Senior Jobs in Blackburn

Senior
Lancashire > Blackburn

The median Senior salary in Blackburn is £50,055 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 120 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 42.11% 1.00% 20.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 42.25% 1.25% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 101 1 3
10th Percentile £47,863 - -
25th Percentile £48,869 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £26,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +92.52% -48.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £54,793 - £52,500
90th Percentile £55,000 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £50,055 £57,965 £52,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +11.47% -6.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Blackburn

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Blackburn. 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 Blackburn with a recognized job title 284 80 22
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.65% 80.00% 88.00%
Number of salaries quoted 228 80 16
10th Percentile - £21,900 £35,625
25th Percentile £47,683 £23,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £32,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.21% -35.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £54,793 £41,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,943 £56,000 £63,125
Lancashire median annual salary £50,055 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.23% -5.26% +11.76%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackburn

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Blackburn

Senior
Salary Trend in Blackburn

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

Salary trend for Senior in Blackburn

Senior
Salary Histogram in Blackburn

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Blackburn over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Blackburn

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 Blackburn region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 101 (84.17%) Systems Engineering
2 98 (81.67%) Degree
3 94 (78.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 73 (60.83%) Aerospace
5 49 (40.83%) Coaching
6 42 (35.00%) Avionics
7 41 (34.17%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 41 (34.17%) Customer Requirements
8 34 (28.33%) HND
9 32 (26.67%) Mathematics
9 32 (26.67%) Physics
9 32 (26.67%) Requirements Management
10 29 (24.17%) Business Case
11 28 (23.33%) Aeronautics
12 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
12 26 (21.67%) Feasibility Study
12 26 (21.67%) Hazard Analysis
12 26 (21.67%) SDLC
13 24 (20.00%) HNC
14 22 (18.33%) Automotive
14 22 (18.33%) Agile
15 16 (13.33%) SysML
15 16 (13.33%) Project Management
16 15 (12.50%) Performance Management
16 15 (12.50%) Cost Control
17 14 (11.67%) Microsoft
18 13 (10.83%) Microsoft Office
18 13 (10.83%) Collaborative Working
19 12 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
19 12 (10.00%) Cryptography

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackburn 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 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (8.33%) Simulink
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (1.67%) Azure
3 1 (0.83%) AWS
3 1 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (0.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) BGP
1 1 (0.83%) EIGRP
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
1 1 (0.83%) MPLS
1 1 (0.83%) Network Security
1 1 (0.83%) OSPF
1 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) Big Data
1 4 (3.33%) Power BI
1 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (2.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (2.50%) JIRA
1 3 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 73 (60.83%) Aerospace
2 42 (35.00%) Avionics
3 28 (23.33%) Aeronautics
4 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
5 22 (18.33%) Automotive
6 12 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Retail
8 4 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.33%) Finance
9 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (84.17%) Systems Engineering
2 49 (40.83%) Coaching
3 41 (34.17%) Customer Requirements
3 41 (34.17%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 32 (26.67%) Mathematics
4 32 (26.67%) Physics
4 32 (26.67%) Requirements Management
5 29 (24.17%) Business Case
6 26 (21.67%) Feasibility Study
6 26 (21.67%) Hazard Analysis
6 26 (21.67%) SDLC
7 22 (18.33%) Agile
8 16 (13.33%) Project Management
8 16 (13.33%) SysML
9 15 (12.50%) Cost Control
9 15 (12.50%) Performance Management
10 13 (10.83%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (10.00%) Cryptography
12 10 (8.33%) Safety Engineering
12 10 (8.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.17%) MATLAB
2 6 (5.00%) Python
3 3 (2.50%) Ada
3 3 (2.50%) C
3 3 (2.50%) C#
3 3 (2.50%) Java
3 3 (2.50%) VB
4 1 (0.83%) Bash
4 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (81.67%) Degree
2 94 (78.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 34 (28.33%) HND
4 24 (20.00%) HNC
5 3 (2.50%) PMP
6 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.50%) NEBOSH
2 1 (0.83%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Ansible
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.33%) MathWorks
3 9 (7.50%) ANSYS
4 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco
5 1 (0.83%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.83%) Juniper
262 Senior jobs in Lancashire