Senior Jobs in Oxford

Senior
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Senior salary in Oxford is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 40 124 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 19.51% 18.34% 11.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.86% 19.20% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 24 88 37
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £57,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £81,125 £82,500 £87,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 183 646 368
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.27% 95.56% 83.83%
Number of salaries quoted 108 478 256
10th Percentile £43,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £51,625 £40,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,938 £70,150
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -1.87%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Oxford

Senior
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in Oxford.

Salary trend for Senior in Oxford

Senior
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Oxford over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Oxford

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 31 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 Oxford region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 18 (45.00%) AWS
2 17 (42.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 15 (37.50%) Git
4 15 (37.50%) HTML
4 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 15 (37.50%) MySQL
4 15 (37.50%) CSS
5 14 (35.00%) Unit Testing
5 14 (35.00%) React
6 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (30.00%) MVC
7 10 (25.00%) C
7 10 (25.00%) C++
7 10 (25.00%) Degree
8 9 (22.50%) HTML5
8 9 (22.50%) C#
8 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
8 9 (22.50%) Linux
8 9 (22.50%) Mobile First
8 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (20.00%) Vue
9 8 (20.00%) Terraform
9 8 (20.00%) Cloudflare
9 8 (20.00%) Jest
9 8 (20.00%) Rollbar
9 8 (20.00%) OO
9 8 (20.00%) OOD
9 8 (20.00%) Microsoft

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 6 (15.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Cloudflare
3 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (15.00%) Serverless
4 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) Azure
5 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.50%) npm
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) MySQL
2 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Git
2 7 (17.50%) NUnit
2 7 (17.50%) TeamCity
3 6 (15.00%) Jasmine
4 3 (7.50%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) Vite
6 1 (2.50%) Babel
6 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.50%) gulp
6 1 (2.50%) Mocha
6 1 (2.50%) Moq
6 1 (2.50%) PostCSS
6 1 (2.50%) rollup.js
6 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.50%) Subversion
6 1 (2.50%) webpack
General
1 8 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 8 (20.00%) Electronics
2 6 (15.00%) Games
3 5 (12.50%) Retail
4 4 (10.00%) Humanities
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (37.50%) CSS
1 15 (37.50%) HTML
2 14 (35.00%) React
3 9 (22.50%) HTML5
4 8 (20.00%) .NET
4 8 (20.00%) CSS3
4 8 (20.00%) Jest
4 8 (20.00%) Vue
5 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
5 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET
5 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 7 (17.50%) RESTful
5 7 (17.50%) Web Services
6 6 (15.00%) GraphQL
6 6 (15.00%) Laravel
7 5 (12.50%) LAMP
7 5 (12.50%) Node.js
8 3 (7.50%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (5.00%) Bootstrap
9 2 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.50%) Online Games
4 2 (5.00%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (5.00%) Clustering
4 2 (5.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) Animation
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (35.00%) Unit Testing
3 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (30.00%) MVC
4 9 (22.50%) Mobile First
4 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (20.00%) OO
5 8 (20.00%) OOD
5 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.00%) Clean Code
7 6 (15.00%) Microservices
8 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven
8 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (12.50%) Front End Development
8 5 (12.50%) Functional Programming
8 5 (12.50%) Kanban
8 5 (12.50%) Secure Coding
8 5 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 10 (25.00%) C
3 10 (25.00%) C++
4 9 (22.50%) C#
5 6 (15.00%) PHP
6 5 (12.50%) Python
7 4 (10.00%) Bash
8 3 (7.50%) SQL
9 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) CDISC
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Squid
2 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) HAProxy
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (20.00%) Rollbar
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) HP
3 1 (2.50%) Veeam
3 1 (2.50%) VMware