Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 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 15,979 14,806 31,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 15.62% 18.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.00% 17.11% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,846 9,237 13,416
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,354 £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 £105,000 £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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 June 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 2 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
England +4 13,699 £62,783 -10.31% 4,189
UK excluding London +3 10,491 £60,000 -1.32% 2,532
Work from Home +2 6,341 £65,000 -7.14% 2,011
London +2 4,645 £77,500 -6.06% 1,893
North of England +4 2,780 £60,000 - 624
South East -1 2,279 £60,000 -11.11% 591
South West +13 1,710 £57,500 -0.86% 333
North West +9 1,568 £60,000 - 401
Midlands +3 1,548 £57,500 - 360
Scotland -10 1,032 £60,000 - 240
West Midlands +5 978 £58,700 -2.17% 259
Yorkshire +1 909 £57,965 -3.39% 156
East of England +1 608 £57,500 -11.54% 298
East Midlands +2 561 £55,000 - 102
Wales +8 404 £50,000 -9.09% 80
North East +13 308 £57,965 +2.59% 69
Northern Ireland +19 135 £55,000 +15.79% 60
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 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 featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,676 (23.01%) Agile
2 3,305 (20.68%) Social Skills
3 3,211 (20.10%) Finance
4 3,061 (19.16%) Azure
5 3,030 (18.96%) Software Engineering
6 2,742 (17.16%) AWS
7 2,402 (15.03%) Microsoft
8 2,328 (14.57%) SQL
9 2,246 (14.06%) Python
10 2,228 (13.94%) Degree
11 2,139 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
12 2,066 (12.93%) Mentoring
13 1,883 (11.78%) JavaScript
14 1,724 (10.79%) C#
15 1,705 (10.67%) DevOps
16 1,621 (10.14%) .NET
17 1,571 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
18 1,448 (9.06%) Security Cleared
19 1,383 (8.66%) Java
20 1,359 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 1,318 (8.25%) React
22 1,223 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
23 1,175 (7.35%) Coaching
24 1,152 (7.21%) Linux
25 1,092 (6.83%) Windows
26 1,041 (6.51%) SC Cleared
27 1,020 (6.38%) CI/CD
28 1,007 (6.30%) Project Management
29 994 (6.22%) Decision-Making
30 978 (6.12%) 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
1 229 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 221 (1.38%) ArcGIS
3 218 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 214 (1.34%) GeoServer
5 194 (1.21%) Apache
6 180 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 161 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
8 159 (1.00%) CMS
9 135 (0.84%) Confluence
10 115 (0.72%) SAS
11 101 (0.63%) IIS
12 55 (0.34%) Umbraco
13 53 (0.33%) WordPress
14 42 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.26%) Headless CMS
16 40 (0.25%) Kentico
17 37 (0.23%) Tuxedo
18 30 (0.19%) WebLogic
19 25 (0.16%) nginx
20 20 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 624 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 302 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 166 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 122 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 63 (0.39%) Sketch
6 49 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 49 (0.31%) Simulink
7 44 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 37 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 25 (0.16%) Stateflow
10 18 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 16 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
12 12 (0.075%) OrCAD
13 10 (0.063%) InDesign
13 10 (0.063%) Solid Edge
14 9 (0.056%) InVision
15 8 (0.050%) Windchill
16 7 (0.044%) Revit
Business Applications
1 70 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.33%) Endur
3 41 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 36 (0.23%) Siebel CRM
5 28 (0.18%) Shopify
6 27 (0.17%) Magento
7 26 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.13%) NetSuite
9 19 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 19 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
11 15 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
12 13 (0.081%) SAP SCM
12 13 (0.081%) Workday HCM
13 11 (0.069%) SAP FI
14 10 (0.063%) SAP HR
15 9 (0.056%) Primavera
15 9 (0.056%) SAP CO
15 9 (0.056%) SAP FI/CO
16 8 (0.050%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 3,061 (19.16%) Azure
2 2,742 (17.16%) AWS
3 737 (4.61%) SaaS
4 624 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
5 606 (3.79%) GCP
6 554 (3.47%) Power Platform
7 460 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 393 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 253 (1.58%) Serverless
10 234 (1.46%) GitHub
11 224 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 181 (1.13%) Snowflake
13 173 (1.08%) Amazon S3
14 158 (0.99%) PaaS
15 141 (0.88%) PowerApps
16 137 (0.86%) IaaS
17 134 (0.84%) dbt
18 131 (0.82%) OneDrive
19 129 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
20 124 (0.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 579 (3.62%) Firewall
2 396 (2.48%) Broadband
3 348 (2.18%) WAN
4 293 (1.83%) DNS
5 250 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 236 (1.48%) LAN
7 234 (1.46%) Wireless
8 222 (1.39%) Network Security
9 186 (1.16%) DHCP
10 172 (1.08%) VPN
11 160 (1.00%) 5G
12 156 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 149 (0.93%) SD-WAN
14 147 (0.92%) Internet
15 114 (0.71%) MPLS
16 106 (0.66%) SAN
17 103 (0.64%) VLAN
18 94 (0.59%) BGP
19 82 (0.51%) HTTP
20 70 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 710 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 596 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 411 (2.57%) Power BI
4 382 (2.39%) MySQL
5 352 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 342 (2.14%) Tableau
7 330 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 284 (1.78%) Data Lake
9 258 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 236 (1.48%) GIS
11 216 (1.35%) QGIS
12 190 (1.19%) Big Data
13 162 (1.01%) MongoDB
14 139 (0.87%) Oracle Database
15 128 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
16 127 (0.79%) Metadata
17 116 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 106 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
19 105 (0.66%) Apache Ignite
20 103 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 926 (5.80%) Git
2 389 (2.43%) JIRA
3 276 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 154 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 144 (0.90%) GitLab
6 136 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 112 (0.70%) Selenium
8 69 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 67 (0.42%) Artifactory
10 59 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 57 (0.36%) JUnit
12 54 (0.34%) Sourcetree
13 51 (0.32%) Postman
14 44 (0.28%) Cucumber
15 43 (0.27%) webpack
16 41 (0.26%) NUnit
16 41 (0.26%) Subversion
17 40 (0.25%) CircleCI
18 39 (0.24%) Maven
18 39 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,305 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 3,211 (20.10%) Finance
3 1,571 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 1,359 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 847 (5.30%) Marketing
6 752 (4.71%) Banking
7 722 (4.52%) Law
8 655 (4.10%) Retail
9 646 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 561 (3.51%) Legal
11 431 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 423 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
13 414 (2.59%) Manufacturing
14 278 (1.74%) Games
15 256 (1.60%) Electronics
15 256 (1.60%) Front Office
16 224 (1.40%) Aerospace
17 202 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 188 (1.18%) Investment Banking
18 188 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,621 (10.14%) .NET
2 1,318 (8.25%) React
3 934 (5.85%) CSS
4 858 (5.37%) HTML
5 631 (3.95%) AngularJS
6 591 (3.70%) .NET Core
7 500 (3.13%) Node.js
8 454 (2.84%) RESTful
9 452 (2.83%) ASP.NET
10 409 (2.56%) REST
11 384 (2.40%) .NET Framework
12 364 (2.28%) Vue
13 312 (1.95%) Kafka
14 304 (1.90%) Web Services
15 298 (1.86%) Spring
16 250 (1.56%) JSON
17 235 (1.47%) Laravel
18 227 (1.42%) XML
19 217 (1.36%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.35%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 397 (2.48%) Management Information System
2 370 (2.32%) Product Ownership
3 368 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 354 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 341 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 298 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 293 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 282 (1.76%) Cloud Native
9 258 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 231 (1.45%) IoT
11 218 (1.36%) Social Media
12 211 (1.32%) Derivative
13 209 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 199 (1.25%) Driving Licence
15 197 (1.23%) Hedge funds
16 184 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
17 173 (1.08%) Equities
18 169 (1.06%) Mobile App
19 156 (0.98%) Fixed Income
20 136 (0.85%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,152 (7.21%) Linux
2 1,092 (6.83%) Windows
3 386 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 218 (1.36%) Ubuntu
5 155 (0.97%) Unix
6 148 (0.93%) Android
7 137 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
8 124 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 121 (0.76%) Windows 10
10 81 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 67 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
12 60 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
13 54 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 46 (0.29%) Mac OS
15 37 (0.23%) VMS
16 23 (0.14%) Windows 7
