Senior Software Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 466 491
Rank change year-on-year +22 +25 -119
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 189 139 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.43% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 174 123 262
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,650 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £71,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 51,365 32,680 65,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 96.01% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 25,610 22,460 39,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,871 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South East 0 85 £70,000 - 7
North of England -27 27 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Scotland +1 18 £70,000 +16.67%
South West +3 17 £70,000 +3.70% 4
Midlands -24 17 £60,000 +9.09% 12
West Midlands -16 15 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire +23 13 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Wales +42 11 £55,000 -4.35%
North West -45 10 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Northern Ireland +17 7 £56,250 +12.50%
East of England -53 7 £61,142 -9.42% 5
North East -35 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -42 2 £50,000 -11.11% 6
Senior Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 100 (52.91%) C#
2 92 (48.68%) .NET
3 53 (28.04%) JavaScript
4 50 (26.46%) Agile
5 42 (22.22%) Azure
6 41 (21.69%) TypeScript
7 38 (20.11%) .NET Core
8 35 (18.52%) DevOps
9 34 (17.99%) Mathematics
9 34 (17.99%) ASP.NET
10 32 (16.93%) .NET Framework
10 32 (16.93%) Algorithms
11 31 (16.40%) Software Engineering
12 30 (15.87%) SQL Server
12 30 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (15.34%) Degree
14 28 (14.81%) AWS
15 26 (13.76%) Design Patterns
16 25 (13.23%) Git
17 23 (12.17%) Computer Science
17 23 (12.17%) React
17 23 (12.17%) ASP.NET Web API
18 22 (11.64%) Entity Framework
19 19 (10.05%) Artificial Intelligence
19 19 (10.05%) Finance
19 19 (10.05%) SQL
20 18 (9.52%) CSS
20 18 (9.52%) CI/CD
20 18 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
21 17 (8.99%) Greenfield Project

Senior Software 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 3 (1.59%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.22%) Azure
2 28 (14.81%) AWS
3 18 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.94%) SaaS
5 2 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.06%) GCP
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.53%) Figma
6 1 (0.53%) GitHub
6 1 (0.53%) Jelastic
6 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) Network Security
2 2 (1.06%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.53%) AMQP
3 1 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.53%) MQTT
3 1 (0.53%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.87%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.82%) MySQL
4 6 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (13.23%) Git
2 9 (4.76%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (2.12%) Jasmine
4 4 (2.12%) NUnit
4 4 (2.12%) Selenium
5 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (1.06%) JIRA
7 1 (0.53%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.53%) Vite
7 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 19 (10.05%) Finance
2 14 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.29%) Law
3 10 (5.29%) Multimedia
4 6 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.12%) Banking
5 4 (2.12%) Electronics
5 4 (2.12%) Tech for Good
6 3 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.59%) Automotive
6 3 (1.59%) Retail
7 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.53%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.53%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (48.68%) .NET
2 38 (20.11%) .NET Core
3 34 (17.99%) ASP.NET
4 32 (16.93%) .NET Framework
5 23 (12.17%) ASP.NET Web API
5 23 (12.17%) React
6 22 (11.64%) Entity Framework
7 18 (9.52%) CSS
8 15 (7.94%) HTML
8 15 (7.94%) WCF
9 12 (6.35%) RESTful
10 11 (5.82%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.82%) Node.js
11 7 (3.70%) Blazor
11 7 (3.70%) Kafka
11 7 (3.70%) LESS
12 5 (2.65%) HTML5
13 4 (2.12%) jQuery
13 4 (2.12%) Web Services
14 3 (1.59%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.93%) Algorithms
2 17 (8.99%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.59%) Legacy Code
3 3 (1.59%) Media Streaming
3 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.53%) IoT
5 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.29%) Windows
2 3 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.46%) Agile
2 35 (18.52%) DevOps
3 34 (17.99%) Mathematics
4 31 (16.40%) Software Engineering
5 30 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (13.76%) Design Patterns
7 23 (12.17%) Computer Science
8 19 (10.05%) Artificial Intelligence
9 18 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 17 (8.99%) Test Automation
11 16 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (7.94%) TDD
13 14 (7.41%) Physics
14 13 (6.88%) SOLID
15 11 (5.82%) Multithreading
15 11 (5.82%) MVC
16 10 (5.29%) Multithreaded Programming
16 10 (5.29%) Unit Testing
17 9 (4.76%) Mentoring
18 8 (4.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 100 (52.91%) C#
2 53 (28.04%) JavaScript
3 41 (21.69%) TypeScript
4 19 (10.05%) SQL
5 10 (5.29%) C++
5 10 (5.29%) Java
6 5 (2.65%) PHP
7 3 (1.59%) Go
7 3 (1.59%) Python
7 3 (1.59%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.06%) C
8 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (15.34%) Degree
2 12 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (6.35%) Master's Degree
2 12 (6.35%) Numerate Degree
2 12 (6.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.59%) QA
1 3 (1.59%) WCAG
2 2 (1.06%) IEC 62304
2 2 (1.06%) ISO 13485
2 2 (1.06%) MISRA
2 2 (1.06%) MISRA C
System Software
1 10 (5.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.06%) Intel
3 1 (0.53%) Telerik