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 to 27 April 2024.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 366 221 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 18.15% 13.27% 14.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.62% 15.45% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 230 106 183
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £36,115
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £67,513 £71,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

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 1,865 1,430 1,797
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 85.89% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 817 1,150
10th Percentile £26,350 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,107 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +12 291 £51,528 -6.31% 73
West Wales +6 39 £40,000 -17.53% 7
North Wales +6 20 £34,000 -43.33% 7
Mid Wales -3 12 £50,000 +5.82% 2
Dyfed +1 1 £38,000 -41.54%
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 104 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.04%) Actionable Insight
3 85 (23.22%) Agile
3 85 (23.22%) Security Cleared
4 84 (22.95%) SC Cleared
5 81 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (17.21%) Software Engineering
7 62 (16.94%) Microsoft
8 61 (16.67%) Azure
9 60 (16.39%) AWS
10 58 (15.85%) Data Centre
11 53 (14.48%) Finance
12 48 (13.11%) SQL
12 48 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
13 46 (12.57%) Degree
14 43 (11.75%) C#
14 43 (11.75%) Oracle
15 39 (10.66%) JavaScript
16 38 (10.38%) Mentoring
17 37 (10.11%) SDLC
18 36 (9.84%) ITIL
19 35 (9.56%) Firewall
20 34 (9.29%) Linux
20 34 (9.29%) DNS
20 34 (9.29%) DevOps
21 33 (9.02%) Customer Service
22 32 (8.74%) Cisco
22 32 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
23 31 (8.47%) Java
24 30 (8.20%) Windows

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 18 (4.92%) ArcGIS
2 17 (4.64%) GeoServer
3 14 (3.83%) Skype for Business
4 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.91%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.91%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.64%) SAS
7 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
8 4 (1.09%) Apache
8 4 (1.09%) CMS
8 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.82%) Confluence
9 3 (0.82%) IIS
9 3 (0.82%) WordPress
10 2 (0.55%) JBoss
10 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.27%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.09%) Sketch
5 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 61 (16.67%) Azure
2 60 (16.39%) AWS
3 13 (3.55%) GCP
4 12 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.73%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.73%) PowerApps
6 8 (2.19%) WhatsApp
7 7 (1.91%) Nutanix
7 7 (1.91%) SaaS
7 7 (1.91%) Slack
8 6 (1.64%) Miro
8 6 (1.64%) npm
9 5 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (1.37%) Heroku
10 4 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.09%) Figma
10 4 (1.09%) iPaaS
10 4 (1.09%) PaaS
10 4 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.56%) Firewall
2 34 (9.29%) DNS
3 18 (4.92%) LAN
3 18 (4.92%) WAN
4 16 (4.37%) Wireless
5 15 (4.10%) SAN
6 14 (3.83%) IP Telephony
7 12 (3.28%) TCP/IP
8 11 (3.01%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (3.01%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (2.73%) VPN
10 8 (2.19%) Ethernet
10 8 (2.19%) MPLS
10 8 (2.19%) Profibus
11 7 (1.91%) DHCP
11 7 (1.91%) Network Security
12 5 (1.37%) Extranet
12 5 (1.37%) Internet
12 5 (1.37%) VLAN
12 5 (1.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.56%) GIS
3 17 (4.64%) QGIS
4 14 (3.83%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.19%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.91%) MySQL
8 7 (1.91%) Oracle Database 11g
8 7 (1.91%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (1.09%) Big Data
9 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.55%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.55%) Looker
11 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (7.10%) Git
2 7 (1.91%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (1.09%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.09%) JIRA
3 4 (1.09%) Selenium
4 3 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (0.82%) JMeter
4 3 (0.82%) webpack
5 2 (0.55%) Grunt
5 2 (0.55%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.27%) MSTest
6 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.48%) Finance
3 48 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (6.56%) Manufacturing
5 20 (5.46%) Police
6 18 (4.92%) Local Government
7 14 (3.83%) Electronics
8 12 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 11 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.73%) Marketing
10 10 (2.73%) Welsh Language
11 9 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.19%) Games
13 7 (1.91%) Banking
14 6 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.64%) Retail
15 5 (1.37%) Digital Health
15 5 (1.37%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.38%) React
2 25 (6.83%) .NET
3 18 (4.92%) PostGIS
4 17 (4.64%) Leaflet
4 17 (4.64%) OpenLayers
5 16 (4.37%) .NET Core
5 16 (4.37%) CSS
6 14 (3.83%) Spring
7 13 (3.55%) Laravel
8 12 (3.28%) HTML
8 12 (3.28%) RESTful
8 12 (3.28%) WinForms
9 11 (3.01%) Symfony
9 11 (3.01%) Vue
10 10 (2.73%) Web Services
10 10 (2.73%) XML
11 9 (2.46%) Java EE
11 9 (2.46%) JSON
11 9 (2.46%) SOAP
12 8 (2.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.85%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.19%) Housing Association
6 7 (1.91%) CMDB
6 7 (1.91%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.37%) NHS
8 5 (1.37%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.09%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.09%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.09%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.29%) Linux
2 30 (8.20%) Windows
3 16 (4.37%) Android
4 14 (3.83%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.46%) Unix
6 7 (1.91%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.37%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.09%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (1.09%) VxWorks
9 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.04%) Actionable Insight
2 85 (23.22%) Agile
3 81 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (17.21%) Software Engineering
5 38 (10.38%) Mentoring
6 37 (10.11%) SDLC
7 36 (9.84%) ITIL
8 34 (9.29%) DevOps
9 33 (9.02%) Customer Service
10 28 (7.65%) Migration
11 27 (7.38%) Full Stack Development
11 27 (7.38%) Project Management
11 27 (7.38%) Roadmaps
12 26 (7.10%) Change Management
12 26 (7.10%) Web Development
13 25 (6.83%) CI/CD
14 23 (6.28%) Business Continuity
14 23 (6.28%) Line Management
15 22 (6.01%) Coaching
16 21 (5.74%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (13.11%) SQL
2 43 (11.75%) C#
3 39 (10.66%) JavaScript
4 31 (8.47%) Java
5 28 (7.65%) Python
6 20 (5.46%) C
6 20 (5.46%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.64%) C++
7 17 (4.64%) PHP
8 9 (2.46%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.37%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.37%) Swift
11 4 (1.09%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.09%) Groovy
11 4 (1.09%) R
12 2 (0.55%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 85 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 84 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.57%) Degree
4 16 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.01%) CCNA
6 7 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.64%) ACCA
7 6 (1.64%) CIMA
7 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.09%) HND
8 4 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (0.82%) CSPO
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.73%) IFRS
2 8 (2.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 8 (2.19%) ISO 13485
3 7 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.91%) SLA
4 5 (1.37%) PMO
5 4 (1.09%) CRD IV
5 4 (1.09%) IFRS 9
5 4 (1.09%) WCAG
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (5.19%) Docker
2 17 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.37%) Firmware
4 11 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.64%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.55%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (6.01%) Ansible
2 13 (3.55%) Terraform
3 12 (3.28%) SCCM
4 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.91%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.91%) OpenSSO
5 7 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.37%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.37%) SCOM
7 2 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.27%) Grafana
8 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 62 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.75%) Oracle
3 32 (8.74%) Cisco
4 18 (4.92%) ESRI
5 17 (4.64%) VMware
6 14 (3.83%) Avaya
6 14 (3.83%) Mitel
7 11 (3.01%) CheckPoint
7 11 (3.01%) Fortinet
7 11 (3.01%) McAfee
7 11 (3.01%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.91%) Remedy
9 6 (1.64%) Hyperion
9 6 (1.64%) PeopleSoft
10 5 (1.37%) Citrix
10 5 (1.37%) HP
10 5 (1.37%) NetApp
11 4 (1.09%) Google
11 4 (1.09%) QNX
12 3 (0.82%) IBM