Senior Jobs in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 12,105 10,704 26,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.45% 15.06% 17.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.31% 16.42% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,994 7,626 12,196
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.19% +5.38%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +3 4,031 £80,000 -0.18% 451
North of England +7 2,568 £60,000 - 317
South East 0 2,093 £60,000 -7.69% 263
North West +7 1,489 £60,000 -1.32% 207
South West +11 1,464 £60,000 - 171
Midlands +1 1,302 £60,000 +2.56% 155
West Midlands +2 838 £60,000 - 96
Yorkshire +2 783 £60,000 - 66
East of England +3 510 £55,000 -12.00% 84
East Midlands -2 459 £57,500 - 57
North East +11 297 £60,000 +6.19% 46
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 2,696 (22.27%) Agile
2 2,466 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 2,336 (19.30%) Finance
4 2,116 (17.48%) Software Engineering
5 2,030 (16.77%) Azure
6 1,944 (16.06%) AWS
7 1,819 (15.03%) Degree
8 1,766 (14.59%) Microsoft
9 1,723 (14.23%) Python
10 1,651 (13.64%) SQL
11 1,564 (12.92%) Mentoring
12 1,440 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
13 1,374 (11.35%) JavaScript
14 1,323 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
15 1,225 (10.12%) DevOps
16 1,150 (9.50%) C#
17 1,110 (9.17%) .NET
18 1,026 (8.48%) Coaching
19 925 (7.64%) Java
20 891 (7.36%) Security Cleared
21 867 (7.16%) React
22 853 (7.05%) Analytics
23 807 (6.67%) TypeScript
24 800 (6.61%) Linux
25 767 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 759 (6.27%) Actionable Insight
27 749 (6.19%) Windows
28 747 (6.17%) Decision-Making
29 740 (6.11%) Project Management
30 726 (6.00%) Cybersecurity

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
1 222 (1.83%) Apache
2 202 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 163 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 147 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 116 (0.96%) SAS
6 113 (0.93%) CMS
7 90 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 90 (0.74%) Confluence
8 66 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 59 (0.49%) GeoServer
10 55 (0.45%) IIS
11 42 (0.35%) WordPress
12 41 (0.34%) Tuxedo
13 37 (0.31%) Umbraco
14 30 (0.25%) Headless CMS
14 30 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
15 29 (0.24%) Kentico
16 28 (0.23%) nginx
17 13 (0.11%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.083%) Drupal
Applications
1 500 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 152 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 73 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 44 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 36 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 33 (0.27%) Simulink
7 33 (0.27%) Sketch
8 30 (0.25%) Photoshop
9 21 (0.17%) OrCAD
9 21 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 10 (0.083%) Stateflow
12 9 (0.074%) Windchill
13 8 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
14 7 (0.058%) Siemens NX
15 6 (0.050%) Revit
15 6 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
16 5 (0.041%) Adobe XD
16 5 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 70 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (0.37%) Endur
3 39 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 36 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
5 31 (0.26%) Ripple
6 26 (0.21%) Magento
7 20 (0.17%) Shopify
8 18 (0.15%) SDL Web 8
9 16 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
10 12 (0.099%) Workday HCM
11 11 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
11 11 (0.091%) Teamcenter
12 10 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
12 10 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
13 8 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
13 8 (0.066%) NetSuite
13 8 (0.066%) SAP ERP
14 7 (0.058%) Aladdin
14 7 (0.058%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.058%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 2,030 (16.77%) Azure
2 1,944 (16.06%) AWS
3 456 (3.77%) SaaS
4 443 (3.66%) Power Platform
5 420 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
6 411 (3.40%) GCP
7 375 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
8 329 (2.72%) Entra ID
9 222 (1.83%) Snowflake
10 196 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 186 (1.54%) dbt
12 176 (1.45%) Serverless
13 164 (1.35%) GitHub
14 152 (1.26%) Amazon S3
15 108 (0.89%) OneDrive
16 99 (0.82%) IaaS
17 96 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
18 92 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
19 90 (0.74%) PaaS
20 89 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 410 (3.39%) Firewall
2 388 (3.21%) Broadband
3 259 (2.14%) WAN
4 203 (1.68%) Network Security
5 198 (1.64%) DNS
