Senior Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior salary in the Thames Valley is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,080 835 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.50% 14.24% 14.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.39% 15.86% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 664 507 683
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,734 £47,120
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,590 5,264 6,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 89.80% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,107 4,126
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £29,781
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,212 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +4 536 £67,500 -3.57% 111
Oxfordshire +2 295 £60,000 -14.29% 56
Buckinghamshire -2 250 £55,000 -9.69% 51
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 28 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 263 (24.35%) Degree
2 208 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 184 (17.04%) Software Engineering
4 183 (16.94%) Agile
5 180 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 177 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (15.83%) Security Cleared
8 153 (14.17%) C#
9 150 (13.89%) JavaScript
10 138 (12.78%) Azure
11 133 (12.31%) .NET
12 129 (11.94%) React
13 122 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
14 117 (10.83%) Python
15 113 (10.46%) Finance
16 112 (10.37%) Computer Science
17 102 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
18 95 (8.80%) SQL
19 93 (8.61%) SC Cleared
20 92 (8.52%) Decision-Making
21 85 (7.87%) AWS
22 84 (7.78%) TypeScript
23 83 (7.69%) Linux
24 80 (7.41%) Mentoring
25 77 (7.13%) DevOps
26 74 (6.85%) CSS
27 71 (6.57%) C
27 71 (6.57%) HTML
28 70 (6.48%) Java
29 69 (6.39%) Git

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 31 (2.87%) CMS
2 23 (2.13%) Headless CMS
2 23 (2.13%) Kentico
3 22 (2.04%) WebLogic
4 19 (1.76%) ArcGIS
4 19 (1.76%) GeoServer
4 19 (1.76%) Sitecore CMS
5 18 (1.67%) IIS
5 18 (1.67%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.65%) SAS
7 7 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.56%) Confluence
8 6 (0.56%) JBoss
8 6 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.46%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.093%) Apache
11 1 (0.093%) Kinematics
Applications
1 68 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.74%) OrCAD
5 6 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.37%) Sketch
6 4 (0.37%) Solid Edge
6 4 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.37%) Windchill
7 3 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.28%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.093%) Primavera
3 1 (0.093%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 138 (12.78%) Azure
2 85 (7.87%) AWS
3 29 (2.69%) SaaS
4 28 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (1.76%) Power Platform
7 18 (1.67%) Kontent
8 12 (1.11%) OneDrive
9 11 (1.02%) Entra ID
10 10 (0.93%) Dropbox
10 10 (0.93%) Google Drive
10 10 (0.93%) Serverless
11 8 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.56%) GCP
12 6 (0.56%) Miro
12 6 (0.56%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (0.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.59%) Broadband
2 26 (2.41%) Firewall
3 25 (2.31%) WAN
4 20 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 18 (1.67%) Wireless
6 12 (1.11%) VPN
7 10 (0.93%) MPLS
8 9 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (0.83%) LAN
8 9 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.74%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.65%) DHCP
10 7 (0.65%) DNS
10 7 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (0.56%) Modbus
11 6 (0.56%) Network Security
12 5 (0.46%) Microwave Backhaul
12 5 (0.46%) Mobile Backhaul
12 5 (0.46%) MQTT
12 5 (0.46%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 37 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 25 (2.31%) MySQL
6 20 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.76%) GIS
7 19 (1.76%) QGIS
8 13 (1.20%) OLTP
8 13 (1.20%) Power BI
9 11 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
12 6 (0.56%) MS Access
12 6 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (6.39%) Git
2 22 (2.04%) Visual Studio
3 17 (1.57%) Selenium
4 16 (1.48%) Cypress.io
4 16 (1.48%) JIRA
5 14 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.65%) JUnit
7 7 (0.65%) NUnit
8 6 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.37%) Vite
10 3 (0.28%) Gradle
10 3 (0.28%) gulp
10 3 (0.28%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.28%) PostCSS
10 3 (0.28%) rollup.js
10 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 208 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 122 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (10.46%) Finance
4 38 (3.52%) Manufacturing
5 34 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
6 33 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.06%) Marketing
7 29 (2.69%) Public Sector
8 26 (2.41%) Legal
8 26 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.31%) Retail
10 24 (2.22%) Electronics
11 22 (2.04%) Automotive
11 22 (2.04%) Police
12 19 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.11%) Games
16 11 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.83%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (12.31%) .NET
2 129 (11.94%) React
3 74 (6.85%) CSS
4 71 (6.57%) HTML
5 57 (5.28%) .NET Core
6 48 (4.44%) ASP.NET
7 36 (3.33%) RESTful
8 34 (3.15%) Spring
9 32 (2.96%) AngularJS
10 29 (2.69%) Node.js
11 28 (2.59%) J2EE
12 26 (2.41%) .NET Framework
13 24 (2.22%) HTML5
13 24 (2.22%) Next.js
13 24 (2.22%) XML
14 23 (2.13%) ASP.NET MVC
15 22 (2.04%) CSS3
15 22 (2.04%) Java EE
15 22 (2.04%) SOAP
16 19 (1.76%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 38 (3.52%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.22%) Life Science
6 20 (1.85%) IoT
7 19 (1.76%) Biopharmaceutical
8 16 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
9 12 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.02%) FPGA
11 10 (0.93%) Driving Licence
11 10 (0.93%) e-Learning
11 10 (0.93%) iPad
11 10 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (0.93%) Social Media
12 8 (0.74%) Analogue Electronics
12 8 (0.74%) PCIe
12 8 (0.74%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.69%) Linux
2 52 (4.81%) Windows
3 40 (3.70%) Unix
4 22 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
4 22 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (1.76%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.67%) Windows 7
8 12 (1.11%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.46%) Android
10 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.28%) CentOS
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.28%) Rocky
12 1 (0.093%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.093%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (17.04%) Software Engineering
2 183 (16.94%) Agile
3 177 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (10.37%) Computer Science
5 102 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
6 92 (8.52%) Decision-Making
7 80 (7.41%) Mentoring
8 77 (7.13%) DevOps
9 67 (6.20%) Mathematics
10 65 (6.02%) Project Management
11 60 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
12 58 (5.37%) Project Delivery
13 57 (5.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 54 (5.00%) ITIL
15 45 (4.17%) Front End Development
16 44 (4.07%) Propensity Modelling
16 44 (4.07%) Web Development
17 43 (3.98%) MVC
18 42 (3.89%) Analytics
19 41 (3.80%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 153 (14.17%) C#
2 150 (13.89%) JavaScript
3 117 (10.83%) Python
4 95 (8.80%) SQL
5 84 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 71 (6.57%) C
7 70 (6.48%) Java
8 55 (5.09%) C++
9 34 (3.15%) PHP
10 30 (2.78%) Fortran
11 23 (2.13%) PowerShell
11 23 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 22 (2.04%) PL/SQL
13 21 (1.94%) Bash
14 11 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.83%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.83%) R
16 8 (0.74%) XAML
17 6 (0.56%) Ladder Logic
18 5 (0.46%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 263 (24.35%) Degree
2 171 (15.83%) Security Cleared
3 93 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 48 (4.44%) Master's Degree
5 43 (3.98%) PhD
6 33 (3.06%) HNC
7 32 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.22%) ACCA
8 24 (2.22%) CIMA
9 20 (1.85%) CCNP
9 20 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (1.67%) HND
11 16 (1.48%) CCNA
12 8 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.65%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.65%) CISSP
13 7 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.41%) SLA
2 20 (1.85%) WCAG
3 17 (1.57%) QA
4 14 (1.30%) Good Clinical Practice
5 13 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.83%) GDPR
7 7 (0.65%) CDISC
7 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.28%) GMP
9 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.19%) PMO
10 2 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.093%) COBIT
11 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (6.02%) Docker
2 35 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.39%) Firmware
5 4 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.28%) vSphere
6 3 (0.28%) XenApp
6 3 (0.28%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.093%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 59 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.04%) OpenSSO
2 22 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (1.85%) SCCM
4 18 (1.67%) Ansible
5 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.83%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (0.56%) Terraform
6 6 (0.56%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.46%) CASB
8 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.19%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 1 (0.093%) Grafana
10 1 (0.093%) Istio
10 1 (0.093%) Wonderware InTouch
10 1 (0.093%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 180 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.02%) Oracle
3 30 (2.78%) VMware
4 22 (2.04%) Cisco
4 22 (2.04%) Remedy
4 22 (2.04%) SAP
5 19 (1.76%) ESRI
5 19 (1.76%) Meraki
5 19 (1.76%) Sitecore
6 18 (1.67%) Adobe
6 18 (1.67%) Apple
6 18 (1.67%) Optimizely
7 14 (1.30%) EMC
7 14 (1.30%) Google
8 10 (0.93%) Juniper
8 10 (0.93%) Nokia
9 8 (0.74%) Virgin Media
9 8 (0.74%) WSO2
10 6 (0.56%) Allen-Bradley
10 6 (0.56%) iManage