Senior Job Trends in Essex

Senior
East of England > Essex

The median Senior salary in Essex is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 20 7
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 146 42 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 9.20% 6.75% 10.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.77% 7.43% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 108 21 37
10th Percentile £36,000 £53,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £58,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +49.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 1,494 565 534
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 90.84% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 386 309
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,438 £30,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -19.61% +4.51%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £51,359 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -10.00% -4.76%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Senior job vacancy trend in Essex

Senior
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Essex.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Essex

Senior
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Essex over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Essex

Senior
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Essex region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
Chelmsford +9 37 £85,000 +60.38% 16
Basildon 0 15 £70,000 +7.69% 18
Colchester -3 15 £60,000 - 14
Harlow - 11 £65,000 - 15
Brentwood 0 9 £35,500 -45.38%
Tilbury - 8 - -
Braintree - 8 £43,322 - 5
Loughton - 6 £45,000 -
Witham - 4 £51,878 - 3
Hockley - 2 £45,000 -
Saffron Walden -8 1 £75,000 -11.76% 2
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £65,000 - 1
Grays - 1 - - 4
Wickford - 1 £75,000 - 5
Senior
East of England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 6 October 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Essex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 40 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.29%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (19.86%) SharePoint
4 26 (17.81%) User Experience
5 22 (15.07%) AI
6 20 (13.70%) Azure
7 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
7 18 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (10.27%) PowerShell
9 13 (8.90%) CSS
10 12 (8.22%) Line Management
11 11 (7.53%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (7.53%) Software Engineering
11 11 (7.53%) SQL
12 10 (6.85%) .NET
12 10 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (6.85%) C#
12 10 (6.85%) C++
12 10 (6.85%) HTML
12 10 (6.85%) Power BI
12 10 (6.85%) Power Platform
12 10 (6.85%) PowerApps
12 10 (6.85%) Project Management
13 9 (6.16%) .NET Core
13 9 (6.16%) Adobe
13 9 (6.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 9 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (6.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (6.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (6.16%) Document Management

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (19.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.05%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.29%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (13.70%) Azure
3 10 (6.85%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.85%) PowerApps
4 9 (6.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 9 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (6.16%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (6.16%) OneDrive
4 9 (6.16%) Power Automate
5 6 (4.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.37%) AWS
7 1 (0.68%) Datadog
7 1 (0.68%) GCP
7 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.11%) DHCP
1 6 (4.11%) DNS
2 4 (2.74%) VLAN
2 4 (2.74%) VPN
3 3 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.68%) BGP
4 1 (0.68%) Broadband
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.68%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.68%) Firewall
4 1 (0.68%) Internet
4 1 (0.68%) IPsec
4 1 (0.68%) SMS
4 1 (0.68%) SSL
4 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) Power BI
2 9 (6.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (2.05%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (13.01%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.22%) Electronics
3 6 (4.11%) Aerospace
3 6 (4.11%) Finance
4 4 (2.74%) Fire and Rescue
4 4 (2.74%) Police
5 3 (2.05%) Automotive
6 2 (1.37%) Local Government
6 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
7 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.90%) CSS
2 10 (6.85%) .NET
2 10 (6.85%) HTML
3 9 (6.16%) .NET Core
3 9 (6.16%) HTML5 Canvas
3 9 (6.16%) JSON
3 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Graph
3 9 (6.16%) SPFx
4 1 (0.68%) Laravel
4 1 (0.68%) Node.js
4 1 (0.68%) React
4 1 (0.68%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.48%) Onboarding
1 8 (5.48%) Robotics
1 8 (5.48%) SCADA
2 6 (4.11%) Biopharmaceutical
3 5 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.74%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.68%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) FPGA
6 1 (0.68%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.48%) Windows
2 4 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.81%) User Experience
2 22 (15.07%) AI
3 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
3 18 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (8.22%) Line Management
5 11 (7.53%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (7.53%) Software Engineering
6 10 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (6.85%) Project Management
7 9 (6.16%) Document Management
7 9 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (6.16%) LLM
7 9 (6.16%) Machine Learning
7 9 (6.16%) Natural Language Processing
7 9 (6.16%) Reinforcement Learning
7 9 (6.16%) Web Design
8 8 (5.48%) Mechatronics
8 8 (5.48%) Preventative Maintenance
8 8 (5.48%) Proactive Maintenance
9 7 (4.79%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.27%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.53%) SQL
3 10 (6.85%) C#
3 10 (6.85%) C++
4 9 (6.16%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.16%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.05%) Python
6 2 (1.37%) PHP
7 1 (0.68%) C
7 1 (0.68%) Delphi
7 1 (0.68%) Java
7 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (5.48%) City & Guilds
1 8 (5.48%) NVQ Level 3
2 6 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.74%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.74%) Degree
4 3 (2.05%) MCSA
4 3 (2.05%) MCSE
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.68%) CCNP
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) HND
5 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.74%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.05%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.05%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.68%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.16%) Adobe
3 7 (4.79%) VMware
4 6 (4.11%) SAP
5 4 (2.74%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (2.05%) ConnectWise
7 1 (0.68%) Aruba
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.68%) Intel
7 1 (0.68%) Meraki
7 1 (0.68%) SGI
7 1 (0.68%) Sophos