Senior Jobs in South Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior salary in South Yorkshire is £62,639 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 24 211 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.23% 15.62% 13.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.45% 16.91% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 22 160 44
10th Percentile £45,750 £40,988 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £47,500 £44,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,639 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,603 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £69,300
Yorkshire median annual salary £61,206 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -3.39% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 372 1,248 1,363
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.62% 92.38% 86.82%
Number of salaries quoted 246 1,009 521
10th Percentile £25,875 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,938 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,500 £49,136 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.74% -10.47% +9.76%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield -10 23 £62,779 +14.14% 46
Doncaster -11 1 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) User Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.67%) CCNP
5 4 (16.67%) C#
5 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (16.67%) .NET
5 4 (16.67%) AWS
6 3 (12.50%) UX Design
6 3 (12.50%) Laravel
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.50%) WPF
6 3 (12.50%) PHP
6 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 3 (12.50%) B2B
6 3 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
6 3 (12.50%) Vue
6 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Storage
4 2 (8.33%) Azure WebJobs
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) LAN
1 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
1 2 (8.33%) WebEx
1 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (8.33%) Wireless
2 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Law
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Cantonese Language
3 1 (4.17%) Publishing
3 1 (4.17%) Tech for Good
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (12.50%) Laravel
2 3 (12.50%) Vue
2 3 (12.50%) WPF
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (8.33%) Blazor
3 2 (8.33%) SignalR
3 2 (8.33%) Skia Graphics Library
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Educational Technology
1 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (12.50%) API Development
4 3 (12.50%) B2B
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (12.50%) UX Design
5 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) MVC
5 2 (8.33%) Project Management
5 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) C#
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) PHP
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
5 1 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) R
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) CCNP
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) CCIE
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Cisco
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) HubSpot
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) Meraki
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.17%) BMC
4 1 (4.17%) Broadcom
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk