Senior
UK

The median Senior salary in the UK is £62,500 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 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 14,947 15,885 28,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 15.69% 18.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.95% 17.14% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,209 9,663 13,302
10th Percentile £41,875 £47,025 £45,750
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 £85,375
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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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 13 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 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
England +2 12,784 £62,783 -10.31% 3,974
UK excluding London +2 9,675 £60,000 -1.32% 2,493
Work from Home +1 6,065 £64,080 -8.46% 1,927
London +2 4,474 £77,500 -6.06% 1,707
North of England +5 2,578 £60,000 - 584
South East -1 2,079 £60,000 -11.11% 583
South West +9 1,575 £57,500 -2.70% 330
North West +8 1,451 £60,000 - 356
Midlands +5 1,383 £57,500 - 423
Scotland -10 1,001 £60,000 -4.66% 209
West Midlands +9 885 £58,500 -2.50% 278
Yorkshire +1 849 £57,965 -3.39% 168
East of England 0 566 £60,000 -7.69% 274
East Midlands +2 490 £52,500 -4.55% 146
Wales +11 374 £50,000 -9.09% 84
North East +15 283 £57,965 +2.59% 68
Northern Ireland +19 122 £55,000 +15.79% 51
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 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 featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3,597 (24.07%) Agile
2 3,236 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 3,135 (20.97%) Finance
4 3,012 (20.15%) Azure
5 2,813 (18.82%) Software Engineering
6 2,654 (17.76%) AWS
7 2,315 (15.49%) Microsoft
8 2,218 (14.84%) SQL
9 2,161 (14.46%) Degree
10 2,132 (14.26%) Python
11 2,089 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
12 2,023 (13.53%) Mentoring
13 1,796 (12.02%) JavaScript
14 1,669 (11.17%) C#
15 1,649 (11.03%) DevOps
16 1,569 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
17 1,534 (10.26%) .NET
18 1,410 (9.43%) Security Cleared
19 1,379 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 1,355 (9.07%) Java
21 1,291 (8.64%) React
22 1,225 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
23 1,138 (7.61%) Linux
24 1,110 (7.43%) Windows
25 1,104 (7.39%) Coaching
26 1,011 (6.76%) SC Cleared
27 996 (6.66%) Project Management
28 993 (6.64%) Decision-Making
29 975 (6.52%) CI/CD
30 946 (6.33%) 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
1 244 (1.63%) 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
8 145 (0.97%) Confluence
9 129 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
10 117 (0.78%) SAS
11 105 (0.70%) 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 30 (0.20%) WebLogic
18 24 (0.16%) nginx
19 22 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 599 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 299 (2.00%) 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 53 (0.35%) 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 (0.054%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,012 (20.15%) Azure
2 2,654 (17.76%) AWS
3 709 (4.74%) SaaS
4 648 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
5 611 (4.09%) GCP
6 531 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 445 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
8 342 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 255 (1.71%) Serverless
10 220 (1.47%) GitHub
11 216 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 172 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 164 (1.10%) PaaS
14 148 (0.99%) Snowflake
15 138 (0.92%) PowerApps
16 136 (0.91%) IaaS
17 127 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
17 127 (0.85%) OneDrive
18 120 (0.80%) Power Automate
19 118 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 575 (3.85%) Firewall
2 397 (2.66%) Broadband
3 340 (2.27%) WAN
4 315 (2.11%) DNS
5 264 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 240 (1.61%) LAN
7 231 (1.55%) Wireless
8 199 (1.33%) DHCP
9 189 (1.26%) Network Security
10 181 (1.21%) VPN
11 163 (1.09%) 5G
12 157 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 145 (0.97%) Internet
14 130 (0.87%) SD-WAN
15 111 (0.74%) MPLS
15 111 (0.74%) VLAN
16 107 (0.72%) SAN
17 93 (0.62%) BGP
18 88 (0.59%) HTTP
19 60 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 695 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 590 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 402 (2.69%) Power BI
4 374 (2.50%) MySQL
5 350 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 327 (2.19%) Tableau
7 325 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 248 (1.66%) Relational Database
9 245 (1.64%) Data Lake
10 235 (1.57%) GIS
11 216 (1.45%) QGIS
12 192 (1.28%) Big Data
13 165 (1.10%) MongoDB
14 140 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
15 137 (0.92%) Oracle Database
16 122 (0.82%) Metadata
17 117 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 100 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
19 96 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
20 87 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 892 (5.97%) Git
2 397 (2.66%) JIRA
3 303 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 147 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 134 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 131 (0.88%) GitLab
7 106 (0.71%) Selenium
8 74 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 67 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 57 (0.38%) JUnit
11 56 (0.37%) Postman
12 53 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 51 (0.34%) Cucumber
14 49 (0.33%) Sourcetree
15 45 (0.30%) Subversion
16 40 (0.27%) Maven
17 39 (0.26%) CircleCI
17 39 (0.26%) webpack
18 38 (0.25%) Eclipse
19 35 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,236 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 3,135 (20.97%) Finance
3 1,569 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1,379 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 835 (5.59%) Marketing
6 719 (4.81%) Law
7 685 (4.58%) Banking
8 654 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 633 (4.23%) Retail
10 493 (3.30%) Legal
11 429 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
12 415 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
13 382 (2.56%) Manufacturing
14 266 (1.78%) Games
