Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,755 2,169 3,905
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.69% 17.92% 20.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.89% 19.55% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,384 1,288 2,459
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 22,236 11,095 18,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.68% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15,219 7,183 12,627
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.11% -2.07%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior job vacancy trend in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

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 21 August 2026. 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 +7 558 £90,000 +20.00% 216
West London +25 107 £60,000 +0.84% 87
South London +16 54 £80,000 -25.58% 13
East London -5 14 £120,000 +50.00% 13
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 August 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 658 (17.52%) AWS
2 656 (17.47%) AI
3 635 (16.91%) Software Engineering
4 617 (16.43%) Python
5 587 (15.63%) Azure
6 507 (13.50%) Agile
7 479 (12.76%) Analytics
8 453 (12.06%) Mentoring
9 442 (11.77%) CI/CD
10 364 (9.69%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.59%) SQL
12 343 (9.13%) DevOps
13 341 (9.08%) Degree
14 329 (8.76%) Roadmaps
15 327 (8.71%) Problem-Solving
16 317 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 290 (7.72%) Java
18 281 (7.48%) Security Cleared
18 281 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
19 269 (7.16%) Machine Learning
20 249 (6.63%) Decision-Making
21 248 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
22 242 (6.44%) GCP
23 239 (6.36%) Business Development
24 226 (6.02%) Microservices
25 222 (5.91%) Kubernetes
26 217 (5.78%) Terraform
27 216 (5.75%) Data Science
27 216 (5.75%) SaaS
28 214 (5.70%) Test Automation

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 73 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.75%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) Confluence
7 20 (0.53%) SAS
8 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.16%) InDesign
6 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.080%) Blender
9 3 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.080%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 41 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
2 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.19%) Maximo
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 658 (17.52%) AWS
2 587 (15.63%) Azure
3 242 (6.44%) GCP
4 216 (5.75%) SaaS
5 143 (3.81%) Serverless
6 138 (3.68%) Power Platform
7 129 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
8 120 (3.20%) GitHub
9 101 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 65 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 64 (1.70%) Entra ID
13 61 (1.62%) Amazon S3
14 55 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
17 44 (1.17%) dbt
18 42 (1.12%) Figma
19 41 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 119 (3.17%) Firewall
2 105 (2.80%) Network Security
3 74 (1.97%) DNS
4 66 (1.76%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 47 (1.25%) DHCP
7 46 (1.23%) WAN
8 44 (1.17%) Broadband
9 41 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (1.04%) BGP
11 38 (1.01%) Internet
12 36 (0.96%) OSPF
13 34 (0.91%) TCP/IP
14 30 (0.80%) LAN
15 24 (0.64%) Wireless
16 23 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.53%) SAN
18 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
19 16 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.01%) Power BI
2 108 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.52%) Tableau
7 55 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 53 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 45 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 39 (1.04%) MySQL
12 37 (0.99%) Big Data
13 36 (0.96%) DynamoDB
13 36 (0.96%) Metadata
14 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 29 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.56%) Looker
16 21 (0.56%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 115 (3.06%) Git
2 56 (1.49%) JIRA
3 47 (1.25%) GitLab
4 45 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 27 (0.72%) MLflow
6 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 10 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.19%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) JUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
11 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.13%) Vite
12 4 (0.11%) Spock
12 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 965 (25.70%) Finance
2 648 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 295 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (7.51%) Banking
5 276 (7.35%) Law
6 232 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 229 (6.10%) Marketing
8 163 (4.34%) Public Sector
9 143 (3.81%) Retail
10 138 (3.68%) Legal
11 72 (1.92%) Front Office
12 67 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 61 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.17%) Advertising
16 42 (1.12%) Games
17 38 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (0.85%) Billing
18 32 (0.85%) Manufacturing
19 31 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (5.78%) Terraform
2 144 (3.83%) .NET
3 142 (3.78%) React
4 119 (3.17%) REST
5 113 (3.01%) Kafka
6 86 (2.29%) Spring
7 85 (2.26%) Node.js
8 74 (1.97%) RESTful
9 63 (1.68%) Spring Boot
10 45 (1.20%) HTML
11 42 (1.12%) CSS
12 41 (1.09%) Next.js
13 38 (1.01%) LangChain
14 35 (0.93%) Django
15 33 (0.88%) PySpark
16 30 (0.80%) JSON
17 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
17 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.69%) OAuth
18 26 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 271 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 141 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 100 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 80 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 74 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 60 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 59 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 54 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 45 (1.20%) Blog
13 45 (1.20%) Derivative
13 45 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (1.12%) Security Posture
16 40 (1.07%) Equities
16 40 (1.07%) Mobile App
17 37 (0.99%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.04%) Linux
2 95 (2.53%) Windows
3 45 (1.20%) Android
4 33 (0.88%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.27%) AIX
7 10 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) VMS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
11 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (17.47%) AI
2 635 (16.91%) Software Engineering
3 507 (13.50%) Agile
4 479 (12.76%) Analytics
5 453 (12.06%) Mentoring
6 442 (11.77%) CI/CD
7 343 (9.13%) DevOps
8 329 (8.76%) Roadmaps
9 327 (8.71%) Problem-Solving
10 317 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 281 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 269 (7.16%) Machine Learning
13 249 (6.63%) Decision-Making
14 248 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 239 (6.36%) Business Development
16 226 (6.02%) Microservices
17 216 (5.75%) Data Science
18 214 (5.70%) Test Automation
19 188 (5.01%) Migration
20 185 (4.93%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 617 (16.43%) Python
2 360 (9.59%) SQL
3 290 (7.72%) Java
4 149 (3.97%) C#
4 149 (3.97%) TypeScript
5 136 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 92 (2.45%) C++
7 64 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 62 (1.65%) Go
9 55 (1.46%) Bash
10 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 29 (0.77%) PHP
11 28 (0.75%) Bicep
12 24 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 23 (0.61%) Ruby
14 22 (0.59%) R
15 20 (0.53%) SOQL
16 19 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.48%) Scala
18 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 341 (9.08%) Degree
2 281 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 184 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.68%) CISSP
7 60 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 56 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 44 (1.17%) CISM
11 43 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (1.04%) PhD
13 38 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (0.88%) CCNP
15 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.77%) CISA
17 21 (0.56%) CRISC
18 20 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.48%) PMI Certification
20 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.36%) QA
2 123 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 90 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.37%) GDPR
5 87 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 83 (2.21%) NIST
7 46 (1.23%) GRC
8 25 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.35%) COBIT
13 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (3.44%) Docker
2 65 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 222 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 42 (1.12%) Ansible
3 34 (0.91%) Grafana
4 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.48%) Puppet
7 16 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.32%) Nagios
9 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.19%) Istio
10 7 (0.19%) SCCM
10 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.13%) Cilium
11 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) Argo
12 4 (0.11%) Kibana
12 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 364 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.04%) Salesforce
3 106 (2.82%) SAP
4 104 (2.77%) Databricks
5 96 (2.56%) Oracle
6 88 (2.34%) Google
7 74 (1.97%) Cisco
8 61 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 58 (1.54%) VMware
10 43 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 34 (0.91%) Adobe
14 33 (0.88%) Dell
15 29 (0.77%) HP
16 25 (0.67%) IBM
16 25 (0.67%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Fortinet
17 24 (0.64%) Foundry
18 23 (0.61%) Intapp