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 17 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
17 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 4,511 6,131 14,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.07% 18.24% 21.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.24% 19.17% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,117 4,271 6,045
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,000
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 22,283 31,984 66,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,636 23,610 34,531
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 17 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 17 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 +5 762 £77,500 -8.82% 191
West London +14 188 £57,500 +4.55% 58
South London +14 117 £65,000 +6.73% 26
East London -4 23 £57,500 -11.54% 261
North London -3 13 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 1,328 (29.44%) Finance
2 1,248 (27.67%) Social Skills
3 1,041 (23.08%) Azure
4 1,004 (22.26%) Agile
5 999 (22.15%) SQL
6 995 (22.06%) AWS
7 965 (21.39%) Python
8 851 (18.86%) Microsoft
9 753 (16.69%) Degree
10 673 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
11 638 (14.14%) Software Engineering
12 614 (13.61%) JavaScript
13 612 (13.57%) Mentoring
14 576 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
15 518 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 501 (11.11%) Java
17 443 (9.82%) DevOps
18 429 (9.51%) C#
19 417 (9.24%) React
20 411 (9.11%) Analytics
21 404 (8.96%) .NET
22 381 (8.45%) TypeScript
23 345 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
24 338 (7.49%) Decision-Making
25 334 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
26 332 (7.36%) Kubernetes
27 325 (7.20%) Banking
27 325 (7.20%) CI/CD
28 322 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
29 312 (6.92%) 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 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 102 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 42 (0.93%) CMS
7 22 (0.49%) SAS
8 19 (0.42%) WordPress
9 18 (0.40%) ArcGIS
9 18 (0.40%) Confluence
10 17 (0.38%) GeoServer
11 16 (0.35%) Drupal
12 15 (0.33%) IIS
13 12 (0.27%) nginx
14 9 (0.20%) JBoss
14 9 (0.20%) Mendix
15 8 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
16 7 (0.16%) Ethereum
16 7 (0.16%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 232 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.47%) 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 (0.044%) 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 14 (0.31%) 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 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
8 7 (0.16%) C-CURE
9 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
10 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.089%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.089%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.089%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (23.08%) Azure
2 995 (22.06%) AWS
3 303 (6.72%) GCP
4 284 (6.30%) SaaS
5 241 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
6 228 (5.05%) Power Platform
7 157 (3.48%) Entra ID
8 131 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 108 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
10 98 (2.17%) dbt
11 97 (2.15%) Serverless
12 86 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
13 68 (1.51%) PaaS
14 67 (1.49%) Amazon S3
15 65 (1.44%) GitHub
16 50 (1.11%) IaaS
17 48 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 47 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
19 43 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
20 37 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 196 (4.34%) Broadband
2 192 (4.26%) Firewall
3 99 (2.19%) WAN
4 97 (2.15%) 5G
5 78 (1.73%) LAN
5 78 (1.73%) VPN
6 70 (1.55%) Network Security
7 68 (1.51%) DNS
8 61 (1.35%) MPLS
9 54 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 54 (1.20%) Wireless
10 51 (1.13%) Internet
11 46 (1.02%) DHCP
12 45 (1.00%) BGP
13 43 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
14 40 (0.89%) SD-WAN
15 33 (0.73%) VLAN
16 30 (0.67%) SAN
17 25 (0.55%) SNMP
18 24 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 241 (5.34%) Tableau
3 177 (3.92%) Power BI
4 152 (3.37%) Data Lake
5 149 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 131 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 104 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 95 (2.11%) MySQL
9 87 (1.93%) Apache Ignite
10 82 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
10 82 (1.82%) NoSQL
11 78 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 73 (1.62%) Dremio
13 71 (1.57%) Apache Arrow
14 68 (1.51%) Big Data
15 60 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 55 (1.22%) Metadata
17 53 (1.17%) Data Mining
18 51 (1.13%) Hadoop
19 49 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 307 (6.81%) Git
2 125 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 96 (2.13%) JIRA
4 44 (0.98%) GitLab
5 35 (0.78%) Selenium
6 27 (0.60%) CircleCI
6 27 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 25 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 24 (0.53%) Postman
9 23 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
9 23 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 22 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
11 21 (0.47%) Bitbucket
12 19 (0.42%) Sourcetree
12 19 (0.42%) SpecFlow
13 18 (0.40%) NUnit
14 17 (0.38%) JUnit
14 17 (0.38%) Moq
15 16 (0.35%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,328 (29.44%) Finance
2 1,248 (27.67%) Social Skills
3 673 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 518 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 325 (7.20%) Banking
6 280 (6.21%) Marketing
7 278 (6.16%) Retail
8 245 (5.43%) Law
9 222 (4.92%) Front Office
10 184 (4.08%) Legal
