Senior Developer Jobs

Senior Developer
UK

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 85 85
Rank change year-on-year -87 0 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 989 3,129 3,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 3.15% 3.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 3.33% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 775 2,570 2,681
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £98,875 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 49,922 93,907 92,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.63% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,447 67,290 58,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Top 18 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 12 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
England -96 866 £65,000 - 798
UK excluding London -110 566 £62,500 +4.17% 597
Work from Home -66 492 £65,000 +4.00% 689
London -49 362 £75,000 -6.25% 367
South East -60 177 £65,000 - 192
North of England -123 137 £60,000 - 187
North West -140 83 £60,000 - 134
Midlands -66 76 £65,000 +8.33% 72
South West -62 74 £60,000 +4.35% 55
West Midlands -18 62 £65,000 +4.00% 50
Scotland +40 56 £56,250 -2.17% 24
Yorkshire -37 42 £55,000 - 36
East of England -18 27 £66,250 +10.42% 48
Wales -18 22 £65,000 +23.37% 28
East Midlands -40 14 £57,500 +4.55% 19
North East +31 12 £69,500 +26.36% 19
Northern Ireland +6 5 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Isle of Man - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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.

1 346 (34.98%) JavaScript
2 321 (32.46%) C#
3 317 (32.05%) Agile
4 305 (30.84%) .NET
5 268 (27.10%) React
6 267 (27.00%) Azure
7 249 (25.18%) AWS
8 246 (24.87%) SQL
9 228 (23.05%) Finance
10 227 (22.95%) Social Skills
11 222 (22.45%) HTML
12 213 (21.54%) TypeScript
13 198 (20.02%) DevOps
14 185 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
15 184 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 183 (18.50%) CSS
16 183 (18.50%) Git
17 182 (18.40%) CI/CD
18 165 (16.68%) Python
19 162 (16.38%) SQL Server
20 136 (13.75%) Microservices
21 129 (13.04%) Java
21 129 (13.04%) Software Engineering
21 129 (13.04%) Node.js
22 128 (12.94%) Docker
23 127 (12.84%) User Experience
23 127 (12.84%) Test Automation
24 124 (12.54%) Front End Development
25 121 (12.23%) Mentoring
26 115 (11.63%) Serverless

