Senior Jobs in Cheshire

Senior
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior salary in Cheshire is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 138 76 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.47% 15.35% 13.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.02% 16.45% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 95 52 58
10th Percentile £36,250 £48,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,650 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.90% +2.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £81,014 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £96,250 £75,000
North West median annual salary £58,800 £61,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.78% +2.92% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,060 462 1,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.75% 93.33% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 678 339 655
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,830 £23,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,950 £68,353
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Warrington -2 39 £49,058 -19.31% 13
Chester 0 24 £65,000 +6.91% 13
Middlewich - 14 £40,000 - 1
Northwich +10 9 £37,500 -21.88% 2
Crewe +5 8 £61,250 +11.36% 1
Alderley Edge +4 7 £50,000 -
Macclesfield -2 2 £53,750 - 3
Ellesmere Port - 1 £70,000 - 3
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Cheshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 28 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.67%) Degree
4 21 (15.22%) Azure
5 19 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (13.77%) Agile
6 18 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 17 (12.32%) Logistics
8 16 (11.59%) Customer-Centricity
8 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (10.87%) Project Delivery
9 15 (10.87%) DevOps
10 14 (10.14%) Power BI
10 14 (10.14%) Process Improvement
10 14 (10.14%) AWS
10 14 (10.14%) AutoCAD
10 14 (10.14%) Six Sigma
10 14 (10.14%) C#
10 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Project
10 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
10 14 (10.14%) Power Platform
10 14 (10.14%) Resource Allocation
10 14 (10.14%) Budgeting
11 13 (9.42%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.42%) SaaS
12 12 (8.70%) Mentoring
12 12 (8.70%) C++
12 12 (8.70%) e-Learning
13 10 (7.25%) Active Directory
13 10 (7.25%) PHP

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (10.14%) AutoCAD
1 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.90%) EPLAN
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.22%) Azure
2 14 (10.14%) AWS
2 14 (10.14%) Power Platform
3 13 (9.42%) SaaS
4 8 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
4 8 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (5.80%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.80%) IBM Cloud
4 8 (5.80%) OCI
4 8 (5.80%) Route 53
5 3 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) DNS
2 9 (6.52%) LAN
2 9 (6.52%) WAN
3 7 (5.07%) DHCP
3 7 (5.07%) Firewall
4 5 (3.62%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.90%) IPv4
5 4 (2.90%) IPv6
6 2 (1.45%) SAN
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) Power BI
2 8 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.25%) JMeter
1 10 (7.25%) Selenium
2 5 (3.62%) JUnit
2 5 (3.62%) SpecFlow
2 5 (3.62%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.62%) TestNG
2 5 (3.62%) WebDriver
3 4 (2.90%) JIRA
General
1 28 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.07%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.62%) Finance
8 4 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Electronics
9 3 (2.17%) Retail
10 2 (1.45%) Banking
10 2 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.72%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.52%) .NET
2 5 (3.62%) Gherkin
3 4 (2.90%) Laravel
3 4 (2.90%) RESTful
4 3 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.17%) EDI
4 3 (2.17%) Node.js
4 3 (2.17%) Vue
5 2 (1.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.45%) React
6 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.72%) CSS
6 1 (0.72%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.72%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.72%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) e-Learning
2 8 (5.80%) Blockchain
2 8 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.90%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.90%) PMI
5 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.45%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.72%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.72%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.72%) IoT
6 1 (0.72%) NHS
6 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.07%) Linux
1 7 (5.07%) Windows
2 5 (3.62%) VMS
2 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (13.77%) Agile
2 18 (13.04%) Test Automation
3 17 (12.32%) Logistics
4 16 (11.59%) Customer-Centricity
4 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (10.87%) DevOps
5 15 (10.87%) Project Delivery
6 14 (10.14%) Budgeting
6 14 (10.14%) Process Improvement
6 14 (10.14%) Resource Allocation
6 14 (10.14%) Six Sigma
7 13 (9.42%) Software Engineering
8 12 (8.70%) Mentoring
9 10 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (6.52%) Unit Testing
11 8 (5.80%) Coaching
11 8 (5.80%) Containerisation
11 8 (5.80%) CRM
11 8 (5.80%) Observability
11 8 (5.80%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.14%) C#
2 12 (8.70%) C++
3 10 (7.25%) PHP
4 9 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.52%) SQL
5 3 (2.17%) C
5 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.62%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.90%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.90%) PMP
4 4 (2.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.72%) CCNP
5 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.72%) EMC Certification
5 1 (0.72%) GIAC
5 1 (0.72%) HNC
5 1 (0.72%) HND
5 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.62%) QA
2 2 (1.45%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 10 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.52%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.45%) Firmware
5 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.80%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.80%) Prometheus
1 8 (5.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.25%) VMware
3 8 (5.80%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.80%) IBM
3 8 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.62%) Cisco
5 4 (2.90%) Datto
5 4 (2.90%) HP
5 4 (2.90%) NETGEAR
5 4 (2.90%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (2.90%) Veeam
6 2 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.72%) Aruba
7 1 (0.72%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.72%) EMC
7 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto