Senior Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Senior
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior salary in Tyne and Wear is £57,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 40 246 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.35% 17.92% 11.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.91% 18.52% 13.61%
Number of salaries quoted 34 178 67
10th Percentile £51,250 £35,000 £41,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,582 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,914 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,875 £73,250 £78,750
North East median annual salary £61,000 £57,965 £56,500
% change year-on-year +5.24% +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 449 1,328 742
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 96.72% 81.45%
Number of salaries quoted 283 1,101 451
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £38,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
North East median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year -10.53% -0.36% +19.18%

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 24 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 24 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 -6 38 £57,500 -4.17% 286
Sunderland +9 1 £51,250 -3.76% 24
Senior
North East

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 18 (45.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (42.50%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) .NET
3 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 12 (30.00%) AWS
4 10 (25.00%) Python
5 9 (22.50%) OOP
5 9 (22.50%) DevOps
6 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (20.00%) C#
6 8 (20.00%) Java
6 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 8 (20.00%) QA
7 7 (17.50%) Finance
7 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
7 7 (17.50%) Fintech
7 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.00%) Games
8 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
8 6 (15.00%) PHP
9 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
9 5 (12.50%) CSS
9 5 (12.50%) Degree
9 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 5 (12.50%) Git
9 5 (12.50%) React
9 5 (12.50%) User Experience
9 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns

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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
1 12 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (7.50%) GCP
2 3 (7.50%) GitHub
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) Serverless
3 2 (5.00%) Slack
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) Bitrise
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) Firebase
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (5.00%) LAN
1 2 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) MySQL
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) NUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Selenium
2 2 (5.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.50%) Postman
3 1 (2.50%) Protractor
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Games
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Advertising
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Front Office
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) CSS
2 5 (12.50%) React
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (10.00%) HTML
3 4 (10.00%) REST
4 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.50%) LAMP
4 3 (7.50%) Laravel
5 2 (5.00%) Jest
5 2 (5.00%) Vue
6 1 (2.50%) Android SDK
6 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.50%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.50%) Node.js
6 1 (2.50%) Spring
6 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.50%) Svelte
6 1 (2.50%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
2 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.00%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.50%) Solaris
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (42.50%) Agile
3 9 (22.50%) DevOps
3 9 (22.50%) OOP
4 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.50%) Fintech
4 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
4 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 5 (12.50%) User Experience
7 4 (10.00%) Clean Code
7 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.00%) SDLC
7 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (7.50%) API Testing
8 3 (7.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) C#
2 8 (20.00%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.00%) PHP
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.50%) R
6 1 (2.50%) Swift
6 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) CCIE
2 2 (5.00%) CCNP
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Informatica
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.50%) RedGate
3 1 (2.50%) Talend