Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 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 14,964 15,832 28,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 15.69% 18.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.94% 17.15% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,237 9,619 13,233
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,025 £45,607
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 £85,000
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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 11 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 11 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 12,799 £62,783 -10.31% 3,776
UK excluding London +1 9,683 £60,000 -1.32% 2,389
Work from Home +1 6,070 £64,080 -8.46% 1,861
London +2 4,479 £77,500 -6.06% 1,596
North of England +5 2,579 £60,000 - 559
South East -1 2,081 £60,000 -11.11% 568
South West +10 1,579 £57,500 -4.17% 321
North West +8 1,454 £60,000 - 343
Midlands +5 1,382 £57,500 - 401
Scotland -8 1,002 £60,000 -4.66% 200
West Midlands +9 886 £58,500 -2.50% 262
Yorkshire +1 848 £57,965 -3.39% 160
East of England 0 570 £60,000 -7.69% 268
East Midlands +1 488 £53,600 -2.55% 140
Wales +11 373 £50,000 -9.09% 78
North East +15 282 £57,965 +2.59% 64
Northern Ireland +21 120 £55,000 +12.82% 40
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -2 2 £76,250 +111.81% 1

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 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 3,611 (24.13%) Agile
2 3,233 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 3,138 (20.97%) Finance
4 3,007 (20.09%) Azure
5 2,821 (18.85%) Software Engineering
6 2,648 (17.70%) AWS
7 2,316 (15.48%) Microsoft
8 2,223 (14.86%) SQL
9 2,144 (14.33%) Degree
10 2,134 (14.26%) Python
11 2,092 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
12 2,012 (13.45%) Mentoring
13 1,805 (12.06%) JavaScript
14 1,672 (11.17%) C#
15 1,659 (11.09%) DevOps
16 1,567 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
17 1,535 (10.26%) .NET
18 1,424 (9.52%) Security Cleared
19 1,395 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 1,359 (9.08%) Java
21 1,300 (8.69%) React
22 1,227 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
23 1,142 (7.63%) Linux
24 1,111 (7.42%) Windows
25 1,094 (7.31%) Coaching
26 1,014 (6.78%) SC Cleared
27 998 (6.67%) Project Management
28 993 (6.64%) Decision-Making
29 980 (6.55%) CI/CD
30 945 (6.32%) Analytics

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
1 245 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 236 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 220 (1.47%) ArcGIS
4 214 (1.43%) GeoServer
5 186 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 170 (1.14%) Apache
7 150 (1.00%) CMS
8 146 (0.98%) Confluence
9 129 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
10 118 (0.79%) SAS
11 107 (0.72%) IIS
12 55 (0.37%) Umbraco
13 49 (0.33%) WordPress
14 41 (0.27%) Headless CMS
14 41 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.27%) Kentico
16 37 (0.25%) Tuxedo
17 31 (0.21%) WebLogic
18 24 (0.16%) nginx
19 22 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 597 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 298 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 169 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 115 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 63 (0.42%) Sketch
6 49 (0.33%) Simulink
7 48 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
8 41 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 32 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 25 (0.17%) Stateflow
11 24 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
13 17 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 16 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
15 12 (0.080%) OrCAD
16 10 (0.067%) InDesign
16 10 (0.067%) Solid Edge
17 9 (0.060%) InVision
18 7 (0.047%) Adobe XD
18 7 (0.047%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 73 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.36%) Endur
3 41 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
5 24 (0.16%) Shopify
6 23 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 21 (0.14%) Magento
8 18 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 17 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 16 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
11 15 (0.10%) NEC Housing
12 14 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
13 13 (0.087%) SAP FI
13 13 (0.087%) SAP SCM
14 11 (0.074%) SAP CO
14 11 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
15 10 (0.067%) SAP HR
16 9 (0.060%) Primavera
16 9 (0.060%) SAP SD
17 8 (0.053%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,007 (20.09%) Azure
2 2,648 (17.70%) AWS
3 714 (4.77%) SaaS
4 649 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
5 615 (4.11%) GCP
6 531 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 447 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 343 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 256 (1.71%) Serverless
10 221 (1.48%) GitHub
11 215 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 171 (1.14%) Amazon S3
13 164 (1.10%) PaaS
14 146 (0.98%) Snowflake
15 137 (0.92%) PowerApps
16 136 (0.91%) IaaS
17 127 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
17 127 (0.85%) OneDrive
18 119 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
18 119 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 580 (3.88%) Firewall
2 397 (2.65%) Broadband
3 344 (2.30%) WAN
4 318 (2.13%) DNS
5 268 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 243 (1.62%) LAN
7 232 (1.55%) Wireless
8 203 (1.36%) DHCP
9 190 (1.27%) Network Security
10 183 (1.22%) VPN
11 163 (1.09%) 5G
12 157 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 146 (0.98%) Internet
14 129 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 112 (0.75%) VLAN
16 111 (0.74%) MPLS
17 108 (0.72%) SAN
18 93 (0.62%) BGP
19 92 (0.61%) HTTP
20 60 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 702 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 591 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 403 (2.69%) Power BI
4 375 (2.51%) MySQL
5 351 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 322 (2.15%) Tableau
7 313 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
8 251 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 235 (1.57%) GIS
10 234 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 216 (1.44%) QGIS
12 191 (1.28%) Big Data
13 166 (1.11%) MongoDB
14 141 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
15 138 (0.92%) Oracle Database
16 122 (0.82%) Metadata
17 118 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 100 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
19 97 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
20 87 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 890 (5.95%) Git
2 399 (2.67%) JIRA
3 306 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 147 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 135 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 133 (0.89%) GitLab
7 107 (0.72%) Selenium
8 75 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 67 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 57 (0.38%) JUnit
10 57 (0.38%) Postman
11 53 (0.35%) TeamCity
12 52 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 49 (0.33%) Sourcetree
14 45 (0.30%) Subversion
15 42 (0.28%) Maven
16 40 (0.27%) webpack
17 39 (0.26%) CircleCI
18 38 (0.25%) Eclipse
19 35 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,233 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 3,138 (20.97%) Finance
3 1,567 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1,395 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 835 (5.58%) Marketing
6 724 (4.84%) Law
7 685 (4.58%) Banking
8 657 (4.39%) Public Sector
9 630 (4.21%) Retail
10 493 (3.29%) Legal
11 429 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
12 396 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 374 (2.50%) Manufacturing
14 268 (1.79%) Games
15 244 (1.63%) Electronics
16 225 (1.50%) Front Office
17 210 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 191 (1.28%) Aerospace
19 184 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
20 172 (1.15%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,535 (10.26%) .NET
2 1,300 (8.69%) React
3 898 (6.00%) CSS
4 840 (5.61%) HTML
5 632 (4.22%) AngularJS
6 570 (3.81%) .NET Core
7 492 (3.29%) Node.js
8 465 (3.11%) RESTful
9 425 (2.84%) ASP.NET
10 411 (2.75%) REST
11 363 (2.43%) .NET Framework
12 356 (2.38%) Vue
13 330 (2.21%) Spring
14 314 (2.10%) Kafka
15 292 (1.95%) Web Services
16 271 (1.81%) JSON
17 236 (1.58%) XML
18 230 (1.54%) Laravel
19 217 (1.45%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.44%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 372 (2.49%) Product Ownership
2 358 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
3 346 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
4 336 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 321 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 298 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 282 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 278 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 276 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 226 (1.51%) IoT
11 218 (1.46%) Social Media
12 214 (1.43%) Driving Licence
13 181 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 178 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 177 (1.18%) Derivative
16 167 (1.12%) Hedge funds
17 162 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 142 (0.95%) Equities
19 128 (0.86%) Data Structures
20 127 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1,142 (7.63%) Linux
2 1,111 (7.42%) Windows
3 412 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 214 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 149 (1.00%) Unix
6 146 (0.98%) Android
7 133 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 129 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 128 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 87 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 75 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 67 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
13 53 (0.35%) Mac OS
14 49 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 32 (0.21%) VMS
16 23 (0.15%) Windows 7
17 18 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
18 17 (0.11%) CentOS
19 13 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
20 10 (0.067%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,611 (24.13%) Agile
2 2,821 (18.85%) Software Engineering
3 2,092 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
4 2,012 (13.45%) Mentoring
5 1,659 (11.09%) DevOps
6 1,227 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
7 1,094 (7.31%) Coaching
8 998 (6.67%) Project Management
9 993 (6.64%) Decision-Making
10 980 (6.55%) CI/CD
11 945 (6.32%) Analytics
12 927 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
13 878 (5.87%) Cybersecurity
14 870 (5.81%) Computer Science
15 800 (5.35%) Roadmaps
16 798 (5.33%) Full Stack Development
17 696 (4.65%) Microservices
18 649 (4.34%) SDLC
19 622 (4.16%) Machine Learning
20 586 (3.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,223 (14.86%) SQL
2 2,134 (14.26%) Python
3 1,805 (12.06%) JavaScript
4 1,672 (11.17%) C#
5 1,359 (9.08%) Java
6 894 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 479 (3.20%) C
8 469 (3.13%) C++
9 384 (2.57%) PowerShell
10 374 (2.50%) PHP
11 355 (2.37%) Bash
12 214 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 206 (1.38%) Go
14 172 (1.15%) PL/SQL
15 142 (0.95%) R
16 134 (0.90%) Ruby
17 121 (0.81%) Scala
18 110 (0.74%) Kotlin
19 103 (0.69%) Embedded C
20 99 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,144 (14.33%) Degree
2 1,424 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1,014 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 352 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 290 (1.94%) ACCA
6 287 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 257 (1.72%) CIMA
8 233 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 226 (1.51%) DBS Check
10 221 (1.48%) DV Cleared
11 149 (1.00%) CCNP
12 146 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 146 (0.98%) CISSP
13 144 (0.96%) PMI Certification
14 138 (0.92%) AWS Certification
15 133 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 117 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
17 105 (0.70%) PhD
18 101 (0.67%) CCNA
19 72 (0.48%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (2.73%) QA
2 253 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 245 (1.64%) SLA
4 237 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 209 (1.40%) GDPR
6 122 (0.82%) NIST
7 118 (0.79%) WCAG
8 108 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 101 (0.67%) IFRS
10 93 (0.62%) PMO
11 71 (0.47%) IFRS 9
12 59 (0.39%) GMP
13 56 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 42 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 40 (0.27%) GRC
16 38 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
17 33 (0.22%) ISO 26262
18 30 (0.20%) NCSC
19 26 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
20 24 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 816 (5.45%) Docker
2 747 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 341 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 226 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 180 (1.20%) Firmware
6 75 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
7 63 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 62 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 53 (0.35%) vSphere
10 29 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 20 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 18 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.11%) KVM
14 15 (0.10%) XenDesktop
15 14 (0.094%) XenApp
16 11 (0.074%) IAG
17 9 (0.060%) NFS
18 8 (0.053%) HDFS
19 7 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
20 5 (0.033%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 899 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 669 (4.47%) Terraform
3 302 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 298 (1.99%) Ansible
5 139 (0.93%) SCCM
6 138 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
7 98 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 91 (0.61%) Puppet
9 76 (0.51%) Grafana
10 74 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 60 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
13 39 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 28 (0.19%) CASB
15 27 (0.18%) OpenSSO
15 27 (0.18%) Stealthwatch
16 24 (0.16%) Nagios
16 24 (0.16%) SCOM
17 20 (0.13%) WSUS
18 19 (0.13%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2,316 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 588 (3.93%) Oracle
3 522 (3.49%) VMware
4 440 (2.94%) Cisco
5 406 (2.71%) Google
6 319 (2.13%) Databricks
7 221 (1.48%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.45%) ESRI
9 209 (1.40%) SAP
10 181 (1.21%) Dell
11 154 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 136 (0.91%) IBM
13 128 (0.86%) Tanium
14 126 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 118 (0.79%) Adobe
15 118 (0.79%) Meraki
15 118 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 114 (0.76%) Juniper
17 111 (0.74%) HP
17 111 (0.74%) Red Hat