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 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 382 489 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.42% 11.12% 12.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.18% 11.76% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 102 316 205
10th Percentile £36,375 £39,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £53,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -2.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £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 2,517 4,157 2,499
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 94.50% 88.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 3,020 1,352
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 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 11 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 11 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 -4 131 £60,000 -4.00% 23
Leicestershire +3 104 £57,500 +9.52% 25
Nottinghamshire -7 62 £55,000 -8.33% 52
Lincolnshire +11 57 £62,500 +25.00% 22
Derbyshire -4 26 £45,000 -10.00% 31
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 208 (54.45%) Degree
2 196 (51.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 137 (35.86%) Systems Engineering
4 85 (22.25%) Social Skills
5 81 (21.20%) Mathematics
6 49 (12.83%) IEC 61508
7 44 (11.52%) Physics
8 43 (11.26%) Manufacturing
9 41 (10.73%) Finance
10 40 (10.47%) Microsoft
11 38 (9.95%) Mentoring
11 38 (9.95%) FMEA
12 37 (9.69%) Agile
12 37 (9.69%) SQL
13 36 (9.42%) Azure
14 35 (9.16%) Def Stans
15 32 (8.38%) Numerate Degree
16 31 (8.12%) Automotive
17 30 (7.85%) Ergonomics
17 30 (7.85%) Human Factors
18 28 (7.33%) Legal
18 28 (7.33%) Coaching
19 27 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
20 26 (6.81%) Computer Science
20 26 (6.81%) Python
20 26 (6.81%) Project Management
20 26 (6.81%) Risk Management
21 25 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
22 22 (5.76%) Cybersecurity
22 22 (5.76%) 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 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.05%) Luigi
4 3 (0.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (3.14%) Simulink
2 6 (1.57%) Revit
3 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Infor LN
1 4 (1.05%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (9.42%) Azure
2 16 (4.19%) SaaS
3 14 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
3 14 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.36%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.36%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.09%) AWS
7 6 (1.57%) GCP
8 5 (1.31%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.05%) dbt
9 4 (1.05%) IaaS
9 4 (1.05%) PaaS
9 4 (1.05%) Pulumi
9 4 (1.05%) Serverless
9 4 (1.05%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.52%) Google Ads
11 2 (0.52%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.57%) Firewall
1 6 (1.57%) TETRA
2 5 (1.31%) LAN
2 5 (1.31%) VoIP
2 5 (1.31%) WAN
3 4 (1.05%) Network Security
3 4 (1.05%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.05%) VPN
3 4 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 2 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.52%) DHCP
5 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.52%) SMS
5 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.26%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) Profibus
6 1 (0.26%) SAN
6 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.93%) Tableau
2 6 (1.57%) Power BI
3 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.05%) Big Data
4 4 (1.05%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.05%) MySQL
4 4 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.52%) KDB
5 2 (0.52%) Kdb+
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (4.71%) JIRA
2 10 (2.62%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.57%) Git
3 6 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (1.57%) Selenium
4 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.79%) Postman
4 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.52%) Subversion
6 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.26%) Manufacturing
3 41 (10.73%) Finance
4 31 (8.12%) Automotive
5 28 (7.33%) Legal
6 25 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (5.24%) Telecoms
8 19 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (4.19%) Electronics
11 12 (3.14%) Aerospace
11 12 (3.14%) Billing
12 11 (2.88%) Marketing
13 9 (2.36%) Retail
14 6 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.31%) Games
16 4 (1.05%) Police
17 3 (0.79%) Aviation
17 3 (0.79%) Law
17 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.40%) .NET
2 6 (1.57%) HTML
3 5 (1.31%) .NET Framework
3 5 (1.31%) React
4 4 (1.05%) CSS
4 4 (1.05%) Dask
4 4 (1.05%) Polars
5 3 (0.79%) Blazor
5 3 (0.79%) jQuery
5 3 (0.79%) Middleware
5 3 (0.79%) Node.js
5 3 (0.79%) WPF
6 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.52%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.52%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.52%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.52%) JSON
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.66%) SCADA
2 12 (3.14%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.62%) Credit Risk
4 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.05%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.52%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.52%) IoT
8 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.52%) Optoelectronics
9 1 (0.26%) Blog
9 1 (0.26%) Clustering
9 1 (0.26%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.26%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.26%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.45%) Windows
2 9 (2.36%) Linux
2 9 (2.36%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) AIX
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (35.86%) Systems Engineering
2 81 (21.20%) Mathematics
3 44 (11.52%) Physics
4 38 (9.95%) FMEA
4 38 (9.95%) Mentoring
5 37 (9.69%) Agile
6 30 (7.85%) Ergonomics
6 30 (7.85%) Human Factors
7 28 (7.33%) Coaching
8 27 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (6.81%) Computer Science
9 26 (6.81%) Project Management
9 26 (6.81%) Risk Management
10 22 (5.76%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (5.50%) Hazard Analysis
12 20 (5.24%) Decision-Making
13 19 (4.97%) Analytics
13 19 (4.97%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (4.97%) Project Planning
14 18 (4.71%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.69%) SQL
2 26 (6.81%) Python
3 18 (4.71%) C#
4 16 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (3.14%) MATLAB
7 9 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.31%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.05%) R
9 4 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.79%) C
10 3 (0.79%) C++
10 3 (0.79%) Java
10 3 (0.79%) Rust
10 3 (0.79%) VB
11 2 (0.52%) PHP
11 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 208 (54.45%) Degree
2 196 (51.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 32 (8.38%) Numerate Degree
4 13 (3.40%) Chartered Engineer
5 12 (3.14%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.83%) MAPM
7 7 (1.83%) MRICS
8 6 (1.57%) CISSP
9 5 (1.31%) ACCA
10 4 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.05%) CIMA
10 4 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.79%) CCNP
11 3 (0.79%) MCSA
11 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.52%) CCIE
12 2 (0.52%) CCNA
12 2 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.83%) IEC 61508
2 35 (9.16%) Def Stans
3 22 (5.76%) QA
4 14 (3.66%) ARP4754
4 14 (3.66%) DO-254
5 11 (2.88%) HAZOP
6 8 (2.09%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.05%) GAAP
8 4 (1.05%) IFRS
9 2 (0.52%) GDPR
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.52%) NIST
10 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (4.19%) Docker
2 13 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.31%) Firmware
4 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.88%) Functional Safety
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.05%) Terraform
4 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 40 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.36%) SAP
3 8 (2.09%) Oracle
4 7 (1.83%) Meraki
5 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.57%) Veeam
6 5 (1.31%) Sage
7 4 (1.05%) Cognos
7 4 (1.05%) Commvault
7 4 (1.05%) Databricks
7 4 (1.05%) Google
7 4 (1.05%) HP
7 4 (1.05%) Infor
8 3 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.79%) Cisco
8 3 (0.79%) Minitab
8 3 (0.79%) VMware
9 2 (0.52%) Aruba
9 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto