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 leading to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,187 12,726 25,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.91% 15.44% 17.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.76% 16.92% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,773 8,078 11,798
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,043 75,204 138,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.22% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 65,775 49,529 75,271
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +3 4,749 £77,500 -6.06% 1,630
North of England +4 2,907 £60,000 - 606
South East -1 2,375 £60,000 -11.11% 518
South West +13 1,767 £60,000 +3.45% 322
North West +7 1,646 £60,000 - 396
Midlands +3 1,626 £57,965 +0.81% 338
West Midlands +5 1,030 £60,000 +4.35% 223
Yorkshire +1 943 £57,965 -3.39% 160
East of England +1 638 £57,500 -11.54% 252
East Midlands 0 587 £55,000 - 112
North East +10 323 £60,000 +6.19% 52
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 3,051 (21.51%) Agile
2 2,954 (20.82%) Social Skills
3 2,697 (19.01%) Finance
4 2,531 (17.84%) Azure
5 2,424 (17.09%) Software Engineering
6 2,324 (16.38%) AWS
7 2,163 (15.25%) Microsoft
8 2,082 (14.68%) Degree
9 2,009 (14.16%) SQL
10 2,008 (14.15%) Python
11 1,910 (13.46%) Mentoring
12 1,751 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
13 1,657 (11.68%) JavaScript
14 1,463 (10.31%) C#
15 1,459 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
16 1,412 (9.95%) DevOps
17 1,375 (9.69%) .NET
18 1,133 (7.99%) Security Cleared
19 1,116 (7.87%) Java
20 1,109 (7.82%) React
21 1,054 (7.43%) Coaching
22 987 (6.96%) Linux
23 964 (6.79%) Windows
24 931 (6.56%) Actionable Insight
25 907 (6.39%) Project Management
26 894 (6.30%) Analytics
26 894 (6.30%) TypeScript
27 887 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
28 853 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
29 822 (5.79%) Decision-Making

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
1 207 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 194 (1.37%) Apache
3 171 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 161 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 146 (1.03%) CMS
6 124 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 120 (0.85%) Confluence
8 119 (0.84%) ArcGIS
9 112 (0.79%) GeoServer
10 110 (0.78%) SAS
11 91 (0.64%) IIS
12 52 (0.37%) Umbraco
13 51 (0.36%) WordPress
14 42 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.29%) Headless CMS
16 40 (0.28%) Kentico
17 37 (0.26%) Tuxedo
18 25 (0.18%) nginx
19 22 (0.16%) WebLogic
20 18 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 560 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 263 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 103 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (0.35%) Simulink
6 48 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 39 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 37 (0.26%) Sketch
9 32 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 25 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 25 (0.18%) Stateflow
11 18 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
13 14 (0.099%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
15 10 (0.070%) InDesign
15 10 (0.070%) Solid Edge
16 9 (0.063%) Windchill
17 7 (0.049%) CANalyzer
18 6 (0.042%) Revit
Business Applications
1 67 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (0.36%) Endur
3 40 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 36 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
5 30 (0.21%) Magento
5 30 (0.21%) Shopify
6 19 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
7 15 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
9 13 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
9 13 (0.092%) SAP SCM
10 11 (0.078%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.070%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.063%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.063%) Ripple
12 9 (0.063%) SAP HR
13 8 (0.056%) Primavera
13 8 (0.056%) SAP CO
13 8 (0.056%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,531 (17.84%) Azure
2 2,324 (16.38%) AWS
3 658 (4.64%) SaaS
4 552 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
5 505 (3.56%) Power Platform
6 500 (3.52%) GCP
7 412 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 359 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 215 (1.52%) Serverless
10 201 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 199 (1.40%) GitHub
12 188 (1.33%) Snowflake
13 159 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 146 (1.03%) dbt
15 122 (0.86%) IaaS
16 121 (0.85%) OneDrive
17 120 (0.85%) PaaS
18 113 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
19 108 (0.76%) PowerApps
20 99 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 502 (3.54%) Firewall
2 386 (2.72%) Broadband
3 312 (2.20%) WAN
4 245 (1.73%) DNS
5 213 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 199 (1.40%) LAN
7 197 (1.39%) Wireless
8 188 (1.33%) Network Security
9 162 (1.14%) DHCP
10 159 (1.12%) 5G
11 155 (1.09%) VPN
12 149 (1.05%) SD-WAN
13 129 (0.91%) Internet
14 126 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
15 101 (0.71%) MPLS
16 98 (0.69%) VLAN
17 88 (0.62%) BGP
18 81 (0.57%) SAN
19 76 (0.54%) HTTP
20 64 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 646 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 429 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 381 (2.69%) Power BI
4 362 (2.55%) MySQL
5 324 (2.28%) Tableau
6 281 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
7 258 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 255 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 219 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 150 (1.06%) MongoDB
11 124 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
12 123 (0.87%) Big Data
12 123 (0.87%) GIS
13 117 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
14 114 (0.80%) QGIS
15 112 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 111 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
17 109 (0.77%) Dremio
18 107 (0.75%) Apache Arrow
19 90 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 813 (5.73%) Git
2 335 (2.36%) JIRA
3 191 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 136 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 131 (0.92%) GitLab
6 103 (0.73%) Selenium
7 91 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 61 (0.43%) TeamCity
9 56 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 53 (0.37%) Sourcetree
11 42 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 42 (0.30%) NUnit
12 41 (0.29%) Subversion
13 40 (0.28%) Postman
13 40 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
14 39 (0.27%) JUnit
15 37 (0.26%) CircleCI
15 37 (0.26%) Eclipse
16 35 (0.25%) Maven
17 33 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 2,954 (20.82%) Social Skills
2 2,697 (19.01%) Finance
3 1,459 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 887 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 654 (4.61%) Banking
6 644 (4.54%) Retail
7 566 (3.99%) Public Sector
8 551 (3.88%) Marketing
9 526 (3.71%) Legal
10 428 (3.02%) Law
11 397 (2.80%) Manufacturing
12 372 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
13 355 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 264 (1.86%) Front Office
15 243 (1.71%) Games
16 226 (1.59%) Electronics
17 219 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 198 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
19 185 (1.30%) Automotive
20 172 (1.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,375 (9.69%) .NET
2 1,109 (7.82%) React
3 762 (5.37%) CSS
4 735 (5.18%) HTML
5 539 (3.80%) AngularJS
6 463 (3.26%) .NET Core
7 422 (2.97%) ASP.NET
8 410 (2.89%) Node.js
9 378 (2.66%) RESTful
10 352 (2.48%) REST
11 336 (2.37%) Vue
12 330 (2.33%) .NET Framework
13 257 (1.81%) Kafka
14 242 (1.71%) Spring
15 220 (1.55%) Web Services
16 209 (1.47%) Laravel
17 204 (1.44%) Pandas
18 171 (1.21%) Entity Framework
18 171 (1.21%) gRPC
19 167 (1.18%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 332 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
2 324 (2.28%) Product Ownership
3 303 (2.14%) Management Information System
4 295 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 294 (2.07%) Algorithms
6 270 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 259 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 233 (1.64%) IoT
9 224 (1.58%) Derivative
10 223 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 204 (1.44%) Hedge funds
12 196 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 195 (1.37%) Social Media
14 185 (1.30%) Equities
15 172 (1.21%) Driving Licence
16 167 (1.18%) Fixed Income
17 159 (1.12%) Cloud Native
18 147 (1.04%) Mobile App
19 143 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
20 129 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 987 (6.96%) Linux
2 964 (6.79%) Windows
3 316 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 179 (1.26%) Ubuntu
5 130 (0.92%) Unix
6 120 (0.85%) Android
7 119 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
8 113 (0.80%) Windows 10
9 100 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 80 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 63 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 55 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 50 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 37 (0.26%) VMS
15 34 (0.24%) Mac OS
16 23 (0.16%) Windows 7
17 18 (0.13%) CentOS
18 17 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.078%) FreeRTOS
20 9 (0.063%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,051 (21.51%) Agile
2 2,424 (17.09%) Software Engineering
3 1,910 (13.46%) Mentoring
4 1,751 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
5 1,412 (9.95%) DevOps
6 1,054 (7.43%) Coaching
7 931 (6.56%) Actionable Insight
8 907 (6.39%) Project Management
9 894 (6.30%) Analytics
10 853 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
11 822 (5.79%) Decision-Making
12 821 (5.79%) CI/CD
13 776 (5.47%) Full Stack Development
14 745 (5.25%) Computer Science
15 727 (5.12%) Artificial Intelligence
16 689 (4.86%) Roadmaps
17 574 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 556 (3.92%) Microservices
19 530 (3.74%) Scrum
20 520 (3.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,009 (14.16%) SQL
2 2,008 (14.15%) Python
3 1,657 (11.68%) JavaScript
4 1,463 (10.31%) C#
5 1,116 (7.87%) Java
6 894 (6.30%) TypeScript
7 420 (2.96%) C++
8 390 (2.75%) PowerShell
9 386 (2.72%) C
10 367 (2.59%) PHP
11 345 (2.43%) Bash
12 194 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 139 (0.98%) Go
14 128 (0.90%) R
15 114 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 113 (0.80%) PL/SQL
17 100 (0.70%) Rust
18 92 (0.65%) Scala
19 86 (0.61%) Perl
19 86 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,082 (14.68%) Degree
2 1,133 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 731 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 325 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 297 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 272 (1.92%) ACCA
7 249 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 238 (1.68%) CIMA
9 221 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 210 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 155 (1.09%) CCNP
12 140 (0.99%) CISSP
13 135 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 130 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 109 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 108 (0.76%) PhD
17 104 (0.73%) AWS Certification
18 103 (0.73%) CCNA
19 90 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
20 60 (0.42%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (2.69%) QA
2 261 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 231 (1.63%) SLA
4 183 (1.29%) GDPR
5 175 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 104 (0.73%) NIST
7 92 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 92 (0.65%) WCAG
8 88 (0.62%) GMP
9 84 (0.59%) PMO
10 75 (0.53%) IFRS
11 52 (0.37%) IFRS 9
12 42 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 38 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 33 (0.23%) Automotive SPICE
14 33 (0.23%) ISO 26262
15 30 (0.21%) GRC
16 28 (0.20%) NCSC
17 25 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
18 23 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 728 (5.13%) Docker
2 674 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 292 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 183 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 144 (1.02%) Firmware
6 59 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
8 51 (0.36%) vSphere
9 48 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 45 (0.32%) RACF
11 24 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.16%) VMware NSX
13 17 (0.12%) KVM
13 17 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (0.11%) XenApp
15 13 (0.092%) XenDesktop
16 9 (0.063%) NFS
17 7 (0.049%) IAG
18 6 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
19 5 (0.035%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 812 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 582 (4.10%) Terraform
3 273 (1.92%) Ansible
4 270 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 139 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
6 108 (0.76%) SCCM
7 96 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 91 (0.64%) Puppet
9 61 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (0.42%) Grafana
11 45 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 43 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 41 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 34 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
15 31 (0.22%) CASB
16 20 (0.14%) OpenSSO
17 19 (0.13%) Functional Safety
17 19 (0.13%) Nmap
17 19 (0.13%) SCOM
18 17 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,163 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 443 (3.12%) VMware
3 426 (3.00%) Oracle
4 393 (2.77%) Cisco
5 329 (2.32%) Google
6 320 (2.26%) Databricks
7 228 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 202 (1.42%) CyberArk
9 195 (1.37%) SAP
10 166 (1.17%) Dell
11 130 (0.92%) Adobe
12 129 (0.91%) Meraki
13 128 (0.90%) Tanium
14 124 (0.87%) IBM
15 121 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 119 (0.84%) Red Hat
17 116 (0.82%) ESRI
18 106 (0.75%) Palo Alto
19 103 (0.73%) Juniper
20 92 (0.65%) HP