Senior Developer Jobs

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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 77 63
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3,540 3,655 9,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.26% 3.93% 5.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% 4.30% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,854 2,549 4,512
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% +13.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 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
England +6 3,034 £65,000 -13.33% 492
UK excluding London +3 2,392 £60,000 -7.69% 338
Work from Home +16 1,603 £62,500 -10.71% 326
London +6 934 £80,000 -5.88% 180
North of England +44 633 £60,000 -0.41% 105
South East -21 575 £65,000 -7.14% 70
South West +46 426 £59,000 -1.67% 33
North West +45 378 £60,000 - 62
Midlands -16 329 £60,000 - 64
Yorkshire +56 212 £55,000 -8.33% 30
West Midlands +5 193 £62,500 +4.17% 48
Scotland -75 160 £60,000 -7.69% 26
East Midlands -39 135 £57,500 -8.00% 16
Wales +45 114 £52,686 -4.21% 14
East of England -35 109 £60,000 -14.29% 22
Northern Ireland +27 46 £55,000 -8.33% 9
North East -13 43 £55,000 -18.52% 14

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1,086 (30.68%) C#
2 1,084 (30.62%) JavaScript
3 1,038 (29.32%) .NET
4 935 (26.41%) Agile
5 842 (23.79%) Azure
6 799 (22.57%) AWS
7 775 (21.89%) SQL
8 730 (20.62%) React
9 625 (17.66%) Full Stack Development
10 585 (16.53%) Social Skills
11 552 (15.59%) DevOps
11 552 (15.59%) HTML
12 534 (15.08%) CSS
13 513 (14.49%) TypeScript
14 509 (14.38%) Finance
15 484 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
16 447 (12.63%) AngularJS
17 431 (12.18%) Java
18 423 (11.95%) Git
19 421 (11.89%) Software Engineering
20 395 (11.16%) Degree
21 387 (10.93%) Microsoft
22 372 (10.51%) CI/CD
23 371 (10.48%) Mentoring
24 360 (10.17%) SQL Server
25 352 (9.94%) PHP
26 351 (9.92%) Front End Development
27 333 (9.41%) Docker
28 327 (9.24%) ASP.NET
29 326 (9.21%) Python

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
1 122 (3.45%) CMS
2 57 (1.61%) Confluence
3 50 (1.41%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.16%) Headless CMS
4 41 (1.16%) IIS
5 40 (1.13%) Kentico
6 38 (1.07%) Sitecore CMS
7 34 (0.96%) WordPress
8 29 (0.82%) Apache
9 18 (0.51%) nginx
10 16 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.25%) Drupal
11 9 (0.25%) Mendix
12 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
14 6 (0.17%) JBoss
14 6 (0.17%) NServiceBus
14 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
15 5 (0.14%) SAS
15 5 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (0.62%) Photoshop
2 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.11%) Maya
6 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.056%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.028%) Elementor
8 1 (0.028%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.028%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.02%) Siebel CRM
2 26 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.59%) Shopify
4 19 (0.54%) Magento
4 19 (0.54%) SDL Web 8
5 15 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.11%) Sonata
7 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.028%) Endur
8 1 (0.028%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 842 (23.79%) Azure
2 799 (22.57%) AWS
3 219 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 217 (6.13%) SaaS
5 203 (5.73%) Power Platform
6 140 (3.95%) GCP
7 132 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (3.28%) Serverless
9 112 (3.16%) PowerApps
10 100 (2.82%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.54%) GitHub
12 54 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 47 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
15 36 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
16 34 (0.96%) Kontent
17 31 (0.88%) Azure Functions
17 31 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
18 25 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
19 24 (0.68%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.48%) Internet
2 7 (0.20%) HTTP
2 7 (0.20%) Network Security
3 6 (0.17%) AMQP
4 5 (0.14%) DNS
4 5 (0.14%) MQTT
4 5 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.14%) VPN
5 4 (0.11%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.11%) Broadband
5 4 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.085%) IPFS
6 3 (0.085%) SSL
6 3 (0.085%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.028%) CTI
7 1 (0.028%) SAN
7 1 (0.028%) VoIP
7 1 (0.028%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 219 (6.19%) MySQL
3 211 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
4 118 (3.33%) Power BI
5 114 (3.22%) Oracle Database
6 112 (3.16%) NoSQL
7 110 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 80 (2.26%) Oracle Database 11g
9 60 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 55 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 49 (1.38%) DynamoDB
12 41 (1.16%) Redis
13 40 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.02%) Oracle BI EE
14 36 (1.02%) Siebel EIM
15 33 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
16 32 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 21 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (0.56%) Power Query
19 16 (0.45%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 423 (11.95%) Git
2 139 (3.93%) JIRA
3 95 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 67 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 50 (1.41%) Sourcetree
6 43 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 41 (1.16%) Selenium
8 40 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 40 (1.13%) NUnit
9 33 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
10 30 (0.85%) webpack
11 29 (0.82%) Moq
11 29 (0.82%) TeamCity
12 26 (0.73%) JUnit
13 24 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
14 22 (0.62%) Android Studio
15 21 (0.59%) git-flow
16 20 (0.56%) SpecFlow
16 20 (0.56%) Storybook
16 20 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 585 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 509 (14.38%) Finance
3 114 (3.22%) Banking
4 113 (3.19%) Marketing
5 106 (2.99%) Retail
6 105 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
7 96 (2.71%) Games
8 87 (2.46%) Front Office
9 79 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 62 (1.75%) Back Office
10 62 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (1.44%) Tech for Good
12 48 (1.36%) Legal
13 46 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.24%) Law
15 39 (1.10%) Health Technology
16 37 (1.05%) Aerospace
17 35 (0.99%) Manufacturing
18 31 (0.88%) Investment Banking
19 27 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,038 (29.32%) .NET
2 730 (20.62%) React
3 552 (15.59%) HTML
4 534 (15.08%) CSS
5 447 (12.63%) AngularJS
6 327 (9.24%) ASP.NET
7 314 (8.87%) Node.js
8 299 (8.45%) .NET Core
9 279 (7.88%) Vue
10 275 (7.77%) .NET Framework
11 240 (6.78%) RESTful
12 223 (6.30%) REST
13 212 (5.99%) Laravel
14 187 (5.28%) Web Services
15 144 (4.07%) Entity Framework
15 144 (4.07%) Spring
16 139 (3.93%) jQuery
17 132 (3.73%) JSON
18 131 (3.70%) Kafka
19 122 (3.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 206 (5.82%) Greenfield Project
2 104 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 102 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 88 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 82 (2.32%) Mobile App
6 77 (2.18%) Onboarding
7 75 (2.12%) IoT
8 71 (2.01%) Equities
9 69 (1.95%) Derivative
10 68 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 62 (1.75%) Hedge funds
12 61 (1.72%) Fixed Income
13 56 (1.58%) Algorithms
14 45 (1.27%) Cloud Native
15 37 (1.05%) Client/Server
16 34 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
17 30 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
18 29 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
19 28 (0.79%) Data Structures
20 25 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 93 (2.63%) Linux
2 87 (2.46%) Windows
3 79 (2.23%) Android
4 54 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.31%) Unix
7 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (26.41%) Agile
2 625 (17.66%) Full Stack Development
3 552 (15.59%) DevOps
4 484 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (11.89%) Software Engineering
6 372 (10.51%) CI/CD
7 371 (10.48%) Mentoring
8 351 (9.92%) Front End Development
9 308 (8.70%) Microservices
10 307 (8.67%) MVC
11 285 (8.05%) Computer Science
11 285 (8.05%) Unit Testing
12 284 (8.02%) Scrum
13 256 (7.23%) TDD
14 232 (6.55%) Artificial Intelligence
15 229 (6.47%) Web Development
16 211 (5.96%) Design Patterns
17 208 (5.88%) E-Commerce
18 207 (5.85%) User Experience
19 191 (5.40%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,086 (30.68%) C#
2 1,084 (30.62%) JavaScript
3 775 (21.89%) SQL
4 513 (14.49%) TypeScript
5 431 (12.18%) Java
6 352 (9.94%) PHP
7 326 (9.21%) Python
8 145 (4.10%) PL/SQL
9 104 (2.94%) T-SQL
10 77 (2.18%) Ruby
11 73 (2.06%) C++
12 69 (1.95%) Go
13 63 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 46 (1.30%) C
15 27 (0.76%) Scala
16 25 (0.71%) PowerShell
17 22 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 21 (0.59%) Apex Code
19 20 (0.56%) Swift
19 20 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 395 (11.16%) Degree
2 196 (5.54%) Security Cleared
3 175 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 131 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 46 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (0.42%) PhD
8 12 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.17%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.11%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.085%) MBA
11 3 (0.085%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.056%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.056%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.056%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (2.94%) QA
2 34 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.48%) WCAG
4 13 (0.37%) GDPR
5 11 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.17%) SLA
8 4 (0.11%) EMIR
8 4 (0.11%) MiFID
9 3 (0.085%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.085%) PMO
10 2 (0.056%) GRC
10 2 (0.056%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.056%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.056%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.028%) MISRA
11 1 (0.028%) MISRA C
System Software
1 333 (9.41%) Docker
2 11 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.056%) Firmware
5 2 (0.056%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.056%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.028%) Ceph
6 1 (0.028%) GridGain
6 1 (0.028%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 239 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 58 (1.64%) Terraform
3 21 (0.59%) Ansible
4 9 (0.25%) Grafana
5 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.17%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.17%) Rancher
7 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.085%) Kibana
9 2 (0.056%) MIIS
10 1 (0.028%) cPanel
10 1 (0.028%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.028%) Istio
10 1 (0.028%) Knative
Vendors
1 387 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 224 (6.33%) Oracle
3 69 (1.95%) Google
4 41 (1.16%) Sitecore
5 39 (1.10%) Optimizely
6 36 (1.02%) Siebel
7 35 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 31 (0.88%) Adobe
9 29 (0.82%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.54%) Cognizant
11 17 (0.48%) Quadient
12 15 (0.42%) Xamarin
13 14 (0.40%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.40%) F5
13 14 (0.40%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.31%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.28%) Databricks
15 10 (0.28%) SAP
16 9 (0.25%) NVIDIA
16 9 (0.25%) UiPath