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 10 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
10 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 12,792 13,959 23,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.90% 15.52% 17.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.77% 16.97% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,981 8,484 11,669
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,123 £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 81,130 82,270 127,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,549 52,263 74,733
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 £90,857 £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 10 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 10 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 4,472 £77,500 -6.06% 1,571
North of England +5 2,580 £60,000 - 570
South East -1 2,080 £60,000 -11.11% 575
South West +11 1,579 £57,500 -2.70% 332
North West +8 1,453 £60,000 - 348
Midlands +5 1,382 £57,500 - 396
West Midlands +8 885 £58,500 -2.50% 256
Yorkshire +1 850 £57,965 -3.39% 162
East of England +1 570 £60,000 -7.69% 283
East Midlands +2 489 £53,600 -2.55% 141
North East +16 282 £57,965 +5.39% 68
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 2,940 (22.98%) Agile
2 2,856 (22.33%) Social Skills
3 2,572 (20.11%) Finance
4 2,496 (19.51%) Azure
5 2,195 (17.16%) AWS
6 2,104 (16.45%) Software Engineering
7 2,077 (16.24%) Microsoft
8 1,936 (15.13%) Degree
9 1,893 (14.80%) SQL
10 1,848 (14.45%) Python
11 1,812 (14.17%) Mentoring
12 1,657 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
13 1,540 (12.04%) JavaScript
14 1,442 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
15 1,364 (10.66%) DevOps
15 1,364 (10.66%) C#
16 1,263 (9.87%) .NET
17 1,112 (8.69%) Security Cleared
18 1,073 (8.39%) React
19 1,046 (8.18%) Java
20 984 (7.69%) Linux
21 982 (7.68%) Windows
22 959 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
23 944 (7.38%) Coaching
24 904 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 893 (6.98%) Project Management
26 837 (6.54%) Analytics
27 817 (6.39%) Decision-Making
28 799 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
29 798 (6.24%) 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
1 224 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 168 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 153 (1.20%) Apache
4 141 (1.10%) CMS
5 135 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 131 (1.02%) ArcGIS
7 126 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 126 (0.98%) GeoServer
8 123 (0.96%) Confluence
9 103 (0.81%) 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
1 531 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 263 (2.06%) 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 50 (0.39%) 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 (0.13%) 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 (0.063%) Primavera
15 8 (0.063%) SAP SD
16 7 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,496 (19.51%) Azure
2 2,195 (17.16%) AWS
3 625 (4.89%) SaaS
4 578 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
5 500 (3.91%) GCP
6 465 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 392 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 311 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 216 (1.69%) Serverless
10 187 (1.46%) GitHub
11 182 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 145 (1.13%) Amazon S3
13 135 (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
1 507 (3.96%) Firewall
2 387 (3.03%) Broadband
3 309 (2.42%) WAN
4 270 (2.11%) DNS
5 230 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 210 (1.64%) 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
12 128 (1.00%) Internet
13 126 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 125 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
15 100 (0.78%) VLAN
16 95 (0.74%) MPLS
17 85 (0.66%) HTTP
17 85 (0.66%) SAN
18 80 (0.63%) BGP
19 53 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 634 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 442 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
3 367 (2.87%) Power BI
4 359 (2.81%) MySQL
5 306 (2.39%) Tableau
6 269 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
7 253 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 208 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 198 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 155 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 136 (1.06%) GIS
12 128 (1.00%) QGIS
13 119 (0.93%) Big Data
14 113 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 102 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
16 98 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
17 97 (0.76%) Oracle Database
18 80 (0.63%) Redis
19 78 (0.61%) Metadata
20 76 (0.59%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 769 (6.01%) 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 (0.38%) 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 2,856 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 2,572 (20.11%) Finance
3 1,442 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 904 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 596 (4.66%) Retail
6 582 (4.55%) Banking
7 568 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 524 (4.10%) Marketing
9 440 (3.44%) Legal
10 417 (3.26%) Law
11 356 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
12 341 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
13 313 (2.45%) Manufacturing
14 232 (1.81%) Games
15 225 (1.76%) Front Office
16 211 (1.65%) Electronics
17 179 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 175 (1.37%) Aerospace
19 168 (1.31%) Automotive
20 156 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,263 (9.87%) .NET
2 1,073 (8.39%) React
3 709 (5.54%) CSS
4 701 (5.48%) HTML
5 529 (4.14%) AngularJS
6 436 (3.41%) .NET Core
7 391 (3.06%) Node.js
8 383 (2.99%) ASP.NET
9 363 (2.84%) RESTful
10 343 (2.68%) REST
11 318 (2.49%) Vue
12 298 (2.33%) .NET Framework
13 253 (1.98%) Spring
14 251 (1.96%) Kafka
15 202 (1.58%) Laravel
16 196 (1.53%) Web Services
17 167 (1.31%) XML
18 162 (1.27%) JSON
19 158 (1.24%) Pandas
20 146 (1.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 322 (2.52%) Product Ownership
1 322 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
2 283 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
3 268 (2.10%) Algorithms
4 255 (1.99%) Management Information System
5 237 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 231 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 215 (1.68%) IoT
8 212 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 194 (1.52%) Social Media
10 185 (1.45%) Driving Licence
11 177 (1.38%) Derivative
12 174 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 168 (1.31%) Cloud Native
14 167 (1.31%) Hedge funds
15 142 (1.11%) Equities
16 139 (1.09%) Mobile App
17 138 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
18 127 (0.99%) Fixed Income
19 126 (0.98%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 984 (7.69%) Linux
2 982 (7.68%) Windows
3 357 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 187 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 125 (0.98%) Unix
6 118 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 114 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 111 (0.87%) Android
9 104 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 87 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 71 (0.56%) 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 31 (0.24%) 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 2,940 (22.98%) Agile
2 2,104 (16.45%) Software Engineering
3 1,812 (14.17%) Mentoring
4 1,657 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
5 1,364 (10.66%) DevOps
6 959 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
7 944 (7.38%) Coaching
8 893 (6.98%) Project Management
9 837 (6.54%) Analytics
10 817 (6.39%) Decision-Making
11 799 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
12 789 (6.17%) CI/CD
13 693 (5.42%) Computer Science
14 691 (5.40%) Full Stack Development
15 681 (5.32%) Artificial Intelligence
16 656 (5.13%) Roadmaps
17 555 (4.34%) Microservices
18 516 (4.03%) Project Delivery
19 512 (4.00%) Business Intelligence
20 508 (3.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,893 (14.80%) SQL
2 1,848 (14.45%) Python
3 1,540 (12.04%) JavaScript
4 1,364 (10.66%) C#
5 1,046 (8.18%) Java
6 798 (6.24%) TypeScript
7 364 (2.85%) C
7 364 (2.85%) C++
8 353 (2.76%) PowerShell
9 335 (2.62%) PHP
10 330 (2.58%) Bash
11 195 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 128 (1.00%) R
13 124 (0.97%) Go
14 121 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 97 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 97 (0.76%) Rust
16 82 (0.64%) Perl
16 82 (0.64%) Ruby
17 80 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,936 (15.13%) Degree
2 1,112 (8.69%) Security Cleared
3 714 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 310 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 271 (2.12%) ACCA
6 266 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 238 (1.86%) CIMA
8 216 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 215 (1.68%) DBS Check
10 193 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 136 (1.06%) CCNP
12 130 (1.02%) PMI Certification
13 129 (1.01%) CISSP
14 119 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 116 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
16 111 (0.87%) AWS Certification
17 95 (0.74%) PhD
18 85 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
19 82 (0.64%) CCNA
20 61 (0.48%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (2.70%) QA
2 230 (1.80%) SLA
3 195 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 186 (1.45%) GDPR
5 176 (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 79 (0.62%) PMO
11 61 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 51 (0.40%) 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
1 733 (5.73%) Docker
2 646 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 303 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 200 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 130 (1.02%) Firmware
6 51 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 51 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 50 (0.39%) vSphere
8 25 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.13%) KVM
11 14 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.11%) XenApp
12 11 (0.086%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.070%) NFS
14 8 (0.063%) HDFS
15 7 (0.055%) IAG
15 7 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 765 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 579 (4.53%) Terraform
3 279 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 245 (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 (0.52%) 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 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 469 (3.67%) VMware
3 411 (3.21%) Oracle
4 392 (3.06%) Cisco
5 357 (2.79%) Google
6 289 (2.26%) Databricks
7 216 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 183 (1.43%) SAP
9 167 (1.31%) Dell
10 153 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 128 (1.00%) ESRI
11 128 (1.00%) Tanium
12 125 (0.98%) IBM
13 115 (0.90%) Meraki
14 110 (0.86%) Adobe
14 110 (0.86%) Salesforce
15 108 (0.84%) Red Hat
16 107 (0.84%) Juniper
17 104 (0.81%) Palo Alto
18 99 (0.77%) HP