Senior Developer
UK

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 85 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 -24 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3,127 3,917 8,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.15% 3.88% 5.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% 4.24% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 2,687 4,608
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,333
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England 0 2,682 £65,000 -13.33% 459
UK excluding London -6 2,045 £60,000 -7.69% 325
Work from Home +14 1,516 £62,500 -10.71% 293
London 0 887 £80,000 -5.88% 178
North of England +33 528 £60,000 -4.00% 85
South East -28 505 £65,000 -7.14% 74
South West +45 389 £57,500 -4.17% 32
North West +30 321 £60,000 -4.00% 55
Midlands -26 252 £60,000 - 67
Yorkshire +57 180 £55,000 -12.00% 25
West Midlands -13 150 £62,500 +4.17% 41
Scotland -92 140 £57,500 -11.54% 29
East Midlands -40 102 £55,000 -12.00% 26
Wales +35 98 £52,686 -6.34% 12
East of England -32 96 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Northern Ireland +25 38 £55,000 -8.33% 13
North East -20 27 £55,000 -15.38% 7

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1,027 (32.84%) JavaScript
2 1,000 (31.98%) C#
3 921 (29.45%) .NET
4 897 (28.69%) Agile
5 773 (24.72%) Azure
5 773 (24.72%) AWS
6 743 (23.76%) SQL
7 692 (22.13%) React
8 564 (18.04%) Social Skills
9 553 (17.68%) Full Stack Development
10 512 (16.37%) DevOps
11 496 (15.86%) HTML
12 494 (15.80%) TypeScript
13 486 (15.54%) CSS
14 484 (15.48%) Finance
15 453 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
16 435 (13.91%) Java
17 422 (13.50%) AngularJS
18 412 (13.18%) Git
19 384 (12.28%) Software Engineering
20 373 (11.93%) Degree
21 369 (11.80%) Microsoft
22 362 (11.58%) Mentoring
23 355 (11.35%) CI/CD
24 344 (11.00%) Front End Development
24 344 (11.00%) Docker
25 334 (10.68%) SQL Server
26 321 (10.27%) PHP
27 313 (10.01%) Python
28 312 (9.98%) Microservices

