Senior Jobs in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior salary in England is £62,000 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 6 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 7,983 14,432 12,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.09% 14.83% 15.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.79% 15.66% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,967 9,982 7,937
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £55,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,783 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -10.31% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% -10.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 44,877 92,138 73,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 94.66% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 24,107 67,170 48,771
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,007 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 22 June 2025.

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 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
London -5 2,282 £80,000 +3.23% 12,696
North of England +1 2,119 £50,055 -16.58% 3,706
North West +2 1,755 £50,055 -16.58% 2,121
South East +3 1,503 £62,000 +3.33% 3,672
Midlands -1 832 £60,000 +3.51% 1,963
South West -3 539 £56,121 -6.47% 1,567
West Midlands -4 496 £65,000 +8.33% 1,162
East of England -3 397 £60,000 +4.35% 1,734
East Midlands 0 335 £55,500 +0.91% 795
Yorkshire -16 298 £60,000 +3.51% 1,269
North East -11 66 £57,500 -3.20% 319
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,839 (35.56%) Degree
2 2,241 (28.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 2,085 (26.12%) Agile
4 1,598 (20.02%) Social Skills
5 1,524 (19.09%) Systems Engineering
6 1,519 (19.03%) Python
7 1,475 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
8 1,467 (18.38%) Finance
9 1,466 (18.36%) Azure
10 1,425 (17.85%) AWS
11 1,420 (17.79%) Mentoring
12 1,107 (13.87%) Software Engineering
13 1,040 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
14 940 (11.78%) CI/CD
15 847 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
16 844 (10.57%) Microsoft
17 836 (10.47%) Mathematics
18 750 (9.39%) GCP
19 747 (9.36%) JavaScript
20 742 (9.29%) SQL
21 715 (8.96%) Coaching
21 715 (8.96%) Machine Learning
22 710 (8.89%) TypeScript
23 705 (8.83%) Java
24 694 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 606 (7.59%) Analytics
26 603 (7.55%) DevOps
27 589 (7.38%) Project Management
28 587 (7.35%) Broadband
29 570 (7.14%) .NET

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
1 157 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 94 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (1.14%) Apache
4 84 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 79 (0.99%) Confluence
6 72 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 32 (0.40%) CMS
8 28 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 26 (0.33%) IIS
10 12 (0.15%) WordPress
11 9 (0.11%) SAS
12 7 (0.088%) Appian
12 7 (0.088%) nginx
12 7 (0.088%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.075%) Luigi
13 6 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.063%) Drupal
14 5 (0.063%) Liferay
14 5 (0.063%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.050%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 216 (2.71%) Simulink
2 168 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (1.72%) Mathcad
4 109 (1.37%) Abaqus
5 101 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
6 45 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 26 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 24 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
9 20 (0.25%) Revit
10 19 (0.24%) Maya
11 17 (0.21%) Chatbot
12 12 (0.15%) AutoCAD
13 8 (0.10%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
14 6 (0.075%) Sketch
15 5 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
17 3 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
17 3 (0.038%) Photoshop
17 3 (0.038%) Stata
Business Applications
1 65 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 30 (0.38%) SAP BPC
5 28 (0.35%) Infor LN
5 28 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 26 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 23 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
8 16 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 16 (0.20%) SAP IBP
9 12 (0.15%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 10 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.088%) Magento
12 7 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
13 6 (0.075%) Aladdin
13 6 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
13 6 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
14 5 (0.063%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,466 (18.36%) Azure
2 1,425 (17.85%) AWS
3 750 (9.39%) GCP
4 468 (5.86%) Serverless
5 409 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
6 261 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 217 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
8 203 (2.54%) SaaS
9 150 (1.88%) Amazon S3
10 148 (1.85%) Snowflake
11 120 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
12 108 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
13 105 (1.32%) GitHub
14 85 (1.06%) dbt
15 84 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
16 75 (0.94%) Entra ID
17 74 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 73 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
19 58 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
20 57 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 587 (7.35%) Broadband
2 171 (2.14%) Firewall
3 89 (1.11%) Network Security
4 86 (1.08%) VPN
5 78 (0.98%) WAN
6 74 (0.93%) DNS
7 66 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 44 (0.55%) VoIP
9 42 (0.53%) DHCP
9 42 (0.53%) LAN
10 37 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 36 (0.45%) Ethernet
11 36 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (0.44%) HTTP
13 33 (0.41%) Wireless
14 30 (0.38%) VLAN
15 28 (0.35%) SAN
16 26 (0.33%) BGP
16 26 (0.33%) RS-422
17 23 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (2.92%) SQL Server
2 187 (2.34%) Data Lake
3 182 (2.28%) Power BI
4 145 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 143 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 138 (1.73%) MySQL
7 128 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 122 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
9 116 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 109 (1.37%) Big Data
11 100 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 94 (1.18%) Tableau
13 74 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
14 70 (0.88%) MongoDB
15 66 (0.83%) Metadata
16 58 (0.73%) Apache Arrow
16 58 (0.73%) Apache Iceberg
16 58 (0.73%) Apache Ignite
16 58 (0.73%) Dremio
17 54 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 281 (3.52%) Git
2 278 (3.48%) JIRA
3 203 (2.54%) Rational DOORS
4 106 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 58 (0.73%) LabVIEW
6 42 (0.53%) Selenium
7 41 (0.51%) GitLab
8 40 (0.50%) Visual Studio
9 34 (0.43%) JUnit
10 32 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
12 29 (0.36%) Maven
13 22 (0.28%) IntelliJ
14 20 (0.25%) NUnit
15 18 (0.23%) SonarQube
16 17 (0.21%) Mockito
17 15 (0.19%) Cucumber
17 15 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (0.18%) Cypress.io
18 14 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,598 (20.02%) Social Skills
2 1,467 (18.38%) Finance
3 1,040 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 694 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 551 (6.90%) Law
6 454 (5.69%) Aerospace
7 452 (5.66%) Games
8 412 (5.16%) Banking
8 412 (5.16%) Manufacturing
9 361 (4.52%) Electronics
10 341 (4.27%) Legal
11 338 (4.23%) Marketing
12 283 (3.55%) Retail
13 278 (3.48%) Automotive
14 210 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
15 207 (2.59%) Telecoms
16 199 (2.49%) Avionics
17 189 (2.37%) Public Sector
18 179 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
19 164 (2.05%) Aeronautics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 570 (7.14%) .NET
2 478 (5.99%) React
3 372 (4.66%) GraphQL
4 332 (4.16%) Node.js
5 242 (3.03%) HTML
6 216 (2.71%) WebGL
7 215 (2.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 185 (2.32%) CSS
9 173 (2.17%) AngularJS
9 173 (2.17%) RESTful
10 167 (2.09%) REST
11 129 (1.62%) Kafka
12 110 (1.38%) .NET Core
13 98 (1.23%) ASP.NET
14 95 (1.19%) Spring
15 90 (1.13%) Spring Boot
16 87 (1.09%) Pandas
17 84 (1.05%) .NET Framework
18 82 (1.03%) Web Services
19 81 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 489 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
2 374 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 353 (4.42%) Algorithms
4 220 (2.76%) Animation
5 205 (2.57%) Cyberattack
6 193 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 190 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
8 186 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 112 (1.40%) Equities
10 107 (1.34%) Derivative
11 95 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 94 (1.18%) Hedge funds
13 87 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 86 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 84 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 84 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
16 81 (1.01%) Driving Licence
17 78 (0.98%) Mobile App
18 76 (0.95%) Fixed Income
19 75 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 494 (6.19%) Linux
2 272 (3.41%) Windows
3 86 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 69 (0.86%) Unix
5 59 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 54 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 47 (0.59%) Android
8 33 (0.41%) VMS
9 30 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.13%) CentOS
14 9 (0.11%) zOS
15 7 (0.088%) Solaris
16 6 (0.075%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.063%) HPUX
18 4 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
19 3 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,085 (26.12%) Agile
2 1,524 (19.09%) Systems Engineering
3 1,475 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
4 1,420 (17.79%) Mentoring
5 1,107 (13.87%) Software Engineering
6 940 (11.78%) CI/CD
7 847 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 836 (10.47%) Mathematics
9 715 (8.96%) Coaching
9 715 (8.96%) Machine Learning
10 606 (7.59%) Analytics
11 603 (7.55%) DevOps
12 589 (7.38%) Project Management
13 518 (6.49%) Computer Science
13 518 (6.49%) Data Science
14 504 (6.31%) Change Management
14 504 (6.31%) Roadmaps
15 487 (6.10%) User Experience
16 486 (6.09%) Microservices
17 484 (6.06%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 1,519 (19.03%) Python
2 747 (9.36%) JavaScript
3 742 (9.29%) SQL
4 710 (8.89%) TypeScript
5 705 (8.83%) Java
6 466 (5.84%) C#
7 378 (4.74%) C++
8 268 (3.36%) Rust
9 256 (3.21%) Go
10 215 (2.69%) HLSL
11 194 (2.43%) MATLAB
12 134 (1.68%) R
13 127 (1.59%) PowerShell
14 116 (1.45%) C
15 97 (1.22%) PHP
16 79 (0.99%) Bash
17 69 (0.86%) T-SQL
18 47 (0.59%) PL/SQL
19 46 (0.58%) Scala
20 30 (0.38%) Ada
Qualifications
1 2,839 (35.56%) Degree
2 2,241 (28.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 435 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 398 (4.99%) HND
5 299 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 280 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 278 (3.48%) Chartered Engineer
8 255 (3.19%) DV Cleared
9 253 (3.17%) PhD
10 247 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 247 (3.09%) HNC
11 199 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 179 (2.24%) AWS Certified Developer
13 164 (2.05%) Numerate Degree
14 146 (1.83%) SC Cleared
15 121 (1.52%) CISSP
16 84 (1.05%) DBS Check
17 79 (0.99%) Azure Certification
18 67 (0.84%) ACCA
19 66 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (4.11%) QA
2 287 (3.60%) IEC 61508
3 240 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 145 (1.82%) DO-254
5 142 (1.78%) Def Stans
6 129 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 121 (1.52%) ARP4754
8 114 (1.43%) Accessibility
9 99 (1.24%) HAZOP
10 83 (1.04%) GDPR
11 56 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 54 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 52 (0.65%) ISO 9001
14 42 (0.53%) ITGC
14 42 (0.53%) PMO
15 41 (0.51%) NIST
16 40 (0.50%) GAAP
17 39 (0.49%) IFRS
18 36 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
19 27 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 337 (4.22%) Docker
2 176 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (0.58%) Firmware
5 27 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 18 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.11%) vSphere
10 5 (0.063%) Apache Flume
10 5 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.050%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.038%) Terminal Server
12 3 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.025%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.025%) IAG
13 2 (0.025%) NFS
14 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 408 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 299 (3.75%) Terraform
3 131 (1.64%) Ansible
4 107 (1.34%) Functional Safety
5 84 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 57 (0.71%) Grafana
7 49 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 38 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (0.35%) SCCM
10 17 (0.21%) Istio
10 17 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
12 14 (0.18%) Argo
12 14 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.18%) SCOM
13 12 (0.15%) Nagios
14 10 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
14 10 (0.13%) Puppet
15 8 (0.10%) ITRS Geneos
16 7 (0.088%) Nessus
Vendors
1 844 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 243 (3.04%) IBM
3 206 (2.58%) Oracle
4 204 (2.56%) Google
5 188 (2.36%) SAP
6 183 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 153 (1.92%) Databricks
8 140 (1.75%) Cisco
9 131 (1.64%) VMware
10 128 (1.60%) MathWorks
11 106 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 56 (0.70%) OpenAI
13 55 (0.69%) Red Hat
14 49 (0.61%) Adobe
15 45 (0.56%) Splunk
16 43 (0.54%) Meraki
17 41 (0.51%) ANSYS
17 41 (0.51%) Apple
18 38 (0.48%) Dell
18 38 (0.48%) Siemens