6 168 (1.39%) Wireless
7 159 (1.31%) LAN
8 150 (1.24%) 5G
9 148 (1.22%) TCP/IP
10 147 (1.21%) SD-WAN
11 137 (1.13%) DHCP
12 126 (1.04%) VPN
13 90 (0.74%) Internet
14 87 (0.72%) VLAN
15 85 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
16 73 (0.60%) MPLS
17 71 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
18 70 (0.58%) BGP
19 69 (0.57%) SAN
20 62 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 321 (2.65%) Power BI
3 299 (2.47%) Tableau
4 295 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 285 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
6 284 (2.35%) MySQL
7 282 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 241 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 166 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
10 161 (1.33%) Relational Database
11 149 (1.23%) Apache Ignite
11 149 (1.23%) Dremio
12 147 (1.21%) Apache Arrow
13 126 (1.04%) MongoDB
14 120 (0.99%) Big Data
15 119 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
16 90 (0.74%) DynamoDB
17 86 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 75 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
19 69 (0.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 711 (5.87%) Git
2 255 (2.11%) JIRA
3 150 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 127 (1.05%) GitLab
5 110 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 102 (0.84%) Selenium
7 58 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 53 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 49 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 40 (0.33%) NUnit
11 38 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 36 (0.30%) SpecFlow
13 35 (0.29%) LabVIEW
14 34 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 33 (0.27%) Artifactory
15 33 (0.27%) Gatling
15 33 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
16 32 (0.26%) Postman
17 31 (0.26%) Sourcetree
18 29 (0.24%) Moq
General
1 2,466 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 2,336 (19.30%) Finance
3 1,323 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 767 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 655 (5.41%) Banking
6 586 (4.84%) Retail
7 504 (4.16%) Legal
8 499 (4.12%) Public Sector
9 464 (3.83%) Marketing
10 366 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 333 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 330 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 316 (2.61%) Law
14 273 (2.26%) Front Office
15 202 (1.67%) Investment Banking
16 189 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 182 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 172 (1.42%) Electronics
19 163 (1.35%) Games
20 144 (1.19%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,110 (9.17%) .NET
2 867 (7.16%) React
3 622 (5.14%) HTML
4 600 (4.96%) CSS
5 398 (3.29%) AngularJS
6 347 (2.87%) .NET Core
7 329 (2.72%) ASP.NET
8 320 (2.64%) Node.js
9 315 (2.60%) RESTful
10 285 (2.35%) REST
11 284 (2.35%) .NET Framework
12 235 (1.94%) Pandas
13 220 (1.82%) Kafka
14 213 (1.76%) Vue
15 204 (1.69%) gRPC
16 186 (1.54%) Web Services
17 185 (1.53%) Spring
18 181 (1.50%) GraphQL
19 167 (1.38%) NumPy
20 159 (1.31%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 310 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 263 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 258 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 255 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 244 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 243 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 233 (1.92%) Derivative
8 226 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 222 (1.83%) Hedge funds
10 211 (1.74%) Equities
11 210 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
12 195 (1.61%) Fixed Income
13 172 (1.42%) Public Cloud
14 167 (1.38%) Social Media
15 162 (1.34%) IoT
16 161 (1.33%) Driving Licence
17 158 (1.31%) Cloud Native
18 146 (1.21%) Mobile App
19 135 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
20 131 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 800 (6.61%) Linux
2 749 (6.19%) Windows
3 225 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 158 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 114 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 109 (0.90%) Unix
7 97 (0.80%) Android
8 95 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
9 71 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 70 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 51 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 47 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
13 42 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 32 (0.26%) VMS
15 23 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 18 (0.15%) Windows 7
17 16 (0.13%) CentOS
18 11 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
