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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 10,255 8,031 9,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.75% 13.84% 13.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.49% 15.54% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,903 4,305 5,907
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £41,473
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,805 £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 £86,250
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 70,794 51,688 70,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 89.09% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49,908 29,605 42,636
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,348
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 29 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 29 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 2,709 £60,000 - 612
South East -1 2,225 £60,000 -11.11% 533
South West +13 1,669 £57,500 -0.86% 339
North West +8 1,527 £60,000 - 377
Midlands +4 1,510 £57,500 - 384
Scotland -10 1,024 £60,000 -1.32% 209
West Midlands +8 959 £58,232 -2.95% 264
Yorkshire +1 888 £57,965 -3.39% 170
East of England +1 598 £59,000 -9.23% 289
East Midlands +1 542 £55,000 - 121
Wales +9 392 £50,000 -9.09% 70
North East +16 299 £57,965 +2.59% 68
Northern Ireland +19 132 £55,000 +15.79% 63
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 2,468 (24.07%) Agile
2 2,151 (20.98%) Software Engineering
3 1,835 (17.89%) Social Skills
4 1,787 (17.43%) Azure
5 1,702 (16.60%) Finance
6 1,517 (14.79%) AWS
7 1,417 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
8 1,414 (13.79%) Microsoft
9 1,387 (13.53%) Degree
10 1,319 (12.86%) Mentoring
11 1,201 (11.71%) SQL
12 1,158 (11.29%) C#
13 1,149 (11.20%) JavaScript
14 1,131 (11.03%) Security Cleared
15 1,116 (10.88%) Python
16 1,101 (10.74%) DevOps
17 1,099 (10.72%) .NET
18 906 (8.83%) Coaching
19 841 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
20 835 (8.14%) React
21 825 (8.04%) SC Cleared
22 818 (7.98%) Actionable Insight
23 813 (7.93%) Linux
24 789 (7.69%) Java
25 771 (7.52%) Windows
26 727 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 700 (6.83%) Project Management
28 631 (6.15%) CSS
29 604 (5.89%) CI/CD
30 598 (5.83%) Decision-Making

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 (1.84%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.79%) GeoServer
3 127 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 122 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 112 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 106 (1.03%) CMS
7 104 (1.01%) Confluence
8 83 (0.81%) SAS
9 82 (0.80%) IIS
10 44 (0.43%) Umbraco
11 41 (0.40%) Headless CMS
12 40 (0.39%) Kentico
13 37 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
13 37 (0.36%) Tuxedo
14 33 (0.32%) WordPress
15 29 (0.28%) WebLogic
16 18 (0.18%) FileNet
17 17 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
17 17 (0.17%) OpenStack
18 16 (0.16%) Apache
Applications
1 349 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 116 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 92 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (0.51%) Sketch
6 49 (0.48%) Simulink
7 33 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 32 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 25 (0.24%) Stateflow
10 22 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 16 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 13 (0.13%) Photoshop
13 12 (0.12%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
15 10 (0.098%) Solid Edge
16 8 (0.078%) InVision
17 7 (0.068%) CANalyzer
18 6 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 6 (0.059%) InDesign
19 4 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 35 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
2 24 (0.23%) Magento
3 20 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 20 (0.20%) Shopify
4 17 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 17 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.13%) NEC Housing
7 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 7 (0.068%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.059%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.049%) Primavera
10 5 (0.049%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.049%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.039%) ResourceLink
11 4 (0.039%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.039%) Sonata
11 4 (0.039%) Unit4 Business World
12 3 (0.029%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,787 (17.43%) Azure
2 1,517 (14.79%) AWS
3 394 (3.84%) SaaS
4 358 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
5 303 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
6 272 (2.65%) Power Platform
7 258 (2.52%) GCP
8 210 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 130 (1.27%) GitHub
10 119 (1.16%) Serverless
