Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 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 15,117 15,584 29,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 15.66% 18.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.97% 17.11% 19.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,301 9,539 13,261
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,333 £45,000
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 £103,750 £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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
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 £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +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 19 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 19 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 12,928 £62,783 -10.31% 4,492
UK excluding London +2 9,793 £60,000 -1.32% 2,898
Work from Home +1 6,123 £65,000 -7.14% 2,171
London +2 4,512 £77,500 -6.06% 2,100
North of England +5 2,608 £60,000 - 626
South East -1 2,105 £60,000 -11.11% 881
South West +11 1,593 £57,500 -3.44% 331
North West +9 1,472 £60,000 - 370
Midlands +5 1,408 £57,500 - 428
Scotland -8 1,008 £60,000 -4.16% 204
West Midlands +9 895 £57,965 -3.39% 302
Yorkshire +1 854 £57,965 -3.39% 196
East of England +2 572 £60,000 -7.69% 330
East Midlands +2 504 £54,700 -0.55% 127
Wales +9 379 £50,000 -9.09% 96
North East +16 287 £57,965 +3.97% 66
Northern Ireland +20 122 £55,000 +15.79% 54
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £76,250 - 1

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 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 3,621 (23.95%) Agile
2 3,258 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 3,149 (20.83%) Finance
4 3,008 (19.90%) Azure
5 2,864 (18.95%) Software Engineering
6 2,666 (17.64%) AWS
7 2,339 (15.47%) Microsoft
8 2,258 (14.94%) SQL
9 2,183 (14.44%) Degree
10 2,167 (14.33%) Python
11 2,121 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
12 2,033 (13.45%) Mentoring
13 1,823 (12.06%) JavaScript
14 1,677 (11.09%) C#
15 1,674 (11.07%) DevOps
16 1,576 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
17 1,551 (10.26%) .NET
18 1,407 (9.31%) Security Cleared
19 1,368 (9.05%) Java
20 1,356 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 1,297 (8.58%) React
22 1,249 (8.26%) Actionable Insight
23 1,141 (7.55%) Linux
24 1,131 (7.48%) Coaching
25 1,103 (7.30%) Windows
26 1,020 (6.75%) SC Cleared
27 1,001 (6.62%) Decision-Making
28 995 (6.58%) Project Management
29 985 (6.52%) CI/CD
30 963 (6.37%) 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
1 240 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 232 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 220 (1.46%) ArcGIS
4 214 (1.42%) GeoServer
5 186 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 179 (1.18%) Apache
7 151 (1.00%) CMS
8 144 (0.95%) Confluence
9 141 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
10 114 (0.75%) SAS
11 102 (0.67%) IIS
12 54 (0.36%) Umbraco
13 51 (0.34%) WordPress
14 41 (0.27%) Headless CMS
14 41 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.26%) Kentico
16 37 (0.24%) Tuxedo
17 30 (0.20%) WebLogic
18 24 (0.16%) nginx
19 21 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 609 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 303 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 170 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 118 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (0.41%) Sketch
6 49 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 49 (0.32%) Simulink
7 41 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 35 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.17%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
12 17 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.079%) OrCAD
14 10 (0.066%) InDesign
14 10 (0.066%) Solid Edge
15 9 (0.060%) InVision
16 7 (0.046%) Adobe XD
16 7 (0.046%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 72 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.38%) Endur
3 42 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.16%) Shopify
6 22 (0.15%) Magento
6 22 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 19 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 17 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 17 (0.11%) NEC Housing
9 16 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
9 16 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
10 14 (0.093%) SAP FI
11 13 (0.086%) SAP SCM
12 12 (0.079%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
12 12 (0.079%) Workday HCM
13 10 (0.066%) SAP HR
14 9 (0.060%) Primavera
14 9 (0.060%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 3,008 (19.90%) Azure
2 2,666 (17.64%) AWS
3 720 (4.76%) SaaS
4 639 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
5 616 (4.07%) GCP
6 531 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 452 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 361 (2.39%) Entra ID
9 257 (1.70%) Serverless
10 226 (1.50%) GitHub