17 20 (0.13%) CentOS
18 17 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.069%) FreeRTOS
20 10 (0.063%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,676 (23.01%) Agile
2 3,030 (18.96%) Software Engineering
3 2,139 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
4 2,066 (12.93%) Mentoring
5 1,705 (10.67%) DevOps
6 1,223 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
7 1,175 (7.35%) Coaching
8 1,020 (6.38%) CI/CD
9 1,007 (6.30%) Project Management
10 994 (6.22%) Decision-Making
11 978 (6.12%) Analytics
12 948 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence
13 936 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
14 900 (5.63%) Computer Science
15 854 (5.34%) Full Stack Development
16 837 (5.24%) Roadmaps
17 686 (4.29%) Microservices
18 653 (4.09%) SDLC
19 631 (3.95%) Machine Learning
20 602 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2,328 (14.57%) SQL
2 2,246 (14.06%) Python
3 1,883 (11.78%) JavaScript
4 1,724 (10.79%) C#
5 1,383 (8.66%) Java
6 950 (5.95%) TypeScript
7 500 (3.13%) C++
8 493 (3.09%) C
9 430 (2.69%) PowerShell
10 397 (2.48%) PHP
11 368 (2.30%) Bash
12 218 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 213 (1.33%) Go
14 172 (1.08%) PL/SQL
15 148 (0.93%) Scala
16 131 (0.82%) R
16 131 (0.82%) Ruby
17 124 (0.78%) Kotlin
18 107 (0.67%) Embedded C
19 98 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,228 (13.94%) Degree
2 1,448 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 1,041 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 361 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 311 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 291 (1.82%) ACCA
7 261 (1.63%) DBS Check
8 258 (1.61%) CIMA
9 246 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 234 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 168 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 159 (1.00%) CCNP
13 156 (0.98%) CISSP
14 143 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 138 (0.86%) AWS Certification
16 131 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
17 123 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
18 120 (0.75%) CCNA
19 116 (0.73%) PhD
20 78 (0.49%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (2.62%) QA
2 275 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 254 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 249 (1.56%) SLA
5 211 (1.32%) GDPR
6 120 (0.75%) NIST
7 113 (0.71%) WCAG
8 108 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 90 (0.56%) IFRS
10 89 (0.56%) PMO
11 68 (0.43%) GMP
12 59 (0.37%) IFRS 9
13 56 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 43 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 33 (0.21%) Automotive SPICE
15 33 (0.21%) ISO 26262
16 31 (0.19%) GRC
17 28 (0.18%) NCSC
18 25 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
19 23 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 815 (5.10%) Docker
2 779 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 334 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 219 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 187 (1.17%) Firmware
6 75 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
7 65 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 58 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 55 (0.34%) vSphere
10 50 (0.31%) RACF
11 27 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 26 (0.16%) VMware NSX
13 18 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 17 (0.11%) KVM
14 17 (0.11%) XenDesktop
15 16 (0.10%) XenApp
16 11 (0.069%) IAG
17 9 (0.056%) NFS
18 7 (0.044%) HDFS
19 6 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 932 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 656 (4.11%) Terraform
3 317 (1.98%) Ansible
4 295 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 138 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
6 125 (0.78%) SCCM
7 98 (0.61%) Puppet
8 95 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 71 (0.44%) Grafana
10 69 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 57 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 50 (0.31%) vCenter Server
13 42 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 33 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
15 30 (0.19%) CASB
16 26 (0.16%) OpenSSO
16 26 (0.16%) SCOM
17 19 (0.12%) Nmap
18 18 (0.11%) Nagios
18 18 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2,402 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 615 (3.85%) Oracle
3 503 (3.15%) VMware
4 445 (2.78%) Cisco
5 381 (2.38%) Google
6 346 (2.17%) Databricks
7 233 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 218 (1.36%) ESRI
9 213 (1.33%) SAP
10 207 (1.30%) CyberArk
11 174 (1.09%) Dell
12 134 (0.84%) Adobe
13 133 (0.83%) IBM
14 132 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 128 (0.80%) Tanium
16 127 (0.79%) Meraki
17 118 (0.74%) Red Hat
18 117 (0.73%) Palo Alto
19 113 (0.71%) Juniper
20 103 (0.64%) HP