19 8 (0.066%) Mac OS X
19 8 (0.066%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,696 (22.27%) Agile
2 2,116 (17.48%) Software Engineering
3 1,564 (12.92%) Mentoring
4 1,440 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
5 1,225 (10.12%) DevOps
6 1,026 (8.48%) Coaching
7 853 (7.05%) Analytics
8 759 (6.27%) Actionable Insight
9 747 (6.17%) Decision-Making
10 740 (6.11%) Project Management
11 726 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
12 703 (5.81%) CI/CD
13 668 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
14 661 (5.46%) Computer Science
14 661 (5.46%) Full Stack Development
15 586 (4.84%) Roadmaps
16 474 (3.92%) Microservices
17 462 (3.82%) Visualisation
18 458 (3.78%) Continuous Improvement
19 453 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,723 (14.23%) Python
2 1,651 (13.64%) SQL
3 1,374 (11.35%) JavaScript
4 1,150 (9.50%) C#
5 925 (7.64%) Java
6 807 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 399 (3.30%) C++
8 313 (2.59%) PHP
9 304 (2.51%) Bash
10 300 (2.48%) PowerShell
11 293 (2.42%) C
12 137 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 134 (1.11%) Go
14 128 (1.06%) Scala
15 118 (0.97%) R
16 106 (0.88%) Rust
17 97 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 69 (0.57%) MATLAB
19 66 (0.55%) PL/SQL
20 65 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,819 (15.03%) Degree
2 891 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 564 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 308 (2.54%) ACCA
5 290 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 275 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 238 (1.97%) CIMA
8 235 (1.94%) DBS Check
9 210 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
10 175 (1.45%) CCNP
11 174 (1.44%) DV Cleared
12 124 (1.02%) CISSP
13 114 (0.94%) CCNA
14 108 (0.89%) Azure Certification
15 103 (0.85%) PhD
16 96 (0.79%) PMI Certification
17 85 (0.70%) AWS Certification
18 84 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
19 57 (0.47%) CISA
20 54 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (2.96%) QA
2 248 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 176 (1.45%) GDPR
4 170 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 113 (0.93%) IFRS
6 110 (0.91%) SLA
7 100 (0.83%) WCAG
8 83 (0.69%) GMP
9 81 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 72 (0.59%) PMO
11 71 (0.59%) NIST
12 52 (0.43%) IFRS 9
13 41 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 39 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
15 30 (0.25%) NCSC
16 28 (0.23%) PCI DSS
17 26 (0.21%) GAAP
17 26 (0.21%) GRC
18 18 (0.15%) ISO 9001
19 16 (0.13%) COBIT
System Software
1 584 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 560 (4.63%) Docker
3 208 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 145 (1.20%) Firmware
5 121 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 68 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
7 51 (0.42%) vSphere
8 45 (0.37%) RACF
9 44 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 34 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
11 32 (0.26%) VMware NSX
12 19 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 13 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 12 (0.099%) XenApp
15 11 (0.091%) XenDesktop
16 9 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 8 (0.066%) Ceph
18 7 (0.058%) IAG
18 7 (0.058%) KVM
19 6 (0.050%) NFS
Systems Management
1 722 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 528 (4.36%) Terraform
3 231 (1.91%) Ansible
3 231 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 137 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
5 111 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 87 (0.72%) SCCM
7 70 (0.58%) Puppet
8 51 (0.42%) Grafana
9 44 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 42 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 37 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 36 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
13 31 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 28 (0.23%) CASB
15 21 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 19 (0.16%) WSUS
17 15 (0.12%) Nmap
18 14 (0.12%) Nessus
19 12 (0.099%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 1,766 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 343 (2.83%) Cisco
3 324 (2.68%) VMware
4 321 (2.65%) Oracle
5 297 (2.45%) Databricks
6 245 (2.02%) Google
7 200 (1.65%) CyberArk
8 166 (1.37%) SAP
9 128 (1.06%) Tanium
10 120 (0.99%) IBM
11 118 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 114 (0.94%) Adobe
12 114 (0.94%) Meraki
13 113 (0.93%) ServiceNow
14 101 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 99 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 98 (0.81%) Juniper
17 85 (0.70%) Apple
18 81 (0.67%) CA
18 81 (0.67%) Fortinet