Senior Jobs in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior salary in England is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 12,785 13,913 23,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.91% 15.58% 17.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.78% 17.02% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,959 8,479 11,740
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,123 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,017 81,732 129,546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,430 51,948 75,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
London +2 4,476 £77,500 -6.06% 1,658
North of England +5 2,578 £60,000 - 610
South East -1 2,078 £60,000 -11.11% 587
South West +10 1,576 £57,500 -2.70% 336
North West +9 1,454 £60,000 - 368
Midlands +5 1,380 £57,500 - 422
West Midlands +9 882 £58,500 -2.50% 286
Yorkshire +1 847 £57,965 -3.39% 179
East of England 0 567 £60,000 -7.69% 273
East Midlands +2 490 £52,500 -4.55% 137
North East +15 282 £58,232 +4.45% 70
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,924 (22.87%) Agile
2 2,870 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 2,570 (20.10%) Finance
4 2,484 (19.43%) Azure
5 2,200 (17.21%) AWS
6 2,102 (16.44%) Software Engineering
7 2,077 (16.25%) Microsoft
8 1,959 (15.32%) Degree
9 1,890 (14.78%) SQL
10 1,857 (14.52%) Python
11 1,824 (14.27%) Mentoring
12 1,662 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
13 1,537 (12.02%) JavaScript
14 1,445 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
15 1,358 (10.62%) C#
16 1,357 (10.61%) DevOps
17 1,260 (9.86%) .NET
18 1,105 (8.64%) Security Cleared
19 1,067 (8.35%) React
20 1,048 (8.20%) Java
21 979 (7.66%) Linux
22 977 (7.64%) Windows
23 955 (7.47%) Coaching
24 954 (7.46%) Actionable Insight
25 898 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 890 (6.96%) Project Management
27 838 (6.55%) Analytics
28 818 (6.40%) Decision-Making
29 798 (6.24%) TypeScript
30 796 (6.23%) Cybersecurity

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 225 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 166 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 156 (1.22%) Apache
4 142 (1.11%) CMS
5 135 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 131 (1.02%) ArcGIS
7 129 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
8 126 (0.99%) GeoServer
9 123 (0.96%) Confluence
10 102 (0.80%) SAS
11 93 (0.73%) IIS
12 52 (0.41%) Umbraco
13 47 (0.37%) WordPress
14 41 (0.32%) Headless CMS
14 41 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.31%) Kentico
16 37 (0.29%) Tuxedo
17 24 (0.19%) WebLogic
18 23 (0.18%) nginx
19 17 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 536 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 263 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 160 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 99 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (0.38%) Simulink
6 47 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 36 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 36 (0.28%) Sketch
8 27 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.20%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
12 17 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 12 (0.094%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
15 10 (0.078%) InDesign
15 10 (0.078%) Solid Edge
16 7 (0.055%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.047%) 3ds Max
18 5 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 68 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.42%) Endur
3 37 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.19%) Shopify
6 22 (0.17%) Magento
6 22 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 17 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
8 16 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 14 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
10 13 (0.10%) SAP SCM
11 12 (0.094%) SAP FI
12 10 (0.078%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.078%) SAP HR
13 9 (0.070%) NEC Housing
13 9 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
14 8 (0.063%) Primavera
14 8 (0.063%) SAP SD
15 7 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,484 (19.43%) Azure
2 2,200 (17.21%) AWS
3 621 (4.86%) SaaS
4 575 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
5 500 (3.91%) GCP
6 460 (3.60%) Power Platform
7 390 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 312 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 215 (1.68%) Serverless
10 187 (1.46%) GitHub
11 182 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 147 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 138 (1.08%) Snowflake
14 127 (0.99%) PaaS
15 120 (0.94%) OneDrive
16 113 (0.88%) IaaS
17 108 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
18 103 (0.81%) PowerApps
19 98 (0.77%) dbt
20 94 (0.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 501 (3.92%) Firewall
2 387 (3.03%) Broadband
3 308 (2.41%) WAN
4 267 (2.09%) DNS
5 225 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 208 (1.63%) LAN
7 187 (1.46%) Wireless
8 180 (1.41%) DHCP
9 161 (1.26%) 5G
9 161 (1.26%) VPN
10 155 (1.21%) Network Security
11 128 (1.00%) Internet
11 128 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 125 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 99 (0.77%) VLAN
14 96 (0.75%) MPLS
15 85 (0.66%) SAN
16 82 (0.64%) HTTP
17 80 (0.63%) BGP
18 53 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 627 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 441 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 362 (2.83%) Power BI
4 361 (2.82%) MySQL
5 315 (2.46%) Tableau
6 271 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 254 (1.99%) NoSQL
8 209 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 207 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 155 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 136 (1.06%) GIS
12 128 (1.00%) QGIS
13 120 (0.94%) Big Data
14 111 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 103 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
16 98 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
17 96 (0.75%) Oracle Database
18 79 (0.62%) Apache Ignite
18 79 (0.62%) Redis
19 78 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 777 (6.08%) Git
2 330 (2.58%) JIRA
3 223 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 125 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 113 (0.88%) GitLab
6 95 (0.74%) Selenium
7 89 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 63 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 53 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 50 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 49 (0.38%) Sourcetree
12 46 (0.36%) Postman
13 44 (0.34%) Subversion
14 37 (0.29%) CircleCI
15 36 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 36 (0.28%) JUnit
15 36 (0.28%) Maven
16 35 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
17 33 (0.26%) NUnit
18 30 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,870 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 2,570 (20.10%) Finance
3 1,445 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 898 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 605 (4.73%) Retail
6 586 (4.58%) Banking
7 564 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 526 (4.11%) Marketing
9 439 (3.43%) Legal
10 412 (3.22%) Law
