Senior Developer Jobs in Dorset

Senior Developer
South West > Dorset

The median Senior Developer salary in Dorset is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 69 27 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 5.30% 4.40% 6.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.59% 5.39% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 69 23 37
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £95,000 -
South West median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% -4.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 1,235 501 770
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 81.60% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 734 340 559
10th Percentile £28,833 £31,925 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Dorset

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Dorset

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Dorset over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Dorset

Senior Developer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bournemouth -9 48 £57,500 -8.00% 2
Poole +2 9 £50,000 -23.08%
Senior Developer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Dorset region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 34 (49.28%) JavaScript
2 33 (47.83%) React
3 28 (40.58%) Full Stack Development
4 27 (39.13%) Laravel
5 21 (30.43%) PHP
5 21 (30.43%) Scrum
5 21 (30.43%) Agile
5 21 (30.43%) Git
6 20 (28.99%) HTML
7 19 (27.54%) CSS
7 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (24.64%) TypeScript
9 16 (23.19%) Front End Development
9 16 (23.19%) Vue
10 15 (21.74%) E-Commerce
11 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
11 12 (17.39%) .NET
12 11 (15.94%) AngularJS
13 10 (14.49%) RESTful
13 10 (14.49%) MySQL
13 10 (14.49%) SQL Server
13 10 (14.49%) CI/CD
14 9 (13.04%) Alpine.js
14 9 (13.04%) Design Patterns
14 9 (13.04%) Web Services
14 9 (13.04%) Tailwind CSS
14 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
14 9 (13.04%) Docker
14 9 (13.04%) Azure
14 9 (13.04%) NoSQL

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.04%) Azure
2 8 (11.59%) AWS
3 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
3 6 (8.70%) GitHub
4 3 (4.35%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.90%) SaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) MySQL
1 10 (14.49%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (30.43%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) webpack
3 5 (7.25%) JIRA
4 3 (4.35%) Selenium
5 2 (2.90%) Storybook
General
1 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Retail
3 2 (2.90%) Finance
3 2 (2.90%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (47.83%) React
2 27 (39.13%) Laravel
3 20 (28.99%) HTML
4 19 (27.54%) CSS
5 16 (23.19%) Vue
6 12 (17.39%) .NET
7 11 (15.94%) AngularJS
8 10 (14.49%) RESTful
9 9 (13.04%) Alpine.js
9 9 (13.04%) Node.js
9 9 (13.04%) Tailwind CSS
9 9 (13.04%) Web Services
10 8 (11.59%) LAMP
11 7 (10.14%) GatsbyJS
11 7 (10.14%) jQuery
12 6 (8.70%) .NET Core
12 6 (8.70%) Svelte
13 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET
14 3 (4.35%) GraphQL
14 3 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.90%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.90%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Android
1 3 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.58%) Full Stack Development
2 21 (30.43%) Agile
2 21 (30.43%) Scrum
3 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (23.19%) Front End Development
5 15 (21.74%) E-Commerce
6 10 (14.49%) CI/CD
7 9 (13.04%) Analytics
7 9 (13.04%) Design Patterns
8 8 (11.59%) DevOps
8 8 (11.59%) Kanban
8 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
8 8 (11.59%) MVC
8 8 (11.59%) OOP
9 6 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (8.70%) Domain-Driven Design
9 6 (8.70%) Predictive Analytics
9 6 (8.70%) User Experience
9 6 (8.70%) User Stories
9 6 (8.70%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (49.28%) JavaScript
2 21 (30.43%) PHP
3 17 (24.64%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) C#
5 1 (1.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.45%) Swift
5 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) Google
3 5 (7.25%) Twitter
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe
5 1 (1.45%) Xamarin