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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,520 6,133 15,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.11% 18.18% 21.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.28% 19.11% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,117 4,282 6,111
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
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 £112,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 20 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 20 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 +5 761 £77,500 -8.82% 196
West London +15 188 £57,500 +4.55% 56
South London +12 117 £65,000 +6.82% 28
East London -4 23 £57,500 -11.54% 345
North London -3 13 £70,000 +27.27% 11
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 1,329 (29.40%) Finance
2 1,252 (27.70%) Social Skills
3 1,037 (22.94%) Azure
4 1,011 (22.37%) SQL
5 1,006 (22.26%) Agile
6 1,004 (22.21%) AWS
7 976 (21.59%) Python
8 850 (18.81%) Microsoft
9 756 (16.73%) Degree
10 671 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
11 643 (14.23%) Software Engineering
12 616 (13.63%) JavaScript
13 610 (13.50%) Mentoring
14 590 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
15 518 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 505 (11.17%) Java
17 445 (9.85%) DevOps
18 431 (9.54%) C#
19 418 (9.25%) React
20 417 (9.23%) Analytics
21 405 (8.96%) .NET
22 383 (8.47%) TypeScript
23 352 (7.79%) Actionable Insight
24 344 (7.61%) Decision-Making
25 334 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
26 333 (7.37%) Kubernetes
27 330 (7.30%) CI/CD
28 328 (7.26%) Banking
29 320 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence
30 318 (7.04%) 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
1 139 (3.08%) Apache
2 128 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 103 (2.28%) Apache Spark
5 58 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 43 (0.95%) CMS
7 22 (0.49%) SAS
8 19 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 19 (0.42%) Confluence
8 19 (0.42%) WordPress
9 17 (0.38%) GeoServer
10 16 (0.35%) Drupal
11 15 (0.33%) IIS
12 12 (0.27%) nginx
13 9 (0.20%) JBoss
13 9 (0.20%) Mendix
14 8 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
15 7 (0.15%) Ethereum
15 7 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 233 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.49%) Photoshop
6 15 (0.33%) 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 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.088%) InDesign
12 3 (0.066%) Revit
12 3 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.044%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.044%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.044%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.044%) SPSS
13 2 (0.044%) Stata
13 2 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (1.24%) Endur
2 34 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.27%) SAP SCM
6 10 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 8 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 7 (0.15%) C-CURE
9 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
10 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.088%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.088%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.088%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.088%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (22.94%) Azure
2 1,004 (22.21%) AWS
3 305 (6.75%) GCP
4 282 (6.24%) SaaS
5 238 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
6 227 (5.02%) Power Platform
7 159 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 131 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 108 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
10 98 (2.17%) dbt
11 97 (2.15%) Serverless
12 85 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 68 (1.50%) GitHub
13 68 (1.50%) PaaS
14 67 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 49 (1.08%) IaaS
16 47 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 46 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
18 42 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
19 37 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 196 (4.34%) Broadband
2 191 (4.23%) Firewall
3 100 (2.21%) WAN
4 96 (2.12%) 5G
5 79 (1.75%) LAN
6 77 (1.70%) VPN
7 70 (1.55%) Network Security
8 69 (1.53%) DNS
9 60 (1.33%) MPLS
10 55 (1.22%) TCP/IP
10 55 (1.22%) Wireless
11 51 (1.13%) Internet
12 47 (1.04%) DHCP
13 44 (0.97%) BGP
14 42 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
15 41 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.71%) VLAN
17 30 (0.66%) SAN
18 26 (0.58%) SNMP
19 24 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 245 (5.42%) Tableau
3 176 (3.89%) Power BI
4 151 (3.34%) Data Lake
5 148 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
6 131 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 105 (2.32%) Relational Database
8 95 (2.10%) MySQL
9 85 (1.88%) Apache Ignite
10 82 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
11 81 (1.79%) NoSQL
12 77 (1.70%) MongoDB
13 73 (1.62%) Dremio
14 71 (1.57%) Apache Arrow
15 69 (1.53%) Big Data
16 60 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 55 (1.22%) Metadata
18 51 (1.13%) Data Mining
19 50 (1.11%) Hadoop
20 47 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 309 (6.84%) Git
2 123 (2.72%) Jenkins
3 99 (2.19%) JIRA
4 46 (1.02%) GitLab
5 34 (0.75%) Selenium
6 27 (0.60%) CircleCI
7 26 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 24 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 23 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
10 23 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
10 23 (0.51%) Postman
11 22 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 20 (0.44%) Sourcetree
13 20 (0.44%) SpecFlow
14 18 (0.40%) Moq
14 18 (0.40%) NUnit
15 17 (0.38%) JUnit
16 16 (0.35%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,329 (29.40%) Finance
2 1,252 (27.70%) Social Skills
3 671 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 518 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 328 (7.26%) Banking
6 285 (6.31%) Retail
7 280 (6.19%) Marketing
8 246 (5.44%) Law
9 222 (4.91%) Front Office
10 188 (4.16%) Legal
11 177 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
12 149 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
13 120 (2.65%) Public Sector
14 116 (2.57%) Back Office
15 102 (2.26%) Investment Banking
16 84 (1.86%) Games
17 61 (1.35%) Telecoms
18 52 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 52 (1.15%) Retail Banking
19 45 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (9.25%) React
2 405 (8.96%) .NET
3 265 (5.86%) HTML
4 241 (5.33%) CSS
5 222 (4.91%) AngularJS
6 161 (3.56%) REST
7 156 (3.45%) Pandas
8 151 (3.34%) Kafka
9 140 (3.10%) Node.js
10 109 (2.41%) ASP.NET
10 109 (2.41%) Spring
11 105 (2.32%) Vue
12 99 (2.19%) gRPC
12 99 (2.19%) RESTful
13 96 (2.12%) PySpark
14 95 (2.10%) .NET Core
15 83 (1.84%) NumPy
15 83 (1.84%) Protocol Buffers
16 76 (1.68%) Spring Boot
17 74 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 181 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 176 (3.89%) Hedge funds
3 174 (3.85%) Derivative
4 152 (3.36%) Equities
5 137 (3.03%) Fixed Income
5 137 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 136 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 127 (2.81%) Social Media
8 124 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
9 107 (2.37%) Algorithms
10 100 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 97 (2.15%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.86%) Cloud Native
13 77 (1.70%) Data Centre
14 73 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
15 57 (1.26%) Mobile App
15 57 (1.26%) Reinsurance
16 56 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 51 (1.13%) IoT
18 46 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 307 (6.79%) Windows
2 288 (6.37%) Linux
3 110 (2.43%) Ubuntu
4 108 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 44 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 43 (0.95%) Android
8 35 (0.77%) Unix
9 26 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 22 (0.49%) VMS
12 18 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.33%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.088%) CentOS
15 4 (0.088%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.066%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.022%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,006 (22.26%) Agile
2 643 (14.23%) Software Engineering
3 610 (13.50%) Mentoring
4 590 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
5 445 (9.85%) DevOps
6 417 (9.23%) Analytics
7 352 (7.79%) Actionable Insight
8 344 (7.61%) Decision-Making
9 334 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
10 330 (7.30%) CI/CD
11 320 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence
12 318 (7.04%) Full Stack Development
13 305 (6.75%) Visualisation
14 281 (6.22%) Computer Science
15 277 (6.13%) Project Management
16 274 (6.06%) Asset Management
17 261 (5.77%) Roadmaps
18 256 (5.66%) Mathematics
19 251 (5.55%) Data Science
20 239 (5.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (22.37%) SQL
2 976 (21.59%) Python
3 616 (13.63%) JavaScript
4 505 (11.17%) Java
5 431 (9.54%) C#
6 383 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 144 (3.19%) Bash
8 139 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 86 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 72 (1.59%) C++
11 68 (1.50%) Kotlin
12 65 (1.44%) PHP
13 59 (1.31%) Ruby
14 57 (1.26%) Go
14 57 (1.26%) R
15 55 (1.22%) PL/SQL
16 53 (1.17%) Rust
17 45 (1.00%) C
17 45 (1.00%) Scala
18 36 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 756 (16.73%) Degree
2 199 (4.40%) Security Cleared
3 169 (3.74%) DBS Check
4 136 (3.01%) ACCA
5 133 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 121 (2.68%) SC Cleared
7 115 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.43%) CIMA
9 75 (1.66%) CISSP
10 63 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 61 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 45 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 39 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 34 (0.75%) AWS Certification
15 34 (0.75%) CCNP
16 29 (0.64%) CISM
17 27 (0.60%) PhD
18 26 (0.58%) CREST Certified
19 24 (0.53%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (3.34%) QA
2 127 (2.81%) SLA
3 122 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 48 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (0.97%) NIST
6 42 (0.93%) GDPR
6 42 (0.93%) IFRS
7 32 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.60%) PMO
9 20 (0.44%) IFRS 9
10 18 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.40%) GRC
11 16 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.31%) COBIT
13 10 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.22%) NCSC
13 10 (0.22%) WCAG
14 9 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.20%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 286 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 254 (5.62%) Docker
3 70 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
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%) Ceph
13 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.066%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.066%) RACF
14 3 (0.066%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 333 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 226 (5.00%) Terraform
3 141 (3.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 96 (2.12%) Jamf Pro
5 93 (2.06%) Ansible
6 51 (1.13%) SCCM
7 40 (0.88%) Grafana
8 34 (0.75%) Puppet
9 28 (0.62%) Prometheus
10 22 (0.49%) vCenter Server
11 20 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.42%) Nmap
13 17 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.27%) Nagios
16 9 (0.20%) Graphite
16 9 (0.20%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.20%) QRadar
17 8 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 7 (0.15%) Nessus
Vendors
1 850 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 235 (5.20%) Databricks
3 147 (3.25%) Google
3 147 (3.25%) Oracle
4 142 (3.14%) Cisco
5 135 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 126 (2.79%) VMware
7 105 (2.32%) CyberArk
8 100 (2.21%) Dell
9 91 (2.01%) SAP
10 90 (1.99%) Tanium
11 64 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 53 (1.17%) Citrix
13 45 (1.00%) Adobe
13 45 (1.00%) Palo Alto
14 43 (0.95%) Juniper
15 39 (0.86%) SolarWinds
16 37 (0.82%) HP
17 36 (0.80%) Sybase
18 34 (0.75%) Meraki