Senior Development Engineer Jobs

Senior Development Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 936 1099
Rank change year-on-year +58 +163 -236
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Development Engineer 23 23 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.023% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.025% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 11
10th Percentile £47,500 £59,375 -
25th Percentile £49,375 £61,875 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £86,250 £40,595
Median % change year-on-year -42.03% +112.47% -37.55%
75th Percentile £84,063 £100,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £40,595
% change year-on-year -16.67% +47.80% -26.19%

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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Development Engineer in the UK

Senior Development Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Development Engineer in the UK

Senior Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Development Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Development Engineer in the UK

Senior Development Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Development Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +77 15 £81,250 -5.80% 10
UK excluding London +1 15 £50,000 -16.67% 10
London +124 10 £85,000 -5.56%
Wales +22 8 £50,000 +1.01%
Work from Home +77 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
North of England +54 4 £72,500 -
North West +5 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £72,500 -
South East +7 1 - - 4
Midlands -6 1 £62,500 -1.96% 3
South West -23 1 £50,000 +1.01% 2
East Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 2

Senior Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Senior Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Degree
4 7 (30.43%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (26.09%) Git
5 6 (26.09%) C
6 5 (21.74%) Ethernet
6 5 (21.74%) Electronics
6 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
6 5 (21.74%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (17.39%) Zero Defects
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) Customer Experience
7 4 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (17.39%) ISO 13485
7 4 (17.39%) Front End Development
7 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
7 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (17.39%) Serverless
7 4 (17.39%) Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon Kinesis

Senior Development Engineer 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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (17.39%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (17.39%) Serverless
2 3 (13.04%) GCP
2 3 (13.04%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Ethernet
2 4 (17.39%) Profibus
3 1 (4.35%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Electronics
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) React
2 3 (13.04%) FastAPI
2 3 (13.04%) Flask
2 3 (13.04%) REST
3 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.35%) LAMP
4 1 (4.35%) OpenCV
4 1 (4.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Lidar
3 1 (4.35%) Optoelectronics
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Agile
1 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
3 5 (21.74%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (17.39%) Analytics
4 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
4 4 (17.39%) Customer Experience
4 4 (17.39%) Embedded Software Development
4 4 (17.39%) Front End Development
4 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
4 4 (17.39%) Mathematics
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) SDLC
4 4 (17.39%) Statistics
4 4 (17.39%) Zero Defects
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) C
3 4 (17.39%) C++
3 4 (17.39%) Embedded C++
3 4 (17.39%) Go
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.70%) HNC
3 2 (8.70%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
1 4 (17.39%) ISO 13485
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Firmware
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft