Senior Job Trends in Stevenage

Senior
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The median Senior salary in Stevenage is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 January 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 42 33 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Stevenage 7.41% 16.84% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.14% 19.19% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 29 16 2
10th Percentile £42,780 £42,000 £50,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,250 £52,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.31% +21.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £65,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £56,250 £65,925
Hertfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -2.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Stevenage. 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 Stevenage with a recognized job title 516 172 124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 87.76% 89.86%
Number of salaries quoted 295 90 97
10th Percentile £41,850 £45,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,375 £73,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Senior
Salary Trend in Stevenage

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Stevenage.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Stevenage

Senior
Salary Histogram in Stevenage

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Stevenage over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Stevenage

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

For the 6 months to 8 January 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 Stevenage region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 10 (23.81%) Facilities Management
2 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 8 (19.05%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Oracle
5 6 (14.29%) FPGA Design
6 5 (11.90%) Agile
6 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
6 5 (11.90%) Windows
6 5 (11.90%) Workflow
7 4 (9.52%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.52%) Degree
7 4 (9.52%) Digital Strategy
7 4 (9.52%) Linux
7 4 (9.52%) Migration
7 4 (9.52%) MS Access
7 4 (9.52%) NEC
7 4 (9.52%) NEC Housing
7 4 (9.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.52%) Presales
7 4 (9.52%) SAP
7 4 (9.52%) SAP Data Services
7 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 4 (9.52%) SQL
7 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
7 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.52%) Toad

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 (9.52%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.76%) AWS
1 2 (4.76%) Azure
1 2 (4.76%) SaaS
2 1 (2.38%) GCP
2 1 (2.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.38%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (9.52%) MS Access
1 4 (9.52%) SAP Data Services
1 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Toad
General
1 5 (11.90%) Aerospace
1 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.52%) Local Government
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Law
3 1 (2.38%) Marketing
3 1 (2.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) Matplotlib
1 1 (2.38%) NumPy
1 1 (2.38%) Pandas
1 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.38%) Seaborn
1 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) FPGA
2 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Verilog
3 1 (2.38%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Unix
2 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Facilities Management
2 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 8 (19.05%) DevOps
4 6 (14.29%) FPGA Design
5 5 (11.90%) Agile
5 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
5 5 (11.90%) Workflow
6 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (9.52%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (9.52%) Migration
6 4 (9.52%) Presales
6 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 3 (7.14%) Major Incident Management
7 3 (7.14%) Systems Thinking
8 2 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (2.38%) Performance Optimisation
9 1 (2.38%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
1 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
1 4 (9.52%) SQL
1 4 (9.52%) VB
2 2 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) Bash
3 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) RHCE
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.38%) Lustre
1 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (9.52%) NEC
2 4 (9.52%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) EMC
3 1 (2.38%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) Mellanox
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) NetApp
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat