Senior Jobs in Devon

Senior
South West > Devon

The median Senior salary in Devon is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 102 159 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 20.61% 18.05% 13.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 24.11% 19.02% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26 123 51
10th Percentile £46,947 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £42,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% +37.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,400
90th Percentile £82,500 - £66,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £59,098
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.70% -1.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Devon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Devon. 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 Devon with a recognized job title 423 836 485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.45% 94.89% 86.15%
Number of salaries quoted 204 644 377
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £34,688 £30,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £64,625 £65,000 £60,800
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Devon

Senior
Salary Trend in Devon

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

Salary trend for Senior in Devon

Senior
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Devon over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Devon

Senior
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Devon region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
Torquay - 22 £75,000 -
Paignton +13 16 £60,000 - 5
Exeter -14 9 £58,750 +30.56% 18
Newton Abbot +6 7 £51,000 +64.52%
Plymouth +2 6 £55,000 +12.24% 21
Buckfastleigh 0 4 £85,000 +70.00%
Bideford 0 3 - -
Barnstaple -1 3 - -
Beaworthy - 3 - -
Braunton - 3 - -
Brixham - 3 - -
Budleigh Salterton - 3 - -
Axminster - 3 - -
Okehampton +6 1 £55,000 +83.33%
Senior
South West

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Devon region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 55 (53.92%) Project Management
2 52 (50.98%) Social Skills
3 49 (48.04%) Finance
4 47 (46.08%) Driving Licence
5 40 (39.22%) Scorecard
5 40 (39.22%) Balanced Scorecard
5 40 (39.22%) Risk Management
6 39 (38.24%) Degree
7 32 (31.37%) Electronics
8 30 (29.41%) Requirements Analysis
9 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (22.55%) Embedded Firmware
10 23 (22.55%) Firmware
11 20 (19.61%) Prototyping
12 18 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
12 18 (17.65%) Optoelectronics
13 17 (16.67%) Schematic Capture
13 17 (16.67%) Stress Analysis
14 16 (15.69%) Creative Thinking
15 15 (14.71%) Project Delivery
15 15 (14.71%) B2B
16 14 (13.73%) Agile
17 13 (12.75%) Computer Science
17 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
17 13 (12.75%) Innovative Thinking
17 13 (12.75%) Mentoring
17 13 (12.75%) Defect Tracking
18 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
19 11 (10.78%) Self-Motivation
19 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.84%) AWS
2 6 (5.88%) Azure
3 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (4.90%) Serverless
4 3 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.98%) GitHub
5 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) 5G
1 8 (7.84%) SD-WAN
1 8 (7.84%) WAN
2 6 (5.88%) Broadband
3 3 (2.94%) BGP
3 3 (2.94%) Firewall
3 3 (2.94%) VLAN
4 2 (1.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.96%) OSPF
4 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.98%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.98%) MySQL
2 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.98%) Power BI
2 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.98%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (50.98%) Social Skills
2 49 (48.04%) Finance
3 32 (31.37%) Electronics
4 18 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.78%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.86%) Retail
8 3 (2.94%) Games
9 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) GraphQL
2 4 (3.92%) React
3 3 (2.94%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 3 (2.94%) WebGL
4 2 (1.96%) .NET
4 2 (1.96%) Node.js
5 1 (0.98%) CSS
5 1 (0.98%) CSS3
5 1 (0.98%) HTML
5 1 (0.98%) HTML5
5 1 (0.98%) Jest
5 1 (0.98%) Next.js
5 1 (0.98%) Playwright
5 1 (0.98%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 47 (46.08%) Driving Licence
2 18 (17.65%) Optoelectronics
3 11 (10.78%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (7.84%) Self-Driving Car
5 7 (6.86%) Satnav
6 6 (5.88%) FPGA
6 6 (5.88%) MicroBlaze
6 6 (5.88%) VHDL
7 5 (4.90%) GNSS
8 3 (2.94%) Animation
9 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.98%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
2 6 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (53.92%) Project Management
2 40 (39.22%) Balanced Scorecard
2 40 (39.22%) Risk Management
2 40 (39.22%) Scorecard
3 30 (29.41%) Requirements Analysis
4 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.61%) Prototyping
6 17 (16.67%) Schematic Capture
6 17 (16.67%) Stress Analysis
7 16 (15.69%) Creative Thinking
8 15 (14.71%) B2B
8 15 (14.71%) Project Delivery
9 14 (13.73%) Agile
10 13 (12.75%) Computer Science
10 13 (12.75%) Defect Tracking
10 13 (12.75%) Innovative Thinking
10 13 (12.75%) Mentoring
10 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
11 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
2 5 (4.90%) C
2 5 (4.90%) C++
2 5 (4.90%) MATLAB
2 5 (4.90%) Perl
2 5 (4.90%) Tcl
2 5 (4.90%) VB
3 4 (3.92%) C#
3 4 (3.92%) Python
4 3 (2.94%) HLSL
5 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.96%) SQL
6 1 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (38.24%) Degree
2 3 (2.94%) PhD
3 2 (1.96%) HND
4 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.98%) CCNP
4 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.98%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) PMO
2 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.98%) ISO 14001
2 1 (0.98%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.98%) NEBOSH
2 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 23 (22.55%) Embedded Firmware
1 23 (22.55%) Firmware
2 2 (1.96%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (5.88%) Xilinx
2 5 (4.90%) Altera
2 5 (4.90%) Green Hills
3 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.98%) Telcordia