Senior Jobs in Exeter

Senior
Devon > Exeter

The median Senior salary in Exeter is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9 58 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 8.26% 19.93% 11.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.74% 20.79% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6 45 28
10th Percentile £43,750 - £30,932
25th Percentile £46,875 £40,000 £34,605
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -18.18% +69.60%
75th Percentile £64,375 £47,716 £61,924
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,000 £67,375
Devon median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% +37.50%

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 103 279 245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 95.88% 86.57%
Number of salaries quoted 78 238 196
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,002 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £31,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £40,000 £40,125
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% -0.31% +2.13%
75th Percentile £55,625 £50,000 £51,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,700
Devon median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £39,644
% change year-on-year -22.22% +13.51% -11.90%

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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Exeter

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Balanced Scorecard
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (33.33%) Scorecard
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) React
3 2 (22.22%) API Development
3 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) BDD
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3

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 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) React
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS3
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) Next.js
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Balanced Scorecard
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Project Management
1 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 3 (33.33%) Scorecard
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) API Development
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Collection
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science
3 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) Epics
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Generation
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft