Senior Jobs in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior salary in Reading is £65,000 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 26 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 43 373 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.37% 20.33% 15.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.05% 21.46% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 28 182 138
10th Percentile £49,468 £43,750 £46,298
25th Percentile £57,188 £48,825 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,313 £72,500 £79,688
90th Percentile £89,875 £80,000 £97,500
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 428 1,738 1,437
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.27% 94.71% 93.92%
Number of salaries quoted 230 1,079 751
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £39,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £77,188 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,250 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -8.70% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Salary Histogram in Reading

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

Salary histogram for Senior in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 11 (25.58%) Project Management
1 11 (25.58%) Agile
2 10 (23.26%) Project Delivery
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Azure
4 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
4 8 (18.60%) Python
5 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.95%) AWS
6 6 (13.95%) Degree
6 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
6 6 (13.95%) Git
6 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.63%) DevOps
7 5 (11.63%) Docker
7 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (11.63%) CRM
7 5 (11.63%) Linux
7 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
7 5 (11.63%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
8 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.30%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (9.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
8 4 (9.30%) CISSP
8 4 (9.30%) Salesforce

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.33%) SAP BPC
3 1 (2.33%) SAP GRC
3 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (6.98%) Serverless
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.33%) Route 53
6 1 (2.33%) SaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SCCP
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.65%) Metadata
1 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.33%) Pinecone
2 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) JUnit
2 2 (4.65%) Maven
2 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.33%) DbUnit
3 1 (2.33%) Gradle
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) jMock
3 1 (2.33%) MLflow
3 1 (2.33%) Mockito
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Automotive
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
1 4 (9.30%) REST
2 3 (6.98%) React
2 3 (6.98%) Spring
3 2 (4.65%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (4.65%) Bootstrap
3 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.65%) JPA
3 2 (4.65%) Node.js
3 2 (4.65%) SOAP
3 2 (4.65%) Spring Batch
3 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.65%) Spring Integration
3 2 (4.65%) Web Services
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) NumPy
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.33%) PowerMock
4 1 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) CESG
1 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
1 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Acoustics
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.33%) VMS
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Agile
1 11 (25.58%) Project Management
2 10 (23.26%) Project Delivery
3 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
4 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.63%) CRM
6 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
7 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
7 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
7 4 (9.30%) Information Security
7 4 (9.30%) Presales
7 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.30%) Security Architecture
7 4 (9.30%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (6.98%) Microservices
8 3 (6.98%) TDD
8 3 (6.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Python
2 4 (9.30%) C++
2 4 (9.30%) Java
2 4 (9.30%) SQL
3 3 (6.98%) Bash
4 2 (4.65%) C
4 2 (4.65%) C#
4 2 (4.65%) Fortran
5 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) PHP
5 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.33%) R
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) CESG Certified Professional
2 4 (9.30%) CISSP
2 4 (9.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.65%) PhD
3 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.65%) PMP
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) HDFS
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) IAG
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Ansible
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (4.65%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.33%) Kubeflow
2 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.65%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.33%) SAP