Senior Jobs in Watford

Senior
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median Senior salary in Watford is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 13 32
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9 67 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 3.21% 15.55% 6.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.52% 17.27% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5 42 20
10th Percentile £58,200 £61,250 £54,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £92,500 £85,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Watford

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 256 388 417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 90.02% 98.35%
Number of salaries quoted 207 219 342
10th Percentile £25,925 £31,250 £27,825
25th Percentile £30,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £63,375 £75,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £71,250
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Watford

Senior
Salary Trend in Watford

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

Salary trend for Senior in Watford

Senior
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Watford over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Watford

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Watford region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Business Case
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CIMA
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (22.22%) Broadband
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) ACCA
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (22.22%) QA
4 2 (22.22%) PMO
4 2 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Identification
4 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 2 (22.22%) Budgeting
4 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 2 (22.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
1 1 (11.11%) Laravel
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) React Native
1 1 (11.11%) Symfony
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Business Case
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (22.22%) Budgeting
3 2 (22.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Identification
4 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Product Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) SOLID
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ACCA
1 2 (22.22%) CIMA
1 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft