Senior Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior salary in the UK excluding London 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 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9,674 8,328 9,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.65% 13.97% 13.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.40% 15.66% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,527 4,448 5,913
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,190 53,191 68,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.20% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,534 30,285 42,785
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +5 2,578 £60,000 - 610
South East -1 2,078 £60,000 -11.11% 584
South West +10 1,576 £57,500 -2.70% 333
North West +9 1,454 £60,000 - 372
Midlands +5 1,380 £57,500 - 421
Scotland -10 1,002 £60,000 -6.61% 215
West Midlands +9 882 £58,500 -2.50% 278
Yorkshire +1 847 £57,965 -3.39% 177
East of England 0 567 £60,000 -7.69% 272
East Midlands +2 490 £52,500 -4.55% 144
Wales +11 374 £50,000 -9.09% 85
North East +15 282 £58,232 +4.45% 68
Northern Ireland +20 122 £55,000 +15.79% 45
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -2 2 £76,250 +111.81% 1
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,449 (25.32%) Agile
2 2,057 (21.26%) Software Engineering
3 1,826 (18.88%) Social Skills
4 1,751 (18.10%) Azure
5 1,681 (17.38%) Finance
6 1,504 (15.55%) AWS
7 1,413 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
8 1,351 (13.97%) Degree
9 1,334 (13.79%) Microsoft
10 1,297 (13.41%) Mentoring
11 1,147 (11.86%) SQL
12 1,124 (11.62%) JavaScript
13 1,120 (11.58%) Security Cleared
14 1,108 (11.45%) C#
15 1,096 (11.33%) Python
16 1,073 (11.09%) DevOps
17 1,027 (10.62%) .NET
18 851 (8.80%) Coaching
19 848 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
20 838 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
21 826 (8.54%) React
22 812 (8.39%) Java
23 806 (8.33%) SC Cleared
24 805 (8.32%) Linux
25 773 (7.99%) Windows
26 761 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 676 (6.99%) Project Management
28 616 (6.37%) CSS
29 604 (6.24%) Decision-Making
30 586 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 189 (1.95%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.90%) GeoServer
3 135 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 128 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 124 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 115 (1.19%) Confluence
7 105 (1.09%) CMS
8 93 (0.96%) SAS
9 86 (0.89%) IIS
10 44 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 41 (0.42%) Headless CMS
12 40 (0.41%) Kentico
13 37 (0.38%) Tuxedo
14 36 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
15 31 (0.32%) WordPress
16 29 (0.30%) WebLogic
17 28 (0.29%) Apache
18 18 (0.19%) FileNet
18 18 (0.19%) JBoss
18 18 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 331 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 171 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 114 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 87 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 51 (0.53%) Sketch
6 49 (0.51%) Simulink
7 32 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 30 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 25 (0.26%) Stateflow
10 21 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
12 12 (0.12%) OrCAD
12 12 (0.12%) Photoshop
13 10 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 10 (0.10%) Solid Edge
14 8 (0.083%) InVision
15 7 (0.072%) CANalyzer
16 6 (0.062%) InDesign
17 5 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 4 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 34 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
3 20 (0.21%) Magento
3 20 (0.21%) Shopify
4 19 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 17 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 13 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 11 (0.11%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.052%) Primavera
10 5 (0.052%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.052%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.041%) ResourceLink
11 4 (0.041%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.041%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.041%) Sonata
11 4 (0.041%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,751 (18.10%) Azure
2 1,504 (15.55%) AWS
3 377 (3.90%) SaaS
4 364 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
5 296 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 271 (2.80%) GCP
7 264 (2.73%) Power Platform
8 164 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 125 (1.29%) Serverless
10 123 (1.27%) GitHub
11 113 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 106 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
13 100 (1.03%) Amazon S3
14 87 (0.90%) PowerApps
15 71 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
16 68 (0.70%) PaaS
17 67 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
17 67 (0.69%) Power Automate
18 66 (0.68%) Figma
18 66 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 363 (3.75%) Firewall
2 239 (2.47%) DNS
3 235 (2.43%) WAN
4 206 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.98%) Broadband
6 176 (1.82%) Wireless
7 154 (1.59%) LAN
8 148 (1.53%) DHCP
9 108 (1.12%) Network Security
9 108 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 96 (0.99%) VPN
11 85 (0.88%) Internet
12 84 (0.87%) SD-WAN
13 77 (0.80%) SAN
14 75 (0.78%) VLAN
15 67 (0.69%) HTTP
16 63 (0.65%) 5G
17 60 (0.62%) Kerberos
18 51 (0.53%) Ethernet
19 50 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
2 381 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 271 (2.80%) MySQL
4 258 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 201 (2.08%) GIS
5 201 (2.08%) Power BI
6 184 (1.90%) QGIS
7 166 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 132 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 117 (1.21%) Big Data
10 90 (0.93%) Tableau
11 88 (0.91%) Oracle Database
12 85 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 83 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 79 (0.82%) MongoDB
15 75 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
16 66 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
17 65 (0.67%) Metadata
18 53 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
19 52 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 576 (5.95%) Git
2 272 (2.81%) JIRA
3 158 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 115 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 109 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 83 (0.86%) GitLab
7 64 (0.66%) Artifactory
7 64 (0.66%) Selenium
8 46 (0.48%) JUnit
9 45 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 42 (0.43%) Subversion
11 31 (0.32%) Sourcetree
11 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 28 (0.29%) Eclipse
13 27 (0.28%) Maven
14 24 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
15 23 (0.24%) webpack
16 22 (0.23%) Cucumber
16 22 (0.23%) Postman
17 19 (0.20%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,826 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 1,681 (17.38%) Finance
3 848 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 761 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 513 (5.30%) Marketing
6 477 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 461 (4.77%) Law
8 368 (3.80%) Banking
9 352 (3.64%) Retail
