Senior Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9,697 8,372 9,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.67% 13.89% 13.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.42% 15.58% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,535 4,430 5,922
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,805 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,565
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +5 2,580 £60,000 - 558
South East -1 2,075 £60,000 -11.11% 591
South West +11 1,586 £57,500 -2.70% 346
North West +9 1,455 £60,000 - 331
Midlands +5 1,381 £57,500 - 400
Scotland -7 1,006 £60,000 -7.69% 202
West Midlands +9 880 £57,965 -3.39% 256
Yorkshire +1 850 £57,965 -3.39% 167
East of England 0 570 £60,000 -7.69% 284
East Midlands +3 493 £52,500 -4.55% 144
Wales +10 377 £50,000 -9.09% 86
North East +15 280 £57,965 +5.39% 70
Northern Ireland +19 125 £55,000 +10.00% 48
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -3 2 £76,250 +111.81% 1
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,503 (25.81%) Agile
2 2,070 (21.35%) Software Engineering
3 1,823 (18.80%) Social Skills
4 1,773 (18.28%) Azure
5 1,667 (17.19%) Finance
6 1,542 (15.90%) AWS
7 1,434 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
8 1,325 (13.66%) Microsoft
9 1,313 (13.54%) Degree
10 1,278 (13.18%) Mentoring
11 1,164 (12.00%) SQL
12 1,144 (11.80%) Security Cleared
13 1,129 (11.64%) JavaScript
14 1,113 (11.48%) C#
15 1,095 (11.29%) Python
16 1,069 (11.02%) DevOps
17 1,031 (10.63%) .NET
18 902 (9.30%) Actionable Insight
19 850 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
20 837 (8.63%) Java
21 833 (8.59%) React
22 822 (8.48%) Coaching
23 816 (8.41%) SC Cleared
24 815 (8.40%) Linux
25 788 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 781 (8.05%) Windows
27 670 (6.91%) Project Management
28 618 (6.37%) CSS
29 604 (6.23%) Decision-Making
30 586 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 189 (1.95%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.90%) GeoServer
3 138 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 128 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 126 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 117 (1.21%) Confluence
7 104 (1.07%) CMS
8 93 (0.96%) SAS
9 87 (0.90%) IIS
10 43 (0.44%) Umbraco
11 40 (0.41%) Headless CMS
12 39 (0.40%) Kentico
13 37 (0.38%) Tuxedo
14 35 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
15 32 (0.33%) JBoss
15 32 (0.33%) WebLogic
16 31 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
17 30 (0.31%) WordPress
18 28 (0.29%) Apache
19 19 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 323 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 168 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 84 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 51 (0.53%) Sketch
6 49 (0.51%) Simulink
7 32 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 30 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 25 (0.26%) Stateflow
10 21 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
12 12 (0.12%) OrCAD
12 12 (0.12%) Photoshop
13 10 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 10 (0.10%) Solid Edge
14 8 (0.082%) InVision
15 7 (0.072%) CANalyzer
16 6 (0.062%) InDesign
17 5 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 4 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 35 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
3 20 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 20 (0.21%) Shopify
4 19 (0.20%) Magento
5 16 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 13 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 9 (0.093%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.062%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.052%) Primavera
11 5 (0.052%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.041%) ResourceLink
12 4 (0.041%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.041%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.041%) Sonata
12 4 (0.041%) Unit4 Business World
12 4 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,773 (18.28%) Azure
2 1,542 (15.90%) AWS
3 377 (3.89%) SaaS
4 366 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 294 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 268 (2.76%) GCP
7 267 (2.75%) Power Platform
8 164 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 129 (1.33%) Serverless
10 124 (1.28%) GitHub
11 111 (1.14%) OneDrive
12 106 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 101 (1.04%) Amazon S3
14 90 (0.93%) PowerApps
15 73 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
16 69 (0.71%) PaaS
17 67 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
17 67 (0.69%) OpenShift
17 67 (0.69%) Power Automate
18 66 (0.68%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 372 (3.84%) Firewall
2 243 (2.51%) DNS
3 241 (2.49%) WAN
4 213 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.98%) Broadband
6 182 (1.88%) Wireless
7 160 (1.65%) LAN
8 154 (1.59%) DHCP
9 109 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 103 (1.06%) Network Security
11 100 (1.03%) VPN
12 86 (0.89%) Internet
13 80 (0.82%) SD-WAN
14 78 (0.80%) VLAN
15 76 (0.78%) SAN
16 72 (0.74%) HTTP
17 63 (0.65%) 5G
18 60 (0.62%) Kerberos
19 52 (0.54%) Ethernet
20 50 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
2 386 (3.98%) SQL Server
3 268 (2.76%) MySQL
4 260 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 204 (2.10%) Power BI
6 201 (2.07%) GIS
7 184 (1.90%) QGIS
8 175 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
9 133 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 117 (1.21%) Big Data
11 101 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 89 (0.92%) Tableau
13 87 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
14 80 (0.82%) MongoDB
15 78 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
16 75 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
17 73 (0.75%) Data Lake
18 64 (0.66%) Metadata
19 54 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
19 54 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 577 (5.95%) Git
2 277 (2.86%) JIRA
3 161 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 112 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 110 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 83 (0.86%) GitLab
7 64 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 60 (0.62%) Selenium
9 48 (0.49%) JUnit
10 47 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 43 (0.44%) Subversion
12 32 (0.33%) IntelliJ
13 31 (0.32%) Sourcetree
13 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
14 29 (0.30%) Maven
15 28 (0.29%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (0.23%) Cucumber
17 22 (0.23%) Postman
17 22 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 1,823 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 1,667 (17.19%) Finance
3 850 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 788 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 510 (5.26%) Marketing
6 496 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 464 (4.78%) Law
8 365 (3.76%) Retail
9 358 (3.69%) Banking
10 314 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 270 (2.78%) Legal
12 261 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
