Senior Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior salary in the Thames Valley is £65,000 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 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 445 1,090 834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.09% 15.53% 14.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.37% 16.41% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 170 670 506
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £46,661
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,375 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -11.11% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,895 6,641 5,251
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.17% 94.60% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 4,545 3,088
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Senior 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 30 May 2025.

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 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
Berkshire -3 279 £67,500 - 1,360
Buckinghamshire -18 111 £59,500 +8.18% 526
Oxfordshire -21 55 £60,000 - 333
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 172 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 166 (37.30%) Law
2 166 (37.30%) Degree
3 144 (32.36%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (26.07%) Agile
5 115 (25.84%) Analytics
6 99 (22.25%) Microsoft
6 99 (22.25%) Roadmaps
7 98 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
8 95 (21.35%) Azure
9 88 (19.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 80 (17.98%) AWS
11 76 (17.08%) Machine Learning
11 76 (17.08%) Data Science
12 75 (16.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 74 (16.63%) Mentoring
14 69 (15.51%) Strategic Thinking
15 68 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
16 64 (14.38%) SQL
17 62 (13.93%) Strategic Roadmap
18 61 (13.71%) QA
19 60 (13.48%) Finance
20 59 (13.26%) Legal
20 59 (13.26%) Project Management
21 54 (12.13%) Change Management
21 54 (12.13%) Computer Science
21 54 (12.13%) Data Lake
22 53 (11.91%) Influencing Skills
22 53 (11.91%) Manufacturing
23 52 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (2.02%) IIS
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.45%) Apache
3 2 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.22%) nginx
4 1 (0.22%) Strapi
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Revit
2 1 (0.22%) Simulink
2 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (3.60%) SAP FI
2 4 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (21.35%) Azure
2 80 (17.98%) AWS
3 51 (11.46%) GCP
4 25 (5.62%) Snowflake
5 16 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (3.37%) Vertex AI
7 14 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (3.15%) Salsify
7 14 (3.15%) Serverless
8 12 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.47%) Cloudflare
10 9 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.12%) Collibra
11 5 (1.12%) GitHub
11 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.12%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.90%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.15%) VPN
2 13 (2.92%) Firewall
3 8 (1.80%) DNS
3 8 (1.80%) VLAN
4 7 (1.57%) VoIP
5 4 (0.90%) DHCP
6 2 (0.45%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.45%) LAN
6 2 (0.45%) Network Security
6 2 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.45%) SAN
6 2 (0.45%) SCCP
6 2 (0.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) HSRP
7 1 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.22%) OSPF
7 1 (0.22%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.13%) Data Lake
2 40 (8.99%) Metadata
3 26 (5.84%) OLTP
3 26 (5.84%) SQL Server
4 24 (5.39%) Data Mining
4 24 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.49%) MySQL
6 11 (2.47%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.90%) Metabase
9 4 (0.90%) Power BI
9 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.67%) Big Data
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.45%) Tableau
12 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (8.09%) Git
2 10 (2.25%) NUnit
2 10 (2.25%) TeamCity
3 9 (2.02%) Jasmine
3 9 (2.02%) JIRA
4 5 (1.12%) Subversion
5 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.67%) Selenium
6 3 (0.67%) Vite
7 2 (0.45%) Babel
7 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.45%) JUnit
7 2 (0.45%) Maven
7 2 (0.45%) webpack
8 1 (0.22%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.22%) Mocha
8 1 (0.22%) Mockito
8 1 (0.22%) Moq
8 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 172 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 166 (37.30%) Law
3 98 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (16.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (13.48%) Finance
6 59 (13.26%) Legal
7 53 (11.91%) Influencing Skills
7 53 (11.91%) Manufacturing
8 39 (8.76%) Marketing
8 39 (8.76%) Retail
9 15 (3.37%) Electronics
10 14 (3.15%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.25%) Games
12 7 (1.57%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Aviation
14 4 (0.90%) Humanities
15 3 (0.67%) Advertising
15 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.45%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.34%) HTML
2 39 (8.76%) React
3 22 (4.94%) CSS
4 19 (4.27%) .NET
5 17 (3.82%) SOAP
6 15 (3.37%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.37%) HTML5
6 15 (3.37%) XML
7 14 (3.15%) CSS3
8 13 (2.92%) Jest
8 13 (2.92%) Node.js
9 12 (2.70%) ASP.NET
9 12 (2.70%) GraphQL
9 12 (2.70%) PyTorch
9 12 (2.70%) RESTful
9 12 (2.70%) TensorFlow
9 12 (2.70%) Vue
10 11 (2.47%) Hugging Face
10 11 (2.47%) LangChain
11 10 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 30 (6.74%) Algorithms
3 21 (4.72%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.15%) Taxonomies
5 13 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.35%) Online Games
7 6 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.12%) FPGA
8 5 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.90%) CCTV
9 4 (0.90%) CESG
9 4 (0.90%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.90%) CPLD
9 4 (0.90%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.67%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.07%) Linux
2 14 (3.15%) Windows
3 9 (2.02%) Mac OS
4 7 (1.57%) Unix
5 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.90%) Android
7 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (32.36%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (26.07%) Agile
3 115 (25.84%) Analytics
4 99 (22.25%) Roadmaps
5 88 (19.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 76 (17.08%) Data Science
6 76 (17.08%) Machine Learning
7 74 (16.63%) Mentoring
8 69 (15.51%) Strategic Thinking
9 68 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 62 (13.93%) Strategic Roadmap
11 59 (13.26%) Project Management
12 54 (12.13%) Change Management
12 54 (12.13%) Computer Science
13 52 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (11.46%) Data Engineering
15 50 (11.24%) Data Management
16 48 (10.79%) Use Case
17 47 (10.56%) Data Governance
18 43 (9.66%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 64 (14.38%) SQL
2 48 (10.79%) Python
3 42 (9.44%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.09%) TypeScript
5 29 (6.52%) C#
6 27 (6.07%) C++
7 26 (5.84%) PL/SQL
8 21 (4.72%) C
9 15 (3.37%) Java
10 14 (3.15%) Bash
11 11 (2.47%) PHP
12 6 (1.35%) Fortran
13 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.45%) R
15 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.22%) Swift
15 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 166 (37.30%) Degree
2 24 (5.39%) Master's Degree
3 23 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.57%) MCP
8 6 (1.35%) CISSP
8 6 (1.35%) PhD
9 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.12%) MBA
10 4 (0.90%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.90%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.90%) Dell Certification
10 4 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.67%) MCSA
12 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.71%) QA
2 48 (10.79%) Data Quality
3 29 (6.52%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.90%) GMP
5 4 (0.90%) SLA
6 3 (0.67%) GDPR
7 2 (0.45%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.22%) CDISC
System Software
1 19 (4.27%) Docker
2 13 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) HDFS
6 1 (0.22%) IAG
6 1 (0.22%) NFS
6 1 (0.22%) Squid
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (3.15%) Terraform
2 11 (2.47%) Grafana
2 11 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.47%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.90%) Ansible
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.19%) Oracle
3 26 (5.84%) OpenAI
4 18 (4.04%) SAP
5 15 (3.37%) Google
6 13 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.70%) Dell
8 11 (2.47%) Rollbar
9 9 (2.02%) Databricks
10 7 (1.57%) Cisco
10 7 (1.57%) VMware
11 5 (1.12%) Apple
11 5 (1.12%) Informatica
12 4 (0.90%) Agilent
13 3 (0.67%) SonicWALL
14 2 (0.45%) Adobe
14 2 (0.45%) Jaspersoft
14 2 (0.45%) PeopleSoft
14 2 (0.45%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.45%) Splunk