Senior Jobs in Cardiff

Senior
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior salary in Cardiff is £63,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 31 137 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.42% 18.49% 19.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.51% 19.63% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 112 66
10th Percentile £49,250 £37,140 £41,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,396
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £53,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% -8.94% +2.17%
75th Percentile £69,186 £63,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £70,000 £78,125
South Wales median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -9.09% -0.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 177 698 502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.44% 94.20% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 121 601 387
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,101 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,991
Median % change year-on-year - -5.64% +0.94%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,569 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.25% -4.07% -5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cardiff over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Cardiff region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Project Management
2 12 (38.71%) Finance
3 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
4 8 (25.81%) HTML
5 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
5 7 (22.58%) Balanced Scorecard
5 7 (22.58%) Risk Management
5 7 (22.58%) Web Development
5 7 (22.58%) Git
5 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (22.58%) Driving Licence
5 7 (22.58%) Scorecard
6 6 (19.35%) AWS
6 6 (19.35%) Degree
6 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (19.35%) PHP
7 5 (16.13%) Business Development
7 5 (16.13%) DevOps
7 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Vue
8 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.90%) Coaching
8 4 (12.90%) Docker
8 4 (12.90%) Line Management
8 4 (12.90%) Sass
8 4 (12.90%) Local Government

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 4 (12.90%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) npm
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) GitHub
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.23%) dbt
4 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Pulumi
4 1 (3.23%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
1 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) webpack
3 1 (3.23%) Grunt
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Local Government
5 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.68%) Marketing
5 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.23%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) HTML
2 4 (12.90%) CSS
2 4 (12.90%) Sass
2 4 (12.90%) Symfony
2 4 (12.90%) Vue
3 3 (9.68%) Node.js
3 3 (9.68%) React
4 2 (6.45%) Django
5 1 (3.23%) .NET
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.23%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (3.23%) Laravel
5 1 (3.23%) Redux
5 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Driving Licence
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Code
2 3 (9.68%) NHS
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) Social Media
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Project Management
2 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
3 7 (22.58%) Balanced Scorecard
3 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (22.58%) Risk Management
3 7 (22.58%) Scorecard
3 7 (22.58%) Web Development
4 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (16.13%) Business Development
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.90%) Agile
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.90%) Coaching
6 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) Line Management
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.68%) Pair Programming
7 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (19.35%) PHP
3 4 (12.90%) Python
4 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) C
5 2 (6.45%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) MRICS
3 1 (3.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Ariba
1 1 (3.23%) Google
1 1 (3.23%) Instagram
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
1 1 (3.23%) SAP
1 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
1 1 (3.23%) Twitter
272 Senior jobs in Cardiff