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 to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 80 70
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3,006 3,260 7,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.21% 3.92% 5.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.39% 4.29% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 2,316 4,035
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.17% +15.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +15.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 88,752 75,954 137,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 91.23% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 65,003 49,705 75,781
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £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 7 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 7 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 +3 927 £80,000 -5.88% 187
North of England +44 620 £60,000 -3.42% 116
South East -22 574 £65,000 -7.14% 73
South West +45 423 £58,000 -3.33% 35
North West +50 371 £60,000 -1.44% 64
Midlands -11 326 £60,000 - 66
Yorkshire +57 206 £55,000 -8.33% 34
West Midlands +11 191 £62,500 +4.17% 47
East Midlands -31 134 £57,500 -8.00% 19
East of England -32 108 £60,000 -14.29% 25
North East -14 43 £55,000 -18.52% 19
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 975 (32.44%) JavaScript
2 925 (30.77%) C#
3 898 (29.87%) .NET
4 835 (27.78%) Agile
5 706 (23.49%) Azure
6 675 (22.46%) SQL
7 666 (22.16%) AWS
8 638 (21.22%) React
9 515 (17.13%) Full Stack Development
10 496 (16.50%) HTML
11 481 (16.00%) CSS
12 480 (15.97%) Social Skills
13 457 (15.20%) Finance
14 450 (14.97%) DevOps
15 448 (14.90%) TypeScript
16 386 (12.84%) Git
17 380 (12.64%) AngularJS
18 377 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
19 375 (12.48%) Java
20 359 (11.94%) Software Engineering
21 349 (11.61%) Degree
21 349 (11.61%) Microsoft
22 326 (10.84%) SQL Server
23 320 (10.65%) PHP
24 314 (10.45%) CI/CD
25 313 (10.41%) Docker
26 307 (10.21%) ASP.NET
27 301 (10.01%) Python
28 300 (9.98%) Mentoring
29 285 (9.48%) Microservices

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 (3.66%) CMS
2 51 (1.70%) Confluence
3 46 (1.53%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.36%) Headless CMS
5 40 (1.33%) IIS
5 40 (1.33%) Kentico
6 38 (1.26%) Sitecore CMS
7 31 (1.03%) WordPress
8 30 (1.00%) Apache
9 18 (0.60%) nginx
10 16 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.30%) Mendix
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Spark
12 8 (0.27%) Drupal
12 8 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) NServiceBus
13 6 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
14 5 (0.17%) K2 blackpearl
14 5 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (0.73%) Photoshop
2 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Maya
6 2 (0.067%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.033%) Elementor
7 1 (0.033%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.20%) Siebel CRM
2 25 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.70%) Shopify
4 19 (0.63%) Magento
4 19 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
5 15 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.033%) Endur
8 1 (0.033%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 706 (23.49%) Azure
2 666 (22.16%) AWS
3 193 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
4 183 (6.09%) SaaS
5 168 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 123 (4.09%) GCP
7 102 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 88 (2.93%) Serverless
9 80 (2.66%) GitHub
10 79 (2.63%) PowerApps
11 75 (2.50%) Power Automate
12 36 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
14 34 (1.13%) Kontent
15 31 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
17 26 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
18 25 (0.83%) Azure Functions
19 24 (0.80%) NuGet
20 23 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.53%) Internet
2 7 (0.23%) Network Security
3 6 (0.20%) AMQP
3 6 (0.20%) HTTP
4 5 (0.17%) MQTT
4 5 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.17%) VPN
5 4 (0.13%) Broadband
5 4 (0.13%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.100%) DNS
6 3 (0.100%) IPFS
6 3 (0.100%) SSL
7 2 (0.067%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.033%) CTI
8 1 (0.033%) SAN
8 1 (0.033%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 207 (6.89%) MySQL
3 161 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.86%) Power BI
5 100 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 84 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 75 (2.50%) Oracle Database
8 58 (1.93%) MongoDB
9 49 (1.63%) Oracle Database 11g
9 49 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 41 (1.36%) Redis
11 36 (1.20%) Oracle BI EE
11 36 (1.20%) Siebel EIM
12 34 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 27 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.67%) Power Query
17 18 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
18 16 (0.53%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 386 (12.84%) Git
2 129 (4.29%) JIRA
3 96 (3.19%) Visual Studio
4 64 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 50 (1.66%) Sourcetree
6 40 (1.33%) NUnit
7 39 (1.30%) Selenium
8 37 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.96%) TeamCity
10 28 (0.93%) Moq
11 25 (0.83%) Jenkins
11 25 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
12 24 (0.80%) JUnit
12 24 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
13 20 (0.67%) SpecFlow
13 20 (0.67%) webpack
14 19 (0.63%) Android Studio
14 19 (0.63%) git-flow
14 19 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
15 17 (0.57%) PHPUnit
General
1 480 (15.97%) Social Skills
2 457 (15.20%) Finance
3 106 (3.53%) Banking
4 103 (3.43%) Marketing
5 102 (3.39%) Retail
6 94 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 88 (2.93%) Games
8 87 (2.89%) Front Office
9 62 (2.06%) Back Office
10 54 (1.80%) Public Sector
11 46 (1.53%) Legal
12 44 (1.46%) Law
13 42 (1.40%) Tech for Good
14 41 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 37 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 34 (1.13%) Manufacturing
18 31 (1.03%) Health Technology
18 31 (1.03%) Investment Banking
19 27 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 898 (29.87%) .NET
2 638 (21.22%) React
3 496 (16.50%) HTML
4 481 (16.00%) CSS
5 380 (12.64%) AngularJS
6 307 (10.21%) ASP.NET
7 271 (9.02%) .NET Core
8 254 (8.45%) Vue
9 243 (8.08%) Node.js
10 237 (7.88%) .NET Framework
11 200 (6.65%) RESTful
12 194 (6.45%) REST
13 189 (6.29%) Laravel
14 146 (4.86%) Web Services
15 133 (4.42%) jQuery
16 128 (4.26%) Entity Framework
17 126 (4.19%) Spring
18 124 (4.13%) Kafka
19 110 (3.66%) HTML5
20 102 (3.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 175 (5.82%) Greenfield Project
2 102 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
3 76 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.36%) Equities
5 70 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 69 (2.30%) Derivative
7 68 (2.26%) IoT
8 62 (2.06%) Hedge funds
9 61 (2.03%) Fixed Income
10 58 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 56 (1.86%) Algorithms
12 48 (1.60%) Onboarding
13 45 (1.50%) Cloud Native
14 34 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
16 29 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
18 26 (0.86%) Client/Server
19 25 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.96%) Linux
2 73 (2.43%) Windows
3 65 (2.16%) Android
4 48 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.27%) Unix
6 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (27.78%) Agile
2 515 (17.13%) Full Stack Development
3 450 (14.97%) DevOps
4 377 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
5 359 (11.94%) Software Engineering
6 314 (10.45%) CI/CD
7 300 (9.98%) Mentoring
8 285 (9.48%) Microservices
9 284 (9.45%) MVC
10 258 (8.58%) Scrum
11 253 (8.42%) Computer Science
12 251 (8.35%) Front End Development
13 222 (7.39%) TDD
14 215 (7.15%) Unit Testing
15 200 (6.65%) Web Development
16 192 (6.39%) Artificial Intelligence
16 192 (6.39%) Design Patterns
16 192 (6.39%) E-Commerce
17 186 (6.19%) User Experience
18 159 (5.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 975 (32.44%) JavaScript
2 925 (30.77%) C#
3 675 (22.46%) SQL
4 448 (14.90%) TypeScript
5 375 (12.48%) Java
6 320 (10.65%) PHP
7 301 (10.01%) Python
8 100 (3.33%) PL/SQL
9 99 (3.29%) T-SQL
10 54 (1.80%) Kotlin
11 53 (1.76%) Go
12 52 (1.73%) C++
13 49 (1.63%) Ruby
14 26 (0.86%) C
15 23 (0.77%) PowerShell
16 22 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 20 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 20 (0.67%) VB.NET
17 20 (0.67%) XPath
18 17 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 349 (11.61%) Degree
2 146 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 126 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 118 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (0.53%) PhD
8 12 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.20%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.100%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.100%) MBA
11 3 (0.100%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.067%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.067%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.067%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (2.93%) QA
2 17 (0.57%) Accessibility
2 17 (0.57%) WCAG
3 13 (0.43%) GDPR
4 12 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.20%) SLA
7 4 (0.13%) EMIR
7 4 (0.13%) MiFID
8 3 (0.100%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.100%) PMO
9 2 (0.067%) GRC
9 2 (0.067%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.067%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.067%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 313 (10.41%) Docker
2 9 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.067%) Firmware
5 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.067%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.033%) Ceph
6 1 (0.033%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 230 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 58 (1.93%) Terraform
3 19 (0.63%) Ansible
4 9 (0.30%) Grafana
5 7 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.20%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.20%) Rancher
7 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.100%) Kibana
9 2 (0.067%) MIIS
10 1 (0.033%) cPanel
10 1 (0.033%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.033%) Istio
10 1 (0.033%) Knative
Vendors
1 349 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 167 (5.56%) Oracle
3 69 (2.30%) Google
4 41 (1.36%) Sitecore
5 36 (1.20%) Siebel
6 34 (1.13%) Optimizely
6 34 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 29 (0.96%) Adobe
8 28 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 19 (0.63%) Cognizant
10 14 (0.47%) Atlassian
10 14 (0.47%) F5
10 14 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 14 (0.47%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.37%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.37%) Quadient
12 10 (0.33%) Databricks
12 10 (0.33%) SAP
13 9 (0.30%) NVIDIA
14 8 (0.27%) Facebook