Senior Jobs in the North of England

Senior
England > North of England

The median Senior salary in the North of England is £60,000 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 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,691 2,485 2,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.79% 15.02% 12.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.56% 16.81% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,880 1,130 1,455
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,759 £40,200
25th Percentile £49,236 £51,833 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +6.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 17,298 14,787 17,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.36% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,332 8,028 10,986
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Job Locations in the North 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 North 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
North West +9 1,516 £60,000 - 378
Yorkshire +1 883 £57,965 -3.39% 166
North East +15 297 £57,965 +2.59% 55
Senior
England

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

1 720 (26.76%) Agile
2 580 (21.55%) Mentoring
3 518 (19.25%) AWS
4 509 (18.91%) Coaching
5 488 (18.13%) Azure
6 473 (17.58%) Software Engineering
7 430 (15.98%) Social Skills
8 401 (14.90%) Finance
9 346 (12.86%) SQL
10 322 (11.97%) DevOps
11 302 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
12 286 (10.63%) Degree
13 285 (10.59%) Microsoft
14 272 (10.11%) Public Sector
15 268 (9.96%) JavaScript
16 256 (9.51%) .NET
17 240 (8.92%) Python
18 225 (8.36%) C#
19 195 (7.25%) Roadmaps
20 187 (6.95%) Terraform
21 185 (6.87%) Project Management
22 178 (6.61%) React
23 176 (6.54%) Linux
24 173 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
25 163 (6.06%) Analytics
25 163 (6.06%) Banking
26 162 (6.02%) Java
27 161 (5.98%) Security Cleared
28 154 (5.72%) CI/CD
29 153 (5.69%) Actionable Insight

