Senior Developer Jobs in the South West

Senior Developer
England > South West

The median Senior Developer salary in the South West is £59,000 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 53 98 73
Rank change year-on-year +45 -25 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 425 196 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.02% 3.04% 4.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.18% 3.42% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 374 125 238
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 10,157 5,725 8,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 88.79% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,334 3,659 5,114
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the South West.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the South West 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
Bristol +29 149 £65,000 -7.14% 12
Gloucestershire +39 73 £53,750 +4.88% 1
Dorset +3 69 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Devon +13 61 £46,958 -21.74% 9
Wiltshire +11 42 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Somerset +5 29 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 143 (33.65%) JavaScript
2 126 (29.65%) C#
3 117 (27.53%) .NET
4 111 (26.12%) DevOps
5 103 (24.24%) Agile
6 102 (24.00%) Git
7 99 (23.29%) Azure
8 90 (21.18%) Scrum
8 90 (21.18%) Microsoft
9 86 (20.24%) React
10 81 (19.06%) CSS
11 79 (18.59%) HTML
11 79 (18.59%) Social Skills
12 75 (17.65%) MVC
13 70 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
15 60 (14.12%) CI/CD
15 60 (14.12%) .NET Framework
16 59 (13.88%) Design Patterns
17 58 (13.65%) ASP.NET
17 58 (13.65%) Software Engineering
18 57 (13.41%) Degree
19 56 (13.18%) Full Stack Development
20 53 (12.47%) SQL Server
21 51 (12.00%) AWS
22 49 (11.53%) Security Cleared
22 49 (11.53%) TypeScript
22 49 (11.53%) .NET Core
23 48 (11.29%) PHP
24 47 (11.06%) JIRA

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 37 (8.71%) Confluence
2 25 (5.88%) CMS
3 22 (5.18%) Umbraco
4 18 (4.24%) Headless CMS
5 16 (3.76%) IIS
5 16 (3.76%) Kentico
5 16 (3.76%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.18%) WordPress
7 4 (0.94%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.71%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (23.29%) Azure
2 66 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (12.00%) AWS
4 21 (4.94%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.47%) Power Automate
6 17 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 16 (3.76%) Kontent
8 14 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.59%) SaaS
10 9 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.88%) GitHub
12 6 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (0.94%) Figma
13 4 (0.94%) GCP
13 4 (0.94%) npm
13 4 (0.94%) Serverless
14 3 (0.71%) Google Analytics
15 2 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 2 (0.47%) dbt
15 2 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (12.47%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.24%) NoSQL
2 18 (4.24%) Power BI
3 16 (3.76%) MySQL
4 11 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.35%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 7 (1.65%) Oracle Database 11g
7 6 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.47%) Metabase
9 2 (0.47%) Redis
10 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (24.00%) Git
2 47 (11.06%) JIRA
3 40 (9.41%) Bitbucket
4 36 (8.47%) Visual Studio
5 30 (7.06%) Sourcetree
6 12 (2.82%) Android Studio
7 6 (1.41%) Storybook
7 6 (1.41%) webpack
8 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.71%) Selenium
8 3 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 79 (18.59%) Social Skills
2 37 (8.71%) Games
3 31 (7.29%) Presentation Skills
4 24 (5.65%) Finance
4 24 (5.65%) Fire and Rescue
5 13 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.06%) Retail
6 8 (1.88%) Legal
7 7 (1.65%) Tech for Good
8 6 (1.41%) Publishing
9 5 (1.18%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.71%) German Language
11 3 (0.71%) Marketing
11 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.47%) Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (27.53%) .NET
2 86 (20.24%) React
3 81 (19.06%) CSS
4 79 (18.59%) HTML
5 60 (14.12%) .NET Framework
6 58 (13.65%) ASP.NET
7 49 (11.53%) .NET Core
8 43 (10.12%) Laravel
9 35 (8.24%) AngularJS
10 33 (7.76%) Vue
11 31 (7.29%) Entity Framework
12 30 (7.06%) Node.js
12 30 (7.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 29 (6.82%) RESTful
14 24 (5.65%) LESS
15 19 (4.47%) Next.js
16 18 (4.24%) ASP.NET MVC
17 14 (3.29%) REST
17 14 (3.29%) Web Services
18 12 (2.82%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.06%) Virtual Reality
2 17 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.94%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.94%) IoT
11 3 (0.71%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.47%) 3D Graphics
12 2 (0.47%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.47%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.47%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.47%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.47%) Social Media
12 2 (0.47%) Social Network
12 2 (0.47%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.53%) Android
2 7 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (26.12%) DevOps
2 103 (24.24%) Agile
3 90 (21.18%) Scrum
4 75 (17.65%) MVC
5 70 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (14.12%) CI/CD
7 59 (13.88%) Design Patterns
8 58 (13.65%) Software Engineering
9 56 (13.18%) Full Stack Development
10 44 (10.35%) Mentoring
10 44 (10.35%) Web Development
11 42 (9.88%) Front End Development
12 37 (8.71%) E-Commerce
13 31 (7.29%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (7.06%) UML
14 30 (7.06%) Use Case
15 28 (6.59%) User Experience
16 25 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
16 25 (5.88%) CRM
17 24 (5.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 143 (33.65%) JavaScript
2 126 (29.65%) C#
3 49 (11.53%) TypeScript
4 48 (11.29%) PHP
5 34 (8.00%) SQL
6 31 (7.29%) Java
7 17 (4.00%) Python
8 13 (3.06%) Kotlin
9 11 (2.59%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.65%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.41%) C
12 5 (1.18%) Ruby
12 5 (1.18%) Swift
13 4 (0.94%) Rust
14 3 (0.71%) Bicep
14 3 (0.71%) C++
14 3 (0.71%) Delphi
14 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.47%) Lisp
15 2 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (13.41%) Degree
2 49 (11.53%) Security Cleared
3 43 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.59%) QA
2 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (5.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 90 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.76%) Optimizely
2 16 (3.76%) Sitecore
3 12 (2.82%) Oracle
4 8 (1.88%) Twitter
5 7 (1.65%) Google
6 4 (0.94%) UiPath
7 3 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.71%) Coverity
8 2 (0.47%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe
9 1 (0.24%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.24%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.24%) Quadient
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce