Senior Jobs in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior salary in England is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 12,922 13,716 24,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.94% 15.55% 17.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.80% 16.99% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,038 8,401 11,657
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £54,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in England.

Salary trend for Senior in England

Senior
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +2 4,507 £77,500 -6.06% 1,970
North of England +5 2,609 £60,000 - 607
South East -1 2,103 £60,000 -11.11% 871
South West +11 1,592 £57,500 -2.70% 320
North West +9 1,473 £60,000 - 354
Midlands +5 1,405 £57,500 - 413
West Midlands +9 893 £57,965 -3.39% 290
Yorkshire +1 855 £57,965 -3.39% 193
East of England +2 576 £60,000 -7.69% 317
East Midlands +4 503 £54,700 -0.55% 124
North East +15 286 £57,965 +3.97% 67
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,940 (22.75%) Agile
2 2,879 (22.28%) Social Skills
3 2,570 (19.89%) Finance
4 2,484 (19.22%) Azure
5 2,203 (17.05%) AWS
6 2,147 (16.62%) Software Engineering
7 2,086 (16.14%) Microsoft
8 1,972 (15.26%) Degree
9 1,916 (14.83%) SQL
10 1,884 (14.58%) Python
11 1,831 (14.17%) Mentoring
12 1,689 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
13 1,560 (12.07%) JavaScript
14 1,456 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
15 1,374 (10.63%) DevOps
16 1,365 (10.56%) C#
17 1,272 (9.84%) .NET
18 1,099 (8.50%) Security Cleared
19 1,074 (8.31%) React
20 1,059 (8.20%) Java
21 984 (7.61%) Linux
22 978 (7.57%) Windows
23 975 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
24 967 (7.48%) Coaching
25 891 (6.90%) Project Management
26 882 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 854 (6.61%) Analytics
28 825 (6.38%) Decision-Making
29 812 (6.28%) TypeScript
30 802 (6.21%) Cybersecurity

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 221 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 168 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 163 (1.26%) Apache
4 141 (1.09%) CMS
5 137 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 133 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 131 (1.01%) ArcGIS
8 126 (0.98%) GeoServer
9 123 (0.95%) Confluence
10 101 (0.78%) SAS
11 91 (0.70%) IIS
12 51 (0.39%) Umbraco
13 48 (0.37%) WordPress
14 41 (0.32%) Headless CMS
14 41 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.31%) Kentico
16 37 (0.29%) Tuxedo
17 24 (0.19%) WebLogic
18 23 (0.18%) nginx
19 18 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 540 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 265 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 160 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 99 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (0.38%) Simulink
6 47 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 36 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 36 (0.28%) Sketch
8 29 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.19%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
12 17 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 12 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.093%) OrCAD
14 10 (0.077%) InDesign
14 10 (0.077%) Solid Edge
15 7 (0.054%) CANalyzer
16 6 (0.046%) 3ds Max
17 5 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 68 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.43%) Endur
3 38 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.19%) Shopify
6 22 (0.17%) Magento
6 22 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 17 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
8 16 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 15 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
10 13 (0.10%) SAP SCM
11 12 (0.093%) SAP FI
12 10 (0.077%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.077%) SAP HR
12 10 (0.077%) Workday HCM
13 9 (0.070%) NEC Housing
13 9 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
14 8 (0.062%) Primavera
14 8 (0.062%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2,484 (19.22%) Azure
2 2,203 (17.05%) AWS
3 630 (4.88%) SaaS
4 567 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
5 503 (3.89%) GCP
6 463 (3.58%) Power Platform
7 396 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 318 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 216 (1.67%) Serverless
10 191 (1.48%) GitHub
11 186 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 147 (1.14%) Amazon S3
13 145 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 126 (0.98%) PaaS
15 120 (0.93%) OneDrive
16 113 (0.87%) IaaS
17 109 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
18 106 (0.82%) dbt
19 104 (0.80%) PowerApps
20 96 (0.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 498 (3.85%) Firewall
2 386 (2.99%) Broadband
3 308 (2.38%) WAN
4 249 (1.93%) DNS
5 212 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 206 (1.59%) LAN
7 186 (1.44%) Wireless
8 163 (1.26%) DHCP
9 160 (1.24%) VPN
10 159 (1.23%) 5G
11 156 (1.21%) Network Security
12 130 (1.01%) SD-WAN
13 128 (0.99%) Internet
14 127 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
15 100 (0.77%) VLAN
16 97 (0.75%) MPLS
17 85 (0.66%) SAN
18 81 (0.63%) BGP
19 71 (0.55%) HTTP
20 53 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 630 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 441 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 362 (2.80%) MySQL
4 361 (2.79%) Power BI
5 327 (2.53%) Tableau
6 272 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
7 258 (2.00%) NoSQL
8 216 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 212 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 155 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 136 (1.05%) GIS
12 128 (0.99%) QGIS
13 120 (0.93%) Big Data
14 109 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 99 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
16 98 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
17 96 (0.74%) Oracle Database
18 85 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
18 85 (0.66%) Apache Ignite
19 81 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 798 (6.18%) Git
2 330 (2.55%) JIRA
3 223 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 132 (1.02%) Visual Studio
5 114 (0.88%) GitLab
6 99 (0.77%) Selenium
7 89 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 62 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 54 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 50 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 50 (0.39%) Sourcetree
11 46 (0.36%) Postman
12 44 (0.34%) Subversion
13 37 (0.29%) CircleCI
13 37 (0.29%) JUnit
14 36 (0.28%) Eclipse
14 36 (0.28%) NUnit
15 35 (0.27%) Maven
15 35 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
16 31 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 2,879 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 2,570 (19.89%) Finance
3 1,456 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 882 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 626 (4.84%) Retail
6 607 (4.70%) Banking
7 564 (4.36%) Public Sector
8 528 (4.09%) Marketing
9 448 (3.47%) Legal
10 413 (3.20%) Law
11 377 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 356 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
13 321 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 236 (1.83%) Front Office
14 236 (1.83%) Games
15 208 (1.61%) Electronics
16 186 (1.44%) Aerospace
17 175 (1.35%) Telecoms
18 171 (1.32%) Automotive
19 159 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,272 (9.84%) .NET
2 1,074 (8.31%) React
3 715 (5.53%) CSS
4 686 (5.31%) HTML
5 529 (4.09%) AngularJS
6 441 (3.41%) .NET Core
7 390 (3.02%) Node.js
8 386 (2.99%) ASP.NET
9 364 (2.82%) RESTful
10 340 (2.63%) REST
11 321 (2.48%) Vue
12 302 (2.34%) .NET Framework
13 250 (1.93%) Kafka
14 248 (1.92%) Spring
15 205 (1.59%) Laravel
16 196 (1.52%) Web Services
17 173 (1.34%) Pandas
18 167 (1.29%) XML
19 157 (1.21%) JSON
20 151 (1.17%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 330 (2.55%) Product Ownership
2 323 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
3 290 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
4 275 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 264 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 239 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 235 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 216 (1.67%) IoT
9 206 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 194 (1.50%) Social Media
11 188 (1.45%) Derivative
12 185 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 181 (1.40%) Driving Licence
14 178 (1.38%) Hedge funds
15 153 (1.18%) Equities
16 144 (1.11%) Cloud Native
17 142 (1.10%) Mobile App
18 140 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
19 137 (1.06%) Fixed Income
20 127 (0.98%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 984 (7.61%) Linux
2 978 (7.57%) Windows
3 347 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 189 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 125 (0.97%) Unix
6 115 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
6 115 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 111 (0.86%) Android
8 104 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 84 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 67 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 63 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
12 47 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 33 (0.26%) VMS
14 32 (0.25%) Mac OS
