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 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 5 8 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 6,609 10,299 7,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.65% 13.75% 13.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.46% 14.49% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,094 6,929 4,303
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £48,869 £47,500 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 31 May 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 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
North of England +1 2,196 £50,055 -16.58% 1,068
North West +3 1,828 £50,055 -16.58% 693
South East +4 1,523 £62,000 +3.33% 724
Midlands +1 857 £60,000 +4.35% 498
Scotland +18 711 £55,000 -8.33% 289
South West -2 681 £55,000 -5.17% 385
West Midlands -3 503 £65,000 +11.11% 325
East of England -2 400 £58,000 -1.69% 366
East Midlands +2 353 £55,250 +0.45% 167
Yorkshire -8 309 £60,000 +3.51% 289
Wales -8 215 £60,000 +20.00% 100
North East -18 59 £60,500 +4.37% 93
Northern Ireland 0 34 £80,000 +45.45% 130
Isle of Man +11 3 - -
Channel Islands -1 1 £97,500 +44.44% 111
Senior
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,865 (43.35%) Degree
2 2,638 (39.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,695 (25.65%) Systems Engineering
4 1,464 (22.15%) Agile
5 1,274 (19.28%) Social Skills
6 1,078 (16.31%) Mentoring
7 969 (14.66%) Finance
8 898 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
9 835 (12.63%) Azure
10 817 (12.36%) Mathematics
11 806 (12.20%) Python
12 762 (11.53%) Software Engineering
13 705 (10.67%) Coaching
14 699 (10.58%) AWS
15 665 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
16 656 (9.93%) Project Management
17 570 (8.62%) Microsoft
18 548 (8.29%) JavaScript
19 547 (8.28%) Physics
20 498 (7.54%) Java
21 487 (7.37%) CI/CD
22 475 (7.19%) Aerospace
23 471 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 454 (6.87%) .NET
25 451 (6.82%) HND
25 451 (6.82%) GCP
26 425 (6.43%) SQL
27 422 (6.39%) Machine Learning
28 406 (6.14%) User Experience
28 406 (6.14%) Electronics

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
1 106 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.13%) Confluence
3 31 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 29 (0.44%) Apache
5 27 (0.41%) IIS
6 25 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 24 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.29%) CMS
9 14 (0.21%) SAS
10 8 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (0.11%) Appian
11 7 (0.11%) nginx
11 7 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.091%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.091%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.045%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.045%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.045%) WordPress
15 2 (0.030%) WebLogic
Applications
1 232 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 193 (2.92%) Simulink
3 162 (2.45%) Mathcad
4 109 (1.65%) Abaqus
5 66 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
6 44 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 22 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
8 16 (0.24%) Revit
9 12 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
10 11 (0.17%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.076%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.045%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.045%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.045%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.030%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.015%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.015%) InDesign
14 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 84 (1.27%) Teamcenter
2 39 (0.59%) SAP BPC
3 38 (0.57%) Infor LN
4 37 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 25 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
6 18 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 15 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
10 11 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
11 10 (0.15%) Magento
12 7 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
13 6 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
14 4 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
15 3 (0.045%) Oracle BPM
15 3 (0.045%) SAP GRC
15 3 (0.045%) Shopify
16 2 (0.030%) Infor M3
16 2 (0.030%) Oracle SCM
16 2 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 835 (12.63%) Azure
2 699 (10.58%) AWS
3 451 (6.82%) GCP
4 195 (2.95%) Serverless
5 155 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
6 135 (2.04%) Power Platform
7 113 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
8 109 (1.65%) SaaS
9 82 (1.24%) GitHub
10 78 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
12 45 (0.68%) Amazon S3
13 43 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (0.65%) Entra ID
13 43 (0.65%) Snowflake
14 41 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 34 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (0.48%) PaaS
17 27 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
18 26 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 186 (2.81%) Broadband
2 99 (1.50%) Firewall
3 56 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 56 (0.85%) WAN
4 52 (0.79%) VPN
5 49 (0.74%) Wireless
6 44 (0.67%) DNS
7 39 (0.59%) LAN
8 38 (0.57%) VoIP
9 33 (0.50%) Network Security
10 32 (0.48%) SD-WAN
11 27 (0.41%) DHCP
11 27 (0.41%) VLAN
12 23 (0.35%) Internet
13 20 (0.30%) OSPF
14 19 (0.29%) Modbus
14 19 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (0.27%) 5G
15 18 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.24%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (2.25%) SQL Server
2 131 (1.98%) MySQL
3 98 (1.48%) Power BI
4 85 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 83 (1.26%) Big Data
6 76 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
7 67 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 64 (0.97%) DynamoDB
9 58 (0.88%) Tableau
10 53 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 49 (0.74%) Metadata
12 48 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 46 (0.70%) MongoDB
14 45 (0.68%) Relational Database
15 27 (0.41%) Data Mining
16 26 (0.39%) OLTP
17 24 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
18 21 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 20 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
20 19 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 240 (3.63%) JIRA
2 234 (3.54%) Rational DOORS
3 204 (3.09%) Git
4 77 (1.17%) LabVIEW
5 76 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 61 (0.92%) Visual Studio
7 41 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 38 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 34 (0.51%) Selenium
10 24 (0.36%) GitLab
11 22 (0.33%) JUnit
12 18 (0.27%) NUnit
13 16 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.21%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.21%) MagicDraw
14 14 (0.21%) Maven
15 13 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (0.20%) Subversion
15 13 (0.20%) webpack
General
1 1,274 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 969 (14.66%) Finance
3 665 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 475 (7.19%) Aerospace
5 471 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 406 (6.14%) Electronics
7 401 (6.07%) Manufacturing
8 268 (4.06%) Law
9 266 (4.02%) Retail
10 261 (3.95%) Automotive
11 255 (3.86%) Games
12 240 (3.63%) Avionics
13 227 (3.43%) Banking
14 222 (3.36%) Telecoms
15 200 (3.03%) Legal
16 164 (2.48%) Aeronautics
17 152 (2.30%) Marketing
18 149 (2.25%) Public Sector
19 138 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
19 138 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (6.87%) .NET
2 301 (4.55%) Node.js
3 280 (4.24%) React
4 199 (3.01%) HTML
5 147 (2.22%) CSS
6 135 (2.04%) GraphQL
7 105 (1.59%) RESTful
8 100 (1.51%) AngularJS
9 95 (1.44%) .NET Core
10 78 (1.18%) ASP.NET
11 73 (1.10%) REST
12 66 (1.00%) WebGL
13 65 (0.98%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 59 (0.89%) .NET Framework
15 57 (0.86%) Spring Boot
15 57 (0.86%) Vue
16 50 (0.76%) XML
17 49 (0.74%) Kafka
17 49 (0.74%) Spring
18 48 (0.73%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 392 (5.93%) Management Information System
2 315 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
3 279 (4.22%) Algorithms
4 242 (3.66%) Driving Licence
5 197 (2.98%) Cyberattack
6 181 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
7 85 (1.29%) Product Ownership
8 67 (1.01%) Animation
9 55 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 55 (0.83%) Mobile App
10 53 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 51 (0.77%) Cloud Native
12 48 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (0.68%) Public Cloud
14 41 (0.62%) Onboarding
15 35 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
16 31 (0.47%) Digital Media
17 30 (0.45%) Marketing Technology
18 29 (0.44%) Data Centre
19 28 (0.42%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 382 (5.78%) Linux
2 162 (2.45%) Windows
3 45 (0.68%) Unix
