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 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 87 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 -18 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,276 2,136 3,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.00% 3.78% 4.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.15% 4.25% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 1,312 2,140
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,780 £47,232
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £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 1 June 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 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
North of England +45 601 £60,000 -4.00% 93
South East -26 554 £65,000 -7.14% 61
South West +48 416 £58,000 -3.33% 38
North West +44 359 £60,000 -4.00% 57
Midlands -18 303 £60,000 - 60
Yorkshire +58 203 £55,000 -10.39% 28
West Midlands -4 179 £62,500 +4.17% 44
Scotland -80 151 £57,500 -11.54% 26
East Midlands -33 123 £55,000 -12.00% 16
Wales +44 105 £53,843 -2.10% 10
East of England -33 103 £60,000 -14.29% 26
Northern Ireland +29 43 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North East -12 39 £55,000 -18.52% 8
Senior Developer
UK

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

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

1 691 (30.36%) C#
2 668 (29.35%) .NET
3 643 (28.25%) JavaScript
4 620 (27.24%) Agile
5 504 (22.14%) Azure
6 446 (19.60%) AWS
7 443 (19.46%) SQL
8 440 (19.33%) React
9 384 (16.87%) Social Skills
10 370 (16.26%) DevOps
11 329 (14.46%) HTML
12 325 (14.28%) Full Stack Development
13 321 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
14 317 (13.93%) CSS
15 310 (13.62%) Git
16 282 (12.39%) PHP
17 275 (12.08%) Microsoft
18 264 (11.60%) TypeScript
19 260 (11.42%) CI/CD
20 243 (10.68%) AngularJS
20 243 (10.68%) Degree
21 238 (10.46%) Docker
21 238 (10.46%) Front End Development
22 231 (10.15%) .NET Core
23 229 (10.06%) Finance
23 229 (10.06%) Software Engineering
24 227 (9.97%) Mentoring
25 224 (9.84%) MVC
26 219 (9.62%) SQL Server
27 210 (9.23%) ASP.NET

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 89 (3.91%) CMS
2 44 (1.93%) Confluence
3 43 (1.89%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.80%) Headless CMS
5 40 (1.76%) Kentico
6 38 (1.67%) IIS
7 36 (1.58%) Sitecore CMS
8 23 (1.01%) WordPress
9 10 (0.44%) nginx
10 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) Apache
11 6 (0.26%) JBoss
11 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.26%) SharePoint
12 5 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 5 (0.22%) SAS
13 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
15 2 (0.088%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.18%) Maya
3 4 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.044%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.044%) Elementor
4 1 (0.044%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.044%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.58%) Siebel CRM
2 18 (0.79%) Shopify
3 17 (0.75%) Magento
4 16 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.18%) Sonata
8 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.044%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 504 (22.14%) Azure
2 446 (19.60%) AWS
3 166 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (7.16%) SaaS
5 122 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 76 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
7 72 (3.16%) PowerApps
8 65 (2.86%) Power Automate
9 52 (2.28%) Serverless
10 49 (2.15%) GitHub
11 46 (2.02%) GCP
12 34 (1.49%) Kontent
13 28 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (0.66%) npm
18 13 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.75%) Internet
2 7 (0.31%) Network Security
3 5 (0.22%) DNS
4 4 (0.18%) Broadband
4 4 (0.18%) HTTP
4 4 (0.18%) MQTT
4 4 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.18%) VPN
5 3 (0.13%) SSL
6 2 (0.088%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.044%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.044%) CTI
7 1 (0.044%) VoIP
7 1 (0.044%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 162 (7.12%) MySQL
3 139 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (4.13%) NoSQL
5 86 (3.78%) Power BI
6 76 (3.34%) Oracle Database
7 66 (2.90%) Oracle Database 11g
8 53 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.58%) Oracle BI EE
9 36 (1.58%) Siebel EIM
10 35 (1.54%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.14%) DynamoDB
13 25 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (0.97%) Redis
15 20 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (0.66%) OLTP
17 15 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 310 (13.62%) Git
2 79 (3.47%) JIRA
3 72 (3.16%) Visual Studio
4 57 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 37 (1.63%) Selenium
6 31 (1.36%) Sourcetree
7 25 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 24 (1.05%) Jenkins
8 24 (1.05%) JUnit
9 19 (0.83%) webpack
10 18 (0.79%) NUnit
11 16 (0.70%) PHPUnit
12 15 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.62%) Android Studio
14 10 (0.44%) Appium
14 10 (0.44%) gulp
14 10 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.40%) Maven
15 9 (0.40%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 384 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 229 (10.06%) Finance
3 80 (3.51%) Retail
4 65 (2.86%) Games
5 60 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.28%) Banking
7 49 (2.15%) Public Sector
8 46 (2.02%) Marketing
9 43 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.58%) Aerospace
12 34 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.45%) Law
14 27 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.10%) Fire and Rescue
15 25 (1.10%) Health Technology
16 24 (1.05%) Legal
17 22 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.53%) Music Industry
18 12 (0.53%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (29.35%) .NET
2 440 (19.33%) React
3 329 (14.46%) HTML
4 317 (13.93%) CSS
5 243 (10.68%) AngularJS
6 231 (10.15%) .NET Core
7 210 (9.23%) .NET Framework
7 210 (9.23%) ASP.NET
8 188 (8.26%) Node.js
9 183 (8.04%) Laravel
10 170 (7.47%) Vue
11 143 (6.28%) RESTful
12 135 (5.93%) REST
13 110 (4.83%) Web Services
14 107 (4.70%) Entity Framework
15 71 (3.12%) HTML5
15 71 (3.12%) jQuery
16 69 (3.03%) JSON
17 68 (2.99%) Spring
18 66 (2.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 126 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
2 85 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 48 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 41 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.36%) Algorithms
8 30 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.32%) Virtual Reality
9 25 (1.10%) IoT
10 23 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
11 20 (0.88%) Client/Server
11 20 (0.88%) Cloud Native
12 18 (0.79%) NHS
13 17 (0.75%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.66%) PropTech
15 13 (0.57%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.48%) Management Information System
17 10 (0.44%) Online Banking
18 9 (0.40%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.72%) Linux
2 52 (2.28%) Android
3 43 (1.89%) Windows
4 28 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.088%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (27.24%) Agile
2 370 (16.26%) DevOps
3 325 (14.28%) Full Stack Development
4 321 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
5 260 (11.42%) CI/CD
6 238 (10.46%) Front End Development
7 229 (10.06%) Software Engineering
8 227 (9.97%) Mentoring
9 224 (9.84%) MVC
10 201 (8.83%) Scrum
11 188 (8.26%) Unit Testing
12 178 (7.82%) TDD
13 172 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence
14 168 (7.38%) Web Development
15 164 (7.21%) Design Patterns
16 162 (7.12%) Microservices
17 161 (7.07%) Actionable Insight
18 160 (7.03%) Computer Science
19 152 (6.68%) User Experience
20 145 (6.37%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 691 (30.36%) C#
2 643 (28.25%) JavaScript
3 443 (19.46%) SQL
4 282 (12.39%) PHP
5 264 (11.60%) TypeScript
6 200 (8.79%) Java
7 121 (5.32%) Python
8 94 (4.13%) PL/SQL
9 60 (2.64%) T-SQL
10 50 (2.20%) C++
11 39 (1.71%) Ruby
12 37 (1.63%) C
13 36 (1.58%) Go
14 32 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.83%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.62%) Swift
18 11 (0.48%) R
19 10 (0.44%) VB
20 8 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 243 (10.68%) Degree
2 151 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 133 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 84 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.62%) PhD
8 9 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.22%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.18%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.13%) MBA
12 2 (0.088%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.044%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.044%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.03%) QA
2 15 (0.66%) WCAG
3 11 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.44%) GDPR
5 8 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.26%) SLA
7 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.088%) GRC
System Software
1 238 (10.46%) Docker
2 4 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.044%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 163 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 53 (2.33%) Terraform
3 14 (0.62%) Ansible
4 6 (0.26%) Rancher
5 2 (0.088%) MIIS
6 1 (0.044%) Grafana
6 1 (0.044%) Istio
6 1 (0.044%) Kibana
6 1 (0.044%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 275 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.03%) Oracle
3 48 (2.11%) Google
4 39 (1.71%) Sitecore
5 36 (1.58%) Siebel
6 34 (1.49%) Optimizely
7 21 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 13 (0.57%) Quadient
8 13 (0.57%) Salesforce
8 13 (0.57%) Xamarin
9 11 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.44%) Adobe
11 9 (0.40%) NVIDIA
11 9 (0.40%) SAP
12 8 (0.35%) F5
12 8 (0.35%) Twitter
12 8 (0.35%) UiPath
12 8 (0.35%) WSO2
13 5 (0.22%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.22%) Micro Focus