Senior Job Trends in Plymouth

Senior
Devon > Plymouth

The median Senior salary in Plymouth is £50,100 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9 8 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Plymouth 5.33% 12.50% 34.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.39% 12.70% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 41
10th Percentile £42,415 - -
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,200 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,100 £42,512 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.85% -13.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,048 £54,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £60,783 £54,175
Devon median annual salary £55,100 £51,750 £49,000
% change year-on-year +6.47% +5.61% +28.08%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 167 63 118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.82% 98.44% 97.52%
Number of salaries quoted 99 28 114
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £30,725
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,512 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.14% -13.24% +10.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,750 £54,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,272 £57,500
Devon median annual salary £42,215 £43,491 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.93% +2.33% +8.17%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Plymouth

Senior
Salary Trend in Plymouth

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Plymouth.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Plymouth

Senior
Salary Histogram in Plymouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Plymouth over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Plymouth

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth

For the 6 months to 13 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 Plymouth region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 3 (33.33%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
1 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) Control-M
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) DataOps

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) Parquet
General
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 3 (33.33%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 3 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) DataOps
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) SEO
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Control-M
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) BMC
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) Talend