Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,897 16,192 27,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 15.60% 17.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.98% 17.04% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,220 9,815 13,321
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,025 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior in the UK

Senior
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK

Senior
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +2 12,738 £62,783 -10.31% 3,807
UK excluding London +3 9,657 £60,000 -1.32% 2,384
Work from Home +1 6,067 £64,080 -8.46% 1,850
London +2 4,439 £77,500 -6.06% 1,611
North of England +5 2,574 £60,000 - 536
South East -2 2,070 £60,000 -11.11% 582
South West +10 1,587 £57,500 -2.70% 335
North West +9 1,451 £60,000 - 304
Midlands +5 1,369 £57,500 - 372
Scotland -7 1,005 £60,000 -7.69% 207
West Midlands +9 881 £58,232 -2.95% 232
Yorkshire +1 846 £57,965 -3.39% 176
East of England +1 566 £60,000 -7.69% 287
East Midlands +2 482 £54,700 -0.55% 141
Wales +11 370 £50,000 -9.09% 79
North East +16 284 £57,965 +2.59% 66
Northern Ireland +18 124 £55,000 +10.00% 43
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -4 1 £85,000 +136.11% 2

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 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 featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,657 (24.55%) Agile
2 3,168 (21.27%) Social Skills
3 3,101 (20.82%) Finance
4 3,033 (20.36%) Azure
5 2,782 (18.67%) Software Engineering
6 2,636 (17.69%) AWS
7 2,328 (15.63%) Microsoft
8 2,185 (14.67%) SQL
9 2,079 (13.96%) Python
10 2,060 (13.83%) Degree
11 2,059 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
12 1,987 (13.34%) Mentoring
13 1,785 (11.98%) JavaScript
14 1,676 (11.25%) C#
15 1,675 (11.24%) DevOps
16 1,553 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
17 1,534 (10.30%) .NET
18 1,458 (9.79%) Security Cleared
19 1,397 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 1,378 (9.25%) Java
21 1,298 (8.71%) React
22 1,254 (8.42%) Actionable Insight
23 1,146 (7.69%) Linux
24 1,140 (7.65%) Windows
25 1,042 (6.99%) Coaching
26 1,035 (6.95%) SC Cleared
27 1,001 (6.72%) Project Management
28 981 (6.59%) Decision-Making
29 975 (6.54%) CI/CD
30 933 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 259 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 237 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 220 (1.48%) ArcGIS
4 214 (1.44%) GeoServer
5 198 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 157 (1.05%) Apache
7 150 (1.01%) Confluence
8 146 (0.98%) CMS
9 118 (0.79%) SAS
10 116 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
11 111 (0.75%) IIS
12 53 (0.36%) Umbraco
13 48 (0.32%) WordPress
14 40 (0.27%) Headless CMS
14 40 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
15 39 (0.26%) Kentico
16 38 (0.26%) JBoss
17 37 (0.25%) Tuxedo
18 36 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
19 34 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 591 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 169 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 116 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (0.43%) Sketch
6 55 (0.37%) Simulink
7 50 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 41 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 32 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 31 (0.21%) Stateflow
11 24 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 18 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
13 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
14 12 (0.081%) OrCAD
15 10 (0.067%) InDesign
15 10 (0.067%) InVision
15 10 (0.067%) Solid Edge
16 7 (0.047%) Adobe XD
16 7 (0.047%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 74 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.35%) Endur
3 45 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 31 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 24 (0.16%) Shopify
6 18 (0.12%) Magento
7 17 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 15 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 15 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
9 14 (0.094%) SAP FI
9 14 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
10 13 (0.087%) NEC Housing
10 13 (0.087%) SAP SCM
11 12 (0.081%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.081%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.074%) SAP SD
13 10 (0.067%) SAP HR
14 9 (0.060%) Primavera
15 8 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3,033 (20.36%) Azure
2 2,636 (17.69%) AWS
3 713 (4.79%) SaaS
4 677 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
5 615 (4.13%) GCP
6 531 (3.56%) Power Platform
7 448 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 351 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 259 (1.74%) Serverless
10 221 (1.48%) GitHub
11 214 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 166 (1.11%) PaaS
13 164 (1.10%) Amazon S3
14 140 (0.94%) IaaS
15 139 (0.93%) PowerApps
16 132 (0.89%) Snowflake
