Senior Jobs in Wales

Senior
UK > Wales

The median Senior salary in Wales is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2025.

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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 2 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 217 378 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 19.43% 18.21% 13.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.72% 19.64% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 84 239 108
10th Percentile £45,392 £32,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £40,000 £47,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,250 £70,925
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% -10.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 955 1,925 1,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.50% 92.73% 86.00%
Number of salaries quoted 537 1,313 806
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £33,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Wales

Senior
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Senior in Wales

Senior
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Wales over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Wales

Senior
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South Wales -6 132 £62,000 +24.00% 564
North Wales +13 53 £35,000 +2.94% 11
West Wales +3 27 £54,481 +36.20% 7
Mid Wales +1 1 - -
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 across the Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 87 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 77 (35.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 74 (34.10%) Finance
4 73 (33.64%) Project Management
5 66 (30.41%) Risk Management
6 65 (29.95%) Degree
6 65 (29.95%) Driving Licence
7 64 (29.49%) Scorecard
7 64 (29.49%) Balanced Scorecard
8 51 (23.50%) Systems Engineering
9 38 (17.51%) Mentoring
10 31 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 30 (13.82%) Electronics
12 29 (13.36%) Agile
13 27 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (11.98%) Algorithms
15 25 (11.52%) Signal Processing
16 24 (11.06%) IBM
17 23 (10.60%) Rational DOORS
18 22 (10.14%) Python
19 21 (9.68%) Mathematics
20 20 (9.22%) IEC 61508
21 18 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 18 (8.29%) Computer Science
22 17 (7.83%) R
22 17 (7.83%) Validation
23 16 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
23 16 (7.37%) Verification and Validation
24 14 (6.45%) CI/CD

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (1.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Apache
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.46%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.69%) Mathcad
1 8 (3.69%) Simulink
2 2 (0.92%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.92%) Infor LN
1 2 (0.92%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.45%) Azure
2 7 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (2.76%) AWS
4 5 (2.30%) GitHub
5 4 (1.84%) Serverless
6 3 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.92%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.92%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.92%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.46%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.46%) dbt
8 1 (0.46%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.46%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.84%) Network Security
3 3 (1.38%) DNS
3 3 (1.38%) Modbus
3 3 (1.38%) MQTT
3 3 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.38%) Wireless
4 2 (0.92%) Firewall
4 2 (0.92%) GPRS
4 2 (0.92%) GSM
4 2 (0.92%) LAN
4 2 (0.92%) VoIP
4 2 (0.92%) WAN
5 1 (0.46%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.46%) Broadband
5 1 (0.46%) DHCP
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) SMS
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
5 1 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.84%) Redis
3 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.92%) Tableau
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
5 1 (0.46%) MySQL
5 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Power BI
5 1 (0.46%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (10.60%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (4.61%) Git
3 3 (1.38%) JIRA
3 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.46%) Grunt
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) NUnit
5 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 87 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 74 (34.10%) Finance
3 30 (13.82%) Electronics
4 13 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.61%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.61%) Retail
6 8 (3.69%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.84%) Local Government
10 3 (1.38%) Games
10 3 (1.38%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Aviation
11 2 (0.92%) Police
12 1 (0.46%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.30%) Django
1 5 (2.30%) HTML
2 4 (1.84%) .NET
2 4 (1.84%) CSS
3 3 (1.38%) FastAPI
3 3 (1.38%) Flask
3 3 (1.38%) GraphQL
3 3 (1.38%) Keycloak
3 3 (1.38%) Node.js
3 3 (1.38%) OAuth
3 3 (1.38%) pytest
3 3 (1.38%) React
3 3 (1.38%) RESTful
3 3 (1.38%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (1.38%) WebSockets
4 2 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.46%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.46%) REST
5 1 (0.46%) Sass
5 1 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (29.95%) Driving Licence
2 26 (11.98%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.38%) Device Driver
5 3 (1.38%) IoT
5 3 (1.38%) NHS
5 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.38%) Social Media
6 2 (0.92%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (0.92%) CPLD
6 2 (0.92%) FPGA
6 2 (0.92%) SCADA
7 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.46%) FMCG
7 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.46%) Life Science
7 1 (0.46%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.30%) Linux
1 5 (2.30%) Windows
2 4 (1.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (33.64%) Project Management
2 66 (30.41%) Risk Management
3 64 (29.49%) Balanced Scorecard
3 64 (29.49%) Scorecard
4 51 (23.50%) Systems Engineering
5 38 (17.51%) Mentoring
6 31 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (13.36%) Agile
8 27 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (11.52%) Signal Processing
10 21 (9.68%) Mathematics
11 18 (8.29%) Computer Science
11 18 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (7.83%) Validation
13 16 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.37%) Verification and Validation
14 14 (6.45%) CI/CD
14 14 (6.45%) Software Engineering
15 13 (5.99%) Configuration Management
15 13 (5.99%) UML
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.14%) Python
2 17 (7.83%) R
3 10 (4.61%) MATLAB
4 9 (4.15%) C#
4 9 (4.15%) SQL
5 8 (3.69%) C
6 7 (3.23%) Ada
6 7 (3.23%) C++
7 6 (2.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.84%) Java
10 3 (1.38%) PHP
11 2 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (35.48%) BPSS Clearance
2 65 (29.95%) Degree
3 11 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.23%) Chartered Engineer
4 7 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.84%) CISSP
5 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.38%) CSPO
7 2 (0.92%) ACCA
7 2 (0.92%) CIMA
7 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.46%) CCNA
8 1 (0.46%) CCNP
8 1 (0.46%) CCSA
8 1 (0.46%) CWAP
8 1 (0.46%) CWDP
8 1 (0.46%) CWNA
8 1 (0.46%) CWSP
8 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 20 (9.22%) IEC 61508
3 13 (5.99%) Def Stans
3 13 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 7 (3.23%) ARP4754
4 7 (3.23%) DO-254
4 7 (3.23%) QA
5 5 (2.30%) HAZOP
6 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.92%) GAAP
7 2 (0.92%) IFRS
8 1 (0.46%) GDPR
8 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.76%) Firmware
3 3 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.30%) Functional Safety
1 5 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.38%) Grafana
2 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.46%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (11.06%) IBM
2 8 (3.69%) MathWorks
3 5 (2.30%) Cisco
4 4 (1.84%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.84%) SAP
5 3 (1.38%) BT
5 3 (1.38%) Oracle
6 2 (0.92%) Ariba
6 2 (0.92%) Cognos
6 2 (0.92%) EMC
6 2 (0.92%) Infor
7 1 (0.46%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.46%) Dell
7 1 (0.46%) ESRI
7 1 (0.46%) Google
7 1 (0.46%) Instagram
7 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) Twitter