11 220 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
12 173 (1.14%) Amazon S3
13 162 (1.07%) PaaS
14 156 (1.03%) Snowflake
15 137 (0.91%) PowerApps
16 136 (0.90%) IaaS
17 130 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
18 129 (0.85%) OneDrive
19 122 (0.81%) Power Automate
20 121 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 571 (3.78%) Firewall
2 396 (2.62%) Broadband
3 340 (2.25%) WAN
4 297 (1.96%) DNS
5 248 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 238 (1.57%) LAN
7 229 (1.51%) Wireless
8 191 (1.26%) Network Security
9 183 (1.21%) DHCP
10 177 (1.17%) VPN
11 161 (1.07%) 5G
12 158 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 145 (0.96%) Internet
14 133 (0.88%) SD-WAN
15 113 (0.75%) MPLS
16 112 (0.74%) VLAN
17 107 (0.71%) SAN
18 94 (0.62%) BGP
19 77 (0.51%) HTTP
20 61 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 695 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 588 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
3 398 (2.63%) Power BI
4 377 (2.49%) MySQL
5 355 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 343 (2.27%) Tableau
7 328 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 257 (1.70%) Data Lake
9 254 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 235 (1.55%) GIS
11 216 (1.43%) QGIS
12 192 (1.27%) Big Data
13 164 (1.08%) MongoDB
14 137 (0.91%) Oracle Database
15 136 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
16 122 (0.81%) Metadata
17 114 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 101 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
19 96 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
20 89 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 918 (6.07%) Git
2 393 (2.60%) JIRA
3 302 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 153 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 134 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 132 (0.87%) GitLab
7 111 (0.73%) Selenium
8 72 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 66 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 57 (0.38%) JUnit
11 55 (0.36%) Postman
11 55 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 51 (0.34%) Sourcetree
13 50 (0.33%) Cucumber
14 44 (0.29%) Subversion
15 41 (0.27%) webpack
16 39 (0.26%) CircleCI
16 39 (0.26%) Maven
17 38 (0.25%) Eclipse
18 37 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 3,258 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 3,149 (20.83%) Finance
3 1,576 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1,356 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 840 (5.56%) Marketing
6 721 (4.77%) Law
7 720 (4.76%) Banking
8 656 (4.34%) Retail
9 653 (4.32%) Public Sector
10 512 (3.39%) Legal
11 434 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 429 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
13 383 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 271 (1.79%) Games
15 243 (1.61%) Electronics
16 236 (1.56%) Front Office
17 207 (1.37%) Telecoms
18 201 (1.33%) Aerospace
19 185 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
20 174 (1.15%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,551 (10.26%) .NET
2 1,297 (8.58%) React
3 902 (5.97%) CSS
4 824 (5.45%) HTML
5 632 (4.18%) AngularJS
6 575 (3.80%) .NET Core
7 489 (3.23%) Node.js
8 466 (3.08%) RESTful
9 431 (2.85%) ASP.NET
10 408 (2.70%) REST
11 368 (2.43%) .NET Framework
12 358 (2.37%) Vue
13 323 (2.14%) Spring
14 313 (2.07%) Kafka
15 297 (1.96%) Web Services
16 266 (1.76%) JSON
17 237 (1.57%) XML
18 233 (1.54%) Laravel
19 217 (1.44%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.42%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 377 (2.49%) Product Ownership
2 360 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 358 (2.37%) Management Information System
4 352 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 325 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 284 (1.88%) Algorithms
7 282 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 279 (1.85%) Cloud Native
9 269 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 226 (1.50%) IoT
11 218 (1.44%) Social Media
12 197 (1.30%) Driving Licence
13 189 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 188 (1.24%) Derivative
15 183 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
16 178 (1.18%) Hedge funds
17 165 (1.09%) Mobile App
18 153 (1.01%) Equities
19 137 (0.91%) Fixed Income
20 134 (0.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,141 (7.55%) Linux
2 1,103 (7.30%) Windows
3 401 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 215 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 148 (0.98%) Unix
6 145 (0.96%) Android
7 133 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
8 127 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 126 (0.83%) Windows 10
10 84 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 71 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 66 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 50 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 50 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 33 (0.22%) VMS
15 23 (0.15%) Windows 7
16 18 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.11%) CentOS
18 11 (0.073%) Windows Server 2003
19 10 (0.066%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,621 (23.95%) Agile
2 2,864 (18.95%) Software Engineering
3 2,121 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
4 2,033 (13.45%) Mentoring
5 1,674 (11.07%) DevOps
6 1,249 (8.26%) Actionable Insight
7 1,131 (7.48%) Coaching
8 1,001 (6.62%) Decision-Making
9 995 (6.58%) Project Management
10 985 (6.52%) CI/CD
11 963 (6.37%) Analytics
12 943 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence
13 890 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
14 876 (5.79%) Computer Science
15 816 (5.40%) Roadmaps
16 807 (5.34%) Full Stack Development
17 689 (4.56%) Microservices
18 632 (4.18%) SDLC
19 622 (4.11%) Machine Learning
20 585 (3.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,258 (14.94%) SQL
2 2,167 (14.33%) Python
3 1,823 (12.06%) JavaScript
4 1,677 (11.09%) C#
5 1,368 (9.05%) Java
6 906 (5.99%) TypeScript
7 479 (3.17%) C
8 470 (3.11%) C++
9 401 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 379 (2.51%) PHP
11 354 (2.34%) Bash
12 212 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 206 (1.36%) Go
14 171 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 139 (0.92%) R
16 130 (0.86%) Ruby
17 128 (0.85%) Scala
18 114 (0.75%) Kotlin
19 101 (0.67%) Embedded C
20 97 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,183 (14.44%) Degree
2 1,407 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 1,020 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 355 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 296 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 291 (1.92%) ACCA
7 258 (1.71%) CIMA
8 250 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 232 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 204 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 160 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 148 (0.98%) CCNP
12 148 (0.98%) CISSP
13 145 (0.96%) PMI Certification
14 133 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 132 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 120 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
17 106 (0.70%) CCNA
17 106 (0.70%) PhD
18 73 (0.48%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 415 (2.75%) QA
2 253 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 245 (1.62%) SLA
4 244 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 208 (1.38%) GDPR
6 118 (0.78%) NIST
7 116 (0.77%) WCAG
8 107 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 99 (0.65%) IFRS
10 91 (0.60%) PMO
11 68 (0.45%) GMP
11 68 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 55 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 42 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 36 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
14 36 (0.24%) GRC
15 33 (0.22%) ISO 26262
16 28 (0.19%) NCSC
17 25 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
18 22 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 817 (5.40%) Docker
2 759 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 334 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 224 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 181 (1.20%) Firmware
6 74 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
7 64 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 61 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 52 (0.34%) vSphere
10 29 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 21 (0.14%) RACF
11 21 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 17 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.11%) KVM
14 15 (0.099%) XenDesktop
15 14 (0.093%) XenApp
16 11 (0.073%) IAG
17 9 (0.060%) NFS
18 8 (0.053%) HDFS
19 6 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 907 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 654 (4.33%) Terraform
3 300 (1.98%) Ansible
4 299 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 138 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
6 134 (0.89%) SCCM
7 95 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 94 (0.62%) Puppet
9 73 (0.48%) Grafana
9 73 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 61 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 50 (0.33%) vCenter Server
12 40 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 29 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
14 28 (0.19%) CASB
15 26 (0.17%) OpenSSO
16 24 (0.16%) Nagios
16 24 (0.16%) SCOM
17 19 (0.13%) Nmap
18 18 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2,339 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 594 (3.93%) Oracle
3 508 (3.36%) VMware
4 436 (2.88%) Cisco
5 402 (2.66%) Google
6 342 (2.26%) Databricks
7 221 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.44%) ESRI
9 211 (1.40%) SAP
10 176 (1.16%) Dell
11 175 (1.16%) CyberArk
12 136 (0.90%) IBM
13 134 (0.89%) Salesforce
14 128 (0.85%) Tanium
15 123 (0.81%) Adobe
16 118 (0.78%) Meraki
17 117 (0.77%) Palo Alto
18 115 (0.76%) Juniper
19 112 (0.74%) Red Hat
20 107 (0.71%) HP