Senior Jobs in Leicester

Senior
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Senior salary in Leicester is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 5 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 15 106 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 9.55% 16.56% 12.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.93% 17.10% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9 51 33
10th Percentile £49,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,000 £45,000 £48,273
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,250 £61,250 £60,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £66,250
Leicestershire median annual salary £57,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.05% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 151 620 605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.18% 96.88% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 91 338 175
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £49,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% +11.76%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Leicester

Senior
Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for Senior in Leicester

Senior
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Leicester over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Leicester

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Leicester region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) TETRA
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Revit
2 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Windows
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Appian
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Rubrik
5 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.67%) Budget Management
5 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (13.33%) Appian
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) TETRA
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Clustering
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Budget Management
5 1 (6.67%) Business Case
5 1 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
1 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) HP
1 1 (6.67%) Isilon
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) VMware