Senior Job Trends in Crawley

Senior
West Sussex > Crawley

The median Senior salary in Crawley is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 10 3 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Crawley 9.26% 4.00% 12.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.62% 4.48% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile £47,000 £61,250 £57,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £63,125 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £82,250 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,000 - £77,625
West Sussex median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -3.45% +9.43% +10.42%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Crawley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Crawley. 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 Crawley with a recognized job title 104 67 163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.30% 89.33% 98.19%
Number of salaries quoted 74 29 101
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,900 £32,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £43,563 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% -20.79% -4.35%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £71,750 £78,750 £75,000
West Sussex median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -4.89%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Crawley

Senior
Salary Trend in Crawley

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Crawley.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Crawley

Senior
Salary Histogram in Crawley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Crawley over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Crawley

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Crawley region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Nutanix
3 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 3 (30.00%) Coaching
4 3 (30.00%) Git
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
5 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) FinOps
5 2 (20.00%) GitLab
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
6 1 (10.00%) Business Development

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Coaching
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) FinOps
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 1 (10.00%) SOAR
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (10.00%) Netskope
1 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (10.00%) VMware