Senior Jobs in the South East

Senior
England > South East

The median Senior salary in the South East is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,081 2,140 2,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.38% 14.70% 14.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.17% 16.27% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,385 1,224 1,934
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +10.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,797 13,155 19,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.38% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,357 8,270 12,438
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley +2 1,018 £62,500 -10.71% 238
Berkshire +8 513 £67,500 -3.57% 107
Hampshire -13 346 £62,500 -7.41% 99
Surrey -2 335 £60,000 -4.00% 77
Oxfordshire +3 276 £60,000 -14.29% 76
Buckinghamshire -1 230 £55,000 -8.33% 55
Kent +6 161 £60,000 +4.35% 48
East Sussex -4 90 £55,000 -13.75% 22
West Sussex -15 57 £57,500 -8.00% 16
Middlesex +15 50 £61,339 -20.85% 1
Sussex - 23 £59,000 - 1
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 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 South East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 526 (25.28%) Agile
2 484 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 429 (20.62%) Microsoft
4 417 (20.04%) Degree
5 368 (17.68%) Finance
6 346 (16.63%) Software Engineering
7 341 (16.39%) Azure
8 337 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 292 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
10 286 (13.74%) Security Cleared
11 277 (13.31%) JavaScript
12 271 (13.02%) C#
13 262 (12.59%) Mentoring
14 247 (11.87%) .NET
15 238 (11.44%) Python
16 227 (10.91%) SQL
17 220 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
18 216 (10.38%) React
19 212 (10.19%) Decision-Making
20 211 (10.14%) Linux
21 205 (9.85%) AWS
22 191 (9.18%) SC Cleared
23 187 (8.99%) Windows
24 184 (8.84%) Java
24 184 (8.84%) DevOps
25 181 (8.70%) Computer Science
26 163 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
27 159 (7.64%) Docker
28 147 (7.06%) Git
29 146 (7.02%) Broadband

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (1.63%) CMS
2 26 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (1.15%) IIS
4 23 (1.11%) Headless CMS
4 23 (1.11%) Kentico
5 22 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.06%) WebLogic
6 20 (0.96%) Umbraco
7 19 (0.91%) ArcGIS
7 19 (0.91%) GeoServer
8 18 (0.86%) Confluence
8 18 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
9 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.43%) JBoss
10 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.43%) SAS
11 8 (0.38%) nginx
11 8 (0.38%) WordPress
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 163 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (1.44%) Simulink
5 25 (1.20%) Stateflow
6 13 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.58%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.34%) CANalyzer
10 4 (0.19%) InDesign
10 4 (0.19%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.14%) FrameMaker
11 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.14%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.096%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (1.54%) Siebel CRM
2 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
2 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.096%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.048%) Primavera
5 1 (0.048%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.048%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.048%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.048%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.048%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 341 (16.39%) Azure
2 205 (9.85%) AWS
3 92 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (4.04%) SaaS
5 58 (2.79%) Entra ID
6 48 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (1.73%) OneDrive
7 36 (1.73%) Serverless
8 34 (1.63%) Power Platform
9 21 (1.01%) GCP
10 20 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (0.96%) Dropbox
10 20 (0.96%) Google Drive
11 19 (0.91%) GitHub
12 18 (0.86%) Kontent
12 18 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (0.82%) IaaS
14 16 (0.77%) Amazon S3
15 13 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 146 (7.02%) Broadband
2 89 (4.28%) Firewall
3 47 (2.26%) 5G
4 45 (2.16%) Wireless
5 40 (1.92%) VPN
5 40 (1.92%) WAN
6 32 (1.54%) DNS
7 31 (1.49%) LAN
8 25 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.01%) J1939
9 21 (1.01%) Network Security
10 16 (0.77%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.72%) DHCP
12 14 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 14 (0.67%) SAN
12 14 (0.67%) SNMP
13 13 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (0.62%) Internet
13 13 (0.62%) MPLS
13 13 (0.62%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (4.52%) SQL Server
2 68 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (3.03%) MySQL
4 48 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 45 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 33 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
7 32 (1.54%) Siebel EIM
8 29 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (1.35%) Power BI
10 23 (1.11%) Tableau
11 21 (1.01%) GIS
12 19 (0.91%) QGIS
13 16 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.62%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.58%) OLTP
15 12 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.53%) Oracle Database
17 10 (0.48%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 147 (7.06%) Git
2 62 (2.98%) JIRA
3 35 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 32 (1.54%) Selenium
5 27 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 24 (1.15%) JUnit
7 20 (0.96%) Subversion
8 19 (0.91%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.77%) Eclipse
10 15 (0.72%) CMake
11 14 (0.67%) ClearCase
11 14 (0.67%) Plastic SCM
12 12 (0.58%) Maven
12 12 (0.58%) NUnit
13 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.48%) GitLab
15 7 (0.34%) ClearQuest
16 6 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
17 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 484 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 368 (17.68%) Finance
3 292 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
5 89 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (3.80%) Marketing
7 68 (3.27%) Public Sector
8 64 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 60 (2.88%) Electronics
10 58 (2.79%) Aerospace
11 49 (2.35%) Military
12 46 (2.21%) Retail
13 42 (2.02%) Automotive
14 40 (1.92%) Legal
15 36 (1.73%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.20%) Police
17 21 (1.01%) Law
17 21 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.96%) Banking
18 20 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (11.87%) .NET
2 216 (10.38%) React
3 139 (6.68%) CSS
4 135 (6.49%) HTML
5 83 (3.99%) .NET Core
5 83 (3.99%) AngularJS
5 83 (3.99%) ASP.NET
6 65 (3.12%) RESTful
6 65 (3.12%) Spring
7 64 (3.08%) REST
8 61 (2.93%) Web Services
9 58 (2.79%) XML
10 55 (2.64%) .NET Framework
11 47 (2.26%) SOAP
12 44 (2.11%) Node.js
13 38 (1.83%) Kafka
13 38 (1.83%) Vue
14 36 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
15 34 (1.63%) HTML5
16 31 (1.49%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.13%) Algorithms
2 71 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
3 68 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
4 52 (2.50%) Social Media
5 51 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 45 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 43 (2.07%) IoT
8 38 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
9 35 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 25 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 23 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
12 22 (1.06%) Driving Licence
13 21 (1.01%) PMI
14 20 (0.96%) iPad
15 19 (0.91%) FPGA
15 19 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (0.86%) Biopharmaceutical
16 18 (0.86%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 211 (10.14%) Linux
2 187 (8.99%) Windows
3 56 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 49 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 49 (2.35%) Unix
5 39 (1.87%) Embedded Linux
6 27 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 26 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (1.01%) Windows 7
8 21 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.48%) Android
11 8 (0.38%) CentOS
12 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.29%) VMS
12 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Rocky
14 1 (0.048%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (25.28%) Agile
2 346 (16.63%) Software Engineering
3 337 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
4 262 (12.59%) Mentoring
5 220 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
6 212 (10.19%) Decision-Making
7 184 (8.84%) DevOps
8 181 (8.70%) Computer Science
9 133 (6.39%) Artificial Intelligence
9 133 (6.39%) Business Case
10 131 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
11 126 (6.05%) Project Management
12 123 (5.91%) Full Stack Development
13 120 (5.77%) CI/CD
14 112 (5.38%) CRM
15 109 (5.24%) Budgeting
16 106 (5.09%) Budgeting and Forecasting
17 102 (4.90%) Mathematics
18 96 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 94 (4.52%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 277 (13.31%) JavaScript
2 271 (13.02%) C#
3 238 (11.44%) Python
4 227 (10.91%) SQL
5 184 (8.84%) Java
6 119 (5.72%) C
7 116 (5.57%) TypeScript
8 111 (5.33%) C++
9 76 (3.65%) Bash
10 68 (3.27%) PHP
11 55 (2.64%) PowerShell
12 41 (1.97%) Perl
13 38 (1.83%) MATLAB
14 31 (1.49%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.30%) Embedded C
16 25 (1.20%) Shell Script
17 24 (1.15%) Fortran
17 24 (1.15%) Go
18 23 (1.11%) PL/SQL
19 17 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 417 (20.04%) Degree
2 286 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 191 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 102 (4.90%) ACCA
4 102 (4.90%) CIMA
5 85 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.92%) PhD
8 34 (1.63%) HNC
9 32 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (1.44%) HND
11 24 (1.15%) CCNP
12 23 (1.11%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.06%) PMI Certification
14 21 (1.01%) DBS Check
15 19 (0.91%) AWS Certification
16 18 (0.86%) CCNA
17 16 (0.77%) DV Cleared
18 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 12 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (1.83%) QA
2 34 (1.63%) SLA
3 26 (1.25%) ISO 26262
4 25 (1.20%) Automotive SPICE
5 23 (1.11%) GDPR
6 22 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.01%) WCAG
8 17 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.72%) MISRA
10 14 (0.67%) AUTOSAR
11 11 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 9 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.38%) GMP
13 8 (0.38%) NIST
13 8 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.34%) CDISC
15 6 (0.29%) GRC
16 4 (0.19%) COSHH
16 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 159 (7.64%) Docker
2 129 (6.20%) Active Directory
3 52 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 27 (1.30%) Firmware
6 16 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.53%) vSphere
8 6 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.19%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.14%) XenApp
11 1 (0.048%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 121 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (2.02%) Terraform
4 40 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
5 39 (1.87%) Ansible
6 26 (1.25%) SCCM
6 26 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.06%) OpenSSO
8 14 (0.67%) Functional Safety
9 13 (0.62%) WMI
10 10 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.34%) Stealthwatch
13 6 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.29%) SmoothWall
14 5 (0.24%) CASB
14 5 (0.24%) Nagios
14 5 (0.24%) SELinux
15 3 (0.14%) Check_MK
15 3 (0.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 429 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.77%) Oracle
3 82 (3.94%) VMware
4 42 (2.02%) Cisco
5 38 (1.83%) CyberArk
5 38 (1.83%) Tanium
6 36 (1.73%) Google
7 33 (1.59%) SAP
8 32 (1.54%) Siebel
9 28 (1.35%) Adobe
10 27 (1.30%) Meraki
11 26 (1.25%) EMC
12 22 (1.06%) Remedy
13 21 (1.01%) IBM
14 20 (0.96%) Juniper
15 19 (0.91%) ESRI
16 18 (0.86%) Apple
16 18 (0.86%) Optimizely
16 18 (0.86%) Sitecore
16 18 (0.86%) Splunk