Senior Jobs in Chester

Senior
Cheshire > Chester

The median Senior salary in Chester is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 20 8
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 5 14 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 12.82% 6.39% 14.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.82% 6.80% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 17
10th Percentile £44,200 £55,250 £51,833
25th Percentile £47,125 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +37.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £88,989 £75,000
Cheshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year -4.35% -5.43% +8.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 39 206 167
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 94.06% 78.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24 176 91
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,750 £22,000
25th Percentile £32,188 £34,000 £25,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £56,563 £60,281 £60,800
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% - -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Chester

Senior
Salary Trend in Chester

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

Salary trend for Senior in Chester

Senior
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Chester over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Chester

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Chester region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CISMP
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) CRISC
2 2 (40.00%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) GRC
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Business Impact Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
3 1 (20.00%) Sketch
3 1 (20.00%) Figma
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Impact Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISMP
1 2 (40.00%) CRISC
2 1 (20.00%) ACCA
2 1 (20.00%) CCAB
2 1 (20.00%) CIMA
2 1 (20.00%) CIPFA
2 1 (20.00%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft