Senior Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Senior salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 40 207 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 12.82% 19.53% 10.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.47% 20.00% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 35 156 53
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,875 £42,100
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,914 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £71,991 £83,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 297 1,035 653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.19% 97.64% 84.81%
Number of salaries quoted 206 862 402
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,781 £31,462
25th Percentile £36,813 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,103 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,750 £73,863
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £48,734 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.53% -7.17% +16.67%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 29 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 19 (47.50%) Software Engineering
2 18 (45.00%) Agile
3 13 (32.50%) .NET
3 13 (32.50%) Azure
3 13 (32.50%) AWS
4 11 (27.50%) Python
5 10 (25.00%) DevOps
6 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
6 9 (22.50%) Java
6 9 (22.50%) OOP
7 8 (20.00%) C#
7 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 8 (20.00%) QA
7 8 (20.00%) Fintech
7 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
8 7 (17.50%) Finance
9 6 (15.00%) Games
9 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
9 6 (15.00%) PHP
9 6 (15.00%) Degree
9 6 (15.00%) User Experience
10 5 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (12.50%) React
10 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 5 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 5 (12.50%) Git

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (7.50%) GCP
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.00%) GitHub
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) Serverless
3 2 (5.00%) Slack
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) Bitrise
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) Firebase
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (5.00%) LAN
1 2 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) MySQL
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) NUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Selenium
2 2 (5.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.50%) Postman
3 1 (2.50%) Protractor
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Games
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Advertising
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (12.50%) CSS
2 5 (12.50%) React
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (10.00%) HTML
3 4 (10.00%) REST
4 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.50%) LAMP
4 3 (7.50%) Laravel
5 2 (5.00%) Jest
5 2 (5.00%) Vue
6 1 (2.50%) Android SDK
6 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.50%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.50%) Node.js
6 1 (2.50%) Spring
6 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.50%) Svelte
6 1 (2.50%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
3 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.00%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.50%) Solaris
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Software Engineering
2 18 (45.00%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) OOP
5 8 (20.00%) Fintech
5 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
7 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
7 6 (15.00%) User Experience
8 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 4 (10.00%) Clean Code
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.00%) SDLC
9 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
10 3 (7.50%) API Testing
10 3 (7.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) Java
2 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
3 8 (20.00%) C#
4 6 (15.00%) PHP
5 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.50%) SQL
7 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.50%) R
7 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) CCIE
2 2 (5.00%) CCNP
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.50%) RIBA
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat