Senior Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 6,789 9,582 8,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.59% 13.82% 13.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.85% 14.59% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,415 6,487 4,580
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,988 £42,759
25th Percentile £47,683 £47,500 £51,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% -10.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 32,561 65,693 55,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.16% 94.78% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 18,278 46,777 31,608
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £35,000 £38,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,686 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.14% -12.19% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
North of England +2 2,259 £50,055 -16.58% 1,063
North West +3 1,825 £50,055 -16.58% 614
South East +7 1,485 £62,000 +3.33% 1,206
Midlands -2 823 £60,000 +4.35% 574
Scotland +16 787 £55,000 -8.33% 418
South West +2 761 £55,000 - 457
West Midlands -4 468 £65,000 +12.14% 343
East of England +5 399 £55,000 -8.33% 557
Yorkshire -1 365 £60,465 +4.31% 336
East Midlands +5 354 £55,500 +0.91% 219
Wales +1 238 £60,000 +20.00% 99
North East -12 69 £61,000 +5.24% 119
Northern Ireland +2 57 £80,000 +45.45% 164
Isle of Man +11 3 - - 1
Channel Islands +1 1 £97,500 +14.71% 2
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,192 (47.02%) Degree
2 2,627 (38.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,401 (20.64%) Systems Engineering
4 1,244 (18.32%) Social Skills
5 1,118 (16.47%) Agile
6 988 (14.55%) Finance
7 924 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
8 862 (12.70%) Mentoring
9 772 (11.37%) Mathematics
10 704 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
11 700 (10.31%) Azure
12 691 (10.18%) Software Engineering
13 680 (10.02%) Microsoft
14 646 (9.52%) Project Management
15 599 (8.82%) Coaching
16 578 (8.51%) Python
17 525 (7.73%) Physics
18 521 (7.67%) HND
19 510 (7.51%) Manufacturing
20 459 (6.76%) C#
21 456 (6.72%) SQL
21 456 (6.72%) DevOps
22 449 (6.61%) JavaScript
23 448 (6.60%) Risk Management
24 445 (6.55%) Chartered Engineer
25 444 (6.54%) IEC 61508
26 437 (6.44%) Aerospace
27 435 (6.41%) CI/CD
28 431 (6.35%) AWS
29 387 (5.70%) Computer Science

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 134 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.08%) Confluence
3 37 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 35 (0.52%) Apache
5 28 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 21 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 17 (0.25%) CMS
8 17 (0.25%) SAS
9 14 (0.21%) IIS
10 9 (0.13%) nginx
11 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.12%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.10%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.088%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.059%) Luigi
15 3 (0.044%) Mule
15 3 (0.044%) NetWeaver
15 3 (0.044%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.044%) WordPress
Applications
1 301 (4.43%) Mathcad
2 257 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 190 (2.80%) Abaqus
4 172 (2.53%) Simulink
5 99 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
6 93 (1.37%) SOLIDWORKS
7 63 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 40 (0.59%) Windchill
9 35 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
10 21 (0.31%) AutoCAD
11 8 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.088%) MS Visio
12 6 (0.088%) Sketch
13 4 (0.059%) Revit
14 3 (0.044%) ProjectWise
15 2 (0.029%) Chatbot
15 2 (0.029%) GNU Octave
16 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 1 (0.015%) EPLAN
16 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 142 (2.09%) Teamcenter
2 39 (0.57%) SAP BPC
3 38 (0.56%) Infor LN
4 33 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 24 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
6 17 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 14 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
9 11 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
10 10 (0.15%) Magento
11 8 (0.12%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
13 6 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
14 4 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
15 3 (0.044%) SAP GRC
15 3 (0.044%) Shopify
16 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
16 2 (0.029%) Oracle BPM
16 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 700 (10.31%) Azure
2 431 (6.35%) AWS
3 240 (3.54%) GCP
4 152 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
5 149 (2.19%) Power Platform
6 142 (2.09%) SaaS
7 115 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 109 (1.61%) Serverless
9 102 (1.50%) GitHub
10 66 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
11 50 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 50 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (0.68%) Entra ID
13 40 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 40 (0.59%) PaaS
14 39 (0.57%) Snowflake
15 37 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
17 28 (0.41%) PowerApps
18 27 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 135 (1.99%) Firewall
2 75 (1.10%) WAN
3 72 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 63 (0.93%) Wireless
5 62 (0.91%) VPN
6 60 (0.88%) DNS
7 49 (0.72%) Broadband
8 46 (0.68%) SD-WAN
9 43 (0.63%) LAN
10 39 (0.57%) Network Security
10 39 (0.57%) VoIP
10 39 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (0.50%) VLAN
12 33 (0.49%) DHCP
13 24 (0.35%) Internet
14 22 (0.32%) IPsec
15 21 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
15 21 (0.31%) OSPF
16 20 (0.29%) 5G
16 20 (0.29%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 135 (1.99%) MySQL
3 102 (1.50%) Power BI
4 87 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 86 (1.27%) Big Data
6 83 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
7 77 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
8 71 (1.05%) Tableau
9 57 (0.84%) MongoDB
10 50 (0.74%) Relational Database
11 49 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 45 (0.66%) DynamoDB
13 27 (0.40%) Data Mining
14 25 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (0.37%) Metadata
15 24 (0.35%) OLTP
16 23 (0.34%) Redis
17 20 (0.29%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
19 18 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 262 (3.86%) Git
2 259 (3.81%) JIRA
3 161 (2.37%) Rational DOORS
4 118 (1.74%) LabVIEW
5 84 (1.24%) Jenkins
6 69 (1.02%) Visual Studio
7 59 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
9 39 (0.57%) Selenium
10 27 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 27 (0.40%) webpack
11 25 (0.37%) GitLab
11 25 (0.37%) Maven
12 22 (0.32%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.28%) JUnit
14 16 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 14 (0.21%) MagicDraw
15 14 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.19%) Subversion
17 12 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,244 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 988 (14.55%) Finance
3 704 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 510 (7.51%) Manufacturing
5 437 (6.44%) Aerospace
6 359 (5.29%) Electronics
7 336 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 279 (4.11%) Retail
9 237 (3.49%) Automotive
10 232 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 213 (3.14%) Law
12 212 (3.12%) Games
13 208 (3.06%) Telecoms
14 196 (2.89%) Banking
15 172 (2.53%) Avionics
16 169 (2.49%) Public Sector
17 157 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
18 128 (1.89%) Marketing
19 116 (1.71%) Aeronautics
20 109 (1.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (5.54%) .NET
2 326 (4.80%) React
3 266 (3.92%) HTML
4 214 (3.15%) CSS
5 164 (2.42%) Node.js
6 110 (1.62%) .NET Core
7 108 (1.59%) RESTful
8 104 (1.53%) AngularJS
9 85 (1.25%) .NET Framework
10 80 (1.18%) ASP.NET
11 76 (1.12%) REST
12 70 (1.03%) Laravel
13 69 (1.02%) GraphQL
14 62 (0.91%) Spring Boot
15 59 (0.87%) Spring
15 59 (0.87%) XML
16 58 (0.85%) Kafka
17 57 (0.84%) Vue
18 55 (0.81%) Web Services
19 52 (0.77%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 376 (5.54%) Management Information System
2 257 (3.79%) Driving Licence
3 224 (3.30%) Algorithms
4 167 (2.46%) SCADA
5 81 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 73 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 73 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 68 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 66 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 57 (0.84%) Social Media
10 50 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 45 (0.66%) Blockchain
12 44 (0.65%) Onboarding
13 42 (0.62%) Cloud Native
14 36 (0.53%) FPGA
15 35 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
16 33 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
17 31 (0.46%) Digital Media
18 30 (0.44%) Cyberattack
18 30 (0.44%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 263 (3.87%) Linux
2 194 (2.86%) Windows
3 56 (0.82%) Android
3 56 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 53 (0.78%) Unix
5 49 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
8 13 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.16%) Solaris
11 9 (0.13%) VMS
11 9 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.13%) zOS
12 8 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 7 (0.10%) Windows Vista
14 5 (0.074%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.044%) AIX
15 3 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,401 (20.64%) Systems Engineering
2 1,118 (16.47%) Agile
3 924 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
4 862 (12.70%) Mentoring
5 772 (11.37%) Mathematics
6 691 (10.18%) Software Engineering
7 646 (9.52%) Project Management
8 599 (8.82%) Coaching
9 525 (7.73%) Physics
10 456 (6.72%) DevOps
11 448 (6.60%) Risk Management
12 435 (6.41%) CI/CD
13 387 (5.70%) Computer Science
14 352 (5.18%) FMEA
15 347 (5.11%) Decision-Making
16 337 (4.96%) Analytics
17 320 (4.71%) Change Management
18 311 (4.58%) Test Automation
19 305 (4.49%) Stakeholder Management
20 290 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 578 (8.51%) Python
2 459 (6.76%) C#
3 456 (6.72%) SQL
4 449 (6.61%) JavaScript
5 365 (5.38%) Java
6 315 (4.64%) MATLAB
7 265 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 217 (3.20%) C
9 201 (2.96%) C++
10 150 (2.21%) PHP
11 129 (1.90%) R
12 78 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 76 (1.12%) Ada
14 59 (0.87%) Rust
15 55 (0.81%) Go
16 42 (0.62%) Bash
17 33 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.49%) VB
18 31 (0.46%) T-SQL
19 28 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3,192 (47.02%) Degree
2 2,627 (38.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 521 (7.67%) HND
4 445 (6.55%) Chartered Engineer
5 334 (4.92%) Master's Degree
6 289 (4.26%) HNC
7 224 (3.30%) Security Cleared
8 218 (3.21%) Numerate Degree
9 130 (1.91%) SC Cleared
10 94 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 88 (1.30%) CISSP
12 72 (1.06%) ACCA
13 63 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 57 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 55 (0.81%) DV Cleared
16 51 (0.75%) Azure Certification
17 49 (0.72%) CIMA
18 48 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
19 44 (0.65%) CCA
20 38 (0.56%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 444 (6.54%) IEC 61508
2 348 (5.13%) Def Stans
3 213 (3.14%) QA
4 166 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 118 (1.74%) ISO 9001
6 108 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 101 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 97 (1.43%) DO-254
9 96 (1.41%) ARP4754
10 92 (1.36%) HAZOP
11 83 (1.22%) Data Quality
12 81 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 59 (0.87%) GAAP
13 59 (0.87%) IFRS
14 53 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 29 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
15 29 (0.43%) GDPR
16 28 (0.41%) ITGC
17 27 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 24 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 253 (3.73%) Docker
2 107 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.47%) Firmware
4 68 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 43 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 38 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.15%) vSphere
11 7 (0.10%) HDFS
12 4 (0.059%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.015%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.015%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.015%) IAG
14 1 (0.015%) KVM
14 1 (0.015%) NFS
14 1 (0.015%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.015%) Squid
Systems Management
1 244 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 129 (1.90%) Terraform
3 94 (1.38%) Functional Safety
4 72 (1.06%) Ansible
5 40 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.27%) SCCM
7 16 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.22%) Grafana
9 12 (0.18%) Istio
10 10 (0.15%) Puppet
11 8 (0.12%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.10%) CA Endevor
13 5 (0.074%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.074%) SCOM
13 5 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.074%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.059%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.059%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 680 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 151 (2.22%) IBM
3 148 (2.18%) Oracle
4 119 (1.75%) MathWorks
5 112 (1.65%) SAP
6 88 (1.30%) Cisco
6 88 (1.30%) Google
7 84 (1.24%) ANSYS
8 81 (1.19%) Databricks
9 73 (1.08%) BT
10 68 (1.00%) VMware
11 51 (0.75%) Siemens
12 49 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 48 (0.71%) Adobe
14 44 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 38 (0.56%) Cognos
15 38 (0.56%) Infor
16 37 (0.54%) Apple
17 30 (0.44%) NEC
18 28 (0.41%) Red Hat