17 130 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
18 127 (0.85%) OneDrive
19 120 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
19 120 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 606 (4.07%) Firewall
2 399 (2.68%) Broadband
3 367 (2.46%) WAN
4 324 (2.17%) DNS
5 267 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 258 (1.73%) LAN
7 238 (1.60%) Wireless
8 207 (1.39%) DHCP
9 196 (1.32%) VPN
10 185 (1.24%) Network Security
11 168 (1.13%) 5G
12 160 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
13 145 (0.97%) Internet
14 133 (0.89%) SD-WAN
15 117 (0.79%) VLAN
16 113 (0.76%) MPLS
17 109 (0.73%) SAN
18 98 (0.66%) BGP
19 92 (0.62%) HTTP
20 61 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 704 (4.73%) SQL Server
2 613 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 403 (2.71%) Power BI
4 375 (2.52%) MySQL
5 351 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 322 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 278 (1.87%) Tableau
8 250 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 235 (1.58%) GIS
10 216 (1.45%) QGIS
11 213 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 190 (1.28%) Big Data
13 168 (1.13%) MongoDB
14 150 (1.01%) Oracle Database
15 147 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
16 119 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 117 (0.79%) Metadata
18 96 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
18 96 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
19 94 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 840 (5.64%) Git
2 404 (2.71%) JIRA
3 310 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 146 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 136 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 128 (0.86%) GitLab
7 103 (0.69%) Selenium
8 74 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 67 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 61 (0.41%) Postman
11 58 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 57 (0.38%) JUnit
13 53 (0.36%) TeamCity
14 49 (0.33%) Sourcetree
15 47 (0.32%) Subversion
16 44 (0.30%) Maven
17 41 (0.28%) IntelliJ
18 38 (0.26%) CircleCI
18 38 (0.26%) Eclipse
18 38 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 3,168 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 3,101 (20.82%) Finance
3 1,553 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 1,397 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 838 (5.63%) Marketing
6 717 (4.81%) Law
7 664 (4.46%) Public Sector
8 656 (4.40%) Banking
9 604 (4.05%) Retail
10 468 (3.14%) Legal
11 427 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
12 352 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 350 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 268 (1.80%) Games
15 241 (1.62%) Electronics
16 217 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 216 (1.45%) Front Office
18 185 (1.24%) Aerospace
19 182 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
20 171 (1.15%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,534 (10.30%) .NET
2 1,298 (8.71%) React
3 899 (6.03%) CSS
4 839 (5.63%) HTML
5 652 (4.38%) AngularJS
6 571 (3.83%) .NET Core
7 493 (3.31%) Node.js
8 482 (3.24%) RESTful
9 430 (2.89%) REST
10 425 (2.85%) ASP.NET
11 358 (2.40%) .NET Framework
12 357 (2.40%) Vue
13 353 (2.37%) Spring
14 326 (2.19%) Kafka
15 311 (2.09%) Web Services
16 286 (1.92%) JSON
17 254 (1.71%) XML
18 232 (1.56%) Laravel
19 217 (1.46%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.44%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 374 (2.51%) Product Ownership
2 358 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 345 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
4 337 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 321 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 318 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 281 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 281 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 270 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 239 (1.60%) Driving Licence
10 224 (1.50%) IoT
11 216 (1.45%) Social Media
12 177 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 169 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 166 (1.11%) Derivative
15 158 (1.06%) Mobile App
16 156 (1.05%) Hedge funds
17 148 (0.99%) Data Structures
18 133 (0.89%) Equities
19 119 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1,146 (7.69%) Linux
2 1,140 (7.65%) Windows
3 439 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 211 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 147 (0.99%) Android
5 147 (0.99%) Unix
6 134 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
7 132 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 130 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 91 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 80 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 72 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
12 60 (0.40%) Mac OS
13 49 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 31 (0.21%) VMS
15 22 (0.15%) Windows 7
15 22 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
16 16 (0.11%) CentOS
17 15 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
18 11 (0.074%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,657 (24.55%) Agile
2 2,782 (18.67%) Software Engineering
3 2,059 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
4 1,987 (13.34%) Mentoring
5 1,675 (11.24%) DevOps
6 1,254 (8.42%) Actionable Insight
7 1,042 (6.99%) Coaching
8 1,001 (6.72%) Project Management
9 981 (6.59%) Decision-Making
10 975 (6.54%) CI/CD
11 933 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence
12 920 (6.18%) Analytics
13 878 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
14 871 (5.85%) Computer Science
15 801 (5.38%) Full Stack Development
16 792 (5.32%) Roadmaps
17 713 (4.79%) Microservices
18 656 (4.40%) SDLC
19 613 (4.11%) Machine Learning
20 602 (4.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,185 (14.67%) SQL
2 2,079 (13.96%) Python
3 1,785 (11.98%) JavaScript
4 1,676 (11.25%) C#
5 1,378 (9.25%) Java
6 870 (5.84%) TypeScript
7 472 (3.17%) C++
8 471 (3.16%) C
9 407 (2.73%) PowerShell
10 375 (2.52%) PHP
11 369 (2.48%) Bash
12 215 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 207 (1.39%) Go
14 185 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 140 (0.94%) R
16 132 (0.89%) Ruby
17 116 (0.78%) Scala
18 109 (0.73%) Kotlin
19 100 (0.67%) Embedded C
20 99 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,060 (13.83%) Degree
2 1,458 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 1,035 (6.95%) SC Cleared
4 356 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 290 (1.95%) ACCA
6 274 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 256 (1.72%) CIMA
8 238 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 236 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 179 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 150 (1.01%) CCNP
12 148 (0.99%) CISSP
13 144 (0.97%) PMI Certification
14 130 (0.87%) Azure Certification
14 130 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 127 (0.85%) AWS Certification
16 117 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
17 102 (0.68%) PhD
18 99 (0.66%) CCNA
19 75 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (2.58%) QA
2 249 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 246 (1.65%) SLA
4 229 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 190 (1.28%) GDPR
6 124 (0.83%) NIST
7 120 (0.81%) WCAG
8 110 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 101 (0.68%) IFRS
10 97 (0.65%) PMO
11 71 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 54 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 42 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 41 (0.28%) GRC
15 38 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
16 37 (0.25%) GMP
17 33 (0.22%) ISO 26262
18 30 (0.20%) NCSC
19 26 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
20 25 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 843 (5.66%) Docker
2 774 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 364 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 247 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 175 (1.17%) Firmware
6 75 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
7 64 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
8 63 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
9 52 (0.35%) vSphere
10 30 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 19 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 15 (0.10%) KVM
14 13 (0.087%) XenDesktop
15 12 (0.081%) XenApp
16 11 (0.074%) IAG
17 10 (0.067%) NFS
18 8 (0.054%) HDFS
19 7 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
20 5 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 907 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 671 (4.50%) Terraform
3 310 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 294 (1.97%) Ansible
5 146 (0.98%) SCCM
6 142 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
7 95 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 91 (0.61%) Puppet
9 76 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 75 (0.50%) Grafana
11 59 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
13 42 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 29 (0.19%) OpenSSO
15 28 (0.19%) CASB
16 25 (0.17%) Stealthwatch
17 24 (0.16%) SCOM
18 23 (0.15%) Nagios
19 22 (0.15%) WSUS
20 18 (0.12%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2,328 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 593 (3.98%) Oracle
3 547 (3.67%) VMware
4 462 (3.10%) Cisco
5 406 (2.73%) Google
6 273 (1.83%) Databricks
7 223 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.46%) ESRI
9 212 (1.42%) SAP
10 184 (1.24%) Dell
11 156 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 134 (0.90%) IBM
13 128 (0.86%) Tanium
14 123 (0.83%) Meraki
14 123 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 123 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 119 (0.80%) Juniper
16 115 (0.77%) Adobe
16 115 (0.77%) HP
17 111 (0.75%) Red Hat