10 340 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 282 (2.92%) Legal
12 261 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 242 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 221 (2.28%) Electronics
15 171 (1.77%) Aerospace
16 166 (1.72%) Games
17 158 (1.63%) Automotive
18 137 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
18 137 (1.42%) Telecoms
19 115 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,027 (10.62%) .NET
2 826 (8.54%) React
3 616 (6.37%) CSS
4 540 (5.58%) HTML
5 436 (4.51%) .NET Core
6 392 (4.05%) AngularJS
7 344 (3.56%) RESTful
8 292 (3.02%) ASP.NET
9 287 (2.97%) Node.js
10 284 (2.94%) .NET Framework
11 242 (2.50%) Vue
12 226 (2.34%) REST
13 207 (2.14%) Spring
14 199 (2.06%) Web Services
15 193 (2.00%) Laravel
16 185 (1.91%) PostGIS
17 184 (1.90%) Leaflet
17 184 (1.90%) OpenLayers
18 173 (1.79%) JSON
19 165 (1.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 247 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
2 232 (2.40%) Public Cloud
3 227 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 217 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 216 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 202 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 196 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 172 (1.78%) Driving Licence
9 166 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 165 (1.71%) IoT
11 133 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 114 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 98 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 94 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
15 76 (0.79%) Social Media
16 74 (0.76%) Data Structures
17 73 (0.75%) Credit Risk
17 73 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
18 72 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
19 68 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 805 (8.32%) Linux
2 773 (7.99%) Windows
3 289 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 132 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
5 108 (1.12%) Unix
6 98 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 89 (0.92%) Android
8 69 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 69 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 58 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 50 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 42 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 39 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 37 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.14%) CentOS
17 12 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
18 11 (0.11%) VMS
19 10 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,449 (25.32%) Agile
2 2,057 (21.26%) Software Engineering
3 1,413 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
4 1,297 (13.41%) Mentoring
5 1,073 (11.09%) DevOps
6 851 (8.80%) Coaching
7 838 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
8 676 (6.99%) Project Management
9 604 (6.24%) Decision-Making
10 586 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence
11 578 (5.97%) CI/CD
12 555 (5.74%) Computer Science
13 515 (5.32%) Roadmaps
14 508 (5.25%) Analytics
15 497 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
16 488 (5.04%) SDLC
17 437 (4.52%) Full Stack Development
18 434 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 408 (4.22%) Microservices
20 382 (3.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,147 (11.86%) SQL
2 1,124 (11.62%) JavaScript
3 1,108 (11.45%) C#
4 1,096 (11.33%) Python
5 812 (8.39%) Java
6 458 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 411 (4.25%) C
8 375 (3.88%) C++
9 299 (3.09%) PHP
10 223 (2.31%) PowerShell
11 199 (2.06%) Bash
12 111 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 110 (1.14%) Go
14 109 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 101 (1.04%) Embedded C
16 80 (0.83%) R
17 73 (0.75%) Scala
18 72 (0.74%) MATLAB
19 63 (0.65%) Perl
20 57 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,351 (13.97%) Degree
2 1,120 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 806 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 217 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 171 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 154 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 151 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 146 (1.51%) ACCA
9 139 (1.44%) CIMA
10 106 (1.10%) CCNP
11 100 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 98 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 91 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 87 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 87 (0.90%) CCNA
15 77 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 77 (0.80%) PhD
16 62 (0.64%) HND
17 59 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (0.60%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (2.37%) QA
2 189 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 152 (1.57%) GDPR
4 113 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 108 (1.12%) SLA
6 104 (1.08%) WCAG
7 69 (0.71%) NIST
8 63 (0.65%) GMP
9 60 (0.62%) IFRS
10 57 (0.59%) PMO
11 51 (0.53%) IFRS 9
12 47 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 38 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
14 33 (0.34%) ISO 26262
15 26 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
16 22 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 20 (0.21%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.20%) MISRA
18 19 (0.20%) NCSC
19 17 (0.18%) CRD IV
System Software
1 523 (5.41%) Docker
2 422 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 257 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 179 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 167 (1.73%) Firmware
6 67 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
7 39 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (0.40%) vSphere
8 37 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.10%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.072%) IAG
13 7 (0.072%) NFS
14 5 (0.052%) XenApp
15 4 (0.041%) KVM
15 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.031%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 512 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 399 (4.12%) Terraform
3 191 (1.97%) Ansible
4 152 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (0.87%) SCCM
6 64 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 57 (0.59%) Puppet
7 57 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 42 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
9 37 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 28 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 27 (0.28%) Grafana
12 26 (0.27%) OpenSSO
13 22 (0.23%) CASB
13 22 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 21 (0.22%) SCOM
14 21 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
15 17 (0.18%) Functional Safety
16 14 (0.14%) WMI
17 12 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,334 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 376 (3.89%) VMware
3 366 (3.78%) Oracle
4 281 (2.90%) Cisco
5 238 (2.46%) Google
6 185 (1.91%) ESRI
7 114 (1.18%) IBM
8 105 (1.09%) SAP
9 89 (0.92%) Databricks
10 88 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 83 (0.86%) Meraki
12 77 (0.80%) ServiceNow
13 69 (0.71%) Adobe
13 69 (0.71%) Dell
14 67 (0.69%) CheckPoint
14 67 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 66 (0.68%) HP
16 64 (0.66%) Juniper
17 57 (0.59%) Salesforce
18 55 (0.57%) Splunk