11 170 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
12 149 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
13 119 (2.64%) Public Sector
14 115 (2.55%) Back Office
15 103 (2.28%) Investment Banking
16 84 (1.86%) Games
17 62 (1.37%) Telecoms
18 52 (1.15%) Retail Banking
19 51 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
20 44 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (9.24%) React
2 404 (8.96%) .NET
3 261 (5.79%) HTML
4 237 (5.25%) CSS
5 223 (4.94%) AngularJS
6 159 (3.52%) REST
7 155 (3.44%) Pandas
8 150 (3.33%) Kafka
9 140 (3.10%) Node.js
10 109 (2.42%) Spring
11 108 (2.39%) ASP.NET
12 105 (2.33%) Vue
13 99 (2.19%) gRPC
14 96 (2.13%) PySpark
14 96 (2.13%) RESTful
15 95 (2.11%) .NET Core
16 83 (1.84%) NumPy
16 83 (1.84%) Protocol Buffers
17 74 (1.64%) Spring Boot
18 72 (1.60%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 179 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 175 (3.88%) Hedge funds
3 174 (3.86%) Derivative
4 153 (3.39%) Equities
5 137 (3.04%) Fixed Income
5 137 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 136 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 127 (2.82%) Social Media
8 123 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
9 107 (2.37%) Algorithms
10 97 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 94 (2.08%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.82%) Cloud Native
13 79 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 71 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
15 57 (1.26%) Reinsurance
16 56 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 56 (1.24%) Mobile App
17 51 (1.13%) IoT
18 46 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 310 (6.87%) Windows
2 288 (6.38%) Linux
3 110 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 110 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 58 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 44 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 43 (0.95%) Android
7 34 (0.75%) Unix
8 27 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 22 (0.49%) VMS
11 19 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.089%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.067%) CentOS
15 3 (0.067%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.022%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (22.26%) Agile
2 638 (14.14%) Software Engineering
3 612 (13.57%) Mentoring
4 576 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
5 443 (9.82%) DevOps
6 411 (9.11%) Analytics
7 345 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
8 338 (7.49%) Decision-Making
9 334 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
10 325 (7.20%) CI/CD
11 322 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
12 312 (6.92%) Full Stack Development
13 299 (6.63%) Visualisation
14 283 (6.27%) Project Management
15 279 (6.18%) Computer Science
16 273 (6.05%) Asset Management
17 257 (5.70%) Roadmaps
18 252 (5.59%) Data Science
19 251 (5.56%) Mathematics
20 237 (5.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 999 (22.15%) SQL
2 965 (21.39%) Python
3 614 (13.61%) JavaScript
4 501 (11.11%) Java
5 429 (9.51%) C#
6 381 (8.45%) TypeScript
7 144 (3.19%) Bash
8 136 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 84 (1.86%) T-SQL
10 71 (1.57%) C++
11 65 (1.44%) PHP
12 63 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 61 (1.35%) Ruby
14 58 (1.29%) R
15 56 (1.24%) Go
16 55 (1.22%) PL/SQL
17 52 (1.15%) Rust
18 44 (0.98%) C
19 40 (0.89%) Scala
20 37 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 753 (16.69%) Degree
2 197 (4.37%) Security Cleared
3 162 (3.59%) DBS Check
4 136 (3.01%) ACCA
5 132 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 119 (2.64%) SC Cleared
7 114 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.44%) CIMA
9 75 (1.66%) CISSP
10 65 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 61 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.11%) Azure Certification
13 46 (1.02%) PMI Certification
14 39 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 34 (0.75%) CCNP
16 33 (0.73%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.64%) CISM
18 27 (0.60%) PhD
19 26 (0.58%) CREST Certified
20 25 (0.55%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (3.37%) QA
2 128 (2.84%) SLA
3 121 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 48 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (0.98%) NIST
6 42 (0.93%) GDPR
6 42 (0.93%) IFRS
7 32 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 29 (0.64%) PMO
9 20 (0.44%) GRC
9 20 (0.44%) IFRS 9
10 18 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 285 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 248 (5.50%) Docker
3 71 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.51%) 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%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.089%) Ceph
14 4 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
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
1 332 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 227 (5.03%) Terraform
3 142 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 96 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
5 91 (2.02%) Ansible
6 52 (1.15%) SCCM
7 40 (0.89%) 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
17 8 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 851 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 229 (5.08%) Databricks
3 149 (3.30%) Google
4 145 (3.21%) Oracle
5 142 (3.15%) Cisco
6 136 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 127 (2.82%) VMware
8 102 (2.26%) CyberArk
8 102 (2.26%) Dell
9 91 (2.02%) SAP
10 90 (2.00%) Tanium
11 64 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 53 (1.17%) Citrix
13 45 (1.00%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.98%) Adobe
15 43 (0.95%) Juniper
16 39 (0.86%) SolarWinds
17 37 (0.82%) HP
18 36 (0.80%) Sybase
19 33 (0.73%) Meraki