Senior Jobs in Cardiff

Senior
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior salary in Cardiff is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 124 95 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 18.87% 16.64% 12.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.20% 18.30% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 103 57 91
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,500 £36,115
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,049 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
South Wales median annual salary £51,528 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.31% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 614 519 825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 90.89% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 534 394 619
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,900 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,838 £40,000 £39,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,205 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -4.37% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,575 £67,393 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,552 £45,496 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.32% -7.15% +8.89%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cardiff over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Cardiff

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Cardiff region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 47 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.81%) Finance
3 30 (24.19%) Agile
3 30 (24.19%) Mentoring
4 28 (22.58%) AWS
5 24 (19.35%) SQL
5 24 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (19.35%) Full Stack Development
6 20 (16.13%) Roadmaps
7 19 (15.32%) Azure
8 17 (13.71%) PHP
9 16 (12.90%) Oracle
10 15 (12.10%) Java
10 15 (12.10%) Linux
10 15 (12.10%) CI/CD
11 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
11 14 (11.29%) Software Engineering
11 14 (11.29%) Ansible
12 13 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (10.48%) GCP
12 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
12 13 (10.48%) Laravel
12 13 (10.48%) Degree
12 13 (10.48%) PL/SQL
13 12 (9.68%) Git
13 12 (9.68%) Coaching
13 12 (9.68%) Clean Code
13 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (8.87%) Docker
14 11 (8.87%) Data Centre

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 6 (4.84%) SAS
2 5 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.23%) Apache
4 3 (2.42%) CMS
4 3 (2.42%) WordPress
5 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.81%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.58%) AWS
2 19 (15.32%) Azure
3 13 (10.48%) GCP
4 7 (5.65%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (5.65%) Slack
5 6 (4.84%) npm
6 4 (3.23%) SaaS
7 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.42%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.61%) GitHub
9 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.81%) Heroku
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) DNS
2 7 (5.65%) SAN
3 2 (1.61%) BGP
3 2 (1.61%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.61%) Firewall
3 2 (1.61%) IPsec
3 2 (1.61%) LAN
3 2 (1.61%) MPLS
3 2 (1.61%) Network Security
3 2 (1.61%) VPN
3 2 (1.61%) WAN
3 2 (1.61%) Wireless
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.65%) GIS
1 7 (5.65%) Oracle Database
1 7 (5.65%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.42%) MySQL
2 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.61%) Big Data
3 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.61%) Looker
4 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.81%) Metadata
4 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.81%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Git
2 7 (5.65%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) Selenium
4 3 (2.42%) webpack
5 2 (1.61%) Grunt
General
1 47 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.81%) Finance
3 13 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Games
5 7 (5.65%) Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.03%) Digital Health
7 5 (4.03%) Health Technology
8 4 (3.23%) Advertising
8 4 (3.23%) Marketing
8 4 (3.23%) Retail
9 2 (1.61%) Retail Finance
9 2 (1.61%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.48%) Laravel
2 11 (8.87%) Symfony
3 9 (7.26%) React
3 9 (7.26%) Vue
4 8 (6.45%) XML
5 7 (5.65%) JSON
5 7 (5.65%) RESTful
5 7 (5.65%) Sass
5 7 (5.65%) SOAP
5 7 (5.65%) Web Services
6 6 (4.84%) Apache Camel
6 6 (4.84%) HTML
7 5 (4.03%) Node.js
7 5 (4.03%) SwiftUI
8 4 (3.23%) GatsbyJS
8 4 (3.23%) Redux
8 4 (3.23%) REST
8 4 (3.23%) Spring
9 3 (2.42%) .NET
9 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.87%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.65%) CMDB
4 6 (4.84%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (4.03%) Mobile App
5 5 (4.03%) NHS
5 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.23%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.23%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.81%) Mobile Payment
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.10%) Linux
2 8 (6.45%) Android
3 4 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.19%) Agile
1 30 (24.19%) Mentoring
2 24 (19.35%) Full Stack Development
2 24 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (16.13%) Roadmaps
4 15 (12.10%) CI/CD
5 14 (11.29%) Software Engineering
6 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
7 12 (9.68%) Clean Code
7 12 (9.68%) Coaching
7 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (8.87%) Change Management
8 11 (8.87%) Fintech
9 10 (8.06%) Asset Management
9 10 (8.06%) Economics
9 10 (8.06%) Line Management
10 9 (7.26%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (7.26%) Integration Testing
10 9 (7.26%) Migration
10 9 (7.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.35%) SQL
2 17 (13.71%) PHP
3 15 (12.10%) Java
4 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 13 (10.48%) PL/SQL
6 8 (6.45%) Python
7 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.03%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.03%) Swift
9 4 (3.23%) R
10 3 (2.42%) C#
10 3 (2.42%) Groovy
11 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.81%) C
11 1 (0.81%) C++
11 1 (0.81%) Go
11 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) Degree
2 6 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) CRD IV
1 4 (3.23%) IFRS
1 4 (3.23%) IFRS 9
2 2 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 11 (8.87%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Firmware
2 4 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.61%) Varnish
4 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (11.29%) Ansible
2 10 (8.06%) Terraform
3 3 (2.42%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.61%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 16 (12.90%) Oracle
2 7 (5.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.03%) VMware
4 4 (3.23%) Google
5 3 (2.42%) IBM
6 2 (1.61%) Cisco
6 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks
7 1 (0.81%) ESRI
7 1 (0.81%) WooCommerce