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 leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,568 1,807 2,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.75% 13.92% 13.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.56% 15.67% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,692 1,092 1,588
10th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £38,888
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,513
Median % change year-on-year - +0.82% +8.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,056 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 15,505 11,528 18,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 88.81% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,970 7,461 11,427
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £28,189
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +7 1,489 £60,000 -1.32% 207
Yorkshire +2 783 £60,000 - 66
North East +11 297 £60,000 +6.19% 46
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 624 (24.30%) Agile
2 565 (22.00%) Mentoring
3 505 (19.67%) Coaching
4 459 (17.87%) AWS
5 413 (16.08%) Software Engineering
6 388 (15.11%) Azure
7 367 (14.29%) Social Skills
8 320 (12.46%) DevOps
8 320 (12.46%) Finance
9 304 (11.84%) SQL
10 289 (11.25%) Degree
11 271 (10.55%) Public Sector
12 264 (10.28%) Microsoft
13 234 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
14 228 (8.88%) Python
15 227 (8.84%) .NET
16 216 (8.41%) JavaScript
17 192 (7.48%) C#
18 172 (6.70%) React
19 171 (6.66%) Terraform
20 168 (6.54%) Analytics
21 163 (6.35%) Project Management
22 162 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
23 160 (6.23%) Roadmaps
24 138 (5.37%) Kubernetes
25 136 (5.30%) CI/CD
26 133 (5.18%) Security Cleared
26 133 (5.18%) Test Automation
27 132 (5.14%) Banking
28 130 (5.06%) Java

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 51 (1.99%) SAS
2 34 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (1.32%) Tuxedo
3 30 (1.17%) ArcGIS
4 29 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 26 (1.01%) Confluence
5 26 (1.01%) GeoServer
6 16 (0.62%) CMS
7 13 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.43%) IIS
9 9 (0.35%) Apache
9 9 (0.35%) nginx
10 5 (0.19%) WordPress
11 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.078%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.078%) Drupal
13 2 (0.078%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.039%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 37 (1.44%) MS Visio
2 34 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.51%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.51%) Sketch
5 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.078%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.078%) Revit
7 2 (0.078%) Simulink
8 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.039%) Elementor
8 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.039%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.51%) Magento
3 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.23%) Shopify
4 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.078%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.078%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.039%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.039%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.039%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.039%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.039%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 459 (17.87%) AWS
2 388 (15.11%) Azure
3 103 (4.01%) Power Platform
4 79 (3.08%) SaaS
5 78 (3.04%) GCP
6 67 (2.61%) Amazon S3
6 67 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
8 61 (2.38%) OCI
9 60 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
10 58 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
10 58 (2.26%) IBM Cloud
10 58 (2.26%) Route 53
11 57 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (2.10%) Entra ID
13 48 (1.87%) GitHub
14 34 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
14 34 (1.32%) Serverless
15 26 (1.01%) OneDrive
16 25 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.91%) Firewall
2 41 (1.60%) DNS
3 39 (1.52%) WAN
4 37 (1.44%) Network Security
5 27 (1.05%) PPP
6 26 (1.01%) DHCP
7 25 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.93%) Internet
9 23 (0.90%) LAN
10 20 (0.78%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.70%) Broadband
11 18 (0.70%) Wireless
12 16 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
13 15 (0.58%) SAN
14 13 (0.51%) VoIP
15 12 (0.47%) VPN
15 12 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (0.43%) HTTP
17 10 (0.39%) WPA
18 9 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (3.70%) MySQL
2 94 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 93 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 69 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
6 59 (2.30%) Power BI
7 53 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 35 (1.36%) MongoDB
10 33 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 29 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 28 (1.09%) Redis
13 27 (1.05%) GIS
14 26 (1.01%) QGIS
15 22 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 16 (0.62%) Relational Database
18 15 (0.58%) Big Data
18 15 (0.58%) Metadata
19 14 (0.55%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 90 (3.50%) Git
2 52 (2.02%) JIRA
3 38 (1.48%) GitLab
4 27 (1.05%) Gatling
5 22 (0.86%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.58%) CircleCI
7 14 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.51%) Selenium
9 12 (0.47%) Artifactory
9 12 (0.47%) JMeter
10 11 (0.43%) PHPUnit
11 9 (0.35%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.35%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.27%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.19%) Appium
15 5 (0.19%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 367 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 320 (12.46%) Finance
3 271 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 162 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (5.14%) Banking
