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 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 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 13,337 13,399 25,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.01% 15.48% 17.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.86% 16.93% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,294 8,211 11,837
10th Percentile £41,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,917 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 28 May 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 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
London +2 4,571 £77,500 -6.06% 1,662
North of England +5 2,691 £60,000 - 596
South East -1 2,201 £60,000 -11.11% 541
South West +13 1,659 £57,500 -4.17% 342
North West +9 1,516 £60,000 - 378
Midlands +4 1,494 £57,500 - 385
West Midlands +7 952 £58,232 -2.95% 262
Yorkshire +1 883 £57,965 -3.39% 166
East of England +1 593 £59,500 -8.46% 289
East Midlands +1 533 £55,000 - 124
North East +15 297 £57,965 +2.59% 55
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,988 (22.40%) Agile
2 2,903 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 2,624 (19.67%) Finance
4 2,526 (18.94%) Azure
5 2,250 (16.87%) AWS
6 2,229 (16.71%) Software Engineering
7 2,142 (16.06%) Microsoft
8 2,003 (15.02%) Degree
9 1,980 (14.85%) SQL
10 1,940 (14.55%) Python
11 1,849 (13.86%) Mentoring
12 1,707 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
13 1,583 (11.87%) JavaScript
14 1,446 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
15 1,402 (10.51%) DevOps
16 1,390 (10.42%) C#
17 1,301 (9.75%) .NET
18 1,127 (8.45%) Security Cleared
19 1,065 (7.99%) Java
20 1,064 (7.98%) React
21 1,010 (7.57%) Coaching
22 1,003 (7.52%) Linux
23 980 (7.35%) Windows
24 963 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
25 895 (6.71%) Project Management
26 874 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 870 (6.52%) Analytics
28 849 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
29 832 (6.24%) TypeScript
30 830 (6.22%) 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
1 212 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (1.30%) Apache
3 164 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 149 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 143 (1.07%) CMS
6 132 (0.99%) ArcGIS
7 126 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 126 (0.94%) GeoServer
8 117 (0.88%) Confluence
9 102 (0.76%) SAS
10 92 (0.69%) IIS
11 52 (0.39%) Umbraco
12 50 (0.37%) WordPress
13 42 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
14 41 (0.31%) Headless CMS
15 40 (0.30%) Kentico
16 37 (0.28%) Tuxedo
17 24 (0.18%) nginx
17 24 (0.18%) WebLogic
18 18 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 553 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 263 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 159 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 102 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (0.37%) Simulink
6 47 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (0.28%) Sketch
8 36 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 30 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 25 (0.19%) Stateflow
11 24 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
12 18 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 16 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
14 12 (0.090%) OrCAD
15 11 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
16 10 (0.075%) InDesign
16 10 (0.075%) Solid Edge
17 7 (0.052%) CANalyzer
18 6 (0.045%) 3ds Max
19 5 (0.037%) Revit
Business Applications
1 68 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.39%) Endur
3 35 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 34 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
5 26 (0.19%) Magento
6 24 (0.18%) Shopify
7 20 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 17 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 17 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
9 15 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 13 (0.097%) SAP SCM
11 11 (0.082%) Workday HCM
12 10 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
12 10 (0.075%) SAP HR
13 9 (0.067%) NEC Housing
13 9 (0.067%) SAP FI
14 8 (0.060%) Primavera
15 7 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
15 7 (0.052%) SAP CO
15 7 (0.052%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,526 (18.94%) Azure
2 2,250 (16.87%) AWS
3 627 (4.70%) SaaS
4 554 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
5 503 (3.77%) GCP
6 478 (3.58%) Power Platform
7 405 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
8 357 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 213 (1.60%) Serverless
10 198 (1.48%) GitHub
11 189 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 162 (1.21%) Snowflake
13 149 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 127 (0.95%) PaaS
15 123 (0.92%) dbt
16 122 (0.91%) OneDrive
17 113 (0.85%) IaaS
18 110 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
19 106 (0.79%) PowerApps
20 97 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 500 (3.75%) Firewall
2 386 (2.89%) Broadband
3 315 (2.36%) WAN
4 246 (1.84%) DNS
5 216 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 205 (1.54%) LAN
7 186 (1.39%) Wireless
8 175 (1.31%) Network Security
9 164 (1.23%) DHCP
10 159 (1.19%) 5G
11 153 (1.15%) VPN
12 141 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 128 (0.96%) Internet
14 124 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
15 99 (0.74%) MPLS
16 92 (0.69%) VLAN
17 85 (0.64%) SAN
18 78 (0.58%) BGP
19 75 (0.56%) HTTP
20 56 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 642 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 449 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
3 370 (2.77%) Power BI
4 358 (2.68%) MySQL
5 330 (2.47%) Tableau
6 270 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
7 261 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 230 (1.72%) Data Lake
9 217 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 157 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 137 (1.03%) GIS
12 128 (0.96%) QGIS
13 119 (0.89%) Big Data
14 111 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 102 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 98 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
17 97 (0.73%) Apache Ignite
17 97 (0.73%) Oracle Database
18 95 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
19 87 (0.65%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 798 (5.98%) Git
2 325 (2.44%) JIRA
3 208 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 135 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 126 (0.94%) GitLab
6 99 (0.74%) Selenium
7 90 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 58 (0.43%) TeamCity
9 57 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 52 (0.39%) Sourcetree
11 44 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 42 (0.31%) Postman
13 41 (0.31%) Subversion
14 38 (0.28%) NUnit
15 37 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 37 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
16 36 (0.27%) Eclipse
16 36 (0.27%) JUnit
17 35 (0.26%) Maven
18 32 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,903 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 2,624 (19.67%) Finance
3 1,446 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 874 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 653 (4.90%) Banking
6 631 (4.73%) Retail
7 553 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 540 (4.05%) Marketing
9 498 (3.73%) Legal
10 418 (3.13%) Law
11 385 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
12 352 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
13 337 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 250 (1.87%) Front Office
15 238 (1.78%) Games
16 216 (1.62%) Electronics
17 201 (1.51%) Aerospace
18 178 (1.33%) Automotive
19 169 (1.27%) Telecoms
20 164 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,301 (9.75%) .NET
2 1,064 (7.98%) React
3 734 (5.50%) CSS
4 701 (5.26%) HTML
5 520 (3.90%) AngularJS
6 451 (3.38%) .NET Core
7 400 (3.00%) ASP.NET
8 388 (2.91%) Node.js
9 359 (2.69%) RESTful
10 341 (2.56%) REST
11 321 (2.41%) Vue
12 312 (2.34%) .NET Framework
13 248 (1.86%) Kafka
14 229 (1.72%) Spring
15 204 (1.53%) Laravel
16 197 (1.48%) Web Services
17 186 (1.39%) Pandas
18 160 (1.20%) Entity Framework
18 160 (1.20%) XML
19 156 (1.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 328 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
2 324 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 303 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 289 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 286 (2.14%) Algorithms
6 243 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 242 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 219 (1.64%) IoT
9 205 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 203 (1.52%) Derivative
11 197 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 194 (1.45%) Social Media
13 192 (1.44%) Hedge funds
14 170 (1.27%) Driving Licence
15 165 (1.24%) Equities
16 149 (1.12%) Cloud Native
16 149 (1.12%) Fixed Income
17 144 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 138 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
19 126 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,003 (7.52%) Linux
2 980 (7.35%) Windows
3 336 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 193 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 132 (0.99%) Unix
6 117 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
7 113 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 109 (0.82%) Android
9 102 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 80 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
11 62 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
12 59 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 52 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 37 (0.28%) VMS
15 32 (0.24%) Mac OS
16 23 (0.17%) Windows 7
17 18 (0.13%) CentOS
18 17 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.075%) Windows Server 2003
20 8 (0.060%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,988 (22.40%) Agile
2 2,229 (16.71%) Software Engineering
3 1,849 (13.86%) Mentoring
4 1,707 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
5 1,402 (10.51%) DevOps
6 1,010 (7.57%) Coaching
7 963 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
8 895 (6.71%) Project Management
9 870 (6.52%) Analytics
10 849 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
11 830 (6.22%) Decision-Making
12 813 (6.10%) CI/CD
13 714 (5.35%) Computer Science
14 708 (5.31%) Full Stack Development
15 698 (5.23%) Artificial Intelligence
16 685 (5.14%) Roadmaps
17 548 (4.11%) Microservices
18 536 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 505 (3.79%) Project Delivery
20 503 (3.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,980 (14.85%) SQL
2 1,940 (14.55%) Python
3 1,583 (11.87%) JavaScript
4 1,390 (10.42%) C#
5 1,065 (7.99%) Java
6 832 (6.24%) TypeScript
7 401 (3.01%) PowerShell
8 378 (2.83%) C++
9 367 (2.75%) C
10 346 (2.59%) PHP
11 344 (2.58%) Bash
12 197 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 124 (0.93%) Go
14 122 (0.91%) R
15 120 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 108 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 92 (0.69%) Rust
18 84 (0.63%) Perl
19 82 (0.61%) MATLAB
20 79 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,003 (15.02%) Degree
2 1,127 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 738 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 314 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 286 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 271 (2.03%) ACCA
7 246 (1.84%) DBS Check
8 238 (1.78%) CIMA
9 220 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 193 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 135 (1.01%) CCNP
11 135 (1.01%) CISSP
12 131 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 129 (0.97%) PMI Certification
14 110 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 104 (0.78%) PhD
16 103 (0.77%) AWS Certification
17 94 (0.70%) CCNA
18 90 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
19 59 (0.44%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (2.62%) QA
2 234 (1.75%) SLA
3 220 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 185 (1.39%) GDPR
5 175 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 108 (0.81%) NIST
7 93 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 93 (0.70%) WCAG
8 79 (0.59%) PMO
9 77 (0.58%) IFRS
10 58 (0.43%) GMP
11 55 (0.41%) IFRS 9
12 41 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 39 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 35 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
15 34 (0.25%) GRC
16 33 (0.25%) ISO 26262
17 26 (0.19%) NCSC
18 24 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
18 24 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 734 (5.50%) Docker
2 677 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 298 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 193 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 132 (0.99%) Firmware
6 55 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
7 51 (0.38%) vSphere
8 50 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 45 (0.34%) RACF
10 24 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 21 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 17 (0.13%) KVM
12 17 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 14 (0.10%) XenApp
14 11 (0.082%) XenDesktop
15 9 (0.067%) NFS
16 7 (0.052%) HDFS
16 7 (0.052%) IAG
17 6 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 790 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 580 (4.35%) Terraform
3 273 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 272 (2.04%) Ansible
5 138 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
6 114 (0.85%) SCCM
7 94 (0.70%) Puppet
8 90 (0.67%) Prometheus
9 64 (0.48%) Grafana
9 64 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 49 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 46 (0.34%) vCenter Server
12 37 (0.28%) FortiGate
13 31 (0.23%) Stealthwatch
14 29 (0.22%) CASB
15 22 (0.16%) OpenSSO
16 21 (0.16%) SCOM
17 20 (0.15%) Nagios
18 19 (0.14%) Nmap
19 18 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2,142 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 455 (3.41%) VMware
3 427 (3.20%) Oracle
4 389 (2.92%) Cisco
5 347 (2.60%) Google
6 316 (2.37%) Databricks
7 221 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 200 (1.50%) CyberArk
9 183 (1.37%) SAP
10 167 (1.25%) Dell
11 129 (0.97%) ESRI
12 128 (0.96%) Tanium
13 126 (0.94%) IBM
14 122 (0.91%) Adobe
14 122 (0.91%) Meraki
15 117 (0.88%) Salesforce
16 115 (0.86%) Red Hat
17 105 (0.79%) Juniper
18 102 (0.76%) Palo Alto
19 94 (0.70%) HP