Senior Jobs in Plymouth

Senior
Devon > Plymouth

The median Senior salary in Plymouth is £55,000 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 14 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 7 27 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Plymouth 7.37% 11.30% 19.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.24% 11.74% 24.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 6
10th Percentile £48,894 £43,500 £42,875
25th Percentile £50,697 £45,000 £44,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% - -18.33%
75th Percentile £58,375 £55,750 £53,438
90th Percentile £61,250 £60,600 £53,750
Devon median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% +29.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Plymouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Plymouth. 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 Plymouth with a recognized job title 85 230 104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 96.23% 79.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55 179 81
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,267 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £58,674 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £63,600 £61,250 £57,500
Devon median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -11.11%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Plymouth

Senior
Salary Trend in Plymouth

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

Salary trend for Senior in Plymouth

Senior
Salary Histogram in Plymouth

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

Salary histogram for Senior in Plymouth

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

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 Plymouth region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
1 4 (57.14%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Appian
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Kanban
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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 (28.57%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) BGP
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) OSPF
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Technology Strategy
1 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Functional Programming
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Kanban
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
2 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA