Senior Jobs in Sheffield

Senior
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior salary in Sheffield is £63,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 5 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 18 205 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 6.43% 17.61% 12.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.67% 18.34% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 15 148 38
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,500 £44,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,250 £65,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £69,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £63,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.55% - -15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 270 1,118 777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.43% 96.05% 88.50%
Number of salaries quoted 185 890 403
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £70,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Sheffield

Senior
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Senior in Sheffield

Senior
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Sheffield over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Sheffield region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Agile
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) Educational Technology
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) IBM
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) B2B
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 3 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (16.67%) PHP
5 3 (16.67%) .NET
5 3 (16.67%) UX Design
5 3 (16.67%) WPF
5 3 (16.67%) Laravel
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) User Experience

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
4 2 (11.11%) Azure WebJobs
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) Wireless
2 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Cantonese Language
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
4 1 (5.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (16.67%) Laravel
1 3 (16.67%) Vue
1 3 (16.67%) WPF
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (11.11%) Blazor
2 2 (11.11%) SignalR
2 2 (11.11%) Skia Graphics Library
3 1 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Educational Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) B2B
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) UX Design
5 2 (11.11%) API Development
5 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) MVC
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
6 1 (5.56%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (5.56%) Storytelling
6 1 (5.56%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.56%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCIE
1 2 (11.11%) CCNP
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) SCOM
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) HubSpot
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) BMC
4 1 (5.56%) Broadcom
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
274 Senior jobs in Sheffield