Senior Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Senior
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior salary in Tyne and Wear is £56,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 44 253 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.09% 17.51% 11.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.70% 18.07% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 37 185 66
10th Percentile £48,300 £35,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,914 £68,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,250 £78,750
North East median annual salary £60,500 £57,965 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.37% +2.59% +13.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 506 1,400 743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 96.89% 81.38%
Number of salaries quoted 329 1,169 447
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,920 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,772 £73,800
North East median annual salary £40,000 £46,457 £47,750
% change year-on-year -13.90% -2.71% +19.38%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 40 £57,500 -4.17% 61
Sunderland +3 2 £51,125 -3.99% 14
Senior
North East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 31 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 19 (43.18%) Software Engineering
2 18 (40.91%) Agile
3 14 (31.82%) Azure
4 13 (29.55%) .NET
4 13 (29.55%) AWS
5 11 (25.00%) Python
6 10 (22.73%) DevOps
7 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
7 9 (20.45%) Java
7 9 (20.45%) OOP
8 8 (18.18%) C#
8 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
8 8 (18.18%) QA
8 8 (18.18%) Fintech
8 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
9 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
9 7 (15.91%) Finance
10 6 (13.64%) Games
10 6 (13.64%) E-Commerce
10 6 (13.64%) PHP
10 6 (13.64%) Degree
10 6 (13.64%) User Experience
11 5 (11.36%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (11.36%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (11.36%) Design Patterns
11 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
11 5 (11.36%) React
11 5 (11.36%) Computer Science

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Revit
2 1 (2.27%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.82%) GCP
3 3 (6.82%) GitHub
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
4 2 (4.55%) Slack
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.27%) Firebase
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (4.55%) LAN
1 2 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) NUnit
2 2 (4.55%) Selenium
2 2 (4.55%) SpecFlow
2 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.27%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) Protractor
General
1 7 (15.91%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Games
3 4 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Electronics
6 1 (2.27%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) .NET
2 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
2 5 (11.36%) CSS
2 5 (11.36%) React
3 4 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 4 (9.09%) HTML
3 4 (9.09%) REST
4 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.82%) LAMP
4 3 (6.82%) Laravel
5 2 (4.55%) Jest
5 2 (4.55%) Vue
6 1 (2.27%) Android SDK
6 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.27%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.27%) Node.js
6 1 (2.27%) Spring
6 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.27%) Svelte
6 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (11.36%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.82%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.82%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.27%) Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.27%) Solaris
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Software Engineering
2 18 (40.91%) Agile
3 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) OOP
5 8 (18.18%) Fintech
5 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
7 6 (13.64%) E-Commerce
7 6 (13.64%) User Experience
8 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.36%) Design Patterns
9 4 (9.09%) Clean Code
9 4 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (9.09%) SDLC
9 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 4 (9.09%) Unit Testing
10 3 (6.82%) API Testing
10 3 (6.82%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Python
2 9 (20.45%) Java
2 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
3 8 (18.18%) C#
4 6 (13.64%) PHP
5 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.36%) SQL
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.27%) R
6 1 (2.27%) Swift
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) CCIE
2 2 (4.55%) CCNP
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) RIBA
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Informatica
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.27%) RedGate
3 1 (2.27%) Talend