Senior Jobs in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,489 6,241 14,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.97% 18.16% 21.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.15% 19.09% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,118 4,338 6,028
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,274 32,686 65,100
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.09% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,684 24,117 34,486
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +5 763 £77,500 -8.82% 201
West London +18 189 £57,500 +4.55% 65
South London +19 118 £65,000 +6.82% 26
East London -6 23 £57,500 -11.54% 37
North London -7 13 £70,000 +27.27% 12
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 1,324 (29.49%) Finance
2 1,227 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 1,045 (23.28%) Azure
4 991 (22.08%) SQL
5 986 (21.96%) Agile
6 981 (21.85%) AWS
7 943 (21.01%) Python
8 857 (19.09%) Microsoft
9 740 (16.48%) Degree
10 662 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
11 632 (14.08%) Software Engineering
12 606 (13.50%) Mentoring
13 603 (13.43%) JavaScript
14 560 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
15 512 (11.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 493 (10.98%) Java
17 451 (10.05%) DevOps
18 433 (9.65%) C#
19 419 (9.33%) React
20 408 (9.09%) .NET
21 406 (9.04%) Analytics
22 370 (8.24%) TypeScript
23 338 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
24 337 (7.51%) Kubernetes
25 332 (7.40%) CI/CD
26 330 (7.35%) Decision-Making
27 326 (7.26%) Actionable Insight
28 317 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
29 314 (6.99%) Windows
30 311 (6.93%) Full Stack Development

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 128 (2.85%) Apache
2 117 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 101 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 59 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 41 (0.91%) CMS
7 22 (0.49%) SAS
8 19 (0.42%) Confluence
8 19 (0.42%) WordPress
9 18 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 17 (0.38%) GeoServer
11 16 (0.36%) Drupal
12 15 (0.33%) IIS
13 12 (0.27%) nginx
14 10 (0.22%) JBoss
15 9 (0.20%) Mendix
15 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
17 7 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 233 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.20%) Sketch
9 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.089%) InDesign
12 3 (0.067%) Revit
12 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.045%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.045%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.045%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.045%) SPSS
13 2 (0.045%) Stata
13 2 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (1.20%) Endur
2 35 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.29%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.27%) SAP SCM
6 10 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.16%) C-CURE
7 7 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
9 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.089%) Lawson
10 4 (0.089%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.089%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.089%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.089%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (23.28%) Azure
2 981 (21.85%) AWS
3 303 (6.75%) GCP
4 289 (6.44%) SaaS
5 245 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
6 225 (5.01%) Power Platform
7 161 (3.59%) Entra ID
8 122 (2.72%) Snowflake
9 109 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (2.14%) Serverless
11 87 (1.94%) dbt
12 83 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (1.54%) PaaS
14 66 (1.47%) Amazon S3
15 65 (1.45%) GitHub
16 51 (1.14%) IaaS
17 49 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
18 48 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 41 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
20 38 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.39%) Broadband
2 195 (4.34%) Firewall
3 98 (2.18%) 5G
3 98 (2.18%) WAN
4 80 (1.78%) VPN
5 76 (1.69%) LAN
6 71 (1.58%) Network Security
7 70 (1.56%) DNS
8 59 (1.31%) MPLS
9 55 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 54 (1.20%) Wireless
11 51 (1.14%) Internet
12 47 (1.05%) DHCP
13 44 (0.98%) BGP
14 42 (0.94%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
16 32 (0.71%) VLAN
17 30 (0.67%) SAN
18 26 (0.58%) SNMP
19 24 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 229 (5.10%) Tableau
3 177 (3.94%) Power BI
4 151 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 140 (3.12%) Data Lake
6 131 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
7 103 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 97 (2.16%) MySQL
9 83 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 79 (1.76%) MongoDB
11 76 (1.69%) Apache Ignite
12 71 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
13 69 (1.54%) Big Data
14 63 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 62 (1.38%) Dremio
16 60 (1.34%) Apache Arrow
17 55 (1.23%) Metadata
18 54 (1.20%) Data Mining
19 52 (1.16%) Hadoop
20 51 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 292 (6.50%) Git
2 131 (2.92%) Jenkins
3 97 (2.16%) JIRA
4 45 (1.00%) GitLab
5 36 (0.80%) Selenium
6 29 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 28 (0.62%) CircleCI
8 26 (0.58%) Postman
9 24 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 23 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
11 22 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.49%) TeamCity
12 21 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
13 18 (0.40%) JUnit
13 18 (0.40%) Sourcetree
13 18 (0.40%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.38%) Moq
14 17 (0.38%) NUnit
15 16 (0.36%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,324 (29.49%) Finance
2 1,227 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 662 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 512 (11.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 308 (6.86%) Banking
6 278 (6.19%) Marketing
7 263 (5.86%) Retail
8 248 (5.52%) Law
9 211 (4.70%) Front Office
10 187 (4.17%) Legal
11 158 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
12 149 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
13 119 (2.65%) Public Sector
14 114 (2.54%) Back Office
