Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 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 6 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,831 16,269 27,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 15.55% 17.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.99% 16.98% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,153 9,862 13,272
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,025 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior.

Salary trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK

Senior
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK 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
England +2 12,692 £62,783 -10.31% 3,621
UK excluding London +4 9,637 £60,000 -1.48% 2,243
Work from Home +1 6,044 £64,080 -8.46% 1,873
London +2 4,412 £77,500 -6.06% 1,580
North of England +6 2,574 £60,000 - 514
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 - 313
Midlands +6 1,363 £57,500 - 334
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% 127
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,621 (24.42%) Agile
2 3,155 (21.27%) Social Skills
3 3,081 (20.77%) Finance
4 3,026 (20.40%) Azure
5 2,747 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 2,610 (17.60%) AWS
7 2,324 (15.67%) Microsoft
8 2,187 (14.75%) SQL
9 2,062 (13.90%) Python
10 2,058 (13.88%) Degree
11 2,055 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
12 1,973 (13.30%) Mentoring
13 1,768 (11.92%) JavaScript
14 1,672 (11.27%) DevOps
15 1,666 (11.23%) C#
16 1,551 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
17 1,521 (10.26%) .NET
18 1,454 (9.80%) Security Cleared
19 1,390 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 1,356 (9.14%) Java
21 1,286 (8.67%) React
22 1,248 (8.41%) Actionable Insight
23 1,138 (7.67%) Windows
24 1,134 (7.65%) Linux
25 1,032 (6.96%) SC Cleared
26 1,027 (6.92%) Coaching
27 1,004 (6.77%) Project Management
28 970 (6.54%) CI/CD
29 964 (6.50%) Decision-Making
30 925 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 267 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 235 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 220 (1.48%) ArcGIS
4 214 (1.44%) GeoServer
5 201 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 151 (1.02%) Confluence
7 146 (0.98%) Apache
7 146 (0.98%) CMS
8 119 (0.80%) SAS
9 111 (0.75%) IIS
10 104 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
11 53 (0.36%) Umbraco
12 48 (0.32%) WordPress
13 40 (0.27%) Headless CMS
13 40 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
14 39 (0.26%) Kentico
15 38 (0.26%) JBoss
16 37 (0.25%) Tuxedo
17 36 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
18 34 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 586 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 168 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 115 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (0.44%) Sketch
6 56 (0.38%) Simulink
7 52 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 41 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 32 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 31 (0.21%) Stateflow
11 24 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 18 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
13 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
14 11 (0.074%) InVision
15 10 (0.067%) InDesign
15 10 (0.067%) OrCAD
15 10 (0.067%) Solid Edge
16 7 (0.047%) Adobe XD
16 7 (0.047%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 73 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.36%) Endur
3 46 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 30 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
5 25 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 24 (0.16%) Shopify
7 18 (0.12%) Magento
8 17 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 15 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
10 14 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
10 14 (0.094%) SAP FI
10 14 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
11 12 (0.081%) NEC Housing
11 12 (0.081%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.081%) SAP FI/CO
11 12 (0.081%) SAP SCM
12 11 (0.074%) SAP SD
13 10 (0.067%) Primavera
13 10 (0.067%) SAP HR
14 8 (0.054%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,026 (20.40%) Azure
2 2,610 (17.60%) AWS
3 710 (4.79%) SaaS
4 682 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
5 607 (4.09%) GCP
6 528 (3.56%) Power Platform
7 452 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 348 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 252 (1.70%) Serverless
10 222 (1.50%) GitHub
11 212 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 165 (1.11%) Amazon S3
12 165 (1.11%) PaaS
13 140 (0.94%) PowerApps
14 139 (0.94%) IaaS
15 128 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
15 128 (0.86%) OneDrive
16 122 (0.82%) Snowflake
17 121 (0.82%) Power Automate
18 116 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 608 (4.10%) Firewall
2 399 (2.69%) Broadband
3 362 (2.44%) WAN
4 326 (2.20%) DNS
5 267 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 260 (1.75%) LAN
7 234 (1.58%) Wireless
8 207 (1.40%) DHCP
9 197 (1.33%) VPN
10 184 (1.24%) Network Security
11 167 (1.13%) 5G
12 159 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
13 145 (0.98%) Internet
14 125 (0.84%) SD-WAN
15 118 (0.80%) VLAN
16 114 (0.77%) MPLS
17 109 (0.73%) SAN
18 100 (0.67%) BGP
19 91 (0.61%) HTTP
20 63 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 706 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 610 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 401 (2.70%) Power BI
4 374 (2.52%) MySQL
5 347 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 322 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 278 (1.87%) Tableau
8 250 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 235 (1.58%) GIS
10 216 (1.46%) QGIS
11 201 (1.36%) Data Lake
12 193 (1.30%) Big Data
13 165 (1.11%) MongoDB
14 150 (1.01%) Oracle Database
15 145 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
16 119 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 113 (0.76%) Metadata
18 100 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
19 96 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
20 94 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 834 (5.62%) Git
2 404 (2.72%) JIRA
3 313 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 146 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 134 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 124 (0.84%) GitLab
7 103 (0.69%) Selenium
8 75 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 67 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 64 (0.43%) Postman
11 63 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 58 (0.39%) JUnit
13 54 (0.36%) TeamCity
14 49 (0.33%) Sourcetree
15 48 (0.32%) Subversion
16 45 (0.30%) Maven
17 42 (0.28%) IntelliJ
18 39 (0.26%) webpack
19 38 (0.26%) CircleCI
19 38 (0.26%) Eclipse
General
1 3,155 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 3,081 (20.77%) Finance
3 1,551 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 1,390 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 827 (5.58%) Marketing
6 705 (4.75%) Law
7 662 (4.46%) Public Sector
8 640 (4.32%) Banking
9 605 (4.08%) Retail
10 464 (3.13%) Legal
11 424 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 351 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 345 (2.33%) Manufacturing
14 271 (1.83%) Games
15 242 (1.63%) Electronics
16 217 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 201 (1.36%) Front Office
18 180 (1.21%) Aerospace
19 179 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
20 173 (1.17%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,521 (10.26%) .NET
2 1,286 (8.67%) React
3 895 (6.03%) CSS
4 835 (5.63%) HTML
5 660 (4.45%) AngularJS
6 566 (3.82%) .NET Core
7 491 (3.31%) Node.js
8 481 (3.24%) RESTful
9 427 (2.88%) REST
10 423 (2.85%) ASP.NET
11 358 (2.41%) Vue
12 351 (2.37%) Spring
13 349 (2.35%) .NET Framework
14 324 (2.18%) Kafka
15 311 (2.10%) Web Services
16 290 (1.96%) JSON
17 255 (1.72%) XML
18 229 (1.54%) Laravel
19 217 (1.46%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 372 (2.51%) Product Ownership
2 356 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 340 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
4 333 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 314 (2.12%) Cloud Native
6 311 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 281 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 279 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 269 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 249 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 220 (1.48%) IoT
12 214 (1.44%) Social Media
13 177 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 159 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 158 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 153 (1.03%) Derivative
17 148 (1.00%) Data Structures
18 146 (0.98%) Hedge funds
19 120 (0.81%) Equities
20 112 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,138 (7.67%) Windows
2 1,134 (7.65%) Linux
3 447 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 210 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 149 (1.00%) Unix
6 144 (0.97%) Android
7 134 (0.90%) Windows 10
8 132 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
9 129 (0.87%) Apple iOS
10 93 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 82 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 75 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 63 (0.42%) Mac OS
14 49 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 31 (0.21%) VMS
16 23 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 22 (0.15%) Windows 7
18 16 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
19 15 (0.10%) CentOS
