Senior Jobs in the East Midlands

Senior
England > East Midlands

The median Senior salary in the East Midlands is £55,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 353 547 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.05% 11.26% 13.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.77% 11.90% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 90 348 208
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,832 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,750 £72,500 £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 2,563 4,598 2,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 94.65% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 3,265 1,280
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,000 £64,356
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +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 31 May 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 31 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
Northamptonshire -2 121 £60,000 +6.67% 34
Leicestershire +3 113 £57,250 +9.05% 32
Lincolnshire +8 48 £59,000 +18.00% 13
Nottinghamshire -20 47 £55,000 -8.33% 66
Derbyshire -16 22 £45,000 -14.29% 19
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 189 (53.54%) Degree
2 183 (51.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 127 (35.98%) Systems Engineering
4 76 (21.53%) Social Skills
5 71 (20.11%) Mathematics
6 50 (14.16%) Manufacturing
7 44 (12.46%) Physics
8 39 (11.05%) Agile
8 39 (11.05%) IEC 61508
9 37 (10.48%) Mentoring
9 37 (10.48%) Legal
10 36 (10.20%) Microsoft
11 34 (9.63%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (9.35%) Finance
13 32 (9.07%) Azure
14 31 (8.78%) Automotive
15 30 (8.50%) Ergonomics
15 30 (8.50%) Human Factors
16 28 (7.93%) Coaching
16 28 (7.93%) FMEA
17 27 (7.65%) SQL
18 26 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
19 25 (7.08%) Def Stans
19 25 (7.08%) Project Management
20 24 (6.80%) Numerate Degree
21 23 (6.52%) Risk Management
21 23 (6.52%) Computer Science
22 22 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
23 21 (5.95%) Hazard Analysis
23 21 (5.95%) 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 8 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.85%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.57%) Appian
5 2 (0.57%) Luigi
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (3.40%) Simulink
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.70%) Revit
3 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Infor LN
1 4 (1.13%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (9.07%) Azure
2 14 (3.97%) SaaS
3 11 (3.12%) AWS
3 11 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.70%) GCP
6 6 (1.70%) Serverless
7 5 (1.42%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.85%) IaaS
9 3 (0.85%) PaaS
9 3 (0.85%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.57%) dbt
10 2 (0.57%) Google Ads
10 2 (0.57%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.57%) Pulumi
10 2 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.70%) Firewall
1 6 (1.70%) TETRA
2 5 (1.42%) Broadband
2 5 (1.42%) VoIP
3 4 (1.13%) LAN
3 4 (1.13%) Network Security
3 4 (1.13%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.13%) VPN
3 4 (1.13%) WAN
4 3 (0.85%) DHCP
4 3 (0.85%) DNS
4 3 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.57%) SMS
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) LTE
6 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.27%) Tableau
2 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.13%) Big Data
3 4 (1.13%) MySQL
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.85%) Power BI
5 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (5.10%) JIRA
2 10 (2.83%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (2.27%) Git
4 5 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.13%) Selenium
6 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.85%) Subversion
7 2 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.16%) Manufacturing
3 37 (10.48%) Legal
4 34 (9.63%) Documentation Skills
5 33 (9.35%) Finance
6 31 (8.78%) Automotive
7 20 (5.67%) Telecoms
8 19 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (4.53%) Electronics
11 12 (3.40%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.55%) Marketing
13 8 (2.27%) Billing
13 8 (2.27%) Games
13 8 (2.27%) Retail
14 4 (1.13%) Police
15 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.57%) Advertising
16 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
17 1 (0.28%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.68%) .NET
2 9 (2.55%) HTML
3 8 (2.27%) .NET Framework
3 8 (2.27%) CSS
4 7 (1.98%) React
5 4 (1.13%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.13%) Dask
5 4 (1.13%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.13%) jQuery
5 4 (1.13%) Polars
6 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.85%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.85%) Bootstrap
6 3 (0.85%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.85%) JSON
6 3 (0.85%) Node.js
7 2 (0.57%) HTML5
7 2 (0.57%) Sass
7 2 (0.57%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (0.57%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.68%) Management Information System
2 6 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.13%) Credit Risk
5 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.57%) Animation
6 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.57%) IoT
6 2 (0.57%) Optoelectronics
7 1 (0.28%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.28%) Blog
7 1 (0.28%) Clustering
7 1 (0.28%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.28%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.28%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.28%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.82%) Windows
2 9 (2.55%) Linux
2 9 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.13%) Android
4 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) AIX
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (35.98%) Systems Engineering
2 71 (20.11%) Mathematics
3 44 (12.46%) Physics
4 39 (11.05%) Agile
5 37 (10.48%) Mentoring
6 30 (8.50%) Ergonomics
6 30 (8.50%) Human Factors
7 28 (7.93%) Coaching
7 28 (7.93%) FMEA
8 26 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (7.08%) Project Management
10 23 (6.52%) Computer Science
10 23 (6.52%) Risk Management
11 22 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (5.95%) Hazard Analysis
13 19 (5.38%) Project Planning
13 19 (5.38%) Software Testing
14 18 (5.10%) Requirements Management
15 17 (4.82%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (4.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.65%) SQL
2 17 (4.82%) Python
3 16 (4.53%) C#
3 16 (4.53%) JavaScript
4 12 (3.40%) MATLAB
5 10 (2.83%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.13%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.85%) Java
8 3 (0.85%) Rust
9 2 (0.57%) HLSL
9 2 (0.57%) PHP
10 1 (0.28%) C
10 1 (0.28%) C++
10 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 189 (53.54%) Degree
2 183 (51.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 24 (6.80%) Numerate Degree
4 13 (3.68%) Chartered Engineer
5 9 (2.55%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.70%) CISSP
8 5 (1.42%) ACCA
8 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.13%) CIMA
9 4 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.13%) MCSA
10 3 (0.85%) CCNP
10 3 (0.85%) Security Cleared
11 2 (0.57%) CCNA
11 2 (0.57%) HNC
11 2 (0.57%) MAPM
11 2 (0.57%) MCSE
11 2 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.05%) IEC 61508
2 25 (7.08%) Def Stans
3 21 (5.95%) QA
4 14 (3.97%) ARP4754
4 14 (3.97%) DO-254
5 11 (3.12%) HAZOP
6 6 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.70%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.13%) GAAP
7 4 (1.13%) IFRS
8 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.57%) GDPR
10 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.28%) NIST
10 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.12%) Docker
3 5 (1.42%) Firmware
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.12%) Functional Safety
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.85%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.57%) Terraform
5 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.28%) SCCM
5 1 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.55%) SAP
3 7 (1.98%) Meraki
3 7 (1.98%) Oracle
3 7 (1.98%) Veeam
4 5 (1.42%) Cognos
4 5 (1.42%) HP
4 5 (1.42%) Sage
5 4 (1.13%) Commvault
5 4 (1.13%) Databricks
5 4 (1.13%) Google
5 4 (1.13%) Infor
5 4 (1.13%) VMware
6 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.85%) Minitab
6 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.57%) Aruba
7 2 (0.57%) Cisco
7 2 (0.57%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.57%) Sophos