Senior Jobs in the North of England

Senior
England > North of England

The median Senior salary in the North of England is £60,000 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 6 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,585 2,639 2,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.76% 15.29% 12.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.55% 17.08% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 1,204 1,437
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £39,879
25th Percentile £49,236 £51,833 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,622 15,451 17,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.51% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,863 8,209 10,905
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,544 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the North of 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
North West +8 1,457 £60,000 - 346
Yorkshire +1 850 £57,965 -3.39% 165
North East +15 283 £57,965 +2.59% 67
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 713 (27.58%) Agile
2 569 (22.01%) Mentoring
3 513 (19.85%) AWS
4 481 (18.61%) Coaching
5 480 (18.57%) Azure
6 456 (17.64%) Software Engineering
7 437 (16.91%) Social Skills
8 388 (15.01%) Finance
9 319 (12.34%) SQL
10 315 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
11 311 (12.03%) DevOps
12 284 (10.99%) Degree
13 277 (10.72%) Public Sector
14 259 (10.02%) JavaScript
14 259 (10.02%) Microsoft
15 242 (9.36%) Python
16 241 (9.32%) .NET
17 214 (8.28%) C#
18 187 (7.23%) Terraform
19 186 (7.20%) Project Management
20 182 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
21 178 (6.89%) Linux
22 177 (6.85%) React
23 175 (6.77%) Roadmaps
24 168 (6.50%) Java
25 163 (6.31%) Security Cleared
25 163 (6.31%) Actionable Insight
26 161 (6.23%) Analytics
27 151 (5.84%) Windows
28 149 (5.76%) CI/CD

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 59 (2.28%) ArcGIS
2 55 (2.13%) GeoServer
3 47 (1.82%) SAS
4 41 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 39 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 31 (1.20%) Tuxedo
7 27 (1.04%) CMS
8 17 (0.66%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.54%) Confluence
10 12 (0.46%) Apache
11 6 (0.23%) WordPress
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.12%) JBoss
13 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.077%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.077%) OpenStack
Applications
1 44 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.46%) Sketch
5 11 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.19%) Solid Edge
7 5 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.15%) Maya
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.077%) Revit
10 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.039%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (0.74%) Shopify
2 16 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.50%) Magento
4 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.077%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.039%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.039%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.039%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.039%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.039%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 513 (19.85%) AWS
2 480 (18.57%) Azure
3 92 (3.56%) Power Platform
4 91 (3.52%) GCP
5 86 (3.33%) SaaS
6 76 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.05%) GitHub
9 51 (1.97%) Amazon S3
10 47 (1.82%) Serverless
11 44 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (1.51%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.43%) IBM Cloud
13 37 (1.43%) OCI
14 36 (1.39%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (1.39%) Route 53
15 34 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
16 31 (1.20%) OneDrive
17 26 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.01%) Firewall
2 49 (1.90%) DNS
3 46 (1.78%) WAN
4 39 (1.51%) Network Security
5 33 (1.28%) LAN
6 28 (1.08%) DHCP
7 27 (1.04%) Internet
8 24 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 23 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (0.81%) PPP
10 21 (0.81%) SD-WAN
11 16 (0.62%) Wireless
12 15 (0.58%) Broadband
13 13 (0.50%) VLAN
14 12 (0.46%) SAN
14 12 (0.46%) VoIP
14 12 (0.46%) VPN
15 11 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.43%) HTTP
16 10 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (4.87%) MySQL
2 120 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 72 (2.79%) NoSQL
5 64 (2.48%) Power BI
6 62 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (2.17%) GIS
8 55 (2.13%) QGIS
9 50 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (1.47%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 27 (1.04%) Relational Database
13 24 (0.93%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.85%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.77%) Oracle Database 11g
16 18 (0.70%) Big Data
17 14 (0.54%) Metadata
18 13 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
19 12 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 115 (4.45%) Git
2 42 (1.62%) JIRA
3 41 (1.59%) GitLab
4 35 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 19 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 16 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.50%) PHPUnit
9 12 (0.46%) Appium
10 11 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
11 9 (0.35%) Maven
12 8 (0.31%) LabVIEW
13 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.27%) Gradle
14 6 (0.23%) CircleCI
15 5 (0.19%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.19%) JetBrains Rider
15 5 (0.19%) Selenium
15 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 437 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 388 (15.01%) Finance
3 277 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 182 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 147 (5.69%) Banking
6 120 (4.64%) Retail
7 118 (4.56%) Legal
8 100 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 65 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (2.01%) Law
12 46 (1.78%) Marketing
13 36 (1.39%) Publishing
14 35 (1.35%) Games
15 30 (1.16%) Health Technology
16 29 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (1.04%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.89%) Electronics
19 22 (0.85%) Automotive
19 22 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (9.32%) .NET
2 177 (6.85%) React
3 135 (5.22%) CSS
4 114 (4.41%) RESTful
5 108 (4.18%) Node.js
6 97 (3.75%) .NET Core
6 97 (3.75%) HTML
7 79 (3.06%) Vue
8 76 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 74 (2.86%) Laravel
10 55 (2.13%) ASP.NET
10 55 (2.13%) Leaflet
10 55 (2.13%) OpenLayers
10 55 (2.13%) PostGIS
11 44 (1.70%) Spring
12 43 (1.66%) .NET Framework
13 41 (1.59%) REST
14 38 (1.47%) JSON
14 38 (1.47%) Kafka
15 34 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 129 (4.99%) Public Cloud
2 81 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 79 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 56 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 52 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 51 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 47 (1.82%) Blockchain
9 45 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.43%) e-Learning
11 36 (1.39%) Credit Risk
11 36 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 28 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.04%) PMI
14 26 (1.01%) IoT
15 25 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 23 (0.89%) NHS
16 23 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
17 22 (0.85%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 178 (6.89%) Linux
2 151 (5.84%) Windows
3 47 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.85%) Android
5 19 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 18 (0.70%) Unix
7 13 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 13 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.23%) VME
9 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.19%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (27.58%) Agile
2 569 (22.01%) Mentoring
3 481 (18.61%) Coaching
4 456 (17.64%) Software Engineering
5 315 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (12.03%) DevOps
7 186 (7.20%) Project Management
8 175 (6.77%) Roadmaps
9 163 (6.31%) Actionable Insight
10 161 (6.23%) Analytics
11 149 (5.76%) CI/CD
12 127 (4.91%) ITIL
13 125 (4.84%) Design Patterns
14 123 (4.76%) Microservices
15 121 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 119 (4.60%) TDD
17 116 (4.49%) Full Stack Development
18 111 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence
19 110 (4.26%) Continuous Improvement
20 109 (4.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 319 (12.34%) SQL
2 259 (10.02%) JavaScript
3 242 (9.36%) Python
4 214 (8.28%) C#
5 168 (6.50%) Java
6 123 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 111 (4.29%) PHP
8 44 (1.70%) C
9 42 (1.62%) COBOL
9 42 (1.62%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 36 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 33 (1.28%) C++
13 27 (1.04%) PL/SQL
14 21 (0.81%) R
15 18 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.54%) Go
17 11 (0.43%) Groovy
18 10 (0.39%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 284 (10.99%) Degree
2 163 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 145 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 55 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 29 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.08%) CCNP
8 28 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.70%) APMP
11 18 (0.70%) JNCIA
12 17 (0.66%) CCNA
12 17 (0.66%) JNCIP
13 16 (0.62%) HND
14 14 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 13 (0.50%) CCIE
15 13 (0.50%) CISSP
16 11 (0.43%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 64 (2.48%) QA
3 61 (2.36%) GDPR
4 52 (2.01%) WCAG
5 43 (1.66%) Data Quality
6 29 (1.12%) IFRS
6 29 (1.12%) IFRS 9
7 24 (0.93%) GMP
8 23 (0.89%) NIST
9 22 (0.85%) SLA
10 17 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 15 (0.58%) PMO
12 12 (0.46%) NCSC
13 10 (0.39%) CRD IV
14 8 (0.31%) ISO 9000
15 5 (0.19%) GRC
15 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 2 (0.077%) GLP
System Software
1 116 (4.49%) Docker
2 78 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.74%) Firmware
4 21 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.27%) IAG
8 6 (0.23%) vSphere
9 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.039%) KVM
11 1 (0.039%) Lustre
11 1 (0.039%) RACF
11 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.039%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.039%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 187 (7.23%) Terraform
2 132 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.97%) Ansible
4 42 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
10 6 (0.23%) Grafana
10 6 (0.23%) WSUS
11 5 (0.19%) CASB
12 4 (0.15%) Cacti
12 4 (0.15%) Puppet
12 4 (0.15%) SCCM
13 3 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.12%) Kibana
14 2 (0.077%) Icinga
14 2 (0.077%) logstash
Vendors
1 259 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 102 (3.95%) Oracle
3 87 (3.37%) Google
4 61 (2.36%) Cisco
5 59 (2.28%) IBM
6 55 (2.13%) ESRI
7 42 (1.62%) Micro Focus
7 42 (1.62%) VMware
8 39 (1.51%) Red Hat
8 39 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.39%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.01%) Juniper
10 26 (1.01%) SAP
11 25 (0.97%) Splunk
12 23 (0.89%) CA
12 23 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 22 (0.85%) Databricks
13 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
14 19 (0.74%) Informatica
14 19 (0.74%) Salesforce