15 94 (2.09%) Investment Banking
16 83 (1.85%) Games
17 66 (1.47%) Telecoms
18 51 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
19 49 (1.09%) Retail Banking
20 44 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (9.33%) React
2 408 (9.09%) .NET
3 263 (5.86%) HTML
4 237 (5.28%) CSS
5 225 (5.01%) AngularJS
6 161 (3.59%) REST
7 151 (3.36%) Kafka
8 144 (3.21%) Node.js
9 140 (3.12%) Pandas
10 114 (2.54%) Spring
11 109 (2.43%) ASP.NET
12 104 (2.32%) Vue
13 99 (2.21%) RESTful
14 98 (2.18%) .NET Core
15 94 (2.09%) PySpark
16 88 (1.96%) gRPC
17 77 (1.72%) Spring Boot
18 72 (1.60%) NumPy
18 72 (1.60%) Protocol Buffers
19 70 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 170 (3.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 164 (3.65%) Hedge funds
3 163 (3.63%) Derivative
4 142 (3.16%) Equities
5 135 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 133 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 127 (2.83%) Fixed Income
7 127 (2.83%) Social Media
8 118 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
9 101 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 97 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
11 95 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.83%) Cloud Native
13 79 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 73 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
15 60 (1.34%) Reinsurance
16 53 (1.18%) Mobile App
17 52 (1.16%) Data Structures
18 51 (1.14%) IoT
19 44 (0.98%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 314 (6.99%) Windows
2 291 (6.48%) Linux
3 114 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.43%) Ubuntu
5 60 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 45 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 44 (0.98%) Android
8 33 (0.74%) Unix
9 28 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 21 (0.47%) VMS
12 20 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.33%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.089%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.089%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.067%) CentOS
16 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (21.96%) Agile
2 632 (14.08%) Software Engineering
3 606 (13.50%) Mentoring
4 560 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
5 451 (10.05%) DevOps
6 406 (9.04%) Analytics
7 338 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
8 332 (7.40%) CI/CD
9 330 (7.35%) Decision-Making
10 326 (7.26%) Actionable Insight
11 317 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 311 (6.93%) Full Stack Development
13 288 (6.42%) Project Management
14 286 (6.37%) Visualisation
15 277 (6.17%) Computer Science
16 259 (5.77%) Asset Management
17 254 (5.66%) Roadmaps
18 242 (5.39%) Microservices
19 239 (5.32%) Data Science
20 235 (5.24%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 991 (22.08%) SQL
2 943 (21.01%) Python
3 603 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 493 (10.98%) Java
5 433 (9.65%) C#
6 370 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 147 (3.27%) Bash
8 138 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 85 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 70 (1.56%) C++
11 66 (1.47%) PHP
12 62 (1.38%) Ruby
13 61 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 58 (1.29%) R
15 57 (1.27%) Go
15 57 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 53 (1.18%) Rust
17 43 (0.96%) C
18 38 (0.85%) Scala
19 37 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 740 (16.48%) Degree
2 197 (4.39%) Security Cleared
3 148 (3.30%) DBS Check
4 136 (3.03%) ACCA
5 128 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 120 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 114 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.45%) CIMA
9 74 (1.65%) CISSP
10 66 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 65 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 45 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 37 (0.82%) CCNP
14 37 (0.82%) DV Cleared
15 32 (0.71%) AWS Certification
16 29 (0.65%) CISM
17 26 (0.58%) PhD
18 25 (0.56%) CEH
19 24 (0.53%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (3.50%) QA
2 127 (2.83%) SLA
3 118 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 51 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (0.98%) NIST
6 42 (0.94%) IFRS
7 41 (0.91%) GDPR
8 31 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 28 (0.62%) PMO
10 22 (0.49%) GRC
11 20 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 19 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.33%) COBIT
15 11 (0.25%) WCAG
16 10 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.20%) NCSC
17 9 (0.20%) Solvency II
18 8 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 289 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 255 (5.68%) Docker
3 74 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.29%) vSphere
9 12 (0.27%) KVM
10 9 (0.20%) XenApp
11 8 (0.18%) HDFS
12 6 (0.13%) Firmware
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.067%) Ceph
15 3 (0.067%) Forefront TMG
15 3 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.067%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 337 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 227 (5.06%) Terraform
3 146 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 96 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
5 94 (2.09%) Ansible
6 55 (1.23%) SCCM
7 43 (0.96%) Grafana
8 34 (0.76%) Puppet
9 30 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 23 (0.51%) vCenter Server
11 20 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.42%) Nmap
13 17 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (0.29%) Nagios
16 10 (0.22%) Graphite
16 10 (0.22%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.20%) QRadar
18 8 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 857 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 216 (4.81%) Databricks
3 151 (3.36%) Google
4 145 (3.23%) Cisco
5 144 (3.21%) Oracle
6 138 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 134 (2.99%) VMware
8 103 (2.29%) Dell
9 101 (2.25%) CyberArk
10 91 (2.03%) SAP
11 90 (2.00%) Tanium
12 57 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 55 (1.23%) Citrix
14 47 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.96%) Juniper
16 42 (0.94%) Adobe
17 40 (0.89%) HP
17 40 (0.89%) SolarWinds
18 35 (0.78%) Sybase
19 33 (0.74%) Meraki