Senior Jobs in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior salary in England is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,061 12,737 25,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.93% 15.41% 17.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.78% 16.89% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 9,699 8,075 11,823
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,283 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +3 4,720 £77,500 -6.06% 1,534
North of England +4 2,857 £60,000 - 607
South East -1 2,354 £60,000 -11.11% 539
South West +14 1,757 £58,700 +1.21% 332
North West +9 1,624 £60,000 - 394
Midlands +3 1,616 £57,500 - 357
West Midlands +5 1,022 £60,000 +4.35% 240
Yorkshire +1 922 £57,965 -3.39% 161
East of England +1 630 £57,500 -11.54% 270
East Midlands +1 585 £55,000 - 116
North East +9 316 £58,800 +4.07% 54
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 across the England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,037 (21.60%) Agile
2 2,944 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 2,683 (19.08%) Finance
4 2,528 (17.98%) Azure
5 2,410 (17.14%) Software Engineering
6 2,327 (16.55%) AWS
7 2,163 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 2,062 (14.66%) Degree
9 2,014 (14.32%) SQL
10 2,007 (14.27%) Python
11 1,881 (13.38%) Mentoring
12 1,753 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
13 1,651 (11.74%) JavaScript
14 1,457 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
15 1,451 (10.32%) C#
16 1,414 (10.06%) DevOps
17 1,365 (9.71%) .NET
18 1,146 (8.15%) Security Cleared
19 1,113 (7.92%) Java
20 1,108 (7.88%) React
21 1,027 (7.30%) Coaching
22 1,002 (7.13%) Linux
23 969 (6.89%) Windows
24 950 (6.76%) Actionable Insight
25 904 (6.43%) Project Management
26 891 (6.34%) Analytics
27 883 (6.28%) TypeScript
28 880 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
29 851 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
30 825 (5.87%) Decision-Making

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 207 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 192 (1.37%) Apache
3 169 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 160 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 145 (1.03%) CMS
6 126 (0.90%) ArcGIS
7 125 (0.89%) Apache Spark
8 121 (0.86%) Confluence
9 119 (0.85%) GeoServer
10 110 (0.78%) SAS
11 92 (0.65%) IIS
12 52 (0.37%) Umbraco
13 50 (0.36%) WordPress
14 42 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.29%) Headless CMS
16 40 (0.28%) Kentico
17 37 (0.26%) Tuxedo
18 25 (0.18%) nginx
19 23 (0.16%) WebLogic
20 17 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 559 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 261 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 103 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (0.35%) Simulink
6 48 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 39 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 37 (0.26%) Sketch
9 32 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 25 (0.18%) Stateflow
11 24 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
12 18 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 16 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
14 13 (0.092%) OrCAD
15 11 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
16 10 (0.071%) InDesign
16 10 (0.071%) Solid Edge
17 8 (0.057%) Windchill
18 7 (0.050%) CANalyzer
19 6 (0.043%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 67 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.35%) Endur
3 40 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 36 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
5 28 (0.20%) Magento
5 28 (0.20%) Shopify
6 19 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
7 16 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.100%) Dynamics AX
8 14 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
9 13 (0.092%) SAP SCM
10 11 (0.078%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.071%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.064%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.064%) Ripple
12 9 (0.064%) SAP HR
13 8 (0.057%) Primavera
13 8 (0.057%) SAP CO
13 8 (0.057%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,528 (17.98%) Azure
2 2,327 (16.55%) AWS
3 651 (4.63%) SaaS
4 549 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 504 (3.58%) Power Platform
6 497 (3.53%) GCP
7 410 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 357 (2.54%) Entra ID
9 214 (1.52%) Serverless
10 198 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
10 198 (1.41%) GitHub
11 185 (1.32%) Snowflake
12 154 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 143 (1.02%) dbt
14 121 (0.86%) OneDrive
15 117 (0.83%) PaaS
16 116 (0.82%) IaaS
17 112 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
18 110 (0.78%) PowerApps
19 97 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 507 (3.61%) Firewall
2 386 (2.75%) Broadband
3 318 (2.26%) WAN
4 247 (1.76%) DNS
5 216 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 203 (1.44%) LAN
7 197 (1.40%) Wireless
8 187 (1.33%) Network Security
9 165 (1.17%) DHCP
10 159 (1.13%) 5G
11 156 (1.11%) VPN
12 150 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 130 (0.92%) Internet
14 125 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
15 100 (0.71%) MPLS
16 96 (0.68%) VLAN
17 86 (0.61%) BGP
18 83 (0.59%) SAN
19 78 (0.55%) HTTP
20 64 (0.46%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 648 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 444 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 382 (2.72%) Power BI
4 366 (2.60%) MySQL
5 328 (2.33%) Tableau
6 283 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 258 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 252 (1.79%) Data Lake
9 219 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 153 (1.09%) MongoDB
11 130 (0.92%) GIS
12 124 (0.88%) Big Data
13 121 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
13 121 (0.86%) QGIS
14 114 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
15 112 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 106 (0.75%) Dremio
17 104 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
17 104 (0.74%) Apache Arrow
18 97 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 815 (5.80%) Git
2 336 (2.39%) JIRA
3 194 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 137 (0.97%) Visual Studio
5 130 (0.92%) GitLab
6 104 (0.74%) Selenium
7 92 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 60 (0.43%) TeamCity
9 57 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 53 (0.38%) Sourcetree
11 44 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 42 (0.30%) NUnit
13 41 (0.29%) Postman
13 41 (0.29%) Subversion
14 40 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
15 38 (0.27%) CircleCI
15 38 (0.27%) JUnit
16 37 (0.26%) Eclipse
17 35 (0.25%) Maven
18 34 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 2,944 (20.94%) Social Skills
2 2,683 (19.08%) Finance
3 1,457 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 880 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 651 (4.63%) Banking
6 639 (4.54%) Retail
7 560 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 547 (3.89%) Marketing
9 520 (3.70%) Legal
10 426 (3.03%) Law
11 376 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 372 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 353 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 262 (1.86%) Front Office
15 245 (1.74%) Games
16 224 (1.59%) Electronics
17 215 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 184 (1.31%) Automotive
19 181 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
20 173 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,365 (9.71%) .NET
2 1,108 (7.88%) React
3 759 (5.40%) CSS
4 733 (5.21%) HTML
5 538 (3.83%) AngularJS
6 462 (3.29%) .NET Core
7 419 (2.98%) ASP.NET
8 406 (2.89%) Node.js
9 375 (2.67%) RESTful
10 351 (2.50%) REST
11 334 (2.38%) Vue
12 329 (2.34%) .NET Framework
13 258 (1.83%) Kafka
14 240 (1.71%) Spring
15 218 (1.55%) Web Services
16 208 (1.48%) Laravel
17 201 (1.43%) Pandas
18 170 (1.21%) Entity Framework
19 169 (1.20%) gRPC
20 165 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 332 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
2 319 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 305 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 295 (2.10%) Algorithms
5 293 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 267 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 260 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 227 (1.61%) IoT
9 221 (1.57%) Derivative
10 219 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 201 (1.43%) Hedge funds
12 194 (1.38%) Social Media
13 193 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 182 (1.29%) Equities
15 172 (1.22%) Driving Licence
16 165 (1.17%) Fixed Income
17 157 (1.12%) Cloud Native
18 147 (1.05%) Mobile App
19 144 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
20 125 (0.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,002 (7.13%) Linux
2 969 (6.89%) Windows
3 326 (2.32%) Windows Server
4 186 (1.32%) Ubuntu
5 132 (0.94%) Unix
6 121 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 118 (0.84%) Android
8 111 (0.79%) Windows 10
9 100 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 81 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 64 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
12 57 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
13 52 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 37 (0.26%) VMS
15 34 (0.24%) Mac OS
16 23 (0.16%) Windows 7
17 18 (0.13%) CentOS
