Senior Job Trends in the North of England

Senior
England > North of England

The median Senior salary in the North of England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,109 1,607 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 10.56% 17.00% 14.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.91% 18.05% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 736 755 849
10th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,469 £48,869 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,625 £75,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.05% -1.50% -5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 9,309 8,903 7,168
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.64% 94.17% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,319 4,277 5,664
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,711
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £50,055 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -2.81% -1.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Senior job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies 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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 2026. 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 -15 663 £60,000 +1.69% 253
Yorkshire 0 336 £65,000 +11.18% 128
North East -4 112 £64,038 +6.73% 47
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 171 (15.42%) Agile
2 147 (13.26%) Azure
3 142 (12.80%) Mentoring
4 131 (11.81%) Degree
5 127 (11.45%) CI/CD
6 126 (11.36%) SQL
7 123 (11.09%) AWS
8 114 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (9.74%) Software Engineering
10 106 (9.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 98 (8.84%) Python
12 94 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (7.94%) DevOps
13 88 (7.94%) Microsoft
14 76 (6.85%) C#
15 75 (6.76%) SAP
16 73 (6.58%) Coaching
17 71 (6.40%) .NET
18 64 (5.77%) JavaScript
19 62 (5.59%) React
20 59 (5.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 57 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
21 57 (5.14%) Decision-Making
22 56 (5.05%) Docker
22 56 (5.05%) Java
23 55 (4.96%) Business Intelligence
23 55 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
24 53 (4.78%) Microservices
25 52 (4.69%) Data Modelling
25 52 (4.69%) Power Platform

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.90%) Apache
4 8 (0.72%) CMS
5 7 (0.63%) WordPress
6 6 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.54%) Confluence
7 4 (0.36%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.090%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.090%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.090%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.090%) nginx
9 1 (0.090%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.08%) Abaqus
2 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.90%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.27%) Simulink
7 1 (0.090%) Civil 3D
7 1 (0.090%) Mathcad
7 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Shopify
2 5 (0.45%) NEC Housing
2 5 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.27%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.18%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.090%) Magento
6 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.090%) Odoo
6 1 (0.090%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.090%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.090%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 147 (13.26%) Azure
2 123 (11.09%) AWS
3 52 (4.69%) Power Platform
4 42 (3.79%) SaaS
5 32 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (2.71%) GCP
7 25 (2.25%) Serverless
8 23 (2.07%) Amazon S3
9 21 (1.89%) GitHub
9 21 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 13 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.08%) dbt
12 11 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (0.81%) Entra ID
13 9 (0.81%) PaaS
14 8 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.16%) Firewall
2 19 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.35%) VLAN
3 15 (1.35%) WAN
4 14 (1.26%) LAN
4 14 (1.26%) Network Security
5 9 (0.81%) Wireless
6 8 (0.72%) PPP
6 8 (0.72%) SAN
6 8 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.54%) Broadband
7 6 (0.54%) Internet
7 6 (0.54%) Profibus
7 6 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.54%) VPN
8 5 (0.45%) DHCP
8 5 (0.45%) DNS
8 5 (0.45%) HTTP
8 5 (0.45%) VoIP
8 5 (0.45%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
1 44 (3.97%) Power BI
2 30 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.43%) Data Lake
4 26 (2.34%) Tableau
5 25 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 19 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (1.53%) MySQL
8 13 (1.17%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.54%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.45%) Looker
11 5 (0.45%) Redis
11 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.36%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (2.43%) Git
2 9 (0.81%) JIRA
3 7 (0.63%) Cypress.io
3 7 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.45%) Selenium
4 5 (0.45%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.27%) JUnit
6 2 (0.18%) GitLab
6 2 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.090%) Appium
7 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.090%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.090%) git-flow
7 1 (0.090%) Maven
7 1 (0.090%) Mockito
7 1 (0.090%) Protractor
7 1 (0.090%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.090%) SonarQube
General
1 141 (12.71%) Social Skills
2 118 (10.64%) Finance
3 79 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.14%) Marketing
5 51 (4.60%) Retail
6 38 (3.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 32 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (2.43%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.34%) Legal
10 24 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.89%) Games
12 20 (1.80%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.71%) Electronics
13 19 (1.71%) Law
14 16 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (1.08%) Avionics
17 12 (1.08%) Banking
18 11 (0.99%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.40%) .NET
2 62 (5.59%) React
3 39 (3.52%) CSS
4 30 (2.71%) HTML
5 28 (2.52%) REST
6 27 (2.43%) .NET Core
7 25 (2.25%) Node.js
8 24 (2.16%) RESTful
9 23 (2.07%) Spring
10 22 (1.98%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.53%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.35%) ASP.NET
13 14 (1.26%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.17%) Django
15 12 (1.08%) .NET Framework
16 9 (0.81%) Next.js
17 8 (0.72%) ASP.NET Web API
17 8 (0.72%) FastAPI
18 7 (0.63%) Flask
18 7 (0.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (2.52%) Cloud Native
2 21 (1.89%) Driving Licence
3 18 (1.62%) Onboarding
4 17 (1.53%) NHS
5 13 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 11 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (0.99%) Mobile App
7 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 10 (0.90%) SCADA
8 8 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (0.63%) Cyberattack
9 7 (0.63%) IoT
9 7 (0.63%) Product Ownership
9 7 (0.63%) Replication
9 7 (0.63%) Social Media
10 6 (0.54%) Client/Server
10 6 (0.54%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.06%) Linux
1 45 (4.06%) Windows
2 28 (2.52%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.08%) Android
4 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.45%) Unix
6 5 (0.45%) VMS
6 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.090%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.090%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.090%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (15.42%) Agile
2 142 (12.80%) Mentoring
3 127 (11.45%) CI/CD
4 114 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (9.74%) Software Engineering
6 94 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (7.94%) DevOps
8 73 (6.58%) Coaching
9 59 (5.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 57 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
10 57 (5.14%) Decision-Making
11 55 (4.96%) Business Intelligence
11 55 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (4.78%) Microservices
13 52 (4.69%) Data Modelling
14 49 (4.42%) Analytics
15 47 (4.24%) Project Delivery
16 44 (3.97%) Collaborative Culture
16 44 (3.97%) Roadmaps
16 44 (3.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 126 (11.36%) SQL
2 98 (8.84%) Python
3 76 (6.85%) C#
4 64 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 56 (5.05%) Java
6 43 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.17%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.08%) PHP
9 10 (0.90%) C++
9 10 (0.90%) Kotlin
9 10 (0.90%) Scala
10 9 (0.81%) C
11 7 (0.63%) Go
11 7 (0.63%) Ruby
12 6 (0.54%) Perl
13 5 (0.45%) Elixir
13 5 (0.45%) R
14 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.27%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 131 (11.81%) Degree
2 106 (9.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 38 (3.43%) Chartered Engineer
4 30 (2.71%) Master's Degree
5 26 (2.34%) Security Cleared
6 25 (2.25%) DBS Check
7 23 (2.07%) SC Cleared
8 20 (1.80%) HND
9 19 (1.71%) ACCA
10 18 (1.62%) HNC
11 16 (1.44%) PMP
12 15 (1.35%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
16 6 (0.54%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.54%) CIMA
16 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.71%) QA
2 16 (1.44%) PMO
3 15 (1.35%) IFRS
4 14 (1.26%) GAAP
5 12 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.99%) GDPR
7 7 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.54%) IEC 61508
8 6 (0.54%) NEBOSH
8 6 (0.54%) NIST
9 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.36%) GRC
11 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.27%) SLA
12 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.18%) DO-254
12 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (5.05%) Docker
2 18 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.26%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.45%) Firmware
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (3.79%) Terraform
2 38 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.72%) Ansible
5 5 (0.45%) Functional Safety
5 5 (0.45%) Grafana
6 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.27%) cPanel
7 3 (0.27%) Plesk
8 1 (0.090%) Argo
8 1 (0.090%) Autotask
8 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.090%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.090%) SCCM
8 1 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.76%) SAP
3 36 (3.25%) Salesforce
4 24 (2.16%) VMware
5 20 (1.80%) Google
6 19 (1.71%) Oracle
7 17 (1.53%) Databricks
8 16 (1.44%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.35%) Cisco
10 11 (0.99%) TOWER Software
11 10 (0.90%) Veeam
12 9 (0.81%) Anaplan
12 9 (0.81%) Genesys
12 9 (0.81%) Siemens
12 9 (0.81%) Verint
13 7 (0.63%) EMC
14 6 (0.54%) Adobe
14 6 (0.54%) Dell
14 6 (0.54%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.54%) Toshiba