Senior Jobs in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior salary in England is £62,783 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 7 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 12,692 14,359 22,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.97% 15.40% 17.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.84% 16.82% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,941 8,714 11,756
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +2 4,412 £77,500 -6.06% 1,561
North of England +6 2,574 £60,000 - 511
South East -2 2,058 £60,000 -11.11% 545
South West +10 1,583 £57,500 -2.70% 298
North West +9 1,448 £60,000 - 307
Midlands +6 1,363 £57,500 - 328
West Midlands +9 875 £57,965 -3.39% 204
Yorkshire 0 850 £57,965 -3.39% 152
East of England +1 574 £60,000 -7.69% 272
East Midlands +2 482 £53,600 -2.55% 124
North East +17 283 £57,965 +4.44% 62
Senior
UK

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

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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,923 (23.03%) Agile
2 2,784 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 2,530 (19.93%) Finance
4 2,515 (19.82%) Azure
5 2,149 (16.93%) AWS
6 2,094 (16.50%) Microsoft
7 2,031 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 1,857 (14.63%) Degree
9 1,854 (14.61%) SQL
10 1,777 (14.00%) Mentoring
11 1,775 (13.99%) Python
12 1,612 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
13 1,499 (11.81%) JavaScript
14 1,425 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
15 1,374 (10.83%) DevOps
16 1,359 (10.71%) C#
17 1,254 (9.88%) .NET
18 1,132 (8.92%) Security Cleared
19 1,057 (8.33%) React
20 1,034 (8.15%) Java
21 1,008 (7.94%) Windows
22 973 (7.67%) Linux
23 948 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
24 911 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 905 (7.13%) Project Management
26 886 (6.98%) Coaching
27 810 (6.38%) Analytics
28 792 (6.24%) Decision-Making
29 778 (6.13%) CI/CD
30 777 (6.12%) Cybersecurity

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 248 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 137 (1.08%) CMS
4 134 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 131 (1.03%) ArcGIS
6 129 (1.02%) Apache
7 126 (0.99%) GeoServer
8 121 (0.95%) Confluence
9 104 (0.82%) SAS
10 101 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
11 96 (0.76%) IIS
12 49 (0.39%) Umbraco
13 45 (0.35%) WordPress
14 40 (0.32%) Headless CMS
14 40 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
15 39 (0.31%) Kentico
16 37 (0.29%) Tuxedo
17 27 (0.21%) JBoss
18 25 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
18 25 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 527 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 264 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 96 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (0.39%) Simulink
6 38 (0.30%) Sketch
7 36 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.20%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
12 12 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
13 10 (0.079%) InDesign
13 10 (0.079%) OrCAD
13 10 (0.079%) Solid Edge
14 7 (0.055%) CANalyzer
15 5 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.039%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 69 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.41%) Endur
3 42 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 30 (0.24%) Siebel CRM
5 25 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 24 (0.19%) Shopify
7 18 (0.14%) Magento
8 17 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 14 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
9 14 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
10 12 (0.095%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.095%) SAP SCM
11 10 (0.079%) NEC Housing
11 10 (0.079%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.079%) SAP HR
11 10 (0.079%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.071%) Primavera
13 8 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
13 8 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,515 (19.82%) Azure
2 2,149 (16.93%) AWS
3 626 (4.93%) SaaS
4 615 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
5 493 (3.88%) GCP
6 465 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 398 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 316 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 213 (1.68%) Serverless
10 186 (1.47%) GitHub
11 181 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 139 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 131 (1.03%) PaaS
14 119 (0.94%) OneDrive
15 118 (0.93%) IaaS
16 111 (0.87%) Snowflake
17 109 (0.86%) PowerApps
18 105 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
19 97 (0.76%) Power Automate
20 93 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 538 (4.24%) Firewall
2 389 (3.06%) Broadband
3 324 (2.55%) WAN
4 277 (2.18%) DNS
5 228 (1.80%) LAN
6 227 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 189 (1.49%) Wireless
8 188 (1.48%) DHCP
9 179 (1.41%) VPN
10 163 (1.28%) 5G
11 145 (1.14%) Network Security
12 129 (1.02%) Internet
13 127 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
14 120 (0.95%) SD-WAN
15 106 (0.84%) VLAN
16 98 (0.77%) MPLS
17 87 (0.69%) BGP
17 87 (0.69%) SAN
18 85 (0.67%) HTTP
19 56 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 451 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
3 367 (2.89%) Power BI
4 356 (2.80%) MySQL
5 268 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 264 (2.08%) Tableau
7 248 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 206 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 172 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 151 (1.19%) MongoDB
11 136 (1.07%) GIS
12 128 (1.01%) QGIS
13 120 (0.95%) Big Data
14 114 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 106 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
16 103 (0.81%) Oracle Database
17 97 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
18 80 (0.63%) Redis
19 73 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
20 70 (0.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 711 (5.60%) Git
2 330 (2.60%) JIRA
3 231 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 122 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 105 (0.83%) GitLab
6 93 (0.73%) Selenium
7 89 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 63 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 59 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 54 (0.43%) Postman
10 54 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 49 (0.39%) Sourcetree
12 47 (0.37%) Subversion
13 40 (0.32%) Maven
14 37 (0.29%) JUnit
15 36 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 36 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 36 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
16 33 (0.26%) NUnit
17 30 (0.24%) IntelliJ
General
1 2,784 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 2,530 (19.93%) Finance
3 1,425 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 911 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 574 (4.52%) Retail
6 571 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 538 (4.24%) Banking
8 524 (4.13%) Marketing
9 421 (3.32%) Legal
10 403 (3.18%) Law
11 353 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
12 302 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 287 (2.26%) Manufacturing
14 238 (1.88%) Games
15 208 (1.64%) Electronics
16 201 (1.58%) Front Office
17 186 (1.47%) Telecoms
18 170 (1.34%) Automotive
19 165 (1.30%) Aerospace
20 150 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,254 (9.88%) .NET
2 1,057 (8.33%) React
3 700 (5.52%) CSS
4 692 (5.45%) HTML
5 549 (4.33%) AngularJS
6 434 (3.42%) .NET Core
7 384 (3.03%) Node.js
8 381 (3.00%) ASP.NET
9 367 (2.89%) RESTful
10 353 (2.78%) REST
11 318 (2.51%) Vue
12 287 (2.26%) .NET Framework
13 264 (2.08%) Spring
14 262 (2.06%) Kafka
15 208 (1.64%) Web Services
16 201 (1.58%) Laravel
17 179 (1.41%) JSON
17 179 (1.41%) XML
18 138 (1.09%) GraphQL
19 137 (1.08%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 322 (2.54%) Product Ownership
2 319 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
3 277 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
4 255 (2.01%) Algorithms
5 254 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 236 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 223 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 221 (1.74%) Driving Licence
9 216 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 213 (1.68%) IoT
11 191 (1.50%) Social Media
12 165 (1.30%) Cloud Native
13 155 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 153 (1.21%) Derivative
15 146 (1.15%) Hedge funds
16 136 (1.07%) Mobile App
17 133 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
18 131 (1.03%) Data Structures
19 120 (0.95%) Equities
20 109 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1,008 (7.94%) Windows
2 973 (7.67%) Linux
3 390 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 184 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 123 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 121 (0.95%) Unix
7 113 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 110 (0.87%) Android
9 106 (0.84%) Apple iOS
10 93 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
11 78 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
12 72 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
13 46 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 40 (0.32%) Mac OS
15 31 (0.24%) VMS
16 23 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 22 (0.17%) Windows 7
18 16 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
19 13 (0.10%) CentOS
20 11 (0.087%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,923 (23.03%) Agile
2 2,031 (16.00%) Software Engineering
3 1,777 (14.00%) Mentoring
4 1,612 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
5 1,374 (10.83%) DevOps
6 948 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
7 905 (7.13%) Project Management
8 886 (6.98%) Coaching
9 810 (6.38%) Analytics
10 792 (6.24%) Decision-Making
11 778 (6.13%) CI/CD
12 777 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
13 683 (5.38%) Computer Science
14 682 (5.37%) Full Stack Development
15 678 (5.34%) Artificial Intelligence
16 649 (5.11%) Roadmaps
17 562 (4.43%) Microservices
18 554 (4.36%) Project Delivery
19 517 (4.07%) Scrum
20 512 (4.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,854 (14.61%) SQL
2 1,775 (13.99%) Python
3 1,499 (11.81%) JavaScript
4 1,359 (10.71%) C#
5 1,034 (8.15%) Java
6 759 (5.98%) TypeScript
7 382 (3.01%) PowerShell
8 360 (2.84%) C++
9 352 (2.77%) C
10 345 (2.72%) Bash
11 330 (2.60%) PHP
12 192 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 128 (1.01%) R
14 127 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 121 (0.95%) Go
16 95 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 91 (0.72%) Rust
18 82 (0.65%) MATLAB
18 82 (0.65%) Ruby
19 80 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,857 (14.63%) Degree
2 1,132 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 722 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 310 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 272 (2.14%) ACCA
6 254 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 238 (1.88%) CIMA
8 237 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 188 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 173 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 131 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 129 (1.02%) CCNP
12 129 (1.02%) CISSP
13 114 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 107 (0.84%) Azure Certification
15 105 (0.83%) AWS Certification
16 91 (0.72%) PhD
17 85 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
18 77 (0.61%) CCNA
19 76 (0.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (2.69%) QA
2 228 (1.80%) SLA
3 182 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 173 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 171 (1.35%) GDPR
6 111 (0.87%) NIST
7 98 (0.77%) WCAG
8 97 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 85 (0.67%) IFRS
10 79 (0.62%) PMO
11 61 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 42 (0.33%) GRC
13 40 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 39 (0.31%) Automotive SPICE
15 38 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
16 34 (0.27%) ISO 26262
17 33 (0.26%) GMP
18 27 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
18 27 (0.21%) NCSC
19 24 (0.19%) COBIT
System Software
1 753 (5.93%) Docker
2 676 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 331 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 229 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 126 (0.99%) Firmware
6 53 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 51 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 50 (0.39%) vSphere
9 47 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
10 28 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 14 (0.11%) KVM
14 12 (0.095%) XenApp
15 10 (0.079%) NFS
16 8 (0.063%) HDFS
17 7 (0.055%) IAG
17 7 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
17 7 (0.055%) XenDesktop
18 6 (0.047%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 765 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 571 (4.50%) Terraform
3 289 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 237 (1.87%) Ansible
5 143 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
6 137 (1.08%) SCCM
7 87 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 83 (0.65%) Puppet
9 66 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 61 (0.48%) Grafana
11 46 (0.36%) vCenter Server
12 45 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 41 (0.32%) FortiGate
14 28 (0.22%) CASB
15 24 (0.19%) WSUS
16 23 (0.18%) Nagios
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
17 22 (0.17%) Stealthwatch
18 21 (0.17%) SCOM
19 18 (0.14%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,094 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 503 (3.96%) VMware
3 413 (3.25%) Cisco
4 410 (3.23%) Oracle
5 359 (2.83%) Google
6 245 (1.93%) Databricks
7 219 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 185 (1.46%) SAP
9 176 (1.39%) Dell
10 154 (1.21%) CyberArk
11 128 (1.01%) ESRI
11 128 (1.01%) Tanium
12 123 (0.97%) IBM
13 117 (0.92%) Meraki
14 113 (0.89%) Juniper
15 108 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 107 (0.84%) Palo Alto
17 106 (0.84%) Red Hat
18 104 (0.82%) Adobe
18 104 (0.82%) HP