Senior Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9,789 8,207 9,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.67% 13.92% 13.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.41% 15.60% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,596 4,407 5,853
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,250 £41,473
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +5 2,609 £60,000 - 590
South East -1 2,103 £60,000 -11.11% 868
South West +11 1,592 £57,500 -2.70% 307
North West +9 1,473 £60,000 - 346
Midlands +5 1,405 £57,500 - 403
Scotland -8 1,005 £60,000 -4.49% 204
West Midlands +9 893 £57,965 -3.39% 283
Yorkshire +1 855 £57,965 -3.39% 186
East of England +2 576 £60,000 -7.69% 304
East Midlands +4 503 £54,700 -0.55% 121
Wales +9 379 £50,000 -9.09% 88
North East +15 286 £57,965 +3.97% 64
Northern Ireland +20 122 £55,000 +15.79% 54
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £76,250 - 1
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,449 (25.02%) Agile
2 2,092 (21.37%) Software Engineering
3 1,821 (18.60%) Social Skills
4 1,753 (17.91%) Azure
5 1,677 (17.13%) Finance
6 1,497 (15.29%) AWS
7 1,423 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
8 1,357 (13.86%) Degree
9 1,350 (13.79%) Microsoft
10 1,303 (13.31%) Mentoring
11 1,158 (11.83%) SQL
12 1,132 (11.56%) JavaScript
13 1,117 (11.41%) C#
14 1,114 (11.38%) Security Cleared
15 1,099 (11.23%) Python
16 1,093 (11.17%) DevOps
17 1,042 (10.64%) .NET
18 861 (8.80%) Coaching
19 849 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
20 841 (8.59%) Actionable Insight
21 828 (8.46%) React
22 815 (8.33%) SC Cleared
23 812 (8.30%) Java
24 808 (8.25%) Linux
25 773 (7.90%) Windows
26 743 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 682 (6.97%) Project Management
28 617 (6.30%) CSS
29 603 (6.16%) Decision-Making
30 588 (6.01%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior 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
1 189 (1.93%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.88%) GeoServer
3 131 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 125 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 124 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 115 (1.17%) Confluence
7 103 (1.05%) CMS
8 90 (0.92%) SAS
9 83 (0.85%) IIS
10 43 (0.44%) Umbraco
11 41 (0.42%) Headless CMS
12 40 (0.41%) Kentico
13 37 (0.38%) Tuxedo
14 36 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
15 32 (0.33%) WordPress
16 29 (0.30%) WebLogic
17 25 (0.26%) Apache
18 18 (0.18%) FileNet
18 18 (0.18%) JBoss
18 18 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 336 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 114 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 87 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 51 (0.52%) Sketch
6 49 (0.50%) Simulink
7 32 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 30 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 25 (0.26%) Stateflow
10 21 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
12 13 (0.13%) Photoshop
13 12 (0.12%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
15 10 (0.10%) Solid Edge
16 8 (0.082%) InVision
17 7 (0.072%) CANalyzer
18 6 (0.061%) InDesign
19 5 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
20 4 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 35 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
3 20 (0.20%) Magento
3 20 (0.20%) Shopify
4 19 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 13 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.072%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.061%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.051%) Primavera
12 5 (0.051%) Teamcenter
13 4 (0.041%) ResourceLink
13 4 (0.041%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.041%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.041%) SAP SD
13 4 (0.041%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,753 (17.91%) Azure
2 1,497 (15.29%) AWS
3 386 (3.94%) SaaS
4 357 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
5 302 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
6 273 (2.79%) GCP
7 263 (2.69%) Power Platform
8 174 (1.78%) Entra ID
9 127 (1.30%) GitHub
10 125 (1.28%) Serverless
11 113 (1.15%) OneDrive
12 107 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 100 (1.02%) Amazon S3
14 87 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 71 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
16 68 (0.69%) PaaS
17 67 (0.68%) Figma
17 67 (0.68%) IaaS
17 67 (0.68%) Power Automate
18 66 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 362 (3.70%) Firewall
2 234 (2.39%) WAN
3 224 (2.29%) DNS
4 193 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.96%) Broadband
6 174 (1.78%) Wireless
7 150 (1.53%) LAN
8 133 (1.36%) DHCP
9 110 (1.12%) Network Security
10 107 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
11 95 (0.97%) VPN
12 89 (0.91%) SD-WAN
13 85 (0.87%) Internet
14 77 (0.79%) SAN
15 75 (0.77%) VLAN
16 63 (0.64%) 5G
17 60 (0.61%) Kerberos
18 56 (0.57%) HTTP
19 49 (0.50%) Ethernet
19 49 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
2 384 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 273 (2.79%) MySQL
4 263 (2.69%) NoSQL
5 201 (2.05%) GIS
6 199 (2.03%) Power BI
7 184 (1.88%) QGIS
8 166 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
9 133 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 117 (1.20%) Big Data
11 93 (0.95%) Tableau
12 88 (0.90%) Oracle Database
13 84 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 79 (0.81%) MongoDB
16 75 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
18 65 (0.66%) Metadata
19 52 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
19 52 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 584 (5.97%) Git
2 271 (2.77%) JIRA
3 161 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 120 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 109 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 82 (0.84%) GitLab
7 68 (0.69%) Selenium
8 64 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 47 (0.48%) JUnit
10 44 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 42 (0.43%) Subversion
12 31 (0.32%) Sourcetree
12 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.29%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.27%) Maven
15 24 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
16 23 (0.23%) webpack
17 22 (0.22%) Cucumber
17 22 (0.22%) Postman
18 20 (0.20%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,821 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 1,677 (17.13%) Finance
3 849 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 743 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 516 (5.27%) Marketing
6 479 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 465 (4.75%) Law
8 374 (3.82%) Banking
9 359 (3.67%) Retail
10 341 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 294 (3.00%) Legal
12 261 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 245 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 222 (2.27%) Electronics
15 181 (1.85%) Aerospace
16 167 (1.71%) Games
17 161 (1.64%) Automotive
18 140 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
19 138 (1.41%) Telecoms
20 116 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,042 (10.64%) .NET
2 828 (8.46%) React
3 617 (6.30%) CSS
4 526 (5.37%) HTML
5 444 (4.54%) .NET Core
6 395 (4.04%) AngularJS
7 345 (3.52%) RESTful
8 296 (3.02%) ASP.NET
9 289 (2.95%) .NET Framework
9 289 (2.95%) Node.js
10 244 (2.49%) Vue
11 225 (2.30%) REST
12 206 (2.10%) Spring
13 201 (2.05%) Web Services
14 194 (1.98%) Laravel
15 185 (1.89%) PostGIS
16 184 (1.88%) Leaflet
16 184 (1.88%) OpenLayers
17 172 (1.76%) JSON
18 165 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 250 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
2 230 (2.35%) Public Cloud
3 228 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 228 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 219 (2.24%) Data Centre
5 202 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 182 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 176 (1.80%) Driving Licence
8 165 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 165 (1.69%) IoT
9 134 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 115 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 98 (1.00%) Mobile App
12 94 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 76 (0.78%) Social Media
14 75 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 75 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
15 74 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
16 70 (0.72%) Credit Risk
17 69 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 808 (8.25%) Linux
2 773 (7.90%) Windows
3 282 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 132 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
5 107 (1.09%) Unix
6 98 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 89 (0.91%) Android
8 69 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 68 (0.69%) Windows 10
10 57 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 48 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
12 41 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 41 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 36 (0.37%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.14%) CentOS
17 11 (0.11%) VMS
18 10 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
18 10 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,449 (25.02%) Agile
2 2,092 (21.37%) Software Engineering
3 1,423 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
4 1,303 (13.31%) Mentoring
5 1,093 (11.17%) DevOps
6 861 (8.80%) Coaching
7 841 (8.59%) Actionable Insight
8 682 (6.97%) Project Management
9 603 (6.16%) Decision-Making
10 588 (6.01%) Artificial Intelligence
11 587 (6.00%) CI/CD
12 554 (5.66%) Computer Science
13 516 (5.27%) Analytics
14 512 (5.23%) Roadmaps
15 506 (5.17%) Cybersecurity
16 474 (4.84%) SDLC
17 444 (4.54%) Full Stack Development
18 438 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 408 (4.17%) Microservices
20 382 (3.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (11.83%) SQL
2 1,132 (11.56%) JavaScript
3 1,117 (11.41%) C#
4 1,099 (11.23%) Python
5 812 (8.30%) Java
6 460 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 410 (4.19%) C
8 376 (3.84%) C++
9 301 (3.07%) PHP
10 231 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 202 (2.06%) Bash
12 110 (1.12%) Go
12 110 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 110 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 100 (1.02%) Embedded C
14 77 (0.79%) R
15 74 (0.76%) Scala
16 72 (0.74%) MATLAB
17 64 (0.65%) Perl
18 56 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,357 (13.86%) Degree
2 1,114 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 815 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 218 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 158 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
7 151 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 146 (1.49%) ACCA
9 139 (1.42%) CIMA
10 109 (1.11%) CCNP
11 98 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 92 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 91 (0.93%) CCNA
14 90 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
15 85 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 81 (0.83%) DBS Check
17 76 (0.78%) PhD
18 60 (0.61%) HND
19 59 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
20 58 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (2.36%) QA
2 191 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 151 (1.54%) GDPR
4 114 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 111 (1.13%) SLA
6 103 (1.05%) WCAG
7 66 (0.67%) NIST
8 63 (0.64%) GMP
9 58 (0.59%) PMO
10 57 (0.58%) IFRS
11 48 (0.49%) IFRS 9
11 48 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 36 (0.37%) Automotive SPICE
13 33 (0.34%) ISO 26262
14 25 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
15 22 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.20%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.19%) MISRA
18 17 (0.17%) JSP 440
18 17 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 527 (5.38%) Docker
2 425 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 257 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 179 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 169 (1.73%) Firmware
6 66 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 40 (0.41%) vSphere
8 39 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 37 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.10%) RACF
12 10 (0.10%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.072%) IAG
14 7 (0.072%) NFS
15 5 (0.051%) XenApp
16 4 (0.041%) KVM
16 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
16 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 519 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 389 (3.97%) Terraform
3 195 (1.99%) Ansible
4 151 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 82 (0.84%) SCCM
6 64 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 59 (0.60%) Puppet
8 57 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 42 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 37 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.29%) Grafana
11 28 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 26 (0.27%) OpenSSO
13 24 (0.25%) Stealthwatch
14 22 (0.22%) CASB
14 22 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 21 (0.21%) SCOM
16 17 (0.17%) Functional Safety
17 14 (0.14%) WMI
18 12 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,350 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 374 (3.82%) VMware
3 373 (3.81%) Oracle
4 284 (2.90%) Cisco
5 238 (2.43%) Google
6 185 (1.89%) ESRI
7 117 (1.20%) IBM
8 109 (1.11%) SAP
9 91 (0.93%) Databricks
10 90 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 84 (0.86%) Meraki
12 79 (0.81%) ServiceNow
13 72 (0.74%) Adobe
14 71 (0.73%) Dell
15 68 (0.69%) HP
16 67 (0.68%) Palo Alto
17 66 (0.67%) CheckPoint
18 64 (0.65%) Juniper
19 61 (0.62%) CyberArk
20 57 (0.58%) Salesforce