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 leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9,280 6,710 10,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.22% 13.94% 13.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.98% 15.55% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,178 6,329
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,439 £51,250 £48,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.19% +5.38%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +7 2,568 £60,000 - 317
South East 0 2,093 £60,000 -7.69% 263
North West +7 1,489 £60,000 -1.32% 207
South West +11 1,464 £60,000 - 171
Midlands +1 1,302 £60,000 +2.56% 155
Scotland -9 868 £60,000 -1.32% 86
West Midlands +2 838 £60,000 - 96
Yorkshire +2 783 £60,000 - 66
East of England +3 510 £55,000 -12.00% 84
East Midlands -2 459 £57,500 - 57
Wales +10 350 £50,000 -9.09% 41
North East +11 297 £60,000 +6.19% 46
Northern Ireland +22 131 £55,000 +10.00% 104
Isle of Man - 4 £52,500 -
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 1,995 (21.50%) Agile
2 1,845 (19.88%) Software Engineering
3 1,486 (16.01%) Social Skills
4 1,411 (15.20%) Finance
5 1,380 (14.87%) Azure
6 1,198 (12.91%) Degree
7 1,196 (12.89%) Mentoring
8 1,185 (12.77%) AWS
9 1,182 (12.74%) Microsoft
10 1,055 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
11 969 (10.44%) SQL
12 963 (10.38%) C#
13 909 (9.80%) DevOps
14 907 (9.77%) .NET
15 906 (9.76%) JavaScript
16 896 (9.66%) Python
17 892 (9.61%) Coaching
18 861 (9.28%) Security Cleared
19 749 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
20 666 (7.18%) React
21 609 (6.56%) Linux
22 597 (6.43%) SC Cleared
23 596 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 570 (6.14%) Project Management
25 560 (6.03%) Windows
26 551 (5.94%) Actionable Insight
27 550 (5.93%) Java
28 509 (5.48%) CI/CD
29 508 (5.47%) Decision-Making
30 504 (5.43%) CSS

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
1 104 (1.12%) SharePoint
2 95 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 93 (1.00%) SAS
4 90 (0.97%) CMS
5 88 (0.95%) ArcGIS
6 86 (0.93%) Confluence
7 84 (0.91%) GeoServer
8 68 (0.73%) Apache Spark
9 47 (0.51%) IIS
10 41 (0.44%) Tuxedo
11 38 (0.41%) Umbraco
12 31 (0.33%) WordPress
13 30 (0.32%) Headless CMS
14 29 (0.31%) Kentico
14 29 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
15 24 (0.26%) Apache
16 18 (0.19%) FileNet
17 17 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
17 17 (0.18%) nginx
18 14 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 301 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 117 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 71 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (0.56%) Sketch
6 33 (0.36%) Simulink
7 31 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 31 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
8 21 (0.23%) OrCAD
9 15 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 13 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 10 (0.11%) Stateflow
12 9 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
13 8 (0.086%) InVision
14 7 (0.075%) Siemens NX
15 6 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
15 6 (0.065%) Windchill
16 4 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.043%) Adobe XD
16 4 (0.043%) Revit
Business Applications
1 41 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
3 23 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 22 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 21 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
6 20 (0.22%) Magento
7 13 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 10 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 9 (0.097%) Shopify
10 8 (0.086%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.075%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.065%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.065%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (0.065%) SAP ERP
13 4 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
13 4 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
13 4 (0.043%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.043%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 1,380 (14.87%) Azure
2 1,185 (12.77%) AWS
3 314 (3.38%) SaaS
4 281 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 279 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 230 (2.48%) Power Platform
7 210 (2.26%) GCP
8 204 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 118 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 110 (1.19%) GitHub
11 106 (1.14%) Amazon S3
12 101 (1.09%) OneDrive
13 93 (1.00%) Serverless
14 81 (0.87%) OCI
15 72 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (0.74%) Figma
17 63 (0.68%) IBM Cloud
18 62 (0.67%) Dropbox
18 62 (0.67%) Miro
18 62 (0.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 303 (3.27%) Firewall
2 194 (2.09%) Broadband
3 193 (2.08%) WAN
4 160 (1.72%) DNS
5 147 (1.58%) Wireless
6 141 (1.52%) Network Security
7 130 (1.40%) TCP/IP
8 111 (1.20%) LAN
9 104 (1.12%) SD-WAN
10 103 (1.11%) DHCP
11 77 (0.83%) VPN
12 72 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
13 70 (0.75%) SAN
14 61 (0.66%) Internet
15 58 (0.63%) 5G
15 58 (0.63%) VLAN
16 53 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
17 48 (0.52%) Kerberos
18 45 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
18 45 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 244 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 225 (2.42%) NoSQL
4 224 (2.41%) MySQL
5 154 (1.66%) Power BI
6 153 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
7 94 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 92 (0.99%) GIS
9 91 (0.98%) Big Data
10 87 (0.94%) Data Lake
10 87 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 84 (0.91%) QGIS
12 71 (0.77%) MongoDB
13 67 (0.72%) Tableau
14 60 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
15 58 (0.63%) DynamoDB
16 55 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
17 51 (0.55%) Metadata
18 50 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
19 48 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 478 (5.15%) Git
2 200 (2.16%) JIRA
3 110 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 88 (0.95%) Selenium
4 88 (0.95%) Visual Studio
5 84 (0.91%) GitLab
6 70 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 49 (0.53%) Artifactory
8 38 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 36 (0.39%) JUnit
10 35 (0.38%) LabVIEW
11 30 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 29 (0.31%) Gatling
13 27 (0.29%) TeamCity
14 22 (0.24%) Subversion
15 21 (0.23%) PHPUnit
16 20 (0.22%) Maven
16 20 (0.22%) NUnit
16 20 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 20 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 1,486 (16.01%) Social Skills
2 1,411 (15.20%) Finance
3 749 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
4 596 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 435 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 402 (4.33%) Marketing
7 359 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 358 (3.86%) Law
9 331 (3.57%) Legal
10 319 (3.44%) Banking
11 277 (2.98%) Retail
12 209 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 189 (2.04%) Aerospace
13 189 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 177 (1.91%) Electronics
15 140 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 136 (1.47%) Automotive
17 113 (1.22%) Games
17 113 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 109 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 907 (9.77%) .NET
2 666 (7.18%) React
3 504 (5.43%) CSS
4 479 (5.16%) HTML
5 329 (3.55%) .NET Core
6 296 (3.19%) AngularJS
7 276 (2.97%) RESTful
8 265 (2.86%) ASP.NET
9 256 (2.76%) Node.js
10 255 (2.75%) .NET Framework
11 195 (2.10%) REST
12 176 (1.90%) Web Services
13 174 (1.88%) Vue
14 154 (1.66%) Spring
15 143 (1.54%) Laravel
16 131 (1.41%) Kafka
17 127 (1.37%) GraphQL
18 123 (1.33%) JSON
19 118 (1.27%) Entity Framework
20 103 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 213 (2.30%) Management Information System
3 204 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 183 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 177 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 162 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 146 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 145 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 135 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 122 (1.31%) IoT
11 114 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 110 (1.19%) Onboarding
13 107 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 103 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
15 81 (0.87%) e-Learning
16 80 (0.86%) Blockchain
17 79 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
18 66 (0.71%) iPad
18 66 (0.71%) Social Media
19 64 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 609 (6.56%) Linux
2 560 (6.03%) Windows
3 187 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 113 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
5 85 (0.92%) Unix
6 77 (0.83%) Android
7 57 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 51 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 49 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 48 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 43 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 34 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 31 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 25 (0.27%) Mac OS
15 14 (0.15%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.13%) VMS
17 11 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.11%) CentOS
19 8 (0.086%) VME
20 7 (0.075%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,995 (21.50%) Agile
2 1,845 (19.88%) Software Engineering
3 1,196 (12.89%) Mentoring
4 1,055 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
5 909 (9.80%) DevOps
6 892 (9.61%) Coaching
7 570 (6.14%) Project Management
8 551 (5.94%) Actionable Insight
9 509 (5.48%) CI/CD
10 508 (5.47%) Decision-Making
11 492 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence
12 482 (5.19%) Cybersecurity
12 482 (5.19%) Roadmaps
13 468 (5.04%) Computer Science
14 467 (5.03%) Analytics
15 421 (4.54%) Full Stack Development
16 405 (4.36%) SDLC
17 365 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 323 (3.48%) Test Automation
19 303 (3.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 969 (10.44%) SQL
2 963 (10.38%) C#
3 906 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 896 (9.66%) Python
5 550 (5.93%) Java
6 427 (4.60%) TypeScript
7 403 (4.34%) C++
8 329 (3.55%) C
9 271 (2.92%) PHP
10 182 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 181 (1.95%) Bash
12 94 (1.01%) Go
13 84 (0.91%) Embedded C
14 83 (0.89%) Scala
15 77 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 65 (0.70%) MATLAB
17 64 (0.69%) PL/SQL
18 58 (0.63%) R
19 54 (0.58%) COBOL
19 54 (0.58%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,198 (12.91%) Degree
2 861 (9.28%) Security Cleared
3 597 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 190 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 157 (1.69%) ACCA
7 155 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 145 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 142 (1.53%) CIMA
10 121 (1.30%) CCNP
11 100 (1.08%) CCNA
12 92 (0.99%) DBS Check
13 80 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 77 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 72 (0.78%) AWS Certification
16 69 (0.74%) PhD
17 56 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 55 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 53 (0.57%) CISSP
20 44 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (2.76%) QA
2 189 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 141 (1.52%) GDPR
4 113 (1.22%) WCAG
5 93 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 86 (0.93%) GMP
7 83 (0.89%) SLA
8 57 (0.61%) IFRS
9 56 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 50 (0.54%) NIST
11 47 (0.51%) PMO
12 36 (0.39%) IFRS 9
13 30 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 22 (0.24%) PCI DSS
15 19 (0.20%) NCSC
16 17 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
16 17 (0.18%) GRC
17 15 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.15%) ISO 26262
18 14 (0.15%) MISRA
System Software
1 389 (4.19%) Active Directory
2 369 (3.98%) Docker
3 173 (1.86%) Firmware
4 169 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 116 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 77 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
7 48 (0.52%) vSphere
8 44 (0.47%) RACF
9 27 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 25 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 22 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 11 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
14 8 (0.086%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.075%) IAG
15 7 (0.075%) XenApp
16 5 (0.054%) Lustre
16 5 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 4 (0.043%) NFS
17 4 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 443 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 337 (3.63%) Terraform
3 146 (1.57%) Ansible
4 123 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 79 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.56%) SCCM
7 48 (0.52%) Puppet
8 43 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
9 36 (0.39%) Stealthwatch
10 35 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 23 (0.25%) Grafana
13 22 (0.24%) CASB
14 19 (0.20%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.16%) Progress Chef
16 14 (0.15%) WSUS
17 13 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.14%) SCOM
18 12 (0.13%) OpenSSO
19 10 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,182 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 287 (3.09%) Oracle
3 263 (2.83%) VMware
4 260 (2.80%) Cisco
5 158 (1.70%) Google
6 114 (1.23%) SAP
7 107 (1.15%) IBM
8 98 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 92 (0.99%) CyberArk
9 92 (0.99%) Meraki
10 86 (0.93%) Databricks
11 84 (0.91%) ESRI
12 75 (0.81%) Adobe
13 70 (0.75%) Juniper
14 69 (0.74%) ServiceNow
15 64 (0.69%) Palo Alto
16 62 (0.67%) Apple
17 59 (0.64%) Dynatrace
18 56 (0.60%) HP
19 54 (0.58%) Micro Focus