Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,835 16,158 27,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 15.53% 17.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.98% 16.97% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 10,160 9,803 13,306
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £46,250
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +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 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +3 12,697 £62,783 -10.31% 3,760
UK excluding London +4 9,640 £60,000 -1.48% 2,312
Work from Home +1 6,044 £64,080 -8.46% 1,957
London +2 4,412 £77,500 -6.06% 1,654
North of England +6 2,575 £60,000 - 520
South East -2 2,058 £60,000 -11.11% 563
South West +11 1,584 £57,500 -2.70% 308
North West +9 1,448 £60,000 - 314
Midlands +4 1,365 £57,500 - 347
Scotland -5 1,001 £60,000 -7.69% 208
West Midlands +9 877 £57,965 -3.39% 219
Yorkshire 0 850 £57,965 -3.39% 149
East of England +1 574 £60,000 -7.69% 278
East Midlands +2 482 £53,600 -2.55% 128
Wales +12 366 £50,000 -9.09% 91
North East +17 284 £57,965 +5.39% 66
Northern Ireland +19 124 £55,000 +10.00% 48
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
Channel Islands -4 1 £85,000 +136.11% 1

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 3,620 (24.40%) Agile
2 3,154 (21.26%) Social Skills
3 3,083 (20.78%) Finance
4 3,026 (20.40%) Azure
5 2,751 (18.54%) Software Engineering
6 2,614 (17.62%) AWS
7 2,323 (15.66%) Microsoft
8 2,188 (14.75%) SQL
9 2,066 (13.93%) Python
10 2,056 (13.86%) Degree
11 2,055 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 1,975 (13.31%) Mentoring
13 1,768 (11.92%) JavaScript
14 1,675 (11.29%) DevOps
15 1,666 (11.23%) C#
16 1,551 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
17 1,521 (10.25%) .NET
18 1,455 (9.81%) Security Cleared
19 1,392 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 1,357 (9.15%) Java
21 1,287 (8.68%) React
22 1,249 (8.42%) Actionable Insight
23 1,137 (7.66%) Windows
24 1,133 (7.64%) Linux
25 1,033 (6.96%) SC Cleared
26 1,027 (6.92%) Coaching
27 1,003 (6.76%) Project Management
28 973 (6.56%) CI/CD
29 966 (6.51%) Decision-Making
30 929 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence

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
1 265 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 236 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 220 (1.48%) ArcGIS
4 214 (1.44%) GeoServer
5 201 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 150 (1.01%) Confluence
7 146 (0.98%) Apache
7 146 (0.98%) CMS
8 119 (0.80%) SAS
9 111 (0.75%) IIS
10 104 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
11 53 (0.36%) Umbraco
12 48 (0.32%) WordPress
13 40 (0.27%) Headless CMS
13 40 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
14 39 (0.26%) Kentico
15 38 (0.26%) JBoss
16 37 (0.25%) Tuxedo
17 36 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
18 34 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 587 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 168 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 115 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (0.43%) Sketch
6 56 (0.38%) Simulink
7 52 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 41 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 32 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 31 (0.21%) Stateflow
11 24 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 18 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
13 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
14 10 (0.067%) InDesign
14 10 (0.067%) InVision
14 10 (0.067%) OrCAD
14 10 (0.067%) Solid Edge
15 7 (0.047%) Adobe XD
15 7 (0.047%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 73 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.35%) Endur
3 46 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 30 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
5 25 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 24 (0.16%) Shopify
7 18 (0.12%) Magento
8 17 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 15 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
10 14 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
10 14 (0.094%) SAP FI
10 14 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
11 12 (0.081%) NEC Housing
11 12 (0.081%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.081%) SAP FI/CO
11 12 (0.081%) SAP SCM
12 11 (0.074%) SAP SD
13 10 (0.067%) Primavera
13 10 (0.067%) SAP HR
14 8 (0.054%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,026 (20.40%) Azure
2 2,614 (17.62%) AWS
3 710 (4.79%) SaaS
4 681 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
5 610 (4.11%) GCP
6 528 (3.56%) Power Platform
7 452 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 348 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 252 (1.70%) Serverless
10 222 (1.50%) GitHub
11 212 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 165 (1.11%) Amazon S3
12 165 (1.11%) PaaS
13 140 (0.94%) PowerApps
14 139 (0.94%) IaaS
