Senior Jobs in Newport

Senior
South Wales > Newport

The median Senior salary in Newport is £62,000 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 9 1 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 62 47 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 28.05% 26.26% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 29.52% 27.33% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 42 43 18
10th Percentile £55,000 £38,600 £33,910
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,101 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +1.95% -2.84%
75th Percentile - £55,000 £59,688
90th Percentile - £64,000 £68,497
South Wales median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -9.09% -0.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newport. 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 Newport with a recognized job title 210 172 136
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 96.09% 76.84%
Number of salaries quoted 153 141 104
10th Percentile £40,000 £26,500 £26,391
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £60,000 £60,500
90th Percentile £72,850 £66,000 £68,497
South Wales median annual salary £46,154 £45,569 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.28% -4.07% -5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Newport

Senior
Salary Trend in Newport

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

Salary trend for Senior in Newport

Senior
Salary Histogram in Newport

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

Salary histogram for Senior in Newport

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

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 Newport region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 40 (64.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 33 (53.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 33 (53.23%) Systems Engineering
3 25 (40.32%) Technical Leadership
3 25 (40.32%) Algorithms
3 25 (40.32%) IBM
3 25 (40.32%) Electronics
3 25 (40.32%) Rational DOORS
3 25 (40.32%) Signal Processing
4 17 (27.42%) R
4 17 (27.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (27.42%) Mentoring
5 16 (25.81%) Verification and Validation
5 16 (25.81%) Validation
6 15 (24.19%) Degree
7 14 (22.58%) Agile
8 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
8 13 (20.97%) Waterfall
8 13 (20.97%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 13 (20.97%) Configuration Management
8 13 (20.97%) UML
8 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
10 11 (17.74%) Python
11 8 (12.90%) MathWorks
11 8 (12.90%) MATLAB
11 8 (12.90%) Simulink
11 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.90%) Performance Analysis
11 8 (12.90%) Mathematics

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newport 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:

Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Mathcad
1 8 (12.90%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.84%) Azure
2 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
2 2 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
2 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
2 2 (3.23%) Serverless
3 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
Development Applications
1 25 (40.32%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 25 (40.32%) Electronics
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Finance
4 5 (8.06%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.06%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (40.32%) Algorithms
2 7 (11.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (53.23%) Systems Engineering
2 25 (40.32%) Signal Processing
2 25 (40.32%) Technical Leadership
3 17 (27.42%) Mentoring
3 17 (27.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 16 (25.81%) Validation
4 16 (25.81%) Verification and Validation
5 14 (22.58%) Agile
6 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
6 13 (20.97%) Configuration Management
6 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (20.97%) UML
6 13 (20.97%) Waterfall
7 8 (12.90%) Mathematical Modelling
7 8 (12.90%) Mathematics
7 8 (12.90%) Performance Analysis
7 8 (12.90%) Software Testing
7 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
8 7 (11.29%) Balanced Scorecard
8 7 (11.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) R
2 11 (17.74%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) MATLAB
4 7 (11.29%) Ada
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (64.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (24.19%) Degree
3 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (53.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 13 (20.97%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (8.06%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (40.32%) IBM
2 8 (12.90%) MathWorks