Senior Jobs in the South East

Senior
England > South East

The median Senior salary in the South East is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,354 1,975 2,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.79% 14.74% 13.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.57% 16.43% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,553 1,206 1,873
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,348 12,023 20,382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.71% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,223 7,828 12,399
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Thames Valley +2 1,148 £62,500 -10.71% 210
Berkshire +3 560 £67,500 -3.57% 99
Hampshire -5 441 £60,500 -10.37% 103
Surrey -1 359 £60,000 -7.69% 70
Oxfordshire +1 322 £60,000 -14.29% 61
Buckinghamshire +4 267 £55,000 -10.86% 51
Kent +1 175 £60,000 - 43
East Sussex -1 93 £55,000 -15.38% 28
West Sussex -11 59 £57,500 -8.00% 18
Middlesex +13 50 £61,339 -20.85% 2
Sussex - 28 £58,000 - 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 South East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 534 (22.68%) Agile
2 513 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 451 (19.16%) Degree
4 450 (19.12%) Microsoft
5 406 (17.25%) Software Engineering
6 404 (17.16%) Finance
7 365 (15.51%) Azure
8 363 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
9 307 (13.04%) Security Cleared
10 301 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
11 290 (12.32%) C#
12 268 (11.38%) JavaScript
13 267 (11.34%) .NET
13 267 (11.34%) Mentoring
14 259 (11.00%) Python
15 232 (9.86%) SQL
16 217 (9.22%) Linux
17 214 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
18 213 (9.05%) Decision-Making
19 207 (8.79%) AWS
20 203 (8.62%) React
21 202 (8.58%) DevOps
22 198 (8.41%) SC Cleared
23 187 (7.94%) Computer Science
24 185 (7.86%) Windows
25 177 (7.52%) Microsoft Excel
26 174 (7.39%) Java
27 157 (6.67%) Git
28 153 (6.50%) Docker
29 146 (6.20%) Broadband

