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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 2 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 139 297 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 17.75% 20.30% 14.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.53% 22.35% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 73 180 74
10th Percentile £48,006 £37,101 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,992 £50,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £51,528 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.32% -6.31% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,313 £63,438
90th Percentile £68,424 £67,750 £76,750
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 677 1,329 1,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.46% 90.84% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 434 886 572
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,157 £28,663
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £36,410
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £46,244 £45,496
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +1.64% -9.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £62,988
90th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.26%

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 14 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 14 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 -3 58 £62,000 +19.00% 27
Cardiff 0 34 £65,000 +23.81% 48
Monmouthshire +2 18 £65,000 +103.34% 1
Vale of Glamorgan - 7 - - 1
Gwent +7 5 £46,000 +2.22% 19
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 3 £49,750 -
Glamorgan +2 2 £50,000 +18.34% 43
Torfaen - 1 £50,221 - 3
Senior
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 59 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 50 (35.97%) Finance
3 49 (35.25%) Project Management
4 45 (32.37%) Driving Licence
5 44 (31.65%) Scorecard
5 44 (31.65%) Balanced Scorecard
5 44 (31.65%) Risk Management
6 40 (28.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (20.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 29 (20.86%) Systems Engineering
7 29 (20.86%) Mentoring
8 26 (18.71%) Degree
9 24 (17.27%) Algorithms
9 24 (17.27%) Electronics
10 23 (16.55%) Signal Processing
11 22 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (15.11%) Rational DOORS
12 21 (15.11%) Agile
12 21 (15.11%) IBM
12 21 (15.11%) Python
13 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.23%) Validation
14 17 (12.23%) R
14 17 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (11.51%) Computer Science
15 16 (11.51%) Verification and Validation
16 14 (10.07%) Waterfall
17 13 (9.35%) DevOps
17 13 (9.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
17 13 (9.35%) UML

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 (2.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Mathcad
1 8 (5.76%) Simulink
2 2 (1.44%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.72%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.63%) Azure
2 8 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.04%) AWS
4 6 (4.32%) GitHub
5 4 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (2.88%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.88%) Serverless
6 3 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.16%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.16%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.72%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.72%) dbt
8 1 (0.72%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.72%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) Firewall
1 4 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.88%) Wireless
2 3 (2.16%) Network Security
3 2 (1.44%) DNS
3 2 (1.44%) GPRS
3 2 (1.44%) GSM
3 2 (1.44%) LAN
3 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.44%) VoIP
3 2 (1.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.72%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.72%) DHCP
4 1 (0.72%) SMS
4 1 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.60%) Redis
2 2 (1.44%) MySQL
2 2 (1.44%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.72%) Looker
3 1 (0.72%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.72%) Power BI
3 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (15.11%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (7.91%) Git
3 4 (2.88%) JIRA
3 4 (2.88%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.72%) Grunt
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) NUnit
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
4 1 (0.72%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 59 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 50 (35.97%) Finance
3 24 (17.27%) Electronics
4 10 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.32%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.60%) Retail
7 4 (2.88%) Local Government
8 3 (2.16%) Welsh Language
9 2 (1.44%) Aviation
9 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.44%) Marketing
9 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.32%) Django
1 6 (4.32%) HTML
2 5 (3.60%) CSS
2 5 (3.60%) RESTful
3 4 (2.88%) FastAPI
3 4 (2.88%) Flask
3 4 (2.88%) GraphQL
3 4 (2.88%) Keycloak
3 4 (2.88%) Node.js
3 4 (2.88%) OAuth
3 4 (2.88%) pytest
3 4 (2.88%) React
3 4 (2.88%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (2.88%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.44%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.44%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.44%) Symfony
5 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.72%) JSON
5 1 (0.72%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 45 (32.37%) Driving Licence
2 24 (17.27%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.16%) NHS
4 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.44%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.44%) CPLD
5 2 (1.44%) FPGA
5 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.44%) Social Media
6 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.72%) FMCG
6 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Linux
1 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.25%) Project Management
2 44 (31.65%) Balanced Scorecard
2 44 (31.65%) Risk Management
2 44 (31.65%) Scorecard
3 29 (20.86%) Mentoring
3 29 (20.86%) Systems Engineering
4 23 (16.55%) Signal Processing
5 22 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (15.11%) Agile
7 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (12.23%) Validation
9 16 (11.51%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.51%) Verification and Validation
10 14 (10.07%) Waterfall
11 13 (9.35%) Configuration Management
11 13 (9.35%) DevOps
11 13 (9.35%) UML
12 12 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (7.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.11%) Python
2 17 (12.23%) R
3 10 (7.19%) MATLAB
4 9 (6.47%) SQL
5 8 (5.76%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.04%) Ada
7 6 (4.32%) C#
7 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.60%) C
9 4 (2.88%) PHP
10 3 (2.16%) C++
11 2 (1.44%) Java
12 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (28.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 26 (18.71%) Degree
3 11 (7.91%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.32%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.16%) CCNA
6 3 (2.16%) CWNA
7 2 (1.44%) CWTS
8 1 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.72%) CCSA
8 1 (0.72%) CWAP
8 1 (0.72%) CWDP
8 1 (0.72%) CWSP
8 1 (0.72%) MRICS
8 1 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 13 (9.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 8 (5.76%) QA
4 3 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (7.91%) Docker
2 3 (2.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.88%) Grafana
2 4 (2.88%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.16%) Terraform
4 1 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 21 (15.11%) IBM
2 8 (5.76%) MathWorks
3 5 (3.60%) Cisco
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.88%) SAP
5 3 (2.16%) Ariba
6 2 (1.44%) EMC
7 1 (0.72%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.72%) Google
7 1 (0.72%) Instagram
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle
7 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Twitter