Senior Developer Jobs in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior 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 71 79 72
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3,077 3,210 7,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.22% 3.91% 5.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.40% 4.29% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,533 2,281 3,980
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior 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 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 +6 939 £80,000 -5.88% 184
North of England +48 646 £60,000 -4.00% 106
South East -24 585 £65,000 -7.14% 69
South West +45 425 £59,000 -1.67% 33
North West +50 385 £60,000 -2.83% 58
Midlands -13 344 £60,000 - 66
Yorkshire +56 214 £55,000 -8.33% 36
West Midlands +11 203 £62,500 +4.17% 49
East Midlands -35 140 £57,500 -8.00% 16
East of England -34 110 £60,000 -14.29% 23
North East -10 47 £55,000 -18.52% 13
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 990 (32.17%) JavaScript
2 948 (30.81%) C#
3 923 (30.00%) .NET
4 834 (27.10%) Agile
5 715 (23.24%) Azure
6 669 (21.74%) SQL
7 659 (21.42%) AWS
8 647 (21.03%) React
9 538 (17.48%) Full Stack Development
10 500 (16.25%) HTML
11 487 (15.83%) CSS
12 478 (15.53%) Social Skills
13 464 (15.08%) Finance
14 454 (14.75%) TypeScript
15 451 (14.66%) DevOps
16 390 (12.67%) Git
17 386 (12.54%) AngularJS
18 384 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
19 371 (12.06%) Java
20 359 (11.67%) Software Engineering
21 354 (11.50%) Degree
22 352 (11.44%) Microsoft
23 330 (10.72%) SQL Server
24 326 (10.59%) PHP
25 315 (10.24%) CI/CD
26 314 (10.20%) ASP.NET
27 307 (9.98%) Docker
28 301 (9.78%) Python
29 297 (9.65%) Mentoring
30 291 (9.46%) MVC

Senior 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
1 110 (3.57%) CMS
2 51 (1.66%) Confluence
3 46 (1.49%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.33%) Headless CMS
4 41 (1.33%) IIS
5 40 (1.30%) Kentico
6 38 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
7 31 (1.01%) WordPress
8 29 (0.94%) Apache
9 18 (0.58%) nginx
10 16 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.29%) Mendix
12 8 (0.26%) Drupal
12 8 (0.26%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.23%) Apache Spark
13 7 (0.23%) SAS
14 6 (0.19%) JBoss
14 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
15 5 (0.16%) NServiceBus
15 5 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Maya
6 2 (0.065%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.032%) Elementor
7 1 (0.032%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.032%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.17%) Siebel CRM
2 26 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.68%) Shopify
4 19 (0.62%) Magento
4 19 (0.62%) SDL Web 8
5 15 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.032%) Endur
8 1 (0.032%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 715 (23.24%) Azure
2 659 (21.42%) AWS
3 197 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
4 191 (6.21%) SaaS
5 176 (5.72%) Power Platform
6 123 (4.00%) GCP
7 111 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
8 89 (2.89%) Serverless
9 84 (2.73%) PowerApps
10 82 (2.66%) GitHub
11 78 (2.53%) Power Automate
12 38 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 36 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (1.10%) Kontent
15 32 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 26 (0.84%) Azure Functions
17 26 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
18 25 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
19 24 (0.78%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.52%) Internet
2 7 (0.23%) Network Security
3 6 (0.19%) AMQP
3 6 (0.19%) HTTP
4 5 (0.16%) MQTT
4 5 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.16%) VPN
5 4 (0.13%) Broadband
5 4 (0.13%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.097%) DNS
6 3 (0.097%) IPFS
6 3 (0.097%) SSL
7 2 (0.065%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.032%) CTI
8 1 (0.032%) SAN
8 1 (0.032%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (10.72%) SQL Server
2 207 (6.73%) MySQL
3 153 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.77%) Power BI
5 99 (3.22%) NoSQL
6 87 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 68 (2.21%) Oracle Database
8 56 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 49 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 42 (1.36%) Oracle Database 11g
11 41 (1.33%) Redis
12 36 (1.17%) Oracle BI EE
12 36 (1.17%) Siebel EIM
13 32 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (0.94%) DynamoDB
15 26 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.65%) Power Query
17 17 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (0.49%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 390 (12.67%) Git
2 128 (4.16%) JIRA
3 94 (3.05%) Visual Studio
4 64 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 50 (1.62%) Sourcetree
6 40 (1.30%) NUnit
7 39 (1.27%) Selenium
8 37 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.94%) Moq
9 29 (0.94%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.81%) Jenkins
10 25 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
11 24 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 23 (0.75%) JUnit
13 19 (0.62%) Android Studio
13 19 (0.62%) git-flow
13 19 (0.62%) SpecFlow
13 19 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (0.62%) webpack
14 17 (0.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 478 (15.53%) Social Skills
2 464 (15.08%) Finance
3 106 (3.44%) Marketing
4 105 (3.41%) Retail
5 104 (3.38%) Banking
6 97 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
7 88 (2.86%) Games
8 85 (2.76%) Front Office
9 62 (2.01%) Back Office
10 54 (1.75%) Public Sector
11 46 (1.49%) Law
11 46 (1.49%) Legal
12 44 (1.43%) Tech for Good
13 41 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 36 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 32 (1.04%) Health Technology
18 30 (0.97%) Investment Banking
19 27 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 923 (30.00%) .NET
2 647 (21.03%) React
3 500 (16.25%) HTML
4 487 (15.83%) CSS
5 386 (12.54%) AngularJS
6 314 (10.20%) ASP.NET
7 274 (8.90%) .NET Core
8 259 (8.42%) Vue
9 244 (7.93%) .NET Framework
10 243 (7.90%) Node.js
11 207 (6.73%) RESTful
12 193 (6.27%) REST
13 190 (6.17%) Laravel
14 148 (4.81%) Web Services
15 133 (4.32%) Entity Framework
15 133 (4.32%) jQuery
16 127 (4.13%) Spring
17 123 (4.00%) Kafka
18 110 (3.57%) HTML5
19 104 (3.38%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 177 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
2 102 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 79 (2.57%) Product Ownership
4 76 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (2.27%) Equities
6 69 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 68 (2.21%) Derivative
7 68 (2.21%) IoT
8 62 (2.01%) Hedge funds
9 60 (1.95%) Fixed Income
10 57 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 55 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 51 (1.66%) Onboarding
13 46 (1.49%) Cloud Native
14 34 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
16 28 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (0.84%) Client/Server
18 25 (0.81%) Data Structures
18 25 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.86%) Linux
2 74 (2.40%) Windows
3 66 (2.14%) Android
4 47 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.26%) Unix
5 8 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (27.10%) Agile
2 538 (17.48%) Full Stack Development
3 451 (14.66%) DevOps
4 384 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
5 359 (11.67%) Software Engineering
6 315 (10.24%) CI/CD
7 297 (9.65%) Mentoring
8 291 (9.46%) MVC
9 284 (9.23%) Microservices
10 259 (8.42%) Front End Development
11 258 (8.38%) Computer Science
11 258 (8.38%) Scrum
12 222 (7.21%) TDD
13 212 (6.89%) Unit Testing
14 204 (6.63%) Web Development
15 195 (6.34%) E-Commerce
16 189 (6.14%) Design Patterns
17 188 (6.11%) Artificial Intelligence
17 188 (6.11%) User Experience
18 163 (5.30%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 990 (32.17%) JavaScript
2 948 (30.81%) C#
3 669 (21.74%) SQL
4 454 (14.75%) TypeScript
5 371 (12.06%) Java
6 326 (10.59%) PHP
7 301 (9.78%) Python
8 96 (3.12%) T-SQL
9 92 (2.99%) PL/SQL
10 55 (1.79%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.75%) Go
12 53 (1.72%) C++
13 51 (1.66%) Ruby
14 24 (0.78%) C
14 24 (0.78%) PowerShell
15 22 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 20 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 20 (0.65%) VB.NET
16 20 (0.65%) XPath
17 18 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 354 (11.50%) Degree
2 146 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 128 (4.16%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (0.49%) PhD
8 12 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.16%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.097%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.097%) MBA
11 3 (0.097%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.065%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.065%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.065%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (2.89%) QA
2 17 (0.55%) Accessibility
2 17 (0.55%) WCAG
3 13 (0.42%) GDPR
4 11 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.19%) SLA
7 4 (0.13%) EMIR
7 4 (0.13%) MiFID
8 3 (0.097%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.097%) PMO
9 2 (0.065%) GRC
9 2 (0.065%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.065%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.065%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 307 (9.98%) Docker
2 9 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.065%) Firmware
5 2 (0.065%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.032%) Ceph
6 1 (0.032%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 226 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 58 (1.88%) Terraform
3 19 (0.62%) Ansible
4 9 (0.29%) Grafana
5 7 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.19%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.19%) Rancher
7 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.097%) Kibana
9 2 (0.065%) MIIS
10 1 (0.032%) cPanel
10 1 (0.032%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.032%) Istio
10 1 (0.032%) Knative
Vendors
1 352 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 159 (5.17%) Oracle
3 70 (2.27%) Google
4 41 (1.33%) Sitecore
5 36 (1.17%) Siebel
6 34 (1.10%) Optimizely
6 34 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 29 (0.94%) Adobe
7 29 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 19 (0.62%) Cognizant
9 14 (0.45%) Atlassian
9 14 (0.45%) F5
9 14 (0.45%) MuleSoft
9 14 (0.45%) Xamarin
10 11 (0.36%) OpenAI
10 11 (0.36%) Quadient
11 10 (0.32%) Databricks
11 10 (0.32%) SAP
12 9 (0.29%) NVIDIA
13 8 (0.26%) Facebook