Senior Developer Jobs in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 84 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 -17 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,700 3,461 6,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.15% 3.83% 5.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% 4.18% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,259 2,408 4,135
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London -1 891 £80,000 -5.88% 182
North of England +35 535 £60,000 -4.00% 73
South East -29 505 £65,000 -7.14% 73
South West +45 393 £57,500 -4.17% 35
North West +37 323 £60,000 -4.00% 45
Midlands -23 254 £60,000 - 67
Yorkshire +64 184 £55,000 -12.00% 24
West Midlands -5 151 £62,500 +4.17% 37
East Midlands -34 103 £55,000 -8.33% 30
East of England -45 96 £60,000 -14.29% 17
North East -15 28 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 across the England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 936 (34.67%) JavaScript
2 858 (31.78%) C#
3 814 (30.15%) .NET
4 804 (29.78%) Agile
5 660 (24.44%) SQL
6 659 (24.41%) AWS
7 648 (24.00%) Azure
8 613 (22.70%) React
9 479 (17.74%) Full Stack Development
10 467 (17.30%) Social Skills
11 446 (16.52%) HTML
12 439 (16.26%) Finance
13 437 (16.19%) CSS
14 434 (16.07%) TypeScript
15 416 (15.41%) DevOps
16 387 (14.33%) Java
17 370 (13.70%) AngularJS
18 368 (13.63%) Git
19 350 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
20 333 (12.33%) Microsoft
21 329 (12.19%) Software Engineering
22 326 (12.07%) Degree
23 325 (12.04%) Docker
24 308 (11.41%) SQL Server
25 307 (11.37%) CI/CD
26 297 (11.00%) Mentoring
27 294 (10.89%) PHP
28 293 (10.85%) Microservices
29 289 (10.70%) Python
30 273 (10.11%) ASP.NET

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 100 (3.70%) CMS
2 57 (2.11%) Confluence
3 44 (1.63%) Umbraco
4 40 (1.48%) Headless CMS
4 40 (1.48%) IIS
5 39 (1.44%) Kentico
6 36 (1.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 26 (0.96%) Apache
7 26 (0.96%) WordPress
8 17 (0.63%) nginx
9 16 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
10 10 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.33%) Mendix
11 9 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 8 (0.30%) Drupal
12 8 (0.30%) JBoss
12 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
13 6 (0.22%) NServiceBus
13 6 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (0.63%) Photoshop
2 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.15%) Maya
6 2 (0.074%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.037%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 32 (1.19%) Siebel CRM
2 22 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.63%) Shopify
4 15 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
5 14 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
6 13 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
7 12 (0.44%) Magento
8 4 (0.15%) Endur
8 4 (0.15%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.037%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 659 (24.41%) AWS
2 648 (24.00%) Azure
3 171 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (6.07%) SaaS
5 153 (5.67%) Power Platform
6 117 (4.33%) GCP
7 93 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
8 91 (3.37%) Serverless
9 80 (2.96%) PowerApps
10 79 (2.93%) GitHub
11 73 (2.70%) Power Automate
12 36 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (1.22%) Kontent
14 31 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (0.93%) Azure Functions
18 22 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
19 19 (0.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.70%) Internet
2 7 (0.26%) AMQP
2 7 (0.26%) HTTP
3 6 (0.22%) MQTT
4 5 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.19%) VPN
5 4 (0.15%) Broadband
5 4 (0.15%) DNS
6 3 (0.11%) IPFS
6 3 (0.11%) Network Security
6 3 (0.11%) SSL
7 2 (0.074%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.074%) VoIP
8 1 (0.037%) CTI
8 1 (0.037%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (11.41%) SQL Server
2 194 (7.19%) MySQL
3 169 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
4 115 (4.26%) Power BI
5 97 (3.59%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.11%) Oracle Database
7 80 (2.96%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
9 54 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 46 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.52%) Redis
12 36 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (1.19%) Oracle BI EE
13 32 (1.19%) Siebel EIM
14 31 (1.15%) DynamoDB
15 29 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (0.67%) Power Query
18 16 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (0.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 368 (13.63%) Git
2 129 (4.78%) JIRA
3 85 (3.15%) Visual Studio
4 62 (2.30%) Bitbucket
5 46 (1.70%) Sourcetree
6 39 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 35 (1.30%) Jenkins
8 32 (1.19%) NUnit
9 28 (1.04%) Selenium
10 26 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
11 25 (0.93%) JUnit
12 23 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 21 (0.78%) Moq
14 20 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
15 17 (0.63%) webpack
16 16 (0.59%) Android Studio
17 15 (0.56%) gulp
17 15 (0.56%) SpecFlow
18 14 (0.52%) git-flow
18 14 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 467 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 439 (16.26%) Finance
3 106 (3.93%) Banking
4 97 (3.59%) Retail
5 92 (3.41%) Front Office
6 89 (3.30%) Marketing
7 85 (3.15%) Games
8 80 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.15%) Back Office
10 54 (2.00%) Public Sector
11 43 (1.59%) Legal
12 41 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (1.30%) Law
14 33 (1.22%) Aerospace
14 33 (1.22%) Investment Banking
14 33 (1.22%) Tech for Good
15 32 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.00%) Health Technology
16 27 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 814 (30.15%) .NET
2 613 (22.70%) React
3 446 (16.52%) HTML
4 437 (16.19%) CSS
5 370 (13.70%) AngularJS
6 273 (10.11%) ASP.NET
7 247 (9.15%) .NET Core
8 246 (9.11%) Vue
9 245 (9.07%) Node.js
10 210 (7.78%) .NET Framework
11 189 (7.00%) RESTful
12 188 (6.96%) REST
13 184 (6.81%) Laravel
14 138 (5.11%) Web Services
15 137 (5.07%) Spring
16 121 (4.48%) Kafka
17 120 (4.44%) jQuery
18 104 (3.85%) Entity Framework
19 100 (3.70%) HTML5
20 99 (3.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 166 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
2 103 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 74 (2.74%) Equities
4 71 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.52%) Derivative
7 64 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 63 (2.33%) IoT
9 62 (2.30%) Fixed Income
9 62 (2.30%) Hedge funds
10 59 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 42 (1.56%) Cloud Native
13 41 (1.52%) Onboarding
14 35 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (1.15%) Data Structures
16 30 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
16 30 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
17 26 (0.96%) Client/Server
18 24 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 92 (3.41%) Linux
2 66 (2.44%) Windows
3 63 (2.33%) Android
4 53 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.33%) Unix
6 8 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (29.78%) Agile
2 479 (17.74%) Full Stack Development
3 416 (15.41%) DevOps
4 350 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
5 329 (12.19%) Software Engineering
6 307 (11.37%) CI/CD
7 297 (11.00%) Mentoring
8 293 (10.85%) Microservices
9 259 (9.59%) MVC
10 244 (9.04%) Front End Development
11 241 (8.93%) Computer Science
12 232 (8.59%) Scrum
13 214 (7.93%) TDD
14 200 (7.41%) Unit Testing
15 194 (7.19%) Artificial Intelligence
16 181 (6.70%) User Experience
17 179 (6.63%) Design Patterns
18 173 (6.41%) E-Commerce
19 169 (6.26%) Web Development
20 151 (5.59%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 936 (34.67%) JavaScript
2 858 (31.78%) C#
3 660 (24.44%) SQL
4 434 (16.07%) TypeScript
5 387 (14.33%) Java
6 294 (10.89%) PHP
7 289 (10.70%) Python
8 106 (3.93%) PL/SQL
9 97 (3.59%) T-SQL
10 53 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 45 (1.67%) Ruby
12 44 (1.63%) C++
13 42 (1.56%) Go
14 25 (0.93%) C
15 21 (0.78%) PowerShell
16 20 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 18 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.67%) Swift
18 16 (0.59%) VB.NET
19 15 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 326 (12.07%) Degree
2 144 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 124 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 113 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (0.52%) PhD
8 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.22%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.11%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.11%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.11%) MBA
11 3 (0.11%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.074%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.037%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (3.30%) QA
2 17 (0.63%) Accessibility
2 17 (0.63%) WCAG
3 12 (0.44%) GDPR
4 11 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.26%) SLA
7 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.11%) PMO
9 2 (0.074%) GRC
9 2 (0.074%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.074%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.074%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.037%) EMIR
10 1 (0.037%) MiFID
System Software
1 325 (12.04%) Docker
2 9 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.037%) GridGain
7 1 (0.037%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 236 (8.74%) Kubernetes
2 56 (2.07%) Terraform
3 20 (0.74%) Ansible
4 8 (0.30%) Grafana
5 7 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.22%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.22%) Rancher
7 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.074%) Kibana
9 1 (0.037%) cPanel
9 1 (0.037%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.037%) Istio
9 1 (0.037%) MIIS
9 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 333 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 167 (6.19%) Oracle
3 71 (2.63%) Google
4 39 (1.44%) Sitecore
5 33 (1.22%) Optimizely
6 32 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.19%) Siebel
7 22 (0.81%) Adobe
8 14 (0.52%) Cognizant
8 14 (0.52%) F5
9 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 13 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.37%) WSO2
11 10 (0.37%) Xamarin
12 9 (0.33%) Databricks
12 9 (0.33%) NVIDIA
12 9 (0.33%) Sybase
13 8 (0.30%) Facebook
13 8 (0.30%) Twitter