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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 13,657 13,031 25,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.01% 15.49% 18.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.85% 16.97% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9,488 8,137 11,788
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,970
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 £96,400 £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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 4,632 £77,500 -6.06% 1,786
North of England +4 2,769 £60,000 - 608
South East -1 2,275 £60,000 -11.11% 584
South West +13 1,704 £57,500 -0.86% 332
North West +8 1,560 £60,000 - 381
Midlands +3 1,541 £57,500 - 356
West Midlands +5 975 £58,700 -2.17% 249
Yorkshire +1 908 £57,965 -3.39% 161
East of England +1 607 £57,500 -11.54% 278
East Midlands +2 557 £55,000 - 108
North East +13 306 £57,965 +2.59% 68
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 3,018 (22.10%) Agile
2 2,923 (21.40%) Social Skills
3 2,647 (19.38%) Finance
4 2,528 (18.51%) Azure
5 2,308 (16.90%) Software Engineering
6 2,280 (16.69%) AWS
7 2,152 (15.76%) Microsoft
8 2,015 (14.75%) Degree
9 1,995 (14.61%) SQL
10 1,964 (14.38%) Python
11 1,858 (13.60%) Mentoring
12 1,721 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
13 1,614 (11.82%) JavaScript
14 1,447 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
15 1,409 (10.32%) DevOps
16 1,408 (10.31%) C#
17 1,330 (9.74%) .NET
18 1,142 (8.36%) Security Cleared
19 1,087 (7.96%) Java
20 1,086 (7.95%) React
21 1,012 (7.41%) Coaching
22 1,001 (7.33%) Linux
23 976 (7.15%) Windows
24 961 (7.04%) Actionable Insight
25 898 (6.58%) Project Management
26 878 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 876 (6.41%) Analytics
28 850 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
28 850 (6.22%) TypeScript
29 826 (6.05%) Decision-Making

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
1 208 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 182 (1.33%) Apache
3 162 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 157 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 147 (1.08%) CMS
6 132 (0.97%) ArcGIS
7 127 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 126 (0.92%) GeoServer
9 120 (0.88%) Confluence
10 106 (0.78%) SAS
11 92 (0.67%) IIS
12 52 (0.38%) Umbraco
13 51 (0.37%) WordPress
14 42 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.30%) Headless CMS
16 40 (0.29%) Kentico
17 37 (0.27%) Tuxedo
18 24 (0.18%) nginx
18 24 (0.18%) WebLogic
19 18 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 550 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 261 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 156 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 101 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (0.36%) Simulink
6 45 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 37 (0.27%) Sketch
8 32 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.18%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
13 12 (0.088%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
15 10 (0.073%) InDesign
15 10 (0.073%) Solid Edge
16 7 (0.051%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.044%) 3ds Max
17 6 (0.044%) Revit
Business Applications
1 67 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.38%) Endur
3 37 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 36 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
5 27 (0.20%) Magento
5 27 (0.20%) Shopify
6 20 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 19 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
8 16 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 15 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 13 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
10 13 (0.095%) SAP SCM
11 11 (0.081%) Workday HCM
12 10 (0.073%) SAP HR
13 9 (0.066%) NEC Housing
13 9 (0.066%) SAP FI
14 8 (0.059%) Primavera
15 7 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
15 7 (0.051%) SAP CO
15 7 (0.051%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,528 (18.51%) Azure
2 2,280 (16.69%) AWS
3 644 (4.72%) SaaS
4 554 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
5 501 (3.67%) GCP
6 485 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 403 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 358 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 213 (1.56%) Serverless
10 199 (1.46%) GitHub
11 191 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 171 (1.25%) Snowflake
13 147 (1.08%) Amazon S3
14 132 (0.97%) dbt
15 123 (0.90%) PaaS
16 122 (0.89%) OneDrive
17 114 (0.83%) IaaS
18 110 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
19 108 (0.79%) PowerApps
20 98 (0.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 503 (3.68%) Firewall
2 386 (2.83%) Broadband
3 315 (2.31%) WAN
4 245 (1.79%) DNS
5 214 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 204 (1.49%) LAN
7 189 (1.38%) Wireless
8 179 (1.31%) Network Security
9 166 (1.22%) DHCP
10 159 (1.16%) 5G
11 154 (1.13%) VPN
12 143 (1.05%) SD-WAN
13 130 (0.95%) Internet
14 124 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
15 99 (0.72%) MPLS
16 92 (0.67%) VLAN
17 84 (0.62%) SAN
18 82 (0.60%) BGP
19 76 (0.56%) HTTP
20 59 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 451 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 373 (2.73%) Power BI
4 366 (2.68%) MySQL
5 329 (2.41%) Tableau
6 274 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 262 (1.92%) NoSQL
8 242 (1.77%) Data Lake
9 219 (1.60%) Relational Database
10 156 (1.14%) MongoDB
11 137 (1.00%) GIS
12 128 (0.94%) QGIS
13 121 (0.89%) Big Data
14 110 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 106 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
16 105 (0.77%) Apache Ignite
17 101 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
18 97 (0.71%) Oracle Database
19 95 (0.70%) Dremio
20 93 (0.68%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 810 (5.93%) Git
2 333 (2.44%) JIRA
3 203 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 136 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 128 (0.94%) GitLab
6 100 (0.73%) Selenium
7 91 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.43%) TeamCity
9 57 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 54 (0.40%) Sourcetree
11 44 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 42 (0.31%) Postman
13 41 (0.30%) NUnit
13 41 (0.30%) Subversion
14 38 (0.28%) CircleCI
14 38 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
15 37 (0.27%) JUnit
16 36 (0.26%) Eclipse
17 35 (0.26%) Maven
18 33 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,923 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 2,647 (19.38%) Finance
3 1,447 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 878 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 655 (4.80%) Banking
6 633 (4.63%) Retail
7 558 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 543 (3.98%) Marketing
9 501 (3.67%) Legal
10 420 (3.08%) Law
11 383 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
12 352 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
13 349 (2.56%) Manufacturing
14 256 (1.87%) Front Office
15 240 (1.76%) Games
16 218 (1.60%) Electronics
17 208 (1.52%) Aerospace
18 180 (1.32%) Automotive
19 169 (1.24%) Telecoms
20 164 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,330 (9.74%) .NET
2 1,086 (7.95%) React
3 745 (5.46%) CSS
4 716 (5.24%) HTML
5 524 (3.84%) AngularJS
6 457 (3.35%) .NET Core
7 408 (2.99%) ASP.NET
8 397 (2.91%) Node.js
9 362 (2.65%) RESTful
10 346 (2.53%) REST
11 327 (2.39%) Vue
12 318 (2.33%) .NET Framework
13 250 (1.83%) Kafka
14 230 (1.68%) Spring
15 207 (1.52%) Laravel
15 207 (1.52%) Web Services
16 196 (1.44%) Pandas
17 164 (1.20%) Entity Framework
18 163 (1.19%) XML
19 159 (1.16%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 332 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
2 321 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 305 (2.23%) Management Information System
4 294 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 288 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 249 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 248 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 219 (1.60%) IoT
9 211 (1.54%) Derivative
10 206 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 200 (1.46%) Public Cloud
12 196 (1.44%) Hedge funds
13 194 (1.42%) Social Media
14 173 (1.27%) Equities
15 170 (1.24%) Driving Licence
16 156 (1.14%) Fixed Income
17 153 (1.12%) Cloud Native
18 146 (1.07%) Mobile App
19 142 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
20 128 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,001 (7.33%) Linux
2 976 (7.15%) Windows
3 334 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 193 (1.41%) Ubuntu
5 132 (0.97%) Unix
6 118 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 114 (0.83%) Android
8 111 (0.81%) Windows 10
9 101 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 81 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 63 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
12 57 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 51 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 37 (0.27%) VMS
15 33 (0.24%) Mac OS
16 23 (0.17%) Windows 7
17 18 (0.13%) CentOS
18 17 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.073%) Windows Server 2003
20 8 (0.059%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,018 (22.10%) Agile
2 2,308 (16.90%) Software Engineering
3 1,858 (13.60%) Mentoring
4 1,721 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
5 1,409 (10.32%) DevOps
6 1,012 (7.41%) Coaching
7 961 (7.04%) Actionable Insight
8 898 (6.58%) Project Management
9 876 (6.41%) Analytics
10 850 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
11 826 (6.05%) Decision-Making
12 820 (6.00%) CI/CD
13 735 (5.38%) Full Stack Development
14 724 (5.30%) Computer Science
15 706 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence
16 685 (5.02%) Roadmaps
17 555 (4.06%) Microservices
18 553 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 517 (3.79%) Scrum
20 511 (3.74%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,995 (14.61%) SQL
2 1,964 (14.38%) Python
3 1,614 (11.82%) JavaScript
4 1,408 (10.31%) C#
5 1,087 (7.96%) Java
6 850 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 398 (2.91%) PowerShell
8 388 (2.84%) C++
9 370 (2.71%) C
10 355 (2.60%) PHP
11 344 (2.52%) Bash
12 198 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 131 (0.96%) Go
14 123 (0.90%) R
15 119 (0.87%) PL/SQL
16 111 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 96 (0.70%) Rust
18 83 (0.61%) MATLAB
18 83 (0.61%) Perl
18 83 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,015 (14.75%) Degree
2 1,142 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 748 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 317 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 290 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 271 (1.98%) ACCA
7 247 (1.81%) DBS Check
8 238 (1.74%) CIMA
9 227 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 199 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 141 (1.03%) CCNP
12 137 (1.00%) CISSP
13 135 (0.99%) Azure Certification
14 129 (0.94%) PMI Certification
15 114 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 106 (0.78%) PhD
17 105 (0.77%) AWS Certification
18 96 (0.70%) CCNA
19 91 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
20 60 (0.44%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (2.56%) QA
2 234 (1.71%) Data Quality
2 234 (1.71%) SLA
3 187 (1.37%) GDPR
4 174 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 109 (0.80%) NIST
6 94 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 91 (0.67%) WCAG
8 78 (0.57%) PMO
9 77 (0.56%) IFRS
10 58 (0.42%) GMP
11 55 (0.40%) IFRS 9
12 41 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 40 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 33 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
14 33 (0.24%) ISO 26262
15 31 (0.23%) GRC
16 26 (0.19%) NCSC
17 25 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
18 23 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 733 (5.37%) Docker
2 676 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 300 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 193 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 136 (1.00%) Firmware
6 55 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 52 (0.38%) vSphere
9 49 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 45 (0.33%) RACF
11 23 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 21 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 17 (0.12%) KVM
13 17 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (0.12%) XenApp
15 13 (0.095%) XenDesktop
16 9 (0.066%) NFS
17 7 (0.051%) HDFS
17 7 (0.051%) IAG
18 6 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 799 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 573 (4.20%) Terraform
3 272 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 269 (1.97%) Ansible
5 138 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
6 113 (0.83%) SCCM
7 93 (0.68%) Puppet
8 90 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 64 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 62 (0.45%) Grafana
11 46 (0.34%) Progress Chef
12 45 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 41 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 30 (0.22%) CASB
14 30 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
15 22 (0.16%) OpenSSO
16 21 (0.15%) SCOM
17 19 (0.14%) Nmap
18 18 (0.13%) Nagios
18 18 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2,152 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 456 (3.34%) VMware
3 435 (3.19%) Oracle
4 391 (2.86%) Cisco
5 339 (2.48%) Google
6 318 (2.33%) Databricks
7 228 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 201 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 187 (1.37%) SAP
10 168 (1.23%) Dell
11 129 (0.94%) ESRI
12 128 (0.94%) Tanium
13 124 (0.91%) Adobe
13 124 (0.91%) IBM
14 122 (0.89%) Meraki
15 119 (0.87%) Salesforce
16 115 (0.84%) Red Hat
17 104 (0.76%) Juniper
18 102 (0.75%) Palo Alto
19 93 (0.68%) HP