4 43 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.39%) Android
7 21 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
9 13 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 7 (0.11%) zOS
13 6 (0.091%) VMS
14 5 (0.076%) CentOS
15 3 (0.045%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.045%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.030%) AIX
16 2 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,695 (25.65%) Systems Engineering
2 1,464 (22.15%) Agile
3 1,078 (16.31%) Mentoring
4 898 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
5 817 (12.36%) Mathematics
6 762 (11.53%) Software Engineering
7 705 (10.67%) Coaching
8 656 (9.93%) Project Management
9 547 (8.28%) Physics
10 487 (7.37%) CI/CD
11 422 (6.39%) Machine Learning
12 406 (6.14%) User Experience
13 397 (6.01%) Risk Management
14 382 (5.78%) Change Management
15 381 (5.76%) Artificial Intelligence
16 373 (5.64%) DevOps
17 364 (5.51%) Computer Science
18 357 (5.40%) Analytics
18 357 (5.40%) Microservices
19 342 (5.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 806 (12.20%) Python
2 548 (8.29%) JavaScript
3 498 (7.54%) Java
4 425 (6.43%) SQL
5 353 (5.34%) C#
6 320 (4.84%) C++
7 311 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 230 (3.48%) MATLAB
9 219 (3.31%) Rust
10 209 (3.16%) Go
11 161 (2.44%) C
12 148 (2.24%) R
13 110 (1.66%) PHP
14 82 (1.24%) Ada
15 73 (1.10%) PowerShell
16 65 (0.98%) HLSL
17 42 (0.64%) Bash
18 31 (0.47%) PL/SQL
19 28 (0.42%) T-SQL
20 22 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,865 (43.35%) Degree
2 2,638 (39.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 451 (6.82%) HND
4 366 (5.54%) Chartered Engineer
5 359 (5.43%) Security Cleared
6 280 (4.24%) HNC
7 243 (3.68%) Master's Degree
8 231 (3.50%) DV Cleared
9 205 (3.10%) AWS Certification
10 180 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 172 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
12 126 (1.91%) Numerate Degree
13 107 (1.62%) SC Cleared
14 101 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
15 92 (1.39%) ACCA
16 78 (1.18%) CISSP
17 71 (1.07%) PhD
18 53 (0.80%) Azure Certification
19 52 (0.79%) CIMA
20 50 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (6.11%) IEC 61508
2 254 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 248 (3.75%) Def Stans
4 218 (3.30%) QA
5 158 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 156 (2.36%) ARP4754
6 156 (2.36%) DO-254
7 112 (1.69%) HAZOP
8 94 (1.42%) Data Quality
9 85 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 75 (1.13%) GAAP
10 75 (1.13%) IFRS
11 69 (1.04%) ISO 9001
12 68 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 41 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 39 (0.59%) GDPR
15 28 (0.42%) ITGC
16 26 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
17 23 (0.35%) NIST
18 21 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 210 (3.18%) Docker
2 84 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 64 (0.97%) Firmware
4 41 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
5 36 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.15%) vSphere
9 9 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.061%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.030%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.030%) NFS
13 1 (0.015%) HDFS
13 1 (0.015%) IAG
13 1 (0.015%) KVM
13 1 (0.015%) Squid
13 1 (0.015%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.015%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 207 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 135 (2.04%) Terraform
3 115 (1.74%) Functional Safety
4 75 (1.13%) Ansible
5 30 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.38%) Grafana
8 18 (0.27%) SCCM
9 12 (0.18%) Istio
10 9 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.12%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (0.12%) SCOM
12 7 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.091%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.091%) Puppet
14 5 (0.076%) Nessus
15 4 (0.061%) Argo
15 4 (0.061%) Dell DRAC
15 4 (0.061%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 570 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 226 (3.42%) IBM
3 141 (2.13%) Oracle
4 128 (1.94%) MathWorks
5 116 (1.76%) SAP
6 85 (1.29%) Google
7 75 (1.13%) Cisco
7 75 (1.13%) Databricks
8 73 (1.10%) BT
9 66 (1.00%) ANSYS
10 64 (0.97%) VMware
11 55 (0.83%) Siemens
12 44 (0.67%) Atlassian
12 44 (0.67%) ServiceNow
13 40 (0.61%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.59%) Cognos
15 38 (0.57%) Infor
16 29 (0.44%) OpenAI
17 27 (0.41%) Adobe
17 27 (0.41%) Red Hat