Senior Jobs in Wales

Senior
UK > Wales

The median Senior salary in Wales is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 350 279 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 18.14% 16.32% 17.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.56% 18.84% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 229 132 248
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,175 £38,258
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,750 £75,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.19% +5.38%

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 1,789 1,481 1,827
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 86.61% 93.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,271 806 1,206
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +16.85%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
South Wales +10 266 £50,000 -9.09% 30
West Wales +14 48 £49,054 -10.81% 3
North Wales +15 29 £34,000 - 7
Mid Wales -2 8 £50,000 +1.01%
Dyfed 0 1 £38,000 -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 across the Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 59 (16.86%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.43%) Software Engineering
2 54 (15.43%) Security Cleared
3 53 (15.14%) SC Cleared
4 48 (13.71%) Actionable Insight
5 47 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (13.43%) Azure
6 45 (12.86%) Agile
7 41 (11.71%) Degree
8 36 (10.29%) AWS
9 35 (10.00%) Data Centre
10 34 (9.71%) Microsoft
11 33 (9.43%) C#
11 33 (9.43%) Finance
12 31 (8.86%) JavaScript
12 31 (8.86%) Oracle
12 31 (8.86%) Mentoring
13 30 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
14 29 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
15 27 (7.71%) React
16 25 (7.14%) Cisco
17 24 (6.86%) SQL
17 24 (6.86%) Manufacturing
17 24 (6.86%) Firewall
17 24 (6.86%) SDLC
18 23 (6.57%) Roadmaps
19 22 (6.29%) Change Management
19 22 (6.29%) C
20 21 (6.00%) Web Development
21 20 (5.71%) C++

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 9 (2.57%) Skype for Business
2 7 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 7 (2.00%) GeoServer
3 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) CMS
6 2 (0.57%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.29%) Appian
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.14%) Sketch
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 47 (13.43%) Azure
2 36 (10.29%) AWS
3 10 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.00%) OCI
5 7 (2.00%) Slack
6 6 (1.71%) GCP
6 6 (1.71%) Miro
6 6 (1.71%) SaaS
7 5 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.43%) Heroku
7 5 (1.43%) npm
8 4 (1.14%) Figma
8 4 (1.14%) WhatsApp
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.86%) Nutanix
9 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.86%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.57%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.86%) Firewall
2 19 (5.43%) DNS
3 13 (3.71%) LAN
3 13 (3.71%) WAN
4 12 (3.43%) Wireless
5 11 (3.14%) SAN
6 9 (2.57%) IP Telephony
6 9 (2.57%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.29%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (2.00%) Network Security
9 6 (1.71%) MPLS
9 6 (1.71%) VPN
10 5 (1.43%) DHCP
11 4 (1.14%) Ethernet
11 4 (1.14%) Internet
11 4 (1.14%) Profibus
11 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.86%) Extranet
12 3 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.14%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
4 8 (2.29%) GIS
5 7 (2.00%) QGIS
6 4 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.14%) MySQL
7 3 (0.86%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.29%) Power BI
9 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (4.29%) Git
2 10 (2.86%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (1.14%) JIRA
4 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.86%) Selenium
5 2 (0.57%) JMeter
5 2 (0.57%) webpack
6 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.29%) Grunt
6 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (16.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (9.43%) Finance
3 29 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.86%) Manufacturing
5 17 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.29%) Police
7 12 (3.43%) Local Government
8 10 (2.86%) Digital Health
9 9 (2.57%) Marketing
9 9 (2.57%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.00%) Electronics
10 7 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.00%) Welsh Language
11 6 (1.71%) Games
12 5 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.43%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.14%) Advertising
14 2 (0.57%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.71%) React
2 15 (4.29%) .NET
3 13 (3.71%) HTML
4 12 (3.43%) WinForms
5 11 (3.14%) JSON
5 11 (3.14%) RESTful
6 10 (2.86%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.86%) CSS
6 10 (2.86%) SOAP
6 10 (2.86%) Web Services
6 10 (2.86%) XML
7 8 (2.29%) Symfony
7 8 (2.29%) Vue
8 7 (2.00%) Leaflet
8 7 (2.00%) Node.js
8 7 (2.00%) OpenLayers
8 7 (2.00%) PostGIS
8 7 (2.00%) WPF
9 6 (1.71%) Laravel
10 5 (1.43%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.00%) CMDB
3 7 (2.00%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.43%) IoT
4 5 (1.43%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.43%) NHS
5 4 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.14%) Cyberattack
5 4 (1.14%) Housing Association
6 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.86%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.57%) Replication
8 1 (0.29%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.29%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.29%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.86%) Linux
2 15 (4.29%) Android
3 14 (4.00%) Windows
4 8 (2.29%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.86%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.29%) Unix
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (15.43%) Software Engineering
2 48 (13.71%) Actionable Insight
3 47 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (12.86%) Agile
5 31 (8.86%) Mentoring
6 30 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
7 24 (6.86%) SDLC
8 23 (6.57%) Roadmaps
9 22 (6.29%) Change Management
10 21 (6.00%) Web Development
11 20 (5.71%) Customer Service
11 20 (5.71%) DevOps
12 19 (5.43%) Coaching
12 19 (5.43%) Project Management
13 17 (4.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (4.86%) Line Management
13 17 (4.86%) Migration
14 15 (4.29%) ITIL
14 15 (4.29%) User Experience
15 14 (4.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.43%) C#
2 31 (8.86%) JavaScript
3 24 (6.86%) SQL
4 22 (6.29%) C
5 20 (5.71%) C++
6 15 (4.29%) Python
7 13 (3.71%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.86%) Java
8 10 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.57%) PHP
10 5 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.43%) Swift
11 4 (1.14%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.57%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.29%) Go
13 1 (0.29%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.71%) Degree
4 13 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (2.86%) CCNA
6 9 (2.57%) ACCA
6 9 (2.57%) CIMA
7 5 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.29%) CBAP
9 1 (0.29%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.29%) CWNA
9 1 (0.29%) CWTS
9 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) IIBA
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.57%) IFRS
2 7 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 4 (1.14%) ISO 13485
3 4 (1.14%) PMO
3 4 (1.14%) WCAG
4 3 (0.86%) SLA
5 2 (0.57%) MISRA
5 2 (0.57%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 13 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.86%) Docker
2 10 (2.86%) Firmware
3 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.14%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (3.71%) Ansible
2 10 (2.86%) Terraform
3 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.71%) SCCM
5 4 (1.14%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.86%) SCOM
7 2 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.57%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.29%) Grafana
8 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.86%) Oracle
3 25 (7.14%) Cisco
4 9 (2.57%) Avaya
4 9 (2.57%) Hyperion
4 9 (2.57%) Mitel
4 9 (2.57%) PeopleSoft
5 8 (2.29%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.29%) VMware
6 7 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 7 (2.00%) ESRI
6 7 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.00%) McAfee
7 4 (1.14%) UiPath
8 3 (0.86%) Citrix
8 3 (0.86%) HP
8 3 (0.86%) NetApp
9 2 (0.57%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.57%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.57%) Veeam