Senior Jobs in the North East

Senior
England > North East

The median Senior salary in the North East is £61,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 6 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 66 285 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 9.38% 15.57% 10.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.28% 16.29% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 60 216 85
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £42,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,965 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% +5.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,525 £73,250 £77,250
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% -10.31% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 642 1,750 1,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 95.63% 79.87%
Number of salaries quoted 382 1,410 611
10th Percentile £25,009 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,337 £35,920 £36,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year - -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,225 £75,752 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the North East.

Salary trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in the North East

Senior
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear -7 51 £60,000 - 84
Northumberland +6 9 £61,000 +10.91%
Durham -9 6 £69,384 +26.15% 6
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 1 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 North East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 24 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 23 (34.85%) Mentoring
3 17 (25.76%) Agile
4 15 (22.73%) Azure
4 15 (22.73%) AWS
5 14 (21.21%) QA
6 12 (18.18%) Python
6 12 (18.18%) Games
6 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 10 (15.15%) DevOps
8 10 (15.15%) OOP
8 10 (15.15%) C#
8 10 (15.15%) .NET
9 9 (13.64%) PHP
9 9 (13.64%) Java
9 9 (13.64%) E-Commerce
9 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
9 9 (13.64%) Clean Code
10 8 (12.12%) GCP
10 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
10 8 (12.12%) Finance
11 7 (10.61%) CSS
11 7 (10.61%) Linux
11 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (10.61%) Docker
12 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
12 6 (9.09%) Cloud Computing

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (4.55%) Apache
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.52%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) AWS
1 15 (22.73%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) GCP
3 6 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.06%) dbt
4 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.55%) Pulumi
5 3 (4.55%) Sentry
5 3 (4.55%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Bluetooth
2 3 (4.55%) DHCP
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.03%) Firewall
3 2 (3.03%) LAN
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
3 2 (3.03%) Wireless
4 1 (1.52%) IGMP
4 1 (1.52%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.06%) MySQL
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.55%) Redis
3 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.52%) Power BI
4 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) NUnit
2 2 (3.03%) Selenium
2 2 (3.03%) SpecFlow
2 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.52%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.52%) Postman
3 1 (1.52%) Protractor
General
1 12 (18.18%) Games
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Electronics
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.55%) Retail
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Aviation
8 1 (1.52%) Front Office
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) .NET
2 7 (10.61%) CSS
3 6 (9.09%) HTML
4 4 (6.06%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.06%) LAMP
4 4 (6.06%) Laravel
4 4 (6.06%) React
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.55%) Django
5 3 (4.55%) Kafka
5 3 (4.55%) REST
6 2 (3.03%) Jest
6 2 (3.03%) PySpark
6 2 (3.03%) RESTful
6 2 (3.03%) Spring
6 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.03%) Vue
7 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.52%) Svelte
7 1 (1.52%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.06%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 3 (4.55%) Unix
2 3 (4.55%) Windows
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.52%) Android
4 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 23 (34.85%) Mentoring
3 17 (25.76%) Agile
4 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.15%) DevOps
6 10 (15.15%) OOP
7 9 (13.64%) Clean Code
7 9 (13.64%) E-Commerce
8 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.09%) Design Patterns
10 6 (9.09%) Roadmaps
10 6 (9.09%) Unit Testing
11 5 (7.58%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (7.58%) Computer Science
11 5 (7.58%) SDLC
11 5 (7.58%) SOLID
11 5 (7.58%) TDD
11 5 (7.58%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.18%) Python
2 10 (15.15%) C#
3 9 (13.64%) Java
3 9 (13.64%) PHP
4 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.09%) SQL
6 4 (6.06%) C
6 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.55%) Scala
8 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.52%) R
8 1 (1.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
1 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) CCIE
3 2 (3.03%) CCNP
3 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.21%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (6.06%) Firmware
3 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Databricks
3 3 (4.55%) BT
3 3 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat