Senior Jobs in South Wales

Senior
Wales > South Wales

The median Senior salary in South Wales is £62,000 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 10 2 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 136 311 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 14.23% 19.73% 15.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.26% 21.60% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 70 193 86
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,101 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,992 £50,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -9.09% -0.36%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,175 £68,250 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 788 1,440 1,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.43% 91.37% 89.33%
Number of salaries quoted 464 970 556
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,157 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,154 £45,569 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -4.07% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £64,438
90th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.59%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Salary Histogram in South Wales

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

Salary histogram for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport -8 62 £62,000 +19.00% 14
Cardiff 0 31 £63,500 +18.69% 52
Monmouthshire +2 17 £65,000 +103.34% 1
Vale of Glamorgan - 7 - -
Gwent +6 4 £52,500 +16.67% 14
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 3 £49,750 -
Glamorgan +1 2 £50,000 +18.34% 52
Neath Port Talbot +2 1 £60,000 - 5
Bridgend -2 1 £60,000 +33.67% 2
Senior
Wales

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

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 South Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 58 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 47 (34.56%) Project Management
2 47 (34.56%) Finance
3 43 (31.62%) Driving Licence
3 43 (31.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (30.88%) Balanced Scorecard
4 42 (30.88%) Risk Management
4 42 (30.88%) Scorecard
5 33 (24.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 33 (24.26%) Systems Engineering
6 30 (22.06%) Mentoring
7 27 (19.85%) Algorithms
7 27 (19.85%) Degree
7 27 (19.85%) Electronics
8 26 (19.12%) Signal Processing
9 25 (18.38%) Rational DOORS
9 25 (18.38%) IBM
9 25 (18.38%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (16.18%) Python
11 21 (15.44%) Agile
11 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (12.50%) R
13 16 (11.76%) Computer Science
13 16 (11.76%) Validation
13 16 (11.76%) Verification and Validation
14 14 (10.29%) Azure
14 14 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (9.56%) Waterfall
15 13 (9.56%) ISO/IEC 12207

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 4 (2.94%) CMS
2 3 (2.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Mathcad
1 8 (5.88%) Simulink
2 1 (0.74%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.29%) Azure
2 6 (4.41%) AWS
2 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (4.41%) Serverless
3 5 (3.68%) GitHub
4 4 (2.94%) Azure Functions
4 4 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.94%) PowerApps
5 3 (2.21%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.21%) npm
5 3 (2.21%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) LAN
1 2 (1.47%) WAN
1 2 (1.47%) Wireless
2 1 (0.74%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.74%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (0.74%) DNS
2 1 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) GPRS
2 1 (0.74%) GSM
2 1 (0.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) SMS
2 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.74%) VoIP
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
2 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.94%) MySQL
1 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (2.94%) Redis
2 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (8.82%) Git
3 3 (2.21%) JIRA
3 3 (2.21%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.21%) webpack
4 1 (0.74%) Grunt
4 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
General
1 58 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 47 (34.56%) Finance
3 27 (19.85%) Electronics
4 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.88%) Retail
5 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.94%) Local Government
8 3 (2.21%) Marketing
9 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.88%) HTML
2 5 (3.68%) Django
3 4 (2.94%) CSS
3 4 (2.94%) Sass
3 4 (2.94%) Symfony
3 4 (2.94%) Vue
4 3 (2.21%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.21%) Flask
4 3 (2.21%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.21%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (2.21%) Keycloak
4 3 (2.21%) Node.js
4 3 (2.21%) OAuth
4 3 (2.21%) pytest
4 3 (2.21%) React
4 3 (2.21%) RESTful
4 3 (2.21%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (2.21%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.47%) REST
6 1 (0.74%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 43 (31.62%) Driving Licence
2 27 (19.85%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.21%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.21%) NHS
5 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.47%) Social Media
6 1 (0.74%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (0.74%) CPLD
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.74%) FMCG
6 1 (0.74%) FPGA
6 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.74%) Self-Driving Car
6 1 (0.74%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
1 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.56%) Project Management
2 42 (30.88%) Balanced Scorecard
2 42 (30.88%) Risk Management
2 42 (30.88%) Scorecard
3 33 (24.26%) Systems Engineering
4 30 (22.06%) Mentoring
5 26 (19.12%) Signal Processing
6 25 (18.38%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (15.44%) Agile
7 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (11.76%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.76%) Validation
9 16 (11.76%) Verification and Validation
10 14 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.56%) Configuration Management
11 13 (9.56%) UML
11 13 (9.56%) Waterfall
12 12 (8.82%) DevOps
13 11 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.18%) Python
2 17 (12.50%) R
3 10 (7.35%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.62%) MATLAB
5 8 (5.88%) C#
6 7 (5.15%) Ada
6 7 (5.15%) SQL
6 7 (5.15%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.41%) PHP
8 5 (3.68%) C
9 4 (2.94%) C++
10 2 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (31.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 27 (19.85%) Degree
3 10 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CCNA
6 1 (0.74%) CCNP
6 1 (0.74%) CCSA
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) CWAP
6 1 (0.74%) CWDP
6 1 (0.74%) CWNA
6 1 (0.74%) CWSP
6 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.74%) MRICS
6 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 13 (9.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 8 (5.88%) QA
4 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (7.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Grafana
2 3 (2.21%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.21%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) IBM
2 8 (5.88%) MathWorks
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (0.74%) Ariba
5 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.74%) EMC
5 1 (0.74%) Google
5 1 (0.74%) Instagram
5 1 (0.74%) Pega
5 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.74%) SAP
5 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) Twitter