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 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 78 86 73
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,429 2,103 3,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.03% 3.81% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.20% 4.29% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,951 1,284 2,125
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
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 £76,250 £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% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
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 12 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 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
North of England +48 646 £60,000 -4.00% 105
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% 57
Midlands -13 344 £60,000 - 67
Yorkshire +56 214 £55,000 -8.33% 36
West Midlands +11 203 £62,500 +4.17% 49
Scotland -76 159 £60,000 -8.40% 26
East Midlands -35 140 £57,500 -8.00% 17
Wales +48 114 £52,686 -4.21% 12
East of England -34 110 £60,000 -14.29% 23
North East -10 47 £55,000 -18.52% 13
Northern Ireland +30 46 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Senior Developer
UK

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

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

1 730 (30.05%) C#
2 709 (29.19%) .NET
3 678 (27.91%) JavaScript
4 632 (26.02%) Agile
5 528 (21.74%) Azure
6 466 (19.18%) React
7 448 (18.44%) AWS
8 442 (18.20%) SQL
9 390 (16.06%) Social Skills
10 381 (15.69%) DevOps
11 355 (14.62%) Full Stack Development
12 348 (14.33%) HTML
13 338 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
14 335 (13.79%) CSS
15 318 (13.09%) Git
16 297 (12.23%) PHP
17 280 (11.53%) Microsoft
18 272 (11.20%) TypeScript
19 263 (10.83%) AngularJS
20 261 (10.75%) CI/CD
21 253 (10.42%) Front End Development
22 246 (10.13%) Degree
23 242 (9.96%) Finance
24 238 (9.80%) MVC
25 237 (9.76%) Docker
26 236 (9.72%) Software Engineering
27 235 (9.67%) .NET Core
28 230 (9.47%) Mentoring
29 223 (9.18%) ASP.NET
29 223 (9.18%) SQL Server

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 94 (3.87%) CMS
2 45 (1.85%) Umbraco
3 43 (1.77%) Confluence
4 41 (1.69%) Headless CMS
5 40 (1.65%) Kentico
6 38 (1.56%) IIS
7 36 (1.48%) Sitecore CMS
8 25 (1.03%) WordPress
9 11 (0.45%) nginx
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) Apache
11 7 (0.29%) SAS
12 6 (0.25%) JBoss
12 6 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
13 5 (0.21%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
15 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.082%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Maya
3 4 (0.16%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.041%) Elementor
4 1 (0.041%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.48%) Siebel CRM
2 19 (0.78%) Shopify
3 18 (0.74%) Magento
4 17 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.16%) Sonata
8 1 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 528 (21.74%) Azure
2 448 (18.44%) AWS
3 178 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (7.12%) SaaS
5 130 (5.35%) Power Platform
6 84 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
7 72 (2.96%) PowerApps
8 65 (2.68%) Power Automate
9 51 (2.10%) GCP
9 51 (2.10%) Serverless
10 50 (2.06%) GitHub
11 34 (1.40%) Kontent
12 27 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (0.62%) npm
18 13 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.66%) Internet
2 7 (0.29%) Network Security
3 5 (0.21%) DNS
4 4 (0.16%) Broadband
4 4 (0.16%) HTTP
4 4 (0.16%) MQTT
4 4 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.16%) VPN
5 3 (0.12%) SSL
6 2 (0.082%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.041%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.041%) CTI
7 1 (0.041%) SAN
7 1 (0.041%) VoIP
7 1 (0.041%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 164 (6.75%) MySQL
3 130 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
4 95 (3.91%) NoSQL
5 85 (3.50%) Power BI
6 66 (2.72%) Oracle Database
7 56 (2.31%) Oracle Database 11g
8 54 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 36 (1.48%) Oracle BI EE
10 36 (1.48%) Siebel EIM
11 31 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 26 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.91%) Redis
14 19 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 15 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (0.62%) OLTP
16 15 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 318 (13.09%) Git
2 79 (3.25%) JIRA
3 73 (3.01%) Visual Studio
4 57 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 41 (1.69%) Selenium
6 31 (1.28%) Sourcetree
7 27 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 24 (0.99%) Jenkins
8 24 (0.99%) JUnit
9 19 (0.78%) NUnit
9 19 (0.78%) webpack
10 17 (0.70%) PHPUnit
10 17 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (0.62%) Android Studio
12 11 (0.45%) Appium
13 10 (0.41%) gulp
13 10 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
14 9 (0.37%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.33%) Maven
15 8 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 390 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 242 (9.96%) Finance
3 86 (3.54%) Retail
4 69 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (2.76%) Games
6 53 (2.18%) Banking
7 49 (2.02%) Marketing
7 49 (2.02%) Public Sector
8 43 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (1.48%) Aerospace
9 36 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.48%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.44%) Law
11 27 (1.11%) Health Technology
11 27 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.03%) Fire and Rescue
13 24 (0.99%) Legal
13 24 (0.99%) Tech for Good
14 12 (0.49%) Music Industry
14 12 (0.49%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 709 (29.19%) .NET
2 466 (19.18%) React
3 348 (14.33%) HTML
4 335 (13.79%) CSS
5 263 (10.83%) AngularJS
6 235 (9.67%) .NET Core
7 223 (9.18%) .NET Framework
7 223 (9.18%) ASP.NET
8 190 (7.82%) Node.js
9 185 (7.62%) Laravel
10 183 (7.53%) Vue
11 153 (6.30%) RESTful
12 136 (5.60%) REST
13 116 (4.78%) Web Services
14 115 (4.73%) Entity Framework
15 76 (3.13%) HTML5
16 74 (3.05%) JSON
17 73 (3.01%) jQuery
17 73 (3.01%) Spring
18 69 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 131 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
2 85 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
3 65 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 46 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 34 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 30 (1.24%) Virtual Reality
9 29 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.07%) IoT
11 23 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
12 21 (0.86%) Cloud Native
13 20 (0.82%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.74%) NHS
15 15 (0.62%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.58%) PropTech
17 12 (0.49%) Virtual Team
18 11 (0.45%) Management Information System
19 10 (0.41%) Online Banking
20 9 (0.37%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.55%) Linux
2 54 (2.22%) Android
3 46 (1.89%) Windows
4 27 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.082%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (26.02%) Agile
2 381 (15.69%) DevOps
3 355 (14.62%) Full Stack Development
4 338 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (10.75%) CI/CD
6 253 (10.42%) Front End Development
7 238 (9.80%) MVC
8 236 (9.72%) Software Engineering
9 230 (9.47%) Mentoring
10 205 (8.44%) Scrum
11 187 (7.70%) Unit Testing
12 182 (7.49%) TDD
13 179 (7.37%) Web Development
14 170 (7.00%) Artificial Intelligence
15 166 (6.83%) Microservices
16 163 (6.71%) Design Patterns
17 161 (6.63%) Computer Science
18 157 (6.46%) User Experience
19 155 (6.38%) E-Commerce
20 151 (6.22%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 730 (30.05%) C#
2 678 (27.91%) JavaScript
3 442 (18.20%) SQL
4 297 (12.23%) PHP
5 272 (11.20%) TypeScript
6 205 (8.44%) Java
7 128 (5.27%) Python
8 85 (3.50%) PL/SQL
9 59 (2.43%) T-SQL
10 57 (2.35%) C++
11 42 (1.73%) Ruby
12 38 (1.56%) Go
13 37 (1.52%) C
14 33 (1.36%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.82%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.54%) R
17 13 (0.54%) Swift
18 11 (0.45%) Scala
19 10 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 246 (10.13%) Degree
2 150 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 134 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 85 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.58%) PhD
8 10 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.16%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.12%) MBA
12 2 (0.082%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.082%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.041%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (2.88%) QA
2 17 (0.70%) WCAG
3 11 (0.45%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.45%) GDPR
4 8 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.25%) SLA
6 3 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.082%) GRC
7 2 (0.082%) MISRA
7 2 (0.082%) MISRA C
System Software
1 237 (9.76%) Docker
2 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.082%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.082%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 163 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.14%) Terraform
3 14 (0.58%) Ansible
4 6 (0.25%) Rancher
5 2 (0.082%) MIIS
6 1 (0.041%) Grafana
6 1 (0.041%) Istio
6 1 (0.041%) Kibana
6 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 280 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 152 (6.26%) Oracle
3 47 (1.93%) Google
4 39 (1.61%) Sitecore
5 36 (1.48%) Siebel
6 34 (1.40%) Optimizely
7 22 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 14 (0.58%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.54%) Quadient
9 13 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.41%) Adobe
11 10 (0.41%) SAP
12 9 (0.37%) NVIDIA
12 9 (0.37%) UiPath
13 8 (0.33%) F5
13 8 (0.33%) Twitter
13 8 (0.33%) WSO2
14 5 (0.21%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.21%) Micro Focus