Senior Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 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 9 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 9,686 8,339 9,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.65% 13.91% 13.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.39% 15.61% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,539 4,432 5,875
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,840
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +5 2,580 £60,000 - 564
South East -1 2,080 £60,000 -11.11% 582
South West +11 1,579 £57,500 -2.70% 329
North West +8 1,453 £60,000 - 345
Midlands +5 1,382 £57,500 - 388
Scotland -10 1,003 £60,000 -7.69% 206
West Midlands +8 885 £58,500 -2.50% 248
Yorkshire +1 850 £57,965 -3.39% 161
East of England +1 570 £60,000 -7.69% 284
East Midlands +2 489 £53,600 -2.55% 141
Wales +10 374 £50,000 -9.09% 77
North East +16 282 £57,965 +5.39% 66
Northern Ireland +18 121 £55,000 +12.82% 42
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -2 2 £76,250 +111.81% 1
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2,476 (25.56%) Agile
2 2,061 (21.28%) Software Engineering
3 1,827 (18.86%) Social Skills
4 1,760 (18.17%) Azure
5 1,677 (17.31%) Finance
6 1,514 (15.63%) AWS
7 1,422 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
8 1,338 (13.81%) Degree
9 1,331 (13.74%) Microsoft
10 1,289 (13.31%) Mentoring
11 1,152 (11.89%) SQL
12 1,130 (11.67%) Security Cleared
13 1,128 (11.65%) JavaScript
14 1,114 (11.50%) C#
15 1,095 (11.30%) Python
16 1,075 (11.10%) DevOps
17 1,029 (10.62%) .NET
18 855 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
19 851 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
20 842 (8.69%) Coaching
21 830 (8.57%) React
22 818 (8.45%) Java
23 809 (8.35%) Linux
24 807 (8.33%) SC Cleared
25 778 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 776 (8.01%) Windows
27 674 (6.96%) Project Management
28 615 (6.35%) CSS
29 605 (6.25%) Decision-Making
30 578 (5.97%) CI/CD

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 189 (1.95%) ArcGIS
2 184 (1.90%) GeoServer
3 136 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 128 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 125 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 116 (1.20%) Confluence
7 104 (1.07%) CMS
8 93 (0.96%) SAS
9 88 (0.91%) IIS
10 44 (0.45%) Umbraco
11 41 (0.42%) Headless CMS
12 40 (0.41%) Kentico
13 37 (0.38%) Tuxedo
14 36 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
15 30 (0.31%) WebLogic
15 30 (0.31%) WordPress
16 28 (0.29%) Apache
17 19 (0.20%) JBoss
17 19 (0.20%) OpenStack
18 18 (0.19%) FileNet
Applications
1 325 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 168 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 84 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 51 (0.53%) Sketch
6 49 (0.51%) Simulink
7 32 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 29 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
9 25 (0.26%) Stateflow
10 21 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 18 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
12 12 (0.12%) OrCAD
12 12 (0.12%) Photoshop
13 10 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 10 (0.10%) Solid Edge
14 8 (0.083%) InVision
15 7 (0.072%) CANalyzer
16 6 (0.062%) InDesign
17 5 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 4 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 35 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
3 20 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 20 (0.21%) Shopify
4 19 (0.20%) Magento
5 17 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 13 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 10 (0.10%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.062%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.052%) Primavera
11 5 (0.052%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.052%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.041%) ResourceLink
12 4 (0.041%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.041%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.041%) Sonata
12 4 (0.041%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,760 (18.17%) Azure
2 1,514 (15.63%) AWS
3 376 (3.88%) SaaS
4 363 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 296 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 269 (2.78%) GCP
7 267 (2.76%) Power Platform
8 162 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 127 (1.31%) Serverless
10 123 (1.27%) GitHub
11 111 (1.15%) OneDrive
12 106 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 101 (1.04%) Amazon S3
14 89 (0.92%) PowerApps
15 72 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
16 69 (0.71%) PaaS
17 67 (0.69%) Power Automate
18 66 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
18 66 (0.68%) Figma
18 66 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 367 (3.79%) Firewall
2 242 (2.50%) DNS
3 239 (2.47%) WAN
4 211 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.98%) Broadband
6 177 (1.83%) Wireless
7 157 (1.62%) LAN
8 152 (1.57%) DHCP
9 108 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 107 (1.10%) Network Security
11 97 (1.00%) VPN
12 86 (0.89%) Internet
13 83 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 76 (0.78%) SAN
14 76 (0.78%) VLAN
15 70 (0.72%) HTTP
16 63 (0.65%) 5G
17 60 (0.62%) Kerberos
18 51 (0.53%) Ethernet
19 50 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
2 385 (3.97%) SQL Server
3 269 (2.78%) MySQL
4 258 (2.66%) NoSQL
5 204 (2.11%) Power BI
6 201 (2.08%) GIS
7 184 (1.90%) QGIS
8 165 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
9 133 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 117 (1.21%) Big Data
11 90 (0.93%) Tableau
12 89 (0.92%) Oracle Database
13 85 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
14 79 (0.82%) MongoDB
15 75 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
16 73 (0.75%) Data Lake
17 66 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
18 65 (0.67%) Metadata
19 54 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
20 53 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 577 (5.96%) Git
2 275 (2.84%) JIRA
3 160 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 115 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 109 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 83 (0.86%) GitLab
7 64 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 63 (0.65%) Selenium
9 47 (0.49%) JUnit
10 46 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 43 (0.44%) Subversion
12 31 (0.32%) Sourcetree
12 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 29 (0.30%) Maven
14 28 (0.29%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (0.23%) Cucumber
16 22 (0.23%) Postman
16 22 (0.23%) webpack
17 19 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,827 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 1,677 (17.31%) Finance
3 851 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 778 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 512 (5.29%) Marketing
6 484 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 465 (4.80%) Law
8 368 (3.80%) Banking
9 357 (3.69%) Retail
10 334 (3.45%) Manufacturing
11 281 (2.90%) Legal
12 261 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
13 229 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 224 (2.31%) Electronics
15 169 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 166 (1.71%) Games
17 157 (1.62%) Automotive
18 140 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
19 138 (1.42%) Telecoms
20 107 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,029 (10.62%) .NET
2 830 (8.57%) React
3 615 (6.35%) CSS
4 543 (5.61%) HTML
5 436 (4.50%) .NET Core
6 395 (4.08%) AngularJS
7 345 (3.56%) RESTful
8 292 (3.01%) ASP.NET
9 288 (2.97%) Node.js
10 285 (2.94%) .NET Framework
11 242 (2.50%) Vue
12 229 (2.36%) REST
13 210 (2.17%) Spring
14 201 (2.08%) Web Services
15 191 (1.97%) Laravel
16 185 (1.91%) PostGIS
17 184 (1.90%) Leaflet
17 184 (1.90%) OpenLayers
18 174 (1.80%) JSON
19 164 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 249 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
2 233 (2.41%) Public Cloud
3 226 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 216 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 215 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 210 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 202 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 181 (1.87%) Driving Licence
9 166 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 165 (1.70%) IoT
11 133 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 113 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 98 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 94 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
15 84 (0.87%) Data Structures
16 76 (0.78%) Social Media
17 74 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
18 73 (0.75%) Credit Risk
19 72 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
20 69 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 809 (8.35%) Linux
2 776 (8.01%) Windows
3 288 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 132 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
5 109 (1.13%) Unix
6 98 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 89 (0.92%) Android
8 69 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 69 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 58 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 51 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 42 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 40 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 38 (0.39%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.14%) CentOS
17 12 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
18 11 (0.11%) VMS
19 10 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,476 (25.56%) Agile
2 2,061 (21.28%) Software Engineering
3 1,422 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
4 1,289 (13.31%) Mentoring
5 1,075 (11.10%) DevOps
6 855 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
7 842 (8.69%) Coaching
8 674 (6.96%) Project Management
9 605 (6.25%) Decision-Making
10 578 (5.97%) CI/CD
11 577 (5.96%) Artificial Intelligence
12 556 (5.74%) Computer Science
13 511 (5.28%) Roadmaps
14 509 (5.26%) Analytics
15 497 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
16 492 (5.08%) SDLC
17 440 (4.54%) Full Stack Development
18 434 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 411 (4.24%) Microservices
20 394 (4.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (11.89%) SQL
2 1,128 (11.65%) JavaScript
3 1,114 (11.50%) C#
4 1,095 (11.30%) Python
5 818 (8.45%) Java
6 459 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 412 (4.25%) C
8 376 (3.88%) C++
9 296 (3.06%) PHP
10 223 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 199 (2.05%) Bash
12 112 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 110 (1.14%) Go
14 109 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 102 (1.05%) Embedded C
16 80 (0.83%) R
17 73 (0.75%) Scala
18 71 (0.73%) MATLAB
19 63 (0.65%) Perl
20 57 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,338 (13.81%) Degree
2 1,130 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 807 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 217 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 180 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 155 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 147 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 145 (1.50%) ACCA
9 138 (1.42%) CIMA
10 107 (1.10%) CCNP
11 94 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 92 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 88 (0.91%) Azure Certification
14 87 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 87 (0.90%) CCNA
15 77 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 77 (0.79%) PhD
16 62 (0.64%) HND
17 59 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 57 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (2.27%) QA
2 191 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 153 (1.58%) GDPR
4 112 (1.16%) SLA
5 110 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 104 (1.07%) WCAG
7 70 (0.72%) NIST
8 59 (0.61%) IFRS
9 58 (0.60%) PMO
10 55 (0.57%) GMP
11 51 (0.53%) IFRS 9
12 46 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 38 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
14 33 (0.34%) ISO 26262
15 26 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
16 22 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 20 (0.21%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.20%) MISRA
18 19 (0.20%) NCSC
19 17 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 524 (5.41%) Docker
2 419 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 259 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 179 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 168 (1.73%) Firmware
6 67 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
7 39 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (0.40%) vSphere
8 37 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.10%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.072%) IAG
13 7 (0.072%) NFS
14 5 (0.052%) XenApp
15 4 (0.041%) KVM
15 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 512 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 404 (4.17%) Terraform
3 191 (1.97%) Ansible
4 150 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (0.87%) SCCM
6 65 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 58 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (0.58%) Puppet
9 42 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 36 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.29%) Grafana
11 28 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 27 (0.28%) OpenSSO
13 22 (0.23%) CASB
13 22 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 21 (0.22%) SCOM
14 21 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
15 17 (0.18%) Functional Safety
16 14 (0.14%) WMI
17 12 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,331 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 378 (3.90%) VMware
3 368 (3.80%) Oracle
4 285 (2.94%) Cisco
5 237 (2.45%) Google
6 185 (1.91%) ESRI
7 117 (1.21%) IBM
8 106 (1.09%) SAP
9 89 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 88 (0.91%) Databricks
11 83 (0.86%) Meraki
12 77 (0.79%) ServiceNow
13 72 (0.74%) Dell
14 70 (0.72%) CheckPoint
15 69 (0.71%) Adobe
15 69 (0.71%) HP
16 68 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 64 (0.66%) Juniper
18 57 (0.59%) Salesforce
19 55 (0.57%) Splunk