13 227 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 224 (2.31%) Electronics
15 167 (1.72%) Aerospace
16 166 (1.71%) Games
17 156 (1.61%) Automotive
18 140 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
19 138 (1.42%) Telecoms
20 94 (0.97%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,031 (10.63%) .NET
2 833 (8.59%) React
3 618 (6.37%) CSS
4 546 (5.63%) HTML
5 435 (4.49%) .NET Core
6 410 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 359 (3.70%) RESTful
8 290 (2.99%) ASP.NET
8 290 (2.99%) Node.js
9 283 (2.92%) .NET Framework
10 242 (2.50%) REST
10 242 (2.50%) Vue
11 226 (2.33%) Spring
12 216 (2.23%) Web Services
13 193 (1.99%) Laravel
14 188 (1.94%) JSON
15 185 (1.91%) PostGIS
16 184 (1.90%) Leaflet
16 184 (1.90%) OpenLayers
17 178 (1.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 247 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
2 236 (2.43%) Public Cloud
3 227 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 221 (2.28%) Cloud Native
5 215 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 212 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 203 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 188 (1.94%) Driving Licence
9 167 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 163 (1.68%) IoT
11 132 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 112 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 97 (1.00%) Mobile App
14 94 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 94 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
15 76 (0.78%) Social Media
16 74 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
17 73 (0.75%) Credit Risk
18 71 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
19 69 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 815 (8.40%) Linux
2 781 (8.05%) Windows
3 291 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 133 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
5 112 (1.15%) Unix
6 98 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 89 (0.92%) Android
8 70 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 69 (0.71%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
11 51 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 42 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 42 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 41 (0.42%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.14%) CentOS
17 12 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
18 11 (0.11%) VMS
19 10 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,503 (25.81%) Agile
2 2,070 (21.35%) Software Engineering
3 1,434 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
4 1,278 (13.18%) Mentoring
5 1,069 (11.02%) DevOps
6 902 (9.30%) Actionable Insight
7 822 (8.48%) Coaching
8 670 (6.91%) Project Management
9 604 (6.23%) Decision-Making
10 586 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 579 (5.97%) CI/CD
12 555 (5.72%) Computer Science
13 508 (5.24%) Roadmaps
14 507 (5.23%) Analytics
15 496 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
16 493 (5.08%) SDLC
17 442 (4.56%) Full Stack Development
18 434 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 416 (4.29%) Microservices
20 407 (4.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (12.00%) SQL
2 1,129 (11.64%) JavaScript
3 1,113 (11.48%) C#
4 1,095 (11.29%) Python
5 837 (8.63%) Java
6 456 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 413 (4.26%) C
8 378 (3.90%) C++
9 297 (3.06%) PHP
10 227 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 204 (2.10%) Bash
12 121 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 112 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 110 (1.13%) Go
15 103 (1.06%) Embedded C
16 80 (0.82%) R
17 73 (0.75%) Scala
18 71 (0.73%) MATLAB
19 61 (0.63%) Perl
20 58 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,313 (13.54%) Degree
2 1,144 (11.80%) Security Cleared
3 816 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 217 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 181 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 153 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
7 147 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 145 (1.50%) ACCA
9 138 (1.42%) CIMA
10 105 (1.08%) CCNP
11 94 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 92 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 88 (0.91%) Azure Certification
14 87 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
15 84 (0.87%) CCNA
16 78 (0.80%) PhD
17 77 (0.79%) DBS Check
18 62 (0.64%) HND
19 59 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
20 57 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (2.06%) QA
2 190 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 144 (1.48%) GDPR
4 114 (1.18%) SLA
5 108 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 104 (1.07%) WCAG
7 70 (0.72%) NIST
8 59 (0.61%) IFRS
9 57 (0.59%) PMO
10 51 (0.53%) IFRS 9
11 46 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 38 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
13 35 (0.36%) GMP
14 33 (0.34%) ISO 26262
15 26 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
16 22 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 20 (0.21%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.20%) MISRA
18 19 (0.20%) NCSC
19 17 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 530 (5.47%) Docker
2 421 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 261 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 183 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 169 (1.74%) Firmware
6 68 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
7 40 (0.41%) vSphere
8 38 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 37 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.10%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.072%) IAG
14 7 (0.072%) NFS
15 5 (0.052%) XenApp
16 4 (0.041%) KVM
16 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
16 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.031%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 511 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 407 (4.20%) Terraform
3 192 (1.98%) Ansible
4 152 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (0.87%) SCCM
6 65 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 59 (0.61%) Puppet
7 59 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 44 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 36 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
11 28 (0.29%) Grafana
11 28 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 22 (0.23%) CASB
12 22 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 21 (0.22%) SCOM
14 18 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
15 17 (0.18%) Functional Safety
16 14 (0.14%) WMI
17 12 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,325 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 380 (3.92%) VMware
3 378 (3.90%) Oracle
4 285 (2.94%) Cisco
5 238 (2.45%) Google
6 185 (1.91%) ESRI
7 117 (1.21%) IBM
8 106 (1.09%) SAP
9 91 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 89 (0.92%) Databricks
11 82 (0.85%) Meraki
12 77 (0.79%) ServiceNow
13 73 (0.75%) Dell
14 71 (0.73%) CheckPoint
15 69 (0.71%) HP
16 68 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 66 (0.68%) Adobe
18 64 (0.66%) Juniper
19 57 (0.59%) Salesforce
20 55 (0.57%) Splunk