Senior Developer Jobs in the South West

Senior Developer
England > South West

The median Senior Developer salary in the South West is £57,500 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 51 106 68
Rank change year-on-year +55 -38 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 397 205 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.23% 3.05% 4.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.40% 3.43% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 347 131 248
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,375 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £88,250
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,024 5,983 7,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 89.07% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,621 3,713 5,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,440 £29,363
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,275
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £78,750
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +22 133 £65,000 -7.14% 15
Gloucestershire +38 73 £53,750 +2.38%
Dorset +9 69 £57,500 -13.21% 4
Devon +14 50 £46,958 -21.74% 8
Wiltshire +13 41 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Somerset +10 29 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Senior Developer
England

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

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 West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 140 (35.26%) JavaScript
2 124 (31.23%) C#
3 115 (28.97%) .NET
4 110 (27.71%) DevOps
5 106 (26.70%) Agile
6 104 (26.20%) Git
7 98 (24.69%) Azure
8 90 (22.67%) Scrum
8 90 (22.67%) Microsoft
9 84 (21.16%) React
10 77 (19.40%) MVC
10 77 (19.40%) CSS
10 77 (19.40%) Social Skills
11 75 (18.89%) HTML
12 70 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
14 60 (15.11%) CI/CD
14 60 (15.11%) Design Patterns
15 59 (14.86%) Software Engineering
15 59 (14.86%) .NET Framework
16 57 (14.36%) Degree
16 57 (14.36%) ASP.NET
17 55 (13.85%) AWS
17 55 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
18 52 (13.10%) SQL Server
19 51 (12.85%) Security Cleared
20 49 (12.34%) PHP
21 48 (12.09%) JIRA
21 48 (12.09%) .NET Core
22 46 (11.59%) Mentoring

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 38 (9.57%) Confluence
2 25 (6.30%) CMS
3 21 (5.29%) Umbraco
4 18 (4.53%) Headless CMS
5 16 (4.03%) IIS
5 16 (4.03%) Kentico
5 16 (4.03%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.26%) WordPress
7 4 (1.01%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) Mule
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (24.69%) Azure
2 64 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (13.85%) AWS
4 19 (4.79%) Power Platform
5 17 (4.28%) Power Automate
6 16 (4.03%) Kontent
6 16 (4.03%) PowerApps
7 14 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (3.02%) SaaS
9 8 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.02%) GitHub
10 6 (1.51%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (1.26%) npm
12 4 (1.01%) Figma
12 4 (1.01%) GCP
12 4 (1.01%) Serverless
13 3 (0.76%) Google Analytics
14 2 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.04%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.79%) MySQL
4 17 (4.28%) Power BI
5 12 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.52%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.02%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.02%) Oracle Database 11g
8 6 (1.51%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.50%) Metabase
10 2 (0.50%) Redis
11 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 104 (26.20%) Git
2 48 (12.09%) JIRA
3 40 (10.08%) Bitbucket
4 37 (9.32%) Visual Studio
5 30 (7.56%) Sourcetree
6 12 (3.02%) Android Studio
7 6 (1.51%) Storybook
8 5 (1.26%) webpack
9 4 (1.01%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.76%) Selenium
10 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.50%) GitLab
General
1 77 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.32%) Games
3 31 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
4 25 (6.30%) Finance
5 24 (6.05%) Fire and Rescue
6 14 (3.53%) Retail
7 13 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.02%) Legal
9 6 (1.51%) Publishing
10 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.76%) German Language
11 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.50%) Marketing
12 2 (0.50%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.25%) Advertising
13 1 (0.25%) Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Law
13 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (28.97%) .NET
2 84 (21.16%) React
3 77 (19.40%) CSS
4 75 (18.89%) HTML
5 59 (14.86%) .NET Framework
6 57 (14.36%) ASP.NET
7 48 (12.09%) .NET Core
8 46 (11.59%) Laravel
9 37 (9.32%) AngularJS
10 35 (8.82%) Vue
11 31 (7.81%) RESTful
12 30 (7.56%) Entity Framework
12 30 (7.56%) Node.js
12 30 (7.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 23 (5.79%) LESS
14 19 (4.79%) Next.js
15 18 (4.53%) ASP.NET MVC
16 17 (4.28%) Web Services
17 14 (3.53%) REST
18 12 (3.02%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.56%) Virtual Reality
2 18 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.78%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.01%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.76%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.76%) IoT
10 3 (0.76%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.50%) Animation
11 2 (0.50%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.50%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.50%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.50%) Social Media
11 2 (0.50%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.78%) Android
2 7 (1.76%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (27.71%) DevOps
2 106 (26.70%) Agile
3 90 (22.67%) Scrum
4 77 (19.40%) MVC
5 70 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (15.11%) CI/CD
6 60 (15.11%) Design Patterns
7 59 (14.86%) Software Engineering
8 55 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
9 46 (11.59%) Mentoring
10 41 (10.33%) Front End Development
11 36 (9.07%) E-Commerce
12 34 (8.56%) Web Development
13 30 (7.56%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (7.56%) UML
13 30 (7.56%) Use Case
14 28 (7.05%) User Experience
15 25 (6.30%) CRM
15 25 (6.30%) Unit Testing
16 23 (5.79%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 140 (35.26%) JavaScript
2 124 (31.23%) C#
3 49 (12.34%) PHP
4 45 (11.34%) TypeScript
5 38 (9.57%) SQL
6 34 (8.56%) Java
7 18 (4.53%) Python
8 13 (3.27%) Kotlin
9 11 (2.77%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.51%) C
12 5 (1.26%) Swift
13 4 (1.01%) Bicep
13 4 (1.01%) Rust
14 3 (0.76%) C++
14 3 (0.76%) Delphi
14 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.50%) Lisp
15 2 (0.50%) VB
16 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 57 (14.36%) Degree
2 51 (12.85%) Security Cleared
3 43 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.77%) QA
2 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (6.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 90 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.03%) Optimizely
2 16 (4.03%) Sitecore
3 13 (3.27%) Oracle
4 8 (2.02%) Twitter
5 7 (1.76%) Google
6 4 (1.01%) UiPath
7 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.76%) Coverity
8 2 (0.50%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.25%) Adobe
9 1 (0.25%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.25%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.25%) Salesforce