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 12 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
12 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 12,819 14,050 23,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.92% 15.58% 17.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.79% 17.02% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,991 8,567 11,643
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £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 81,185 82,540 127,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.53% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,576 52,509 74,661
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,288 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £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 12 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 12 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 4,489 £77,500 -6.06% 1,654
North of England +5 2,585 £60,000 - 574
South East -1 2,082 £60,000 -11.11% 583
South West +10 1,582 £57,500 -4.17% 328
North West +8 1,457 £60,000 - 348
Midlands +5 1,384 £57,500 - 423
West Midlands +8 885 £58,500 -2.50% 276
Yorkshire +1 850 £57,965 -3.39% 166
East of England 0 568 £60,000 -7.69% 273
East Midlands +1 491 £52,500 -4.55% 148
North East +15 283 £57,965 +2.59% 68
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 2,935 (22.90%) Agile
2 2,867 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 2,581 (20.13%) Finance
4 2,496 (19.47%) Azure
5 2,206 (17.21%) AWS
6 2,108 (16.44%) Software Engineering
7 2,077 (16.20%) Microsoft
8 1,953 (15.24%) Degree
9 1,895 (14.78%) SQL
10 1,852 (14.45%) Python
11 1,822 (14.21%) Mentoring
12 1,667 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
13 1,541 (12.02%) JavaScript
14 1,446 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
15 1,364 (10.64%) C#
16 1,363 (10.63%) DevOps
17 1,264 (9.86%) .NET
18 1,114 (8.69%) Security Cleared
19 1,075 (8.39%) React
20 1,052 (8.21%) Java
21 985 (7.68%) Linux
22 982 (7.66%) Windows
23 954 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
24 953 (7.43%) Coaching
25 901 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 894 (6.97%) Project Management
27 841 (6.56%) Analytics
28 818 (6.38%) Decision-Making
29 799 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
29 799 (6.23%) TypeScript

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
1 226 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 168 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 153 (1.19%) Apache
4 141 (1.10%) CMS
5 135 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 131 (1.02%) ArcGIS
7 126 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 126 (0.98%) GeoServer
8 123 (0.96%) Confluence
9 102 (0.80%) SAS
10 94 (0.73%) IIS
11 52 (0.41%) Umbraco
12 46 (0.36%) WordPress
13 41 (0.32%) Headless CMS
13 41 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
14 40 (0.31%) Kentico
15 37 (0.29%) Tuxedo
16 24 (0.19%) WebLogic
17 23 (0.18%) nginx
18 17 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 532 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 262 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 159 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 96 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (0.38%) Simulink
6 46 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 36 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 36 (0.28%) Sketch
8 27 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.20%) Stateflow
10 24 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
12 17 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 12 (0.094%) OrCAD
14 11 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
15 10 (0.078%) InDesign
15 10 (0.078%) Solid Edge
16 7 (0.055%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.047%) 3ds Max
18 5 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 69 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.42%) Endur
3 37 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.19%) Shopify
6 23 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 21 (0.16%) Magento
8 17 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 16 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
10 14 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
11 13 (0.10%) SAP SCM
12 11 (0.086%) SAP FI
13 10 (0.078%) SAP HR
14 9 (0.070%) NEC Housing
14 9 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
14 9 (0.070%) SAP CO
14 9 (0.070%) SAP FI/CO
15 8 (0.062%) Primavera
15 8 (0.062%) SAP SD
16 7 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,496 (19.47%) Azure
2 2,206 (17.21%) AWS
3 625 (4.88%) SaaS
4 577 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
5 502 (3.92%) GCP
6 465 (3.63%) Power Platform
7 391 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 310 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 216 (1.68%) Serverless
10 187 (1.46%) GitHub
11 182 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 147 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 136 (1.06%) Snowflake
14 128 (1.00%) PaaS
15 118 (0.92%) OneDrive
16 113 (0.88%) IaaS
17 108 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
18 105 (0.82%) PowerApps
19 95 (0.74%) dbt
20 94 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 508 (3.96%) Firewall
2 387 (3.02%) Broadband
3 311 (2.43%) WAN
4 270 (2.11%) DNS
5 230 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 211 (1.65%) LAN
7 188 (1.47%) Wireless
8 184 (1.44%) DHCP
9 164 (1.28%) VPN
10 161 (1.26%) 5G
11 155 (1.21%) Network Security
12 129 (1.01%) Internet
13 127 (0.99%) SD-WAN
14 125 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
15 100 (0.78%) VLAN
16 95 (0.74%) MPLS
17 86 (0.67%) HTTP
18 85 (0.66%) SAN
19 80 (0.62%) BGP
20 53 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 635 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 442 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 367 (2.86%) Power BI
4 359 (2.80%) MySQL
5 311 (2.43%) Tableau
6 271 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 254 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 210 (1.64%) Relational Database
9 205 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 155 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 136 (1.06%) GIS
12 128 (1.00%) QGIS
13 121 (0.94%) Big Data
14 113 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 102 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
16 98 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
17 97 (0.76%) Oracle Database
18 80 (0.62%) Redis
19 78 (0.61%) Metadata
20 76 (0.59%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 773 (6.03%) Git
2 333 (2.60%) JIRA
3 227 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 125 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 114 (0.89%) GitLab
6 95 (0.74%) Selenium
7 90 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 65 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 53 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 52 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 49 (0.38%) Sourcetree
12 48 (0.37%) Postman
13 45 (0.35%) Subversion
14 38 (0.30%) Maven
15 37 (0.29%) CircleCI
15 37 (0.29%) JUnit
16 36 (0.28%) Eclipse
17 35 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
18 33 (0.26%) NUnit
19 30 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 2,867 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 2,581 (20.13%) Finance
3 1,446 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 901 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 605 (4.72%) Retail
6 581 (4.53%) Banking
7 568 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 525 (4.10%) Marketing
9 442 (3.45%) Legal
10 417 (3.25%) Law
11 356 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
12 355 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 319 (2.49%) Manufacturing
14 234 (1.83%) Games
15 225 (1.76%) Front Office
16 211 (1.65%) Electronics
17 179 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 178 (1.39%) Aerospace
19 169 (1.32%) Automotive
20 158 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,264 (9.86%) .NET
2 1,075 (8.39%) React
3 709 (5.53%) CSS
4 701 (5.47%) HTML
5 529 (4.13%) AngularJS
6 436 (3.40%) .NET Core
7 392 (3.06%) Node.js
8 383 (2.99%) ASP.NET
9 365 (2.85%) RESTful
10 343 (2.68%) REST
11 318 (2.48%) Vue
12 298 (2.32%) .NET Framework
13 254 (1.98%) Spring
14 253 (1.97%) Kafka
15 202 (1.58%) Laravel
16 196 (1.53%) Web Services
17 167 (1.30%) XML
18 162 (1.26%) JSON
19 158 (1.23%) Pandas
20 146 (1.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 325 (2.54%) Product Ownership
2 322 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
3 283 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 270 (2.11%) Algorithms
5 255 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 238 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 232 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 216 (1.68%) IoT
9 212 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 194 (1.51%) Social Media
11 179 (1.40%) Driving Licence
12 177 (1.38%) Derivative
13 176 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 167 (1.30%) Hedge funds
15 161 (1.26%) Cloud Native
16 142 (1.11%) Equities
17 139 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 138 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
19 127 (0.99%) Fixed Income
20 122 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 985 (7.68%) Linux
2 982 (7.66%) Windows
3 356 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 188 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 125 (0.98%) Unix
6 118 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 114 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 112 (0.87%) Android
9 105 (0.82%) Apple iOS
10 86 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 71 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 64 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
13 46 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 33 (0.26%) Mac OS
15 32 (0.25%) VMS
16 23 (0.18%) Windows 7
17 18 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
18 15 (0.12%) CentOS
19 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
20 10 (0.078%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,935 (22.90%) Agile
2 2,108 (16.44%) Software Engineering
3 1,822 (14.21%) Mentoring
4 1,667 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1,363 (10.63%) DevOps
6 954 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
7 953 (7.43%) Coaching
8 894 (6.97%) Project Management
9 841 (6.56%) Analytics
10 818 (6.38%) Decision-Making
11 799 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
12 791 (6.17%) CI/CD
13 697 (5.44%) Computer Science
14 690 (5.38%) Full Stack Development
15 687 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence
16 666 (5.20%) Roadmaps
17 556 (4.34%) Microservices
18 512 (3.99%) Project Delivery
19 511 (3.99%) Business Intelligence
20 508 (3.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,895 (14.78%) SQL
2 1,852 (14.45%) Python
3 1,541 (12.02%) JavaScript
4 1,364 (10.64%) C#
5 1,052 (8.21%) Java
6 799 (6.23%) TypeScript
7 365 (2.85%) C++
8 364 (2.84%) C
9 352 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 335 (2.61%) PHP
11 330 (2.57%) Bash
12 195 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 128 (1.00%) R
14 125 (0.98%) Go
15 121 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 98 (0.76%) Kotlin
17 96 (0.75%) Rust
18 84 (0.66%) Ruby
19 82 (0.64%) Perl
20 80 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,953 (15.24%) Degree
2 1,114 (8.69%) Security Cleared
3 716 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 310 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 271 (2.11%) ACCA
6 268 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 238 (1.86%) CIMA
8 219 (1.71%) DBS Check
8 219 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 193 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 136 (1.06%) CCNP
11 129 (1.01%) CISSP
11 129 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 126 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 118 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 116 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 96 (0.75%) PhD
16 85 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
17 82 (0.64%) CCNA
18 61 (0.48%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (2.76%) QA
2 230 (1.79%) SLA
3 195 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 186 (1.45%) GDPR
5 177 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 111 (0.87%) NIST
7 96 (0.75%) WCAG
8 95 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 83 (0.65%) IFRS
10 77 (0.60%) PMO
11 61 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 58 (0.45%) GMP
13 41 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 40 (0.31%) GRC
14 40 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 38 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
16 33 (0.26%) ISO 26262
17 28 (0.22%) NCSC
18 26 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
19 22 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 737 (5.75%) Docker
2 646 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 303 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 200 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 130 (1.01%) Firmware
6 51 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 51 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 51 (0.40%) vSphere
7 25 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.12%) KVM
8 16 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.11%) XenApp
11 11 (0.086%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.070%) NFS
13 8 (0.062%) HDFS
14 7 (0.055%) IAG
14 7 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 771 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 581 (4.53%) Terraform
3 279 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 246 (1.92%) Ansible
5 138 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
6 126 (0.98%) SCCM
7 92 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 85 (0.66%) Puppet
9 67 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 66 (0.51%) Grafana
11 47 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 46 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 39 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 28 (0.22%) CASB
15 27 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
16 24 (0.19%) Nagios
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
18 20 (0.16%) WSUS
19 19 (0.15%) Nmap
19 19 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,077 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 470 (3.67%) VMware
3 413 (3.22%) Oracle
4 392 (3.06%) Cisco
5 358 (2.79%) Google
6 293 (2.29%) Databricks
7 216 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 183 (1.43%) SAP
9 168 (1.31%) Dell
10 153 (1.19%) CyberArk
11 128 (1.00%) ESRI
11 128 (1.00%) Tanium
12 125 (0.98%) IBM
13 115 (0.90%) Meraki
14 112 (0.87%) Salesforce
15 110 (0.86%) Adobe
16 108 (0.84%) Red Hat
17 107 (0.83%) Juniper
18 104 (0.81%) Palo Alto
19 99 (0.77%) HP