Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 April 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9,365 14,783 16,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 15.09% 15.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.99% 15.95% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,047 10,137 9,895
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £47,025
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.48% +1.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,844 92,689 96,631
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.58% 94.64% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 27,414 66,679 60,579
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 25 April 2025.

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 25 April 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
England +3 8,047 £62,000 -1.25% 9,141
UK excluding London +5 6,861 £55,000 -8.33% 4,552
Work from Home 0 2,406 £67,500 +5.34% 4,314
North of England +2 2,303 £50,055 -16.58% 1,165
London -3 2,145 £80,000 +3.23% 5,401
North West +3 1,869 £50,055 -16.58% 702
South East +7 1,495 £62,000 +3.33% 1,149
Midlands -1 867 £60,000 +4.35% 592
South West +3 776 £55,000 -1.79% 510
Scotland +18 752 £55,000 -8.33% 432
West Midlands -4 497 £65,000 +12.14% 362
East of England +5 390 £57,500 -4.17% 580
East Midlands +4 369 £55,250 +1.01% 210
Yorkshire -3 365 £60,465 +4.31% 343
Wales -1 241 £60,000 +20.00% 112
North East -13 69 £61,000 +5.24% 127
Northern Ireland +3 57 £80,000 +45.45% 125
Isle of Man +11 3 - - 1
Channel Islands +1 1 £97,500 +14.71%

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,754 (40.09%) Degree
2 2,866 (30.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,949 (20.81%) Social Skills
4 1,828 (19.52%) Finance
5 1,782 (19.03%) Agile
6 1,607 (17.16%) Systems Engineering
7 1,349 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
8 1,296 (13.84%) Azure
9 1,185 (12.65%) Mentoring
10 1,179 (12.59%) Python
11 1,108 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 1,004 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
13 1,001 (10.69%) Microsoft
14 995 (10.62%) AWS
15 966 (10.32%) Mathematics
16 903 (9.64%) SQL
17 866 (9.25%) Project Management
18 797 (8.51%) Coaching
19 776 (8.29%) CI/CD
20 757 (8.08%) DevOps
21 730 (7.79%) JavaScript
22 689 (7.36%) C#
23 658 (7.03%) Analytics
24 609 (6.50%) Java
25 587 (6.27%) Physics
26 583 (6.23%) Computer Science
27 568 (6.07%) .NET
28 552 (5.89%) Risk Management
29 543 (5.80%) Manufacturing
30 531 (5.67%) HND

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
1 206 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 108 (1.15%) Apache
3 99 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 97 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 94 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 94 (1.00%) Confluence
6 51 (0.54%) CMS
7 27 (0.29%) SAS
8 24 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 19 (0.20%) IIS
9 19 (0.20%) nginx
10 13 (0.14%) WordPress
11 11 (0.12%) Drupal
12 9 (0.096%) Apache Solr
12 9 (0.096%) Luigi
12 9 (0.096%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.096%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.085%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.053%) Liferay
15 4 (0.043%) Mule
Applications
1 282 (3.01%) Mathcad
2 279 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 185 (1.98%) Simulink
4 174 (1.86%) Abaqus
5 169 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
6 85 (0.91%) SOLIDWORKS
7 73 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 43 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
9 40 (0.43%) Windchill
10 39 (0.42%) MS Visio
11 20 (0.21%) AutoCAD
12 18 (0.19%) Maya
13 14 (0.15%) Adobe XD
14 12 (0.13%) Sketch
15 11 (0.12%) Chatbot
16 10 (0.11%) Revit
16 10 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
17 9 (0.096%) Photoshop
18 6 (0.064%) Trello
19 5 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 124 (1.32%) Teamcenter
2 84 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 42 (0.45%) SAP BPC
5 40 (0.43%) Infor LN
6 30 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 24 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
8 22 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 14 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
11 13 (0.14%) Aladdin
12 12 (0.13%) NEC Housing
12 12 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 12 (0.13%) Shopify
13 10 (0.11%) Magento
13 10 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
13 10 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
13 10 (0.11%) Oracle Payroll
14 6 (0.064%) SAP CO
14 6 (0.064%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,296 (13.84%) Azure
2 995 (10.62%) AWS
3 443 (4.73%) GCP
4 302 (3.22%) Power Platform
5 296 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
6 290 (3.10%) SaaS
7 220 (2.35%) Serverless
8 185 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 166 (1.77%) GitHub
10 146 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
11 130 (1.39%) Snowflake
12 124 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
13 97 (1.04%) PaaS
14 95 (1.01%) Amazon S3
15 94 (1.00%) Entra ID
16 90 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
17 88 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
17 88 (0.94%) dbt
18 87 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
19 70 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 226 (2.41%) Firewall
2 118 (1.26%) WAN
3 113 (1.21%) VPN
4 110 (1.17%) DNS
5 105 (1.12%) Network Security
6 98 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 88 (0.94%) Wireless
8 73 (0.78%) LAN
9 70 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 64 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 58 (0.62%) DHCP
12 53 (0.57%) VLAN
13 51 (0.54%) HTTP
14 49 (0.52%) VoIP
15 41 (0.44%) BGP
15 41 (0.44%) Internet
15 41 (0.44%) OSPF
16 36 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
17 33 (0.35%) IPsec
18 29 (0.31%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 207 (2.21%) Power BI
3 180 (1.92%) MySQL
4 172 (1.84%) NoSQL
5 160 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 146 (1.56%) Tableau
7 137 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 136 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
9 115 (1.23%) Big Data
10 107 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 84 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 72 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 66 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
14 63 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 60 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 58 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
17 56 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
18 53 (0.57%) Apache Arrow
18 53 (0.57%) Apache Ignite
18 53 (0.57%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 433 (4.62%) Git
2 347 (3.71%) JIRA
3 184 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
4 152 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 118 (1.26%) LabVIEW
6 90 (0.96%) Visual Studio
7 62 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 58 (0.62%) Selenium
9 53 (0.57%) GitLab
9 53 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
10 48 (0.51%) Maven
11 44 (0.47%) JUnit
12 41 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 29 (0.31%) webpack
14 28 (0.30%) IntelliJ
15 25 (0.27%) Postman
16 23 (0.25%) SonarQube
17 20 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.20%) Cucumber
18 19 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,949 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 1,828 (19.52%) Finance
3 1,004 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
4 543 (5.80%) Manufacturing
5 520 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 460 (4.91%) Aerospace
7 457 (4.88%) Banking
8 411 (4.39%) Electronics
9 396 (4.23%) Retail
10 387 (4.13%) Law
11 310 (3.31%) Marketing
12 302 (3.22%) Telecoms
13 280 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 274 (2.93%) Games
15 264 (2.82%) Automotive
16 253 (2.70%) Public Sector
17 224 (2.39%) Legal
18 202 (2.16%) Avionics
19 173 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
20 144 (1.54%) Aeronautics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 568 (6.07%) .NET
2 524 (5.60%) React
3 402 (4.29%) HTML
4 322 (3.44%) CSS
5 238 (2.54%) Node.js
6 214 (2.29%) AngularJS
7 189 (2.02%) RESTful
8 169 (1.80%) REST
9 162 (1.73%) Kafka
10 151 (1.61%) .NET Core
11 137 (1.46%) .NET Framework
12 118 (1.26%) GraphQL
13 117 (1.25%) Spring
14 109 (1.16%) Spring Boot
15 108 (1.15%) ASP.NET
16 107 (1.14%) Web Services
17 98 (1.05%) XML
18 86 (0.92%) Vue
19 82 (0.88%) Next.js
20 81 (0.86%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 475 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 326 (3.48%) Algorithms
3 259 (2.77%) Driving Licence
4 175 (1.87%) SCADA
5 150 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 132 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 131 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 109 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 109 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 103 (1.10%) Equities
10 100 (1.07%) Public Cloud
11 95 (1.01%) Hedge funds
12 94 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 89 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 79 (0.84%) Derivative
15 77 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 72 (0.77%) Fixed Income
17 69 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 65 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
19 64 (0.68%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 464 (4.95%) Linux
2 376 (4.01%) Windows
3 110 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 82 (0.88%) Unix
5 81 (0.86%) Android
6 78 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 72 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 25 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
9 23 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (0.18%) Solaris
12 16 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.15%) VMS
14 12 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 10 (0.11%) zOS
16 8 (0.085%) FreeRTOS
16 8 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
16 8 (0.085%) Windows Vista
17 7 (0.075%) Ubuntu
18 5 (0.053%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,782 (19.03%) Agile
2 1,607 (17.16%) Systems Engineering
3 1,349 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
4 1,185 (12.65%) Mentoring
5 1,108 (11.83%) Software Engineering
6 966 (10.32%) Mathematics
7 866 (9.25%) Project Management
8 797 (8.51%) Coaching
9 776 (8.29%) CI/CD
10 757 (8.08%) DevOps
11 658 (7.03%) Analytics
12 587 (6.27%) Physics
13 583 (6.23%) Computer Science
14 552 (5.89%) Risk Management
15 495 (5.29%) Artificial Intelligence
16 479 (5.11%) Decision-Making
17 463 (4.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 459 (4.90%) Test Automation
19 402 (4.29%) Change Management
20 390 (4.16%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (12.59%) Python
2 903 (9.64%) SQL
3 730 (7.79%) JavaScript
4 689 (7.36%) C#
5 609 (6.50%) Java
6 499 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 337 (3.60%) C++
8 303 (3.24%) MATLAB
9 273 (2.92%) C
10 176 (1.88%) PHP
10 176 (1.88%) PowerShell
11 173 (1.85%) R
12 110 (1.17%) Rust
13 105 (1.12%) Go
14 86 (0.92%) Bash
15 74 (0.79%) Ada
16 72 (0.77%) Scala
16 72 (0.77%) T-SQL
17 58 (0.62%) PL/SQL
18 46 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,754 (40.09%) Degree
2 2,866 (30.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 531 (5.67%) HND
4 439 (4.69%) Chartered Engineer
5 438 (4.68%) Master's Degree
6 330 (3.52%) Security Cleared
7 305 (3.26%) HNC
8 232 (2.48%) Numerate Degree
9 204 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 197 (2.10%) SC Cleared
11 134 (1.43%) CISSP
12 129 (1.38%) DBS Check
13 108 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
14 89 (0.95%) ACCA
15 85 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
16 80 (0.85%) Azure Certification
17 74 (0.79%) DV Cleared
18 68 (0.73%) CCNP
19 62 (0.66%) CIMA
20 58 (0.62%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (5.42%) IEC 61508
2 366 (3.91%) Def Stans
3 359 (3.83%) QA
4 187 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 153 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 142 (1.52%) ARP4754
6 142 (1.52%) DO-254
7 125 (1.33%) Data Quality
8 122 (1.30%) ISO 9001
9 118 (1.26%) HAZOP
10 110 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 85 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 80 (0.85%) GDPR
13 78 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 67 (0.72%) IFRS
15 65 (0.69%) GAAP
15 65 (0.69%) NIST
16 48 (0.51%) ITGC
17 45 (0.48%) PMO
18 43 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 425 (4.54%) Docker
2 201 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 116 (1.24%) Firmware
4 103 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
6 57 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 48 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 31 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 28 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.18%) vSphere
11 8 (0.085%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.064%) HDFS
13 5 (0.053%) Apache Flume
13 5 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.043%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 3 (0.032%) Squid
16 2 (0.021%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.021%) IAG
16 2 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
17 1 (0.011%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 501 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 325 (3.47%) Terraform
3 149 (1.59%) Ansible
4 120 (1.28%) Functional Safety
5 96 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 42 (0.45%) Grafana
7 40 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 33 (0.35%) SCCM
9 27 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (0.20%) Istio
10 19 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 18 (0.19%) Puppet
12 15 (0.16%) Argo
12 15 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.13%) Nagios
14 11 (0.12%) AWS Copilot
14 11 (0.12%) WSUS
15 9 (0.096%) Avamar
15 9 (0.096%) CASB
15 9 (0.096%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,001 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 227 (2.42%) Google
2 227 (2.42%) Oracle
3 205 (2.19%) IBM
4 182 (1.94%) Cisco
5 177 (1.89%) SAP
6 163 (1.74%) Databricks
7 152 (1.62%) VMware
8 119 (1.27%) MathWorks
9 101 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 100 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 82 (0.88%) Adobe
12 79 (0.84%) BT
13 66 (0.70%) ANSYS
13 66 (0.70%) Apple
14 60 (0.64%) Siemens
15 48 (0.51%) Atlassian
16 46 (0.49%) Red Hat
17 45 (0.48%) Citrix
18 44 (0.47%) Meraki