Senior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 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 79 83 71
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,362 2,127 3,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.01% 3.80% 4.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.17% 4.28% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,895 1,303 2,152
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,275
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £87,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 74,602 49,722 72,061
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 88.83% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52,192 29,369 43,047
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -75 157 £58,750 -9.62% 26
East Midlands -31 134 £57,500 -8.00% 19
Wales +46 110 £52,686 -4.21% 13
East of England -32 108 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Northern Ireland +27 44 £55,000 -8.33% 9
North East -14 43 £55,000 -18.52% 19
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 714 (30.23%) C#
2 691 (29.25%) .NET
3 663 (28.07%) JavaScript
4 634 (26.84%) Agile
5 522 (22.10%) Azure
6 456 (19.31%) AWS
7 455 (19.26%) React
8 449 (19.01%) SQL
9 389 (16.47%) Social Skills
10 379 (16.05%) DevOps
11 342 (14.48%) HTML
12 331 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
13 330 (13.97%) Full Stack Development
14 328 (13.89%) CSS
15 315 (13.34%) Git
16 292 (12.36%) PHP
17 279 (11.81%) Microsoft
18 270 (11.43%) TypeScript
19 260 (11.01%) CI/CD
20 255 (10.80%) AngularJS
21 248 (10.50%) Degree
22 247 (10.46%) Front End Development
23 240 (10.16%) Docker
24 237 (10.03%) Finance
25 235 (9.95%) Software Engineering
26 233 (9.86%) .NET Core
27 231 (9.78%) Mentoring
27 231 (9.78%) MVC
28 221 (9.36%) SQL Server
29 218 (9.23%) .NET Framework

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 92 (3.90%) CMS
2 44 (1.86%) Umbraco
3 43 (1.82%) Confluence
4 41 (1.74%) Headless CMS
5 40 (1.69%) Kentico
6 38 (1.61%) IIS
7 36 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 24 (1.02%) WordPress
9 11 (0.47%) nginx
10 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.30%) Apache
12 6 (0.25%) JBoss
12 6 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
13 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.21%) SAS
13 5 (0.21%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
15 3 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.085%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.17%) Maya
3 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.042%) Elementor
4 1 (0.042%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.042%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.52%) Siebel CRM
2 19 (0.80%) Shopify
3 18 (0.76%) Magento
4 17 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.17%) Sonata
8 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 522 (22.10%) Azure
2 456 (19.31%) AWS
3 174 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (7.11%) SaaS
5 126 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 79 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
7 71 (3.01%) PowerApps
8 65 (2.75%) Power Automate
9 51 (2.16%) Serverless
10 50 (2.12%) GCP
10 50 (2.12%) GitHub
11 34 (1.44%) Kontent
12 27 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (0.64%) npm
18 13 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.68%) Internet
2 7 (0.30%) Network Security
3 5 (0.21%) DNS
4 4 (0.17%) Broadband
4 4 (0.17%) HTTP
4 4 (0.17%) MQTT
4 4 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.17%) VPN
5 3 (0.13%) SSL
6 2 (0.085%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.042%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.042%) CTI
7 1 (0.042%) SAN
7 1 (0.042%) VoIP
7 1 (0.042%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (9.36%) SQL Server
2 163 (6.90%) MySQL
3 140 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 95 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 86 (3.64%) Power BI
6 76 (3.22%) Oracle Database
7 66 (2.79%) Oracle Database 11g
8 54 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.57%) MongoDB
10 36 (1.52%) Oracle BI EE
10 36 (1.52%) Siebel EIM
11 31 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.10%) DynamoDB
12 26 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.93%) Redis
14 20 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 16 (0.68%) OLTP
17 15 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (0.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 315 (13.34%) Git
2 79 (3.34%) JIRA
3 75 (3.18%) Visual Studio
4 57 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 41 (1.74%) Selenium
6 31 (1.31%) Sourcetree
7 27 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 24 (1.02%) Jenkins
8 24 (1.02%) JUnit
9 19 (0.80%) NUnit
9 19 (0.80%) webpack
10 17 (0.72%) PHPUnit
10 17 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (0.64%) Android Studio
12 11 (0.47%) Appium
13 10 (0.42%) gulp
13 10 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
14 9 (0.38%) Maven
14 9 (0.38%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 389 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 237 (10.03%) Finance
3 83 (3.51%) Retail
4 67 (2.84%) Games
5 66 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (2.29%) Banking
7 49 (2.07%) Public Sector
8 48 (2.03%) Marketing
9 43 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.52%) Aerospace
12 34 (1.44%) Law
12 34 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.10%) Health Technology
15 25 (1.06%) Fire and Rescue
16 24 (1.02%) Legal
17 23 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.51%) Music Industry
18 12 (0.51%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 691 (29.25%) .NET
2 455 (19.26%) React
3 342 (14.48%) HTML
4 328 (13.89%) CSS
5 255 (10.80%) AngularJS
6 233 (9.86%) .NET Core
7 218 (9.23%) .NET Framework
8 217 (9.19%) ASP.NET
9 188 (7.96%) Node.js
10 184 (7.79%) Laravel
11 176 (7.45%) Vue
12 148 (6.27%) RESTful
13 136 (5.76%) REST
14 114 (4.83%) Web Services
15 111 (4.70%) Entity Framework
16 75 (3.18%) HTML5
17 73 (3.09%) Spring
18 72 (3.05%) jQuery
19 70 (2.96%) JSON
20 69 (2.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 127 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
2 85 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 43 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 34 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 30 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
9 29 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.10%) IoT
11 24 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
12 20 (0.85%) Client/Server
12 20 (0.85%) Cloud Native
13 18 (0.76%) NHS
14 16 (0.68%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.59%) PropTech
16 13 (0.55%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.47%) Management Information System
18 10 (0.42%) Online Banking
19 9 (0.38%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.62%) Linux
2 53 (2.24%) Android
3 45 (1.91%) Windows
4 28 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.085%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (26.84%) Agile
2 379 (16.05%) DevOps
3 331 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
4 330 (13.97%) Full Stack Development
5 260 (11.01%) CI/CD
6 247 (10.46%) Front End Development
7 235 (9.95%) Software Engineering
8 231 (9.78%) Mentoring
8 231 (9.78%) MVC
9 209 (8.85%) Scrum
10 194 (8.21%) Unit Testing
11 183 (7.75%) TDD
12 176 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence
13 175 (7.41%) Web Development
14 165 (6.99%) Design Patterns
15 164 (6.94%) Microservices
16 163 (6.90%) Computer Science
17 161 (6.82%) Actionable Insight
18 155 (6.56%) User Experience
19 150 (6.35%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 714 (30.23%) C#
2 663 (28.07%) JavaScript
3 449 (19.01%) SQL
4 292 (12.36%) PHP
5 270 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 206 (8.72%) Java
7 127 (5.38%) Python
8 96 (4.06%) PL/SQL
9 61 (2.58%) T-SQL
10 55 (2.33%) C++
11 40 (1.69%) Ruby
12 38 (1.61%) Go
13 37 (1.57%) C
14 33 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.85%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.59%) Swift
18 11 (0.47%) R
19 10 (0.42%) Scala
19 10 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 248 (10.50%) Degree
2 151 (6.39%) Security Cleared
3 133 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 86 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.64%) PhD
8 10 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.21%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.17%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.13%) MBA
12 2 (0.085%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.085%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (2.96%) QA
2 17 (0.72%) WCAG
3 11 (0.47%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.47%) GDPR
4 8 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.25%) SLA
6 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.085%) GRC
8 1 (0.042%) MISRA
8 1 (0.042%) MISRA C
System Software
1 240 (10.16%) Docker
2 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.085%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 165 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.20%) Terraform
3 14 (0.59%) Ansible
4 6 (0.25%) Rancher
5 2 (0.085%) MIIS
6 1 (0.042%) Grafana
6 1 (0.042%) Istio
6 1 (0.042%) Kibana
6 1 (0.042%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 279 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.90%) Oracle
3 47 (1.99%) Google
4 39 (1.65%) Sitecore
5 36 (1.52%) Siebel
6 34 (1.44%) Optimizely
7 22 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 14 (0.59%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.55%) Quadient
9 13 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.47%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.42%) Adobe
12 9 (0.38%) NVIDIA
12 9 (0.38%) SAP
12 9 (0.38%) UiPath
13 8 (0.34%) F5
13 8 (0.34%) Twitter
13 8 (0.34%) WSO2
14 5 (0.21%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.21%) Micro Focus