19 15 (0.10%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,621 (24.42%) Agile
2 2,747 (18.52%) Software Engineering
3 2,055 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
4 1,973 (13.30%) Mentoring
5 1,672 (11.27%) DevOps
6 1,248 (8.41%) Actionable Insight
7 1,027 (6.92%) Coaching
8 1,004 (6.77%) Project Management
9 970 (6.54%) CI/CD
10 964 (6.50%) Decision-Making
11 925 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence
12 917 (6.18%) Analytics
13 865 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
14 863 (5.82%) Computer Science
15 797 (5.37%) Full Stack Development
16 785 (5.29%) Roadmaps
17 709 (4.78%) Microservices
18 651 (4.39%) SDLC
19 606 (4.09%) Machine Learning
20 599 (4.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,187 (14.75%) SQL
2 2,062 (13.90%) Python
3 1,768 (11.92%) JavaScript
4 1,666 (11.23%) C#
5 1,356 (9.14%) Java
6 850 (5.73%) TypeScript
7 466 (3.14%) C++
8 464 (3.13%) C
9 414 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 373 (2.52%) Bash
11 369 (2.49%) PHP
12 209 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 203 (1.37%) Go
14 183 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 141 (0.95%) R
16 133 (0.90%) Ruby
17 113 (0.76%) Scala
18 108 (0.73%) Kotlin
19 99 (0.67%) Embedded C
20 93 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,058 (13.88%) Degree
2 1,454 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 1,032 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 355 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 289 (1.95%) ACCA
6 280 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 255 (1.72%) CIMA
8 240 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 229 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 178 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 145 (0.98%) CISSP
11 145 (0.98%) PMI Certification
12 143 (0.96%) CCNP
13 130 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 128 (0.86%) Azure Certification
15 127 (0.86%) AWS Certification
16 117 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
17 101 (0.68%) PhD
18 96 (0.65%) CCNA
19 79 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 390 (2.63%) QA
2 247 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 245 (1.65%) SLA
4 225 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 189 (1.27%) GDPR
6 121 (0.82%) NIST
7 120 (0.81%) WCAG
8 108 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 101 (0.68%) IFRS
10 97 (0.65%) PMO
11 71 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 54 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 42 (0.28%) GRC
13 42 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 39 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
15 37 (0.25%) GMP
16 34 (0.23%) ISO 26262
17 29 (0.20%) NCSC
18 27 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
19 26 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 838 (5.65%) Docker
2 777 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 371 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 255 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 174 (1.17%) Firmware
6 75 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
7 64 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
8 58 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 52 (0.35%) vSphere
10 32 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 19 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 14 (0.094%) KVM
14 12 (0.081%) XenApp
15 11 (0.074%) IAG
15 11 (0.074%) XenDesktop
16 10 (0.067%) NFS
17 8 (0.054%) HDFS
18 7 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
19 6 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 898 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 659 (4.44%) Terraform
3 311 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 293 (1.98%) Ansible
5 151 (1.02%) SCCM
6 143 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 94 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 90 (0.61%) Puppet
9 76 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 71 (0.48%) Grafana
11 58 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
13 41 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 29 (0.20%) OpenSSO
15 28 (0.19%) CASB
16 26 (0.18%) SCOM
17 24 (0.16%) Nagios
17 24 (0.16%) WSUS
18 22 (0.15%) Stealthwatch
19 18 (0.12%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,324 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 591 (3.98%) Oracle
3 557 (3.76%) VMware
4 462 (3.12%) Cisco
5 404 (2.72%) Google
6 272 (1.83%) Databricks
7 223 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.46%) ESRI
9 213 (1.44%) SAP
10 193 (1.30%) Dell
11 156 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 133 (0.90%) IBM
13 128 (0.86%) Tanium
14 124 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 121 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 120 (0.81%) Juniper
16 120 (0.81%) Meraki
17 115 (0.78%) HP
18 112 (0.76%) Adobe
19 110 (0.74%) Citrix