Senior Software Developer Jobs

Senior Software Developer
UK

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 509 604 447
Rank change year-on-year +95 -157 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 226 537 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.43% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.45% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 187 425 667
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,463 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £120,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 51,159 118,464 121,698
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 95.41% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,465 74,592 83,940
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 Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +76 183 £70,000 - 98
UK excluding London +64 120 £65,000 +8.33% 73
Work from Home +70 110 £70,000 +12.00% 114
London +153 83 £77,500 -8.82% 33
South East +57 51 £67,500 +12.50% 22
North of England +117 21 £62,500 +4.17% 16
Scotland +36 12 £60,000 +9.09% 4
South West +70 11 £67,500 +17.39% 11
North West +95 10 £72,500 +20.83% 7
Yorkshire +93 9 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Midlands +109 8 £55,000 -12.00% 9
East of England +109 7 £75,000 +42.86% 10
West Midlands +142 6 £55,000 -4.35% 7
Northern Ireland +33 6 £50,000 -18.03% 1
Wales +18 4 £57,500 +15.00% 2
East Midlands +41 2 £52,500 -19.23% 2
North East +31 2 £52,500 -8.70% 6

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

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

1 150 (66.37%) C#
2 138 (61.06%) .NET
3 113 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 81 (35.84%) SQL
4 81 (35.84%) Agile
5 76 (33.63%) Finance
6 71 (31.42%) Azure
7 64 (28.32%) HTML
8 61 (26.99%) SQL Server
8 61 (26.99%) ASP.NET
8 61 (26.99%) CSS
8 61 (26.99%) TypeScript
9 58 (25.66%) .NET Core
9 58 (25.66%) CI/CD
10 57 (25.22%) AWS
11 56 (24.78%) React
12 55 (24.34%) DevOps
13 54 (23.89%) Software Engineering
14 49 (21.68%) .NET Framework
15 48 (21.24%) Python
15 48 (21.24%) Docker
16 44 (19.47%) Microservices
16 44 (19.47%) MVC
17 42 (18.58%) Social Skills
18 40 (17.70%) Java
19 36 (15.93%) SDLC
19 36 (15.93%) ASP.NET Web API
20 35 (15.49%) Microsoft
21 32 (14.16%) Degree
21 32 (14.16%) Full Stack Development

Senior Software 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 10 (4.42%) Confluence
2 7 (3.10%) Drupal
3 6 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.21%) IIS
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) CMS
5 2 (0.88%) Kentico
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.44%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.42%) Azure
2 57 (25.22%) AWS
3 26 (11.50%) GCP
4 24 (10.62%) Serverless
5 17 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.87%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.42%) SaaS
8 9 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.98%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.54%) Amazon Cognito
9 8 (3.54%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.21%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.77%) npm
12 3 (1.33%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.33%) Yarn
13 2 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.88%) Azure Storage
13 2 (0.88%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.65%) Bluetooth
1 6 (2.65%) SSL
2 3 (1.33%) ATM
2 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.88%) HTTP
3 2 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.44%) DNS
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (26.99%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.42%) Power BI
5 9 (3.98%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.54%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.10%) MySQL
8 4 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.33%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.33%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (9.29%) Git
2 11 (4.87%) JIRA
3 10 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.54%) Maven
5 6 (2.65%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.21%) NUnit
7 4 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.33%) JUnit
8 3 (1.33%) Selenium
8 3 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.88%) Appium
9 2 (0.88%) Moq
9 2 (0.88%) Postman
9 2 (0.88%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.44%) ESLint
10 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 76 (33.63%) Finance
2 42 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (5.31%) Banking
5 10 (4.42%) Front Office
5 10 (4.42%) Games
6 5 (2.21%) Automotive
6 5 (2.21%) Legal
7 4 (1.77%) Aviation
7 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.77%) Retail
8 3 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Law
9 2 (0.88%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (61.06%) .NET
2 64 (28.32%) HTML
3 61 (26.99%) ASP.NET
3 61 (26.99%) CSS
4 58 (25.66%) .NET Core
5 56 (24.78%) React
6 49 (21.68%) .NET Framework
7 36 (15.93%) ASP.NET Web API
8 30 (13.27%) AngularJS
9 27 (11.95%) Node.js
10 26 (11.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 23 (10.18%) Entity Framework
11 23 (10.18%) RESTful
11 23 (10.18%) Web Services
12 20 (8.85%) REST
13 17 (7.52%) Vue
14 16 (7.08%) JSON
15 13 (5.75%) jQuery
15 13 (5.75%) Laravel
16 11 (4.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.31%) Virtual Team
3 11 (4.87%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.98%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (3.54%) Swaptions
6 6 (2.65%) Derivative
6 6 (2.65%) Equities
6 6 (2.65%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.21%) Blog
7 5 (2.21%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.77%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (1.33%) CUDA
9 3 (1.33%) IoT
9 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.73%) Linux
2 16 (7.08%) Android
3 13 (5.75%) Apple iOS
4 12 (5.31%) Windows
5 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (35.84%) Agile
2 58 (25.66%) CI/CD
3 55 (24.34%) DevOps
4 54 (23.89%) Software Engineering
5 44 (19.47%) Microservices
5 44 (19.47%) MVC
6 36 (15.93%) SDLC
7 32 (14.16%) Full Stack Development
8 29 (12.83%) Mentoring
9 28 (12.39%) TDD
10 26 (11.50%) Design Patterns
11 22 (9.73%) Wealth Management
12 21 (9.29%) SOLID
12 21 (9.29%) Test Automation
13 20 (8.85%) Computer Science
14 18 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (7.96%) Wireframes
15 17 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (7.08%) Clean Code
17 15 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 150 (66.37%) C#
2 113 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 81 (35.84%) SQL
4 61 (26.99%) TypeScript
5 48 (21.24%) Python
6 40 (17.70%) Java
7 18 (7.96%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.87%) VB
9 9 (3.98%) C++
10 6 (2.65%) PHP
10 6 (2.65%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.21%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.21%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.77%) Go
13 3 (1.33%) C
13 3 (1.33%) Rust
13 3 (1.33%) VBA
14 2 (0.88%) Groovy
14 2 (0.88%) Scala
15 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 32 (14.16%) Degree
2 15 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.21%) OCP
6 5 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.52%) QA
2 6 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (21.24%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (13.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.10%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) MIIS
Vendors
1 35 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.19%) Oracle
3 9 (3.98%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.54%) OpenLink
4 8 (3.54%) Sybase
4 8 (3.54%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.77%) Google
6 2 (0.88%) ABBYY
6 2 (0.88%) Ariba
6 2 (0.88%) Blue Prism
6 2 (0.88%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) DevExpress