Senior Jobs in Gloucestershire

Senior
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Senior salary in Gloucestershire is £52,600 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 3 12 26
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 127 287 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.52% 16.49% 10.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 26.08% 17.01% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 61 208 81
10th Percentile £45,250 £37,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £54,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £59,098
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.70% -1.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 487 1,687 1,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 96.95% 84.67%
Number of salaries quoted 301 1,236 481
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £61,250 £72,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Gloucestershire

Senior
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Gloucestershire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Gloucestershire

Senior
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Filton 0 46 £52,600 +19.89%
Cheltenham 0 21 £60,000 -1.23% 23
Gloucester +21 17 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Stroud +6 4 - - 1
Tewkesbury +6 2 - -
Wotton-under-Edge +2 1 - - 1
Cirencester -1 1 £28,000 -60.00% 1
Senior
South West

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

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 Gloucestershire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 72 (56.69%) Degree
2 51 (40.16%) Java
3 49 (38.58%) Artificial Intelligence
4 39 (30.71%) Python
5 38 (29.92%) DevOps
6 37 (29.13%) Systems Engineering
6 37 (29.13%) Mathematics
7 36 (28.35%) Agile
8 34 (26.77%) Security Cleared
9 32 (25.20%) Mentoring
10 31 (24.41%) Kubernetes
10 31 (24.41%) Public Sector
11 30 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (23.62%) Docker
12 29 (22.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (21.26%) Line Management
13 27 (21.26%) Software Engineering
13 27 (21.26%) DV Cleared
14 26 (20.47%) JavaScript
15 24 (18.90%) SDLC
15 24 (18.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (18.11%) Computer Science
17 22 (17.32%) Machine Learning
17 22 (17.32%) Data Science
18 21 (16.54%) Computer Science Degree
18 21 (16.54%) Microservices
18 21 (16.54%) Algorithms
19 20 (15.75%) Jupyter
19 20 (15.75%) Cyberattack
19 20 (15.75%) Exploratory Data Analysis

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 20 (15.75%) Jupyter
2 4 (3.15%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.81%) Azure
2 9 (7.09%) AWS
3 8 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.94%) Serverless
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.15%) GitHub
5 4 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.57%) GCP
6 2 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) Broadband
2 2 (1.57%) IPv4
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) VLAN
3 1 (0.79%) WAN
3 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.75%) Big Data
2 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (10.24%) JIRA
2 9 (7.09%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.94%) Git
4 4 (3.15%) LabVIEW
4 4 (3.15%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.79%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (0.79%) GitLab
General
1 31 (24.41%) Public Sector
2 24 (18.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (15.75%) Finance
4 12 (9.45%) Aerospace
5 9 (7.09%) Avionics
6 7 (5.51%) Social Skills
7 5 (3.94%) Aeronautics
7 5 (3.94%) Automotive
8 4 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Games
9 2 (1.57%) Military
9 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.72%) GraphQL
2 5 (3.94%) React
3 4 (3.15%) Django
3 4 (3.15%) FastAPI
3 4 (3.15%) Flask
3 4 (3.15%) Keycloak
3 4 (3.15%) OAuth
3 4 (3.15%) pytest
3 4 (3.15%) RESTful
3 4 (3.15%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (3.15%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.57%) .NET
4 2 (1.57%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.57%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.57%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (1.57%) WebGL
5 1 (0.79%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (0.79%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.79%) Pandas
5 1 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (16.54%) Algorithms
3 20 (15.75%) Cyberattack
4 4 (3.15%) Analogue Electronics
4 4 (3.15%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.57%) Animation
5 2 (1.57%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.79%) Apple TV
6 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.24%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Windows
3 2 (1.57%) Android
4 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.58%) Artificial Intelligence
2 38 (29.92%) DevOps
3 37 (29.13%) Mathematics
3 37 (29.13%) Systems Engineering
4 36 (28.35%) Agile
5 32 (25.20%) Mentoring
6 30 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (21.26%) Line Management
7 27 (21.26%) Software Engineering
8 24 (18.90%) SDLC
9 23 (18.11%) Computer Science
10 22 (17.32%) Data Science
10 22 (17.32%) Machine Learning
11 21 (16.54%) Microservices
12 20 (15.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 20 (15.75%) Decision-Making
12 20 (15.75%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 20 (15.75%) LLM
12 20 (15.75%) MLOps
12 20 (15.75%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 51 (40.16%) Java
2 39 (30.71%) Python
3 26 (20.47%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.24%) C
5 7 (5.51%) SQL
6 6 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.94%) MATLAB
8 4 (3.15%) C#
8 4 (3.15%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.57%) Bash
9 2 (1.57%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) Go
9 2 (1.57%) HLSL
9 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.57%) R
10 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 72 (56.69%) Degree
2 34 (26.77%) Security Cleared
3 27 (21.26%) DV Cleared
4 21 (16.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (11.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.51%) HNC
6 7 (5.51%) HND
7 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.57%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (23.62%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 31 (24.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.15%) Grafana
2 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.57%) Puppet
4 2 (1.57%) Terraform
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) IBM
3 7 (5.51%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.94%) ANSYS
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) Apple
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle