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 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 8 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 10,460 7,913 10,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.77% 14.00% 13.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.49% 15.74% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,042 4,300 5,931
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £41,250
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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 June 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 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
North of England +4 2,769 £60,000 - 601
South East -1 2,275 £60,000 -11.11% 573
South West +13 1,704 £57,500 -0.86% 332
North West +8 1,560 £60,000 - 375
Midlands +3 1,541 £57,500 - 357
Scotland -10 1,031 £60,000 -0.66% 216
West Midlands +5 975 £58,700 -2.17% 253
Yorkshire +1 908 £57,965 -3.39% 160
East of England +1 607 £57,500 -11.54% 276
East Midlands +2 557 £55,000 - 105
Wales +8 403 £50,000 -9.09% 76
North East +13 306 £57,965 +2.59% 68
Northern Ireland +21 135 £55,000 +15.79% 53
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,471 (23.62%) Agile
2 2,191 (20.95%) Software Engineering
3 1,843 (17.62%) Social Skills
4 1,789 (17.10%) Azure
5 1,707 (16.32%) Finance
6 1,521 (14.54%) AWS
7 1,419 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
8 1,417 (13.55%) Microsoft
9 1,389 (13.28%) Degree
10 1,324 (12.66%) Mentoring
11 1,206 (11.53%) SQL
12 1,166 (11.15%) C#
13 1,162 (11.11%) JavaScript
14 1,137 (10.87%) Security Cleared
15 1,129 (10.79%) Python
16 1,112 (10.63%) .NET
17 1,106 (10.57%) DevOps
18 907 (8.67%) Coaching
19 846 (8.09%) React
20 841 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
21 827 (7.91%) SC Cleared
22 819 (7.83%) Actionable Insight
23 816 (7.80%) Linux
24 787 (7.52%) Java
25 768 (7.34%) Windows
26 725 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 702 (6.71%) Project Management
28 635 (6.07%) CSS
29 603 (5.76%) CI/CD
30 596 (5.70%) Artificial Intelligence

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 (1.81%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.76%) GeoServer
3 126 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 121 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 112 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 108 (1.03%) CMS
7 107 (1.02%) Confluence
8 86 (0.82%) SAS
9 81 (0.77%) IIS
10 44 (0.42%) Umbraco
11 41 (0.39%) Headless CMS
12 40 (0.38%) Kentico
13 37 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
13 37 (0.35%) Tuxedo
14 34 (0.33%) WordPress
15 29 (0.28%) WebLogic
16 18 (0.17%) FileNet
17 17 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
17 17 (0.16%) OpenStack
18 16 (0.15%) Apache
Applications
1 349 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 116 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 92 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (0.50%) Sketch
6 49 (0.47%) Simulink
7 33 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 32 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 25 (0.24%) Stateflow
10 22 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 16 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 13 (0.12%) Photoshop
13 12 (0.11%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
15 10 (0.096%) Solid Edge
16 8 (0.076%) InVision
17 7 (0.067%) CANalyzer
18 6 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 6 (0.057%) InDesign
18 6 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 36 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
2 25 (0.24%) Magento
2 25 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (0.20%) Shopify
4 18 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.12%) NEC Housing
8 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 7 (0.067%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
11 5 (0.048%) Primavera
11 5 (0.048%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.048%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.038%) ResourceLink
12 4 (0.038%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.038%) Sonata
12 4 (0.038%) Unit4 Business World
13 3 (0.029%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1,789 (17.10%) Azure
2 1,521 (14.54%) AWS
3 400 (3.82%) SaaS
4 358 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
5 304 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 274 (2.62%) Power Platform
7 258 (2.47%) GCP
8 210 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 132 (1.26%) GitHub
10 118 (1.13%) Serverless
11 114 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
11 114 (1.09%) OneDrive
12 100 (0.96%) Amazon S3
13 92 (0.88%) PowerApps
14 71 (0.68%) Power Automate
15 68 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
15 68 (0.65%) Figma
16 65 (0.62%) IaaS
17 63 (0.60%) Miro
18 62 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 354 (3.38%) Firewall
2 233 (2.23%) WAN
3 222 (2.12%) DNS
4 193 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.84%) Broadband
6 177 (1.69%) Wireless
7 142 (1.36%) LAN
8 136 (1.30%) DHCP
9 130 (1.24%) Network Security
10 105 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
11 98 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 94 (0.90%) VPN
13 82 (0.78%) Internet
14 78 (0.75%) SAN
15 72 (0.69%) VLAN
16 63 (0.60%) 5G
17 59 (0.56%) HTTP
17 59 (0.56%) Kerberos
18 48 (0.46%) Ethernet
19 47 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
2 394 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 277 (2.65%) MySQL
4 267 (2.55%) NoSQL
5 203 (1.94%) Power BI
6 201 (1.92%) GIS
7 184 (1.76%) QGIS
8 166 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
9 136 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 117 (1.12%) Big Data
11 92 (0.88%) Tableau
12 87 (0.83%) Oracle Database
13 84 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 81 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 79 (0.76%) MongoDB
16 76 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
17 67 (0.64%) Metadata
18 66 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
19 55 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
20 54 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 582 (5.56%) Git
2 262 (2.50%) JIRA
3 144 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 120 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 110 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 87 (0.83%) GitLab
7 70 (0.67%) Selenium
8 64 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 47 (0.45%) JUnit
10 40 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 39 (0.37%) Subversion
12 33 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 31 (0.30%) Sourcetree
14 28 (0.27%) Eclipse
14 28 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
15 26 (0.25%) Maven
16 24 (0.23%) webpack
17 23 (0.22%) LabVIEW
18 22 (0.21%) Postman
19 20 (0.19%) NUnit
General
1 1,843 (17.62%) Social Skills
2 1,707 (16.32%) Finance
3 841 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 725 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 518 (4.95%) Marketing
6 474 (4.53%) Public Sector
7 454 (4.34%) Law
8 378 (3.61%) Banking
9 369 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 357 (3.41%) Retail
11 337 (3.22%) Legal
12 257 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
13 240 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 234 (2.24%) Electronics
15 205 (1.96%) Aerospace
16 174 (1.66%) Games
17 170 (1.63%) Automotive
18 143 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
19 137 (1.31%) Telecoms
20 118 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,112 (10.63%) .NET
2 846 (8.09%) React
3 635 (6.07%) CSS
4 546 (5.22%) HTML
5 460 (4.40%) .NET Core
6 403 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 332 (3.17%) RESTful
8 311 (2.97%) ASP.NET
9 305 (2.92%) Node.js
10 299 (2.86%) .NET Framework
11 250 (2.39%) Vue
12 224 (2.14%) REST
13 197 (1.88%) Laravel
13 197 (1.88%) Web Services
14 185 (1.77%) PostGIS
15 184 (1.76%) Leaflet
15 184 (1.76%) OpenLayers
15 184 (1.76%) Spring
16 159 (1.52%) JSON
17 154 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 266 (2.54%) Management Information System
2 252 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
3 231 (2.21%) Data Centre
4 223 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 222 (2.12%) Public Cloud
6 204 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
7 176 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 175 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 167 (1.60%) IoT
10 165 (1.58%) Driving Licence
11 136 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 121 (1.16%) Onboarding
13 100 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 98 (0.94%) Mobile App
15 78 (0.75%) Data Structures
15 78 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
16 76 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
16 76 (0.73%) Social Media
17 68 (0.65%) PMI
18 66 (0.63%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 816 (7.80%) Linux
2 768 (7.34%) Windows
3 278 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 136 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
5 113 (1.08%) Unix
6 97 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 91 (0.87%) Android
8 66 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 65 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 59 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 49 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 44 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 42 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
14 30 (0.29%) Mac OS
15 22 (0.21%) Windows 7
16 16 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
17 14 (0.13%) CentOS
18 11 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
18 11 (0.11%) VMS
19 9 (0.086%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,471 (23.62%) Agile
2 2,191 (20.95%) Software Engineering
3 1,419 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1,324 (12.66%) Mentoring
5 1,106 (10.57%) DevOps
6 907 (8.67%) Coaching
7 819 (7.83%) Actionable Insight
8 702 (6.71%) Project Management
9 603 (5.76%) CI/CD
10 596 (5.70%) Artificial Intelligence
11 595 (5.69%) Decision-Making
12 569 (5.44%) Computer Science
13 553 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
14 541 (5.17%) Roadmaps
15 526 (5.03%) Analytics
16 490 (4.68%) SDLC
17 476 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 474 (4.53%) Full Stack Development
19 400 (3.82%) Microservices
20 390 (3.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,206 (11.53%) SQL
2 1,166 (11.15%) C#
3 1,162 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1,129 (10.79%) Python
5 787 (7.52%) Java
6 478 (4.57%) TypeScript
7 419 (4.01%) C
8 401 (3.83%) C++
9 318 (3.04%) PHP
10 258 (2.47%) PowerShell
11 213 (2.04%) Bash
12 114 (1.09%) Go
13 112 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 112 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 105 (1.00%) Embedded C
15 80 (0.76%) Scala
16 76 (0.73%) MATLAB
17 71 (0.68%) R
18 65 (0.62%) Perl
19 59 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,389 (13.28%) Degree
2 1,137 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 827 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 226 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 183 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 161 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 160 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 146 (1.40%) ACCA
9 139 (1.33%) CIMA
10 109 (1.04%) CCNP
11 102 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 98 (0.94%) CCNA
13 94 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 92 (0.88%) PMI Certification
15 87 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 85 (0.81%) AWS Certification
16 85 (0.81%) PhD
17 63 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 59 (0.56%) HND
19 58 (0.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (2.28%) QA
2 192 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 153 (1.46%) GDPR
4 120 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 116 (1.11%) SLA
6 102 (0.98%) WCAG
7 66 (0.63%) NIST
8 63 (0.60%) GMP
9 61 (0.58%) PMO
10 49 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 48 (0.46%) IFRS
12 39 (0.37%) IFRS 9
13 33 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
13 33 (0.32%) ISO 26262
14 23 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
15 22 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 21 (0.20%) PCI DSS
17 20 (0.19%) MISRA
18 18 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 513 (4.90%) Docker
2 454 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 266 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 181 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 174 (1.66%) Firmware
6 67 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
7 44 (0.42%) RACF
7 44 (0.42%) vSphere
8 40 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
9 38 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 25 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 12 (0.11%) XenDesktop
12 7 (0.067%) IAG
12 7 (0.067%) NFS
12 7 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.067%) XenApp
13 4 (0.038%) KVM
13 4 (0.038%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 524 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 380 (3.63%) Terraform
3 195 (1.86%) Ansible
4 148 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 77 (0.74%) SCCM
6 62 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.59%) Puppet
7 56 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (0.39%) 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 18 (0.17%) Functional Safety
16 13 (0.12%) WMI
17 12 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,417 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 388 (3.71%) Oracle
3 381 (3.64%) VMware
4 289 (2.76%) Cisco
5 223 (2.13%) Google
6 185 (1.77%) ESRI
7 115 (1.10%) IBM
7 115 (1.10%) SAP
8 96 (0.92%) CyberArk
9 94 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 93 (0.89%) Red Hat
11 90 (0.86%) Databricks
12 88 (0.84%) Meraki
13 77 (0.74%) Adobe
14 70 (0.67%) HP
15 69 (0.66%) Palo Alto
16 68 (0.65%) Dell
17 63 (0.60%) CheckPoint
17 63 (0.60%) Juniper
18 59 (0.56%) Apple