Senior Jobs in Essex

Senior
East of England > Essex

The median Senior salary in Essex is £55,000 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 17 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 81 89 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 8.87% 11.14% 11.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.34% 14.13% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 67 37 47
10th Percentile £32,600 £38,252 £42,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,015 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £73,250 - £75,000
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 867 630 1,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 78.85% 92.23%
Number of salaries quoted 708 362 483
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,500 £25,850
25th Percentile £30,272 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £60,225 £65,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Essex over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Essex

Senior
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Essex 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
Chelmsford +12 14 £60,000 +51.79% 11
Colchester -3 10 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Billericay +6 9 £71,500 +10.00% 1
Ongar - 8 £55,000 -
Witham 0 6 £62,500 -3.85%
Grays - 4 £60,000 -
Basildon -20 2 - - 2
Waltham Abbey - 2 - - 1
Brentwood - 2 £82,500 - 3
Loughton - 1 £45,000 -
Senior
East of England

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

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 Essex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 31 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 28 (34.57%) Retail
3 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (23.46%) Project Management
5 18 (22.22%) SaaS
6 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
6 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
6 17 (20.99%) E-Commerce
7 16 (19.75%) HTML
7 16 (19.75%) Project Delivery
8 15 (18.52%) Laravel
8 15 (18.52%) PHP
9 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
9 14 (17.28%) CSS
9 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (16.05%) Docker
10 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Office
11 12 (14.81%) OOP
11 12 (14.81%) MVC
11 12 (14.81%) Driving Licence
11 12 (14.81%) Customer Service
12 11 (13.58%) Agile
13 10 (12.35%) TDD
13 10 (12.35%) Banking
13 10 (12.35%) Retail Banking
13 10 (12.35%) LAMP
13 10 (12.35%) Web Services
13 10 (12.35%) Payment Gateway
13 10 (12.35%) Fintech
13 10 (12.35%) Git

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (3.70%) WordPress
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (9.88%) AutoCAD
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.22%) SaaS
2 7 (8.64%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) AWS
4 2 (2.47%) Serverless
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.23%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.23%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) 5G
1 2 (2.47%) Broadband
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Big Data
1 6 (7.41%) MySQL
2 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.23%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Git
2 7 (8.64%) gulp
2 7 (8.64%) webpack
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 28 (34.57%) Retail
3 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.35%) Banking
4 10 (12.35%) Retail Banking
5 8 (9.88%) Finance
5 8 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.88%) Manufacturing
5 8 (9.88%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.17%) Games
7 5 (6.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.94%) Legal
9 3 (3.70%) Marketing
10 2 (2.47%) Law
11 1 (1.23%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.75%) HTML
2 15 (18.52%) Laravel
3 14 (17.28%) CSS
4 10 (12.35%) LAMP
4 10 (12.35%) Symfony
4 10 (12.35%) Web Services
5 8 (9.88%) GraphQL
5 8 (9.88%) HTML5
5 8 (9.88%) jQuery
6 7 (8.64%) REST
6 7 (8.64%) Sass
6 7 (8.64%) Vue
7 2 (2.47%) Ajax
7 2 (2.47%) Java EE
7 2 (2.47%) JSON
7 2 (2.47%) Node.js
7 2 (2.47%) React
7 2 (2.47%) SOAP
7 2 (2.47%) Spring
7 2 (2.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Driving Licence
2 9 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.64%) Client/Server
3 7 (8.64%) EPoS
3 7 (8.64%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Windows
2 3 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (23.46%) Project Management
3 17 (20.99%) E-Commerce
3 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
4 16 (19.75%) Project Delivery
5 12 (14.81%) Customer Service
5 12 (14.81%) MVC
5 12 (14.81%) OOP
6 11 (13.58%) Agile
7 10 (12.35%) Fintech
7 10 (12.35%) TDD
8 9 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 8 (9.88%) 3D Rendering
9 8 (9.88%) CAD
9 8 (9.88%) ITIL
9 8 (9.88%) Supplier Management
10 7 (8.64%) Innovative Thinking
10 7 (8.64%) Time Management
10 7 (8.64%) User Experience
10 7 (8.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.52%) PHP
2 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.94%) Java
4 1 (1.23%) C#
4 1 (1.23%) Python
4 1 (1.23%) SQL
4 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (7.41%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) APMP
2 4 (4.94%) HNC
3 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.70%) PMP
4 2 (2.47%) MBA
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) GDPR
1 9 (11.11%) SLA
2 4 (4.94%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (16.05%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) Firmware
3 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Ansible
2 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) Dell
3 7 (8.64%) HP
3 7 (8.64%) IBM
4 6 (7.41%) NetApp
5 5 (6.17%) SAP
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.47%) VMware
7 1 (1.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce