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 27 April 2024.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9,637 8,476 9,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.76% 13.72% 13.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.51% 15.36% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6,509 4,523 5,925
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,798 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,622 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +6 2,574 £60,000 - 513
South East -2 2,058 £60,000 -11.11% 547
South West +10 1,583 £57,500 -2.70% 295
North West +9 1,448 £60,000 - 312
Midlands +6 1,363 £57,500 - 333
Scotland -6 1,002 £60,000 -7.69% 203
West Midlands +9 875 £57,965 -3.39% 207
Yorkshire 0 850 £57,965 -3.39% 149
East of England +1 574 £60,000 -7.69% 266
East Midlands +2 482 £53,600 -2.55% 126
Wales +11 366 £50,000 -9.09% 92
North East +17 283 £57,965 +4.44% 62
Northern Ireland +18 124 £55,000 +10.00% 43
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -4 1 £85,000 +136.11% 1
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 2,495 (25.89%) Agile
2 2,030 (21.06%) Software Engineering
3 1,791 (18.58%) Social Skills
4 1,783 (18.50%) Azure
5 1,657 (17.19%) Finance
6 1,514 (15.71%) AWS
7 1,414 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
8 1,348 (13.99%) Microsoft
9 1,289 (13.38%) Degree
10 1,243 (12.90%) Mentoring
11 1,165 (12.09%) SQL
12 1,158 (12.02%) Security Cleared
13 1,121 (11.63%) JavaScript
14 1,114 (11.56%) C#
15 1,084 (11.25%) Python
16 1,079 (11.20%) DevOps
17 1,030 (10.69%) .NET
18 893 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
19 856 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
20 834 (8.65%) Java
21 829 (8.60%) React
22 823 (8.54%) SC Cleared
23 803 (8.33%) Linux
24 802 (8.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 799 (8.29%) Windows
26 791 (8.21%) Coaching
27 670 (6.95%) Project Management
28 610 (6.33%) CSS
29 598 (6.21%) Decision-Making
30 577 (5.99%) Artificial Intelligence

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
1 189 (1.96%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.91%) GeoServer
3 146 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 132 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 128 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 122 (1.27%) Confluence
7 99 (1.03%) CMS
8 93 (0.97%) SAS
9 92 (0.95%) IIS
10 42 (0.44%) Umbraco
11 40 (0.42%) Headless CMS
12 39 (0.40%) Kentico
13 37 (0.38%) Tuxedo
14 35 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
15 33 (0.34%) JBoss
15 33 (0.34%) WebLogic
16 31 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
17 29 (0.30%) WordPress
18 27 (0.28%) Apache
19 19 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 320 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 163 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 83 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 56 (0.58%) Simulink
6 51 (0.53%) Sketch
7 33 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 33 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 31 (0.32%) Stateflow
9 21 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 18 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
11 12 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 10 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 10 (0.10%) OrCAD
12 10 (0.10%) Solid Edge
13 8 (0.083%) InVision
14 7 (0.073%) CANalyzer
15 6 (0.062%) InDesign
16 5 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
17 4 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 35 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
3 22 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.21%) Shopify
5 18 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 16 (0.17%) Magento
7 15 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.073%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.062%) Primavera
11 6 (0.062%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.062%) Unit4 Business World
12 5 (0.052%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.052%) Teamcenter
13 4 (0.042%) ResourceLink
13 4 (0.042%) SAP SD
13 4 (0.042%) Sonata
14 3 (0.031%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,783 (18.50%) Azure
2 1,514 (15.71%) AWS
3 383 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
4 374 (3.88%) SaaS
5 295 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 268 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 259 (2.69%) GCP
8 165 (1.71%) Entra ID
9 127 (1.32%) GitHub
10 126 (1.31%) Serverless
11 112 (1.16%) OneDrive
12 107 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 101 (1.05%) Amazon S3
14 90 (0.93%) PowerApps
15 72 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
15 72 (0.75%) PaaS
16 68 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
17 67 (0.70%) IaaS
18 66 (0.68%) Figma
18 66 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 387 (4.02%) Firewall
2 254 (2.64%) WAN
3 249 (2.58%) DNS
4 213 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 193 (2.00%) Broadband
6 181 (1.88%) Wireless
7 175 (1.82%) LAN
8 157 (1.63%) DHCP
9 108 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 103 (1.07%) VPN
11 100 (1.04%) Network Security
12 87 (0.90%) Internet
13 79 (0.82%) SAN
13 79 (0.82%) VLAN
14 73 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 70 (0.73%) HTTP
16 62 (0.64%) 5G
17 60 (0.62%) Kerberos
18 53 (0.55%) VoIP
19 50 (0.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
2 389 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 267 (2.77%) MySQL
4 258 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 203 (2.11%) Power BI
6 201 (2.09%) GIS
7 184 (1.91%) QGIS
8 163 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 134 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 116 (1.20%) Big Data
11 101 (1.05%) Oracle Database
12 87 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 83 (0.86%) Tableau
14 82 (0.85%) MongoDB
15 78 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
15 78 (0.81%) Oracle Database 11g
16 63 (0.65%) Data Lake
16 63 (0.65%) Metadata
17 57 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
18 56 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 565 (5.86%) Git
2 283 (2.94%) JIRA
3 165 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 111 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 108 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 76 (0.79%) GitLab
7 64 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 58 (0.60%) Selenium
9 48 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 47 (0.49%) JUnit
11 46 (0.48%) Subversion
12 34 (0.35%) IntelliJ
13 33 (0.34%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.33%) Maven
15 31 (0.32%) Sourcetree
16 28 (0.29%) Eclipse
17 26 (0.27%) Cucumber
18 25 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
19 24 (0.25%) Postman
20 20 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,791 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 1,657 (17.19%) Finance
3 856 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 802 (8.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 499 (5.18%) Marketing
6 493 (5.12%) Public Sector
7 456 (4.73%) Law
8 358 (3.71%) Retail
9 351 (3.64%) Banking
10 308 (3.20%) Manufacturing
11 260 (2.70%) Legal
12 259 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
13 220 (2.28%) Electronics
14 211 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
15 168 (1.74%) Games
16 157 (1.63%) Aerospace
17 156 (1.62%) Automotive
18 137 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
18 137 (1.42%) Telecoms
19 99 (1.03%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,030 (10.69%) .NET
2 829 (8.60%) React
3 610 (6.33%) CSS
4 538 (5.58%) HTML
5 434 (4.50%) .NET Core
6 414 (4.30%) AngularJS
7 361 (3.75%) RESTful
8 288 (2.99%) ASP.NET
9 286 (2.97%) Node.js
10 276 (2.86%) .NET Framework
11 244 (2.53%) Vue
12 242 (2.51%) REST
13 224 (2.32%) Spring
14 219 (2.27%) Web Services
15 193 (2.00%) Laravel
16 188 (1.95%) JSON
17 185 (1.92%) PostGIS
18 184 (1.91%) Leaflet
18 184 (1.91%) OpenLayers
19 178 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 243 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
2 233 (2.42%) Public Cloud
3 226 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 218 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 218 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 213 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 206 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 199 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 174 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 164 (1.70%) IoT
10 129 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 112 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 98 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 95 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 92 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 75 (0.78%) Social Media
16 74 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
17 72 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
18 71 (0.74%) Credit Risk
19 70 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 803 (8.33%) Linux
2 799 (8.29%) Windows
3 311 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 131 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
5 112 (1.16%) Unix
6 98 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 88 (0.91%) Android
8 73 (0.76%) Windows 10
9 71 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 61 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 56 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 48 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
13 46 (0.48%) Mac OS
14 41 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 21 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 19 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 15 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
18 14 (0.15%) CentOS
19 11 (0.11%) VMS
20 10 (0.10%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,495 (25.89%) Agile
2 2,030 (21.06%) Software Engineering
3 1,414 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1,243 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 1,079 (11.20%) DevOps
6 893 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
7 791 (8.21%) Coaching
8 670 (6.95%) Project Management
9 598 (6.21%) Decision-Making
10 577 (5.99%) Artificial Intelligence
11 572 (5.94%) CI/CD
12 555 (5.76%) Computer Science
13 507 (5.26%) Analytics
14 500 (5.19%) Roadmaps
15 494 (5.13%) SDLC
16 484 (5.02%) Cybersecurity
17 447 (4.64%) Full Stack Development
18 438 (4.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 420 (4.36%) Microservices
20 412 (4.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,165 (12.09%) SQL
2 1,121 (11.63%) JavaScript
3 1,114 (11.56%) C#
4 1,084 (11.25%) Python
5 834 (8.65%) Java
6 454 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 403 (4.18%) C
8 373 (3.87%) C++
9 292 (3.03%) PHP
10 247 (2.56%) PowerShell
11 208 (2.16%) Bash
12 120 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 111 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 109 (1.13%) Go
15 98 (1.02%) Embedded C
16 78 (0.81%) R
17 77 (0.80%) MATLAB
18 71 (0.74%) Scala
19 62 (0.64%) Perl
20 58 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,289 (13.38%) Degree
2 1,158 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 823 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 217 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 201 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 148 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
6 148 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 144 (1.49%) ACCA
8 136 (1.41%) CIMA
9 99 (1.03%) CCNP
10 93 (0.97%) PMI Certification
11 85 (0.88%) AWS Certification
12 84 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (0.84%) CCNA
14 77 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 76 (0.79%) PhD
16 69 (0.72%) DBS Check
17 64 (0.66%) Postgraduate
18 63 (0.65%) HND
19 57 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (2.08%) QA
2 185 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 135 (1.40%) GDPR
4 111 (1.15%) SLA
5 110 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 105 (1.09%) WCAG
7 69 (0.72%) NIST
8 60 (0.62%) IFRS
9 59 (0.61%) PMO
10 51 (0.53%) IFRS 9
11 46 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 39 (0.40%) Automotive SPICE
13 35 (0.36%) GMP
14 34 (0.35%) ISO 26262
15 27 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
16 22 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 20 (0.21%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.20%) MISRA
19 18 (0.19%) GRC
19 18 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 530 (5.50%) Docker
2 444 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 281 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 199 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 162 (1.68%) Firmware
6 67 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
7 40 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (0.42%) vSphere
8 37 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.083%) NFS
13 7 (0.073%) IAG
13 7 (0.073%) XenDesktop
14 6 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.042%) KVM
15 4 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.031%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.031%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 511 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 398 (4.13%) Terraform
3 188 (1.95%) Ansible
4 154 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 101 (1.05%) SCCM
6 62 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 61 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 58 (0.60%) Puppet
9 46 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 36 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
12 28 (0.29%) vCenter Server
13 24 (0.25%) Grafana
14 23 (0.24%) SCOM
15 22 (0.23%) CASB
15 22 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.19%) Functional Safety
17 15 (0.16%) Stealthwatch
17 15 (0.16%) WSUS
18 14 (0.15%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,348 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 403 (4.18%) VMware
3 375 (3.89%) Oracle
4 294 (3.05%) Cisco
5 235 (2.44%) Google
6 185 (1.92%) ESRI
7 114 (1.18%) IBM
8 110 (1.14%) SAP
9 89 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 84 (0.87%) Databricks
11 79 (0.82%) Meraki
12 77 (0.80%) Dell
13 76 (0.79%) ServiceNow
14 71 (0.74%) CheckPoint
15 70 (0.73%) HP
16 68 (0.71%) Palo Alto
17 65 (0.67%) Juniper
18 63 (0.65%) Adobe
19 59 (0.61%) Salesforce
20 56 (0.58%) Splunk