11 115 (1.12%) OneDrive
12 113 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
13 101 (0.98%) Amazon S3
14 93 (0.91%) PowerApps
15 71 (0.69%) Power Automate
16 69 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
17 67 (0.65%) Figma
18 65 (0.63%) IaaS
19 63 (0.61%) PaaS
20 62 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 354 (3.45%) Firewall
2 233 (2.27%) WAN
3 221 (2.16%) DNS
4 194 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.87%) Broadband
6 176 (1.72%) Wireless
7 141 (1.37%) LAN
8 135 (1.32%) DHCP
9 128 (1.25%) Network Security
10 105 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
11 98 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 92 (0.90%) VPN
13 81 (0.79%) Internet
14 78 (0.76%) SAN
15 72 (0.70%) VLAN
16 63 (0.61%) 5G
17 59 (0.58%) HTTP
17 59 (0.58%) Kerberos
18 48 (0.47%) Ethernet
19 46 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
2 396 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 274 (2.67%) MySQL
4 267 (2.60%) NoSQL
5 202 (1.97%) Power BI
6 201 (1.96%) GIS
7 184 (1.79%) QGIS
8 164 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 136 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 118 (1.15%) Big Data
11 92 (0.90%) Tableau
12 87 (0.85%) Oracle Database
13 82 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 81 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
15 79 (0.77%) MongoDB
16 76 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
18 65 (0.63%) Metadata
19 53 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
19 53 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 578 (5.64%) Git
2 257 (2.51%) JIRA
3 145 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 122 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 110 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 87 (0.85%) GitLab
7 70 (0.68%) Selenium
8 64 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 47 (0.46%) JUnit
10 40 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 39 (0.38%) Subversion
12 33 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 31 (0.30%) Sourcetree
14 28 (0.27%) Eclipse
15 27 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
16 26 (0.25%) Maven
17 24 (0.23%) webpack
18 22 (0.21%) Postman
19 21 (0.20%) LabVIEW
20 20 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 1,835 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 1,702 (16.60%) Finance
3 841 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 727 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 520 (5.07%) Marketing
6 473 (4.61%) Public Sector
7 457 (4.46%) Law
8 380 (3.71%) Banking
9 361 (3.52%) Manufacturing
10 354 (3.45%) Retail
11 336 (3.28%) Legal
12 258 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
13 240 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 232 (2.26%) Electronics
15 200 (1.95%) Aerospace
16 173 (1.69%) Games
17 170 (1.66%) Automotive
18 143 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
19 137 (1.34%) Telecoms
20 117 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,099 (10.72%) .NET
2 835 (8.14%) React
3 631 (6.15%) CSS
4 541 (5.28%) HTML
5 461 (4.50%) .NET Core
6 401 (3.91%) AngularJS
7 330 (3.22%) RESTful
8 309 (3.01%) ASP.NET
9 299 (2.92%) .NET Framework
10 297 (2.90%) Node.js
11 247 (2.41%) Vue
12 221 (2.16%) REST
13 195 (1.90%) Laravel
14 194 (1.89%) Web Services
15 185 (1.80%) PostGIS
16 184 (1.79%) Leaflet
16 184 (1.79%) OpenLayers
16 184 (1.79%) Spring
17 158 (1.54%) JSON
18 154 (1.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 265 (2.58%) Management Information System
2 251 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
3 229 (2.23%) Data Centre
4 224 (2.18%) Product Ownership
4 224 (2.18%) Public Cloud
5 203 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
6 176 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 175 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 167 (1.63%) IoT
9 166 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 134 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 117 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 99 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
13 98 (0.96%) Mobile App
14 78 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
15 76 (0.74%) Data Structures
15 76 (0.74%) Social Media
16 74 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
17 68 (0.66%) PMI
18 66 (0.64%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 813 (7.93%) Linux
2 771 (7.52%) Windows
3 278 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 135 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
5 113 (1.10%) Unix
6 97 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 89 (0.87%) Android
8 68 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 67 (0.65%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 48 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 45 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 42 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 29 (0.28%) Mac OS
15 22 (0.21%) Windows 7
16 16 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 14 (0.14%) CentOS
18 11 (0.11%) VMS
19 10 (0.098%) FreeRTOS
20 9 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,468 (24.07%) Agile
2 2,151 (20.98%) Software Engineering
3 1,417 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
4 1,319 (12.86%) Mentoring
5 1,101 (10.74%) DevOps
6 906 (8.83%) Coaching
7 818 (7.98%) Actionable Insight
8 700 (6.83%) Project Management
9 604 (5.89%) CI/CD
10 598 (5.83%) Decision-Making
11 591 (5.76%) Artificial Intelligence
12 571 (5.57%) Computer Science
13 552 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
14 538 (5.25%) Roadmaps
15 521 (5.08%) Analytics
16 491 (4.79%) SDLC
17 469 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 465 (4.53%) Full Stack Development
19 399 (3.89%) Microservices
20 386 (3.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,201 (11.71%) SQL
2 1,158 (11.29%) C#
3 1,149 (11.20%) JavaScript
4 1,116 (10.88%) Python
5 789 (7.69%) Java
6 475 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 417 (4.07%) C
8 393 (3.83%) C++
9 312 (3.04%) PHP
10 260 (2.54%) PowerShell
11 213 (2.08%) Bash
12 113 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 113 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 111 (1.08%) Go
14 103 (1.00%) Embedded C
15 78 (0.76%) Scala
16 76 (0.74%) MATLAB
17 70 (0.68%) R
18 65 (0.63%) Perl
19 57 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,387 (13.53%) Degree
2 1,131 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 825 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 226 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 177 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 161 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 159 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 146 (1.42%) ACCA
9 139 (1.36%) CIMA
10 108 (1.05%) CCNP
11 101 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 97 (0.95%) CCNA
13 94 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
14 92 (0.90%) PMI Certification
15 86 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 85 (0.83%) AWS Certification
16 85 (0.83%) PhD
17 61 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
18 59 (0.58%) HND
19 58 (0.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (2.32%) QA
2 192 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 152 (1.48%) GDPR
4 117 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 115 (1.12%) SLA
6 103 (1.00%) WCAG
7 66 (0.64%) NIST
8 63 (0.61%) GMP
9 61 (0.59%) PMO
10 48 (0.47%) IFRS
10 48 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 39 (0.38%) IFRS 9
12 35 (0.34%) Automotive SPICE
13 33 (0.32%) ISO 26262
14 24 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
15 21 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 21 (0.20%) PCI DSS
16 18 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
16 18 (0.18%) MISRA
17 17 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 516 (5.03%) Docker
2 454 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 265 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 181 (1.76%) Hyper-V
5 172 (1.68%) Firmware
6 65 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
7 44 (0.43%) RACF
7 44 (0.43%) vSphere
8 40 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 38 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 25 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 12 (0.12%) XenDesktop
12 8 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.068%) IAG
13 7 (0.068%) NFS
13 7 (0.068%) XenApp
14 4 (0.039%) KVM
14 4 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 522 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 382 (3.73%) Terraform
3 196 (1.91%) Ansible
4 150 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 78 (0.76%) SCCM
6 62 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.60%) Puppet
7 56 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 42 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 32 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 28 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 27 (0.26%) Grafana
11 27 (0.26%) Stealthwatch
12 26 (0.25%) OpenSSO
13 23 (0.22%) SCOM
14 22 (0.21%) CASB
14 22 (0.21%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.17%) Functional Safety
16 13 (0.13%) WMI
17 12 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,414 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 382 (3.73%) Oracle
3 380 (3.71%) VMware
4 286 (2.79%) Cisco
5 224 (2.18%) Google
6 185 (1.80%) ESRI
7 115 (1.12%) IBM
8 111 (1.08%) SAP
9 96 (0.94%) CyberArk
10 93 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 90 (0.88%) Databricks
11 90 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 88 (0.86%) Meraki
13 77 (0.75%) Adobe
14 69 (0.67%) HP
15 68 (0.66%) Dell
15 68 (0.66%) Palo Alto
16 64 (0.62%) CheckPoint
17 62 (0.60%) Juniper
18 59 (0.58%) Apple