6 129 (5.02%) Legal
7 103 (4.01%) Manufacturing
8 95 (3.70%) Retail
9 94 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 44 (1.71%) Law
12 43 (1.67%) Electronics
13 42 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (1.25%) Marketing
15 24 (0.93%) Publishing
15 24 (0.93%) Tech for Good
16 22 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (8.84%) .NET
2 172 (6.70%) React
3 115 (4.48%) CSS
3 115 (4.48%) Node.js
4 106 (4.13%) RESTful
5 97 (3.78%) HTML
6 69 (2.69%) AngularJS
7 68 (2.65%) REST
8 63 (2.45%) .NET Core
9 62 (2.41%) Vue
10 49 (1.91%) Laravel
11 45 (1.75%) ASP.NET
12 44 (1.71%) GraphQL
13 42 (1.64%) Web Services
14 41 (1.60%) .NET Framework
15 37 (1.44%) Kafka
16 34 (1.32%) Spring
17 28 (1.09%) JSON
18 26 (1.01%) Leaflet
18 26 (1.01%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 111 (4.32%) Public Cloud
2 95 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 74 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 68 (2.65%) Blockchain
5 62 (2.41%) e-Learning
6 59 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 55 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 51 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 45 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 35 (1.36%) Blog
12 34 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 30 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 27 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.01%) Credit Risk
16 25 (0.97%) Mobile App
17 24 (0.93%) Media Streaming
18 23 (0.90%) PMI
19 22 (0.86%) iPad
20 20 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 130 (5.06%) Linux
2 126 (4.91%) Windows
3 35 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.70%) Unix
6 16 (0.62%) Android
7 15 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.23%) VME
11 6 (0.23%) VMS
12 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (24.30%) Agile
2 565 (22.00%) Mentoring
3 505 (19.67%) Coaching
4 413 (16.08%) Software Engineering
5 320 (12.46%) DevOps
6 234 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
7 168 (6.54%) Analytics
8 163 (6.35%) Project Management
9 160 (6.23%) Roadmaps
10 136 (5.30%) CI/CD
11 133 (5.18%) Test Automation
12 119 (4.63%) Cybersecurity
13 118 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence
14 117 (4.56%) TDD
15 114 (4.44%) Microservices
16 113 (4.40%) Design Patterns
17 98 (3.82%) Actionable Insight
17 98 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 97 (3.78%) Full Stack Development
19 96 (3.74%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 304 (11.84%) SQL
2 228 (8.88%) Python
3 216 (8.41%) JavaScript
4 192 (7.48%) C#
5 130 (5.06%) Java
6 117 (4.56%) TypeScript
7 80 (3.12%) PHP
8 59 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.02%) C++
10 46 (1.79%) Scala
11 45 (1.75%) COBOL
11 45 (1.75%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 40 (1.56%) C
13 22 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.62%) Ruby
15 14 (0.55%) Go
16 13 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.39%) VBA
18 9 (0.35%) Bash
19 5 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 289 (11.25%) Degree
2 133 (5.18%) Security Cleared
3 118 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 62 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (1.32%) CCNP
6 34 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 32 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 24 (0.93%) CCNA
9 22 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.70%) APMP
12 17 (0.66%) ACCA
13 16 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 13 (0.51%) GIAC
14 13 (0.51%) JNCIA
15 12 (0.47%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.47%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.58%) Accessibility
2 83 (3.23%) QA
3 60 (2.34%) WCAG
4 56 (2.18%) GDPR
5 48 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 41 (1.60%) GMP
7 32 (1.25%) IFRS
8 22 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.78%) IFRS 9
9 20 (0.78%) SLA
10 16 (0.62%) NIST
11 12 (0.47%) GAAP
11 12 (0.47%) NCSC
12 11 (0.43%) PMO
13 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.31%) GRC
14 8 (0.31%) ISO 9000
15 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.078%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 100 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 79 (3.08%) Docker
3 45 (1.75%) Firmware
4 30 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 27 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.93%) RACF
7 17 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
8 13 (0.51%) vSphere
9 7 (0.27%) IAG
10 6 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.12%) Ceph
13 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.039%) KVM
14 1 (0.039%) Lustre
14 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.039%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.039%) XenApp
14 1 (0.039%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 171 (6.66%) Terraform
2 138 (5.37%) Kubernetes
3 62 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 33 (1.29%) Ansible
5 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.47%) Stealthwatch
7 10 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.27%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.27%) Puppet
10 6 (0.23%) WSUS
11 5 (0.19%) CASB
11 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.16%) Cacti
12 4 (0.16%) Grafana
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.16%) SCCM
13 3 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.12%) N-central
14 1 (0.039%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 264 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 73 (2.84%) Oracle
3 67 (2.61%) IBM
4 62 (2.41%) Cisco
5 60 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 58 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 56 (2.18%) Google
8 47 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 45 (1.75%) Micro Focus
10 44 (1.71%) VMware
11 37 (1.44%) Informatica
12 32 (1.25%) CA
13 31 (1.21%) CyberArk
13 31 (1.21%) SAP
14 29 (1.13%) Databricks
15 26 (1.01%) ESRI
16 22 (0.86%) Adobe
16 22 (0.86%) Juniper
17 21 (0.82%) Meraki
18 20 (0.78%) Palo Alto