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 21 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
21 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 9,815 8,180 9,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.68% 13.90% 13.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.43% 15.58% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,607 4,390 5,904
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,015 £41,473
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 £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 68,037 52,505 69,646
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.19% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 48,012 29,939 42,827
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,325 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +6.65% +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 21 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 21 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 2,619 £60,000 - 614
South East -1 2,112 £60,000 -11.11% 900
South West +11 1,588 £57,500 -4.17% 327
North West +9 1,478 £60,000 - 360
Midlands +5 1,413 £57,500 - 426
Scotland -11 1,007 £60,000 -4.00% 210
West Midlands +9 894 £57,965 -3.39% 304
Yorkshire +1 857 £57,965 -3.39% 196
East of England +2 576 £60,000 -7.69% 314
East Midlands +3 510 £54,700 -0.55% 122
Wales +9 379 £50,000 -9.09% 92
North East +15 289 £57,965 +2.59% 64
Northern Ireland +20 123 £55,000 +15.79% 53
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands - 2 £76,250 - 1
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 2,472 (25.19%) Agile
2 2,088 (21.27%) Software Engineering
3 1,818 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 1,745 (17.78%) Azure
5 1,703 (17.35%) Finance
6 1,496 (15.24%) AWS
7 1,420 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
8 1,372 (13.98%) Microsoft
9 1,365 (13.91%) Degree
10 1,307 (13.32%) Mentoring
11 1,177 (11.99%) SQL
12 1,135 (11.56%) JavaScript
13 1,115 (11.36%) Security Cleared
14 1,114 (11.35%) C#
15 1,102 (11.23%) Python
16 1,093 (11.14%) DevOps
17 1,041 (10.61%) .NET
18 886 (9.03%) Coaching
19 849 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
20 840 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
21 825 (8.41%) React
22 818 (8.33%) SC Cleared
23 808 (8.23%) Java
24 802 (8.17%) Linux
25 772 (7.87%) Windows
26 730 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 684 (6.97%) Project Management
28 622 (6.34%) CSS
29 601 (6.12%) Decision-Making
30 590 (6.01%) CI/CD

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 (1.93%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.87%) GeoServer
3 130 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 124 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 122 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 114 (1.16%) Confluence
7 102 (1.04%) CMS
8 90 (0.92%) SAS
9 82 (0.84%) IIS
10 43 (0.44%) Umbraco
11 41 (0.42%) Headless CMS
12 40 (0.41%) Kentico
13 37 (0.38%) Tuxedo
14 36 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
15 32 (0.33%) WordPress
16 29 (0.30%) WebLogic
17 25 (0.25%) Apache
18 18 (0.18%) FileNet
18 18 (0.18%) JBoss
18 18 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 341 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 90 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 51 (0.52%) Sketch
6 49 (0.50%) Simulink
7 32 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 31 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
9 25 (0.25%) Stateflow
10 21 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
12 13 (0.13%) Photoshop
13 11 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 11 (0.11%) OrCAD
14 10 (0.10%) Solid Edge
15 8 (0.082%) InVision
16 7 (0.071%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.061%) InDesign
18 5 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
19 4 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 34 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
3 21 (0.21%) Magento
4 20 (0.20%) Shopify
5 18 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 17 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
8 13 (0.13%) NEC Housing
8 13 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.071%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.061%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.051%) Primavera
12 5 (0.051%) Teamcenter
13 4 (0.041%) ResourceLink
13 4 (0.041%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.041%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.041%) SAP SD
13 4 (0.041%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,745 (17.78%) Azure
2 1,496 (15.24%) AWS
3 381 (3.88%) SaaS
4 356 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
5 304 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 267 (2.72%) GCP
7 265 (2.70%) Power Platform
8 198 (2.02%) Entra ID
9 127 (1.29%) GitHub
10 122 (1.24%) Serverless
11 115 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 108 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
13 101 (1.03%) Amazon S3
14 87 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 71 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
16 67 (0.68%) Figma
16 67 (0.68%) PaaS
16 67 (0.68%) Power Automate
17 66 (0.67%) IaaS
17 66 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 359 (3.66%) Firewall
2 233 (2.37%) WAN
3 221 (2.25%) DNS
4 193 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.96%) Broadband
6 174 (1.77%) Wireless
7 150 (1.53%) LAN
8 133 (1.36%) DHCP
9 110 (1.12%) Network Security
10 106 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
11 94 (0.96%) VPN
12 89 (0.91%) SD-WAN
13 85 (0.87%) Internet
14 77 (0.78%) SAN
15 72 (0.73%) VLAN
16 63 (0.64%) 5G
17 59 (0.60%) Kerberos
18 56 (0.57%) HTTP
19 48 (0.49%) Ethernet
20 47 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 386 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 272 (2.77%) MySQL
4 265 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 201 (2.05%) GIS
5 201 (2.05%) Power BI
6 184 (1.87%) QGIS
7 166 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 132 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 117 (1.19%) Big Data
10 92 (0.94%) Tableau
11 89 (0.91%) Oracle Database
12 83 (0.85%) Data Lake
12 83 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 81 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 74 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
15 66 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
16 65 (0.66%) Metadata
17 53 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 53 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 588 (5.99%) Git
2 270 (2.75%) JIRA
3 163 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 120 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 109 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 82 (0.84%) GitLab
7 70 (0.71%) Selenium
8 64 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 47 (0.48%) JUnit
10 44 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 42 (0.43%) Subversion
12 32 (0.33%) TeamCity
13 31 (0.32%) Sourcetree
14 28 (0.29%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.25%) Maven
16 24 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
16 24 (0.24%) webpack
17 22 (0.22%) Cucumber
17 22 (0.22%) Postman
18 20 (0.20%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,818 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 1,703 (17.35%) Finance
3 849 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 730 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 518 (5.28%) Marketing
6 480 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 464 (4.73%) Law
8 394 (4.01%) Banking
9 359 (3.66%) Retail
10 340 (3.46%) Manufacturing
11 319 (3.25%) Legal
12 260 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
13 247 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 225 (2.29%) Electronics
15 182 (1.85%) Aerospace
16 167 (1.70%) Games
17 163 (1.66%) Automotive
18 140 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
19 139 (1.42%) Telecoms
20 117 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,041 (10.61%) .NET
2 825 (8.41%) React
3 622 (6.34%) CSS
4 530 (5.40%) HTML
5 442 (4.50%) .NET Core
6 394 (4.01%) AngularJS
7 345 (3.52%) RESTful
8 297 (3.03%) ASP.NET
9 291 (2.96%) Node.js
10 289 (2.94%) .NET Framework
11 242 (2.47%) Vue
12 227 (2.31%) REST
13 204 (2.08%) Spring
14 201 (2.05%) Web Services
15 194 (1.98%) Laravel
16 185 (1.88%) PostGIS
17 184 (1.87%) Leaflet
17 184 (1.87%) OpenLayers
18 171 (1.74%) JSON
19 166 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 252 (2.57%) Management Information System
2 249 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
3 229 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 228 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 219 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 201 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 181 (1.84%) Cloud Native
8 166 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 166 (1.69%) IoT
9 163 (1.66%) Driving Licence
10 133 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 115 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 97 (0.99%) Mobile App
13 93 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
14 76 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 76 (0.77%) Social Media
15 75 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
16 71 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
17 70 (0.71%) Credit Risk
18 69 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 802 (8.17%) Linux
2 772 (7.87%) Windows
3 278 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 131 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
5 107 (1.09%) Unix
6 97 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 88 (0.90%) Android
8 69 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 68 (0.69%) Windows 10
10 57 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 48 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
12 41 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 41 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 34 (0.35%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.14%) CentOS
17 11 (0.11%) VMS
18 10 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
18 10 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,472 (25.19%) Agile
2 2,088 (21.27%) Software Engineering
3 1,420 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
4 1,307 (13.32%) Mentoring
5 1,093 (11.14%) DevOps
6 886 (9.03%) Coaching
7 840 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
8 684 (6.97%) Project Management
9 601 (6.12%) Decision-Making
10 590 (6.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 590 (6.01%) CI/CD
11 556 (5.66%) Computer Science
12 533 (5.43%) Roadmaps
13 522 (5.32%) Cybersecurity
14 514 (5.24%) Analytics
15 476 (4.85%) SDLC
16 443 (4.51%) Full Stack Development
17 438 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 401 (4.09%) Microservices
19 385 (3.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,177 (11.99%) SQL
2 1,135 (11.56%) JavaScript
3 1,114 (11.35%) C#
4 1,102 (11.23%) Python
5 808 (8.23%) Java
6 466 (4.75%) TypeScript
7 407 (4.15%) C
8 374 (3.81%) C++
9 302 (3.08%) PHP
10 250 (2.55%) PowerShell
11 202 (2.06%) Bash
12 111 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 110 (1.12%) Go
13 110 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 100 (1.02%) Embedded C
15 77 (0.78%) R
16 75 (0.76%) Scala
17 73 (0.74%) MATLAB
18 64 (0.65%) Perl
19 56 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,365 (13.91%) Degree
2 1,115 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 818 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 221 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 156 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 151 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 146 (1.49%) ACCA
9 139 (1.42%) CIMA
10 106 (1.08%) CCNP
11 99 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 92 (0.94%) CCNA
12 92 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 90 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
14 85 (0.87%) AWS Certification
15 81 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 76 (0.77%) PhD
17 60 (0.61%) HND
18 59 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
19 58 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (2.38%) QA
2 192 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 151 (1.54%) GDPR
4 115 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 112 (1.14%) SLA
6 104 (1.06%) WCAG
7 66 (0.67%) NIST
8 63 (0.64%) GMP
9 59 (0.60%) PMO
10 57 (0.58%) IFRS
11 48 (0.49%) IFRS 9
11 48 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 36 (0.37%) Automotive SPICE
13 33 (0.34%) ISO 26262
14 25 (0.25%) AUTOSAR
15 21 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.20%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.18%) MISRA
18 17 (0.17%) JSP 440
19 16 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 524 (5.34%) Docker
2 445 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 256 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 179 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 168 (1.71%) Firmware
6 65 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 41 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (0.40%) vSphere
9 38 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 31 (0.32%) RACF
11 21 (0.21%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.10%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
15 7 (0.071%) IAG
15 7 (0.071%) NFS
16 5 (0.051%) XenApp
17 4 (0.041%) KVM
17 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
17 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 517 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 389 (3.96%) Terraform
3 194 (1.98%) Ansible
4 151 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 81 (0.83%) SCCM
6 64 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 58 (0.59%) Puppet
8 56 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 42 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 37 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.29%) Grafana
11 28 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 26 (0.26%) OpenSSO
13 24 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
14 22 (0.22%) CASB
14 22 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 21 (0.21%) SCOM
16 17 (0.17%) Functional Safety
17 14 (0.14%) WMI
18 12 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,372 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 374 (3.81%) Oracle
3 372 (3.79%) VMware
4 283 (2.88%) Cisco
5 236 (2.40%) Google
6 185 (1.88%) ESRI
7 117 (1.19%) IBM
8 109 (1.11%) SAP
9 90 (0.92%) Databricks
9 90 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 84 (0.86%) Meraki
11 83 (0.85%) CyberArk
12 81 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 72 (0.73%) Adobe
14 68 (0.69%) Dell
14 68 (0.69%) HP
14 68 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 66 (0.67%) CheckPoint
16 62 (0.63%) Juniper
17 57 (0.58%) Salesforce