11 365 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
12 356 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
13 318 (2.49%) Manufacturing
14 234 (1.83%) Games
15 227 (1.78%) Front Office
16 208 (1.63%) Electronics
17 178 (1.39%) Telecoms
18 177 (1.38%) Aerospace
19 169 (1.32%) Automotive
20 158 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,260 (9.86%) .NET
2 1,067 (8.35%) React
3 711 (5.56%) CSS
4 698 (5.46%) HTML
5 524 (4.10%) AngularJS
6 435 (3.40%) .NET Core
7 387 (3.03%) Node.js
8 382 (2.99%) ASP.NET
9 362 (2.83%) RESTful
10 336 (2.63%) REST
11 318 (2.49%) Vue
12 298 (2.33%) .NET Framework
13 252 (1.97%) Kafka
14 250 (1.96%) Spring
15 204 (1.60%) Laravel
16 193 (1.51%) Web Services
17 168 (1.31%) XML
18 161 (1.26%) JSON
18 161 (1.26%) Pandas
19 146 (1.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 327 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 319 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
3 283 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 269 (2.10%) Algorithms
5 255 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 239 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 232 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 216 (1.69%) IoT
9 209 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 194 (1.52%) Social Media
11 180 (1.41%) Derivative
12 177 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 176 (1.38%) Driving Licence
14 171 (1.34%) Hedge funds
15 155 (1.21%) Cloud Native
16 145 (1.13%) Equities
17 139 (1.09%) Mobile App
18 138 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
19 130 (1.02%) Fixed Income
20 124 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 979 (7.66%) Linux
2 977 (7.64%) Windows
3 356 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 188 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 125 (0.98%) Unix
6 117 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 114 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 112 (0.88%) Android
9 105 (0.82%) Apple iOS
10 85 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
11 69 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 64 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
13 45 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 32 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 32 (0.25%) VMS
15 23 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 18 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 15 (0.12%) CentOS
18 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
19 9 (0.070%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,924 (22.87%) Agile
2 2,102 (16.44%) Software Engineering
3 1,824 (14.27%) Mentoring
4 1,662 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1,357 (10.61%) DevOps
6 955 (7.47%) Coaching
7 954 (7.46%) Actionable Insight
8 890 (6.96%) Project Management
9 838 (6.55%) Analytics
10 818 (6.40%) Decision-Making
11 796 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
12 785 (6.14%) CI/CD
13 696 (5.44%) Computer Science
14 685 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 685 (5.36%) Full Stack Development
15 661 (5.17%) Roadmaps
16 554 (4.33%) Microservices
17 514 (4.02%) Project Delivery
18 505 (3.95%) Migration
19 501 (3.92%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,890 (14.78%) SQL
2 1,857 (14.52%) Python
3 1,537 (12.02%) JavaScript
4 1,358 (10.62%) C#
5 1,048 (8.20%) Java
6 798 (6.24%) TypeScript
7 361 (2.82%) C++
8 360 (2.82%) C
9 353 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 338 (2.64%) PHP
11 328 (2.57%) Bash
12 194 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 127 (0.99%) R
14 123 (0.96%) Go
15 120 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 98 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 94 (0.74%) Rust
18 84 (0.66%) Ruby
19 82 (0.64%) Perl
20 80 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,959 (15.32%) Degree
2 1,105 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 715 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 311 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 271 (2.12%) ACCA
6 270 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 238 (1.86%) CIMA
8 222 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 208 (1.63%) DV Cleared
10 192 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 136 (1.06%) CCNP
12 129 (1.01%) CISSP
12 129 (1.01%) PMI Certification
13 127 (0.99%) Azure Certification
14 115 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 114 (0.89%) AWS Certification
16 96 (0.75%) PhD
17 85 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
18 82 (0.64%) CCNA
19 61 (0.48%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (2.75%) QA
2 227 (1.78%) SLA
3 199 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 185 (1.45%) GDPR
5 172 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 110 (0.86%) NIST
7 95 (0.74%) WCAG
8 94 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 83 (0.65%) IFRS
10 75 (0.59%) PMO
11 61 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 58 (0.45%) GMP
13 41 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 40 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 39 (0.31%) GRC
16 38 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
17 33 (0.26%) ISO 26262
18 28 (0.22%) NCSC
19 26 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
20 21 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 734 (5.74%) Docker
2 649 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 300 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 199 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 129 (1.01%) Firmware
6 51 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 51 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 50 (0.39%) vSphere
8 25 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.13%) KVM
9 16 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.11%) XenApp
12 11 (0.086%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.070%) NFS
14 8 (0.063%) HDFS
15 7 (0.055%) IAG
16 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
17 4 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 765 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 575 (4.50%) Terraform
3 280 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 244 (1.91%) Ansible
5 138 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
6 124 (0.97%) SCCM
7 90 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 86 (0.67%) Puppet
9 67 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 64 (0.50%) Grafana
11 48 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 46 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 39 (0.31%) FortiGate
14 28 (0.22%) CASB
15 27 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
16 24 (0.19%) Nagios
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
18 20 (0.16%) WSUS
19 19 (0.15%) Nmap
19 19 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,077 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 464 (3.63%) VMware
3 410 (3.21%) Oracle
4 388 (3.03%) Cisco
5 356 (2.78%) Google
6 296 (2.32%) Databricks
7 214 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 181 (1.42%) SAP
9 164 (1.28%) Dell
10 154 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 128 (1.00%) ESRI
11 128 (1.00%) Tanium
12 122 (0.95%) IBM
13 116 (0.91%) Salesforce
14 115 (0.90%) Meraki
15 110 (0.86%) Adobe
16 108 (0.84%) Juniper
17 107 (0.84%) Red Hat
18 103 (0.81%) Palo Alto
19 95 (0.74%) HP