Senior Jobs in West Sussex

Senior
South East > West Sussex

The median Senior salary in West Sussex is £57,500 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 21 5 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 53 208 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.55% 18.25% 9.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.01% 21.76% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 45 50 74
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.30% -2.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,813
90th Percentile - £82,500 £100,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 662 956 1,092
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 83.86% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 490 475 749
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,350 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £85,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Salary Trend in West Sussex

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

Salary trend for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

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

Salary histogram for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the West Sussex 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
Crawley -2 22 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Horsham -6 10 £52,500 -16.00% 2
Gatwick -3 7 £67,500 +3.85%
Haywards Heath - 7 £57,500 -
Worthing -2 1 £65,000 +8.33%
Chichester -7 1 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Burgess Hill -8 1 - - 4
East Grinstead -12 1 - -
Senior
South East

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

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 West Sussex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 25 (47.17%) Docker
2 22 (41.51%) Finance
3 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
4 17 (32.08%) Agile
5 16 (30.19%) TDD
6 15 (28.30%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (28.30%) Regression Testing
6 15 (28.30%) Degree
6 15 (28.30%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (28.30%) Git
6 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
6 15 (28.30%) Microservices
6 15 (28.30%) RabbitMQ
6 15 (28.30%) REST
6 15 (28.30%) Kafka
6 15 (28.30%) Continuous Deployment
7 14 (26.42%) gRPC
7 14 (26.42%) GraphQL
7 14 (26.42%) Go
7 14 (26.42%) Web Services
8 13 (24.53%) DevOps
8 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
9 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (22.64%) Computer Science
9 12 (22.64%) AWS
10 11 (20.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (18.87%) Serverless
11 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (18.87%) Containerisation

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) FrameMaker
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) 3ds Max
2 1 (1.89%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.89%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) AWS
2 10 (18.87%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (18.87%) Amazon S3
2 10 (18.87%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (18.87%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (18.87%) CloudFront
2 10 (18.87%) Route 53
2 10 (18.87%) Serverless
2 10 (18.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.66%) Azure
5 3 (5.66%) Azure App Service
5 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) BGP
1 6 (11.32%) Cisco Firepower
1 6 (11.32%) EIGRP
1 6 (11.32%) Firewall
1 6 (11.32%) Internet
1 6 (11.32%) NGFW
1 6 (11.32%) OSPF
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (18.87%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.89%) MySQL
4 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 22 (41.51%) Finance
2 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.66%) Back Office
4 3 (5.66%) Billing
4 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.66%) Legal
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.30%) Kafka
1 15 (28.30%) RabbitMQ
1 15 (28.30%) REST
2 14 (26.42%) GraphQL
2 14 (26.42%) gRPC
2 14 (26.42%) Web Services
3 3 (5.66%) XML
4 1 (1.89%) Laravel
4 1 (1.89%) Node.js
4 1 (1.89%) React
4 1 (1.89%) V-Ray
4 1 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.89%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.89%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.89%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) VMS
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Solaris
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Agile
2 16 (30.19%) TDD
3 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
3 15 (28.30%) Continuous Deployment
3 15 (28.30%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (28.30%) Microservices
3 15 (28.30%) Regression Testing
4 13 (24.53%) DevOps
5 12 (22.64%) Computer Science
5 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (18.87%) Containerisation
6 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.09%) Project Delivery
8 7 (13.21%) Data Protection
8 7 (13.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (9.43%) Customer Service
10 4 (7.55%) Business Case
10 4 (7.55%) Customer Experience
11 3 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) Go
2 10 (18.87%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) Bash
3 3 (5.66%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) AWK
4 1 (1.89%) Bourne shell
4 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.89%) Korn
4 1 (1.89%) Perl
4 1 (1.89%) PHP
4 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Degree
2 11 (20.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (18.87%) AWS Certification
3 10 (18.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 10 (18.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
4 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
5 6 (11.32%) CCNP
5 6 (11.32%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (11.32%) JNCIS
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.89%) RHCE
7 1 (1.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (47.17%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.87%) Terraform
3 6 (11.32%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.77%) SCCM
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.89%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Juniper
1 6 (11.32%) Meraki
2 3 (5.66%) Citrix
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) VMware
3 2 (3.77%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.77%) Dell
3 2 (3.77%) HP
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe
4 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.89%) EMC
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.89%) Veritas