Senior Jobs in Exeter

Senior
Devon > Exeter

The median Senior salary in Exeter is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 3 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 8 68 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 6.96% 20.00% 13.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.34% 20.73% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5 53 29
10th Percentile £48,000 - £33,586
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -18.18% +69.60%
75th Percentile £65,000 £47,716 £60,899
90th Percentile £83,000 £59,750 £67,000
Devon median annual salary £55,000 £49,015 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.21% -10.88% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Exeter

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Exeter. 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 Exeter with a recognized job title 109 328 237
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 96.47% 86.18%
Number of salaries quoted 85 279 191
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,074 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% -5.88% +8.17%
75th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,001 £66,250
Devon median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.78% +5.88% -5.56%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Exeter

Senior
Salary Trend in Exeter

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

Salary trend for Senior in Exeter

Senior
Salary Histogram in Exeter

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Exeter over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Exeter

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Exeter region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Balanced Scorecard
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 3 (37.50%) Scorecard
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Docker
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Next.js
4 1 (12.50%) Epics
4 1 (12.50%) Community of Practice
4 1 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) React
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Balanced Scorecard
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
1 3 (37.50%) Scorecard
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) API Development
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Generation
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) UX Design
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft