Senior Jobs in the East of England

Senior
England > East of England

The median Senior salary in the East of England is £59,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 593 612 971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 9.31% 12.21% 14.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.90% 14.59% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 460 302 295
10th Percentile £41,225 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,688 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 5,987 4,194 6,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 83.68% 93.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,577 2,140 2,931
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,330 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cambridgeshire +3 259 £60,000 -18.64% 125
Hertfordshire -4 122 £60,000 -11.11% 77
Essex +6 78 £57,500 -4.17% 38
Norfolk -9 70 £50,000 -9.09% 21
Suffolk -7 33 £32,750 -40.45% 14
Bedfordshire +8 28 £50,000 -13.04% 14
East Anglia - 1 £89,500 - 39
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 East of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 147 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.54%) Software Engineering
3 95 (16.02%) Agile
4 86 (14.50%) Degree
5 82 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (13.32%) Python
7 77 (12.98%) Microsoft
8 70 (11.80%) Electronics
9 68 (11.47%) C#
10 66 (11.13%) AWS
11 65 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (10.62%) Linux
13 62 (10.46%) IoT
14 52 (8.77%) Mentoring
14 52 (8.77%) Finance
15 49 (8.26%) Windows
15 49 (8.26%) JavaScript
16 48 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 46 (7.76%) CAD
18 45 (7.59%) Azure
19 42 (7.08%) .NET
20 40 (6.75%) SQL
20 40 (6.75%) Project Management
21 39 (6.58%) Docker
22 38 (6.41%) TypeScript
22 38 (6.41%) Retail
23 37 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
24 36 (6.07%) Manufacturing
25 33 (5.56%) Software Testing
26 32 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 5 (0.84%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.67%) WordPress
3 3 (0.51%) CMS
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.35%) AutoCAD
6 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.67%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.17%) Primavera
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (11.13%) AWS
2 45 (7.59%) Azure
3 37 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (5.23%) SaaS
5 12 (2.02%) OneDrive
6 11 (1.85%) GitHub
7 9 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.18%) AWS IoT
9 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (0.84%) Dropbox
9 5 (0.84%) Google Drive
10 3 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.51%) IaaS
10 3 (0.51%) PaaS
10 3 (0.51%) Serverless
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.17%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.40%) TCP/IP
2 28 (4.72%) Internet
3 23 (3.88%) Wireless
4 16 (2.70%) Broadband
5 14 (2.36%) Firewall
6 11 (1.85%) 5G
6 11 (1.85%) Network Security
7 9 (1.52%) VPN
8 8 (1.35%) VoIP
9 7 (1.18%) 4G
9 7 (1.18%) LAN
9 7 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.01%) DNS
10 6 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (1.01%) SAN
10 6 (1.01%) WAN
11 5 (0.84%) MPLS
11 5 (0.84%) VLAN
12 4 (0.67%) BGP
12 4 (0.67%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.70%) MySQL
2 13 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.02%) Big Data
4 11 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.18%) Redis
6 6 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.34%) OLAP
10 2 (0.34%) OLTP
11 1 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.17%) Power BI
11 1 (0.17%) Power Query
11 1 (0.17%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 29 (4.89%) Git
2 14 (2.36%) JIRA
3 10 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.18%) gulp
4 7 (1.18%) LabVIEW
4 7 (1.18%) webpack
5 5 (0.84%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.67%) GitLab
6 4 (0.67%) Subversion
6 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.51%) Moq
7 3 (0.51%) NUnit
8 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.34%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.17%) JMeter
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 147 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (11.80%) Electronics
4 52 (8.77%) Finance
5 38 (6.41%) Retail
6 36 (6.07%) Manufacturing
7 29 (4.89%) Games
8 26 (4.38%) Automotive
9 24 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 19 (3.20%) Marketing
11 19 (3.20%) Telecoms
12 18 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.69%) Advertising
14 10 (1.69%) Banking
14 10 (1.69%) Military
14 10 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.69%) Retail Banking
15 9 (1.52%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.08%) .NET
2 28 (4.72%) React
3 27 (4.55%) HTML
4 24 (4.05%) CSS
5 19 (3.20%) Laravel
6 18 (3.04%) Node.js
7 13 (2.19%) jQuery
7 13 (2.19%) Symfony
8 12 (2.02%) .NET Core
8 12 (2.02%) GraphQL
8 12 (2.02%) Web Services
9 11 (1.85%) REST
10 10 (1.69%) HTML5
10 10 (1.69%) LAMP
11 9 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.52%) JSON
11 9 (1.52%) XML
12 8 (1.35%) Vue
13 7 (1.18%) Kafka
13 7 (1.18%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.46%) IoT
2 23 (3.88%) Algorithms
3 19 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.04%) Client/Server
5 17 (2.87%) Driving Licence
6 16 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.85%) EPoS
7 11 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.69%) Analogue Electronics
9 9 (1.52%) Robotics
10 8 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.01%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) FMCG
12 5 (0.84%) iPad
12 5 (0.84%) NHS
13 4 (0.67%) Device Driver
13 4 (0.67%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.67%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.62%) Linux
2 49 (8.26%) Windows
3 20 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.36%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.84%) Windows 2000
8 5 (0.84%) Windows NT
8 5 (0.84%) Windows XP
9 4 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.51%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (17.54%) Software Engineering
2 95 (16.02%) Agile
3 65 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (8.77%) Mentoring
5 48 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 46 (7.76%) CAD
7 40 (6.75%) Project Management
8 33 (5.56%) Software Testing
9 32 (5.40%) Project Delivery
10 30 (5.06%) Customer Service
10 30 (5.06%) ITIL
11 28 (4.72%) Scrum
12 27 (4.55%) DevOps
13 26 (4.38%) Computer Science
13 26 (4.38%) E-Commerce
13 26 (4.38%) OOP
13 26 (4.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (4.05%) Roadmaps
15 22 (3.71%) TDD
16 21 (3.54%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 79 (13.32%) Python
2 68 (11.47%) C#
3 49 (8.26%) JavaScript
4 40 (6.75%) SQL
5 38 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.06%) C
7 27 (4.55%) C++
8 21 (3.54%) PHP
9 20 (3.37%) Java
10 16 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 13 (2.19%) Bash
12 11 (1.85%) Embedded C
13 10 (1.69%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.69%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.35%) Go
15 7 (1.18%) R
16 6 (1.01%) VB
17 4 (0.67%) ABAP
17 4 (0.67%) Ada
17 4 (0.67%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 86 (14.50%) Degree
2 21 (3.54%) Master's Degree
3 19 (3.20%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.02%) ACCA
5 12 (2.02%) CIMA
6 10 (1.69%) PhD
7 8 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.84%) HNC
8 5 (0.84%) MBA
8 5 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.67%) APMP
10 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.51%) JNCIE
10 3 (0.51%) JNCIP
10 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.51%) PMP
11 2 (0.34%) CCNP
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.87%) SLA
2 13 (2.19%) GDPR
3 11 (1.85%) QA
4 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.67%) GxP
5 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.34%) COBIT
7 2 (0.34%) GRC
7 2 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 39 (6.58%) Docker
2 20 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.85%) Firmware
5 7 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.51%) KVM
9 2 (0.34%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.17%) Samba
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.04%) Terraform
3 14 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.02%) Ansible
5 5 (0.84%) SCCM
5 5 (0.84%) SCOM
5 5 (0.84%) WSUS
6 4 (0.67%) Puppet
7 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.34%) Argo
8 2 (0.34%) linkerd
8 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.17%) Core Impact
9 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.17%) NetCrunch
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.37%) VMware
3 14 (2.36%) Cisco
4 12 (2.02%) F5
4 12 (2.02%) HP
4 12 (2.02%) SAP
5 11 (1.85%) Dell
5 11 (1.85%) EMC
6 8 (1.35%) Computacenter
6 8 (1.35%) NetApp
7 6 (1.01%) Databricks
7 6 (1.01%) IBM
8 5 (0.84%) Google
8 5 (0.84%) Juniper
9 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.67%) Meraki
9 4 (0.67%) Nokia
9 4 (0.67%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.67%) Virgin Media
10 3 (0.51%) Citrix