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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -26 +11 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 554 672 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.11% 4.89% 4.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.30% 5.43% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 447 491 743
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £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 16,769 12,374 19,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.99% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,915 7,936 12,370
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +8 287 £67,500 -3.57% 22
Berkshire +20 177 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Hampshire -63 110 £65,000 -3.70% 18
Oxfordshire -14 67 £61,500 -12.14% 5
Surrey -14 65 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Kent +7 43 £57,500 -4.17% 5
Buckinghamshire -1 43 £62,500 -10.71% 7
East Sussex -12 27 £57,500 -11.54% 1
West Sussex -7 15 £57,500 -8.00%
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 1 June 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.

1 214 (38.63%) Agile
2 192 (34.66%) C#
3 187 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 185 (33.39%) .NET
5 153 (27.62%) React
6 146 (26.35%) SQL
7 128 (23.10%) Azure
8 116 (20.94%) Docker
9 111 (20.04%) Git
10 104 (18.77%) Full Stack Development
11 102 (18.41%) AWS
12 101 (18.23%) DevOps
13 93 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
13 93 (16.79%) HTML
13 93 (16.79%) Social Skills
14 89 (16.06%) CI/CD
14 89 (16.06%) CSS
15 86 (15.52%) TypeScript
16 80 (14.44%) SQL Server
17 79 (14.26%) Degree
18 75 (13.54%) ASP.NET
19 74 (13.36%) Computer Science
20 73 (13.18%) Java
20 73 (13.18%) Finance
20 73 (13.18%) Kubernetes
21 69 (12.45%) Microservices
22 68 (12.27%) Oracle
23 67 (12.09%) CRM
24 66 (11.91%) Microsoft
24 66 (11.91%) TDD

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 32 (5.78%) CMS
2 23 (4.15%) Headless CMS
2 23 (4.15%) Kentico
3 22 (3.97%) IIS
4 19 (3.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 18 (3.25%) Umbraco
6 8 (1.44%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.26%) Confluence
7 7 (1.26%) nginx
8 6 (1.08%) JBoss
8 6 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
9 4 (0.72%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.54%) Apache
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.36%) WordPress
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Mathematica
1 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 36 (6.50%) Siebel CRM
2 5 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 128 (23.10%) Azure
2 102 (18.41%) AWS
3 45 (8.12%) SaaS
4 41 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.25%) Kontent
6 15 (2.71%) Serverless
7 14 (2.53%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.17%) GCP
9 10 (1.81%) GitHub
10 9 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.72%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.26%) Network Security
2 4 (0.72%) Internet
2 4 (0.72%) MQTT
2 4 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.72%) VPN
3 3 (0.54%) DNS
3 3 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (14.44%) SQL Server
2 43 (7.76%) MySQL
3 40 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (6.86%) NoSQL
5 36 (6.50%) Oracle BI EE
5 36 (6.50%) Siebel EIM
6 20 (3.61%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.35%) OLTP
8 11 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.62%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.62%) Redis
11 8 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.26%) Oracle Database 11g
12 7 (1.26%) Power BI
13 6 (1.08%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.72%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 111 (20.04%) Git
2 31 (5.60%) Selenium
3 29 (5.23%) Visual Studio
4 27 (4.87%) JIRA
5 21 (3.79%) JUnit
6 15 (2.71%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.71%) NUnit
7 13 (2.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.62%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.26%) Jasmine
9 7 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.72%) Maven
10 4 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.72%) Postman
10 4 (0.72%) Vite
11 3 (0.54%) gulp
11 3 (0.54%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.54%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.54%) rollup.js
11 3 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (16.79%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.18%) Finance
3 36 (6.50%) Aerospace
4 23 (4.15%) Public Sector
5 14 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.53%) Marketing
6 11 (1.99%) Law
7 9 (1.62%) Back Office
8 7 (1.26%) Multimedia
8 7 (1.26%) Retail
9 6 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.54%) Banking
10 3 (0.54%) Games
10 3 (0.54%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.54%) Local Government
10 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.36%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (33.39%) .NET
2 153 (27.62%) React
3 93 (16.79%) HTML
4 89 (16.06%) CSS
5 75 (13.54%) ASP.NET
6 66 (11.91%) .NET Core
7 57 (10.29%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.29%) RESTful
8 54 (9.75%) .NET Framework
9 41 (7.40%) REST
10 40 (7.22%) Web Services
11 35 (6.32%) Node.js
12 33 (5.96%) Spring
13 32 (5.78%) RabbitMQ
14 31 (5.60%) HTML5
15 29 (5.23%) CSS3
15 29 (5.23%) Kafka
16 28 (5.05%) SOAP
17 27 (4.87%) ASP.NET Web API
17 27 (4.87%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.39%) Enterprise Software
2 28 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.62%) e-Learning
6 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.72%) Cybercrime
8 4 (0.72%) IoT
8 4 (0.72%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.72%) NHS
8 4 (0.72%) Replication
9 3 (0.54%) Animation
9 3 (0.54%) BBC
9 3 (0.54%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.54%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.54%) Social Media
9 3 (0.54%) Solar Energy
9 3 (0.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.99%) Linux
2 9 (1.62%) Windows
3 8 (1.44%) Android
4 3 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (38.63%) Agile
2 104 (18.77%) Full Stack Development
3 101 (18.23%) DevOps
4 93 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (16.06%) CI/CD
6 74 (13.36%) Computer Science
7 69 (12.45%) Microservices
8 67 (12.09%) CRM
9 66 (11.91%) Front End Development
9 66 (11.91%) TDD
10 62 (11.19%) Software Engineering
11 60 (10.83%) Continuous Integration
12 54 (9.75%) MVC
13 49 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
14 46 (8.30%) E-Commerce
15 45 (8.12%) Scrum
16 42 (7.58%) Propensity Modelling
17 41 (7.40%) Actionable Insight
17 41 (7.40%) Collaborative Working
18 37 (6.68%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.66%) C#
2 187 (33.75%) JavaScript
3 146 (26.35%) SQL
4 86 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 73 (13.18%) Java
6 65 (11.73%) PHP
7 31 (5.60%) Python
8 26 (4.69%) Go
9 22 (3.97%) PL/SQL
10 17 (3.07%) T-SQL
11 15 (2.71%) C++
12 11 (1.99%) C
13 6 (1.08%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.72%) JSX
14 4 (0.72%) R
15 3 (0.54%) Ruby
15 3 (0.54%) VB
16 2 (0.36%) Fortran
16 2 (0.36%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (14.26%) Degree
2 58 (10.47%) Security Cleared
3 51 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.26%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.08%) PhD
7 3 (0.54%) MBA
8 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.07%) QA
2 15 (2.71%) WCAG
3 4 (0.72%) GDPR
4 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 116 (20.94%) Docker
2 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.81%) Ansible
3 8 (1.44%) Terraform
4 2 (0.36%) MIIS
Vendors
1 68 (12.27%) Oracle
2 66 (11.91%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.50%) Siebel
4 19 (3.43%) Sitecore
5 18 (3.25%) Optimizely
6 12 (2.17%) Google
7 8 (1.44%) WSO2
8 5 (0.90%) Adobe
9 4 (0.72%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.54%) Apple
10 3 (0.54%) Facebook
10 3 (0.54%) Sony
10 3 (0.54%) Yahoo!
11 2 (0.36%) New Relic
11 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.36%) VMware
12 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.18%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.18%) SAP
12 1 (0.18%) UiPath