Senior Jobs in West Sussex

Senior
South East > West Sussex

The median Senior salary in West Sussex is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 24 58 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.95% 7.93% 18.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.92% 8.41% 22.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14 46 45
10th Percentile - £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,875 £68,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,875 £68,750 £85,500
South East median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -11.11% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 242 690 861
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 80.13% 94.39% 82.63%
Number of salaries quoted 162 498 444
10th Percentile £28,650 £24,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,513 £32,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,787 £72,875 £79,625
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Salary Trend in West Sussex

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

Salary trend for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in West Sussex over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 18 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
Chichester +14 11 £52,500 +10.53% 3
Crawley -4 5 £60,000 +4.35% 16
Worthing +13 2 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Gatwick +2 2 £90,000 +33.33% 1
Burgess Hill +2 2 - - 1
Senior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 West Sussex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Degree
2 8 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (25.00%) Requirements Management
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) C#
5 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 4 (16.67%) Physics
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 3 (12.50%) C++
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.33%) Design for Manufacturing
7 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) Data Strategy
7 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (8.33%) Secure Coding
7 2 (8.33%) Fintech
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (8.33%) Acoustics

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) GitHub
1 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (8.33%) Couchbase
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) MagicDraw
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Advertising
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Acoustics
1 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (8.33%) SCADA
1 2 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Requirements Management
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 4 (16.67%) Physics
3 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.50%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (8.33%) Design for Manufacturing
5 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) C++
3 2 (8.33%) Ada
3 2 (8.33%) C
3 2 (8.33%) Go
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Degree
2 8 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Puppet
2 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Atlassian