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (1.40%) CMS
2 23 (0.98%) Headless CMS
2 23 (0.98%) Kentico
3 22 (0.93%) IIS
3 22 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.89%) WebLogic
5 19 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
6 18 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 18 (0.76%) GeoServer
6 18 (0.76%) Umbraco
7 16 (0.68%) Confluence
8 9 (0.38%) SAS
9 8 (0.34%) nginx
9 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.34%) WordPress
10 6 (0.25%) JBoss
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 177 (7.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 32 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (1.27%) Simulink
5 25 (1.06%) Stateflow
6 14 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
8 11 (0.47%) OrCAD
9 9 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.30%) AutoCAD
10 7 (0.30%) CANalyzer
11 5 (0.21%) Windchill
12 4 (0.17%) InDesign
12 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.17%) Sketch
12 4 (0.17%) Solid Edge
12 4 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.13%) FrameMaker
13 3 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (1.53%) Siebel CRM
2 8 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.13%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.085%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.085%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.042%) Primavera
7 1 (0.042%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 365 (15.51%) Azure
2 207 (8.79%) AWS
3 97 (4.12%) SaaS
4 89 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (2.46%) Entra ID
6 53 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.70%) Power Platform
8 36 (1.53%) OneDrive
9 28 (1.19%) Serverless
10 25 (1.06%) GCP
11 22 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (0.89%) Dropbox
13 20 (0.85%) Google Drive
13 20 (0.85%) IaaS
14 18 (0.76%) Kontent
14 18 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (0.68%) Amazon S3
16 16 (0.68%) Nutanix
17 15 (0.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 146 (6.20%) Broadband
2 102 (4.33%) Firewall
3 47 (2.00%) 5G
3 47 (2.00%) Wireless
4 42 (1.78%) WAN
5 40 (1.70%) VPN
6 32 (1.36%) DNS
7 28 (1.19%) Network Security
8 26 (1.10%) LAN
9 25 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 23 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 21 (0.89%) J1939
12 17 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (0.59%) MPLS
13 14 (0.59%) SAN
14 13 (0.55%) SNMP
14 13 (0.55%) SSH
15 11 (0.47%) DHCP
15 11 (0.47%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 66 (2.80%) MySQL
3 64 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 40 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 36 (1.53%) Oracle BI EE
6 36 (1.53%) Siebel EIM
7 32 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (1.36%) Power BI
8 28 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (0.98%) Tableau
10 21 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (0.85%) GIS
12 18 (0.76%) QGIS
13 14 (0.59%) OLTP
13 14 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.55%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 157 (6.67%) Git
2 63 (2.68%) JIRA
3 43 (1.83%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.74%) Selenium
5 25 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 23 (0.98%) JUnit
7 18 (0.76%) Subversion
8 17 (0.72%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.68%) Eclipse
9 16 (0.68%) NUnit
9 16 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.59%) ClearCase
10 14 (0.59%) CMake
10 14 (0.59%) Plastic SCM
11 10 (0.42%) GitLab
12 9 (0.38%) Maven
13 7 (0.30%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.30%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.30%) PHPUnit
13 7 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 513 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 404 (17.16%) Finance
3 301 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
5 94 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (3.53%) Manufacturing
7 78 (3.31%) Marketing
8 75 (3.19%) Aerospace
9 66 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 64 (2.72%) Electronics
11 56 (2.38%) Automotive
12 50 (2.12%) Military
12 50 (2.12%) Retail
13 43 (1.83%) Legal
14 35 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.98%) Law
16 23 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.98%) Police
17 21 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (11.34%) .NET
2 203 (8.62%) React
3 142 (6.03%) CSS
4 139 (5.90%) HTML
5 96 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 93 (3.95%) ASP.NET
7 77 (3.27%) AngularJS
8 67 (2.85%) RESTful
9 64 (2.72%) .NET Framework
10 61 (2.59%) REST
10 61 (2.59%) Spring
11 56 (2.38%) Web Services
11 56 (2.38%) XML
12 45 (1.91%) SOAP
13 37 (1.57%) Kafka
13 37 (1.57%) Node.js
13 37 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (1.49%) Vue
15 33 (1.40%) HTML5
16 30 (1.27%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 101 (4.29%) Algorithms
2 73 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
3 72 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (2.29%) Data Centre
4 54 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 52 (2.21%) Social Media
6 46 (1.95%) IoT
7 42 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
8 37 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.15%) Product Ownership
9 27 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
10 25 (1.06%) Life Science
10 25 (1.06%) Onboarding
11 23 (0.98%) Biopharmaceutical
11 23 (0.98%) Driving Licence
12 20 (0.85%) iPad
13 19 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (0.81%) PMI
14 17 (0.72%) FPGA
14 17 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 217 (9.22%) Linux
2 185 (7.86%) Windows
3 57 (2.42%) Unix
4 50 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.04%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.70%) Embedded Linux
7 28 (1.19%) Windows 10
8 26 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (0.89%) Windows 7
9 21 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.68%) Android
11 8 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.34%) CentOS
12 6 (0.25%) VMS
13 5 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
13 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Rocky
16 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (22.68%) Agile
2 406 (17.25%) Software Engineering
3 363 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (11.34%) Mentoring
5 214 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
6 213 (9.05%) Decision-Making
7 202 (8.58%) DevOps
8 187 (7.94%) Computer Science
9 142 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
10 141 (5.99%) Project Management
11 140 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 132 (5.61%) Business Case
13 131 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
14 126 (5.35%) CI/CD
15 118 (5.01%) CRM
16 117 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 116 (4.93%) Mathematics
18 109 (4.63%) Budgeting
19 106 (4.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 106 (4.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 290 (12.32%) C#
2 268 (11.38%) JavaScript
3 259 (11.00%) Python
4 232 (9.86%) SQL
5 174 (7.39%) Java
6 138 (5.86%) C
7 133 (5.65%) C++
8 115 (4.89%) TypeScript
9 82 (3.48%) Bash
10 80 (3.40%) PHP
11 55 (2.34%) PowerShell
12 43 (1.83%) Perl
13 41 (1.74%) MATLAB
14 31 (1.32%) Go
15 30 (1.27%) Fortran
16 29 (1.23%) T-SQL
17 28 (1.19%) Embedded C
18 27 (1.15%) PL/SQL
19 23 (0.98%) Shell Script
20 17 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 451 (19.16%) Degree
2 307 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 198 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 102 (4.33%) ACCA
4 102 (4.33%) CIMA
5 81 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 51 (2.17%) PhD
8 38 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (1.44%) HNC
10 31 (1.32%) HND
11 30 (1.27%) CCNP
12 26 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 24 (1.02%) DBS Check
14 22 (0.93%) CCNA
15 21 (0.89%) DV Cleared
16 20 (0.85%) AWS Certification
16 20 (0.85%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (1.83%) QA
2 34 (1.44%) SLA
3 26 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.10%) ISO 26262
4 25 (1.06%) Automotive SPICE
4 25 (1.06%) GDPR
5 20 (0.85%) WCAG
6 17 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
8 14 (0.59%) AUTOSAR
8 14 (0.59%) MISRA
9 11 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.34%) GMP
11 8 (0.34%) NIST
12 7 (0.30%) CDISC
13 5 (0.21%) GRC
14 4 (0.17%) COSHH
14 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 153 (6.50%) Docker
2 128 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.23%) Firmware
5 28 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.47%) vSphere
8 8 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 127 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 66 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (1.83%) Terraform
4 41 (1.74%) Ansible
5 39 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
6 26 (1.10%) SCCM
7 25 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.89%) OpenSSO
9 14 (0.59%) Functional Safety
10 13 (0.55%) WMI
11 12 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.47%) Stealthwatch
13 9 (0.38%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.25%) SmoothWall
15 5 (0.21%) CASB
15 5 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.21%) Puppet
15 5 (0.21%) SELinux
16 3 (0.13%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 450 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.65%) Oracle
3 85 (3.61%) VMware
4 54 (2.29%) Cisco
5 38 (1.61%) CyberArk
5 38 (1.61%) Tanium
6 36 (1.53%) Siebel
7 35 (1.49%) Google
8 32 (1.36%) Adobe
9 31 (1.32%) SAP
10 29 (1.23%) Meraki
11 24 (1.02%) EMC
12 22 (0.93%) Juniper
13 21 (0.89%) Apple
13 21 (0.89%) IBM
13 21 (0.89%) Remedy
14 19 (0.81%) Sitecore
15 18 (0.76%) ESRI
15 18 (0.76%) Optimizely
15 18 (0.76%) Splunk