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 to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 85 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 -22 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3,145 4,004 8,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.19% 3.87% 5.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 4.23% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,578 2,739 4,661
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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 +1 2,698 £65,000 -13.33% 445
UK excluding London -2 2,063 £60,000 -7.69% 312
Work from Home +18 1,550 £65,000 -7.14% 286
London -4 889 £80,000 -5.88% 180
North of England +34 534 £60,000 -4.00% 73
South East -27 510 £65,000 -7.14% 70
South West +48 388 £57,500 -4.17% 36
North West +35 320 £60,000 -4.00% 46
Midlands -16 257 £60,000 - 65
Yorkshire +58 185 £55,000 -12.00% 23
West Midlands -1 154 £62,500 +4.17% 36
Scotland -93 144 £58,750 -9.62% 30
East Midlands -36 105 £55,000 -12.00% 29
Wales +36 98 £52,686 -8.37% 13
East of England -32 95 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Northern Ireland +28 40 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North East -16 29 £55,000 -15.38% 6

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 1,025 (32.59%) JavaScript
2 1,004 (31.92%) C#
3 926 (29.44%) .NET
4 908 (28.87%) Agile
5 796 (25.31%) AWS
6 774 (24.61%) Azure
7 763 (24.26%) SQL
8 695 (22.10%) React
9 569 (18.09%) Social Skills
10 552 (17.55%) Full Stack Development
11 514 (16.34%) DevOps
12 495 (15.74%) HTML
13 493 (15.68%) Finance
13 493 (15.68%) TypeScript
14 484 (15.39%) CSS
15 453 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
16 446 (14.18%) Java
17 424 (13.48%) AngularJS
18 413 (13.13%) Git
19 380 (12.08%) Software Engineering
20 371 (11.80%) Degree
21 368 (11.70%) Microsoft
22 361 (11.48%) Mentoring
23 358 (11.38%) CI/CD
24 357 (11.35%) Docker
25 345 (10.97%) Front End Development
26 334 (10.62%) SQL Server
27 321 (10.21%) PHP
27 321 (10.21%) Microservices
28 318 (10.11%) Python

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
1 107 (3.40%) CMS
2 69 (2.19%) Confluence
3 47 (1.49%) Umbraco
4 40 (1.27%) Headless CMS
4 40 (1.27%) IIS
5 39 (1.24%) Kentico
6 36 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 28 (0.89%) WordPress
8 26 (0.83%) Apache
9 17 (0.54%) nginx
10 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
11 10 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.29%) Drupal
12 9 (0.29%) Mendix
12 9 (0.29%) SharePoint
13 8 (0.25%) JBoss
13 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
14 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
14 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.16%) K2 blackpearl
Applications
1 17 (0.54%) Photoshop
2 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Maya
6 3 (0.095%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.032%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 31 (0.99%) Siebel CRM
2 24 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.54%) Shopify
4 14 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 14 (0.45%) SDL Web 8
5 13 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.29%) Magento
7 4 (0.13%) Endur
7 4 (0.13%) Sonata
7 4 (0.13%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.032%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 796 (25.31%) AWS
2 774 (24.61%) Azure
3 193 (6.14%) SaaS
4 188 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
5 182 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 137 (4.36%) GCP
7 119 (3.78%) Serverless
8 116 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
9 109 (3.47%) PowerApps
10 96 (3.05%) Power Automate
11 86 (2.73%) GitHub
12 47 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
13 41 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
14 33 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
14 33 (1.05%) Kontent
15 28 (0.89%) Azure Functions
16 27 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (0.79%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.64%) Internet
2 8 (0.25%) HTTP
3 7 (0.22%) AMQP
3 7 (0.22%) Bluetooth
4 6 (0.19%) DNS
4 6 (0.19%) MQTT
5 5 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.16%) VPN
6 4 (0.13%) Broadband
7 3 (0.095%) IPFS
7 3 (0.095%) Network Security
7 3 (0.095%) SSL
7 3 (0.095%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.064%) VoIP
9 1 (0.032%) CTI
9 1 (0.032%) DHCP
9 1 (0.032%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 232 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (6.39%) MySQL
4 128 (4.07%) Oracle Database
5 118 (3.75%) Power BI
6 116 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 111 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 94 (2.99%) Oracle Database 11g
9 58 (1.84%) MongoDB
10 53 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 49 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 41 (1.30%) Redis
13 38 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
15 31 (0.99%) Oracle BI EE
15 31 (0.99%) Siebel EIM
16 28 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (0.57%) Power Query
19 16 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 413 (13.13%) Git
2 146 (4.64%) JIRA
3 87 (2.77%) Visual Studio
4 65 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 58 (1.84%) Jenkins
6 46 (1.46%) Sourcetree
7 44 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.05%) NUnit
8 33 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
9 32 (1.02%) Selenium
10 28 (0.89%) JUnit
11 26 (0.83%) webpack
12 23 (0.73%) TeamCity
13 21 (0.67%) Moq
14 20 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 19 (0.60%) Android Studio
16 18 (0.57%) Maven
17 16 (0.51%) git-flow
17 16 (0.51%) gulp
17 16 (0.51%) Storybook
General
1 569 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 493 (15.68%) Finance
3 114 (3.62%) Banking
4 101 (3.21%) Retail
5 94 (2.99%) Marketing
6 92 (2.93%) Front Office
6 92 (2.93%) Games
7 91 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
8 79 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 66 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (1.84%) Back Office
11 46 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (1.43%) Legal
13 39 (1.24%) Tech for Good
14 35 (1.11%) Law
15 34 (1.08%) Health Technology
16 33 (1.05%) Investment Banking
17 32 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.02%) Manufacturing
18 27 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (29.44%) .NET
2 695 (22.10%) React
3 495 (15.74%) HTML
4 484 (15.39%) CSS
5 424 (13.48%) AngularJS
6 312 (9.92%) Node.js
7 291 (9.25%) ASP.NET
8 274 (8.71%) .NET Core
9 269 (8.55%) Vue
10 243 (7.73%) .NET Framework
11 230 (7.31%) RESTful
12 215 (6.84%) REST
13 205 (6.52%) Laravel
14 174 (5.53%) Web Services
15 164 (5.21%) Spring
16 133 (4.23%) Kafka
17 129 (4.10%) JSON
18 122 (3.88%) jQuery
19 121 (3.85%) Entity Framework
20 106 (3.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.23%) Greenfield Project
2 102 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 96 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 81 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 74 (2.35%) Equities
5 74 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 70 (2.23%) IoT
7 69 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 68 (2.16%) Derivative
9 66 (2.10%) Onboarding
10 62 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 62 (1.97%) Hedge funds
11 47 (1.49%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.37%) Cloud Native
13 36 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 31 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
16 30 (0.95%) Client/Server
16 30 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
17 24 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.18%) Linux
2 78 (2.48%) Android
3 75 (2.38%) Windows
4 61 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.38%) Unix
7 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.22%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 908 (28.87%) Agile
2 552 (17.55%) Full Stack Development
3 514 (16.34%) DevOps
4 453 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
5 380 (12.08%) Software Engineering
6 361 (11.48%) Mentoring
7 358 (11.38%) CI/CD
8 345 (10.97%) Front End Development
9 321 (10.21%) Microservices
10 278 (8.84%) MVC
11 271 (8.62%) Computer Science
11 271 (8.62%) Unit Testing
12 260 (8.27%) Scrum
13 249 (7.92%) TDD
14 246 (7.82%) Artificial Intelligence
15 216 (6.87%) Actionable Insight
16 199 (6.33%) Design Patterns
17 195 (6.20%) User Experience
18 187 (5.95%) Web Development
19 181 (5.76%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (32.59%) JavaScript
2 1,004 (31.92%) C#
3 763 (24.26%) SQL
4 493 (15.68%) TypeScript
5 446 (14.18%) Java
6 321 (10.21%) PHP
7 318 (10.11%) Python
8 154 (4.90%) PL/SQL
9 103 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 74 (2.35%) Ruby
11 68 (2.16%) C++
12 61 (1.94%) Kotlin
13 58 (1.84%) Go
14 49 (1.56%) C
15 24 (0.76%) PowerShell
16 23 (0.73%) Swift
17 20 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 19 (0.60%) Apex Code
19 16 (0.51%) VB.NET
20 15 (0.48%) XPath
Qualifications
1 371 (11.80%) Degree
2 194 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 174 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 123 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.45%) PhD
8 10 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.19%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.095%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.095%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.095%) MBA
10 3 (0.095%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.064%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.032%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.032%) OCP
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.28%) QA
2 33 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.60%) WCAG
4 12 (0.38%) GDPR
5 11 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.22%) SLA
8 6 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.095%) PMO
10 2 (0.064%) GRC
10 2 (0.064%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.064%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.064%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.032%) EMIR
11 1 (0.032%) MiFID
System Software
1 357 (11.35%) Docker
2 11 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.095%) Firmware
6 2 (0.064%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.064%) Varnish
6 2 (0.064%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.032%) GridGain
7 1 (0.032%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 254 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 56 (1.78%) Terraform
3 23 (0.73%) Ansible
4 8 (0.25%) Grafana
5 7 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.19%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.19%) Rancher
7 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.064%) Kibana
9 1 (0.032%) cPanel
9 1 (0.032%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.032%) Istio
9 1 (0.032%) MIIS
9 1 (0.032%) Puppet
Vendors
1 368 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 227 (7.22%) Oracle
3 73 (2.32%) Google
4 39 (1.24%) Sitecore
5 38 (1.21%) Optimizely
6 33 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 31 (0.99%) Siebel
8 24 (0.76%) Adobe
9 14 (0.45%) Atlassian
9 14 (0.45%) Cognizant
9 14 (0.45%) F5
10 13 (0.41%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.38%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.35%) Xamarin
13 10 (0.32%) WSO2
14 9 (0.29%) Databricks
14 9 (0.29%) NVIDIA
14 9 (0.29%) Sybase
15 8 (0.25%) Facebook
15 8 (0.25%) OpenAI