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 59 (2.19%) ArcGIS
2 55 (2.04%) GeoServer
3 43 (1.60%) SAS
4 39 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 31 (1.15%) Tuxedo
7 28 (1.04%) CMS
8 11 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.41%) Confluence
9 7 (0.26%) WordPress
10 6 (0.22%) Apache
11 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.074%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.074%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.037%) Jetty
14 1 (0.037%) Kentico
14 1 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 44 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.48%) Sketch
5 11 (0.41%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.19%) Solid Edge
7 5 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.15%) Maya
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.074%) Revit
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.037%) Elementor
10 1 (0.037%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (0.71%) Shopify
2 17 (0.63%) Magento
3 15 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.074%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.074%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.074%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.037%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.037%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.037%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.037%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.037%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.037%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.037%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.037%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 518 (19.25%) AWS
2 488 (18.13%) Azure
3 93 (3.46%) GCP
4 91 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 90 (3.34%) SaaS
6 73 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
7 67 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (2.30%) Entra ID
9 57 (2.12%) GitHub
10 50 (1.86%) Amazon S3
11 45 (1.67%) Serverless
12 43 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
13 37 (1.37%) IBM Cloud
13 37 (1.37%) OCI
14 36 (1.34%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (1.34%) Route 53
15 34 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (1.11%) OneDrive
17 24 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.86%) Firewall
2 47 (1.75%) DNS
2 47 (1.75%) WAN
3 42 (1.56%) Network Security
4 31 (1.15%) LAN
5 27 (1.00%) DHCP
6 24 (0.89%) Internet
7 23 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 23 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 22 (0.82%) PPP
9 21 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.59%) Wireless
11 15 (0.56%) Broadband
12 13 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
13 12 (0.45%) VoIP
13 12 (0.45%) VPN
14 11 (0.41%) HTTP
14 11 (0.41%) SAN
14 11 (0.41%) VLAN
15 10 (0.37%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (4.83%) MySQL
2 125 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (3.38%) SQL Server
4 80 (2.97%) NoSQL
5 63 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (2.27%) Power BI
7 56 (2.08%) GIS
8 55 (2.04%) QGIS
9 48 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 39 (1.45%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 27 (1.00%) Oracle Database
13 27 (1.00%) Relational Database
14 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
15 20 (0.74%) Oracle Database 11g
16 19 (0.71%) Redis
17 18 (0.67%) Big Data
18 14 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
18 14 (0.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 116 (4.31%) Git
2 43 (1.60%) GitLab
3 39 (1.45%) JIRA
4 33 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 20 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 17 (0.63%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.48%) PHPUnit
9 12 (0.45%) Appium
10 11 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
11 8 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.30%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.30%) Maven
12 7 (0.26%) Gradle
13 6 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.22%) Gatling
13 6 (0.22%) Selenium
14 5 (0.19%) JetBrains Rider
14 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 430 (15.98%) Social Skills
2 401 (14.90%) Finance
3 272 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 173 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (6.06%) Banking
6 144 (5.35%) Legal
7 116 (4.31%) Retail
8 92 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 75 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 59 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.75%) Law
12 46 (1.71%) Marketing
13 36 (1.34%) Games
13 36 (1.34%) Publishing
14 32 (1.19%) Health Technology
15 30 (1.11%) Electronics
16 29 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.93%) Automotive
18 24 (0.89%) Telecoms
19 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (9.51%) .NET
2 178 (6.61%) React
3 140 (5.20%) CSS
4 113 (4.20%) Node.js
5 111 (4.12%) RESTful
6 102 (3.79%) HTML
7 98 (3.64%) .NET Core
8 80 (2.97%) Vue
9 78 (2.90%) AngularJS
10 74 (2.75%) Laravel
11 56 (2.08%) ASP.NET
12 55 (2.04%) Leaflet
12 55 (2.04%) OpenLayers
12 55 (2.04%) PostGIS
13 47 (1.75%) REST
14 46 (1.71%) .NET Framework
15 37 (1.37%) Kafka
15 37 (1.37%) Spring
16 35 (1.30%) JSON
17 33 (1.23%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 132 (4.91%) Public Cloud
2 83 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 79 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 75 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 59 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 54 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 49 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.75%) Blockchain
9 44 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.37%) e-Learning
12 30 (1.11%) Credit Risk
13 28 (1.04%) PMI
14 27 (1.00%) IoT
15 26 (0.97%) Mobile App
16 25 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 25 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
17 24 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
18 23 (0.85%) NHS
19 22 (0.82%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 176 (6.54%) Linux
2 151 (5.61%) Windows
3 47 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.78%) Android
5 19 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 18 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.67%) Unix
7 14 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.22%) VME
10 6 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.19%) VMS
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.037%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (26.76%) Agile
2 580 (21.55%) Mentoring
3 509 (18.91%) Coaching
4 473 (17.58%) Software Engineering
5 322 (11.97%) DevOps
6 302 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
7 195 (7.25%) Roadmaps
8 185 (6.87%) Project Management
9 163 (6.06%) Analytics
10 154 (5.72%) CI/CD
11 153 (5.69%) Actionable Insight
12 129 (4.79%) Cybersecurity
13 126 (4.68%) Design Patterns
14 123 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 123 (4.57%) ITIL
14 123 (4.57%) Microservices
15 119 (4.42%) Full Stack Development
15 119 (4.42%) TDD
16 115 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence
17 111 (4.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 346 (12.86%) SQL
2 268 (9.96%) JavaScript
3 240 (8.92%) Python
4 225 (8.36%) C#
5 162 (6.02%) Java
6 124 (4.61%) TypeScript
7 114 (4.24%) PHP
8 58 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.60%) C
10 42 (1.56%) COBOL
10 42 (1.56%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 35 (1.30%) C++
11 35 (1.30%) T-SQL
12 26 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 18 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.56%) R
14 15 (0.56%) Scala
15 14 (0.52%) Go
16 11 (0.41%) Groovy
16 11 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 286 (10.63%) Degree
2 161 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 148 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 62 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (1.41%) PMI Certification
7 30 (1.11%) CCNP
8 29 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 26 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.71%) CCNA
12 18 (0.67%) APMP
12 18 (0.67%) JNCIA
13 17 (0.63%) JNCIP
14 14 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 13 (0.48%) CCIE
15 13 (0.48%) CISSP
15 13 (0.48%) HND
16 10 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.34%) Accessibility
2 66 (2.45%) QA
3 59 (2.19%) GDPR
4 52 (1.93%) WCAG
5 47 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 24 (0.89%) GMP
7 23 (0.85%) IFRS
7 23 (0.85%) IFRS 9
8 21 (0.78%) NIST
8 21 (0.78%) SLA
9 18 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.59%) PMO
11 11 (0.41%) NCSC
12 8 (0.30%) ISO 9000
13 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.15%) CRD IV
14 4 (0.15%) GRC
15 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.074%) GLP
System Software
1 113 (4.20%) Docker
2 102 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.71%) Firmware
4 24 (0.89%) RACF
5 22 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
5 22 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.26%) IAG
8 7 (0.26%) vSphere
9 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.037%) KVM
11 1 (0.037%) Lustre
11 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.037%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.037%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 187 (6.95%) Terraform
2 133 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 53 (1.97%) Ansible
4 41 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.33%) Stealthwatch
9 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.19%) CASB
10 5 (0.19%) Grafana
10 5 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.19%) WSUS
11 4 (0.15%) Cacti
11 4 (0.15%) SCCM
12 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.11%) Kibana
13 2 (0.074%) logstash
13 2 (0.074%) SCOM
Vendors
1 285 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 103 (3.83%) Oracle
3 86 (3.20%) Google
4 63 (2.34%) Cisco
5 58 (2.16%) IBM
6 55 (2.04%) ESRI
7 48 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 42 (1.56%) Micro Focus
9 41 (1.52%) VMware
10 39 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 36 (1.34%) CyberArk
11 36 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 26 (0.97%) SAP
13 25 (0.93%) Juniper
14 23 (0.85%) CA
14 23 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 22 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.78%) Databricks
16 21 (0.78%) Informatica
16 21 (0.78%) Splunk