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 13 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
13 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 9,675 8,401 9,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.66% 13.98% 13.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.41% 15.66% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,532 4,490 5,909
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
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 67,146 53,642 68,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.24% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,498 30,589 42,749
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
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 13 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 13 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 2,578 £60,000 - 604
South East -1 2,079 £60,000 -11.11% 602
South West +9 1,575 £57,500 -2.70% 345
North West +8 1,451 £60,000 - 364
Midlands +5 1,383 £57,500 - 430
Scotland -10 1,001 £60,000 -4.66% 211
West Midlands +9 885 £58,500 -2.50% 285
Yorkshire +1 849 £57,965 -3.39% 174
East of England 0 566 £60,000 -7.69% 279
East Midlands +2 490 £52,500 -4.55% 146
Wales +11 374 £50,000 -9.09% 85
North East +15 283 £57,965 +2.59% 74
Northern Ireland +19 122 £55,000 +15.79% 49
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 13 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 2,452 (25.34%) Agile
2 2,057 (21.26%) Software Engineering
3 1,825 (18.86%) Social Skills
4 1,755 (18.14%) Azure
5 1,680 (17.36%) Finance
6 1,505 (15.56%) AWS
7 1,418 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 1,350 (13.95%) Degree
9 1,335 (13.80%) Microsoft
10 1,298 (13.42%) Mentoring
11 1,149 (11.88%) SQL
12 1,124 (11.62%) JavaScript
13 1,117 (11.55%) Security Cleared
14 1,111 (11.48%) C#
15 1,094 (11.31%) Python
16 1,071 (11.07%) DevOps
17 1,029 (10.64%) .NET
18 851 (8.80%) Coaching
18 851 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
19 838 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
20 826 (8.54%) React
21 814 (8.41%) Java
22 807 (8.34%) Linux
23 806 (8.33%) SC Cleared
24 777 (8.03%) Windows
25 762 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 676 (6.99%) Project Management
27 613 (6.34%) CSS
28 605 (6.25%) Decision-Making
29 585 (6.05%) Artificial Intelligence

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 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 128 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 125 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 115 (1.19%) Confluence
7 104 (1.07%) CMS
8 93 (0.96%) SAS
9 86 (0.89%) 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%) WordPress
16 29 (0.30%) WebLogic
17 28 (0.29%) Apache
18 19 (0.20%) JBoss
18 19 (0.20%) OpenStack
19 18 (0.19%) FileNet
Applications
1 328 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 171 (1.77%) 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 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 13 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 11 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 11 (0.11%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.052%) Primavera
10 5 (0.052%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.052%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.041%) ResourceLink
11 4 (0.041%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.041%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.041%) Sonata
11 4 (0.041%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,755 (18.14%) Azure
2 1,505 (15.56%) AWS
3 376 (3.89%) SaaS
4 364 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
5 295 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
6 269 (2.78%) GCP
7 267 (2.76%) Power Platform
8 162 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 126 (1.30%) Serverless
10 122 (1.26%) GitHub
11 111 (1.15%) OneDrive
12 106 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
13 100 (1.03%) Amazon S3
14 89 (0.92%) PowerApps
15 71 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
16 69 (0.71%) PaaS
17 67 (0.69%) Power Automate
18 66 (0.68%) Figma
18 66 (0.68%) IaaS
19 65 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 363 (3.75%) Firewall
2 239 (2.47%) DNS
3 235 (2.43%) WAN
4 207 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 192 (1.98%) Broadband
6 176 (1.82%) Wireless
7 154 (1.59%) LAN
8 148 (1.53%) DHCP
9 108 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 107 (1.11%) Network Security
11 96 (0.99%) VPN
12 85 (0.88%) Internet
13 84 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 77 (0.80%) SAN
15 75 (0.78%) VLAN
16 67 (0.69%) HTTP
17 63 (0.65%) 5G
18 60 (0.62%) Kerberos
19 51 (0.53%) Ethernet
20 50 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 383 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 268 (2.77%) MySQL
4 258 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 204 (2.11%) Power BI
6 201 (2.08%) GIS
7 184 (1.90%) QGIS
8 164 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
9 133 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 117 (1.21%) Big Data
11 90 (0.93%) Tableau
12 88 (0.91%) Oracle Database
13 84 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (0.86%) Data Lake
15 79 (0.82%) MongoDB
16 75 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
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
1 575 (5.94%) Git
2 274 (2.83%) JIRA
3 158 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 115 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 109 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 82 (0.85%) GitLab
7 64 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 63 (0.65%) Selenium
9 47 (0.49%) JUnit
10 45 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 43 (0.44%) Subversion
12 31 (0.32%) Sourcetree
12 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.29%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.28%) Maven
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 1,825 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 1,680 (17.36%) Finance
3 851 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 762 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 512 (5.29%) Marketing
6 482 (4.98%) Public Sector
7 460 (4.75%) Law
8 368 (3.80%) Banking
9 355 (3.67%) Retail
10 340 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 283 (2.93%) Legal
12 261 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 240 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 223 (2.30%) Electronics
15 172 (1.78%) Aerospace
16 165 (1.71%) Games
17 158 (1.63%) Automotive
18 140 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
19 137 (1.42%) Telecoms
20 115 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,029 (10.64%) .NET
2 826 (8.54%) React
3 613 (6.34%) CSS
4 537 (5.55%) HTML
5 436 (4.51%) .NET Core
6 394 (4.07%) AngularJS
7 345 (3.57%) RESTful
8 292 (3.02%) ASP.NET
9 287 (2.97%) Node.js
10 284 (2.94%) .NET Framework
11 242 (2.50%) Vue
12 227 (2.35%) REST
13 207 (2.14%) Spring
14 200 (2.07%) Web Services
15 191 (1.97%) Laravel
16 185 (1.91%) PostGIS
17 184 (1.90%) Leaflet
17 184 (1.90%) OpenLayers
18 173 (1.79%) JSON
19 164 (1.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 249 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
2 232 (2.40%) Public Cloud
3 226 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 217 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 215 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 202 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 196 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 175 (1.81%) Driving Licence
9 166 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 165 (1.71%) IoT
11 133 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 114 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 98 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 94 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
15 76 (0.79%) Social Media
16 74 (0.76%) Data Structures
16 74 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
17 73 (0.75%) Credit Risk
18 72 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
19 68 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 807 (8.34%) Linux
2 777 (8.03%) Windows
3 289 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 132 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
5 108 (1.12%) 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 37 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.16%) 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 2,452 (25.34%) Agile
2 2,057 (21.26%) Software Engineering
3 1,418 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
4 1,298 (13.42%) Mentoring
5 1,071 (11.07%) DevOps
6 851 (8.80%) Coaching
7 838 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
8 676 (6.99%) Project Management
9 605 (6.25%) Decision-Making
10 585 (6.05%) Artificial Intelligence
11 577 (5.96%) CI/CD
12 554 (5.73%) Computer Science
13 516 (5.33%) Roadmaps
14 510 (5.27%) Analytics
15 497 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
16 488 (5.04%) SDLC
17 438 (4.53%) Full Stack Development
18 435 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 409 (4.23%) Microservices
20 384 (3.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (11.88%) SQL
2 1,124 (11.62%) JavaScript
3 1,111 (11.48%) C#
4 1,094 (11.31%) Python
5 814 (8.41%) Java
6 457 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 412 (4.26%) C
8 376 (3.89%) C++
9 295 (3.05%) PHP
10 223 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 199 (2.06%) Bash
12 112 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 109 (1.13%) Go
13 109 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 102 (1.05%) Embedded C
15 80 (0.83%) R
16 73 (0.75%) Scala
17 72 (0.74%) MATLAB
18 63 (0.65%) Perl
19 58 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,350 (13.95%) Degree
2 1,117 (11.55%) Security Cleared
3 806 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 216 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 171 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 154 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 148 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 146 (1.51%) ACCA
9 139 (1.44%) CIMA
10 106 (1.10%) CCNP
11 100 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 98 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 91 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 87 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 87 (0.90%) CCNA
15 77 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 77 (0.80%) PhD
16 62 (0.64%) HND
17 59 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 57 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (2.37%) QA
2 189 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 153 (1.58%) GDPR
4 111 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 111 (1.15%) SLA
5 104 (1.07%) WCAG
6 70 (0.72%) NIST
7 63 (0.65%) GMP
8 60 (0.62%) IFRS
9 58 (0.60%) PMO
10 51 (0.53%) IFRS 9
11 46 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 38 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
13 33 (0.34%) ISO 26262
14 26 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
15 22 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.21%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.20%) MISRA
17 19 (0.20%) NCSC
18 17 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 522 (5.40%) Docker
2 420 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 257 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 179 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 168 (1.74%) 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
1 511 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 398 (4.11%) Terraform
3 191 (1.97%) Ansible
4 150 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (0.87%) SCCM
6 64 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 57 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (0.58%) Puppet
9 42 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 36 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 27 (0.28%) Grafana
13 26 (0.27%) OpenSSO
14 22 (0.23%) CASB
14 22 (0.23%) FortiGate
15 21 (0.22%) SCOM
15 21 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
16 17 (0.18%) Functional Safety
17 14 (0.14%) WMI
18 12 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,335 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 377 (3.90%) VMware
3 366 (3.78%) Oracle
4 282 (2.91%) Cisco
5 238 (2.46%) Google
6 185 (1.91%) ESRI
7 117 (1.21%) IBM
8 105 (1.09%) SAP
9 89 (0.92%) Databricks
9 89 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 83 (0.86%) Meraki
11 77 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 73 (0.75%) Dell
13 69 (0.71%) Adobe
13 69 (0.71%) HP
14 68 (0.70%) CheckPoint
14 68 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 64 (0.66%) Juniper
16 57 (0.59%) Salesforce
17 55 (0.57%) Splunk