15 128 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
15 128 (0.86%) OneDrive
16 122 (0.82%) Snowflake
17 121 (0.82%) Power Automate
18 116 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 608 (4.10%) Firewall
2 399 (2.69%) Broadband
3 362 (2.44%) WAN
4 326 (2.20%) DNS
5 267 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 260 (1.75%) LAN
7 234 (1.58%) Wireless
8 207 (1.40%) DHCP
9 197 (1.33%) VPN
10 185 (1.25%) Network Security
11 167 (1.13%) 5G
12 159 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
13 145 (0.98%) Internet
14 125 (0.84%) SD-WAN
15 118 (0.80%) VLAN
16 114 (0.77%) MPLS
17 109 (0.73%) SAN
18 100 (0.67%) BGP
19 91 (0.61%) HTTP
20 63 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 704 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 610 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 401 (2.70%) Power BI
4 374 (2.52%) MySQL
5 347 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 322 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 278 (1.87%) Tableau
8 248 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 235 (1.58%) GIS
10 216 (1.46%) QGIS
11 201 (1.35%) Data Lake
12 193 (1.30%) Big Data
13 165 (1.11%) MongoDB
14 150 (1.01%) Oracle Database
15 145 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
16 119 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 113 (0.76%) Metadata
18 100 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
19 96 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
20 94 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 834 (5.62%) Git
2 403 (2.72%) JIRA
3 313 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 146 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 134 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 127 (0.86%) GitLab
7 103 (0.69%) Selenium
8 75 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 67 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 64 (0.43%) Postman
11 63 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 58 (0.39%) JUnit
13 54 (0.36%) TeamCity
14 49 (0.33%) Sourcetree
15 48 (0.32%) Subversion
16 45 (0.30%) Maven
17 42 (0.28%) IntelliJ
18 39 (0.26%) webpack
19 38 (0.26%) CircleCI
19 38 (0.26%) Eclipse
General
1 3,154 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 3,083 (20.78%) Finance
3 1,551 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 1,392 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 828 (5.58%) Marketing
6 707 (4.77%) Law
7 662 (4.46%) Public Sector
8 640 (4.31%) Banking
9 605 (4.08%) Retail
10 465 (3.13%) Legal
11 425 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 351 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 345 (2.33%) Manufacturing
14 269 (1.81%) Games
15 242 (1.63%) Electronics
16 216 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 201 (1.35%) Front Office
18 180 (1.21%) Aerospace
19 179 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
20 172 (1.16%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,521 (10.25%) .NET
2 1,287 (8.68%) React
3 895 (6.03%) CSS
4 835 (5.63%) HTML
5 660 (4.45%) AngularJS
6 566 (3.82%) .NET Core
7 491 (3.31%) Node.js
8 481 (3.24%) RESTful
9 427 (2.88%) REST
10 423 (2.85%) ASP.NET
11 358 (2.41%) Vue
12 351 (2.37%) Spring
13 349 (2.35%) .NET Framework
14 325 (2.19%) Kafka
15 311 (2.10%) Web Services
16 290 (1.95%) JSON
17 255 (1.72%) XML
18 229 (1.54%) Laravel
19 217 (1.46%) OpenLayers
20 215 (1.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 372 (2.51%) Product Ownership
2 356 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 340 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
4 334 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 314 (2.12%) Cloud Native
6 311 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 281 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 280 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 269 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 249 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 220 (1.48%) IoT
12 214 (1.44%) Social Media
13 177 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 159 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 159 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 153 (1.03%) Derivative
16 148 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 146 (0.98%) Hedge funds
18 120 (0.81%) Equities
19 112 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,137 (7.66%) Windows
2 1,133 (7.64%) Linux
3 446 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 210 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 148 (1.00%) Unix
6 144 (0.97%) Android
7 134 (0.90%) Windows 10
8 132 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
9 129 (0.87%) Apple iOS
10 93 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 82 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 75 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 63 (0.42%) Mac OS
14 49 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 31 (0.21%) VMS
16 23 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 22 (0.15%) Windows 7
