Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,981 15,628 29,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.10% 15.67% 18.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.95% 17.13% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10,214 9,499 13,214
10th Percentile £41,575 £47,025 £45,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,908 91,208 153,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,161 57,434 84,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK

Senior
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +2 12,808 £62,783 -10.31% 3,855
UK excluding London +1 9,678 £60,000 -1.32% 2,464
Work from Home +1 6,080 £64,080 -8.46% 2,017
London +2 4,497 £77,500 -6.06% 1,606
North of England +5 2,581 £60,000 - 592
South East -1 2,083 £60,000 -11.11% 579
South West +11 1,562 £57,500 -2.70% 330
North West +8 1,456 £60,000 - 357
Midlands +5 1,385 £57,500 - 402
Scotland -10 1,005 £60,000 -6.61% 210
West Midlands +10 881 £57,965 -3.39% 277
Yorkshire +1 848 £57,965 -3.39% 174
East of England 0 569 £60,000 -7.69% 267
East Midlands +3 495 £52,500 -4.55% 126
Wales +11 373 £50,000 -9.09% 84
North East +16 282 £58,232 +3.07% 68
Northern Ireland +19 122 £55,000 +15.79% 48
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -2 2 £76,250 +111.81% 1

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 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 featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,584 (23.92%) Agile
2 3,251 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 3,122 (20.84%) Finance
4 3,008 (20.08%) Azure
5 2,827 (18.87%) Software Engineering
6 2,656 (17.73%) AWS
7 2,312 (15.43%) Microsoft
8 2,235 (14.92%) SQL
9 2,178 (14.54%) Degree
10 2,152 (14.36%) Python
11 2,108 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
12 2,032 (13.56%) Mentoring
13 1,803 (12.04%) JavaScript
14 1,670 (11.15%) C#
15 1,657 (11.06%) DevOps
16 1,576 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
17 1,537 (10.26%) .NET
18 1,401 (9.35%) Security Cleared
19 1,371 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 1,361 (9.08%) Java
21 1,291 (8.62%) React
22 1,241 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
23 1,141 (7.62%) Linux
24 1,108 (7.40%) Coaching
25 1,107 (7.39%) Windows
26 1,017 (6.79%) SC Cleared
27 997 (6.66%) Decision-Making
28 996 (6.65%) Project Management
29 979 (6.53%) CI/CD
30 953 (6.36%) Analytics

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 241 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 234 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 220 (1.47%) ArcGIS
4 214 (1.43%) GeoServer
5 184 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 171 (1.14%) Apache
7 152 (1.01%) CMS
8 145 (0.97%) Confluence
9 132 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
10 114 (0.76%) SAS
11 105 (0.70%) IIS
12 55 (0.37%) Umbraco
13 50 (0.33%) WordPress
14 41 (0.27%) Headless CMS
14 41 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.27%) Kentico
16 37 (0.25%) Tuxedo
17 30 (0.20%) WebLogic
18 24 (0.16%) nginx
19 21 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 606 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 299 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 170 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 118 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (0.41%) Sketch
6 49 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 49 (0.33%) Simulink
7 41 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 34 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.17%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
12 17 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.080%) OrCAD
14 10 (0.067%) InDesign
14 10 (0.067%) Solid Edge
15 9 (0.060%) InVision
16 7 (0.047%) Adobe XD
16 7 (0.047%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 72 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.38%) Endur
3 41 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.16%) Shopify
6 22 (0.15%) Magento
6 22 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 18 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 17 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 16 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
10 15 (0.10%) NEC Housing
10 15 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
11 14 (0.093%) SAP FI
12 13 (0.087%) SAP SCM
13 12 (0.080%) SAP CO
13 12 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
14 11 (0.073%) Workday HCM
15 10 (0.067%) SAP HR
16 9 (0.060%) Primavera
16 9 (0.060%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 3,008 (20.08%) Azure
2 2,656 (17.73%) AWS
3 715 (4.77%) SaaS
4 641 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
5 614 (4.10%) GCP
6 529 (3.53%) Power Platform
7 447 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
8 343 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 257 (1.72%) Serverless
10 223 (1.49%) GitHub
11 218 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
12 174 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 162 (1.08%) PaaS
14 149 (0.99%) Snowflake
15 137 (0.91%) PowerApps
16 135 (0.90%) IaaS
17 129 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
17 129 (0.86%) OneDrive
18 121 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
18 121 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 574 (3.83%) Firewall
2 397 (2.65%) Broadband
3 338 (2.26%) WAN
4 296 (1.98%) DNS
5 248 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 236 (1.58%) LAN
7 230 (1.54%) Wireless
8 189 (1.26%) Network Security
9 181 (1.21%) DHCP
10 178 (1.19%) VPN
11 163 (1.09%) 5G
12 157 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 145 (0.97%) Internet
14 132 (0.88%) SD-WAN
15 112 (0.75%) MPLS
16 111 (0.74%) VLAN
17 107 (0.71%) SAN
18 93 (0.62%) BGP
19 74 (0.49%) HTTP
20 60 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 694 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 587 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 399 (2.66%) Power BI
4 376 (2.51%) MySQL
5 352 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 342 (2.28%) Tableau
7 328 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
8 250 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 247 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 235 (1.57%) GIS
11 216 (1.44%) QGIS
12 192 (1.28%) Big Data
13 165 (1.10%) MongoDB
14 140 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
15 137 (0.91%) Oracle Database
16 122 (0.81%) Metadata
17 115 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 101 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
19 96 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
20 86 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 911 (6.08%) Git
2 395 (2.64%) JIRA
3 302 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 151 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 134 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 131 (0.87%) GitLab
7 108 (0.72%) Selenium
8 72 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 66 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 56 (0.37%) JUnit
11 55 (0.37%) Postman
12 54 (0.36%) TeamCity
13 50 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 50 (0.33%) Sourcetree
14 44 (0.29%) Subversion
15 40 (0.27%) CircleCI
15 40 (0.27%) Maven
15 40 (0.27%) webpack
16 38 (0.25%) Eclipse
17 35 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3,251 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 3,122 (20.84%) Finance
3 1,576 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1,371 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 839 (5.60%) Marketing
6 723 (4.83%) Law
7 688 (4.59%) Banking
8 651 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 646 (4.31%) Retail
10 490 (3.27%) Legal
11 429 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 428 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 383 (2.56%) Manufacturing
14 270 (1.80%) Games
15 240 (1.60%) Electronics
16 227 (1.52%) Front Office
17 209 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 196 (1.31%) Aerospace
19 185 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
20 173 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,537 (10.26%) .NET
2 1,291 (8.62%) React
3 897 (5.99%) CSS
4 821 (5.48%) HTML
5 630 (4.21%) AngularJS
6 572 (3.82%) .NET Core
7 485 (3.24%) Node.js
8 464 (3.10%) RESTful
9 427 (2.85%) ASP.NET
10 406 (2.71%) REST
11 366 (2.44%) .NET Framework
12 356 (2.38%) Vue
13 326 (2.18%) Spring
14 315 (2.10%) Kafka
15 291 (1.94%) Web Services
16 268 (1.79%) JSON
17 238 (1.59%) XML
18 232 (1.55%) Laravel
19 217 (1.45%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.44%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 379 (2.53%) Product Ownership
2 358 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
3 348 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
4 338 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 322 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 285 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 282 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 278 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 274 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 225 (1.50%) IoT
11 218 (1.46%) Social Media
12 209 (1.40%) Driving Licence
13 182 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 181 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 179 (1.19%) Derivative
16 170 (1.13%) Hedge funds
17 164 (1.09%) Mobile App
18 145 (0.97%) Equities
19 134 (0.89%) Data Structures
20 129 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1,141 (7.62%) Linux
2 1,107 (7.39%) Windows
3 406 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 214 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 148 (0.99%) Unix
6 146 (0.97%) Android
7 132 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
8 128 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 128 (0.85%) Windows 10
9 85 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 71 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 67 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 52 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 49 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 32 (0.21%) VMS
15 23 (0.15%) Windows 7
16 18 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.11%) CentOS
18 11 (0.073%) Windows Server 2003
19 10 (0.067%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,584 (23.92%) Agile
2 2,827 (18.87%) Software Engineering
3 2,108 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
4 2,032 (13.56%) Mentoring
5 1,657 (11.06%) DevOps
6 1,241 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
7 1,108 (7.40%) Coaching
8 997 (6.66%) Decision-Making
9 996 (6.65%) Project Management
10 979 (6.53%) CI/CD
11 953 (6.36%) Analytics
12 938 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence
13 873 (5.83%) Computer Science
13 873 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
14 798 (5.33%) Full Stack Development
15 795 (5.31%) Roadmaps
16 692 (4.62%) Microservices
17 628 (4.19%) SDLC
18 619 (4.13%) Machine Learning
19 584 (3.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,235 (14.92%) SQL
2 2,152 (14.36%) Python
3 1,803 (12.04%) JavaScript
4 1,670 (11.15%) C#
5 1,361 (9.08%) Java
6 891 (5.95%) TypeScript
7 479 (3.20%) C
8 468 (3.12%) C++
9 383 (2.56%) PowerShell
10 376 (2.51%) PHP
11 354 (2.36%) Bash
12 211 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 204 (1.36%) Go
14 172 (1.15%) PL/SQL
15 138 (0.92%) R
16 133 (0.89%) Ruby
17 124 (0.83%) Scala
18 112 (0.75%) Kotlin
19 102 (0.68%) Embedded C
20 97 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,178 (14.54%) Degree
2 1,401 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 1,017 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 351 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 297 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 291 (1.94%) ACCA
7 258 (1.72%) CIMA
8 244 (1.63%) DBS Check
9 231 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 194 (1.29%) DV Cleared
11 159 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 149 (0.99%) CISSP
13 147 (0.98%) CCNP
14 145 (0.97%) PMI Certification
15 134 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 131 (0.87%) AWS Certification
17 119 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
18 107 (0.71%) PhD
19 102 (0.68%) CCNA
20 74 (0.49%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 418 (2.79%) QA
2 248 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 244 (1.63%) SLA
4 243 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 208 (1.39%) GDPR
6 119 (0.79%) NIST
7 116 (0.77%) WCAG
8 109 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 99 (0.66%) IFRS
10 90 (0.60%) PMO
11 68 (0.45%) GMP
11 68 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 56 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 42 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 39 (0.26%) GRC
15 37 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
16 33 (0.22%) ISO 26262
17 28 (0.19%) NCSC
18 26 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
19 23 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 816 (5.45%) Docker
2 742 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 336 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 222 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 182 (1.21%) Firmware
6 75 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
7 62 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 52 (0.35%) vSphere
9 29 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 17 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.11%) KVM
13 15 (0.10%) XenDesktop
14 14 (0.093%) XenApp
15 11 (0.073%) IAG
16 9 (0.060%) NFS
17 8 (0.053%) HDFS
18 6 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
19 5 (0.033%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 898 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 648 (4.33%) Terraform
3 301 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 297 (1.98%) Ansible
5 138 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
6 134 (0.89%) SCCM
7 95 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 93 (0.62%) Puppet
9 73 (0.49%) Grafana
9 73 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
12 39 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 28 (0.19%) CASB
14 27 (0.18%) Stealthwatch
15 26 (0.17%) OpenSSO
16 25 (0.17%) Nagios
17 24 (0.16%) SCOM
18 20 (0.13%) WSUS
19 19 (0.13%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2,312 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 591 (3.94%) Oracle
3 511 (3.41%) VMware
4 433 (2.89%) Cisco
5 405 (2.70%) Google
6 336 (2.24%) Databricks
7 220 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.45%) ESRI
9 210 (1.40%) SAP
10 180 (1.20%) Dell
11 155 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 136 (0.91%) IBM
13 133 (0.89%) Salesforce
14 128 (0.85%) Tanium
15 118 (0.79%) Adobe
16 116 (0.77%) Meraki
17 115 (0.77%) Juniper
17 115 (0.77%) Palo Alto
18 111 (0.74%) Red Hat
19 109 (0.73%) HP