15 23 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 18 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 15 (0.12%) CentOS
18 11 (0.085%) Windows Server 2003
19 10 (0.077%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,940 (22.75%) Agile
2 2,147 (16.62%) Software Engineering
3 1,831 (14.17%) Mentoring
4 1,689 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
5 1,374 (10.63%) DevOps
6 975 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
7 967 (7.48%) Coaching
8 891 (6.90%) Project Management
9 854 (6.61%) Analytics
10 825 (6.38%) Decision-Making
11 802 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
12 791 (6.12%) CI/CD
13 700 (5.42%) Computer Science
14 699 (5.41%) Full Stack Development
15 691 (5.35%) Artificial Intelligence
16 660 (5.11%) Roadmaps
17 552 (4.27%) Microservices
18 515 (3.99%) Project Delivery
19 505 (3.91%) Migration
20 504 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,916 (14.83%) SQL
2 1,884 (14.58%) Python
3 1,560 (12.07%) JavaScript
4 1,365 (10.56%) C#
5 1,059 (8.20%) Java
6 812 (6.28%) TypeScript
7 365 (2.82%) C++
8 362 (2.80%) C
9 359 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 340 (2.63%) PHP
11 330 (2.55%) Bash
12 192 (1.49%) T-SQL
13 127 (0.98%) R
14 124 (0.96%) Go
15 120 (0.93%) PL/SQL
16 100 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 95 (0.74%) Rust
18 82 (0.63%) Perl
19 81 (0.63%) Ruby
20 80 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,972 (15.26%) Degree
2 1,099 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 724 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 312 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 275 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 271 (2.10%) ACCA
7 238 (1.84%) CIMA
7 238 (1.84%) DBS Check
8 201 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 192 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 135 (1.04%) CCNP
11 131 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 130 (1.01%) CISSP
13 128 (0.99%) Azure Certification
14 115 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 100 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 96 (0.74%) PhD
17 88 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
18 87 (0.67%) CCNA
19 59 (0.46%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (2.70%) QA
2 231 (1.79%) SLA
3 202 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 185 (1.43%) GDPR
5 175 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 107 (0.83%) NIST
7 94 (0.73%) WCAG
8 93 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 82 (0.63%) IFRS
10 78 (0.60%) PMO
11 60 (0.46%) IFRS 9
12 58 (0.45%) GMP
13 40 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 40 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 36 (0.28%) Automotive SPICE
14 36 (0.28%) GRC
15 33 (0.26%) ISO 26262
16 26 (0.20%) NCSC
17 25 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
18 20 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 733 (5.67%) Docker
2 648 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 299 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 197 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 131 (1.01%) Firmware
6 52 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 50 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 50 (0.39%) vSphere
9 25 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 16 (0.12%) KVM
11 16 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (0.11%) XenApp
13 11 (0.085%) XenDesktop
14 10 (0.077%) RACF
15 9 (0.070%) NFS
16 8 (0.062%) HDFS
17 7 (0.054%) IAG
18 6 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 775 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 565 (4.37%) Terraform
3 276 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 249 (1.93%) Ansible
5 138 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
6 121 (0.94%) SCCM
7 89 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 88 (0.68%) Puppet
9 67 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 63 (0.49%) Grafana
11 48 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 45 (0.35%) vCenter Server
13 39 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 29 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
15 28 (0.22%) CASB
16 24 (0.19%) Nagios
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
18 19 (0.15%) Nmap
18 19 (0.15%) SCOM
19 18 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2,086 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 459 (3.55%) VMware
3 418 (3.23%) Oracle
4 387 (2.99%) Cisco
5 355 (2.75%) Google
6 312 (2.41%) Databricks
7 216 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 184 (1.42%) SAP
9 165 (1.28%) Dell
10 163 (1.26%) CyberArk
11 128 (0.99%) ESRI
11 128 (0.99%) Tanium
12 125 (0.97%) IBM
13 119 (0.92%) Salesforce
14 116 (0.90%) Meraki
15 115 (0.89%) Adobe
16 109 (0.84%) Red Hat
17 107 (0.83%) Juniper
18 101 (0.78%) Palo Alto
19 95 (0.74%) HP