Senior Jobs in the South West

Senior
England > South West

The median Senior salary in the South West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,562 828 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.88% 12.35% 14.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.53% 13.88% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 571 687
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,098 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -1.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,908 5,965 7,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 89.00% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,534 3,700 5,112
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,025
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the South West

Senior
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol +10 588 £65,000 -7.14% 129
Gloucestershire +16 271 £54,500 -2.68% 42
Dorset +18 252 £57,500 - 31
Wiltshire +19 174 £54,043 -1.74% 32
Devon +6 152 £49,000 -10.91% 49
Somerset +2 72 £55,000 -1.96% 39
Cornwall +1 37 £40,000 -8.57% 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 373 (23.88%) Software Engineering
2 320 (20.49%) Security Cleared
3 317 (20.29%) Agile
4 262 (16.77%) Azure
5 252 (16.13%) DevOps
5 252 (16.13%) Social Skills
6 250 (16.01%) Degree
7 230 (14.72%) JavaScript
8 226 (14.47%) Microsoft
9 216 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
10 208 (13.32%) Python
11 182 (11.65%) AWS
12 177 (11.33%) C#
12 177 (11.33%) Finance
13 172 (11.01%) Windows
14 159 (10.18%) SC Cleared
15 158 (10.12%) Mentoring
16 157 (10.05%) Linux
17 155 (9.92%) .NET
18 151 (9.67%) Git
19 149 (9.54%) React
20 148 (9.48%) Scrum
21 132 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
22 129 (8.26%) Java
23 127 (8.13%) Project Management
24 120 (7.68%) CSS
25 119 (7.62%) DV Cleared
26 109 (6.98%) CI/CD
27 105 (6.72%) Docker
28 103 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 53 (3.39%) Confluence
2 28 (1.79%) IIS
3 26 (1.66%) CMS
4 20 (1.28%) Umbraco
5 18 (1.15%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (1.09%) ArcGIS
6 17 (1.09%) GeoServer
6 17 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
7 16 (1.02%) Kentico
8 15 (0.96%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.58%) SAS
10 6 (0.38%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.32%) WordPress
12 4 (0.26%) NServiceBus
12 4 (0.26%) Site Server
13 2 (0.13%) Apache
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
14 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.26%) Simulink
6 4 (0.26%) Sketch
7 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.064%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.19%) Primavera
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.064%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.064%) Shopify
4 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 262 (16.77%) Azure
2 182 (11.65%) AWS
3 103 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (4.67%) SaaS
5 67 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (2.75%) GCP
7 38 (2.43%) OpenShift
8 34 (2.18%) Power Platform
9 18 (1.15%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.09%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.02%) Kontent
11 16 (1.02%) Serverless
12 15 (0.96%) GitHub
13 14 (0.90%) npm
14 13 (0.83%) PaaS
15 12 (0.77%) Datadog
16 11 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.70%) Entra ID
16 11 (0.70%) Figma
17 10 (0.64%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.80%) Firewall
2 54 (3.46%) WAN
3 50 (3.20%) DNS
4 46 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 38 (2.43%) LAN
6 37 (2.37%) DHCP
7 33 (2.11%) HTTP
8 24 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (1.15%) SD-WAN
9 18 (1.15%) Wireless
10 16 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
10 16 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.64%) Bluetooth
11 10 (0.64%) Network Security
12 9 (0.58%) Internet
13 8 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
14 7 (0.45%) BGP
14 7 (0.45%) OSPF
15 6 (0.38%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 44 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.66%) MySQL
4 24 (1.54%) Power BI
5 20 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.09%) GIS
7 17 (1.09%) QGIS
8 14 (0.90%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.58%) Big Data
12 8 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.51%) Oracle Database 11g
13 7 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.38%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.32%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.32%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 151 (9.67%) Git
2 77 (4.93%) JIRA
3 52 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 45 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 30 (1.92%) Sourcetree
6 21 (1.34%) Jenkins
7 18 (1.15%) Selenium
8 15 (0.96%) Storybook
9 13 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.77%) Android Studio
11 11 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.70%) Subversion
12 8 (0.51%) GitLab
12 8 (0.51%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.32%) IntelliJ
13 5 (0.32%) Postman
13 5 (0.32%) webpack
14 4 (0.26%) ERwin
14 4 (0.26%) LabVIEW
General
1 252 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 177 (11.33%) Finance
3 103 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.12%) Aerospace
6 58 (3.71%) Retail
7 57 (3.65%) Law
8 56 (3.59%) Banking
9 55 (3.52%) Games
9 55 (3.52%) Manufacturing
9 55 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 52 (3.33%) Marketing
11 48 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.24%) Legal
13 34 (2.18%) Aviation
14 33 (2.11%) Fire and Rescue
15 23 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.41%) Military
17 21 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.34%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (9.92%) .NET
2 149 (9.54%) React
3 120 (7.68%) CSS
4 102 (6.53%) HTML
5 78 (4.99%) AngularJS
6 77 (4.93%) .NET Core
7 75 (4.80%) .NET Framework
8 71 (4.55%) ASP.NET
9 55 (3.52%) Node.js
10 53 (3.39%) RESTful
11 51 (3.27%) Laravel
12 46 (2.94%) Vue
13 43 (2.75%) Entity Framework
14 30 (1.92%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 28 (1.79%) REST
16 25 (1.60%) Spring
17 23 (1.47%) ASP.NET MVC
17 23 (1.47%) LESS
17 23 (1.47%) Next.js
18 21 (1.34%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (2.62%) Product Ownership
3 30 (1.92%) Virtual Reality
4 29 (1.86%) Mobile App
5 26 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 23 (1.47%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.09%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.02%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.96%) GNSS
12 14 (0.90%) CESG
12 14 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
12 14 (0.90%) Derivative
12 14 (0.90%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.83%) Operational Technology
13 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.77%) Credit Risk
15 11 (0.70%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 172 (11.01%) Windows
2 157 (10.05%) Linux
3 47 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.24%) Embedded Linux
5 33 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.41%) Android
7 15 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.32%) AIX
9 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.19%) Unix
11 1 (0.064%) CentOS
11 1 (0.064%) Debian
11 1 (0.064%) Rocky
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (23.88%) Software Engineering
2 317 (20.29%) Agile
3 252 (16.13%) DevOps
4 216 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
5 158 (10.12%) Mentoring
6 148 (9.48%) Scrum
7 132 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
8 127 (8.13%) Project Management
9 109 (6.98%) CI/CD
10 95 (6.08%) Actionable Insight
11 91 (5.83%) MVC
12 84 (5.38%) Computer Science
13 75 (4.80%) Full Stack Development
14 72 (4.61%) Design Patterns
14 72 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 70 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (4.42%) Roadmaps
17 66 (4.23%) Coaching
17 66 (4.23%) Decision-Making
18 62 (3.97%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 230 (14.72%) JavaScript
2 208 (13.32%) Python
3 177 (11.33%) C#
4 129 (8.26%) Java
5 100 (6.40%) SQL
6 86 (5.51%) Bash
7 83 (5.31%) C++
8 80 (5.12%) PowerShell
9 74 (4.74%) TypeScript
10 73 (4.67%) C
11 56 (3.59%) PHP
12 31 (1.98%) Embedded C
13 30 (1.92%) Rust
14 15 (0.96%) Perl
14 15 (0.96%) VB
15 14 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.83%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.77%) R
18 11 (0.70%) Bicep
18 11 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 320 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 250 (16.01%) Degree
3 159 (10.18%) SC Cleared
4 119 (7.62%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 15 (0.96%) CISSP
9 14 (0.90%) CISMP
9 14 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 12 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (0.77%) IISP
11 11 (0.70%) CCNP
11 11 (0.70%) GIAC
12 8 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
12 8 (0.51%) HND
12 8 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.45%) CISA
13 7 (0.45%) PhD
14 6 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.07%) QA
2 27 (1.73%) NIST
3 25 (1.60%) GDPR
4 17 (1.09%) JSP 440
5 16 (1.02%) PMO
6 15 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 14 (0.90%) GMP
7 14 (0.90%) RMADS
8 12 (0.77%) NIST 800
8 12 (0.77%) SLA
9 9 (0.58%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.26%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.26%) IFRS
11 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.26%) WCAG
12 3 (0.19%) HMG Infosec
13 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 105 (6.72%) Docker
2 78 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (3.91%) Hyper-V
4 59 (3.78%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.02%) Firmware
6 11 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
7 10 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.26%) vSphere
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 100 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 50 (3.20%) Terraform
3 49 (3.14%) Ansible
4 39 (2.50%) Puppet
5 24 (1.54%) SCCM
6 16 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.77%) Grafana
9 8 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.45%) CASB
11 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (0.32%) Opsview
12 5 (0.32%) Rancher
13 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.26%) vRealize
14 2 (0.13%) Functional Safety
14 2 (0.13%) Nagios
15 1 (0.064%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 226 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.08%) VMware
3 61 (3.91%) Cisco
4 35 (2.24%) Google
5 33 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 21 (1.34%) Oracle
7 18 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.09%) ESRI
8 17 (1.09%) Sitecore
9 16 (1.02%) Optimizely
10 13 (0.83%) Twitter
11 9 (0.58%) IBM
11 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.51%) Citrix
12 8 (0.51%) Dell
12 8 (0.51%) SAP
12 8 (0.51%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.45%) HP
14 6 (0.38%) Databricks
15 5 (0.32%) Juniper