Senior Jobs in the East of England

Senior
England > East of England

The median Senior salary in the East of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 397 660 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.43% 9.48% 12.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.17% 10.08% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 137 506 269
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% -10.31% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,263 6,549 3,748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 94.08% 82.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,610 4,978 2,010
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £31,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the East of England region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Norfolk +16 116 £58,000 +16.00% 110
Hertfordshire +5 89 £57,500 -4.17% 468
Essex +1 65 £65,000 +18.18% 341
Cambridgeshire -12 57 £68,750 +14.58% 514
Bedfordshire -8 47 £42,500 -15.00% 207
Suffolk -29 23 £55,000 +74.60% 97
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 161 (40.55%) Degree
2 117 (29.47%) Mentoring
3 94 (23.68%) Agile
4 84 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
6 67 (16.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (16.37%) Broadband
8 61 (15.37%) Social Skills
9 57 (14.36%) Python
9 57 (14.36%) AWS
10 54 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 53 (13.35%) Artificial Intelligence
12 52 (13.10%) Software Engineering
13 50 (12.59%) QA
13 50 (12.59%) CI/CD
14 49 (12.34%) Manufacturing
14 49 (12.34%) Finance
15 48 (12.09%) Project Management
16 45 (11.34%) Azure
17 42 (10.58%) TypeScript
18 39 (9.82%) Microsoft
19 35 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
20 34 (8.56%) Systems Engineering
21 33 (8.31%) Games
21 33 (8.31%) AWS Lambda
21 33 (8.31%) GraphQL
21 33 (8.31%) Serverless
21 33 (8.31%) Clean Code
22 32 (8.06%) IEC 61508
23 30 (7.56%) Creative Thinking

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.76%) IIS
3 6 (1.51%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Infor LN
1 4 (1.01%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.50%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (14.36%) AWS
2 45 (11.34%) Azure
3 33 (8.31%) AWS Lambda
3 33 (8.31%) Serverless
4 27 (6.80%) GCP
5 15 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.77%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.76%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.01%) Figma
10 3 (0.76%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.76%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.76%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.50%) GitHub
11 2 (0.50%) SaaS
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (16.37%) Broadband
2 11 (2.77%) Firewall
3 7 (1.76%) FTP
4 4 (1.01%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.01%) Wireless
5 3 (0.76%) Modbus
5 3 (0.76%) OSPF
5 3 (0.76%) Profibus
5 3 (0.76%) RS-232
5 3 (0.76%) RS-485
5 3 (0.76%) VLAN
5 3 (0.76%) VoIP
5 3 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.76%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.50%) BGP
6 2 (0.50%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.50%) Intranet
6 2 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.78%) Big Data
2 10 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.76%) MySQL
3 7 (1.76%) Power BI
4 6 (1.51%) Amazon QuickSight
4 6 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (1.51%) BusinessObjects
4 6 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.01%) Tableau
6 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.25%) DB2
7 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (4.79%) JIRA
2 9 (2.27%) Selenium
3 7 (1.76%) Git
3 7 (1.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.50%) GitLab
5 2 (0.50%) Moq
5 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.25%) GDB
6 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.25%) KGDB
6 1 (0.25%) LabVIEW
General
1 71 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (15.37%) Social Skills
3 54 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (12.34%) Finance
4 49 (12.34%) Manufacturing
5 33 (8.31%) Games
6 21 (5.29%) Marketing
7 19 (4.79%) Local Government
8 16 (4.03%) Electronics
9 15 (3.78%) Advertising
10 14 (3.53%) Law
11 11 (2.77%) Legal
11 11 (2.77%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.52%) Automotive
13 9 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.51%) Police
15 5 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.26%) Retail
16 4 (1.01%) Banking
16 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.31%) GraphQL
2 26 (6.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 26 (6.55%) WebGL
3 11 (2.77%) React
4 8 (2.02%) HTML
5 6 (1.51%) .NET
5 6 (1.51%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (1.51%) Serverless Framework
6 5 (1.26%) LDAP
6 5 (1.26%) RESTful
7 4 (1.01%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.01%) CSS
7 4 (1.01%) Vue
8 3 (0.76%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.76%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (0.50%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.50%) Next.js
9 2 (0.50%) Node.js
9 2 (0.50%) Swagger
9 2 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (6.55%) Animation
3 23 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.29%) Driving Licence
5 15 (3.78%) Digital Media
5 15 (3.78%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.76%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.76%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.51%) PKI
10 5 (1.26%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.26%) FPGA
11 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.01%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.76%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.76%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.03%) Windows
2 13 (3.27%) Linux
3 8 (2.02%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.50%) Android
5 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.47%) Mentoring
2 94 (23.68%) Agile
3 84 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (13.35%) Artificial Intelligence
5 52 (13.10%) Software Engineering
6 50 (12.59%) CI/CD
7 48 (12.09%) Project Management
8 34 (8.56%) Systems Engineering
9 33 (8.31%) Clean Code
10 30 (7.56%) Creative Thinking
11 29 (7.30%) CAD
11 29 (7.30%) Design for Manufacturing
11 29 (7.30%) Machine Learning
12 27 (6.80%) Prototyping
13 26 (6.55%) 3D Animation
13 26 (6.55%) Data Science
13 26 (6.55%) Performance Metrics
13 26 (6.55%) Personalization
13 26 (6.55%) Storytelling
13 26 (6.55%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.36%) Python
2 42 (10.58%) TypeScript
3 26 (6.55%) HLSL
4 21 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 21 (5.29%) SQL
5 18 (4.53%) C
6 15 (3.78%) C++
7 14 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.02%) C#
9 9 (2.27%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.76%) Bash
10 7 (1.76%) Rust
10 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.51%) Ruby
12 5 (1.26%) Java
13 3 (0.76%) Ada
14 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 161 (40.55%) Degree
2 67 (16.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 26 (6.55%) Chartered Engineer
3 26 (6.55%) PhD
4 14 (3.53%) CISSP
5 10 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.52%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.52%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.51%) ACCA
7 6 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.51%) CIMA
7 6 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (1.51%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.26%) HNC
8 5 (1.26%) HND
9 4 (1.01%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.01%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.59%) QA
2 32 (8.06%) IEC 61508
3 18 (4.53%) Def Stans
4 14 (3.53%) ARP4754
4 14 (3.53%) DO-254
5 13 (3.27%) HAZOP
6 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.01%) GAAP
7 4 (1.01%) IFRS
7 4 (1.01%) NCSC
7 4 (1.01%) NIST
8 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.76%) GMP
8 3 (0.76%) GxP
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) CDISC
10 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.76%) Docker
3 5 (1.26%) Firmware
4 3 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) vSphere
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.27%) Functional Safety
2 5 (1.26%) FortiGate
2 5 (1.26%) Nessus
3 4 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.01%) Terraform
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.50%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) WMI
6 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.53%) NEC
3 12 (3.02%) SAP
4 8 (2.02%) VMware
5 7 (1.76%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.26%) Oracle
7 4 (1.01%) Cisco
7 4 (1.01%) Cognos
7 4 (1.01%) Infor
7 4 (1.01%) Qualys
7 4 (1.01%) Tenable
8 3 (0.76%) Apple
9 2 (0.50%) Dell
9 2 (0.50%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.50%) HP
9 2 (0.50%) Northgate
9 2 (0.50%) Pure Storage
9 2 (0.50%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.25%) Google
10 1 (0.25%) Mentor Graphics