Senior Developer Jobs in the South East

Senior Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Developer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 502 691 971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.97% 4.82% 4.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.16% 5.33% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 403 503 771
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,863 12,953 19,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 90.32% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,342 8,193 12,383
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +4 273 £67,500 -3.57% 33
Berkshire +18 170 £70,000 -6.67% 17
Hampshire -80 81 £65,000 -3.70% 18
Oxfordshire -11 64 £61,500 -15.17% 5
Surrey -18 58 £68,750 +1.85% 10
Buckinghamshire -7 39 £62,500 -10.07% 11
Kent +9 38 £60,000 - 5
East Sussex -8 29 £57,500 -11.54% 2
West Sussex +1 16 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Sussex - 6 £50,000 -
Middlesex -15 2 £44,000 -43.23%
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 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 South East region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 208 (41.43%) Agile
2 192 (38.25%) JavaScript
3 182 (36.25%) C#
4 168 (33.47%) .NET
5 157 (31.27%) React
6 143 (28.49%) SQL
7 119 (23.71%) Docker
8 116 (23.11%) Azure
9 109 (21.71%) Git
10 103 (20.52%) AWS
11 100 (19.92%) Full Stack Development
12 95 (18.92%) HTML
13 93 (18.53%) DevOps
14 91 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (18.13%) CSS
14 91 (18.13%) Social Skills
15 89 (17.73%) TypeScript
16 85 (16.93%) CI/CD
17 81 (16.14%) Degree
18 77 (15.34%) Computer Science
18 77 (15.34%) Java
19 76 (15.14%) SQL Server
20 75 (14.94%) Kubernetes
21 71 (14.14%) Microservices
22 69 (13.75%) ASP.NET
23 67 (13.35%) Finance
24 64 (12.75%) Oracle
25 63 (12.55%) Front End Development
26 62 (12.35%) CRM
26 62 (12.35%) Microsoft

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 31 (6.18%) CMS
2 23 (4.58%) Headless CMS
2 23 (4.58%) Kentico
3 22 (4.38%) IIS
4 18 (3.59%) Sitecore CMS
4 18 (3.59%) Umbraco
5 9 (1.79%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.59%) Confluence
7 7 (1.39%) JBoss
7 7 (1.39%) nginx
7 7 (1.39%) Red Hat Fuse
8 5 (1.00%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.60%) Apache
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.40%) WordPress
11 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Mathematica
1 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (6.57%) Siebel CRM
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 116 (23.11%) Azure
2 103 (20.52%) AWS
3 44 (8.76%) SaaS
4 37 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.59%) Kontent
6 17 (3.39%) Serverless
7 13 (2.59%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.19%) GitHub
9 10 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (1.99%) GCP
10 6 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.80%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (0.80%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) TestFlight
12 4 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) Network Security
2 5 (1.00%) Internet
3 4 (0.80%) MQTT
3 4 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (0.80%) VPN
4 3 (0.60%) DNS
4 3 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.14%) SQL Server
2 42 (8.37%) MySQL
2 42 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (7.77%) NoSQL
4 33 (6.57%) Oracle BI EE
4 33 (6.57%) Siebel EIM
5 20 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.39%) OLTP
7 11 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.99%) Oracle Database
8 10 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.79%) Redis
10 8 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.39%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (1.39%) Power BI
12 6 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 109 (21.71%) Git
2 28 (5.58%) JIRA
2 28 (5.58%) Selenium
3 27 (5.38%) Visual Studio
4 21 (4.18%) JUnit
5 16 (3.19%) Cypress.io
6 14 (2.79%) NUnit
7 12 (2.39%) Jenkins
8 10 (1.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.20%) Jasmine
9 6 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.00%) Maven
11 4 (0.80%) Postman
11 4 (0.80%) Vite
12 3 (0.60%) gulp
12 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.60%) PostCSS
12 3 (0.60%) rollup.js
13 2 (0.40%) Gradle
General
1 91 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.35%) Finance
3 33 (6.57%) Aerospace
4 25 (4.98%) Public Sector
5 14 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.79%) Marketing
6 10 (1.99%) Law
7 9 (1.79%) Back Office
8 7 (1.39%) Retail
9 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.20%) Multimedia
10 5 (1.00%) Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Games
11 3 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.60%) Local Government
11 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.40%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.40%) Legal
13 1 (0.20%) Publishing
13 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (33.47%) .NET
2 157 (31.27%) React
3 95 (18.92%) HTML
4 91 (18.13%) CSS
5 69 (13.75%) ASP.NET
6 58 (11.55%) AngularJS
7 57 (11.35%) .NET Core
8 55 (10.96%) RESTful
9 49 (9.76%) .NET Framework
10 43 (8.57%) REST
11 42 (8.37%) Web Services
12 38 (7.57%) Node.js
13 35 (6.97%) Spring
14 33 (6.57%) HTML5
14 33 (6.57%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (6.18%) Kafka
16 30 (5.98%) CSS3
17 29 (5.78%) SOAP
18 27 (5.38%) gRPC
18 27 (5.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.56%) Enterprise Software
2 29 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.79%) e-Learning
6 7 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.80%) IoT
7 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.80%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (0.80%) NHS
7 4 (0.80%) Replication
8 3 (0.60%) Animation
8 3 (0.60%) BBC
8 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.60%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.60%) Social Media
8 3 (0.60%) Solar Energy
8 3 (0.60%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.19%) Linux
2 9 (1.79%) Windows
3 4 (0.80%) Android
3 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (41.43%) Agile
2 100 (19.92%) Full Stack Development
3 93 (18.53%) DevOps
4 91 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (16.93%) CI/CD
6 77 (15.34%) Computer Science
7 71 (14.14%) Microservices
8 63 (12.55%) Front End Development
9 62 (12.35%) CRM
9 62 (12.35%) TDD
10 58 (11.55%) Continuous Integration
11 55 (10.96%) Software Engineering
12 52 (10.36%) MVC
13 48 (9.56%) Artificial Intelligence
14 45 (8.96%) Scrum
15 44 (8.76%) E-Commerce
16 43 (8.57%) Propensity Modelling
17 42 (8.37%) Actionable Insight
18 40 (7.97%) Collaborative Working
19 33 (6.57%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 192 (38.25%) JavaScript
2 182 (36.25%) C#
3 143 (28.49%) SQL
4 89 (17.73%) TypeScript
5 77 (15.34%) Java
6 61 (12.15%) PHP
7 30 (5.98%) Python
8 23 (4.58%) Go
9 22 (4.38%) PL/SQL
10 19 (3.78%) T-SQL
11 14 (2.79%) C++
12 10 (1.99%) C
13 4 (0.80%) JSX
13 4 (0.80%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.80%) R
13 4 (0.80%) Ruby
13 4 (0.80%) Swift
13 4 (0.80%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.80%) VBScript
14 3 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (16.14%) Degree
2 57 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 50 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.00%) PhD
7 3 (0.60%) MBA
8 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.39%) QA
2 16 (3.19%) WCAG
3 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 119 (23.71%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (14.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.19%) Ansible
3 7 (1.39%) Terraform
4 1 (0.20%) MIIS
Vendors
1 64 (12.75%) Oracle
2 62 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.57%) Siebel
4 18 (3.59%) Optimizely
4 18 (3.59%) Sitecore
5 12 (2.39%) Google
6 9 (1.79%) WSO2
7 5 (1.00%) Adobe
8 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.60%) Apple
9 3 (0.60%) Facebook
9 3 (0.60%) Sony
9 3 (0.60%) Yahoo!
10 2 (0.40%) New Relic
10 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.40%) VMware
11 1 (0.20%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.20%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.20%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.20%) SAP