18 16 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
19 15 (0.10%) CentOS
20 14 (0.094%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,620 (24.40%) Agile
2 2,751 (18.54%) Software Engineering
3 2,055 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
4 1,975 (13.31%) Mentoring
5 1,675 (11.29%) DevOps
6 1,249 (8.42%) Actionable Insight
7 1,027 (6.92%) Coaching
8 1,003 (6.76%) Project Management
9 973 (6.56%) CI/CD
10 966 (6.51%) Decision-Making
11 929 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence
12 919 (6.19%) Analytics
13 865 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
14 863 (5.82%) Computer Science
15 797 (5.37%) Full Stack Development
16 784 (5.28%) Roadmaps
17 709 (4.78%) Microservices
18 650 (4.38%) SDLC
19 610 (4.11%) Machine Learning
20 599 (4.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,188 (14.75%) SQL
2 2,066 (13.93%) Python
3 1,768 (11.92%) JavaScript
4 1,666 (11.23%) C#
5 1,357 (9.15%) Java
6 851 (5.74%) TypeScript
7 465 (3.13%) C
7 465 (3.13%) C++
8 414 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 373 (2.51%) Bash
10 369 (2.49%) PHP
11 209 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 203 (1.37%) Go
13 184 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 142 (0.96%) R
15 133 (0.90%) Ruby
16 115 (0.78%) Scala
17 109 (0.73%) Kotlin
18 99 (0.67%) Embedded C
19 93 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,056 (13.86%) Degree
2 1,455 (9.81%) Security Cleared
3 1,033 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 355 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 289 (1.95%) ACCA
6 279 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 255 (1.72%) CIMA
8 241 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 229 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 178 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 146 (0.98%) CISSP
12 145 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 143 (0.96%) CCNP
14 130 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 128 (0.86%) Azure Certification
16 127 (0.86%) AWS Certification
17 117 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
18 101 (0.68%) PhD
19 96 (0.65%) CCNA
20 79 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (2.62%) QA
2 247 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 245 (1.65%) SLA
4 225 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 189 (1.27%) GDPR
6 122 (0.82%) NIST
7 120 (0.81%) WCAG
8 108 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 101 (0.68%) IFRS
10 95 (0.64%) PMO
11 71 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 54 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 42 (0.28%) GRC
13 42 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 39 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
15 37 (0.25%) GMP
16 34 (0.23%) ISO 26262
17 29 (0.20%) NCSC
18 27 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
19 26 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 839 (5.66%) Docker
2 777 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 370 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 254 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 174 (1.17%) Firmware
6 75 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
7 64 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
8 58 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 52 (0.35%) vSphere
10 32 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 19 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 14 (0.094%) KVM
14 12 (0.081%) XenApp
15 11 (0.074%) IAG
15 11 (0.074%) XenDesktop
16 10 (0.067%) NFS
17 8 (0.054%) HDFS
18 7 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
19 6 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 902 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 662 (4.46%) Terraform
3 311 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 295 (1.99%) Ansible
5 151 (1.02%) SCCM
6 143 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 94 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 90 (0.61%) Puppet
9 76 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 71 (0.48%) Grafana
11 58 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
13 41 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 29 (0.20%) OpenSSO
15 28 (0.19%) CASB
16 26 (0.18%) SCOM
17 24 (0.16%) Nagios
17 24 (0.16%) WSUS
18 22 (0.15%) Stealthwatch
19 18 (0.12%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,323 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 588 (3.96%) Oracle
3 556 (3.75%) VMware
4 462 (3.11%) Cisco
5 404 (2.72%) Google
6 273 (1.84%) Databricks
7 223 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.46%) ESRI
9 212 (1.43%) SAP
10 191 (1.29%) Dell
11 156 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 133 (0.90%) IBM
13 128 (0.86%) Tanium
14 124 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 121 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 120 (0.81%) Juniper
16 120 (0.81%) Meraki
17 115 (0.78%) HP
18 112 (0.75%) Adobe
19 110 (0.74%) Citrix