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 27 (2.73%) CMS
2 23 (2.33%) Confluence
3 19 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.91%) WordPress
6 7 (0.71%) Drupal
6 7 (0.71%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.71%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.51%) Liferay
8 4 (0.40%) Apache
8 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.40%) IIS
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) Strapi
10 1 (0.10%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.10%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.40%) Sketch
1 4 (0.40%) Trello
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.10%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.10%) Blender
3 1 (0.10%) Maya
Business Applications
1 32 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (2.63%) NetSuite
3 11 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (1.01%) Magento
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.51%) Shopify
6 3 (0.30%) Endur
6 3 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 267 (27.00%) Azure
2 249 (25.18%) AWS
3 115 (11.63%) Serverless
4 82 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (7.58%) Power Platform
6 71 (7.18%) SaaS
7 69 (6.98%) GCP
8 63 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (5.66%) GitHub
10 43 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 31 (3.13%) Power Automate
12 29 (2.93%) PowerApps
13 23 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.12%) Azure Functions
14 21 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 20 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (1.82%) Figma
17 16 (1.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.11%) Internet
2 10 (1.01%) HTTP
3 5 (0.51%) BGP
3 5 (0.51%) IPsec
3 5 (0.51%) MPLS
3 5 (0.51%) OSPF
3 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.40%) Multicast
5 2 (0.20%) Modbus
5 2 (0.20%) MQTT
5 2 (0.20%) Network Security
5 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.10%) Broadband
6 1 (0.10%) DNS
6 1 (0.10%) LTE
6 1 (0.10%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (16.38%) SQL Server
2 89 (9.00%) MySQL
3 64 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 57 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (5.36%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 36 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 35 (3.54%) Power BI
9 24 (2.43%) OLTP
10 22 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.82%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.72%) Redis
14 15 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.21%) Metadata
17 11 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (1.01%) Data Hub
18 10 (1.01%) SQL CLR
18 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 183 (18.50%) Git
2 61 (6.17%) JIRA
3 33 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.83%) GitLab
5 27 (2.73%) JUnit
6 24 (2.43%) Maven
7 22 (2.22%) Visual Studio
8 18 (1.82%) Mockito
9 14 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.42%) IntelliJ
9 14 (1.42%) MagicDraw
10 11 (1.11%) NUnit
11 10 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.01%) Gradle
12 9 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.91%) Selenium
12 9 (0.91%) webpack
13 7 (0.71%) rollup.js
14 6 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 228 (23.05%) Finance
2 227 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 56 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (4.75%) Banking
6 44 (4.45%) Retail
7 40 (4.04%) Marketing
8 39 (3.94%) Games
9 29 (2.93%) Front Office
10 27 (2.73%) Public Sector
11 25 (2.53%) Tech for Good
12 24 (2.43%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.92%) Back Office
14 16 (1.62%) Health Technology
15 15 (1.52%) Publishing
16 12 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.11%) Electronics
18 10 (1.01%) Law
19 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
20 8 (0.81%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (30.84%) .NET
2 268 (27.10%) React
3 222 (22.45%) HTML
4 183 (18.50%) CSS
5 129 (13.04%) Node.js
6 114 (11.53%) AngularJS
7 108 (10.92%) RESTful
8 106 (10.72%) .NET Core
9 83 (8.39%) ASP.NET
10 79 (7.99%) .NET Framework
11 72 (7.28%) REST
12 68 (6.88%) XML
13 63 (6.37%) GraphQL
14 59 (5.97%) Vue
15 52 (5.26%) Blazor
16 51 (5.16%) HTML5
17 45 (4.55%) Spring
18 43 (4.35%) Web Services
19 41 (4.15%) Entity Framework
20 40 (4.04%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.28%) Mobile App
2 39 (3.94%) Hedge funds
3 36 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.64%) Equities
4 35 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (3.24%) Algorithms
6 31 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.73%) Data Structures
9 25 (2.53%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.33%) Virtual Team
11 18 (1.82%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
15 11 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.11%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 10 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.79%) Linux
2 28 (2.83%) Android
3 24 (2.43%) Apple iOS
4 22 (2.22%) Windows
5 10 (1.01%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (32.05%) Agile
2 198 (20.02%) DevOps
3 185 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 182 (18.40%) CI/CD
6 136 (13.75%) Microservices
7 129 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 127 (12.84%) Test Automation
8 127 (12.84%) User Experience
9 124 (12.54%) Front End Development
10 121 (12.23%) Mentoring
11 95 (9.61%) Clean Code
12 92 (9.30%) MVC
13 78 (7.89%) Unit Testing
14 76 (7.68%) Web Development
15 72 (7.28%) Computer Science
15 72 (7.28%) Scrum
16 71 (7.18%) OOP
16 71 (7.18%) SDLC
17 67 (6.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 346 (34.98%) JavaScript
2 321 (32.46%) C#
3 246 (24.87%) SQL
4 213 (21.54%) TypeScript
5 165 (16.68%) Python
6 129 (13.04%) Java
7 103 (10.41%) C++
8 100 (10.11%) PHP
9 31 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 30 (3.03%) PL/SQL
11 24 (2.43%) C
12 18 (1.82%) Apex Code
12 18 (1.82%) Ruby
13 12 (1.21%) Go
14 10 (1.01%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.81%) Bicep
15 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.81%) Objective-C
16 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 111 (11.22%) Degree
2 52 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 39 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 22 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.71%) PhD
10 5 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.20%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.79%) QA
2 30 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.91%) WCAG
4 5 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.10%) CDISC
7 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.10%) HL7
7 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 128 (12.94%) Docker
2 10 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 47 (4.75%) Terraform
3 16 (1.62%) Ansible
4 15 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.81%) Grafana
8 5 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 97 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.85%) Oracle
3 28 (2.83%) Google
4 25 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 19 (1.92%) Adobe
5 19 (1.92%) IBM
6 17 (1.72%) New Relic
7 13 (1.31%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.21%) Xamarin
9 10 (1.01%) SAP
9 10 (1.01%) Twitter
9 10 (1.01%) VMware
10 9 (0.91%) Databricks
11 7 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.40%) Okta
12 4 (0.40%) Rollbar
13 3 (0.30%) Cognos
13 3 (0.30%) Conga
13 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.30%) Sybase