Senior Job Trends in West Wales

Senior
Wales > West Wales

The median Senior salary in West Wales is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 5 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 12 23 15
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 10.71% 21.70% 14.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.88% 22.12% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 15
10th Percentile £48,893 £42,475 £35,500
25th Percentile £58,100 £44,956 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,104 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.19% -6.47% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,625
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,500
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,843
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West 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 West Wales with a recognized job title 101 104 104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 98.11% 97.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67 47 100
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £30,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.88% -5.56% +0.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,252 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +4.26% -1.05%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Senior job vacancy trend in West Wales

Senior
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in West Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in West Wales

Senior
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in West Wales over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in West Wales

Senior
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Swansea +1 12 £60,000 +22.19%
Senior
Wales

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) API Development
3 1 (8.33%) API Integration
3 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) BDD
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Delphi
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Django
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (8.33%) Flask
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Django
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Flask
1 1 (8.33%) pytest
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) API Development
2 1 (8.33%) API Integration
2 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (8.33%) BDD
2 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (8.33%) Microservices
2 1 (8.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (8.33%) SEO
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (8.33%) TDD
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Delphi
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle