Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,830 15,874 28,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 15.63% 18.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.91% 17.09% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,149 9,595 13,277
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,000 £46,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%

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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK

Senior
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +2 12,671 £62,783 -10.31% 4,343
UK excluding London +2 9,617 £60,000 -1.32% 2,682
Work from Home +1 6,039 £64,080 -8.46% 2,047
London +2 4,416 £77,500 -6.06% 1,875
North of England +5 2,563 £60,000 - 565
South East -1 2,059 £60,000 -11.11% 654
South West +11 1,570 £57,500 -2.70% 369
North West +9 1,445 £60,000 - 339
Midlands +5 1,369 £57,500 - 458
Scotland -8 997 £60,000 -7.69% 223
West Midlands +9 875 £58,232 -2.95% 300
Yorkshire +1 845 £57,965 -3.39% 168
East of England 0 566 £60,000 -7.69% 320
East Midlands +2 486 £53,600 -2.55% 158
Wales +10 373 £50,000 -9.09% 96
North East +15 278 £57,965 +5.39% 68
Northern Ireland +20 123 £55,000 +10.00% 50
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -3 2 £76,250 +111.81% 1

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 3,622 (24.42%) Agile
2 3,187 (21.49%) Social Skills
3 3,093 (20.86%) Finance
4 3,001 (20.24%) Azure
5 2,794 (18.84%) Software Engineering
6 2,627 (17.71%) AWS
7 2,296 (15.48%) Microsoft
8 2,185 (14.73%) SQL
9 2,082 (14.04%) Python
10 2,071 (13.96%) Degree
11 2,066 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
12 1,993 (13.44%) Mentoring
13 1,782 (12.02%) JavaScript
14 1,662 (11.21%) C#
15 1,644 (11.09%) DevOps
16 1,541 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
17 1,524 (10.28%) .NET
18 1,432 (9.66%) Security Cleared
19 1,390 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 1,372 (9.25%) Java
21 1,291 (8.71%) React
22 1,273 (8.58%) Actionable Insight
23 1,134 (7.65%) Linux
24 1,107 (7.46%) Windows
25 1,061 (7.15%) Coaching
26 1,022 (6.89%) SC Cleared
27 992 (6.69%) Project Management
28 981 (6.61%) Decision-Making
29 967 (6.52%) CI/CD
30 918 (6.19%) Analytics

Senior 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
1 246 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 235 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 220 (1.48%) ArcGIS
4 214 (1.44%) GeoServer
5 188 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 158 (1.07%) Apache
7 150 (1.01%) CMS
8 146 (0.98%) Confluence
9 118 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
10 117 (0.79%) SAS
11 106 (0.71%) IIS
12 53 (0.36%) Umbraco
13 49 (0.33%) WordPress
14 40 (0.27%) Headless CMS
14 40 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
15 39 (0.26%) Kentico
16 37 (0.25%) JBoss
16 37 (0.25%) Tuxedo
17 36 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
18 33 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 590 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 169 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 116 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 63 (0.42%) Sketch
6 49 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 49 (0.33%) Simulink
7 41 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 33 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.17%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
12 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.081%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.074%) InDesign
15 10 (0.067%) Solid Edge
16 9 (0.061%) InVision
17 7 (0.047%) Adobe XD
17 7 (0.047%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 72 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.36%) Endur
3 42 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 31 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.16%) Shopify
6 23 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 20 (0.13%) Magento
8 17 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 16 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 16 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
10 14 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
11 13 (0.088%) NEC Housing
11 13 (0.088%) SAP FI
11 13 (0.088%) SAP SCM
12 11 (0.074%) SAP CO
12 11 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
13 10 (0.067%) SAP HR
13 10 (0.067%) SAP SD
14 9 (0.061%) Primavera
15 8 (0.054%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,001 (20.24%) Azure
2 2,627 (17.71%) AWS
3 711 (4.79%) SaaS
4 654 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
5 606 (4.09%) GCP
6 525 (3.54%) Power Platform
7 441 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 345 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 255 (1.72%) Serverless
10 221 (1.49%) GitHub
11 213 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 165 (1.11%) Amazon S3
13 164 (1.11%) PaaS
14 138 (0.93%) PowerApps
15 135 (0.91%) IaaS
15 135 (0.91%) Snowflake
16 128 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
17 127 (0.86%) OneDrive
18 118 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
18 118 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 585 (3.94%) Firewall
2 398 (2.68%) Broadband
3 347 (2.34%) WAN
4 317 (2.14%) DNS
5 267 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 246 (1.66%) LAN
7 236 (1.59%) Wireless
8 204 (1.38%) DHCP
9 189 (1.27%) VPN
10 187 (1.26%) Network Security
11 166 (1.12%) 5G
12 158 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
13 145 (0.98%) Internet
14 128 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 116 (0.78%) VLAN
16 111 (0.75%) MPLS
17 107 (0.72%) SAN
18 93 (0.63%) BGP
19 92 (0.62%) HTTP
20 61 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 695 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 603 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 399 (2.69%) Power BI
4 372 (2.51%) MySQL
5 346 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 318 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 295 (1.99%) Tableau
8 248 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 235 (1.58%) GIS
10 216 (1.46%) QGIS
11 210 (1.42%) Data Lake
12 188 (1.27%) Big Data
13 165 (1.11%) MongoDB
14 151 (1.02%) Oracle Database
15 143 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
16 119 (0.80%) Metadata
17 116 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 98 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
19 94 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
19 94 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 861 (5.81%) Git
2 399 (2.69%) JIRA
3 306 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 145 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 136 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 128 (0.86%) GitLab
7 102 (0.69%) Selenium
8 73 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 67 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 58 (0.39%) JUnit
11 57 (0.38%) Postman
12 54 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 52 (0.35%) TeamCity
14 49 (0.33%) Sourcetree
15 45 (0.30%) Subversion
16 42 (0.28%) Maven
17 41 (0.28%) IntelliJ
18 40 (0.27%) CircleCI
19 39 (0.26%) webpack
20 38 (0.26%) Eclipse
General
1 3,187 (21.49%) Social Skills
2 3,093 (20.86%) Finance
3 1,541 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 1,390 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 831 (5.60%) Marketing
6 717 (4.83%) Law
7 662 (4.46%) Public Sector
8 661 (4.46%) Banking
9 619 (4.17%) Retail
10 474 (3.20%) Legal
11 427 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 365 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
13 350 (2.36%) Manufacturing
14 267 (1.80%) Games
15 243 (1.64%) Electronics
16 215 (1.45%) Front Office
17 211 (1.42%) Telecoms
18 186 (1.25%) Aerospace
19 181 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
20 169 (1.14%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,524 (10.28%) .NET
2 1,291 (8.71%) React
3 895 (6.04%) CSS
4 837 (5.64%) HTML
5 644 (4.34%) AngularJS
6 567 (3.82%) .NET Core
7 492 (3.32%) Node.js
8 478 (3.22%) RESTful
9 423 (2.85%) REST
10 421 (2.84%) ASP.NET
11 355 (2.39%) Vue
12 354 (2.39%) .NET Framework
13 348 (2.35%) Spring
14 313 (2.11%) Kafka
15 306 (2.06%) Web Services
16 286 (1.93%) JSON
17 254 (1.71%) XML
18 232 (1.56%) Laravel
19 217 (1.46%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 372 (2.51%) Product Ownership
2 355 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
3 344 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
4 334 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 320 (2.16%) Cloud Native
6 313 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 282 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 273 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 270 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 222 (1.50%) IoT
11 221 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 219 (1.48%) Social Media
13 177 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 169 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 168 (1.13%) Derivative
16 160 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 158 (1.07%) Hedge funds
18 149 (1.00%) Data Structures
19 134 (0.90%) Equities
20 119 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1,134 (7.65%) Linux
2 1,107 (7.46%) Windows
3 419 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 212 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 146 (0.98%) Unix
6 145 (0.98%) Android
7 134 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
8 128 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 127 (0.86%) Windows 10
10 87 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 75 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 67 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
13 57 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 49 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 31 (0.21%) VMS
16 22 (0.15%) Windows 7
17 19 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.11%) CentOS
19 13 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
20 10 (0.067%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,622 (24.42%) Agile
2 2,794 (18.84%) Software Engineering
3 2,066 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
4 1,993 (13.44%) Mentoring
5 1,644 (11.09%) DevOps
6 1,273 (8.58%) Actionable Insight
7 1,061 (7.15%) Coaching
8 992 (6.69%) Project Management
9 981 (6.61%) Decision-Making
10 967 (6.52%) CI/CD
11 918 (6.19%) Analytics
11 918 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
12 872 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
13 858 (5.79%) Computer Science
14 795 (5.36%) Full Stack Development
15 781 (5.27%) Roadmaps
16 700 (4.72%) Microservices
17 649 (4.38%) SDLC
18 608 (4.10%) Machine Learning
19 597 (4.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,185 (14.73%) SQL
2 2,082 (14.04%) Python
3 1,782 (12.02%) JavaScript
4 1,662 (11.21%) C#
5 1,372 (9.25%) Java
6 871 (5.87%) TypeScript
7 473 (3.19%) C
8 469 (3.16%) C++
9 387 (2.61%) PowerShell
10 375 (2.53%) PHP
11 359 (2.42%) Bash
12 211 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 204 (1.38%) Go
14 183 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 138 (0.93%) R
16 133 (0.90%) Ruby
17 119 (0.80%) Scala
18 111 (0.75%) Kotlin
19 102 (0.69%) Embedded C
20 96 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,071 (13.96%) Degree
2 1,432 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 1,022 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 347 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 289 (1.95%) ACCA
6 277 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 256 (1.73%) CIMA
8 233 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 217 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 203 (1.37%) DBS Check
11 149 (1.00%) CCNP
11 149 (1.00%) CISSP
12 144 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 131 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 129 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 125 (0.84%) AWS Certification
16 118 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
17 102 (0.69%) PhD
18 98 (0.66%) CCNA
19 75 (0.51%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (2.58%) QA
2 250 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 245 (1.65%) SLA
4 229 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 198 (1.34%) GDPR
6 122 (0.82%) NIST
7 118 (0.80%) WCAG
8 108 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 99 (0.67%) IFRS
10 94 (0.63%) PMO
11 71 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 54 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 42 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 41 (0.28%) GRC
15 38 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
16 37 (0.25%) GMP
17 33 (0.22%) ISO 26262
18 30 (0.20%) NCSC
19 26 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
20 25 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 819 (5.52%) Docker
2 746 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 337 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 229 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 179 (1.21%) Firmware
6 75 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
7 62 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 60 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 51 (0.34%) vSphere
10 28 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 19 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 17 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 15 (0.10%) KVM
14 13 (0.088%) XenDesktop
15 12 (0.081%) XenApp
16 11 (0.074%) IAG
17 9 (0.061%) NFS
18 8 (0.054%) HDFS
19 7 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
20 5 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 887 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 666 (4.49%) Terraform
3 306 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 295 (1.99%) Ansible
5 141 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
6 136 (0.92%) SCCM
7 93 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 90 (0.61%) Puppet
9 74 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 70 (0.47%) Grafana
11 57 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
13 40 (0.27%) FortiGate
14 29 (0.20%) OpenSSO
15 28 (0.19%) CASB
16 25 (0.17%) Stealthwatch
17 24 (0.16%) SCOM
18 23 (0.16%) Nagios
19 20 (0.13%) WSUS
20 18 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2,296 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 593 (4.00%) Oracle
3 517 (3.49%) VMware
4 444 (2.99%) Cisco
5 403 (2.72%) Google
6 293 (1.98%) Databricks
7 221 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.46%) ESRI
9 210 (1.42%) SAP
10 180 (1.21%) Dell
11 154 (1.04%) CyberArk
12 135 (0.91%) IBM
13 128 (0.86%) Tanium
14 124 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 121 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 119 (0.80%) Meraki
17 116 (0.78%) Adobe
18 115 (0.78%) Juniper
19 112 (0.76%) HP
20 110 (0.74%) Red Hat