Senior Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Senior
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior salary in Hertfordshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 117 117 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 6.91% 9.73% 6.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.62% 11.41% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 86 58 43
10th Percentile £44,375 £44,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £100,000 £86,000
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.41% +0.42% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 1,536 1,025 769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 85.27% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 898 471 587
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,370
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,320 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +0.58% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -3.91%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Hertfordshire

Senior
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Stevenage +1 45 £55,000 +22.22% 29
St Albans +5 21 £60,000 -2.04% 4
Hatfield +3 7 - - 4
Watford -10 7 £75,000 +15.38% 31
Hemel Hempstead +6 6 £57,500 -17.86% 32
Hoddesdon - 4 - - 1
Royston -1 3 - - 5
Borehamwood -6 1 £110,000 - 2
Letchworth - 1 - - 2
Senior
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 24 (20.51%) Windows
2 22 (18.80%) Azure
2 22 (18.80%) Windows Server
3 21 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (17.09%) Microsoft
5 19 (16.24%) Roadmaps
6 17 (14.53%) Active Directory
6 17 (14.53%) Agile
7 15 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
9 13 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (11.11%) SAP
9 13 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
10 12 (10.26%) Analytics
10 12 (10.26%) DevOps
10 12 (10.26%) VMware
11 11 (9.40%) Firewall
12 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
12 10 (8.55%) Facilities Management
13 9 (7.69%) Business Development
13 9 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 9 (7.69%) Degree
13 9 (7.69%) Logistics
13 9 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (6.84%) Customer Service
14 8 (6.84%) Oracle
14 8 (6.84%) SQL
15 7 (5.98%) AI

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 13 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.42%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.56%) InDesign
2 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) NEC Housing
2 3 (2.56%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.80%) Azure
2 15 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (4.27%) AWS
4 5 (4.27%) SaaS
5 3 (2.56%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.85%) Figma
7 1 (0.85%) GCP
7 1 (0.85%) IaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.40%) Firewall
2 6 (5.13%) SAN
3 3 (2.56%) LAN
3 3 (2.56%) Unified Communications
3 3 (2.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) Broadband
4 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.85%) FTP
4 1 (0.85%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.85%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.85%) SNMP
4 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) BusinessObjects
2 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.42%) MS Access
3 4 (3.42%) MySQL
3 4 (3.42%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.85%) Big Data
5 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Toad
2 3 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 15 (12.82%) Finance
2 13 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Marketing
5 6 (5.13%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.42%) Local Government
6 4 (3.42%) Retail
7 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Police
8 1 (0.85%) Billing
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.71%) .NET
2 1 (0.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.85%) EDI
2 1 (0.85%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.85%) Middleware
2 1 (0.85%) NumPy
2 1 (0.85%) Pandas
2 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.85%) REST
2 1 (0.85%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.85%) Seaborn
2 1 (0.85%) SOAP
2 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.13%) FPGA
2 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.42%) Social Media
4 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Verilog
6 1 (0.85%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.51%) Windows
2 22 (18.80%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.27%) Linux
4 4 (3.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (16.24%) Roadmaps
3 17 (14.53%) Agile
4 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
5 13 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
6 12 (10.26%) Analytics
6 12 (10.26%) DevOps
7 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
7 10 (8.55%) Facilities Management
8 9 (7.69%) Business Development
8 9 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (7.69%) Logistics
8 9 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (6.84%) Customer Service
10 7 (5.98%) AI
11 6 (5.13%) Customer Experience
11 6 (5.13%) FPGA Design
11 6 (5.13%) Migration
12 5 (4.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.84%) SQL
2 7 (5.98%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.13%) Python
4 5 (4.27%) VB
5 4 (3.42%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.85%) Bash
6 1 (0.85%) C#
6 1 (0.85%) R
6 1 (0.85%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (7.69%) Degree
2 4 (3.42%) ACCA
2 4 (3.42%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.42%) CIMA
2 4 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.71%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) CCNA
5 1 (0.85%) CCNP
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.56%) ISO 9001
1 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.85%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (14.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Lustre
2 1 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.11%) SAP
3 12 (10.26%) VMware
4 8 (6.84%) Oracle
5 7 (5.98%) Cisco
6 4 (3.42%) Adobe
6 4 (3.42%) Juniper
6 4 (3.42%) NEC
7 3 (2.56%) Computacenter
7 3 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.56%) Zoho
8 2 (1.71%) Genesys
8 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.85%) Databricks
9 1 (0.85%) EMC
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) Mellanox
9 1 (0.85%) NetApp