Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 7 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 8,174 20,360 20,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.32% 16.24% 15.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.05% 17.04% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,868 12,158 13,127
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 50,923 119,491 123,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.34% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37,248 74,881 84,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,005
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +1 6,971 £67,500 -3.57% 4,856
UK excluding London 0 4,623 £60,000 - 2,916
Work from Home 0 3,699 £67,500 -3.57% 2,441
London 0 2,984 £80,000 - 2,265
North of England +3 1,167 £60,000 - 768
South East -2 1,028 £65,000 - 812
South West +4 720 £56,000 -6.67% 347
Midlands +5 661 £57,500 -3.36% 390
North West +3 580 £62,500 +4.17% 445
Yorkshire +1 493 £60,000 -4.00% 236
Scotland +6 474 £65,000 +4.00% 214
West Midlands +3 427 £57,500 -4.17% 255
East of England +2 278 £60,000 -5.03% 332
East Midlands +5 234 £57,500 +4.55% 135
Wales +1 230 £55,000 +10.00% 68
North East +8 92 £55,000 -3.08% 101
Northern Ireland +16 83 £60,500 +11.01% 56
Isle of Man +2 3 £53,500 -
Channel Islands +9 1 £85,000 +136.11%

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 December 2023, 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 2,314 (28.31%) Agile
2 1,897 (23.21%) Azure
3 1,826 (22.34%) Finance
4 1,778 (21.75%) Social Skills
5 1,695 (20.74%) SQL
6 1,675 (20.49%) AWS
7 1,408 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
8 1,399 (17.12%) Degree
9 1,296 (15.86%) Python
10 1,223 (14.96%) DevOps
11 1,218 (14.90%) Microsoft
12 1,187 (14.52%) Software Engineering
13 1,148 (14.04%) Java
14 1,116 (13.65%) JavaScript
15 1,059 (12.96%) Security Cleared
16 1,050 (12.85%) C#
17 955 (11.68%) .NET
18 953 (11.66%) Mentoring
19 935 (11.44%) CI/CD
20 876 (10.72%) Windows
21 825 (10.09%) Docker
22 807 (9.87%) Kubernetes
23 757 (9.26%) React
24 725 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
25 670 (8.20%) Linux
26 662 (8.10%) SC Cleared
27 650 (7.95%) Microservices
28 641 (7.84%) Scrum
29 623 (7.62%) Computer Science
30 616 (7.54%) HTML

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
1 162 (1.98%) Confluence
2 128 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 111 (1.36%) SAS
4 93 (1.14%) JBoss
5 91 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
6 83 (1.02%) Apache Spark
7 65 (0.80%) Apache
8 63 (0.77%) MS Exchange
9 59 (0.72%) WebLogic
10 53 (0.65%) IIS
11 47 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
12 42 (0.51%) CMS
13 36 (0.44%) nginx
14 27 (0.33%) Umbraco
15 21 (0.26%) WordPress
16 18 (0.22%) Tomcat
17 11 (0.13%) Drupal
18 10 (0.12%) NServiceBus
19 8 (0.098%) Jupyter
19 8 (0.098%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 181 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 164 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (0.44%) Simulink
6 27 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 25 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.22%) Sketch
9 12 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 10 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 10 (0.12%) Stateflow
11 8 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
11 8 (0.098%) OrCAD
12 6 (0.073%) InDesign
13 5 (0.061%) Adobe XD
13 5 (0.061%) CANalyzer
14 4 (0.049%) Abaqus
14 4 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.049%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 58 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 48 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 45 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 44 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 41 (0.50%) Endur
6 35 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
7 24 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 21 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 13 (0.16%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.16%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.12%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 7 (0.086%) Oracle Financials
12 7 (0.086%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.073%) Maximo
13 6 (0.073%) SAP CRM
13 6 (0.073%) SAP MM
13 6 (0.073%) SAP SCM
13 6 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,897 (23.21%) Azure
2 1,675 (20.49%) AWS
3 568 (6.95%) GCP
4 463 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 437 (5.35%) SaaS
6 369 (4.51%) Power Platform
7 332 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
8 330 (4.04%) Serverless
9 228 (2.79%) GitHub
10 186 (2.28%) Entra ID
11 141 (1.72%) OpenShift
12 139 (1.70%) PaaS
13 104 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
14 96 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 95 (1.16%) IaaS
16 94 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
17 93 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
18 77 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
19 74 (0.91%) PowerApps
20 71 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 432 (5.29%) Firewall
2 357 (4.37%) WAN
3 275 (3.36%) LAN
4 250 (3.06%) DNS
5 205 (2.51%) DHCP
6 204 (2.50%) TCP/IP
7 194 (2.37%) VPN
8 175 (2.14%) Network Security
9 107 (1.31%) Wireless
10 105 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
11 99 (1.21%) SD-WAN
12 98 (1.20%) Internet
13 97 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
14 96 (1.17%) HTTP
15 86 (1.05%) BGP
16 76 (0.93%) SAN
17 73 (0.89%) VLAN
18 69 (0.84%) MPLS
19 65 (0.80%) SSL
20 59 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 595 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 304 (3.72%) Power BI
3 298 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 274 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 219 (2.68%) MySQL
6 198 (2.42%) NoSQL
7 181 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 167 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 161 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
10 131 (1.60%) Tableau
11 114 (1.39%) Oracle Database
12 98 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 87 (1.06%) Data Lake
14 86 (1.05%) Big Data
15 81 (0.99%) Redis
16 78 (0.95%) Metadata
17 77 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
17 77 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
18 70 (0.86%) Oracle Database 11g
19 69 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 473 (5.79%) Git
2 370 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 275 (3.36%) JIRA
4 158 (1.93%) Selenium
5 115 (1.41%) IntelliJ
6 105 (1.28%) Maven
7 103 (1.26%) Postman
8 101 (1.24%) Cucumber
9 92 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 83 (1.02%) GitLab
11 68 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 68 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
12 58 (0.71%) Visual Studio
13 50 (0.61%) TeamCity
14 42 (0.51%) CircleCI
15 40 (0.49%) SonarQube
16 34 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
17 32 (0.39%) SpecFlow
17 32 (0.39%) webpack
18 30 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 1,826 (22.34%) Finance
2 1,778 (21.75%) Social Skills
3 725 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 580 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 472 (5.77%) Retail
6 409 (5.00%) Banking
7 395 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 307 (3.76%) Marketing
9 204 (2.50%) Games
9 204 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 161 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 160 (1.96%) Law
11 160 (1.96%) Legal
12 155 (1.90%) Electronics
13 147 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 135 (1.65%) Automotive
15 114 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
16 91 (1.11%) Back Office
17 88 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
18 81 (0.99%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 955 (11.68%) .NET
2 757 (9.26%) React
3 616 (7.54%) HTML
4 555 (6.79%) AngularJS
5 540 (6.61%) CSS
6 430 (5.26%) REST
7 359 (4.39%) Spring
8 350 (4.28%) Node.js
9 325 (3.98%) Web Services
10 324 (3.96%) RESTful
11 285 (3.49%) .NET Core
12 269 (3.29%) XML
13 257 (3.14%) ASP.NET
14 224 (2.74%) JSON
15 219 (2.68%) .NET Framework
16 202 (2.47%) Kafka
17 199 (2.43%) SOAP
18 171 (2.09%) Vue
19 155 (1.90%) Spring Boot
20 149 (1.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 415 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 284 (3.47%) Virtual Team
3 273 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 258 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 254 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 195 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 191 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 161 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 144 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 127 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 127 (1.55%) Mobile App
11 122 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 121 (1.48%) Algorithms
13 98 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 93 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
15 90 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
16 73 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 72 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
18 71 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
19 68 (0.83%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 876 (10.72%) Windows
2 670 (8.20%) Linux
3 371 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 226 (2.76%) Unix
5 134 (1.64%) Android
6 122 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 90 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 89 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 85 (1.04%) Apple iOS
10 71 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
11 64 (0.78%) Mac OS
12 37 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 37 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 22 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
14 21 (0.26%) CentOS
15 19 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
15 19 (0.23%) Mac OS X
16 15 (0.18%) Debian
17 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
18 7 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,314 (28.31%) Agile
2 1,408 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
3 1,223 (14.96%) DevOps
4 1,187 (14.52%) Software Engineering
5 953 (11.66%) Mentoring
6 935 (11.44%) CI/CD
7 650 (7.95%) Microservices
8 641 (7.84%) Scrum
9 623 (7.62%) Computer Science
10 604 (7.39%) Analytics
11 602 (7.36%) Actionable Insight
12 566 (6.92%) Project Management
13 521 (6.37%) Roadmaps
14 512 (6.26%) Project Delivery
15 495 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
16 467 (5.71%) ITIL
17 460 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
18 451 (5.52%) Full Stack Development
19 445 (5.44%) Migration
20 441 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,695 (20.74%) SQL
2 1,296 (15.86%) Python
3 1,148 (14.04%) Java
4 1,116 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 1,050 (12.85%) C#
6 480 (5.87%) TypeScript
7 433 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 316 (3.87%) C++
9 296 (3.62%) PL/SQL
10 241 (2.95%) Bash
11 176 (2.15%) C
12 166 (2.03%) PHP
13 147 (1.80%) T-SQL
14 131 (1.60%) Go
15 117 (1.43%) R
16 108 (1.32%) Ruby
17 96 (1.17%) Shell Script
18 77 (0.94%) Kotlin
19 62 (0.76%) VB.NET
20 60 (0.73%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,399 (17.12%) Degree
2 1,059 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 662 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 406 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 295 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 215 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 194 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 162 (1.98%) CISSP
9 121 (1.48%) CCNP
10 112 (1.37%) CISM
11 102 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 101 (1.24%) CCNA
13 95 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 78 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
15 75 (0.92%) Postgraduate
16 63 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
17 62 (0.76%) SSCP
18 59 (0.72%) Azure Certification
19 46 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
20 37 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (4.76%) QA
2 161 (1.97%) GDPR
3 159 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 117 (1.43%) SLA
5 102 (1.25%) Data Quality
6 83 (1.02%) NIST
7 75 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 72 (0.88%) PMO
9 51 (0.62%) GRC
10 47 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 47 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 35 (0.43%) CDISC
12 34 (0.42%) WCAG
13 25 (0.31%) IFRS
14 24 (0.29%) ISO 26262
15 22 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
17 20 (0.24%) NCSC
18 15 (0.18%) CRD IV
19 13 (0.16%) GAAP
System Software
1 825 (10.09%) Docker
2 545 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 306 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 164 (2.01%) Hyper-V
5 76 (0.93%) Firmware
6 59 (0.72%) vSphere
7 48 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 41 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 34 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
10 29 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 28 (0.34%) VMware NSX
12 14 (0.17%) XenApp
13 11 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (0.11%) OpenSIPS
15 6 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.049%) Ceph
16 4 (0.049%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.049%) Squid
16 4 (0.049%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.037%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 807 (9.87%) Kubernetes
2 568 (6.95%) Terraform
3 289 (3.54%) Ansible
4 150 (1.84%) SCCM
5 118 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 101 (1.24%) Puppet
7 88 (1.08%) Grafana
8 79 (0.97%) Prometheus
9 75 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 57 (0.70%) OpenSSO
11 53 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 45 (0.55%) FortiGate
13 24 (0.29%) HP UCMDB
13 24 (0.29%) Nagios
14 23 (0.28%) vCenter Server
15 22 (0.27%) Kibana
16 20 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
17 18 (0.22%) Packer
18 16 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
18 16 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,218 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 442 (5.41%) VMware
3 419 (5.13%) Oracle
4 345 (4.22%) Cisco
5 292 (3.57%) NEC
6 267 (3.27%) Google
7 205 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 182 (2.23%) SAP
9 132 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 118 (1.44%) Citrix
11 114 (1.39%) CheckPoint
12 104 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 103 (1.26%) Databricks
14 96 (1.17%) Juniper
15 86 (1.05%) Splunk
16 84 (1.03%) Remedy
17 78 (0.95%) HP
18 72 (0.88%) F5
19 67 (0.82%) Meraki
20 66 (0.81%) SolarWinds