Senior Jobs in Hertfordshire

Senior
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior salary in Hertfordshire is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 27 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 85 115 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.65% 5.81% 10.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.95% 6.24% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 46 88 82
10th Percentile £40,640 £48,750 £42,875
25th Percentile £42,000 £52,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -12.73% +19.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £91,500 £89,750
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 776 1,842 1,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.08% 92.98% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 442 1,463 777
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,809 £27,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,833 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Hertfordshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Hertfordshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Stevenage +25 24 £42,000 -30.00% 47
Watford +7 11 £82,500 +26.92% 32
St Albans +1 7 £75,000 +36.36% 14
Rickmansworth +3 5 - - 7
Borehamwood +5 4 £55,000 -
Hertford +8 3 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Berkhamsted - 3 - -
Potters Bar - 2 - -
Radlett - 2 - -
Cheshunt - 2 - -
Waltham Cross - 2 - - 1
Hemel Hempstead +7 1 £57,500 - 14
Royston -2 1 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Senior
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 44 (51.76%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (42.35%) Degree
3 27 (31.76%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (28.24%) Python
4 24 (28.24%) Broadband
5 23 (27.06%) AWS
6 21 (24.71%) Agile
7 20 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 19 (22.35%) Local Government
8 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
8 19 (22.35%) Azure
9 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
10 17 (20.00%) ITIL
11 16 (18.82%) Mentoring
12 15 (17.65%) TypeScript
12 15 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
13 14 (16.47%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (16.47%) GraphQL
13 14 (16.47%) SQL
13 14 (16.47%) CI/CD
13 14 (16.47%) Serverless
14 13 (15.29%) Clean Code
14 13 (15.29%) Games
14 13 (15.29%) GCP
15 12 (14.12%) 3D Animation
15 12 (14.12%) HLSL
15 12 (14.12%) Performance Metrics
15 12 (14.12%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 12 (14.12%) Rapid Prototyping

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 12 (14.12%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.24%) IIS
3 4 (4.71%) Confluence
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.18%) CMS
5 1 (1.18%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.06%) AWS
2 19 (22.35%) Azure
3 15 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (16.47%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (16.47%) Serverless
5 13 (15.29%) GCP
6 11 (12.94%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.53%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.35%) SaaS
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.18%) Boomi
9 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.18%) GitHub
9 1 (1.18%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (28.24%) Broadband
2 9 (10.59%) Firewall
3 7 (8.24%) FTP
4 4 (4.71%) BGP
4 4 (4.71%) EIGRP
4 4 (4.71%) OSPF
4 4 (4.71%) SD-WAN
4 4 (4.71%) Spanning Tree
4 4 (4.71%) Unified Communications
4 4 (4.71%) VLAN
4 4 (4.71%) VoIP
4 4 (4.71%) WAN
4 4 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (4.71%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.35%) H.323
5 2 (2.35%) Network Security
5 2 (2.35%) RTP
6 1 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) Power BI
2 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.06%) Big Data
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (5.88%) MySQL
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.71%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.18%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.18%) Redis
7 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (4.71%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.18%) Git
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (31.76%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (22.35%) Local Government
3 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.29%) Games
5 7 (8.24%) Finance
5 7 (8.24%) Marketing
6 6 (7.06%) Advertising
7 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.71%) Electronics
9 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.53%) Retail
10 2 (2.35%) Automotive
10 2 (2.35%) Military
11 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) GraphQL
2 12 (14.12%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 12 (14.12%) WebGL
3 4 (4.71%) LDAP
3 4 (4.71%) React
4 3 (3.53%) Node.js
5 2 (2.35%) .NET
5 2 (2.35%) CSS
5 2 (2.35%) HTML
5 2 (2.35%) Next.js
5 2 (2.35%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.18%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.18%) Jest
6 1 (1.18%) Material-UI
6 1 (1.18%) NestJS
6 1 (1.18%) Nuxt
6 1 (1.18%) Redux
6 1 (1.18%) Vue
6 1 (1.18%) Vuetify.js
6 1 (1.18%) Vuex
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Animation
1 12 (14.12%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.06%) Digital Media
2 6 (7.06%) Marketing Technology
3 5 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.35%) FPGA
4 2 (2.35%) Verilog
4 2 (2.35%) VHDL
5 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.18%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) Online Games
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Windows
2 7 (8.24%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.06%) Linux
4 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (24.71%) Agile
3 20 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (20.00%) ITIL
5 16 (18.82%) Mentoring
6 14 (16.47%) CI/CD
6 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
7 13 (15.29%) Clean Code
8 12 (14.12%) 3D Animation
8 12 (14.12%) Creative Thinking
8 12 (14.12%) Data Science
8 12 (14.12%) Performance Metrics
8 12 (14.12%) Personalization
8 12 (14.12%) Prototyping
8 12 (14.12%) Rapid Prototyping
8 12 (14.12%) Storytelling
8 12 (14.12%) Visual Effects
9 11 (12.94%) Project Management
10 9 (10.59%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (10.59%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.24%) Python
2 15 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 14 (16.47%) SQL
4 12 (14.12%) HLSL
4 12 (14.12%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.24%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.88%) Bash
7 4 (4.71%) C++
8 3 (3.53%) Ada
8 3 (3.53%) C
9 1 (1.18%) C#
9 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.18%) PHP
9 1 (1.18%) R
9 1 (1.18%) Ruby
9 1 (1.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (42.35%) Degree
2 12 (14.12%) PhD
3 10 (11.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 5 (5.88%) HNC
5 4 (4.71%) CEH
5 4 (4.71%) CISM
5 4 (4.71%) CISSP
5 4 (4.71%) CREST Certified
5 4 (4.71%) GIAC
6 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.71%) NCSC
2 4 (4.71%) NIST
2 4 (4.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.35%) vSphere
3 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) FortiGate
1 4 (4.71%) Nessus
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.88%) NEC
3 4 (4.71%) Cisco
3 4 (4.71%) Fortinet
3 4 (4.71%) HP
3 4 (4.71%) Qualys
3 4 (4.71%) SAP
3 4 (4.71%) SolarWinds
3 4 (4.71%) Tenable
4 3 (3.53%) Apple
5 2 (2.35%) Dell
5 2 (2.35%) Mitel
5 2 (2.35%) Pure Storage
5 2 (2.35%) Red Box
5 2 (2.35%) VMware
6 1 (1.18%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.18%) Sophos