Senior Jobs in Wales

Senior
UK > Wales

The median Senior salary in Wales is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 9 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 233 235 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 20.60% 14.40% 15.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.34% 15.10% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 124 171 191
10th Percentile £35,725 £36,838 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,874 £40,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £48,900
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.25% -0.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,400 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,525 £70,000 £66,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,092 1,556 1,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.55% 95.34% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 627 954 1,139
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,103 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £61,445 £61,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 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
South Wales +5 191 £57,291 +9.12% 52
West Wales -6 22 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Mid Wales -3 8 £37,000 -12.94% 1
North Wales +4 4 £34,000 -24.44% 5
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 across the Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 88 (37.77%) Agile
2 83 (35.62%) Security Cleared
3 82 (35.19%) Social Skills
4 80 (34.33%) Actionable Insight
5 73 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (30.47%) SC Cleared
7 62 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
8 57 (24.46%) Oracle
9 54 (23.18%) SQL
10 52 (22.32%) ITIL
11 51 (21.89%) Java
12 47 (20.17%) Azure
13 44 (18.88%) Spring
14 41 (17.60%) Service Management
15 39 (16.74%) Microsoft
15 39 (16.74%) Enterprise Architecture
16 38 (16.31%) Unix
16 38 (16.31%) Java EE
16 38 (16.31%) Containerisation
17 37 (15.88%) Impact Assessments
17 37 (15.88%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (15.88%) Incident Management
18 35 (15.02%) Scrum
19 34 (14.59%) Mentoring
19 34 (14.59%) AWS
20 32 (13.73%) OpenSSO
20 32 (13.73%) Information Management
20 32 (13.73%) WebLogic
20 32 (13.73%) J2EE
20 32 (13.73%) SLA

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 32 (13.73%) WebLogic
2 10 (4.29%) SAS
3 7 (3.00%) JBoss
3 7 (3.00%) Red Hat Fuse
4 6 (2.58%) WordPress
5 4 (1.72%) Apache
5 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.72%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (1.29%) CMS
6 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.29%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.86%) IIS
8 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.86%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.17%) Azure
2 34 (14.59%) AWS
3 15 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (6.44%) GCP
4 10 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.86%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.00%) SaaS
6 7 (3.00%) Serverless
7 6 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.58%) PaaS
8 5 (2.15%) IaaS
8 5 (2.15%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.29%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.29%) dbt
10 3 (1.29%) GitHub
11 2 (0.86%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.30%) Network Security
2 22 (9.44%) VPN
3 19 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (6.01%) LAN
4 14 (6.01%) WAN
5 13 (5.58%) IPsec
6 12 (5.15%) TCP/IP
7 11 (4.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (4.29%) Firewall
9 6 (2.58%) FTP
9 6 (2.58%) HTTP
9 6 (2.58%) Internet
9 6 (2.58%) SMTP
9 6 (2.58%) Sourcefire
10 4 (1.72%) DNS
10 4 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.72%) VLAN
11 3 (1.29%) MPLS
11 3 (1.29%) WLAN
12 2 (0.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.88%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.01%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.43%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.15%) Big Data
6 5 (2.15%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (1.72%) Power BI
7 4 (1.72%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.29%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.86%) JasperReports
9 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.86%) Redis
10 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (9.44%) Git
2 7 (3.00%) IntelliJ
3 5 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.29%) Selenium
4 3 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (0.86%) Maven
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.43%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) JMeter
6 1 (0.43%) MSTest
6 1 (0.43%) PVCS
6 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.59%) Finance
4 20 (8.58%) Retail
5 11 (4.72%) Games
5 11 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.29%) Banking
6 10 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.00%) Marketing
9 5 (2.15%) Law
10 4 (1.72%) Legal
10 4 (1.72%) Local Government
10 4 (1.72%) Police
11 3 (1.29%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.29%) Welsh Language
12 2 (0.86%) Advertising
12 2 (0.86%) Electronics
12 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.88%) Spring
2 38 (16.31%) Java EE
3 32 (13.73%) J2EE
4 24 (10.30%) .NET
5 19 (8.15%) RESTful
6 15 (6.44%) Web Services
6 15 (6.44%) XML
7 14 (6.01%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.58%) SOAP
9 12 (5.15%) JSON
10 11 (4.72%) CSS
10 11 (4.72%) HTML
11 9 (3.86%) Hibernate
11 9 (3.86%) React
12 8 (3.43%) REST
12 8 (3.43%) Vue
13 7 (3.00%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.00%) JPA
13 7 (3.00%) XSD
14 6 (2.58%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.73%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.58%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.72%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (3.86%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.43%) Credit Risk
6 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.58%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.58%) PKI
8 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.86%) Blog
9 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.43%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.31%) Unix
2 25 (10.73%) Windows
3 9 (3.86%) Linux
4 5 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.77%) Agile
2 80 (34.33%) Actionable Insight
3 73 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (22.32%) ITIL
5 41 (17.60%) Service Management
6 39 (16.74%) Enterprise Architecture
7 38 (16.31%) Containerisation
8 37 (15.88%) Impact Assessments
8 37 (15.88%) Incident Management
9 35 (15.02%) Scrum
10 34 (14.59%) Mentoring
11 32 (13.73%) Enterprise Search
11 32 (13.73%) Information Management
12 30 (12.88%) DevOps
13 27 (11.59%) Software Engineering
14 24 (10.30%) CI/CD
15 19 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (7.30%) Project Management
18 16 (6.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.18%) SQL
2 51 (21.89%) Java
3 32 (13.73%) Shell Script
4 31 (13.30%) Python
5 29 (12.45%) C#
6 15 (6.44%) PL/SQL
7 9 (3.86%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.43%) PHP
8 8 (3.43%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.00%) R
10 5 (2.15%) C++
11 3 (1.29%) Bash
12 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 71 (30.47%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.45%) Degree
4 18 (7.73%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (6.44%) CCNA
6 13 (5.58%) CCNP
7 12 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (2.15%) CISM
9 5 (2.15%) CISSP
9 5 (2.15%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.15%) SSCP
10 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.72%) MCP
10 4 (1.72%) MCSA
10 4 (1.72%) MCSE
10 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.73%) SLA
2 9 (3.86%) GDPR
3 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.72%) CRD IV
4 4 (1.72%) IFRS
4 4 (1.72%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.86%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 13 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.43%) Docker
3 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Varnish
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (13.73%) OpenSSO
1 32 (13.73%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (8.15%) FortiGate
3 14 (6.01%) Terraform
4 5 (2.15%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.29%) Ansible
7 2 (0.86%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.86%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) Autotask
8 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.43%) Grafana
8 1 (0.43%) Malwarebytes
8 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (24.46%) Oracle
2 39 (16.74%) Microsoft
3 32 (13.73%) Remedy
4 25 (10.73%) Cisco
5 19 (8.15%) CheckPoint
5 19 (8.15%) Juniper
6 14 (6.01%) SAP
7 13 (5.58%) Forcepoint
7 13 (5.58%) McAfee
7 13 (5.58%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.29%) NEC
9 9 (3.86%) Databricks
9 9 (3.86%) Salesforce
10 8 (3.43%) IBM
11 7 (3.00%) VMware
12 6 (2.58%) ArcSight
12 6 (2.58%) F5
12 6 (2.58%) Splunk
12 6 (2.58%) TippingPoint
12 6 (2.58%) Trend Micro