Senior Jobs in the East Midlands

Senior
England > East Midlands

The median Senior salary in the East Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 366 479 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.90% 11.13% 12.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.82% 11.76% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 107 313 220
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,700 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -0.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £74,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% -10.31% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,176 4,073 2,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 94.63% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 2,982 1,397
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.48% -10.84% +0.95%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the East Midlands

Senior
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior in the East Midlands

Senior
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in the East Midlands

Senior
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Northamptonshire +8 126 £61,250 +6.52% 22
Leicestershire +1 86 £56,000 +6.67% 43
Nottinghamshire +1 68 £55,000 -8.33% 63
Lincolnshire +14 57 £60,000 +20.00% 29
Derbyshire +9 27 £45,000 -14.29% 23
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 193 (52.73%) Degree
2 179 (48.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 126 (34.43%) Systems Engineering
4 82 (22.40%) Social Skills
5 69 (18.85%) Mathematics
6 47 (12.84%) IEC 61508
7 42 (11.48%) Finance
7 42 (11.48%) SQL
8 41 (11.20%) Microsoft
9 39 (10.66%) Physics
9 39 (10.66%) Azure
10 38 (10.38%) FMEA
11 37 (10.11%) Mentoring
12 36 (9.84%) Agile
13 35 (9.56%) Def Stans
14 34 (9.29%) Manufacturing
15 29 (7.92%) Python
16 28 (7.65%) Automotive
16 28 (7.65%) Computer Science
17 27 (7.38%) Ergonomics
17 27 (7.38%) Human Factors
17 27 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
18 26 (7.10%) Coaching
19 25 (6.83%) Numerate Degree
19 25 (6.83%) Project Management
20 24 (6.56%) Risk Management
20 24 (6.56%) Decision-Making
21 23 (6.28%) Analytics
22 22 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
22 22 (6.01%) QA

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.09%) Luigi
4 3 (0.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (3.28%) Simulink
2 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.82%) Revit
5 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Infor LN
1 4 (1.09%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.66%) Azure
2 17 (4.64%) SaaS
3 16 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
3 16 (4.37%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (3.01%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.46%) AWS
6 9 (2.46%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.64%) GCP
8 5 (1.37%) IaaS
9 4 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.09%) dbt
9 4 (1.09%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.09%) PaaS
9 4 (1.09%) Pulumi
9 4 (1.09%) Serverless
9 4 (1.09%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.55%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.91%) Firewall
2 5 (1.37%) LAN
2 5 (1.37%) VPN
2 5 (1.37%) WAN
3 4 (1.09%) Network Security
3 4 (1.09%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.09%) VoIP
3 4 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.82%) DNS
4 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.82%) TETRA
5 2 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.55%) DHCP
5 2 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.55%) SAN
5 2 (0.55%) SMS
6 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) Profibus
6 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.64%) Tableau
2 8 (2.19%) Power BI
3 5 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.09%) Big Data
4 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.09%) MySQL
4 4 (1.09%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.55%) KDB
5 2 (0.55%) Kdb+
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (4.92%) JIRA
2 10 (2.73%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.64%) Git
3 6 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (1.64%) Selenium
4 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.82%) Postman
4 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.55%) Subversion
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 82 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 42 (11.48%) Finance
3 34 (9.29%) Manufacturing
4 28 (7.65%) Automotive
5 20 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.19%) Legal
7 17 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.64%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (4.10%) Electronics
10 12 (3.28%) Aerospace
10 12 (3.28%) Billing
10 12 (3.28%) Marketing
11 10 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.73%) Retail
12 5 (1.37%) Games
12 5 (1.37%) Law
13 4 (1.09%) Aviation
13 4 (1.09%) Police
14 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.83%) .NET
2 6 (1.64%) .NET Framework
2 6 (1.64%) HTML
2 6 (1.64%) React
3 4 (1.09%) CSS
3 4 (1.09%) Dask
3 4 (1.09%) Polars
4 3 (0.82%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.82%) Blazor
4 3 (0.82%) jQuery
4 3 (0.82%) Middleware
4 3 (0.82%) Node.js
4 3 (0.82%) WPF
5 2 (0.55%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.55%) Bootstrap
5 2 (0.55%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.55%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.55%) JSON
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.83%) SCADA
2 12 (3.28%) Credit Risk
2 12 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.64%) Algorithms
3 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.09%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.55%) IoT
7 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.27%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.27%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.27%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.27%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.27%) Optoelectronics
8 1 (0.27%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.37%) Windows
2 9 (2.46%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.19%) Linux
4 3 (0.82%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) AIX
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (34.43%) Systems Engineering
2 69 (18.85%) Mathematics
3 39 (10.66%) Physics
4 38 (10.38%) FMEA
5 37 (10.11%) Mentoring
6 36 (9.84%) Agile
7 28 (7.65%) Computer Science
8 27 (7.38%) Ergonomics
8 27 (7.38%) Human Factors
8 27 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (7.10%) Coaching
10 25 (6.83%) Project Management
11 24 (6.56%) Decision-Making
11 24 (6.56%) Risk Management
12 23 (6.28%) Analytics
13 22 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (5.74%) Hazard Analysis
15 19 (5.19%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (4.92%) Data Visualisation
16 18 (4.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (11.48%) SQL
2 29 (7.92%) Python
3 19 (5.19%) C#
4 17 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.37%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (3.28%) MATLAB
7 8 (2.19%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.64%) R
9 5 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.82%) C
11 3 (0.82%) C++
11 3 (0.82%) Java
11 3 (0.82%) Rust
11 3 (0.82%) VB
12 2 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 193 (52.73%) Degree
2 179 (48.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (6.83%) Numerate Degree
4 13 (3.55%) Chartered Engineer
5 12 (3.28%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.46%) MAPM
6 9 (2.46%) MRICS
7 8 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.64%) CISSP
9 5 (1.37%) ACCA
10 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.09%) CIMA
11 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.55%) CCIE
12 2 (0.55%) CCNP
12 2 (0.55%) MCSA
12 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) HNC
13 1 (0.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.84%) IEC 61508
2 35 (9.56%) Def Stans
3 22 (6.01%) QA
4 12 (3.28%) ARP4754
4 12 (3.28%) DO-254
5 11 (3.01%) HAZOP
6 8 (2.19%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.09%) GAAP
9 4 (1.09%) IFRS
10 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.82%) NIST
11 2 (0.55%) GDPR
12 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.27%) GRC
12 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (5.19%) Docker
2 13 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.37%) Firmware
3 5 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.01%) Functional Safety
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.09%) Terraform
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
5 2 (0.55%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
6 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.73%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.46%) SAP
4 8 (2.19%) Oracle
5 6 (1.64%) Meraki
6 5 (1.37%) Veeam
7 4 (1.09%) Cisco
7 4 (1.09%) Cognos
7 4 (1.09%) Commvault
7 4 (1.09%) Databricks
7 4 (1.09%) Google
7 4 (1.09%) HP
7 4 (1.09%) Infor
7 4 (1.09%) Sage
7 4 (1.09%) VMware
8 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.82%) Minitab
9 2 (0.55%) Aruba
9 2 (0.55%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.55%) Palo Alto