Senior Jobs in the South West

Senior
England > South West

The median Senior salary in the South West is £55,000 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 5 3 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 682 1,669 812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.38% 17.09% 12.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.69% 17.77% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 318 1,195 555
10th Percentile £45,250 £40,000 £42,008
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,375 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% -10.31% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,296 9,393 5,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 96.17% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 6,889 3,677
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,945 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,365 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Senior in the South West

Senior
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Bristol -4 237 £52,600 -19.08% 336
Gloucestershire +8 133 £52,600 -4.36% 523
Somerset +7 126 £57,500 -4.17% 301
Devon -2 89 £55,000 +12.24% 499
Dorset -6 65 £57,500 - 258
Wiltshire -21 25 £64,627 +17.50% 276
Cornwall -18 4 - - 2
Senior
England

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

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 South West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 312 (45.75%) Degree
2 175 (25.66%) Finance
3 163 (23.90%) Systems Engineering
4 141 (20.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 132 (19.35%) Social Skills
6 130 (19.06%) Project Management
7 112 (16.42%) Agile
8 109 (15.98%) Driving Licence
9 102 (14.96%) Mathematics
10 96 (14.08%) Risk Management
11 91 (13.34%) Mentoring
12 90 (13.20%) Balanced Scorecard
12 90 (13.20%) Scorecard
13 87 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (12.32%) Artificial Intelligence
15 83 (12.17%) Python
16 81 (11.88%) Line Management
17 76 (11.14%) Software Engineering
18 74 (10.85%) Microsoft
18 74 (10.85%) Java
19 71 (10.41%) Physics
20 67 (9.82%) JavaScript
21 60 (8.80%) IEC 61508
22 58 (8.50%) DevOps
23 57 (8.36%) Security Cleared
24 56 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
25 51 (7.48%) Azure
26 50 (7.33%) SDLC
27 48 (7.04%) Decision-Making
28 47 (6.89%) Linux

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (2.93%) Jupyter
2 12 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.03%) Confluence
4 5 (0.73%) Appian
4 5 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.44%) Simulink
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.91%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.88%) Infor LN
3 6 (0.88%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (7.48%) Azure
2 45 (6.60%) AWS
3 23 (3.37%) Serverless
4 18 (2.64%) GCP
5 17 (2.49%) GitHub
6 16 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (2.20%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 11 (1.61%) SaaS
11 9 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.73%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.59%) Vertex AI
15 3 (0.44%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (0.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.64%) Broadband
2 14 (2.05%) WAN
3 12 (1.76%) Firewall
4 8 (1.17%) 5G
4 8 (1.17%) OSPF
4 8 (1.17%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.88%) EIGRP
5 6 (0.88%) RIP
5 6 (0.88%) SNMP
5 6 (0.88%) SSH
6 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.44%) Internet
7 3 (0.44%) LAN
7 3 (0.44%) SAN
7 3 (0.44%) Wireless
8 2 (0.29%) BGP
8 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.29%) Network Security
8 2 (0.29%) RFID
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.08%) Big Data
2 16 (2.35%) MySQL
3 8 (1.17%) DynamoDB
3 8 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.03%) Tableau
5 5 (0.73%) Power BI
5 5 (0.73%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.59%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.44%) Redis
8 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 37 (5.43%) JIRA
2 31 (4.55%) Visual Studio
3 22 (3.23%) Git
4 7 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.59%) GitLab
6 4 (0.59%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.44%) Eclipse RCP
7 3 (0.44%) Postman
7 3 (0.44%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.29%) JUnit
8 2 (0.29%) Maven
8 2 (0.29%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.15%) gcov
9 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 175 (25.66%) Finance
2 132 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 56 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 40 (5.87%) Electronics
6 35 (5.13%) Retail
7 32 (4.69%) Aerospace
8 29 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (3.96%) Avionics
10 16 (2.35%) Games
11 13 (1.91%) Aeronautics
11 13 (1.91%) Automotive
11 13 (1.91%) Police
12 12 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.61%) Banking
14 10 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.88%) Marketing
16 5 (0.73%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.52%) React
2 18 (2.64%) GraphQL
2 18 (2.64%) HTML
3 17 (2.49%) CSS
4 15 (2.20%) Node.js
5 13 (1.91%) .NET
6 11 (1.61%) Laravel
7 9 (1.32%) RESTful
8 8 (1.17%) LAMP
9 6 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.88%) Pandas
9 6 (0.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 6 (0.88%) WebGL
10 5 (0.73%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.73%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.73%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.73%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (0.59%) Middleware
11 4 (0.59%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 109 (15.98%) Driving Licence
2 38 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (3.96%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.93%) Cyberattack
6 19 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.76%) Optoelectronics
8 8 (1.17%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (1.03%) Mobile App
10 6 (0.88%) Animation
10 6 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.88%) Private Cloud
11 5 (0.73%) e-Learning
11 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.73%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.59%) CUDA
12 4 (0.59%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.59%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.59%) IoT
12 4 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.89%) Linux
2 17 (2.49%) Windows
3 6 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.29%) Unix
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (23.90%) Systems Engineering
2 130 (19.06%) Project Management
3 112 (16.42%) Agile
4 102 (14.96%) Mathematics
5 96 (14.08%) Risk Management
6 91 (13.34%) Mentoring
7 90 (13.20%) Balanced Scorecard
7 90 (13.20%) Scorecard
8 87 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (12.32%) Artificial Intelligence
10 81 (11.88%) Line Management
11 76 (11.14%) Software Engineering
12 71 (10.41%) Physics
13 58 (8.50%) DevOps
14 50 (7.33%) SDLC
15 48 (7.04%) Decision-Making
16 45 (6.60%) Coaching
16 45 (6.60%) Computer Science
17 43 (6.30%) CI/CD
18 41 (6.01%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 83 (12.17%) Python
2 74 (10.85%) Java
3 67 (9.82%) JavaScript
4 39 (5.72%) C
5 32 (4.69%) SQL
5 32 (4.69%) TypeScript
6 28 (4.11%) C#
7 20 (2.93%) PHP
8 18 (2.64%) MATLAB
9 14 (2.05%) C++
10 9 (1.32%) R
11 8 (1.17%) Rust
12 6 (0.88%) HLSL
12 6 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.73%) Bash
14 4 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.59%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.59%) Go
15 2 (0.29%) Tcl
15 2 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 312 (45.75%) Degree
2 141 (20.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 57 (8.36%) Security Cleared
4 28 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.81%) Chartered Engineer
7 23 (3.37%) SC Cleared
8 17 (2.49%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.05%) HNC
9 14 (2.05%) HND
10 9 (1.32%) CISSP
11 7 (1.03%) ACCA
12 6 (0.88%) CIMA
12 6 (0.88%) PhD
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.44%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
16 2 (0.29%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.80%) IEC 61508
2 39 (5.72%) Def Stans
3 21 (3.08%) ARP4754
3 21 (3.08%) DO-254
4 17 (2.49%) HAZOP
5 13 (1.91%) QA
6 8 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.17%) PMO
7 7 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.88%) GAAP
8 6 (0.88%) IFRS
9 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.29%) GDPR
10 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.15%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (5.43%) Docker
2 16 (2.35%) Firmware
3 13 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.49%) Functional Safety
3 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.73%) Terraform
5 3 (0.44%) Ansible
5 3 (0.44%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.29%) Istio
6 2 (0.29%) Nmap
6 2 (0.29%) Podman
6 2 (0.29%) Puppet
6 2 (0.29%) SCCM
6 2 (0.29%) SmoothWall
7 1 (0.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 74 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.93%) IBM
3 17 (2.49%) Red Hat
4 13 (1.91%) ANSYS
5 11 (1.61%) Cisco
5 11 (1.61%) Oracle
6 9 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.17%) SAP
7 8 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.88%) CheckPoint
8 6 (0.88%) Cognos
8 6 (0.88%) Infor
8 6 (0.88%) SolarWinds
9 5 (0.73%) Databricks
9 5 (0.73%) Graphcore
10 4 (0.59%) EMC
10 4 (0.59%) VMware
11 3 (0.44%) Adobe
11 3 (0.44%) Twitter
12 2 (0.29%) Palo Alto