 3 (3.45%) Vue
9 2 (2.30%) CSS
9 2 (2.30%) Middleware
9 2 (2.30%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (2.30%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.30%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (2.30%) WPF
10 1 (1.15%) EDIFACT
10 1 (1.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.60%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.30%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.30%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.30%) IoT
4 2 (2.30%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.15%) PropTech
5 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Linux
1 5 (5.75%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Android
2 2 (2.30%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.68%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (37.93%) Test Automation
3 20 (22.99%) Kanban
3 20 (22.99%) Unit Testing
4 19 (21.84%) Clean Code
4 19 (21.84%) Microservices
4 19 (21.84%) Secure Coding
5 18 (20.69%) Event-Driven
5 18 (20.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 18 (20.69%) Functional Programming
5 18 (20.69%) Software Testing
5 18 (20.69%) Technology Strategy
6 17 (19.54%) Software Engineering
7 14 (16.09%) Computer Science
7 14 (16.09%) Data Modelling
7 14 (16.09%) SysML
7 14 (16.09%) UML
8 13 (14.94%) Agile
8 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
9 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.02%) C#
2 43 (49.43%) TypeScript
3 17 (19.54%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.09%) SQL
5 12 (13.79%) C++
6 10 (11.49%) Java
6 10 (11.49%) Python
7 5 (5.75%) C
8 2 (2.30%) Bash
8 2 (2.30%) Fortran
8 2 (2.30%) PHP
8 2 (2.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.15%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.15%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.15%) OpenEdge ABL
9 1 (1.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (19.54%) Degree
2 14 (16.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.30%) PhD
6 1 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) GDPR
1 1 (1.15%) IEC 62304
1 1 (1.15%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 15 (17.24%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.15%) Cisco
2 1 (1.15%) Intel
2 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle