Senior Jobs in the East of England

Senior
England > East of England

The median Senior salary in the East of England is £57,500 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 13 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 391 570 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.91% 9.31% 12.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.04% 9.91% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 166 440 324
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,715 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,583 £81,250 £89,625
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 2,999 5,752 4,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.93% 83.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 4,392 2,235
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £63,338 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
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 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 11 May 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 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
Norfolk +16 143 £54,000 +8.00% 14
Cambridgeshire -4 76 £67,500 +12.50% 204
Hertfordshire -1 60 £57,500 -4.17% 100
Bedfordshire +4 52 £47,500 -10.38% 26
Essex +4 42 £65,000 +8.33% 72
Suffolk -19 18 £55,000 +41.94% 18
Senior
England

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

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 of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 183 (46.80%) Degree
2 91 (23.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 85 (21.74%) Mentoring
4 76 (19.44%) Agile
5 71 (18.16%) Social Skills
6 58 (14.83%) Software Engineering
7 56 (14.32%) Manufacturing
7 56 (14.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (13.81%) Microsoft
8 54 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
9 53 (13.55%) Project Management
10 52 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (12.79%) Systems Engineering
12 48 (12.28%) QA
12 48 (12.28%) IEC 61508
13 43 (11.00%) Finance
14 38 (9.72%) Chartered Engineer
15 34 (8.70%) CAD
15 34 (8.70%) FMEA
15 34 (8.70%) Def Stans
16 33 (8.44%) C
17 32 (8.18%) C++
17 32 (8.18%) Mathematics
18 31 (7.93%) Azure
19 29 (7.42%) Design for Manufacturing
20 28 (7.16%) DevOps
21 27 (6.91%) Electronics
22 26 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
23 25 (6.39%) Driving Licence
24 24 (6.14%) Process Improvement

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 15 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.79%) IIS
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.26%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 12 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.02%) Adobe XD
5 4 (1.02%) Sketch
6 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Infor LN
1 4 (1.02%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.51%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (7.93%) Azure
2 26 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (5.88%) AWS
4 13 (3.32%) Power Platform
5 11 (2.81%) SaaS
6 8 (2.05%) GitHub
7 7 (1.79%) Figma
8 5 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.02%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.77%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.77%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.51%) Boomi
11 2 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.51%) GCP
11 2 (0.51%) Serverless
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.26%) Firebase
12 1 (0.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.07%) RS-485
2 10 (2.56%) Firewall
3 8 (2.05%) Bluetooth
3 8 (2.05%) Wireless
4 7 (1.79%) FTP
4 7 (1.79%) Modbus
4 7 (1.79%) Profibus
4 7 (1.79%) RS-232
4 7 (1.79%) ZigBee
5 5 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.02%) BGP
6 4 (1.02%) EIGRP
6 4 (1.02%) OSPF
6 4 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.02%) Spanning Tree
6 4 (1.02%) Unified Communications
6 4 (1.02%) VLAN
6 4 (1.02%) VoIP
6 4 (1.02%) WAN
6 4 (1.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.84%) Big Data
2 14 (3.58%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.30%) Power BI
4 5 (1.28%) Tableau
5 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.77%) MySQL
7 2 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Redis
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (4.09%) JIRA
2 11 (2.81%) Git
3 7 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.53%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.53%) Selenium
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.51%) GitLab
6 2 (0.51%) Moq
6 2 (0.51%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.51%) webpack
7 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.26%) GDB
7 1 (0.26%) gulp
7 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.26%) KGDB
7 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 71 (18.16%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (14.32%) Manufacturing
3 54 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.00%) Finance
5 27 (6.91%) Electronics
6 21 (5.37%) Local Government
7 20 (5.12%) Marketing
8 16 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.84%) Advertising
10 14 (3.58%) Automotive
11 12 (3.07%) Law
12 9 (2.30%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.53%) Legal
13 6 (1.53%) Police
13 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.02%) Banking
14 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.02%) Retail
15 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.09%) HTML
2 14 (3.58%) .NET
3 12 (3.07%) CSS
4 11 (2.81%) React
5 9 (2.30%) Entity Framework
6 8 (2.05%) .NET Framework
6 8 (2.05%) ASP.NET
6 8 (2.05%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (1.53%) Electron
7 6 (1.53%) RESTful
7 6 (1.53%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (1.53%) Sass
8 5 (1.28%) HTML5
9 4 (1.02%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.02%) CSS3
9 4 (1.02%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.02%) LDAP
9 4 (1.02%) LESS
9 4 (1.02%) REST
9 4 (1.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.39%) Driving Licence
2 17 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.84%) Digital Media
3 15 (3.84%) Marketing Technology
4 14 (3.58%) SCADA
5 12 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (2.30%) FPGA
8 7 (1.79%) Verilog
9 6 (1.53%) Life Science
10 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.28%) PKI
10 5 (1.28%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.77%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.77%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.35%) Windows
2 12 (3.07%) Linux
3 8 (2.05%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.79%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (1.02%) Android
6 3 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (21.74%) Mentoring
2 76 (19.44%) Agile
3 58 (14.83%) Software Engineering
4 53 (13.55%) Project Management
5 52 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (12.79%) Systems Engineering
7 34 (8.70%) CAD
7 34 (8.70%) FMEA
8 32 (8.18%) Mathematics
9 29 (7.42%) Design for Manufacturing
10 28 (7.16%) DevOps
11 24 (6.14%) Process Improvement
12 23 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (5.37%) Coaching
14 20 (5.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (4.86%) CI/CD
15 19 (4.86%) Physics
15 19 (4.86%) Time Management
16 18 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence
17 17 (4.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.44%) C
2 32 (8.18%) C++
3 23 (5.88%) SQL
4 22 (5.63%) Python
5 21 (5.37%) C#
5 21 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.60%) Java
7 16 (4.09%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.58%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.81%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.56%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.79%) Rust
12 6 (1.53%) Bash
12 6 (1.53%) Ruby
13 5 (1.28%) Objective-C
13 5 (1.28%) PHP
14 3 (0.77%) Ada
15 1 (0.26%) R
15 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) XAML
Qualifications
1 183 (46.80%) Degree
2 91 (23.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 38 (9.72%) Chartered Engineer
4 14 (3.58%) Numerate Degree
5 12 (3.07%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.56%) CISSP
6 10 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 9 (2.30%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.79%) HND
8 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.53%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.28%) HNC
11 4 (1.02%) ACCA
11 4 (1.02%) CEH
11 4 (1.02%) CIMA
11 4 (1.02%) CISM
11 4 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.28%) IEC 61508
1 48 (12.28%) QA
2 34 (8.70%) Def Stans
3 14 (3.58%) ARP4754
3 14 (3.58%) DO-254
4 11 (2.81%) HAZOP
5 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.02%) GAAP
6 4 (1.02%) IFRS
6 4 (1.02%) NCSC
6 4 (1.02%) NIST
6 4 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.77%) GMP
7 3 (0.77%) GxP
7 3 (0.77%) SLA
8 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.51%) PMO
9 1 (0.26%) GDPR
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 9 (2.30%) Firmware
2 8 (2.05%) Docker
3 7 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.81%) Functional Safety
2 6 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.28%) Terraform
4 4 (1.02%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.02%) Nessus
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 54 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.58%) NEC
3 9 (2.30%) VMware
4 6 (1.53%) Cisco
4 6 (1.53%) SAP
5 5 (1.28%) EMC
5 5 (1.28%) Oracle
5 5 (1.28%) Xamarin
6 4 (1.02%) Adobe
6 4 (1.02%) Cognos
6 4 (1.02%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.02%) HP
6 4 (1.02%) Infor
6 4 (1.02%) Qualys
6 4 (1.02%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.02%) Tenable
7 3 (0.77%) Apple
7 3 (0.77%) Dell
7 3 (0.77%) Google
8 2 (0.51%) Citrix