Senior Developer
UK

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

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 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 91 76 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 1,751 5,118 6,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.35% 4.19% 5.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.51% 4.39% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 3,448 4,909
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 49,872 116,646 121,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.43% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,454 73,520 84,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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 -15 1,485 £70,000 -3.45% 713
UK excluding London -20 946 £65,000 +4.00% 452
Work from Home -16 934 £70,000 - 449
London -8 679 £82,500 -2.94% 314
South East +6 265 £70,000 +7.69% 141
North of England -14 261 £60,000 -1.64% 139
North West -24 134 £62,500 - 87
South West -9 115 £60,000 -7.69% 51
Yorkshire +21 114 £60,500 - 34
Midlands -30 111 £60,000 - 58
Scotland -32 99 £65,000 +8.33% 22
West Midlands -17 58 £60,000 - 41
East Midlands +10 56 £57,500 +2.22% 17
Wales -4 47 £57,500 +4.55% 14
East of England +16 31 £75,000 +22.95% 24
Northern Ireland +31 24 £56,500 -10.32% 7
North East +21 13 £55,000 -8.33% 21

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, Senior 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 Developer in the job title.

1 658 (37.58%) JavaScript
2 632 (36.09%) C#
3 622 (35.52%) .NET
4 596 (34.04%) Agile
5 559 (31.92%) SQL
6 499 (28.50%) AWS
7 464 (26.50%) Java
8 454 (25.93%) React
9 449 (25.64%) Azure
10 400 (22.84%) HTML
11 381 (21.76%) CSS
12 375 (21.42%) Finance
13 358 (20.45%) Social Skills
14 322 (18.39%) AngularJS
15 318 (18.16%) Full Stack Development
16 315 (17.99%) DevOps
16 315 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
17 303 (17.30%) Microservices
18 289 (16.50%) Docker
19 282 (16.11%) TypeScript
20 277 (15.82%) CI/CD
21 272 (15.53%) Git
22 234 (13.36%) SQL Server
22 234 (13.36%) Mentoring
23 218 (12.45%) Software Engineering
24 215 (12.28%) Kubernetes
25 214 (12.22%) Front End Development
26 212 (12.11%) Python
26 212 (12.11%) Degree
27 211 (12.05%) Microsoft

Senior 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 54 (3.08%) Confluence
2 29 (1.66%) CMS
3 27 (1.54%) JBoss
3 27 (1.54%) Red Hat Fuse
4 25 (1.43%) Umbraco
5 20 (1.14%) WordPress
6 17 (0.97%) IIS
7 16 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.74%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.69%) Apache
10 10 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
11 8 (0.46%) Drupal
11 8 (0.46%) OpenEdge
12 6 (0.34%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.29%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.29%) nginx
13 5 (0.29%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.29%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
14 4 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (0.23%) Trello
3 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.057%) FileZilla
4 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.46%) Endur
3 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.23%) Maximo
5 3 (0.17%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
7 1 (0.057%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.057%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 499 (28.50%) AWS
2 449 (25.64%) Azure
3 120 (6.85%) SaaS
4 118 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
5 99 (5.65%) GCP
6 84 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 83 (4.74%) Serverless
8 72 (4.11%) GitHub
9 49 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
10 46 (2.63%) PowerApps
11 38 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 19 (1.09%) Azure Functions
16 19 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (0.91%) Power Automate
18 15 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.91%) HTTP
2 15 (0.86%) Internet
3 9 (0.51%) VoIP
4 7 (0.40%) PPP
5 6 (0.34%) Bluetooth
6 4 (0.23%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.23%) SSL
6 4 (0.23%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.17%) Firewall
8 2 (0.11%) DNS
8 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.11%) SSH
8 2 (0.11%) VPN
9 1 (0.057%) AMQP
9 1 (0.057%) ATM
9 1 (0.057%) Broadband
9 1 (0.057%) DHCP
9 1 (0.057%) FTP
9 1 (0.057%) MQTT
9 1 (0.057%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (13.36%) SQL Server
2 170 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (6.23%) MySQL
4 103 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 91 (5.20%) Oracle Database
6 86 (4.91%) NoSQL
7 65 (3.71%) Oracle Database 11g
8 62 (3.54%) Power BI
9 48 (2.74%) MongoDB
10 42 (2.40%) RDBMS
11 36 (2.06%) Redis
12 34 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 30 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
15 30 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
17 24 (1.37%) DynamoDB
17 24 (1.37%) JasperReports
17 24 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 272 (15.53%) Git
2 86 (4.91%) Maven
3 79 (4.51%) Jenkins
4 77 (4.40%) JIRA
5 50 (2.86%) Selenium
6 47 (2.68%) IntelliJ
7 29 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
8 27 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 27 (1.54%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 17 (0.97%) NUnit
10 17 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
11 15 (0.86%) JUnit
12 14 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.80%) Jasmine
12 14 (0.80%) Mocha
12 14 (0.80%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.74%) GitLab
13 13 (0.74%) Subversion
14 12 (0.69%) Moq
General
1 375 (21.42%) Finance
2 358 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 98 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (5.25%) Public Sector
5 71 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (3.66%) Retail
7 53 (3.03%) Banking
8 46 (2.63%) Front Office
8 46 (2.63%) Games
9 34 (1.94%) Tech for Good
10 33 (1.88%) Financial Institution
11 30 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.37%) Marketing
13 16 (0.91%) Law
14 15 (0.86%) Legal
15 14 (0.80%) Local Government
16 13 (0.74%) Police
17 11 (0.63%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.57%) Advertising
18 10 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 622 (35.52%) .NET
2 454 (25.93%) React
3 400 (22.84%) HTML
4 381 (21.76%) CSS
5 322 (18.39%) AngularJS
6 191 (10.91%) .NET Core
7 190 (10.85%) REST
8 188 (10.74%) ASP.NET
9 175 (9.99%) Node.js
10 172 (9.82%) Spring
11 157 (8.97%) RESTful
12 152 (8.68%) Web Services
13 141 (8.05%) .NET Framework
14 121 (6.91%) Vue
15 108 (6.17%) HTML5
16 105 (6.00%) JSON
17 104 (5.94%) Spring Boot
17 104 (5.94%) XML
18 95 (5.43%) Kafka
19 86 (4.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
2 59 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
3 54 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 53 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 42 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 35 (2.00%) Derivative
8 34 (1.94%) Equities
9 31 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.14%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 16 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.91%) Hedge funds
16 15 (0.86%) Sports Betting
17 12 (0.69%) Fixed Income
18 11 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 97 (5.54%) Linux
2 55 (3.14%) Windows
3 53 (3.03%) Android
4 35 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 15 (0.86%) Unix
7 4 (0.23%) CentOS
8 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (34.04%) Agile
2 318 (18.16%) Full Stack Development
3 315 (17.99%) DevOps
3 315 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
4 303 (17.30%) Microservices
5 277 (15.82%) CI/CD
6 234 (13.36%) Mentoring
7 218 (12.45%) Software Engineering
8 214 (12.22%) Front End Development
9 206 (11.76%) Unit Testing
10 182 (10.39%) TDD
11 178 (10.17%) MVC
12 172 (9.82%) Scrum
13 164 (9.37%) Computer Science
14 148 (8.45%) Actionable Insight
15 140 (8.00%) User Experience
16 137 (7.82%) Artificial Intelligence
17 123 (7.02%) Fintech
18 114 (6.51%) Design Patterns
19 112 (6.40%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 658 (37.58%) JavaScript
2 632 (36.09%) C#
3 559 (31.92%) SQL
4 464 (26.50%) Java
5 282 (16.11%) TypeScript
6 212 (12.11%) Python
7 112 (6.40%) PHP
8 99 (5.65%) PL/SQL
9 81 (4.63%) C++
10 66 (3.77%) T-SQL
11 45 (2.57%) VB.NET
12 40 (2.28%) Ruby
13 35 (2.00%) Go
14 33 (1.88%) Bash
14 33 (1.88%) Kotlin
15 23 (1.31%) VB
16 19 (1.09%) C
17 18 (1.03%) PowerShell
18 16 (0.91%) Bicep
19 11 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 212 (12.11%) Degree
2 137 (7.82%) Security Cleared
3 123 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 119 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 15 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.29%) OCP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.23%) MCPD
11 3 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.11%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.51%) QA
2 23 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.03%) WCAG
4 9 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.11%) GDPR
6 2 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.057%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.057%) EMIR
7 1 (0.057%) MiFID
7 1 (0.057%) NCSC
7 1 (0.057%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.057%) PMO
System Software
1 289 (16.50%) Docker
2 16 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.51%) OpenSIPS
4 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) Varnish
6 1 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.057%) Firmware
6 1 (0.057%) Postfix
6 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.057%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 215 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.34%) Terraform
3 10 (0.57%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Grafana
5 5 (0.29%) Kibana
5 5 (0.29%) MIIS
6 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.057%) Istio
7 1 (0.057%) Plesk
7 1 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 211 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 156 (8.91%) Oracle
3 39 (2.23%) Google
4 35 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 11 (0.63%) Sybase
6 10 (0.57%) SAP
7 9 (0.51%) Adobe
7 9 (0.51%) Xamarin
8 8 (0.46%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.46%) OpenLink
8 8 (0.46%) Progress
8 8 (0.46%) Rollbar
8 8 (0.46%) TIBCO
9 6 (0.34%) Databricks
9 6 (0.34%) Sparx
10 5 (0.29%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.29%) WooCommerce
10 5 (0.29%) WSO2
10 5 (0.29%) Zend
11 4 (0.23%) Alteryx