17 18 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.071%) FreeRTOS
18 10 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,037 (21.60%) Agile
2 2,410 (17.14%) Software Engineering
3 1,881 (13.38%) Mentoring
4 1,753 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
5 1,414 (10.06%) DevOps
6 1,027 (7.30%) Coaching
7 950 (6.76%) Actionable Insight
8 904 (6.43%) Project Management
9 891 (6.34%) Analytics
10 851 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
11 825 (5.87%) Decision-Making
12 820 (5.83%) CI/CD
13 771 (5.48%) Full Stack Development
14 743 (5.28%) Computer Science
15 720 (5.12%) Artificial Intelligence
16 685 (4.87%) Roadmaps
17 574 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 558 (3.97%) Microservices
19 531 (3.78%) Scrum
20 523 (3.72%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,014 (14.32%) SQL
2 2,007 (14.27%) Python
3 1,651 (11.74%) JavaScript
4 1,451 (10.32%) C#
5 1,113 (7.92%) Java
6 883 (6.28%) TypeScript
7 420 (2.99%) C++
8 397 (2.82%) PowerShell
9 385 (2.74%) C
10 365 (2.60%) PHP
11 347 (2.47%) Bash
12 196 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 139 (0.99%) Go
14 123 (0.87%) R
15 120 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 115 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 100 (0.71%) Rust
18 91 (0.65%) Scala
19 86 (0.61%) Ruby
20 85 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,062 (14.66%) Degree
2 1,146 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 742 (5.28%) SC Cleared
4 323 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 298 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 272 (1.93%) ACCA
7 248 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 238 (1.69%) CIMA
9 226 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 211 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 154 (1.10%) CCNP
12 141 (1.00%) CISSP
13 136 (0.97%) Azure Certification
14 130 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 110 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 110 (0.78%) PhD
16 106 (0.75%) AWS Certification
17 105 (0.75%) CCNA
18 91 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
19 61 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (2.62%) QA
2 253 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 234 (1.66%) SLA
4 184 (1.31%) GDPR
5 174 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 107 (0.76%) NIST
7 93 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 92 (0.65%) WCAG
9 82 (0.58%) PMO
10 75 (0.53%) IFRS
11 72 (0.51%) GMP
12 52 (0.37%) IFRS 9
13 42 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 39 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 33 (0.23%) Automotive SPICE
15 33 (0.23%) ISO 26262
16 30 (0.21%) GRC
17 27 (0.19%) NCSC
18 25 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
19 23 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 734 (5.22%) Docker
2 672 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 297 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 190 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 142 (1.01%) Firmware
6 56 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
7 55 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 53 (0.38%) vSphere
9 49 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 45 (0.32%) RACF
11 22 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 17 (0.12%) KVM
12 17 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.11%) XenApp
14 13 (0.092%) XenDesktop
15 9 (0.064%) NFS
16 7 (0.050%) IAG
17 6 (0.043%) HDFS
17 6 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 807 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 570 (4.05%) Terraform
3 274 (1.95%) Ansible
4 271 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 139 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
6 110 (0.78%) SCCM
7 94 (0.67%) Puppet
8 89 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 63 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (0.43%) Grafana
11 45 (0.32%) vCenter Server
12 44 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 41 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 34 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
15 30 (0.21%) CASB
16 21 (0.15%) OpenSSO
16 21 (0.15%) SCOM
17 19 (0.14%) Functional Safety
17 19 (0.14%) Nmap
18 18 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,163 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 448 (3.19%) VMware
3 434 (3.09%) Oracle
4 397 (2.82%) Cisco
5 326 (2.32%) Google
6 319 (2.27%) Databricks
7 229 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 202 (1.44%) CyberArk
9 195 (1.39%) SAP
10 166 (1.18%) Dell
11 130 (0.92%) Adobe
12 129 (0.92%) Meraki
13 128 (0.91%) Tanium
14 123 (0.87%) ESRI
15 120 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 118 (0.84%) IBM
17 115 (0.82%) Red Hat
18 105 (0.75%) Palo Alto
19 103 (0.73%) Juniper
20 92 (0.65%) HP