Senior Backend Developer Jobs in England

Senior Backend Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 819 967
Rank change year-on-year +2 +148 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 46 75 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.091% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.10% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 38 59 80
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,950 £62,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £96,875 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Backend Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +68 17 £90,000 +13.92% 5
North of England +5 15 £60,000 -12.73% 1
North West -27 9 £60,000 -11.11%
Yorkshire +64 6 £60,000 -22.58%
Midlands -32 6 £59,995 -25.01% 1
West Midlands -7 4 £49,990 -37.51% 1
East of England -9 3 £55,000 -5.78% 1
East Midlands - 2 £70,000 -
Senior Backend Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Backend 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 England region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 21 (45.65%) AWS
2 20 (43.48%) Microservices
2 20 (43.48%) .NET
2 20 (43.48%) Agile
3 18 (39.13%) Node.js
4 17 (36.96%) Docker
4 17 (36.96%) C#
4 17 (36.96%) Serverless
5 16 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 14 (30.43%) TypeScript
6 14 (30.43%) Clean Code
7 13 (28.26%) Event-Driven
7 13 (28.26%) React
7 13 (28.26%) Kafka
7 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
8 12 (26.09%) DynamoDB
8 12 (26.09%) Azure
8 12 (26.09%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (23.91%) GraphQL
9 11 (23.91%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (23.91%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (23.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
10 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
10 10 (21.74%) OAuth
10 10 (21.74%) SDLC
10 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
11 9 (19.57%) JWT
11 9 (19.57%) MySQL
12 8 (17.39%) Java

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (15.22%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) AWS
2 17 (36.96%) Serverless
3 12 (26.09%) Azure
4 11 (23.91%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (17.39%) GCP
5 8 (17.39%) GitHub
6 6 (13.04%) npm
6 6 (13.04%) Yarn
7 5 (10.87%) SaaS
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.17%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) AMQP
2 1 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) DynamoDB
2 9 (19.57%) MySQL
3 7 (15.22%) MongoDB
3 7 (15.22%) Relational Database
4 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.35%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
1 6 (13.04%) Mocha
2 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.52%) Postman
4 1 (2.17%) Appium
4 1 (2.17%) PHPUnit
4 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Games
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Automotive
4 1 (2.17%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (43.48%) .NET
2 18 (39.13%) Node.js
3 13 (28.26%) Kafka
3 13 (28.26%) React
4 11 (23.91%) GraphQL
4 11 (23.91%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
5 10 (21.74%) OAuth
6 9 (19.57%) JWT
7 7 (15.22%) NestJS
8 6 (13.04%) Express.js
8 6 (13.04%) gRPC
8 6 (13.04%) Jest
8 6 (13.04%) MEAN Stack
8 6 (13.04%) MERN Stack
8 6 (13.04%) Mongoose
8 6 (13.04%) OAuth2
8 6 (13.04%) OpenAPI
9 5 (10.87%) HTML
9 5 (10.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Agile
1 20 (43.48%) Microservices
2 16 (34.78%) Software Engineering
3 14 (30.43%) Clean Code
4 13 (28.26%) Event-Driven
5 11 (23.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 10 (21.74%) SDLC
7 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (17.39%) Fintech
7 8 (17.39%) Kanban
8 7 (15.22%) DevOps
8 7 (15.22%) Software Testing
9 6 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (13.04%) Observability
9 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (13.04%) TDD
9 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
10 5 (10.87%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) C#
2 14 (30.43%) TypeScript
3 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.39%) Java
4 8 (17.39%) SQL
5 6 (13.04%) Kotlin
6 5 (10.87%) Go
7 3 (6.52%) Python
8 1 (2.17%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 17 (36.96%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.22%) Terraform
3 6 (13.04%) Grafana
3 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft