Senior Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Senior
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior salary in the Thames Valley is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 568 474 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 14.09% 14.01% 12.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.26% 16.08% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 279 307 355
10th Percentile £44,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76,875 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £93,250 £92,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year - +0.78% -0.77%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,722 2,948 3,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 87.12% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,181 1,458 2,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Senior job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Senior
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Berkshire +3 340 £70,000 - 264
Oxfordshire +4 118 £70,000 +16.67% 82
Buckinghamshire +3 110 £65,000 +1.96% 78
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 14 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 147 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (19.19%) SAP
3 106 (18.66%) Degree
4 105 (18.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 77 (13.56%) SQL
6 76 (13.38%) Software Engineering
7 74 (13.03%) Agile
8 72 (12.68%) SAP Implementation
9 70 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
10 69 (12.15%) Logistics
11 64 (11.27%) Data Management
12 63 (11.09%) Architectural Design
13 62 (10.92%) Analytics
13 62 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
14 61 (10.74%) ERP
14 61 (10.74%) Translating Business Requirements
15 60 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (10.56%) Impact Analysis
16 58 (10.21%) Incident Management
17 57 (10.04%) Data Collection
17 57 (10.04%) Decision Quality
17 57 (10.04%) Quality Management
18 55 (9.68%) Azure
18 55 (9.68%) Roadmaps
19 52 (9.15%) .NET
20 51 (8.98%) Project Management
21 49 (8.63%) JIRA
22 47 (8.27%) Microsoft
23 45 (7.92%) C#
24 42 (7.39%) Java

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.23%) Confluence
2 4 (0.70%) CMS
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.35%) IIS
4 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.35%) WordPress
5 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.18%) WinCC
Applications
1 15 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.53%) InDesign
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.35%) Elementor
5 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 105 (18.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.53%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.18%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 55 (9.68%) Azure
2 41 (7.22%) SaaS
3 37 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (4.93%) AWS
5 15 (2.64%) Collibra
6 14 (2.46%) GCP
6 14 (2.46%) Power Platform
7 10 (1.76%) GitHub
7 10 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.58%) Serverless
9 7 (1.23%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.06%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.82%) Firewall
2 11 (1.94%) Network Security
2 11 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.41%) Internet
4 7 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.06%) SMS
6 5 (0.88%) WAN
7 4 (0.70%) VPN
8 3 (0.53%) 5G
8 3 (0.53%) DNS
8 3 (0.53%) LAN
8 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.53%) Wireless
9 2 (0.35%) 802.11
9 2 (0.35%) BGP
9 2 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.35%) DHCP
9 2 (0.35%) Modbus
9 2 (0.35%) VoIP
9 2 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.58%) OLTP
2 15 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.11%) Power BI
4 10 (1.76%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.41%) Metadata
6 7 (1.23%) MySQL
6 7 (1.23%) Tableau
7 5 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.35%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.18%) GIS
11 1 (0.18%) QGIS
11 1 (0.18%) Redis
11 1 (0.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (8.63%) JIRA
2 29 (5.11%) eCATT
3 26 (4.58%) NeoLoad
4 18 (3.17%) Git
5 10 (1.76%) Selenium
6 8 (1.41%) WebDriver
7 7 (1.23%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.23%) SoapUI
8 6 (1.06%) Postman
8 6 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.88%) git-flow
10 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.53%) MLflow
12 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.35%) Subversion
13 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
13 1 (0.18%) GitLab
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 193 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 185 (32.57%) Finance
3 113 (19.89%) Marketing
4 99 (17.43%) Manufacturing
5 73 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 21 (3.70%) Law
8 20 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.11%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Local Government
15 4 (0.70%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.53%) Games
16 3 (0.53%) Retail
17 2 (0.35%) Multimedia
17 2 (0.35%) Telecoms
18 1 (0.18%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.15%) .NET
2 35 (6.16%) HTML
3 21 (3.70%) React
4 17 (2.99%) SOAP
5 13 (2.29%) JSON
5 13 (2.29%) REST
6 11 (1.94%) XML
7 7 (1.23%) .NET Framework
7 7 (1.23%) ASP.NET
7 7 (1.23%) Kafka
7 7 (1.23%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.88%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.88%) CSS
8 5 (0.88%) Material-UI
8 5 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.70%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.70%) Blazor
10 3 (0.53%) Keras
10 3 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.11%) Data Centre
2 27 (4.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.70%) Life Science
5 19 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.58%) IoT
8 7 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.06%) Pharmacovigilance
9 6 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.88%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.88%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.88%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.70%) SCADA
12 3 (0.53%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.53%) NHS
12 3 (0.53%) Social Media
12 3 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.58%) Android
2 8 (1.41%) Windows
3 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.70%) Linux
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (13.38%) Software Engineering
3 74 (13.03%) Agile
4 72 (12.68%) SAP Implementation
5 70 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
6 69 (12.15%) Logistics
7 64 (11.27%) Data Management
8 63 (11.09%) Architectural Design
9 62 (10.92%) Analytics
9 62 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
10 61 (10.74%) ERP
10 61 (10.74%) Translating Business Requirements
11 60 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (10.56%) Impact Analysis
12 58 (10.21%) Incident Management
13 57 (10.04%) Data Collection
13 57 (10.04%) Decision Quality
13 57 (10.04%) Quality Management
14 55 (9.68%) Roadmaps
15 51 (8.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (13.56%) SQL
2 45 (7.92%) C#
3 42 (7.39%) Java
4 33 (5.81%) PL/SQL
5 26 (4.58%) Python
6 21 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.70%) Bash
8 4 (0.70%) C
9 3 (0.53%) C++
10 2 (0.35%) Fortran
10 2 (0.35%) PHP
10 2 (0.35%) R
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) Korn
11 1 (0.18%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.18%) Perl
11 1 (0.18%) Scala
11 1 (0.18%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 106 (18.66%) Degree
2 29 (5.11%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.64%) PMP
6 10 (1.76%) CISSP
7 9 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 9 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.41%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.06%) CCNA
9 6 (1.06%) CCNP
9 6 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.06%) GCIA
9 6 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 6 (1.06%) SANS
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.70%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.70%) QA
2 19 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.99%) GDPR
5 9 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.88%) NIST
8 4 (0.70%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.70%) PMO
9 3 (0.53%) GRC
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.18%) ECSS
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) IEC 61131
11 1 (0.18%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (2.11%) Docker
2 7 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 29 (5.11%) HP ALM
2 14 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.94%) Terraform
4 4 (0.70%) Nessus
5 2 (0.35%) Argo
5 2 (0.35%) Grafana
5 2 (0.35%) SCCM
5 2 (0.35%) SCOM
6 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (19.19%) SAP
2 47 (8.27%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.51%) Oracle
4 29 (5.11%) HP
5 10 (1.76%) Databricks
6 8 (1.41%) Adobe
7 7 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.23%) VMware
8 6 (1.06%) Cisco
8 6 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 5 (0.88%) Google
9 5 (0.88%) Tenable
10 3 (0.53%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.53%) Siemens
10 3 (0.53%) Zoho
11 2 (0.35%) Allen-Bradley
11 2 (0.35%) Dell
11 2 (0.35%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (0.35%) Splunk
12 1 (0.18%) IBM