Senior Jobs in the South West

Senior
England > South West

The median Senior salary in the South West is £57,500 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 5 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,579 837 1,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.00% 12.40% 14.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.67% 13.92% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 577 689
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,098 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -1.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,400 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,935 6,012 7,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.09% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,536 3,754 5,120
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,488
25th Percentile £36,336 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £77,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the South West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the South West

Senior
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South West 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
Bristol +10 589 £65,000 -6.47% 132
Gloucestershire +15 291 £54,000 -4.85% 35
Dorset +23 250 £57,500 - 35
Wiltshire +17 174 £54,043 -1.74% 31
Devon +4 153 £49,000 -10.91% 45
Somerset -1 70 £55,000 -1.96% 37
Cornwall +1 37 £40,000 -8.57% 7
Senior
England

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

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 South West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 371 (23.50%) Software Engineering
2 345 (21.85%) Security Cleared
3 335 (21.22%) Agile
4 270 (17.10%) Social Skills
5 260 (16.47%) Azure
6 250 (15.83%) DevOps
7 248 (15.71%) Degree
8 228 (14.44%) Microsoft
9 227 (14.38%) JavaScript
10 214 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
11 207 (13.11%) Python
12 200 (12.67%) AWS
13 195 (12.35%) Finance
14 177 (11.21%) C#
15 174 (11.02%) Windows
16 159 (10.07%) SC Cleared
17 156 (9.88%) Mentoring
17 156 (9.88%) Linux
18 152 (9.63%) .NET
19 150 (9.50%) Git
20 149 (9.44%) Scrum
21 147 (9.31%) React
22 142 (8.99%) DV Cleared
23 136 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
24 129 (8.17%) Java
25 126 (7.98%) Project Management
26 124 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 118 (7.47%) HTML
28 117 (7.41%) CSS
29 107 (6.78%) CI/CD

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 53 (3.36%) Confluence
2 28 (1.77%) IIS
3 26 (1.65%) CMS
4 20 (1.27%) Umbraco
5 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (1.14%) Headless CMS
7 17 (1.08%) ArcGIS
7 17 (1.08%) GeoServer
7 17 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
8 16 (1.01%) Kentico
9 15 (0.95%) SharePoint
10 9 (0.57%) SAS
11 6 (0.38%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.32%) WordPress
13 4 (0.25%) NServiceBus
13 4 (0.25%) Site Server
14 2 (0.13%) Apache
14 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.13%) Luigi
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 34 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.25%) Simulink
6 4 (0.25%) Sketch
7 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.063%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.19%) Primavera
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.063%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.063%) Shopify
4 1 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 260 (16.47%) Azure
2 200 (12.67%) AWS
3 101 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (4.56%) SaaS
5 68 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (2.72%) GCP
7 37 (2.34%) OpenShift
8 34 (2.15%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (1.08%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.08%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.01%) Kontent
11 16 (1.01%) Serverless
12 14 (0.89%) GitHub
12 14 (0.89%) npm
13 13 (0.82%) PaaS
14 12 (0.76%) Datadog
15 11 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (0.70%) Entra ID
15 11 (0.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.94%) Firewall
2 68 (4.31%) DNS
3 64 (4.05%) TCP/IP
4 57 (3.61%) WAN
5 55 (3.48%) DHCP
6 51 (3.23%) HTTP
7 43 (2.72%) LAN
8 22 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (1.14%) Wireless
10 16 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 16 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
12 10 (0.63%) Bluetooth
12 10 (0.63%) Network Security
13 9 (0.57%) Internet
14 8 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
15 7 (0.44%) BGP
15 7 (0.44%) OSPF
16 6 (0.38%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 44 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.65%) MySQL
4 24 (1.52%) Power BI
5 19 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 17 (1.08%) GIS
6 17 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.08%) QGIS
7 14 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.57%) Big Data
11 8 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.51%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (0.32%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.32%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.32%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 150 (9.50%) Git
2 78 (4.94%) JIRA
3 52 (3.29%) Visual Studio
4 45 (2.85%) Bitbucket
5 30 (1.90%) Sourcetree
6 21 (1.33%) Jenkins
7 18 (1.14%) Selenium
8 15 (0.95%) Storybook
9 13 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.76%) Android Studio
10 12 (0.76%) Subversion
11 11 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.51%) GitLab
12 8 (0.51%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.32%) IntelliJ
13 5 (0.32%) Postman
14 4 (0.25%) ERwin
14 4 (0.25%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 270 (17.10%) Social Skills
2 195 (12.35%) Finance
3 124 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (4.81%) Aerospace
6 59 (3.74%) Retail
7 57 (3.61%) Law
8 56 (3.55%) Banking
9 55 (3.48%) Games
9 55 (3.48%) Public Sector
10 53 (3.36%) Manufacturing
11 52 (3.29%) Marketing
12 47 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (2.22%) Aviation
13 35 (2.22%) Legal
14 33 (2.09%) Fire and Rescue
15 23 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.33%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (9.63%) .NET
2 147 (9.31%) React
3 118 (7.47%) HTML
4 117 (7.41%) CSS
5 77 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 75 (4.75%) .NET Core
7 74 (4.69%) .NET Framework
8 70 (4.43%) ASP.NET
9 54 (3.42%) Node.js
10 53 (3.36%) RESTful
11 51 (3.23%) Laravel
12 45 (2.85%) Vue
13 42 (2.66%) Entity Framework
14 30 (1.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 28 (1.77%) REST
16 24 (1.52%) Spring
17 23 (1.46%) ASP.NET MVC
17 23 (1.46%) Next.js
18 22 (1.39%) LESS
19 21 (1.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
2 43 (2.72%) Cloud Native
3 40 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 30 (1.90%) Virtual Reality
5 29 (1.84%) Mobile App
6 28 (1.77%) Cyberattack
7 25 (1.58%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.14%) Driving Licence
11 17 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.95%) GNSS
13 15 (0.95%) Operational Technology
14 14 (0.89%) CESG
14 14 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
14 14 (0.89%) Derivative
14 14 (0.89%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.76%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 174 (11.02%) Windows
2 156 (9.88%) Linux
3 49 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
5 32 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.39%) Android
7 15 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.32%) AIX
9 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.19%) Unix
11 1 (0.063%) CentOS
11 1 (0.063%) Debian
11 1 (0.063%) Rocky
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (23.50%) Software Engineering
2 335 (21.22%) Agile
3 250 (15.83%) DevOps
4 214 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
5 156 (9.88%) Mentoring
6 149 (9.44%) Scrum
7 136 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
8 126 (7.98%) Project Management
9 107 (6.78%) CI/CD
10 98 (6.21%) Actionable Insight
11 90 (5.70%) MVC
12 86 (5.45%) Roadmaps
13 84 (5.32%) Computer Science
14 77 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
15 76 (4.81%) Line Management
16 74 (4.69%) Full Stack Development
17 72 (4.56%) Design Patterns
18 71 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 71 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 67 (4.24%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 227 (14.38%) JavaScript
2 207 (13.11%) Python
3 177 (11.21%) C#
4 129 (8.17%) Java
5 101 (6.40%) SQL
6 85 (5.38%) Bash
7 84 (5.32%) C++
8 82 (5.19%) PowerShell
9 73 (4.62%) C
9 73 (4.62%) TypeScript
10 56 (3.55%) PHP
11 31 (1.96%) Embedded C
12 30 (1.90%) Rust
13 15 (0.95%) Perl
13 15 (0.95%) VB
14 14 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.76%) R
17 11 (0.70%) Bicep
17 11 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 345 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 248 (15.71%) Degree
3 159 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 142 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (0.95%) CISSP
11 14 (0.89%) CISMP
11 14 (0.89%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.76%) IISP
13 11 (0.70%) CCNP
13 11 (0.70%) GIAC
14 8 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (0.51%) HND
14 8 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 7 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (2.98%) QA
2 29 (1.84%) NIST
3 25 (1.58%) GDPR
4 17 (1.08%) JSP 440
5 16 (1.01%) PMO
6 15 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 14 (0.89%) RMADS
8 12 (0.76%) GMP
8 12 (0.76%) NIST 800
8 12 (0.76%) SLA
9 9 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.25%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.25%) IFRS
11 4 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.25%) WCAG
12 3 (0.19%) HMG Infosec
13 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 103 (6.52%) Docker
2 77 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 62 (3.93%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.01%) Firmware
5 10 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.25%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 98 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.37%) Terraform
3 48 (3.04%) Ansible
4 38 (2.41%) Puppet
5 26 (1.65%) SCCM
6 16 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.76%) Grafana
9 8 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.44%) CASB
11 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (0.32%) Opsview
12 5 (0.32%) Rancher
13 4 (0.25%) Istio
13 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.25%) vRealize
14 2 (0.13%) Functional Safety
14 2 (0.13%) Nagios
15 1 (0.063%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 228 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.02%) VMware
3 64 (4.05%) Cisco
4 35 (2.22%) Google
5 32 (2.03%) Red Hat
6 21 (1.33%) Oracle
7 18 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.08%) ESRI
8 17 (1.08%) Sitecore
9 16 (1.01%) Optimizely
10 13 (0.82%) Twitter
11 9 (0.57%) Citrix
11 9 (0.57%) IBM
11 9 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.57%) SolarWinds
12 8 (0.51%) Dell
12 8 (0.51%) SAP
13 7 (0.44%) HP
14 6 (0.38%) Databricks
15 5 (0.32%) Juniper