Senior Jobs in the East of England

Senior
England > East of England

The median Senior salary in the East of England is £59,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 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 598 608 966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 9.32% 12.17% 14.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.92% 14.55% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 463 298 292
10th Percentile £41,050 £42,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,250 £79,688 £71,563
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 6,030 4,178 6,380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 83.66% 93.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,601 2,129 2,912
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,165
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 29 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 29 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 +3 262 £60,000 -17.24% 130
Hertfordshire -4 123 £60,000 -11.11% 77
Essex +4 79 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Norfolk -9 70 £50,000 -9.09% 21
Suffolk -11 33 £32,750 -40.45% 16
Bedfordshire +7 28 £50,000 -13.04% 15
East Anglia - 1 £89,500 - 40
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 148 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 106 (17.73%) Software Engineering
3 97 (16.22%) Agile
4 86 (14.38%) Degree
5 84 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (13.21%) Python
7 78 (13.04%) Microsoft
8 70 (11.71%) Electronics
9 69 (11.54%) C#
10 66 (11.04%) AWS
10 66 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (10.54%) Linux
12 62 (10.37%) IoT
13 53 (8.86%) Finance
14 52 (8.70%) Mentoring
15 50 (8.36%) Windows
16 49 (8.19%) JavaScript
17 48 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 46 (7.69%) Azure
18 46 (7.69%) CAD
19 43 (7.19%) .NET
20 40 (6.69%) SQL
20 40 (6.69%) Project Management
21 39 (6.52%) Retail
21 39 (6.52%) Docker
22 38 (6.35%) TypeScript
22 38 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
23 36 (6.02%) Manufacturing
24 33 (5.52%) Software Testing
25 32 (5.35%) ITIL

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 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.34%) AutoCAD
6 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.67%) 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 (11.04%) AWS
2 46 (7.69%) Azure
3 38 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (5.18%) SaaS
5 12 (2.01%) OneDrive
6 11 (1.84%) GitHub
7 9 (1.51%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.17%) AWS IoT
9 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (0.84%) Dropbox
9 5 (0.84%) Google Drive
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.50%) IaaS
10 3 (0.50%) PaaS
10 3 (0.50%) Serverless
11 2 (0.33%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.35%) TCP/IP
2 28 (4.68%) Internet
3 23 (3.85%) Wireless
4 16 (2.68%) Broadband
5 14 (2.34%) Firewall
6 11 (1.84%) 5G
6 11 (1.84%) Network Security
7 9 (1.51%) VPN
8 8 (1.34%) VoIP
9 7 (1.17%) 4G
9 7 (1.17%) LAN
9 7 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.00%) DNS
10 6 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (1.00%) SAN
10 6 (1.00%) WAN
11 5 (0.84%) MPLS
11 5 (0.84%) PPP
11 5 (0.84%) VLAN
12 4 (0.67%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.68%) MySQL
2 13 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.01%) Big Data
4 11 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.17%) Redis
6 6 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.33%) OLAP
10 2 (0.33%) 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 (4.85%) Git
2 15 (2.51%) JIRA
3 10 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.17%) gulp
4 7 (1.17%) LabVIEW
4 7 (1.17%) 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 (0.50%) Moq
7 3 (0.50%) NUnit
8 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.17%) JMeter
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 148 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (11.71%) Electronics
4 53 (8.86%) Finance
5 39 (6.52%) Retail
6 36 (6.02%) Manufacturing
7 29 (4.85%) Games
8 26 (4.35%) Automotive
9 24 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (3.34%) Marketing
10 20 (3.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 19 (3.18%) Telecoms
12 18 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.67%) Advertising
15 10 (1.67%) Banking
15 10 (1.67%) Military
15 10 (1.67%) Retail Banking
16 9 (1.51%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.19%) .NET
2 28 (4.68%) React
3 27 (4.52%) HTML
4 24 (4.01%) CSS
5 19 (3.18%) Laravel
6 18 (3.01%) Node.js
7 13 (2.17%) .NET Core
7 13 (2.17%) jQuery
7 13 (2.17%) Symfony
8 12 (2.01%) GraphQL
8 12 (2.01%) Web Services
9 11 (1.84%) REST
10 10 (1.67%) HTML5
10 10 (1.67%) LAMP
11 9 (1.51%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.51%) JSON
11 9 (1.51%) XML
12 8 (1.34%) Vue
13 7 (1.17%) Kafka
13 7 (1.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.37%) IoT
2 23 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 20 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.01%) Client/Server
4 18 (3.01%) Driving Licence
5 16 (2.68%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.01%) EPoS
7 11 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.67%) Analogue Electronics
9 9 (1.51%) Robotics
10 8 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) FMCG
12 5 (0.84%) GNSS
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%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.54%) Linux
2 50 (8.36%) Windows
3 20 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.34%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.00%) 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 (0.50%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (17.73%) Software Engineering
2 97 (16.22%) Agile
3 66 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (8.70%) Mentoring
5 48 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 46 (7.69%) CAD
7 40 (6.69%) Project Management
8 33 (5.52%) Software Testing
9 32 (5.35%) Customer Service
9 32 (5.35%) ITIL
9 32 (5.35%) Project Delivery
10 30 (5.02%) Scrum
11 27 (4.52%) DevOps
12 26 (4.35%) Computer Science
12 26 (4.35%) E-Commerce
12 26 (4.35%) OOP
12 26 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (4.01%) Roadmaps
14 22 (3.68%) TDD
15 21 (3.51%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 79 (13.21%) Python
2 69 (11.54%) C#
3 49 (8.19%) JavaScript
4 40 (6.69%) SQL
5 38 (6.35%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.02%) C
7 27 (4.52%) C++
8 21 (3.51%) PHP
9 20 (3.34%) Java
10 16 (2.68%) PowerShell
11 13 (2.17%) Bash
12 11 (1.84%) Embedded C
12 11 (1.84%) MATLAB
13 10 (1.67%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.34%) Go
15 7 (1.17%) R
16 6 (1.00%) VB
17 4 (0.67%) ABAP
17 4 (0.67%) Groovy
17 4 (0.67%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 86 (14.38%) Degree
2 21 (3.51%) Master's Degree
3 19 (3.18%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.01%) ACCA
5 12 (2.01%) CIMA
6 10 (1.67%) PhD
7 8 (1.34%) 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 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.50%) JNCIE
10 3 (0.50%) JNCIP
10 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.50%) PMP
11 2 (0.33%) CISM
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.01%) SLA
2 13 (2.17%) GDPR
3 11 (1.84%) QA
4 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.67%) GxP
5 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.33%) COBIT
7 2 (0.33%) GRC
7 2 (0.33%) 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 (6.52%) Docker
2 20 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.01%) Firmware
5 7 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.50%) KVM
9 2 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.17%) Samba
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.01%) Terraform
3 14 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.01%) Ansible
5 5 (0.84%) SCCM
5 5 (0.84%) SCOM
5 5 (0.84%) WSUS
6 4 (0.67%) Puppet
7 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.33%) Argo
8 2 (0.33%) linkerd
8 2 (0.33%) 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 78 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.34%) VMware
3 14 (2.34%) Cisco
4 13 (2.17%) HP
5 12 (2.01%) Dell
5 12 (2.01%) F5
5 12 (2.01%) SAP
6 11 (1.84%) EMC
7 9 (1.51%) NetApp
8 8 (1.34%) Computacenter
9 7 (1.17%) IBM
10 6 (1.00%) Databricks
11 5 (0.84%) Google
11 5 (0.84%) Juniper
12 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.67%) Meraki
12 4 (0.67%) Nokia
12 4 (0.67%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.67%) Virgin Media
13 3 (0.50%) Fortinet