Senior Jobs in Leicestershire

Senior
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Senior salary in Leicestershire is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 107 139 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 15.35% 12.65% 11.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.21% 13.37% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 14 67 43
10th Percentile £36,625 £42,028 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,125 £45,832 £48,511
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £70,188 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
East Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £54,700 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.55% -0.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 660 1,040 754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 94.63% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 165 581 263
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,500 £25,067
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Leicestershire

Senior
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Leicestershire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Leicestershire

Senior
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Hinckley - 43 - -
Lutterworth +2 42 - - 2
Leicester -11 14 £62,750 +19.52% 223
Loughborough +9 2 £67,500 -3.57% 7
Market Harborough +5 1 - - 5
Senior
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 Leicestershire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 74 (69.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 58 (54.21%) Systems Engineering
2 58 (54.21%) Degree
3 34 (31.78%) Mathematics
4 25 (23.36%) Social Skills
5 21 (19.63%) Automotive
6 20 (18.69%) Legal
6 20 (18.69%) Physics
6 20 (18.69%) Ergonomics
6 20 (18.69%) Human Factors
6 20 (18.69%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (14.95%) Agile
7 16 (14.95%) Manufacturing
8 14 (13.08%) Numerate Degree
9 13 (12.15%) Risk Management
10 12 (11.21%) Telecoms
10 12 (11.21%) Requirements Management
10 12 (11.21%) Project Planning
10 12 (11.21%) Computer Science
11 11 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (7.48%) MATLAB
12 8 (7.48%) Simulink
12 8 (7.48%) Validation
12 8 (7.48%) Aerospace
12 8 (7.48%) Software Testing
12 8 (7.48%) JIRA
13 7 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
14 6 (5.61%) Safety Engineering
14 6 (5.61%) Hazard Analysis
14 6 (5.61%) Rational DOORS

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (1.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Simulink
2 6 (5.61%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.80%) Azure
2 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.93%) Rubrik
3 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) TETRA
2 1 (0.93%) DHCP
2 1 (0.93%) DNS
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.87%) MySQL
2 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) JIRA
2 6 (5.61%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (3.74%) Git
4 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.93%) Subversion
5 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.63%) Automotive
3 20 (18.69%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (18.69%) Legal
4 16 (14.95%) Manufacturing
5 12 (11.21%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.48%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.80%) Finance
7 3 (2.80%) Retail
8 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Advertising
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.67%) .NET
2 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.87%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.87%) jQuery
3 1 (0.93%) Ajax
3 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (0.93%) Blazor
3 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.93%) Code First Entity Framework
3 1 (0.93%) CSS
3 1 (0.93%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (0.93%) HTML5
3 1 (0.93%) JSON
3 1 (0.93%) RESTful
3 1 (0.93%) Sass
3 1 (0.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
1 1 (0.93%) Blog
1 1 (0.93%) Clustering
1 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (0.93%) Insider Threat
1 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
1 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Windows
2 2 (1.87%) Android
2 2 (1.87%) Linux
2 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (54.21%) Systems Engineering
2 34 (31.78%) Mathematics
3 20 (18.69%) Ergonomics
3 20 (18.69%) Human Factors
3 20 (18.69%) Physics
4 16 (14.95%) Agile
5 13 (12.15%) Risk Management
6 12 (11.21%) Computer Science
6 12 (11.21%) Project Planning
6 12 (11.21%) Requirements Management
7 11 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (7.48%) Software Testing
8 8 (7.48%) Validation
9 7 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (5.61%) Hazard Analysis
10 6 (5.61%) Safety Engineering
11 5 (4.67%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (4.67%) Project Management
12 3 (2.80%) ITIL
12 3 (2.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.48%) MATLAB
2 5 (4.67%) C#
3 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.80%) SQL
4 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.93%) C
5 1 (0.93%) Python
5 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (69.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 58 (54.21%) Degree
3 14 (13.08%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.93%) ACCA
4 1 (0.93%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (0.93%) GDPR
1 1 (0.93%) GRC
1 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.93%) Firmware
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.87%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.93%) EMC
3 1 (0.93%) HP
3 1 (0.93%) Isilon
3 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.93%) VMware
3 1 (0.93%) Xero