Senior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 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 91 88 70
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,065 2,215 3,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.91% 3.68% 4.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 4.12% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 1,356 2,187
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £92,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +35 535 £60,000 -4.00% 74
South East -29 505 £65,000 -7.14% 71
South West +45 393 £57,500 -4.17% 36
North West +37 323 £60,000 -4.00% 46
Midlands -23 254 £60,000 - 67
Yorkshire +64 184 £55,000 -12.00% 24
West Midlands -5 151 £62,500 +4.17% 37
Scotland -90 143 £57,500 -11.54% 30
East Midlands -34 103 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Wales +38 99 £52,686 -4.21% 12
East of England -45 96 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Northern Ireland +32 41 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -15 28 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 645 (31.23%) C#
2 628 (30.41%) JavaScript
3 605 (29.30%) Agile
4 598 (28.96%) .NET
5 465 (22.52%) Azure
6 449 (21.74%) AWS
7 443 (21.45%) SQL
8 429 (20.77%) React
9 370 (17.92%) Social Skills
10 347 (16.80%) DevOps
11 316 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
12 314 (15.21%) HTML
13 313 (15.16%) Git
14 305 (14.77%) Full Stack Development
15 303 (14.67%) CSS
16 268 (12.98%) PHP
17 261 (12.64%) Microsoft
17 261 (12.64%) TypeScript
18 252 (12.20%) CI/CD
19 250 (12.11%) Docker
20 246 (11.91%) Degree
21 235 (11.38%) Front End Development
22 228 (11.04%) AngularJS
23 222 (10.75%) Mentoring
24 219 (10.61%) Finance
25 217 (10.51%) Java
26 213 (10.31%) MVC
27 210 (10.17%) Software Engineering
28 207 (10.02%) .NET Core
29 206 (9.98%) SQL Server

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 84 (4.07%) CMS
2 53 (2.57%) Confluence
3 42 (2.03%) Umbraco
4 40 (1.94%) Headless CMS
5 39 (1.89%) IIS
5 39 (1.89%) Kentico
6 34 (1.65%) Sitecore CMS
7 19 (0.92%) WordPress
8 10 (0.48%) nginx
8 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.39%) JBoss
9 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
10 7 (0.34%) SharePoint
11 6 (0.29%) Apache
11 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.24%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.097%) Drupal
14 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.097%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.19%) Maya
3 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.048%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 32 (1.55%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.82%) Shopify
3 14 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
5 11 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
5 11 (0.53%) Magento
6 4 (0.19%) Sonata
7 1 (0.048%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 465 (22.52%) Azure
2 449 (21.74%) AWS
3 151 (7.31%) SaaS
4 150 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 70 (3.39%) PowerApps
7 69 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
8 61 (2.95%) Power Automate
9 56 (2.71%) Serverless
10 45 (2.18%) GitHub
11 42 (2.03%) GCP
12 33 (1.60%) Kontent
13 29 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (0.87%) npm
16 17 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.92%) Internet
2 6 (0.29%) DNS
3 5 (0.24%) HTTP
3 5 (0.24%) MQTT
4 4 (0.19%) Broadband
4 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.19%) VPN
5 3 (0.15%) Network Security
5 3 (0.15%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.048%) AMQP
6 1 (0.048%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.048%) CTI
6 1 (0.048%) DHCP
6 1 (0.048%) VoIP
6 1 (0.048%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (9.98%) SQL Server
2 155 (7.51%) MySQL
2 155 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 88 (4.26%) Oracle Database
5 85 (4.12%) Power BI
6 78 (3.78%) Oracle Database 11g
7 53 (2.57%) Relational Database
8 32 (1.55%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.55%) Oracle BI EE
8 32 (1.55%) Siebel EIM
9 29 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 26 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.02%) Redis
14 19 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (0.73%) Power Query
17 14 (0.68%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 313 (15.16%) Git
2 89 (4.31%) JIRA
3 67 (3.24%) Visual Studio
4 57 (2.76%) Bitbucket
5 38 (1.84%) Jenkins
6 31 (1.50%) Sourcetree
7 30 (1.45%) Selenium
8 29 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 26 (1.26%) JUnit
10 17 (0.82%) webpack
11 14 (0.68%) NUnit
12 13 (0.63%) PHPUnit
13 12 (0.58%) Android Studio
13 12 (0.58%) Maven
14 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.48%) Appium
15 10 (0.48%) gulp
15 10 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
16 8 (0.39%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 370 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 219 (10.61%) Finance
3 77 (3.73%) Retail
4 63 (3.05%) Games
5 58 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.52%) Public Sector
7 51 (2.47%) Banking
8 43 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 42 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.89%) Marketing
11 32 (1.55%) Aerospace
11 32 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (1.21%) Fire and Rescue
14 24 (1.16%) Law
15 23 (1.11%) Legal
16 21 (1.02%) Health Technology
17 18 (0.87%) Tech for Good
18 14 (0.68%) Police
19 12 (0.58%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 598 (28.96%) .NET
2 429 (20.77%) React
3 314 (15.21%) HTML
4 303 (14.67%) CSS
5 228 (11.04%) AngularJS
6 207 (10.02%) .NET Core
7 194 (9.39%) .NET Framework
8 190 (9.20%) ASP.NET
9 184 (8.91%) Node.js
10 181 (8.77%) Laravel
11 162 (7.85%) Vue
12 148 (7.17%) RESTful
13 132 (6.39%) REST
14 113 (5.47%) Web Services
15 94 (4.55%) Entity Framework
16 83 (4.02%) Spring
17 71 (3.44%) Kafka
18 70 (3.39%) jQuery
18 70 (3.39%) JSON
19 65 (3.15%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 125 (6.05%) Greenfield Project
2 80 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 47 (2.28%) Mobile App
6 36 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 30 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.45%) Virtual Reality
8 26 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 24 (1.16%) IoT
10 22 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
11 21 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 20 (0.97%) Client/Server
13 17 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.82%) NHS
14 14 (0.68%) PropTech
15 13 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.53%) Management Information System
17 9 (0.44%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.05%) Linux
2 50 (2.42%) Android
3 40 (1.94%) Windows
4 32 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.097%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (29.30%) Agile
2 347 (16.80%) DevOps
3 316 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
4 305 (14.77%) Full Stack Development
5 252 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 235 (11.38%) Front End Development
7 222 (10.75%) Mentoring
8 213 (10.31%) MVC
9 210 (10.17%) Software Engineering
10 199 (9.64%) Scrum
11 193 (9.35%) Unit Testing
12 186 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
13 184 (8.91%) Actionable Insight
14 172 (8.33%) TDD
15 169 (8.18%) Microservices
16 165 (7.99%) Computer Science
17 151 (7.31%) Design Patterns
18 150 (7.26%) Web Development
19 143 (6.92%) User Experience
20 136 (6.59%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 645 (31.23%) C#
2 628 (30.41%) JavaScript
3 443 (21.45%) SQL
4 268 (12.98%) PHP
5 261 (12.64%) TypeScript
6 217 (10.51%) Java
7 120 (5.81%) Python
8 104 (5.04%) PL/SQL
9 61 (2.95%) T-SQL
10 43 (2.08%) C++
11 36 (1.74%) C
11 36 (1.74%) Ruby
12 31 (1.50%) Kotlin
13 30 (1.45%) Go
14 16 (0.77%) Swift
14 16 (0.77%) VB.NET
15 14 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.48%) VB
17 8 (0.39%) Groovy
17 8 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 246 (11.91%) Degree
2 159 (7.70%) Security Cleared
3 140 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 86 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 13 (0.63%) PhD
8 8 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.15%) MBA
12 2 (0.097%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.097%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.048%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.24%) QA
2 17 (0.82%) WCAG
3 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.48%) GDPR
5 8 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.29%) SLA
7 3 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.097%) GRC
System Software
1 250 (12.11%) Docker
2 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.097%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.097%) Varnish
3 2 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 169 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.52%) Terraform
3 17 (0.82%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Rancher
5 1 (0.048%) Grafana
5 1 (0.048%) Istio
5 1 (0.048%) Kibana
5 1 (0.048%) MIIS
5 1 (0.048%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.048%) Puppet
Vendors
1 261 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 164 (7.94%) Oracle
3 48 (2.32%) Google
4 37 (1.79%) Sitecore
5 33 (1.60%) Optimizely
6 32 (1.55%) Siebel
7 14 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.48%) WSO2
9 10 (0.48%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.44%) NVIDIA
11 8 (0.39%) Adobe
11 8 (0.39%) F5
11 8 (0.39%) Twitter
12 7 (0.34%) UiPath
13 6 (0.29%) Databricks
14 5 (0.24%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.24%) PayPal
14 5 (0.24%) SAP
14 5 (0.24%) WorldPay