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 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 5 2 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 58 43 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 31.02% 25.29% 5.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 32.04% 26.38% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 40 39 10
10th Percentile - £42,900 £33,958
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,000 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,101 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +1.95% -7.42%
75th Percentile - £57,500 -
90th Percentile - £65,000 £52,519
South Wales median annual salary £62,000 £51,528 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.32% -6.31% -

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 181 163 135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.79% 95.88% 77.59%
Number of salaries quoted 139 133 101
10th Percentile £35,500 £27,450 £26,391
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.21% +14.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £70,600 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,680 £69,100 £68,497
South Wales median annual salary £48,768 £46,138 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% +0.30% -8.00%

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 15 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 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 Newport region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 36 (62.07%) BPSS Clearance
2 29 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 29 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
3 21 (36.21%) Technical Leadership
3 21 (36.21%) Algorithms
3 21 (36.21%) IBM
3 21 (36.21%) Electronics
3 21 (36.21%) Rational DOORS
3 21 (36.21%) Signal Processing
4 17 (29.31%) R
4 17 (29.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (29.31%) Mentoring
5 16 (27.59%) Verification and Validation
5 16 (27.59%) Validation
6 15 (25.86%) Agile
6 15 (25.86%) Degree
7 13 (22.41%) Waterfall
7 13 (22.41%) Computer Science
7 13 (22.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 13 (22.41%) Configuration Management
7 13 (22.41%) UML
8 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
9 11 (18.97%) Python
10 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
11 8 (13.79%) Mathematics
11 8 (13.79%) Software Testing
11 8 (13.79%) MathWorks
11 8 (13.79%) MATLAB
11 8 (13.79%) Simulink

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 (13.79%) Mathcad
1 8 (13.79%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.90%) Azure
2 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
3 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
3 2 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (36.21%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.72%) NUnit
3 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.72%) Selenium
3 1 (1.72%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (36.21%) Electronics
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.90%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.21%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.07%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 21 (36.21%) Signal Processing
2 21 (36.21%) Technical Leadership
3 17 (29.31%) Mentoring
3 17 (29.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 16 (27.59%) Validation
4 16 (27.59%) Verification and Validation
5 15 (25.86%) Agile
6 13 (22.41%) Computer Science
6 13 (22.41%) Configuration Management
6 13 (22.41%) UML
6 13 (22.41%) Waterfall
7 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.79%) Mathematical Modelling
9 8 (13.79%) Mathematics
9 8 (13.79%) Performance Analysis
9 8 (13.79%) Software Testing
10 7 (12.07%) Code Quality
10 7 (12.07%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) R
2 11 (18.97%) Python
3 8 (13.79%) MATLAB
4 7 (12.07%) Ada
5 3 (5.17%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Java
7 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (62.07%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (25.86%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 13 (22.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 4 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) IBM
2 8 (13.79%) MathWorks