Senior Developer
UK

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 84 63
Rank change year-on-year 0 -21 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3,122 4,078 8,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.18% 3.90% 5.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 4.26% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 2,774 4,658
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -1 2,678 £65,000 -13.33% 453
UK excluding London -2 2,045 £60,000 -7.69% 309
Work from Home +16 1,558 £65,000 -7.14% 315
London -3 883 £80,000 -5.88% 187
North of England +39 530 £60,000 -4.00% 88
South East -24 510 £65,000 -7.14% 62
South West +46 383 £57,500 -4.17% 40
North West +42 319 £60,000 -4.00% 56
Midlands -25 249 £60,000 - 48
Yorkshire +58 183 £55,000 -12.00% 27
West Midlands -5 148 £62,500 +4.17% 31
Scotland -94 144 £58,750 -9.62% 32
East Midlands -34 103 £55,000 -12.00% 17
East of England -39 97 £60,000 -14.29% 19
Wales +34 95 £52,686 -8.37% 15
Northern Ireland +32 40 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North East -16 28 £55,000 -15.38% 8

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1,021 (32.70%) JavaScript
2 1,001 (32.06%) C#
3 919 (29.44%) .NET
4 900 (28.83%) Agile
5 794 (25.43%) AWS
6 775 (24.82%) Azure
7 760 (24.34%) SQL
8 690 (22.10%) React
9 568 (18.19%) Social Skills
10 553 (17.71%) Full Stack Development
11 510 (16.34%) DevOps
12 495 (15.86%) HTML
13 493 (15.79%) Finance
14 491 (15.73%) TypeScript
15 484 (15.50%) CSS
16 461 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
17 448 (14.35%) Java
18 433 (13.87%) AngularJS
19 407 (13.04%) Git
20 378 (12.11%) Software Engineering
21 370 (11.85%) Degree
22 363 (11.63%) Microsoft
23 356 (11.40%) Docker
23 356 (11.40%) Mentoring
24 351 (11.24%) CI/CD
25 345 (11.05%) Front End Development
26 331 (10.60%) SQL Server
27 323 (10.35%) Python
28 320 (10.25%) Microservices
29 315 (10.09%) PHP

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 107 (3.43%) CMS
2 66 (2.11%) Confluence
3 47 (1.51%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.31%) IIS
5 40 (1.28%) Headless CMS
6 39 (1.25%) Kentico
7 36 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 27 (0.86%) WordPress
9 26 (0.83%) Apache
10 18 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
11 17 (0.54%) nginx
12 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
13 10 (0.32%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.29%) Drupal
14 9 (0.29%) Mendix
15 8 (0.26%) JBoss
15 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
16 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
16 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
16 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.54%) Photoshop
2 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Maya
6 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.032%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 30 (0.96%) Siebel CRM
2 23 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.54%) Shopify
4 14 (0.45%) SDL Web 8
5 13 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.29%) Magento
7 5 (0.16%) Endur
8 4 (0.13%) Sonata
8 4 (0.13%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.032%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 794 (25.43%) AWS
2 775 (24.82%) Azure
3 192 (6.15%) SaaS
4 189 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
5 182 (5.83%) Power Platform
6 139 (4.45%) GCP
7 114 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
8 113 (3.62%) Serverless
9 108 (3.46%) PowerApps
10 95 (3.04%) Power Automate
11 87 (2.79%) GitHub
12 46 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 44 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
15 37 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
16 33 (1.06%) Kontent
17 27 (0.86%) Azure Functions
18 26 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
19 25 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
19 25 (0.80%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.61%) Internet
2 8 (0.26%) HTTP
3 7 (0.22%) AMQP
3 7 (0.22%) Bluetooth
4 6 (0.19%) DNS
4 6 (0.19%) MQTT
5 5 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.16%) VPN
6 4 (0.13%) Broadband
7 3 (0.096%) IPFS
7 3 (0.096%) SSL
7 3 (0.096%) VoIP
7 3 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.064%) Network Security
9 1 (0.032%) CTI
9 1 (0.032%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 233 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (6.47%) MySQL
4 128 (4.10%) Oracle Database
5 116 (3.72%) Power BI
6 114 (3.65%) NoSQL
7 111 (3.56%) Relational Database
8 94 (3.01%) Oracle Database 11g
9 58 (1.86%) MongoDB
10 52 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 48 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (1.35%) Redis
13 40 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
15 30 (0.96%) Oracle BI EE
15 30 (0.96%) Siebel EIM
16 28 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (0.54%) Power Query
18 17 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 407 (13.04%) Git
2 143 (4.58%) JIRA
3 87 (2.79%) Visual Studio
4 63 (2.02%) Bitbucket
5 59 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 46 (1.47%) Sourcetree
7 45 (1.44%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
9 32 (1.02%) NUnit
10 31 (0.99%) Selenium
11 27 (0.86%) JUnit
12 25 (0.80%) webpack
13 24 (0.77%) TeamCity
14 21 (0.67%) Maven
15 20 (0.64%) Moq
15 20 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 19 (0.61%) Android Studio
17 16 (0.51%) gulp
17 16 (0.51%) Storybook
18 15 (0.48%) git-flow
General
1 568 (18.19%) Social Skills
2 493 (15.79%) Finance
3 115 (3.68%) Banking
4 104 (3.33%) Retail
5 94 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (3.01%) Front Office
6 92 (2.95%) Games
6 92 (2.95%) Marketing
7 79 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 67 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (1.83%) Back Office
10 46 (1.47%) Legal
10 46 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (1.25%) Tech for Good
12 33 (1.06%) Health Technology
12 33 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 33 (1.06%) Law
13 32 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 31 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 26 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 919 (29.44%) .NET
2 690 (22.10%) React
3 495 (15.86%) HTML
4 484 (15.50%) CSS
5 433 (13.87%) AngularJS
6 310 (9.93%) Node.js
7 291 (9.32%) ASP.NET
8 276 (8.84%) .NET Core
9 275 (8.81%) Vue
10 237 (7.59%) .NET Framework
11 230 (7.37%) RESTful
12 210 (6.73%) REST
13 201 (6.44%) Laravel
14 175 (5.61%) Web Services
15 163 (5.22%) Spring
16 130 (4.16%) Kafka
17 127 (4.07%) JSON
18 119 (3.81%) jQuery
19 115 (3.68%) Entity Framework
20 106 (3.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 191 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
2 105 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 94 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 79 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 76 (2.43%) Equities
6 75 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 70 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 69 (2.21%) Derivative
8 69 (2.21%) IoT
9 66 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 64 (2.05%) Fixed Income
11 63 (2.02%) Hedge funds
12 47 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 41 (1.31%) Cloud Native
14 36 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 32 (1.02%) Data Structures
16 31 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
17 30 (0.96%) Client/Server
17 30 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
18 27 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (3.24%) Linux
2 77 (2.47%) Android
3 72 (2.31%) Windows
4 60 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.42%) Unix
7 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.22%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (28.83%) Agile
2 553 (17.71%) Full Stack Development
3 510 (16.34%) DevOps
4 461 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
5 378 (12.11%) Software Engineering
6 356 (11.40%) Mentoring
7 351 (11.24%) CI/CD
8 345 (11.05%) Front End Development
9 320 (10.25%) Microservices
10 279 (8.94%) MVC
11 268 (8.58%) Computer Science
12 267 (8.55%) Unit Testing
13 261 (8.36%) Scrum
14 251 (8.04%) TDD
15 244 (7.82%) Artificial Intelligence
16 215 (6.89%) Actionable Insight
17 198 (6.34%) Design Patterns
18 195 (6.25%) User Experience
19 183 (5.86%) E-Commerce
20 182 (5.83%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (32.70%) JavaScript
2 1,001 (32.06%) C#
3 760 (24.34%) SQL
4 491 (15.73%) TypeScript
5 448 (14.35%) Java
6 323 (10.35%) Python
7 315 (10.09%) PHP
8 153 (4.90%) PL/SQL
9 100 (3.20%) T-SQL
10 74 (2.37%) Ruby
11 67 (2.15%) C++
12 61 (1.95%) Kotlin
13 57 (1.83%) Go
14 47 (1.51%) C
15 23 (0.74%) PowerShell
15 23 (0.74%) Swift
16 20 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 19 (0.61%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.48%) XPath
19 14 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 370 (11.85%) Degree
2 191 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 173 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.45%) PhD
8 10 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.13%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.096%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.096%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.096%) MBA
10 3 (0.096%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.064%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.064%) OCP
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.032%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.36%) QA
2 33 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.61%) WCAG
4 12 (0.38%) GDPR
5 11 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.22%) SLA
8 6 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.096%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.096%) PMO
10 2 (0.064%) GRC
10 2 (0.064%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.064%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.064%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 356 (11.40%) Docker
2 11 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.096%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.096%) Firmware
6 2 (0.064%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.064%) OpenSIPS
6 2 (0.064%) Varnish
6 2 (0.064%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.032%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 254 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 56 (1.79%) Terraform
3 23 (0.74%) Ansible
4 7 (0.22%) Grafana
4 7 (0.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.19%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.19%) Rancher
6 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.032%) cPanel
7 1 (0.032%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.032%) Istio
7 1 (0.032%) Kibana
7 1 (0.032%) MIIS
7 1 (0.032%) Puppet
Vendors
1 363 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 226 (7.24%) Oracle
3 73 (2.34%) Google
4 39 (1.25%) Sitecore
5 38 (1.22%) Optimizely
6 32 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 30 (0.96%) Siebel
8 24 (0.77%) Adobe
9 14 (0.45%) Cognizant
9 14 (0.45%) F5
10 12 (0.38%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.38%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.35%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.35%) Xamarin
12 10 (0.32%) Sybase
12 10 (0.32%) WSO2
13 9 (0.29%) Databricks
13 9 (0.29%) NVIDIA
14 8 (0.26%) Blue Prism
14 8 (0.26%) Facebook