Senior Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 10 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,661 9,483 8,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.67% 14.21% 13.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.31% 14.89% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,121 5,624 6,104
10th Percentile £42,798 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,800 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 30,439 63,675 62,248
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 95.43% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 21,166 37,589 43,824
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,531 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 +3 1,174 £60,000 - 725
South East -2 1,042 £65,000 - 796
South West +4 724 £56,000 -6.67% 339
Midlands +4 668 £57,500 -4.17% 365
North West +3 584 £62,500 +4.17% 443
Yorkshire +1 495 £60,000 -4.00% 205
Scotland +7 473 £65,000 +4.00% 207
West Midlands +3 433 £57,500 -4.17% 237
East of England +2 281 £60,000 -5.29% 330
East Midlands +5 235 £57,500 +4.55% 128
Wales +1 233 £55,000 +10.00% 62
North East +7 93 £55,000 -3.08% 91
Northern Ireland +23 84 £60,500 +12.04% 59
Isle of Man +2 3 £53,500 -
Channel Islands +9 1 £85,000 +136.11% 1
South Coast - 1 £50,000 -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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 1,398 (29.99%) Agile
2 1,025 (21.99%) Azure
3 969 (20.79%) Social Skills
4 958 (20.55%) SQL
5 886 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
6 845 (18.13%) Finance
7 843 (18.09%) AWS
8 826 (17.72%) Security Cleared
9 812 (17.42%) Degree
10 762 (16.35%) Software Engineering
11 685 (14.70%) Microsoft
12 659 (14.14%) Java
13 636 (13.65%) Python
13 636 (13.65%) DevOps
14 608 (13.04%) Windows
15 553 (11.86%) JavaScript
16 546 (11.71%) Mentoring
17 532 (11.41%) C#
18 528 (11.33%) .NET
19 518 (11.11%) SC Cleared
20 501 (10.75%) Actionable Insight
21 445 (9.55%) CI/CD
22 411 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
23 410 (8.80%) Linux
24 409 (8.77%) Scrum
24 409 (8.77%) Docker
25 395 (8.47%) React
26 370 (7.94%) Active Directory
27 367 (7.87%) Computer Science
28 366 (7.85%) SQL Server

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
1 101 (2.17%) Confluence
2 81 (1.74%) JBoss
3 79 (1.69%) Red Hat Fuse
3 79 (1.69%) SAS
4 70 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 59 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 45 (0.97%) MS Exchange
7 40 (0.86%) IIS
8 32 (0.69%) CMS
9 31 (0.67%) Apache
10 28 (0.60%) Apache Spark
11 26 (0.56%) Umbraco
12 18 (0.39%) Tomcat
13 12 (0.26%) WordPress
14 10 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
14 10 (0.21%) nginx
15 6 (0.13%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.13%) NServiceBus
15 6 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 109 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.77%) Simulink
4 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 15 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.21%) Stateflow
8 8 (0.17%) OrCAD
9 5 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.11%) CANalyzer
9 5 (0.11%) InDesign
9 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.086%) Abaqus
10 4 (0.086%) CATIA
10 4 (0.086%) Trello
11 3 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 45 (0.97%) NetSuite
2 43 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
3 28 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
4 15 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.15%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.13%) Maximo
8 6 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.086%) ENOVIA
9 4 (0.086%) Primavera
9 4 (0.086%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.064%) Infor M3
10 3 (0.064%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.064%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.064%) SAP GRC
11 2 (0.043%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (21.99%) Azure
2 843 (18.09%) AWS
3 290 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
4 242 (5.19%) GCP
5 217 (4.66%) SaaS
6 184 (3.95%) Serverless
7 173 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
8 171 (3.67%) Power Platform
9 107 (2.30%) GitHub
10 97 (2.08%) Entra ID
11 96 (2.06%) OpenShift
12 68 (1.46%) PaaS
13 60 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 51 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 42 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (0.73%) IaaS
18 30 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
19 28 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 278 (5.96%) Firewall
2 264 (5.66%) WAN
3 216 (4.63%) LAN
4 175 (3.75%) DNS
5 149 (3.20%) DHCP
6 146 (3.13%) TCP/IP
7 98 (2.10%) Network Security
8 96 (2.06%) VPN
9 81 (1.74%) Wireless
10 76 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
11 68 (1.46%) HTTP
12 66 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
13 64 (1.37%) Internet
14 62 (1.33%) BGP
15 47 (1.01%) MPLS
16 46 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
16 46 (0.99%) SAN
17 41 (0.88%) OSPF
18 36 (0.77%) VLAN
19 35 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (7.85%) SQL Server
2 203 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 167 (3.58%) MySQL
4 150 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
5 140 (3.00%) Power BI
6 118 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
7 91 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 91 (1.95%) Oracle Database
8 88 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 79 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 63 (1.35%) Oracle Database 11g
10 63 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
11 50 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 46 (0.99%) Metadata
13 44 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
13 44 (0.94%) Tableau
14 35 (0.75%) Base SAS
15 34 (0.73%) Big Data
16 31 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 30 (0.64%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 327 (7.02%) Git
2 188 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 160 (3.43%) JIRA
4 102 (2.19%) IntelliJ
5 79 (1.69%) Maven
6 73 (1.57%) Selenium
7 39 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 37 (0.79%) GitLab
9 33 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 33 (0.71%) Visual Studio
10 27 (0.58%) Subversion
11 24 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
11 24 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.49%) Postman
13 19 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 18 (0.39%) NUnit
14 18 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
15 16 (0.34%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 969 (20.79%) Social Skills
2 845 (18.13%) Finance
3 411 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 287 (6.16%) Retail
6 230 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 220 (4.72%) Banking
8 141 (3.03%) Marketing
9 121 (2.60%) Electronics
10 109 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 108 (2.32%) Automotive
12 107 (2.30%) Games
13 105 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 91 (1.95%) Law
15 79 (1.69%) Military
15 79 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
16 68 (1.46%) Legal
17 66 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
18 56 (1.20%) Back Office
19 49 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 528 (11.33%) .NET
2 395 (8.47%) React
3 361 (7.75%) HTML
4 305 (6.54%) CSS
5 290 (6.22%) AngularJS
6 253 (5.43%) Spring
7 210 (4.51%) REST
8 195 (4.18%) Node.js
9 191 (4.10%) XML
10 185 (3.97%) RESTful
11 184 (3.95%) Web Services
12 181 (3.88%) .NET Core
13 139 (2.98%) ASP.NET
14 130 (2.79%) SOAP
15 126 (2.70%) JSON
16 122 (2.62%) Java EE
17 120 (2.57%) .NET Framework
18 95 (2.04%) Vue
19 90 (1.93%) HTML5
19 90 (1.93%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 323 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 204 (4.38%) Virtual Team
3 151 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 148 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 133 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 127 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 110 (2.36%) Driving Licence
8 86 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 80 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 74 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 73 (1.57%) Algorithms
12 71 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
13 67 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
14 63 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
15 54 (1.16%) Onboarding
16 51 (1.09%) Cyberattack
17 48 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
17 48 (1.03%) Mobile App
18 47 (1.01%) Clustering
18 47 (1.01%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 608 (13.04%) Windows
2 410 (8.80%) Linux
3 269 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 167 (3.58%) Unix
5 79 (1.69%) Android
6 74 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 65 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 57 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 56 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 47 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 36 (0.77%) Apple iOS
12 24 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
14 19 (0.41%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
16 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 9 (0.19%) CentOS
18 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
19 4 (0.086%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (29.99%) Agile
2 886 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
3 762 (16.35%) Software Engineering
4 636 (13.65%) DevOps
5 546 (11.71%) Mentoring
6 501 (10.75%) Actionable Insight
7 445 (9.55%) CI/CD
8 409 (8.77%) Scrum
9 367 (7.87%) Computer Science
10 341 (7.32%) Project Delivery
11 314 (6.74%) Project Management
12 308 (6.61%) Microservices
13 298 (6.39%) ITIL
14 296 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
15 280 (6.01%) Migration
16 272 (5.84%) Analytics
17 266 (5.71%) SDLC
18 262 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 253 (5.43%) Roadmaps
20 235 (5.04%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 958 (20.55%) SQL
2 659 (14.14%) Java
3 636 (13.65%) Python
4 553 (11.86%) JavaScript
5 532 (11.41%) C#
6 246 (5.28%) PL/SQL
7 234 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 232 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 210 (4.51%) C++
10 152 (3.26%) C
11 125 (2.68%) Bash
12 114 (2.45%) PHP
13 86 (1.85%) T-SQL
14 69 (1.48%) Shell Script
15 59 (1.27%) R
16 51 (1.09%) Go
17 50 (1.07%) Ruby
18 41 (0.88%) MATLAB
19 35 (0.75%) SAS Macro
20 34 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 826 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 812 (17.42%) Degree
3 518 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 253 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 248 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 129 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
7 88 (1.89%) CCNA
8 75 (1.61%) CISM
8 75 (1.61%) CISSP
8 75 (1.61%) Postgraduate
9 70 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 62 (1.33%) CCNP
11 60 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 54 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 52 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 50 (1.07%) SSCP
15 32 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
16 29 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.47%) Azure Certification
18 21 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (3.33%) QA
2 129 (2.77%) GDPR
3 120 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (1.91%) SLA
5 47 (1.01%) NIST
6 41 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 40 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 35 (0.75%) CDISC
9 31 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 25 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 24 (0.51%) ISO 26262
12 21 (0.45%) Automotive SPICE
12 21 (0.45%) GRC
13 18 (0.39%) IFRS
13 18 (0.39%) PMO
14 17 (0.36%) WCAG
15 14 (0.30%) CRD IV
15 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
16 12 (0.26%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 409 (8.77%) Docker
2 370 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 221 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 116 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 69 (1.48%) Firmware
6 40 (0.86%) vSphere
7 34 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
8 27 (0.58%) VMware NSX
9 24 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
11 13 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.086%) XenApp
14 3 (0.064%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.064%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.043%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 353 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 264 (5.66%) Terraform
3 145 (3.11%) Ansible
4 106 (2.27%) SCCM
5 67 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 58 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 57 (1.22%) OpenSSO
8 56 (1.20%) Puppet
9 38 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
10 19 (0.41%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 18 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 17 (0.36%) Nagios
13 16 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
14 14 (0.30%) Functional Safety
15 13 (0.28%) Grafana
15 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 10 (0.21%) WSUS
17 9 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 685 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 309 (6.63%) VMware
3 290 (6.22%) Oracle
4 266 (5.71%) NEC
5 228 (4.89%) Cisco
6 146 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 102 (2.19%) Google
8 92 (1.97%) CheckPoint
9 83 (1.78%) SAP
10 61 (1.31%) Citrix
11 60 (1.29%) Juniper
12 59 (1.27%) Databricks
12 59 (1.27%) Remedy
13 52 (1.12%) ServiceNow
14 50 (1.07%) Fortinet
15 47 (1.01%) F5
16 45 (0.97%) Red Hat
17 43 (0.92%) Palo Alto
17 43 (0.92%) SolarWinds
18 39 (0.84%) IBM