Senior Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior salary in South Yorkshire is £69,305 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 21 2
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 202 41 192
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 12.08% 6.89% 18.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.31% 7.61% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 190 38 91
10th Percentile £44,475 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,250 £72,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,576 £61,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year +6.63% +6.10% -3.39%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 1,518 539 967
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 90.59% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 381 591
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £29,913 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £65,480 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -4.76%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Senior job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Senior
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 2026. 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 +13 154 £70,000 +12.00% 88
Doncaster +11 37 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Barnsley - 11 £40,000 - 9
Senior
Yorkshire

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 34 (16.83%) PHP
2 33 (16.34%) Mentoring
3 29 (14.36%) Coaching
4 28 (13.86%) Laravel
5 22 (10.89%) Agile
6 19 (9.41%) Azure
7 18 (8.91%) Analytics
7 18 (8.91%) AWS
8 15 (7.43%) CI/CD
8 15 (7.43%) DevOps
9 13 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
9 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
10 12 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (5.45%) AI
11 11 (5.45%) Software Engineering
12 10 (4.95%) SQL
12 10 (4.95%) Test Automation
13 9 (4.46%) Data Architecture
13 9 (4.46%) JavaScript
13 9 (4.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (4.46%) Windows
14 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (3.96%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (3.96%) Data Governance
14 8 (3.96%) Data Modelling
14 8 (3.96%) Metadata
14 8 (3.96%) Metadata Management
14 8 (3.96%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (3.96%) Security Operations

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.41%) Azure
2 18 (8.91%) AWS
3 5 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (2.48%) GCP
3 5 (2.48%) SaaS
4 4 (1.98%) Azure AKS
4 4 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (1.98%) dbt
4 4 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Databricks
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (0.99%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.99%) IaaS
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (0.99%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.50%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Firewall
1 4 (1.98%) Internet
2 2 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (0.99%) DHCP
2 2 (0.99%) DNS
2 2 (0.99%) Network Security
2 2 (0.99%) VLAN
2 2 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.96%) Metadata
2 6 (2.97%) MariaDB
2 6 (2.97%) MySQL
3 4 (1.98%) Delta Lake
3 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.98%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (1.49%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.99%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) Big Data
6 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.50%) Looker
6 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.98%) GitLab
2 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 33 (16.34%) Public Sector
2 20 (9.90%) Finance
3 9 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.96%) Retail
5 7 (3.47%) Social Skills
6 6 (2.97%) Banking
7 5 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.99%) General Ledger
8 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.99%) Legal
8 2 (0.99%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.86%) Laravel
2 5 (2.48%) Node.js
2 5 (2.48%) PySpark
2 5 (2.48%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) .NET
3 2 (0.99%) Middleware
3 2 (0.99%) Web Services
3 2 (0.99%) XML
4 1 (0.50%) CSS
4 1 (0.50%) HTML
4 1 (0.50%) Kafka
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.50%) React
4 1 (0.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.48%) Data Centre
2 4 (1.98%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.99%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.46%) Windows
2 7 (3.47%) Linux
3 6 (2.97%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (16.34%) Mentoring
2 29 (14.36%) Coaching
3 22 (10.89%) Agile
4 18 (8.91%) Analytics
5 15 (7.43%) CI/CD
5 15 (7.43%) DevOps
6 13 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (5.45%) AI
8 11 (5.45%) Software Engineering
9 10 (4.95%) Test Automation
10 9 (4.46%) Data Architecture
10 9 (4.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (3.96%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (3.96%) Data Governance
11 8 (3.96%) Data Modelling
11 8 (3.96%) Metadata Management
11 8 (3.96%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (3.96%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.83%) PHP
2 10 (4.95%) SQL
3 9 (4.46%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.48%) Java
5 4 (1.98%) C#
6 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.99%) Python
6 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
1 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.99%) Degree
3 1 (0.50%) ACCA
3 1 (0.50%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.99%) SLA
3 1 (0.50%) GAAP
3 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.98%) Argo
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (2.97%) Databricks
1 6 (2.97%) Pega
2 5 (2.48%) Cisco
2 5 (2.48%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.98%) Google
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle
4 3 (1.49%) VMware
5 2 (0.99%) Adobe
5 2 (0.99%) Fortinet
5 2 (0.99%) Juniper
5 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.99%) Veeam
6 1 (0.50%) Informatica