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 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 6 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,709 2,474 2,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.76% 14.97% 12.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.51% 16.74% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,894 1,129 1,444
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,759 £40,532
25th Percentile £49,236 £51,250 £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 17,461 14,781 17,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.11% 89.45% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,435 8,002 10,926
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 £80,450 £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 29 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 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
North West +8 1,527 £60,000 - 377
Yorkshire +1 888 £57,965 -3.39% 170
North East +16 299 £57,965 +2.59% 68
Senior
England

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

1 716 (26.43%) Agile
2 580 (21.41%) Mentoring
3 519 (19.16%) AWS
4 509 (18.79%) Coaching
5 485 (17.90%) Azure
6 477 (17.61%) Software Engineering
7 427 (15.76%) Social Skills
8 395 (14.58%) Finance
9 343 (12.66%) SQL
10 318 (11.74%) DevOps
11 301 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 289 (10.67%) Degree
13 285 (10.52%) Microsoft
14 275 (10.15%) Public Sector
15 268 (9.89%) JavaScript
16 259 (9.56%) .NET
17 236 (8.71%) Python
18 227 (8.38%) C#
19 194 (7.16%) Roadmaps
20 186 (6.87%) Project Management
21 183 (6.76%) Terraform
22 181 (6.68%) React
23 173 (6.39%) Linux
24 172 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
25 163 (6.02%) Analytics
26 162 (5.98%) Security Cleared
26 162 (5.98%) Java
27 155 (5.72%) Banking
27 155 (5.72%) CI/CD
28 153 (5.65%) 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 (2.18%) ArcGIS
2 55 (2.03%) GeoServer
3 42 (1.55%) SAS
4 39 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 31 (1.14%) Tuxedo
7 28 (1.03%) 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 43 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.44%) 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 (0.18%) Solid Edge
7 5 (0.18%) 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 (0.70%) Shopify
2 17 (0.63%) Magento
3 15 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.18%) 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 IBP
8 1 (0.037%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.037%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.037%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.037%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 519 (19.16%) AWS
2 485 (17.90%) Azure
3 95 (3.51%) SaaS
4 92 (3.40%) Power Platform
5 88 (3.25%) GCP
6 74 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
7 65 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 56 (2.07%) GitHub
10 50 (1.85%) Amazon S3
11 45 (1.66%) Serverless
12 43 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
14 37 (1.37%) IBM Cloud
14 37 (1.37%) OCI
15 36 (1.33%) Amazon ECR
15 36 (1.33%) Route 53
16 34 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (1.11%) OneDrive
18 25 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.81%) Firewall
2 47 (1.73%) DNS
3 46 (1.70%) WAN
4 42 (1.55%) Network Security
5 30 (1.11%) LAN
6 27 (1.00%) DHCP
7 23 (0.85%) Internet
7 23 (0.85%) PPP
7 23 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 23 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (0.63%) Wireless
10 15 (0.55%) Broadband
11 13 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (0.44%) VoIP
12 12 (0.44%) VPN
13 11 (0.41%) HTTP
13 11 (0.41%) SAN
13 11 (0.41%) VLAN
14 10 (0.37%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (4.80%) MySQL
2 125 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 80 (2.95%) NoSQL
5 63 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (2.25%) Power BI
7 56 (2.07%) GIS
8 55 (2.03%) QGIS
9 47 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
10 39 (1.44%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (1.03%) 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 (0.70%) Redis
17 18 (0.66%) Big Data
18 14 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
18 14 (0.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 115 (4.25%) Git
2 43 (1.59%) GitLab
3 39 (1.44%) JIRA
4 31 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 20 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 17 (0.63%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.48%) PHPUnit
9 12 (0.44%) Appium
10 9 (0.33%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
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 (0.18%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.18%) JetBrains Rider
14 5 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 427 (15.76%) Social Skills
2 395 (14.58%) Finance
3 275 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 172 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (5.72%) Banking
6 143 (5.28%) Legal
7 116 (4.28%) Retail
8 92 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 76 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 56 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.73%) Law
11 47 (1.73%) Marketing
12 36 (1.33%) Games
12 36 (1.33%) Publishing
13 32 (1.18%) Health Technology
14 30 (1.11%) Electronics
15 29 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
16 26 (0.96%) Automotive
17 24 (0.89%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (9.56%) .NET
2 181 (6.68%) React
3 140 (5.17%) CSS
4 116 (4.28%) Node.js
5 111 (4.10%) RESTful
6 102 (3.77%) HTML
7 100 (3.69%) .NET Core
8 80 (2.95%) Vue
9 78 (2.88%) AngularJS
10 74 (2.73%) Laravel
11 56 (2.07%) ASP.NET
12 55 (2.03%) Leaflet
12 55 (2.03%) OpenLayers
12 55 (2.03%) PostGIS
13 47 (1.73%) REST
14 46 (1.70%) .NET Framework
15 37 (1.37%) Kafka
15 37 (1.37%) Spring
16 35 (1.29%) JSON
17 33 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 129 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 85 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 75 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 59 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
6 55 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 49 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.73%) Blockchain
9 44 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.37%) e-Learning
12 29 (1.07%) Credit Risk
13 28 (1.03%) PMI
14 27 (1.00%) IoT
15 25 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 25 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (0.92%) Mobile App
16 24 (0.89%) NHS
16 24 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
17 22 (0.81%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 173 (6.39%) Linux
2 148 (5.46%) Windows
3 46 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.78%) Android
5 19 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 18 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.66%) Unix
7 14 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.22%) VME
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.18%) 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%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (26.43%) Agile
2 580 (21.41%) Mentoring
3 509 (18.79%) Coaching
4 477 (17.61%) Software Engineering
5 318 (11.74%) DevOps
6 301 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 194 (7.16%) Roadmaps
8 186 (6.87%) Project Management
9 163 (6.02%) Analytics
10 155 (5.72%) CI/CD
11 153 (5.65%) Actionable Insight
12 128 (4.72%) Cybersecurity
13 125 (4.61%) Design Patterns
14 124 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 123 (4.54%) Microservices
16 121 (4.47%) Full Stack Development
16 121 (4.47%) TDD
17 119 (4.39%) ITIL
18 114 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence
19 112 (4.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 343 (12.66%) SQL
2 268 (9.89%) JavaScript
3 236 (8.71%) Python
4 227 (8.38%) C#
5 162 (5.98%) Java
6 127 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 114 (4.21%) PHP
8 58 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.59%) C
10 42 (1.55%) COBOL
10 42 (1.55%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 37 (1.37%) C++
12 35 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.55%) R
15 15 (0.55%) Scala
16 14 (0.52%) Go
17 11 (0.41%) Ruby
18 10 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 289 (10.67%) Degree
2 162 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 149 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 62 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (1.40%) PMI Certification
7 30 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.11%) CCNP
8 29 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 26 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 25 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.70%) CCNA
12 18 (0.66%) APMP
12 18 (0.66%) 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 11 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.32%) Accessibility
2 66 (2.44%) QA
3 59 (2.18%) GDPR
4 52 (1.92%) WCAG
5 47 (1.73%) 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 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.59%) PMO
11 11 (0.41%) NCSC
12 8 (0.30%) ISO 9000
13 5 (0.18%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.15%) GRC
15 3 (0.11%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.074%) GLP
System Software
1 112 (4.13%) Docker
2 102 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.66%) Firmware
4 24 (0.89%) RACF
5 22 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
5 22 (0.81%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.30%) vSphere
9 7 (0.26%) IAG
10 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.074%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.037%) KVM
12 1 (0.037%) Lustre
12 1 (0.037%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.037%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.037%) XenApp
12 1 (0.037%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 183 (6.76%) Terraform
2 132 (4.87%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.85%) Ansible
4 41 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.33%) Stealthwatch
10 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.18%) CASB
11 5 (0.18%) Grafana
11 5 (0.18%) Puppet
11 5 (0.18%) WSUS
12 4 (0.15%) Cacti
12 4 (0.15%) SCCM
13 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.11%) Kibana
14 2 (0.074%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.074%) logstash
Vendors
1 285 (10.52%) Microsoft
2 103 (3.80%) Oracle
3 81 (2.99%) Google
4 64 (2.36%) Cisco
5 55 (2.03%) ESRI
5 55 (2.03%) IBM
6 50 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 42 (1.55%) Micro Focus
7 42 (1.55%) VMware
8 39 (1.44%) Red Hat
9 36 (1.33%) CyberArk
9 36 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 26 (0.96%) SAP
11 25 (0.92%) Juniper
12 23 (0.85%) CA
12 23 (0.85%) Fortinet
12 23 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 21 (0.78%) Adobe
13 21 (0.78%) Databricks
13 21 (0.78%) Informatica