Senior Backend Developer Jobs

Senior Backend Developer
UK

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 837 901 878
Rank change year-on-year +64 -23 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 61 79 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.078% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.086% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 56 61 110
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,000
25th Percentile £60,938 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £79,063 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,625 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +30.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Backend Developer.

Salary trend for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Backend Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
England +73 48 £65,000 -16.13% 11
Work from Home +42 37 £65,000 -16.13% 9
UK excluding London -19 22 £60,000 -14.29% 6
London +91 21 £90,000 +16.13% 7
North of England +40 14 £60,000 -11.11% 1
North West -3 8 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Yorkshire +86 6 £60,000 -22.58%
Midlands - 4 £49,990 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £49,990 -
East of England +17 2 £55,000 -4.35%
South East +6 2 £55,000 -30.16% 1

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Backend 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 featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 36 (59.02%) AWS
2 32 (52.46%) Node.js
3 30 (49.18%) Serverless
3 30 (49.18%) Microservices
4 27 (44.26%) TypeScript
5 25 (40.98%) DynamoDB
5 25 (40.98%) C#
5 25 (40.98%) Agile
6 22 (36.07%) .NET
7 21 (34.43%) Docker
8 19 (31.15%) Event-Driven
9 18 (29.51%) Clean Code
9 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
10 17 (27.87%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (27.87%) GraphQL
10 17 (27.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 17 (27.87%) Software Engineering
11 15 (24.59%) JavaScript
12 14 (22.95%) DevOps
12 14 (22.95%) GitHub
13 13 (21.31%) Kafka
13 13 (21.31%) Azure
13 13 (21.31%) Kanban
13 13 (21.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (21.31%) SQL
13 13 (21.31%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (21.31%) OpenAPI
14 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
14 12 (19.67%) React
14 12 (19.67%) Software Testing

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (11.48%) nginx
2 2 (3.28%) CMS
2 2 (3.28%) IIS
2 2 (3.28%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 36 (59.02%) AWS
2 30 (49.18%) Serverless
3 17 (27.87%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (22.95%) GitHub
5 13 (21.31%) Azure
6 8 (13.11%) GCP
7 7 (11.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (9.84%) npm
8 6 (9.84%) Yarn
9 4 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.92%) SaaS
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.64%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (40.98%) DynamoDB
2 9 (14.75%) MySQL
3 7 (11.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.28%) DocumentDB
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Cypress.io
1 6 (9.84%) Mocha
2 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.92%) Postman
4 2 (3.28%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.64%) PHPUnit
General
1 7 (11.48%) Health Technology
2 5 (8.20%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.28%) Finance
3 2 (3.28%) Games
3 2 (3.28%) Retail
4 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.64%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (52.46%) Node.js
2 22 (36.07%) .NET
3 17 (27.87%) GraphQL
4 13 (21.31%) Kafka
4 13 (21.31%) OpenAPI
5 12 (19.67%) React
6 11 (18.03%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (16.39%) JSON
7 10 (16.39%) OAuth
8 9 (14.75%) AngularJS
8 9 (14.75%) JWT
9 7 (11.48%) ASP.NET
9 7 (11.48%) CSS
9 7 (11.48%) HTML
9 7 (11.48%) JSON Schema
9 7 (11.48%) Swagger
10 6 (9.84%) Entity Framework
10 6 (9.84%) Express.js
10 6 (9.84%) OAuth2
10 6 (9.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (11.48%) IoT
3 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Derivative
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Android
2 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (49.18%) Microservices
2 25 (40.98%) Agile
3 19 (31.15%) Event-Driven
4 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
4 18 (29.51%) Clean Code
5 17 (27.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 17 (27.87%) Software Engineering
6 14 (22.95%) DevOps
7 13 (21.31%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (21.31%) Kanban
8 12 (19.67%) Software Testing
9 11 (18.03%) Functional Programming
9 11 (18.03%) IT Strategy
9 11 (18.03%) SDLC
9 11 (18.03%) Secure Coding
9 11 (18.03%) Technology Strategy
9 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
9 11 (18.03%) Unit Testing
10 10 (16.39%) Integration Testing
11 9 (14.75%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) TypeScript
2 25 (40.98%) C#
3 15 (24.59%) JavaScript
4 13 (21.31%) SQL
5 7 (11.48%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) Python
5 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
6 6 (9.84%) C
6 6 (9.84%) Kotlin
7 5 (8.20%) Go
8 3 (4.92%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.92%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (9.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) QA
System Software
1 21 (34.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Terraform
3 6 (9.84%) Grafana
3 6 (9.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Google