Senior Job Trends in Basingstoke

Senior
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Senior salary in Basingstoke is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 31 39 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 9.63% 6.32% 5.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.94% 6.63% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 11
10th Percentile £50,000 - £51,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,500 £80,000 £68,875
90th Percentile £78,500 £87,500 £73,000
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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 Basingstoke with a recognized job title 312 588 295
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.89% 95.30% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 248 466 195
10th Percentile £30,000 £44,325 £30,925
25th Percentile £46,125 £47,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £58,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.37% -10.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,425 £85,000 £76,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Senior job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Senior
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Basingstoke

Senior
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Basingstoke

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Basingstoke region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 13 (41.94%) SAP
2 10 (32.26%) Cisco
2 10 (32.26%) Juniper
3 9 (29.03%) CCNA
3 9 (29.03%) CCNP
3 9 (29.03%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (29.03%) JNCIS
3 9 (29.03%) LAN
3 9 (29.03%) Network Design
3 9 (29.03%) Requirements Gathering
3 9 (29.03%) VPN
4 8 (25.81%) DV Cleared
4 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
4 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
5 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
5 5 (16.13%) F5
5 5 (16.13%) Firewall
5 5 (16.13%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (16.13%) Network Security
5 5 (16.13%) WAN
6 4 (12.90%) Azure
6 4 (12.90%) BGP
6 4 (12.90%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (12.90%) IPsec
6 4 (12.90%) Junos
6 4 (12.90%) MPLS
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 4 (12.90%) Windows
7 3 (9.68%) AWS
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) LAN
1 9 (29.03%) VPN
2 5 (16.13%) Firewall
2 5 (16.13%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (16.13%) Network Security
2 5 (16.13%) WAN
3 4 (12.90%) BGP
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (12.90%) IPsec
3 4 (12.90%) Junos
3 4 (12.90%) MPLS
4 2 (6.45%) IPv4
4 2 (6.45%) IPv6
4 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.45%) VLAN
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (3.23%) DHCP
5 1 (3.23%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
1 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Network Design
1 9 (29.03%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
3 4 (12.90%) Project Management
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
4 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.45%) Agile
5 2 (6.45%) Capacity Management
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Network Management
5 2 (6.45%) Performance Testing
5 2 (6.45%) Task Automation
5 2 (6.45%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.23%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.23%) Business Development
6 1 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.23%) Identity Management
6 1 (3.23%) Requirements Management
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) C++
2 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.23%) Perl
2 1 (3.23%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) CCNA
1 9 (29.03%) CCNP
1 9 (29.03%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (29.03%) JNCIS
2 8 (25.81%) DV Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) JNCIA
4 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) KVM
2 2 (6.45%) RHEV
2 2 (6.45%) Xen
3 1 (3.23%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Nagios
1 2 (6.45%) Proxmox
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
2 1 (3.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) SAP
2 10 (32.26%) Cisco
2 10 (32.26%) Juniper
3 5 (16.13%) F5
4 3 (9.68%) VMware
5 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.23%) McAfee
6 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
30 Senior jobs in Basingstoke