Senior Jobs in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior salary in England is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 9 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 7,027 17,468 17,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.92% 15.93% 15.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.66% 16.71% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,178 10,651 11,614
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 44,876 104,554 107,614
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 95.37% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 33,573 67,066 75,101
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,721 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
London 0 3,004 £80,000 - 2,235
North of England +3 1,174 £60,000 - 726
South East -2 1,042 £65,000 - 788
South West +4 724 £56,000 -6.67% 339
Midlands +4 668 £57,500 -4.17% 366
North West +3 584 £62,500 +4.17% 443
Yorkshire +1 495 £60,000 -4.00% 206
West Midlands +3 433 £57,500 -4.17% 238
East of England +2 281 £60,000 -5.29% 330
East Midlands +5 235 £57,500 +4.55% 128
North East +7 93 £55,000 -3.08% 91
South Coast - 1 £50,000 -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 1,887 (26.85%) Agile
2 1,661 (23.64%) Azure
3 1,601 (22.78%) Finance
4 1,450 (20.63%) Social Skills
5 1,449 (20.62%) SQL
6 1,421 (20.22%) AWS
7 1,252 (17.82%) Degree
8 1,132 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
9 1,120 (15.94%) Python
10 1,092 (15.54%) Microsoft
11 1,072 (15.26%) DevOps
12 955 (13.59%) JavaScript
13 953 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 910 (12.95%) Java
15 902 (12.84%) C#
16 839 (11.94%) Security Cleared
17 831 (11.83%) .NET
18 783 (11.14%) Mentoring
19 780 (11.10%) CI/CD
20 754 (10.73%) Windows
21 741 (10.55%) Docker
22 739 (10.52%) Kubernetes
23 628 (8.94%) React
24 604 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
25 556 (7.91%) Linux
26 532 (7.57%) Computer Science
27 531 (7.56%) Analytics
28 522 (7.43%) Microservices
29 519 (7.39%) HTML
30 518 (7.37%) SQL Server

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 118 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 108 (1.54%) Confluence
3 90 (1.28%) SAS
4 67 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 63 (0.90%) MS Exchange
6 57 (0.81%) JBoss
7 55 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
8 54 (0.77%) Apache
9 45 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
10 43 (0.61%) IIS
11 33 (0.47%) CMS
12 27 (0.38%) WebLogic
13 25 (0.36%) nginx
14 22 (0.31%) Umbraco
15 18 (0.26%) Tomcat
16 13 (0.19%) WordPress
17 11 (0.16%) Drupal
18 10 (0.14%) NServiceBus
19 8 (0.11%) OpenEdge
19 8 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 159 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.43%) Simulink
6 23 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.24%) Sketch
8 13 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
11 8 (0.11%) OrCAD
12 7 (0.100%) InDesign
13 5 (0.071%) Adobe XD
13 5 (0.071%) CANalyzer
14 4 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.057%) CATIA
14 4 (0.057%) Stateflow
14 4 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 44 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
3 38 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.54%) Endur
4 35 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 30 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
6 24 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 20 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 10 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.11%) SAP SD
9 8 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.100%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.100%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.085%) Maximo
11 6 (0.085%) SAP CRM
11 6 (0.085%) SAP MM
11 6 (0.085%) SAP SCM
12 5 (0.071%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,661 (23.64%) Azure
2 1,421 (20.22%) AWS
3 465 (6.62%) GCP
4 420 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
5 383 (5.45%) SaaS
6 339 (4.82%) Power Platform
7 276 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
8 257 (3.66%) Serverless
9 172 (2.45%) Entra ID
10 159 (2.26%) GitHub
11 122 (1.74%) PaaS
12 103 (1.47%) OpenShift
13 94 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
14 88 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
15 86 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 85 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
16 85 (1.21%) IaaS
17 71 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
18 68 (0.97%) PowerApps
19 60 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 372 (5.29%) Firewall
2 285 (4.06%) WAN
3 228 (3.24%) DNS
4 218 (3.10%) LAN
5 197 (2.80%) DHCP
6 166 (2.36%) VPN
7 161 (2.29%) TCP/IP
8 126 (1.79%) Network Security
9 98 (1.39%) Wireless
10 91 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 84 (1.20%) Internet
12 82 (1.17%) BGP
13 77 (1.10%) HTTP
14 76 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
15 69 (0.98%) SAN
16 64 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
17 62 (0.88%) MPLS
18 61 (0.87%) SSL
18 61 (0.87%) VLAN
19 55 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 286 (4.07%) Power BI
3 234 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 228 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
5 175 (2.49%) MySQL
6 154 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 129 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 127 (1.81%) MongoDB
9 123 (1.75%) Tableau
10 118 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
11 86 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 85 (1.21%) Oracle Database
13 80 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 80 (1.14%) Metadata
14 75 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
15 68 (0.97%) Big Data
16 67 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
17 64 (0.91%) Redis
18 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 52 (0.74%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 396 (5.64%) Git
2 317 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 207 (2.95%) JIRA
4 140 (1.99%) Selenium
5 97 (1.38%) Postman
6 87 (1.24%) Cucumber
6 87 (1.24%) Cypress.io
7 73 (1.04%) Maven
8 72 (1.02%) GitLab
9 66 (0.94%) Bitbucket
10 58 (0.83%) IntelliJ
11 50 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
11 50 (0.71%) TeamCity
12 43 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 42 (0.60%) CircleCI
14 31 (0.44%) SpecFlow
15 29 (0.41%) SonarQube
15 29 (0.41%) webpack
16 28 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
17 27 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,601 (22.78%) Finance
2 1,450 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 604 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 464 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 399 (5.68%) Retail
6 304 (4.33%) Banking
7 293 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 250 (3.56%) Marketing
9 196 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 150 (2.13%) Games
11 145 (2.06%) Legal
12 143 (2.04%) Electronics
13 140 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 136 (1.94%) Law
15 134 (1.91%) Automotive
16 122 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
17 96 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
18 93 (1.32%) Back Office
19 81 (1.15%) Military
19 81 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 831 (11.83%) .NET
2 628 (8.94%) React
3 519 (7.39%) HTML
4 438 (6.23%) AngularJS
4 438 (6.23%) CSS
5 351 (5.00%) REST
6 288 (4.10%) Node.js
7 256 (3.64%) Spring
8 248 (3.53%) .NET Core
9 235 (3.34%) Web Services
10 231 (3.29%) ASP.NET
11 207 (2.95%) XML
12 203 (2.89%) RESTful
13 188 (2.68%) Kafka
14 186 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 168 (2.39%) JSON
16 150 (2.13%) SOAP
17 142 (2.02%) HTML5
18 132 (1.88%) Spring Boot
19 131 (1.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 364 (5.18%) Management Information System
2 236 (3.36%) Virtual Team
3 221 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
4 209 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 200 (2.85%) Cloud Native
6 160 (2.28%) Data Centre
7 152 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 137 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 117 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 108 (1.54%) Driving Licence
11 107 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 94 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 91 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 85 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 76 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
16 72 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 70 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
17 70 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
18 69 (0.98%) IoT
19 60 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 754 (10.73%) Windows
2 556 (7.91%) Linux
3 324 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 146 (2.08%) Unix
5 129 (1.84%) Android
6 109 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 84 (1.20%) Apple iOS
8 83 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 78 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 71 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 33 (0.47%) Mac OS
12 31 (0.44%) Ubuntu
13 28 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
15 17 (0.24%) CentOS
16 15 (0.21%) Mac OS X
17 14 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 12 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
19 10 (0.14%) Debian
20 7 (0.100%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,887 (26.85%) Agile
2 1,132 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1,072 (15.26%) DevOps
4 953 (13.56%) Software Engineering
5 783 (11.14%) Mentoring
6 780 (11.10%) CI/CD
7 532 (7.57%) Computer Science
8 531 (7.56%) Analytics
9 522 (7.43%) Microservices
10 495 (7.04%) Scrum
11 486 (6.92%) Project Management
12 468 (6.66%) Project Delivery
13 448 (6.38%) Roadmaps
14 422 (6.01%) Business Intelligence
15 398 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 398 (5.66%) ITIL
16 392 (5.58%) Migration
17 390 (5.55%) Actionable Insight
18 373 (5.31%) Full Stack Development
18 373 (5.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,449 (20.62%) SQL
2 1,120 (15.94%) Python
3 955 (13.59%) JavaScript
4 910 (12.95%) Java
5 902 (12.84%) C#
6 430 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 394 (5.61%) PowerShell
8 269 (3.83%) C++
9 250 (3.56%) PL/SQL
10 200 (2.85%) Bash
11 155 (2.21%) PHP
12 153 (2.18%) C
13 142 (2.02%) T-SQL
14 121 (1.72%) Go
15 103 (1.47%) R
16 82 (1.17%) Ruby
17 76 (1.08%) Kotlin
18 62 (0.88%) Shell Script
19 54 (0.77%) Rust
20 53 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,252 (17.82%) Degree
2 839 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 506 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 348 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 258 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 177 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 170 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
8 123 (1.75%) CISSP
9 101 (1.44%) CCNP
10 89 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 89 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 86 (1.22%) CISM
12 71 (1.01%) Postgraduate
13 66 (0.94%) CCNA
14 48 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 47 (0.67%) Azure Certification
16 43 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
17 42 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
18 37 (0.53%) SSCP
19 36 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (5.11%) QA
2 130 (1.85%) GDPR
3 126 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 79 (1.12%) SLA
6 70 (1.00%) NIST
7 63 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 55 (0.78%) PMO
9 47 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 41 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 39 (0.56%) GRC
12 35 (0.50%) CDISC
13 31 (0.44%) WCAG
14 24 (0.34%) ISO 26262
15 22 (0.31%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
17 19 (0.27%) IFRS
18 13 (0.19%) GAAP
19 12 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
20 11 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 741 (10.55%) Docker
2 475 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 298 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 159 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 65 (0.93%) Firmware
6 58 (0.83%) vSphere
7 40 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 28 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (0.34%) VMware NSX
11 23 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
12 14 (0.20%) XenApp
13 12 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (0.13%) OpenSIPS
15 7 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.057%) Ceph
16 4 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.057%) Squid
16 4 (0.057%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.043%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 739 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 496 (7.06%) Terraform
3 265 (3.77%) Ansible
4 138 (1.96%) SCCM
5 110 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 86 (1.22%) Puppet
7 80 (1.14%) Grafana
8 66 (0.94%) Prometheus
9 47 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 40 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 25 (0.36%) OpenSSO
13 24 (0.34%) HP UCMDB
14 22 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 19 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
15 19 (0.27%) Nagios
16 18 (0.26%) Packer
17 17 (0.24%) Kibana
17 17 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
18 16 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,092 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 404 (5.75%) VMware
3 314 (4.47%) Oracle
4 302 (4.30%) Cisco
5 259 (3.69%) NEC
6 235 (3.34%) Google
7 180 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 143 (2.04%) SAP
9 122 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 101 (1.44%) Citrix
11 92 (1.31%) Databricks
12 87 (1.24%) Palo Alto
13 86 (1.22%) CheckPoint
14 76 (1.08%) Juniper
15 74 (1.05%) HP
16 66 (0.94%) SolarWinds
16 66 (0.94%) Splunk
17 64 (0.91%) Meraki
18 62 (0.88%) F5
19 56 (0.80%) Fortinet