15 243 (1.63%) Electronics
16 225 (1.51%) Front Office
17 209 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 193 (1.29%) Aerospace
19 184 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
20 172 (1.15%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,534 (10.26%) .NET
2 1,291 (8.64%) React
3 894 (5.98%) CSS
4 833 (5.57%) HTML
5 631 (4.22%) AngularJS
6 569 (3.81%) .NET Core
7 486 (3.25%) Node.js
8 465 (3.11%) RESTful
9 425 (2.84%) ASP.NET
10 406 (2.72%) REST
11 362 (2.42%) .NET Framework
12 355 (2.38%) Vue
13 327 (2.19%) Spring
14 315 (2.11%) Kafka
15 291 (1.95%) Web Services
16 270 (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 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 345 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
4 336 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 320 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 292 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 281 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 279 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 274 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 226 (1.51%) IoT
11 218 (1.46%) Social Media
12 208 (1.39%) Driving Licence
13 181 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 180 (1.20%) 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
19 130 (0.87%) Data Structures
20 127 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1,138 (7.61%) Linux
2 1,110 (7.43%) Windows
3 411 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 214 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 148 (0.99%) Unix
6 146 (0.98%) Android
7 133 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 128 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 128 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 85 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 74 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 67 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 52 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 49 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 32 (0.21%) VMS
15 23 (0.15%) Windows 7
16 18 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.11%) CentOS
18 13 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
19 10 (0.067%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,597 (24.07%) Agile
2 2,813 (18.82%) Software Engineering
3 2,089 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
4 2,023 (13.53%) Mentoring
5 1,649 (11.03%) DevOps
6 1,225 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
7 1,104 (7.39%) Coaching
8 996 (6.66%) Project Management
9 993 (6.64%) Decision-Making
10 975 (6.52%) CI/CD
11 946 (6.33%) Analytics
12 938 (6.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 877 (5.87%) Cybersecurity
14 870 (5.82%) Computer Science
15 805 (5.39%) Roadmaps
16 792 (5.30%) Full Stack Development
17 693 (4.64%) Microservices
18 644 (4.31%) SDLC
19 616 (4.12%) Machine Learning
20 587 (3.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,218 (14.84%) SQL
2 2,132 (14.26%) Python
3 1,796 (12.02%) JavaScript
4 1,669 (11.17%) C#
5 1,355 (9.07%) Java
6 887 (5.93%) TypeScript
7 478 (3.20%) C
8 468 (3.13%) C++
9 382 (2.56%) PowerShell
10 373 (2.50%) PHP
11 353 (2.36%) Bash
12 214 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 203 (1.36%) Go
14 172 (1.15%) PL/SQL
15 142 (0.95%) R
16 134 (0.90%) Ruby
17 122 (0.82%) Scala
18 111 (0.74%) Kotlin
19 103 (0.69%) Embedded C
20 96 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,161 (14.46%) Degree
2 1,410 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 1,011 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 351 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 291 (1.95%) ACCA
6 289 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 258 (1.73%) CIMA
8 232 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 229 (1.53%) DBS Check
10 211 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 158 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 148 (0.99%) CCNP
13 146 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 146 (0.98%) CISSP
14 143 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 133 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 117 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
17 106 (0.71%) PhD
18 101 (0.68%) CCNA
19 72 (0.48%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (2.78%) QA
2 248 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 244 (1.63%) SLA
4 236 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 209 (1.40%) GDPR
6 122 (0.82%) NIST
7 117 (0.78%) WCAG
8 108 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 102 (0.68%) IFRS
10 90 (0.60%) PMO
11 71 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 68 (0.45%) 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
1 814 (5.45%) Docker
2 747 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 337 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 225 (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 52 (0.35%) vSphere
10 29 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 20 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 17 (0.11%) 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 (0.054%) HDFS
19 6 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
20 5 (0.033%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 895 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 660 (4.42%) Terraform
3 302 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 295 (1.97%) Ansible
5 139 (0.93%) SCCM
6 138 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
7 97 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 91 (0.61%) Puppet
9 75 (0.50%) Grafana
10 73 (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%) Stealthwatch
16 26 (0.17%) OpenSSO
17 24 (0.16%) Nagios
17 24 (0.16%) SCOM
18 20 (0.13%) WSUS
19 19 (0.13%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2,315 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 584 (3.91%) Oracle
3 517 (3.46%) VMware
4 436 (2.92%) Cisco
5 404 (2.70%) Google
6 322 (2.15%) Databricks
7 220 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 217 (1.45%) ESRI
9 208 (1.39%) SAP
10 181 (1.21%) Dell
11 154 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 136 (0.91%) IBM
13 129 (0.86%) Salesforce
14 128 (0.86%) Tanium
15 118 (0.79%) Adobe
15 118 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 117 (0.78%) Meraki
17 114 (0.76%) Juniper
18 111 (0.74%) HP
18 111 (0.74%) Red Hat