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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 87 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,073 2,191 3,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.89% 3.70% 4.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 4.15% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,680 1,348 2,164
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,325
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

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 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +36 536 £60,000 -4.00% 108
South East -29 505 £65,000 -7.14% 128
South West +48 397 £57,500 -4.17% 37
North West +34 329 £60,000 -3.42% 60
Midlands -26 260 £60,000 - 91
Yorkshire +55 179 £55,000 -12.00% 37
West Midlands -13 152 £62,500 +4.17% 64
Scotland -90 140 £57,500 -11.54% 29
East Midlands -35 107 £55,000 -10.20% 27
Wales +42 99 £52,686 -4.21% 15
East of England -40 98 £60,000 -14.29% 30
Northern Ireland +36 38 £55,000 -8.33% 13
North East -13 28 £55,000 -21.43% 12
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 652 (31.45%) C#
2 628 (30.29%) JavaScript
3 609 (29.38%) .NET
4 602 (29.04%) Agile
5 471 (22.72%) Azure
6 430 (20.74%) AWS
7 426 (20.55%) SQL
7 426 (20.55%) React
8 368 (17.75%) Social Skills
9 357 (17.22%) DevOps
10 317 (15.29%) Git
11 316 (15.24%) HTML
12 314 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
13 307 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
13 307 (14.81%) CSS
14 270 (13.02%) PHP
15 264 (12.74%) Microsoft
16 260 (12.54%) TypeScript
17 252 (12.16%) CI/CD
18 245 (11.82%) Docker
19 244 (11.77%) Degree
20 231 (11.14%) Front End Development
21 227 (10.95%) AngularJS
22 220 (10.61%) Mentoring
23 215 (10.37%) .NET Core
24 214 (10.32%) MVC
24 214 (10.32%) Software Engineering
25 212 (10.23%) Finance
26 211 (10.18%) SQL Server
27 206 (9.94%) Java

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 83 (4.00%) CMS
2 54 (2.60%) Confluence
3 42 (2.03%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.98%) Headless CMS
5 40 (1.93%) Kentico
6 38 (1.83%) IIS
7 35 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
8 21 (1.01%) WordPress
9 10 (0.48%) nginx
10 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.34%) JBoss
11 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.29%) Apache
12 6 (0.29%) SharePoint
13 5 (0.24%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
15 2 (0.096%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Exchange
15 2 (0.096%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.19%) Maya
3 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.048%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 33 (1.59%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.82%) Shopify
3 14 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
5 12 (0.58%) Magento
6 11 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.19%) Sonata
8 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.048%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 471 (22.72%) Azure
2 430 (20.74%) AWS
3 160 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
4 158 (7.62%) SaaS
5 114 (5.50%) Power Platform
6 70 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
7 69 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 62 (2.99%) Power Automate
9 53 (2.56%) Serverless
10 46 (2.22%) GitHub
11 43 (2.07%) GCP
12 34 (1.64%) Kontent
13 29 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
17 16 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (0.72%) npm
19 14 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.87%) Internet
2 6 (0.29%) Network Security
3 5 (0.24%) DNS
4 4 (0.19%) Broadband
4 4 (0.19%) HTTP
4 4 (0.19%) MQTT
4 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.19%) VPN
5 3 (0.14%) SSL
6 2 (0.096%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.048%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.048%) CTI
7 1 (0.048%) VoIP
7 1 (0.048%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (10.18%) SQL Server
2 158 (7.62%) MySQL
3 140 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
4 95 (4.58%) NoSQL
5 85 (4.10%) Power BI
6 76 (3.67%) Oracle Database
7 66 (3.18%) Oracle Database 11g
8 52 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 33 (1.59%) Oracle BI EE
10 33 (1.59%) Siebel EIM
11 29 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (1.30%) DynamoDB
13 25 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (1.01%) Redis
15 18 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 15 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (0.68%) OLTP
17 14 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 317 (15.29%) Git
2 89 (4.29%) JIRA
3 72 (3.47%) Visual Studio
4 56 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 37 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 35 (1.69%) Selenium
7 31 (1.50%) Sourcetree
8 26 (1.25%) Cypress.io
9 24 (1.16%) JUnit
10 19 (0.92%) webpack
11 17 (0.82%) NUnit
12 14 (0.68%) PHPUnit
13 12 (0.58%) Android Studio
14 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.48%) Appium
15 10 (0.48%) gulp
15 10 (0.48%) Maven
15 10 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
16 9 (0.43%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 368 (17.75%) Social Skills
2 212 (10.23%) Finance
3 76 (3.67%) Retail
4 63 (3.04%) Games
5 58 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.51%) Banking
7 51 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 43 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (1.93%) Marketing
10 36 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.59%) Aerospace
12 32 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.35%) Law
14 27 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.21%) Fire and Rescue
16 23 (1.11%) Health Technology
16 23 (1.11%) Legal
17 19 (0.92%) Tech for Good
18 14 (0.68%) Police
19 12 (0.58%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 609 (29.38%) .NET
2 426 (20.55%) React
3 316 (15.24%) HTML
4 307 (14.81%) CSS
5 227 (10.95%) AngularJS
6 215 (10.37%) .NET Core
7 201 (9.70%) .NET Framework
8 195 (9.41%) ASP.NET
9 183 (8.83%) Node.js
10 182 (8.78%) Laravel
11 164 (7.91%) Vue
12 147 (7.09%) RESTful
13 131 (6.32%) REST
14 108 (5.21%) Web Services
15 100 (4.82%) Entity Framework
16 80 (3.86%) Spring
17 72 (3.47%) jQuery
18 69 (3.33%) Kafka
19 67 (3.23%) JSON
20 66 (3.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
2 81 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 47 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 36 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 30 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.45%) Virtual Reality
8 26 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 24 (1.16%) IoT
10 23 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
11 21 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 20 (0.96%) Client/Server
13 17 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.82%) NHS
14 15 (0.72%) PropTech
15 13 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.53%) Management Information System
17 10 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
17 10 (0.48%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 60 (2.89%) Linux
2 49 (2.36%) Android
3 40 (1.93%) Windows
4 31 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.096%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (29.04%) Agile
2 357 (17.22%) DevOps
3 314 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 307 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
5 252 (12.16%) CI/CD
6 231 (11.14%) Front End Development
7 220 (10.61%) Mentoring
8 214 (10.32%) MVC
8 214 (10.32%) Software Engineering
9 197 (9.50%) Scrum
10 181 (8.73%) Unit Testing
11 172 (8.30%) Artificial Intelligence
11 172 (8.30%) TDD
12 171 (8.25%) Actionable Insight
13 164 (7.91%) Microservices
14 162 (7.81%) Computer Science
15 157 (7.57%) Design Patterns
16 156 (7.53%) Web Development
17 143 (6.90%) User Experience
18 138 (6.66%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 652 (31.45%) C#
2 628 (30.29%) JavaScript
3 426 (20.55%) SQL
4 270 (13.02%) PHP
5 260 (12.54%) TypeScript
6 206 (9.94%) Java
7 116 (5.60%) Python
8 92 (4.44%) PL/SQL
9 61 (2.94%) T-SQL
10 42 (2.03%) C++
11 37 (1.78%) Ruby
12 36 (1.74%) C
13 31 (1.50%) Go
14 30 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.77%) Swift
15 16 (0.77%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.48%) VB
18 8 (0.39%) Groovy
18 8 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 244 (11.77%) Degree
2 159 (7.67%) Security Cleared
3 141 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 84 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 13 (0.63%) PhD
8 8 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.24%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.14%) MBA
12 2 (0.096%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.048%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.28%) QA
2 17 (0.82%) WCAG
3 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.43%) GDPR
5 8 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.29%) SLA
7 3 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.096%) GRC
System Software
1 245 (11.82%) Docker
2 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.096%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.096%) Varnish
3 2 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 167 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.46%) Terraform
3 15 (0.72%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Rancher
5 1 (0.048%) Grafana
5 1 (0.048%) Istio
5 1 (0.048%) Kibana
5 1 (0.048%) MIIS
5 1 (0.048%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 264 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 154 (7.43%) Oracle
3 48 (2.32%) Google
4 38 (1.83%) Sitecore
5 34 (1.64%) Optimizely
6 33 (1.59%) Siebel
7 14 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.48%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.43%) NVIDIA
10 9 (0.43%) WSO2
11 8 (0.39%) Adobe
11 8 (0.39%) F5
11 8 (0.39%) Twitter
12 7 (0.34%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.34%) UiPath
13 6 (0.29%) SAP
14 5 (0.24%) Databricks
14 5 (0.24%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.24%) Micro Focus