Senior Jobs in the North of England

Senior
England > North of England

The median Senior salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,575 2,614 2,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.92% 14.99% 12.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.70% 16.77% 12.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,203 1,475
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,759 £40,543
25th Percentile £49,236 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +10.02%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 16,403 15,591 17,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 89.42% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,681 8,240 11,134
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,720
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
North West +9 1,448 £60,000 - 313
Yorkshire 0 850 £57,965 -3.39% 148
North East +17 284 £57,965 +5.39% 66
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 716 (27.81%) Agile
2 548 (21.28%) Mentoring
3 511 (19.84%) AWS
4 484 (18.80%) Azure
5 460 (17.86%) Coaching
6 457 (17.75%) Software Engineering
7 433 (16.82%) Social Skills
8 378 (14.68%) Finance
9 321 (12.47%) SQL
9 321 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
10 311 (12.08%) DevOps
11 285 (11.07%) Public Sector
12 272 (10.56%) Degree
13 255 (9.90%) Microsoft
14 254 (9.86%) JavaScript
15 244 (9.48%) .NET
16 242 (9.40%) Python
17 218 (8.47%) C#
18 190 (7.38%) Project Management
19 186 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
20 183 (7.11%) Terraform
21 179 (6.95%) Actionable Insight
22 176 (6.83%) Java
23 174 (6.76%) Linux
24 173 (6.72%) React
25 170 (6.60%) Security Cleared
26 165 (6.41%) Roadmaps
27 161 (6.25%) Analytics
28 151 (5.86%) Windows
29 150 (5.83%) SC Cleared

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 59 (2.29%) ArcGIS
2 55 (2.14%) GeoServer
3 47 (1.83%) SAS
4 41 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 40 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 31 (1.20%) Tuxedo
7 25 (0.97%) CMS
8 17 (0.66%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.54%) Confluence
10 12 (0.47%) Apache
11 8 (0.31%) JBoss
11 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.23%) WordPress
13 4 (0.16%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.12%) nginx
14 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
15 2 (0.078%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 43 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.47%) Sketch
5 11 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.19%) Solid Edge
7 5 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.16%) Maya
8 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.078%) Revit
10 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.039%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (0.74%) Shopify
2 16 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.43%) Magento
4 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.078%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.039%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.039%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.039%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.039%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.039%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 511 (19.84%) AWS
2 484 (18.80%) Azure
3 93 (3.61%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.38%) GCP
5 84 (3.26%) SaaS
6 77 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.02%) GitHub
9 51 (1.98%) Amazon S3
10 46 (1.79%) Serverless
11 43 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.44%) IBM Cloud
13 37 (1.44%) OCI
14 36 (1.40%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (1.40%) Route 53
15 35 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
16 33 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
17 31 (1.20%) OneDrive
18 27 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.02%) Firewall
2 46 (1.79%) DNS
3 45 (1.75%) WAN
4 38 (1.48%) Network Security
5 33 (1.28%) LAN
6 27 (1.05%) Internet
7 26 (1.01%) DHCP
8 24 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 23 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (0.78%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.74%) PPP
12 17 (0.66%) Wireless
13 15 (0.58%) Broadband
14 13 (0.50%) VLAN
15 12 (0.47%) VoIP
15 12 (0.47%) VPN
16 11 (0.43%) SAN
17 10 (0.39%) SSL
17 10 (0.39%) TETRA
17 10 (0.39%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (4.74%) MySQL
3 93 (3.61%) SQL Server
4 71 (2.76%) NoSQL
5 65 (2.52%) Power BI
6 61 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (2.17%) GIS
8 55 (2.14%) QGIS
9 50 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (1.48%) MongoDB
11 32 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (1.17%) Oracle Database
13 27 (1.05%) Relational Database
14 23 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
15 21 (0.82%) DynamoDB
16 18 (0.70%) Big Data
17 17 (0.66%) Data Lake
18 13 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (0.50%) Metadata
19 12 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 113 (4.39%) Git
2 44 (1.71%) JIRA
3 39 (1.51%) GitLab
4 35 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 20 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 16 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.50%) PHPUnit
9 12 (0.47%) Appium
10 11 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
11 9 (0.35%) Maven
12 8 (0.31%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.27%) Gradle
14 6 (0.23%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.19%) CircleCI
15 5 (0.19%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.19%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.19%) Selenium
15 5 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 433 (16.82%) Social Skills
2 378 (14.68%) Finance
3 285 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 186 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (5.40%) Banking
6 124 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (4.82%) Retail
7 106 (4.12%) Legal
8 60 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 58 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 52 (2.02%) Law
11 46 (1.79%) Marketing
12 36 (1.40%) Publishing
13 35 (1.36%) Games
14 29 (1.13%) Health Technology
15 26 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.85%) Automotive
16 22 (0.85%) Electronics
16 22 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (9.48%) .NET
2 173 (6.72%) React
3 134 (5.20%) CSS
4 114 (4.43%) RESTful
5 104 (4.04%) Node.js
6 99 (3.84%) .NET Core
7 93 (3.61%) HTML
8 80 (3.11%) AngularJS
9 78 (3.03%) Vue
10 72 (2.80%) Laravel
11 57 (2.21%) ASP.NET
12 55 (2.14%) Leaflet
12 55 (2.14%) OpenLayers
12 55 (2.14%) PostGIS
13 48 (1.86%) Spring
14 43 (1.67%) REST
15 42 (1.63%) .NET Framework
16 41 (1.59%) JSON
16 41 (1.59%) Kafka
17 35 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 128 (4.97%) Public Cloud
2 82 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 80 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (2.87%) Driving Licence
5 60 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 51 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 50 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 45 (1.75%) Blockchain
8 45 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.44%) e-Learning
10 36 (1.40%) Credit Risk
11 33 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 31 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.05%) Mobile App
14 27 (1.05%) PMI
15 25 (0.97%) Cloud Native
15 25 (0.97%) IoT
15 25 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
16 23 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 174 (6.76%) Linux
2 151 (5.86%) Windows
3 46 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.85%) Android
5 19 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.62%) Unix
7 13 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 13 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.19%) VMS
11 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.078%) VME
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (27.81%) Agile
2 548 (21.28%) Mentoring
3 460 (17.86%) Coaching
4 457 (17.75%) Software Engineering
5 321 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (12.08%) DevOps
7 190 (7.38%) Project Management
8 179 (6.95%) Actionable Insight
9 165 (6.41%) Roadmaps
10 161 (6.25%) Analytics
11 146 (5.67%) CI/CD
12 130 (5.05%) Design Patterns
13 128 (4.97%) ITIL
14 123 (4.78%) Microservices
15 120 (4.66%) TDD
16 119 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 117 (4.54%) Full Stack Development
18 111 (4.31%) Test Automation
19 109 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence
19 109 (4.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 321 (12.47%) SQL
2 254 (9.86%) JavaScript
3 242 (9.40%) Python
4 218 (8.47%) C#
5 176 (6.83%) Java
6 121 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 108 (4.19%) PHP
8 43 (1.67%) C
9 38 (1.48%) COBOL
9 38 (1.48%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 37 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 37 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.36%) C++
12 30 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 20 (0.78%) R
14 18 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.50%) Go
16 11 (0.43%) Groovy
17 10 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 272 (10.56%) Degree
2 170 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 150 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 55 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 30 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.01%) CCNP
9 25 (0.97%) Postgraduate
10 24 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.70%) APMP
12 18 (0.70%) HND
12 18 (0.70%) JNCIA
13 17 (0.66%) JNCIP
14 15 (0.58%) CCNA
15 14 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 13 (0.50%) CCIE
16 13 (0.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.53%) Accessibility
2 53 (2.06%) QA
3 52 (2.02%) GDPR
3 52 (2.02%) WCAG
4 42 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 30 (1.17%) IFRS
6 29 (1.13%) IFRS 9
7 23 (0.89%) NIST
8 22 (0.85%) SLA
9 17 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 15 (0.58%) PMO
11 11 (0.43%) NCSC
12 10 (0.39%) CRD IV
12 10 (0.39%) GMP
13 8 (0.31%) ISO 9000
14 5 (0.19%) GRC
14 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.12%) GAAP
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 114 (4.43%) Docker
2 76 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.71%) Firmware
4 21 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.27%) IAG
8 6 (0.23%) vSphere
9 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.039%) KVM
11 1 (0.039%) Lustre
11 1 (0.039%) RACF
11 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.039%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.039%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 183 (7.11%) Terraform
2 130 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.98%) Ansible
4 40 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.23%) WSUS
10 5 (0.19%) CASB
10 5 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
11 4 (0.16%) Cacti
11 4 (0.16%) Grafana
11 4 (0.16%) SCCM
12 3 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.12%) Kibana
13 2 (0.078%) Icinga
13 2 (0.078%) logstash
Vendors
1 255 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 104 (4.04%) Oracle
3 87 (3.38%) Google
4 60 (2.33%) Cisco
5 59 (2.29%) IBM
6 55 (2.14%) ESRI
7 43 (1.67%) VMware
8 39 (1.51%) Red Hat
8 39 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.48%) Micro Focus
10 36 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 27 (1.05%) Juniper
12 26 (1.01%) SAP
13 25 (0.97%) Splunk
14 24 (0.93%) Fortinet
15 23 (0.89%) CA
15 23 (0.89%) Databricks
16 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.74%) Informatica
17 19 (0.74%) Salesforce