Senior Jobs in the North East

Senior
England > North East

The median Senior salary in the North East is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 4 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 93 145 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.02% 13.43% 11.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.83% 14.02% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 79 122 129
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,600 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,437 £42,224 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +13.40%
75th Percentile £61,250 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £82,250 £76,300
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 494 1,034 1,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 95.74% 92.47%
Number of salaries quoted 424 646 939
10th Percentile £28,297 £30,000 £25,950
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £61,445 £69,725 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 December 2023.

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 December 2023. 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 57 £57,500 -8.00% 58
Durham +14 24 £55,000 +39.87% 12
Northumberland +10 8 £38,753 -48.33% 3
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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 23 (24.73%) Agile
2 18 (19.35%) SQL
3 16 (17.20%) Management Information System
3 16 (17.20%) Electronics
3 16 (17.20%) AWS
4 15 (16.13%) NEC
4 15 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 14 (15.05%) Finance
6 13 (13.98%) Degree
6 13 (13.98%) DevOps
7 12 (12.90%) Social Skills
8 11 (11.83%) EMC
8 11 (11.83%) Java
8 11 (11.83%) Retail
9 10 (10.75%) LAN
9 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (9.68%) Compliance Management
10 9 (9.68%) CI/CD
10 9 (9.68%) Cisco
10 9 (9.68%) PL/SQL
10 9 (9.68%) ITIL
10 9 (9.68%) Automotive
10 9 (9.68%) Wireless
10 9 (9.68%) Scrum
10 9 (9.68%) Asset Management
10 9 (9.68%) Azure
10 9 (9.68%) Computer Science
11 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (8.60%) Driving Licence

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 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.15%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (1.08%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.08%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) AWS
2 9 (9.68%) Azure
3 4 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (4.30%) GCP
4 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (3.23%) dbt
4 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.15%) PaaS
5 2 (2.15%) SaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.08%) IaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) LAN
2 9 (9.68%) Wireless
3 8 (8.60%) WAN
3 8 (8.60%) WLAN
4 6 (6.45%) Firewall
5 5 (5.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (4.30%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (4.30%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.15%) Network Security
7 2 (2.15%) VPN
8 1 (1.08%) MQTT
8 1 (1.08%) NGFW
8 1 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.08%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.08%) Skype
8 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.38%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.23%) MySQL
3 3 (3.23%) Power BI
3 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.08%) Big Data
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.08%) Power Query
4 1 (1.08%) Redis
4 1 (1.08%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Maven
2 4 (4.30%) GitLab
2 4 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) Git
3 3 (3.23%) Mocha
4 2 (2.15%) Gradle
5 1 (1.08%) Selenium
General
1 16 (17.20%) Electronics
2 14 (15.05%) Finance
3 12 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.83%) Retail
5 9 (9.68%) Automotive
6 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 6 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Police
10 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) Spring
2 5 (5.38%) .NET
2 5 (5.38%) Node.js
3 4 (4.30%) HTML
3 4 (4.30%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.23%) Chai
4 3 (3.23%) CSS
4 3 (3.23%) CSS3
4 3 (3.23%) Django
4 3 (3.23%) HTML5
4 3 (3.23%) Jest
4 3 (3.23%) React
4 3 (3.23%) REST
5 2 (2.15%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.15%) SOAP
6 1 (1.08%) Kafka
6 1 (1.08%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.08%) SAML
6 1 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.60%) Driving Licence
3 6 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.45%) EPoS
3 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.30%) NHS
5 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.15%) Blog
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Windows
2 4 (4.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.73%) Agile
2 15 (16.13%) Software Engineering
3 13 (13.98%) DevOps
4 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (9.68%) Asset Management
5 9 (9.68%) CI/CD
5 9 (9.68%) Compliance Management
5 9 (9.68%) Computer Science
5 9 (9.68%) ITIL
5 9 (9.68%) Scrum
6 8 (8.60%) ERP
6 8 (8.60%) Project Management
7 7 (7.53%) Project Delivery
7 7 (7.53%) TDD
8 6 (6.45%) Break/Fix
8 6 (6.45%) Customer Service
8 6 (6.45%) Innovative Thinking
8 6 (6.45%) Migration
8 6 (6.45%) PRINCE2
8 6 (6.45%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.35%) SQL
2 11 (11.83%) Java
3 9 (9.68%) PL/SQL
4 6 (6.45%) C
4 6 (6.45%) Python
5 5 (5.38%) C++
5 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.23%) C#
8 2 (2.15%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.08%) ABAP
9 1 (1.08%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (13.98%) Degree
2 9 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.60%) CCNA
3 8 (8.60%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (7.53%) CCNP
5 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
6 5 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.08%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) SLA
2 4 (4.30%) ISO 26262
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) DO-178B
4 1 (1.08%) MISRA
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) Firmware
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.45%) Terraform
2 2 (2.15%) Ansible
2 2 (2.15%) Nessus
3 1 (1.08%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.08%) Packer
3 1 (1.08%) Puppet
3 1 (1.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) NEC
2 11 (11.83%) EMC
3 9 (9.68%) Cisco
4 6 (6.45%) Aruba
4 6 (6.45%) Dell
4 6 (6.45%) HP
4 6 (6.45%) IBM
4 6 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.38%) Mentor Graphics
5 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.15%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.15%) F5
6 2 (2.15%) Google
7 1 (1.08%) Adobe
7 1 (1.08%) Citrix
7 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.08%) Intel
7 1 (1.08%) Juniper
7 1 (1.08%) Nintex
7 1 (1.08%) SAP