Senior Jobs in South Wales

Senior
Wales > South Wales

The median Senior salary in South Wales is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 300 170 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 20.20% 14.80% 15.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.22% 16.54% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 182 80 144
10th Percentile £37,101 £39,000 £35,856
25th Percentile £43,992 £50,049 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.47%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,375 £77,500 £73,375
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,350 1,028 1,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 89.47% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 899 568 864
10th Percentile £27,157 £28,500 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,188 £63,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in South Wales over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cardiff +1 127 £53,000 -7.83% 41
Bridgend +12 119 £44,886 -18.39% 3
Newport +19 46 £52,101 +1.95% 14
Neath Port Talbot - 3 £60,000 - 2
Gwent - 2 £45,000 - 5
Glamorgan - 2 £42,250 - 13
Monmouthshire - 1 £31,967 - 1
Senior
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 South Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 81 (27.00%) Actionable Insight
2 78 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 77 (25.67%) SC Cleared
3 77 (25.67%) Security Cleared
4 67 (22.33%) Agile
5 58 (19.33%) Azure
6 55 (18.33%) AWS
7 54 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (18.00%) Finance
8 51 (17.00%) Microsoft
9 46 (15.33%) Data Centre
10 42 (14.00%) Oracle
10 42 (14.00%) Software Engineering
11 39 (13.00%) C#
12 37 (12.33%) SQL
12 37 (12.33%) Degree
13 36 (12.00%) Mentoring
14 35 (11.67%) JavaScript
14 35 (11.67%) Firewall
15 32 (10.67%) Cisco
16 31 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
16 31 (10.33%) Customer Service
17 30 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
18 29 (9.67%) DevOps
19 28 (9.33%) React
19 28 (9.33%) Web Development
20 27 (9.00%) DNS
20 27 (9.00%) SDLC
21 26 (8.67%) Migration
21 26 (8.67%) Change Management

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 18 (6.00%) ArcGIS
2 17 (5.67%) GeoServer
3 14 (4.67%) Skype for Business
4 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.67%) SAS
6 4 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.33%) CMS
6 4 (1.33%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.00%) Apache
7 3 (1.00%) Confluence
7 3 (1.00%) WordPress
8 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.33%) Drupal
9 1 (0.33%) IIS
9 1 (0.33%) JBoss
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 16 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.33%) Sketch
5 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 58 (19.33%) Azure
2 55 (18.33%) AWS
3 12 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (4.00%) GCP
4 9 (3.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.00%) PowerApps
5 7 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.33%) Slack
5 7 (2.33%) WhatsApp
6 6 (2.00%) Miro
6 6 (2.00%) npm
7 5 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (1.67%) Heroku
8 4 (1.33%) Figma
8 4 (1.33%) iPaaS
8 4 (1.33%) OCI
8 4 (1.33%) PaaS
8 4 (1.33%) SaaS
9 3 (1.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (11.67%) Firewall
2 27 (9.00%) DNS
3 18 (6.00%) LAN
3 18 (6.00%) WAN
4 16 (5.33%) Wireless
5 15 (5.00%) SAN
6 14 (4.67%) IP Telephony
7 11 (3.67%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (3.67%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.67%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.33%) VPN
9 8 (2.67%) MPLS
10 7 (2.33%) Network Security
11 6 (2.00%) Internet
12 5 (1.67%) Extranet
12 5 (1.67%) Unified Communications
12 5 (1.67%) VLAN
12 5 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (1.67%) WLAN
13 3 (1.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.00%) GIS
3 17 (5.67%) QGIS
4 13 (4.33%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.33%) MySQL
5 7 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
6 6 (2.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.33%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.67%) Looker
9 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.33%) Big Data
10 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (4.67%) Git
2 7 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.33%) JIRA
4 3 (1.00%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (1.00%) Selenium
4 3 (1.00%) webpack
5 2 (0.67%) Grunt
6 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.00%) Finance
3 31 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.67%) Police
5 18 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (5.67%) Local Government
7 13 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.00%) Welsh Language
10 8 (2.67%) Games
10 8 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.00%) Banking
11 6 (2.00%) Digital Health
11 6 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.67%) Electronics
12 5 (1.67%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.67%) Marketing
13 4 (1.33%) Advertising
14 3 (1.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.33%) React
2 21 (7.00%) .NET
3 18 (6.00%) PostGIS
4 17 (5.67%) Leaflet
4 17 (5.67%) OpenLayers
5 15 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 15 (5.00%) CSS
6 13 (4.33%) Laravel
7 12 (4.00%) WinForms
8 11 (3.67%) HTML
8 11 (3.67%) Symfony
9 10 (3.33%) RESTful
9 10 (3.33%) Spring
10 9 (3.00%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.00%) Vue
11 8 (2.67%) JSON
11 8 (2.67%) Node.js
11 8 (2.67%) SOAP
11 8 (2.67%) Web Services
11 8 (2.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.33%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.33%) CMDB
3 7 (2.33%) Housing Association
3 7 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.67%) NHS
5 5 (1.67%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.33%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.00%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.00%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.33%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.67%) Linux
2 17 (5.67%) Windows
3 14 (4.67%) Android
4 5 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.67%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.33%) Unix
5 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (27.00%) Actionable Insight
2 67 (22.33%) Agile
3 54 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (14.00%) Software Engineering
5 36 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 31 (10.33%) Customer Service
7 29 (9.67%) DevOps
8 28 (9.33%) Web Development
9 27 (9.00%) SDLC
10 26 (8.67%) Change Management
10 26 (8.67%) Migration
11 25 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
11 25 (8.33%) ITIL
12 24 (8.00%) Roadmaps
13 23 (7.67%) Business Continuity
14 21 (7.00%) Network Management
15 19 (6.33%) Coaching
16 18 (6.00%) Incident Management
17 17 (5.67%) Line Management
18 15 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.00%) C#
2 37 (12.33%) SQL
3 35 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 25 (8.33%) Java
5 24 (8.00%) Python
6 19 (6.33%) PL/SQL
7 17 (5.67%) PHP
8 12 (4.00%) C
8 12 (4.00%) C++
9 8 (2.67%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.67%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.67%) Swift
11 4 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.00%) Groovy
12 3 (1.00%) R
13 2 (0.67%) VBA
14 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.33%) Go
14 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (25.67%) SC Cleared
1 77 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.33%) Degree
3 16 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (3.67%) CCNA
5 9 (3.00%) ACCA
5 9 (3.00%) CIMA
6 6 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.33%) CBAP
8 1 (0.33%) IIBA
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.00%) IFRS
2 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.33%) SLA
3 4 (1.33%) WCAG
4 3 (1.00%) CRD IV
4 3 (1.00%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.00%) Docker
2 9 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.67%) Firmware
3 8 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (5.00%) Ansible
2 11 (3.67%) Terraform
3 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.67%) SCCM
4 5 (1.67%) SCOM
5 4 (1.33%) OpenSSO
5 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.67%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 42 (14.00%) Oracle
3 32 (10.67%) Cisco
4 18 (6.00%) ESRI
5 14 (4.67%) Avaya
5 14 (4.67%) Mitel
6 13 (4.33%) VMware
7 11 (3.67%) CheckPoint
7 11 (3.67%) Fortinet
7 11 (3.67%) McAfee
7 11 (3.67%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.00%) Hyperion
8 9 (3.00%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.67%) Citrix
9 5 (1.67%) HP
9 5 (1.67%) NetApp
10 4 (1.33%) Google
10 4 (1.33%) Remedy
11 3 (1.00%) IBM
12 2 (0.67%) Salesforce