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 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 8 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 10,172 8,054 9,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.75% 13.86% 13.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.48% 15.57% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,852 4,318 5,935
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £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 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
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 28 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 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 of England +5 2,691 £60,000 - 596
South East -1 2,201 £60,000 -11.11% 543
South West +13 1,659 £57,500 -4.17% 343
North West +9 1,516 £60,000 - 378
Midlands +4 1,494 £57,500 - 384
Scotland -10 1,019 £60,000 -1.32% 214
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 - 123
Wales +9 388 £50,000 -9.09% 68
North East +15 297 £57,965 +2.59% 55
Northern Ireland +19 130 £55,000 +15.79% 63
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands - 2 £76,250 -
Senior
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,467 (24.25%) Agile
2 2,139 (21.03%) Software Engineering
3 1,828 (17.97%) Social Skills
4 1,788 (17.58%) Azure
5 1,709 (16.80%) Finance
6 1,513 (14.87%) AWS
7 1,413 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
8 1,412 (13.88%) Microsoft
9 1,378 (13.55%) Degree
10 1,318 (12.96%) Mentoring
11 1,202 (11.82%) SQL
12 1,148 (11.29%) C#
13 1,147 (11.28%) JavaScript
14 1,129 (11.10%) Security Cleared
15 1,120 (11.01%) Python
16 1,107 (10.88%) DevOps
17 1,084 (10.66%) .NET
18 905 (8.90%) Coaching
19 840 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
20 828 (8.14%) React
21 823 (8.09%) SC Cleared
22 819 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
23 818 (8.04%) Linux
24 785 (7.72%) Java
25 774 (7.61%) Windows
26 728 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 695 (6.83%) Project Management
28 629 (6.18%) CSS
29 600 (5.90%) CI/CD
29 600 (5.90%) Decision-Making

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 (1.86%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.81%) GeoServer
3 129 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 122 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 112 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 105 (1.03%) CMS
7 104 (1.02%) Confluence
8 85 (0.84%) SAS
9 82 (0.81%) IIS
10 44 (0.43%) Umbraco
11 41 (0.40%) Headless CMS
12 40 (0.39%) Kentico
13 37 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
13 37 (0.36%) Tuxedo
14 33 (0.32%) WordPress
15 29 (0.29%) WebLogic
16 18 (0.18%) FileNet
17 17 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
17 17 (0.17%) OpenStack
18 16 (0.16%) Apache
Applications
1 349 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 116 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 92 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (0.51%) Sketch
6 49 (0.48%) Simulink
7 32 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 32 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 25 (0.25%) Stateflow
9 22 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 16 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
11 13 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 12 (0.12%) OrCAD
13 11 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
14 10 (0.098%) Solid Edge
15 8 (0.079%) InVision
16 7 (0.069%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
17 6 (0.059%) InDesign
18 4 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
3 24 (0.24%) Magento
4 20 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.20%) Shopify
5 17 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 16 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 14 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.069%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.059%) Oracle Applications
12 5 (0.049%) Primavera
12 5 (0.049%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.049%) Teamcenter
13 4 (0.039%) ResourceLink
13 4 (0.039%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.039%) Sonata
13 4 (0.039%) Unit4 Business World
14 3 (0.029%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,788 (17.58%) Azure
2 1,513 (14.87%) AWS
3 379 (3.73%) SaaS
4 358 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
5 308 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 270 (2.65%) Power Platform
7 265 (2.61%) GCP
8 211 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 131 (1.29%) GitHub
10 119 (1.17%) Serverless
11 115 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 111 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 101 (0.99%) Amazon S3
14 90 (0.88%) PowerApps
15 69 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
15 69 (0.68%) Power Automate
16 67 (0.66%) Figma
16 67 (0.66%) OpenShift
17 66 (0.65%) PaaS
18 65 (0.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 356 (3.50%) Firewall
2 235 (2.31%) WAN
3 221 (2.17%) DNS
4 194 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.89%) Broadband
6 175 (1.72%) Wireless
7 143 (1.41%) LAN
8 135 (1.33%) DHCP
9 128 (1.26%) Network Security
10 106 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
11 98 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 93 (0.91%) VPN
13 82 (0.81%) Internet
14 78 (0.77%) SAN
15 72 (0.71%) VLAN
16 63 (0.62%) 5G
17 59 (0.58%) HTTP
17 59 (0.58%) Kerberos
18 47 (0.46%) Ethernet
18 47 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 393 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 273 (2.68%) MySQL
4 268 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 203 (2.00%) Power BI
6 201 (1.98%) GIS
7 184 (1.81%) QGIS
8 165 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
9 134 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 116 (1.14%) Big Data
11 93 (0.91%) Tableau
12 86 (0.85%) Oracle Database
13 82 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 81 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
15 79 (0.78%) MongoDB
16 77 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
18 65 (0.64%) Metadata
19 53 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
20 52 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 577 (5.67%) Git
2 258 (2.54%) JIRA
3 148 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 122 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 110 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 87 (0.86%) GitLab
7 70 (0.69%) Selenium
8 64 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 46 (0.45%) JUnit
10 40 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 39 (0.38%) Subversion
12 33 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 31 (0.30%) Sourcetree
14 28 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 27 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
16 26 (0.26%) Maven
17 24 (0.24%) webpack
18 22 (0.22%) Postman
19 21 (0.21%) LabVIEW
20 20 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 1,828 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 1,709 (16.80%) Finance
3 840 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 728 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 518 (5.09%) Marketing
6 468 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 458 (4.50%) Law
8 392 (3.85%) Banking
9 358 (3.52%) Manufacturing
10 354 (3.48%) Retail
11 337 (3.31%) Legal
12 258 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 244 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 232 (2.28%) Electronics
15 197 (1.94%) Aerospace
16 172 (1.69%) Games
17 168 (1.65%) Automotive
18 141 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
19 136 (1.34%) Telecoms
20 117 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,084 (10.66%) .NET
2 828 (8.14%) React
3 629 (6.18%) CSS
4 537 (5.28%) HTML
5 455 (4.47%) .NET Core
6 398 (3.91%) AngularJS
7 329 (3.23%) RESTful
8 307 (3.02%) ASP.NET
9 298 (2.93%) .NET Framework
10 291 (2.86%) Node.js
11 245 (2.41%) Vue
12 220 (2.16%) REST
13 194 (1.91%) Laravel
14 191 (1.88%) Web Services
15 185 (1.82%) PostGIS
16 184 (1.81%) Leaflet
16 184 (1.81%) OpenLayers
17 183 (1.80%) Spring
18 158 (1.55%) JSON
19 153 (1.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 265 (2.61%) Management Information System
2 251 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
3 230 (2.26%) Public Cloud
4 227 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 226 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 202 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 175 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 174 (1.71%) Cloud Native
9 166 (1.63%) IoT
10 165 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 132 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 116 (1.14%) Onboarding
13 97 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 97 (0.95%) Mobile App
14 78 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
15 76 (0.75%) Data Structures
15 76 (0.75%) Social Media
16 74 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
17 68 (0.67%) PMI
18 66 (0.65%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 818 (8.04%) Linux
2 774 (7.61%) Windows
3 280 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 134 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
5 113 (1.11%) Unix
6 97 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 88 (0.87%) Android
8 69 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 68 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 58 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 48 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 45 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 42 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 29 (0.29%) Mac OS
15 22 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 16 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 14 (0.14%) CentOS
18 11 (0.11%) VMS
19 10 (0.098%) FreeRTOS
20 9 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,467 (24.25%) Agile
2 2,139 (21.03%) Software Engineering
3 1,413 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 1,318 (12.96%) Mentoring
5 1,107 (10.88%) DevOps
6 905 (8.90%) Coaching
7 819 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
8 695 (6.83%) Project Management
9 600 (5.90%) CI/CD
9 600 (5.90%) Decision-Making
10 593 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence
11 567 (5.57%) Computer Science
12 550 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
13 539 (5.30%) Roadmaps
14 518 (5.09%) Analytics
15 486 (4.78%) SDLC
16 465 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 453 (4.45%) Full Stack Development
18 397 (3.90%) Microservices
19 382 (3.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,202 (11.82%) SQL
2 1,148 (11.29%) C#
3 1,147 (11.28%) JavaScript
4 1,120 (11.01%) Python
5 785 (7.72%) Java
6 470 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 415 (4.08%) C
8 388 (3.81%) C++
9 309 (3.04%) PHP
10 263 (2.59%) PowerShell
11 213 (2.09%) Bash
12 111 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 110 (1.08%) Go
13 110 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 102 (1.00%) Embedded C
15 78 (0.77%) Scala
16 75 (0.74%) MATLAB
17 70 (0.69%) R
18 65 (0.64%) Perl
19 57 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,378 (13.55%) Degree
2 1,129 (11.10%) Security Cleared
3 823 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 223 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 177 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 159 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 159 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 146 (1.44%) ACCA
8 139 (1.37%) CIMA
9 108 (1.06%) CCNP
10 99 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 97 (0.95%) CCNA
12 93 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 91 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 86 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 85 (0.84%) AWS Certification
16 83 (0.82%) PhD
17 59 (0.58%) HND
17 59 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (0.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (2.33%) QA
2 192 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 151 (1.48%) GDPR
4 116 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 115 (1.13%) SLA
6 103 (1.01%) WCAG
7 66 (0.65%) NIST
8 63 (0.62%) GMP
9 60 (0.59%) PMO
10 48 (0.47%) IFRS
10 48 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 39 (0.38%) IFRS 9
12 35 (0.34%) Automotive SPICE
13 33 (0.32%) ISO 26262
14 24 (0.24%) AUTOSAR
15 21 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 21 (0.21%) PCI DSS
16 18 (0.18%) MISRA
17 17 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 517 (5.08%) Docker
2 455 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 263 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 180 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 172 (1.69%) Firmware
6 65 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
7 44 (0.43%) RACF
8 42 (0.41%) vSphere
9 40 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
10 38 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 25 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.098%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
15 7 (0.069%) IAG
15 7 (0.069%) NFS
16 5 (0.049%) XenApp
17 4 (0.039%) KVM
17 4 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 523 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 389 (3.82%) Terraform
3 201 (1.98%) Ansible
4 150 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 78 (0.77%) SCCM
6 62 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.61%) Puppet
7 56 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 42 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 37 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 28 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 27 (0.27%) Grafana
11 27 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
12 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
13 23 (0.23%) SCOM
14 22 (0.22%) CASB
14 22 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.17%) Functional Safety
16 13 (0.13%) WMI
17 12 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,412 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 379 (3.73%) VMware
3 378 (3.72%) Oracle
4 287 (2.82%) Cisco
5 233 (2.29%) Google
6 185 (1.82%) ESRI
7 119 (1.17%) IBM
8 109 (1.07%) SAP
9 96 (0.94%) CyberArk
10 93 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 89 (0.87%) Databricks
12 88 (0.87%) Meraki
12 88 (0.87%) ServiceNow
13 77 (0.76%) Adobe
14 69 (0.68%) HP
14 69 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 67 (0.66%) Dell
16 66 (0.65%) CheckPoint
17 62 (0.61%) Juniper
18 59 (0.58%) Apple