Senior Jobs in the South East

Senior
England > South East

The median Senior salary in the South East is £60,000 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 9 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,078 2,150 2,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.39% 14.92% 14.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.19% 16.53% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,242 1,932
10th Percentile £42,950 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 15,754 13,010 19,227
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 90.31% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,303 8,206 12,512
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South East 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
Thames Valley +1 1,016 £61,500 -12.14% 230
Berkshire +7 510 £67,500 -3.57% 101
Hampshire -11 348 £62,500 -7.41% 111
Surrey -2 334 £60,000 -4.00% 75
Oxfordshire +2 277 £60,000 -14.29% 70
Buckinghamshire -2 230 £55,000 -9.54% 59
Kent +4 160 £60,000 +4.35% 44
East Sussex -6 88 £55,000 -14.58% 22
West Sussex -14 57 £57,500 -8.00% 19
Middlesex +14 50 £61,339 -20.85% 2
Sussex - 23 £59,000 - 2
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 521 (25.07%) Agile
2 487 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 427 (20.55%) Microsoft
4 421 (20.26%) Degree
5 372 (17.90%) Finance
6 344 (16.55%) Software Engineering
7 338 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
8 336 (16.17%) Azure
9 293 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
10 287 (13.81%) Security Cleared
11 273 (13.14%) JavaScript
12 269 (12.95%) C#
13 262 (12.61%) Mentoring
14 245 (11.79%) .NET
15 239 (11.50%) Python
16 227 (10.92%) SQL
17 219 (10.54%) Actionable Insight
18 213 (10.25%) Decision-Making
18 213 (10.25%) React
19 209 (10.06%) Linux
20 200 (9.62%) AWS
21 191 (9.19%) SC Cleared
22 185 (8.90%) Windows
23 183 (8.81%) DevOps
24 181 (8.71%) Java
25 180 (8.66%) Computer Science
26 165 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
27 156 (7.51%) Docker
28 146 (7.03%) Broadband
29 145 (6.98%) Git

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (1.64%) CMS
2 24 (1.15%) IIS
2 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.11%) Headless CMS
3 23 (1.11%) Kentico
4 22 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.06%) WebLogic
5 20 (0.96%) Umbraco
6 19 (0.91%) ArcGIS
6 19 (0.91%) GeoServer
7 18 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
8 17 (0.82%) Confluence
9 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.43%) SAS
10 8 (0.38%) JBoss
10 8 (0.38%) nginx
10 8 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
10 8 (0.38%) WordPress
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 165 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (1.44%) Simulink
5 25 (1.20%) Stateflow
6 13 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.58%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.34%) CANalyzer
10 4 (0.19%) InDesign
10 4 (0.19%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.14%) FrameMaker
11 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.14%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.096%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (1.54%) Siebel CRM
2 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
2 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.096%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.048%) Primavera
5 1 (0.048%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.048%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.048%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.048%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.048%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 336 (16.17%) Azure
2 200 (9.62%) AWS
3 90 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (4.09%) SaaS
5 56 (2.69%) Entra ID
6 47 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (1.73%) OneDrive
8 35 (1.68%) Power Platform
9 34 (1.64%) Serverless
10 22 (1.06%) GCP
11 20 (0.96%) Dropbox
11 20 (0.96%) Google Drive
12 19 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (0.87%) IaaS
13 18 (0.87%) Kontent
13 18 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (0.82%) GitHub
15 16 (0.77%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 146 (7.03%) Broadband
2 87 (4.19%) Firewall
3 47 (2.26%) 5G
4 43 (2.07%) Wireless
5 38 (1.83%) VPN
5 38 (1.83%) WAN
6 33 (1.59%) DNS
7 29 (1.40%) LAN
8 25 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.01%) J1939
9 21 (1.01%) Network Security
10 16 (0.77%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.72%) DHCP
12 14 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 14 (0.67%) SAN
12 14 (0.67%) SNMP
13 13 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (0.63%) MPLS
13 13 (0.63%) SSH
14 12 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (4.52%) SQL Server
2 67 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (3.08%) MySQL
4 47 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 45 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 33 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
7 32 (1.54%) Siebel EIM
8 29 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (1.40%) Power BI
9 23 (1.11%) Tableau
10 21 (1.01%) GIS
11 19 (0.91%) QGIS
12 16 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.58%) OLTP
14 12 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.53%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.48%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 145 (6.98%) Git
2 61 (2.94%) JIRA
3 35 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 33 (1.59%) Selenium
5 25 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 23 (1.11%) JUnit
7 20 (0.96%) Subversion
8 18 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.77%) Eclipse
10 15 (0.72%) CMake
11 14 (0.67%) ClearCase
11 14 (0.67%) Plastic SCM
12 12 (0.58%) NUnit
13 11 (0.53%) Maven
13 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.48%) GitLab
15 7 (0.34%) ClearQuest
16 6 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
17 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 487 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 372 (17.90%) Finance
3 293 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (5.82%) Influencing Skills
5 89 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (3.80%) Marketing
7 67 (3.22%) Public Sector
8 64 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 59 (2.84%) Electronics
10 58 (2.79%) Aerospace
11 50 (2.41%) Military
12 46 (2.21%) Retail
13 43 (2.07%) Automotive
14 41 (1.97%) Legal
15 36 (1.73%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.20%) Police
17 23 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.01%) Law
18 21 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
19 20 (0.96%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (11.79%) .NET
2 213 (10.25%) React
3 140 (6.74%) CSS
4 136 (6.54%) HTML
5 83 (3.99%) .NET Core
5 83 (3.99%) ASP.NET
6 80 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 63 (3.03%) REST
7 63 (3.03%) RESTful
7 63 (3.03%) Spring
8 59 (2.84%) Web Services
9 58 (2.79%) XML
10 55 (2.65%) .NET Framework
11 46 (2.21%) SOAP
12 41 (1.97%) Node.js
13 38 (1.83%) Vue
14 37 (1.78%) Kafka
15 36 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (1.64%) HTML5
17 31 (1.49%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.14%) Algorithms
2 71 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 68 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
4 52 (2.50%) Social Media
5 51 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 44 (2.12%) IoT
8 37 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
9 35 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.15%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
13 22 (1.06%) Driving Licence
14 20 (0.96%) iPad
14 20 (0.96%) PMI
15 19 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (0.87%) Biopharmaceutical
16 18 (0.87%) FPGA
17 17 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 209 (10.06%) Linux
2 185 (8.90%) Windows
3 54 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 49 (2.36%) Ubuntu
4 49 (2.36%) Unix
5 39 (1.88%) Embedded Linux
6 27 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 26 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (1.01%) Windows 7
9 21 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.48%) Android
12 8 (0.38%) CentOS
13 6 (0.29%) VMS
13 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.14%) Rocky
16 2 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.048%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (25.07%) Agile
2 344 (16.55%) Software Engineering
3 338 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
4 262 (12.61%) Mentoring
5 219 (10.54%) Actionable Insight
6 213 (10.25%) Decision-Making
7 183 (8.81%) DevOps
8 180 (8.66%) Computer Science
9 134 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence
10 132 (6.35%) Business Case
10 132 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
11 128 (6.16%) Project Management
12 120 (5.77%) Full Stack Development
13 119 (5.73%) CI/CD
14 112 (5.39%) CRM
15 109 (5.25%) Budgeting
16 106 (5.10%) Budgeting and Forecasting
17 102 (4.91%) Mathematics
18 96 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 94 (4.52%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 273 (13.14%) JavaScript
2 269 (12.95%) C#
3 239 (11.50%) Python
4 227 (10.92%) SQL
5 181 (8.71%) Java
6 117 (5.63%) C
7 116 (5.58%) TypeScript
8 110 (5.29%) C++
9 74 (3.56%) Bash
10 69 (3.32%) PHP
11 52 (2.50%) PowerShell
12 42 (2.02%) Perl
13 39 (1.88%) MATLAB
14 31 (1.49%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.25%) Embedded C
16 25 (1.20%) Go
17 24 (1.15%) Fortran
17 24 (1.15%) Shell Script
18 23 (1.11%) PL/SQL
19 17 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 421 (20.26%) Degree
2 287 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 191 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 102 (4.91%) ACCA
4 102 (4.91%) CIMA
5 85 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.92%) PhD
8 34 (1.64%) HNC
9 32 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (1.44%) HND
11 24 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.15%) CCNP
12 21 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 21 (1.01%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.87%) CCNA
15 16 (0.77%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (1.83%) QA
2 34 (1.64%) SLA
3 26 (1.25%) ISO 26262
4 25 (1.20%) Automotive SPICE
5 23 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 23 (1.11%) GDPR
6 21 (1.01%) WCAG
7 17 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.72%) MISRA
9 14 (0.67%) AUTOSAR
10 11 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.38%) GMP
12 8 (0.38%) NIST
12 8 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.34%) CDISC
14 6 (0.29%) GRC
15 5 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
16 4 (0.19%) COSHH
16 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 156 (7.51%) Docker
2 128 (6.16%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 26 (1.25%) Firmware
6 17 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.53%) vSphere
8 6 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.19%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.14%) XenApp
11 1 (0.048%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 119 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.97%) Terraform
4 38 (1.83%) Ansible
4 38 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
5 26 (1.25%) SCCM
5 26 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.06%) OpenSSO
7 14 (0.67%) Functional Safety
8 13 (0.63%) WMI
9 10 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.34%) Stealthwatch
12 6 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.29%) SmoothWall
13 5 (0.24%) CASB
13 5 (0.24%) Nagios
13 5 (0.24%) SELinux
14 3 (0.14%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 427 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.77%) Oracle
3 82 (3.95%) VMware
4 42 (2.02%) Cisco
5 38 (1.83%) CyberArk
5 38 (1.83%) Tanium
6 34 (1.64%) Google
7 33 (1.59%) SAP
8 32 (1.54%) Siebel
9 28 (1.35%) Adobe
10 25 (1.20%) EMC
10 25 (1.20%) Meraki
11 22 (1.06%) Remedy
12 21 (1.01%) IBM
13 20 (0.96%) Juniper
14 19 (0.91%) ESRI
15 18 (0.87%) Optimizely
15 18 (0.87%) Sitecore
15 18 (0.87%) Splunk
16 16 (0.77%) Apple