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 109 (3.49%) CMS
2 68 (2.17%) Confluence
3 49 (1.57%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.31%) Headless CMS
4 41 (1.31%) IIS
5 40 (1.28%) Kentico
6 37 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
7 29 (0.93%) WordPress
8 26 (0.83%) Apache
9 17 (0.54%) nginx
10 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
11 10 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.29%) Drupal
12 9 (0.29%) Mendix
13 8 (0.26%) JBoss
13 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
14 7 (0.22%) SharePoint
15 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
15 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.16%) K2 blackpearl
Applications
1 17 (0.54%) Photoshop
2 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Maya
6 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.032%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 32 (1.02%) Siebel CRM
2 24 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.54%) Shopify
4 15 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 14 (0.45%) SDL Web 8
6 13 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
7 12 (0.38%) Magento
8 4 (0.13%) Sonata
8 4 (0.13%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.096%) Endur
10 1 (0.032%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 773 (24.72%) AWS
1 773 (24.72%) Azure
2 196 (6.27%) SaaS
3 192 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
4 182 (5.82%) Power Platform
5 134 (4.29%) GCP
6 117 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
6 117 (3.74%) Serverless
7 107 (3.42%) PowerApps
8 95 (3.04%) Power Automate
9 86 (2.75%) GitHub
10 46 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
11 41 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
12 34 (1.09%) Kontent
13 32 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
14 29 (0.93%) Azure Functions
15 27 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (0.77%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.64%) Internet
2 8 (0.26%) HTTP
3 7 (0.22%) AMQP
4 6 (0.19%) Bluetooth
4 6 (0.19%) DNS
5 5 (0.16%) MQTT
5 5 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.16%) VPN
6 4 (0.13%) Broadband
6 4 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.096%) IPFS
7 3 (0.096%) SSL
7 3 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.064%) VoIP
9 1 (0.032%) CTI
9 1 (0.032%) DHCP
9 1 (0.032%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 214 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 205 (6.56%) MySQL
4 117 (3.74%) Power BI
5 114 (3.65%) Oracle Database
6 113 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 108 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 80 (2.56%) Oracle Database 11g
9 58 (1.85%) MongoDB
10 53 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 49 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 41 (1.31%) Redis
13 38 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
15 32 (1.02%) Oracle BI EE
15 32 (1.02%) Siebel EIM
16 28 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 21 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (0.54%) Power Query
19 14 (0.45%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 412 (13.18%) Git
2 143 (4.57%) JIRA
3 86 (2.75%) Visual Studio
4 64 (2.05%) Bitbucket
5 56 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 46 (1.47%) Sourcetree
7 42 (1.34%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
9 32 (1.02%) NUnit
9 32 (1.02%) Selenium
10 27 (0.86%) JUnit
11 26 (0.83%) webpack
12 23 (0.74%) TeamCity
13 21 (0.67%) Moq
14 20 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 19 (0.61%) Android Studio
16 16 (0.51%) git-flow
16 16 (0.51%) Maven
16 16 (0.51%) Storybook
17 15 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 564 (18.04%) Social Skills
2 484 (15.48%) Finance
3 112 (3.58%) Banking
4 98 (3.13%) Retail
5 95 (3.04%) Marketing
6 91 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (2.91%) Games
7 90 (2.88%) Front Office
8 79 (2.53%) Public Sector
9 62 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 59 (1.89%) Back Office
11 46 (1.47%) Legal
11 46 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (1.25%) Tech for Good
13 36 (1.15%) Law
14 35 (1.12%) Health Technology
15 33 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 33 (1.06%) Investment Banking
16 32 (1.02%) Manufacturing
17 27 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 921 (29.45%) .NET
2 692 (22.13%) React
3 496 (15.86%) HTML
4 486 (15.54%) CSS
5 422 (13.50%) AngularJS
6 310 (9.91%) Node.js
7 289 (9.24%) ASP.NET
8 274 (8.76%) .NET Core
9 267 (8.54%) Vue
10 246 (7.87%) .NET Framework
11 230 (7.36%) RESTful
12 216 (6.91%) REST
13 204 (6.52%) Laravel
14 173 (5.53%) Web Services
15 159 (5.08%) Spring
16 128 (4.09%) JSON
17 127 (4.06%) Kafka
18 126 (4.03%) jQuery
19 122 (3.90%) Entity Framework
20 107 (3.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 195 (6.24%) Greenfield Project
2 103 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 97 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
4 79 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 75 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 73 (2.33%) Equities
7 71 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 70 (2.24%) IoT
9 68 (2.17%) Derivative
10 66 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 62 (1.98%) Fixed Income
11 62 (1.98%) Hedge funds
12 48 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.38%) Cloud Native
14 36 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (0.99%) Client/Server
15 31 (0.99%) Data Structures
15 31 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
16 30 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
17 24 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 96 (3.07%) Linux
2 77 (2.46%) Windows
3 76 (2.43%) Android
4 59 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.38%) Unix
7 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.22%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (28.69%) Agile
2 553 (17.68%) Full Stack Development
3 512 (16.37%) DevOps
4 453 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
5 384 (12.28%) Software Engineering
6 362 (11.58%) Mentoring
7 355 (11.35%) CI/CD
8 344 (11.00%) Front End Development
9 312 (9.98%) Microservices
10 274 (8.76%) MVC
11 273 (8.73%) Computer Science
12 261 (8.35%) Unit Testing
13 254 (8.12%) Scrum
14 243 (7.77%) TDD
15 228 (7.29%) Artificial Intelligence
16 201 (6.43%) Actionable Insight
17 199 (6.36%) Design Patterns
18 194 (6.20%) User Experience
19 191 (6.11%) Web Development
20 186 (5.95%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (32.84%) JavaScript
2 1,000 (31.98%) C#
3 743 (23.76%) SQL
4 494 (15.80%) TypeScript
5 435 (13.91%) Java
6 321 (10.27%) PHP
7 313 (10.01%) Python
8 140 (4.48%) PL/SQL
9 101 (3.23%) T-SQL
10 73 (2.33%) Ruby
11 65 (2.08%) C++
12 60 (1.92%) Kotlin
13 57 (1.82%) Go
14 50 (1.60%) C
15 24 (0.77%) PowerShell
16 23 (0.74%) Swift
17 21 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 19 (0.61%) Apex Code
19 16 (0.51%) Scala
19 16 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 373 (11.93%) Degree
2 196 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 176 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 123 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.45%) PhD
8 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.19%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.096%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.096%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.096%) MBA
11 3 (0.096%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.064%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.032%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.23%) QA
2 33 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.58%) WCAG
4 11 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 11 (0.35%) GDPR
5 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.22%) SLA
7 6 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.096%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.096%) PMO
9 2 (0.064%) EMIR
9 2 (0.064%) GRC
9 2 (0.064%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.064%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.064%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.064%) MiFID
System Software
1 344 (11.00%) Docker
2 11 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.064%) Firmware
5 2 (0.064%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.064%) Varnish
5 2 (0.064%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.032%) GridGain
6 1 (0.032%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 246 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.76%) Terraform
3 23 (0.74%) Ansible
4 9 (0.29%) Grafana
5 7 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.19%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.19%) Rancher
7 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.096%) Kibana
9 1 (0.032%) cPanel
9 1 (0.032%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.032%) Istio
9 1 (0.032%) MIIS
Vendors
1 369 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 213 (6.81%) Oracle
3 71 (2.27%) Google
4 40 (1.28%) Sitecore
5 39 (1.25%) Optimizely
6 33 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.02%) Siebel
8 24 (0.77%) Adobe
9 14 (0.45%) Cognizant
9 14 (0.45%) F5
10 13 (0.42%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.42%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.38%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.35%) Xamarin
13 10 (0.32%) WSO2
14 9 (0.29%) NVIDIA
14 9 (0.29%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.26%) Blue Prism
15 8 (0.26%) Facebook
15 8 (0.26%) Twitter