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 27 April 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,197 2,149 4,357
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.15% 16.75% 18.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.58% 18.57% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,082 1,379 3,094
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 18,189 11,570 21,938
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 90.19% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,251 7,526 16,677
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.33%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +7 684 £90,000 +16.13% 218
West London +8 90 £75,000 +15.38% 20
South London +24 58 £60,000 -4.00% 11
East London -16 13 £79,000 -16.84% 34
North London -6 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 554 (17.33%) Azure
2 467 (14.61%) AWS
3 462 (14.45%) Software Engineering
4 459 (14.36%) Agile
5 454 (14.20%) AI
6 445 (13.92%) Python
7 380 (11.89%) Mentoring
8 351 (10.98%) Analytics
9 346 (10.82%) Microsoft
10 327 (10.23%) Degree
11 294 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
12 293 (9.16%) CI/CD
13 281 (8.79%) DevOps
14 280 (8.76%) Java
15 249 (7.79%) SQL
16 245 (7.66%) Roadmaps
17 237 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
18 228 (7.13%) Kubernetes
19 222 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
20 221 (6.91%) GCP
21 219 (6.85%) Microservices
22 211 (6.60%) SaaS
23 199 (6.22%) Decision-Making
24 183 (5.72%) Test Automation
25 177 (5.54%) Computer Science
25 177 (5.54%) Security Cleared
26 176 (5.51%) Coaching
26 176 (5.51%) Fintech
27 175 (5.47%) Full-Stack Development
27 175 (5.47%) Machine Learning

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 64 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.56%) CMS
6 16 (0.50%) Apache
7 13 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.31%) JBoss
8 10 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.19%) Kinematics
10 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.19%) WordPress
11 5 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.094%) nginx
13 3 (0.094%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.094%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.22%) Maya
5 7 (0.22%) Sketch
6 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.19%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) InVision
9 3 (0.094%) SPSS
10 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.063%) Weka
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.38%) Maximo
5 9 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.16%) Shopify
9 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.094%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.094%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.094%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.063%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 554 (17.33%) Azure
2 467 (14.61%) AWS
3 221 (6.91%) GCP
4 211 (6.60%) SaaS
5 140 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 131 (4.10%) Power Platform
7 118 (3.69%) GitHub
8 95 (2.97%) Serverless
9 85 (2.66%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 43 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 40 (1.25%) Snowflake
14 39 (1.22%) PaaS
15 38 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.19%) Figma
16 35 (1.09%) Datadog
16 35 (1.09%) IaaS
17 34 (1.06%) dbt
18 33 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.82%) Firewall
2 72 (2.25%) DNS
3 64 (2.00%) VPN
4 61 (1.91%) DHCP
5 60 (1.88%) WAN
6 59 (1.85%) Broadband
7 52 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (1.41%) Network Security
9 42 (1.31%) VLAN
10 39 (1.22%) LAN
10 39 (1.22%) Wireless
11 33 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 30 (0.94%) SAN
13 29 (0.91%) TCP/IP
14 25 (0.78%) Multicast
15 24 (0.75%) HTTP
16 19 (0.59%) BGP
17 17 (0.53%) OSPF
18 15 (0.47%) WebEx
19 14 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.32%) SQL Server
2 103 (3.22%) Power BI
3 57 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 45 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 44 (1.38%) NoSQL
7 43 (1.35%) Tableau
8 36 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (0.97%) Metadata
9 31 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 29 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.72%) DB2
12 22 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.66%) Looker
14 18 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (0.53%) MongoDB
15 17 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 97 (3.03%) Git
2 65 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.69%) JIRA
4 32 (1.00%) GitLab
4 32 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 27 (0.84%) MLflow
6 19 (0.59%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.28%) Burp Suite
7 9 (0.28%) Metasploit
8 8 (0.25%) Chocolatey
8 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.25%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) Vite
9 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.19%) JMeter
10 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.13%) Gatling
12 4 (0.13%) LoadRunner
General
1 885 (27.68%) Finance
2 531 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 268 (8.38%) Banking
4 260 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 222 (6.94%) Marketing
6 208 (6.51%) Law
7 184 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 174 (5.44%) Legal
9 170 (5.32%) Retail
10 132 (4.13%) Public Sector
11 68 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 61 (1.91%) Front Office
14 56 (1.75%) Advertising
15 55 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
17 44 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 37 (1.16%) Games
19 25 (0.78%) Back Office
19 25 (0.78%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.47%) React
2 140 (4.38%) .NET
3 116 (3.63%) REST
4 104 (3.25%) Kafka
5 90 (2.82%) Node.js
6 72 (2.25%) RESTful
7 68 (2.13%) Spring
8 54 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 52 (1.63%) CSS
10 47 (1.47%) SOAP
11 43 (1.35%) HTML
12 41 (1.28%) PyTorch
13 35 (1.09%) OAuth
14 32 (1.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 31 (0.97%) LangChain
16 30 (0.94%) Django
16 30 (0.94%) gRPC
17 28 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (0.81%) PySpark
18 26 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 229 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 95 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 65 (2.03%) Mobile App
5 64 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 64 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 63 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 55 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 54 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 53 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 53 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.28%) Equities
14 40 (1.25%) Social Media
15 36 (1.13%) Hedge funds
16 31 (0.97%) Derivative
17 28 (0.88%) Blockchain
18 27 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 140 (4.38%) Linux
2 125 (3.91%) Windows
3 56 (1.75%) Android
4 55 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 33 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.72%) Unix
7 20 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.41%) VMS
9 12 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.13%) CentOS
14 3 (0.094%) AIX
15 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.031%) Rocky
16 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (14.45%) Software Engineering
2 459 (14.36%) Agile
3 454 (14.20%) AI
4 380 (11.89%) Mentoring
5 351 (10.98%) Analytics
6 294 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
7 293 (9.16%) CI/CD
8 281 (8.79%) DevOps
9 245 (7.66%) Roadmaps
10 237 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 222 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 219 (6.85%) Microservices
13 199 (6.22%) Decision-Making
14 183 (5.72%) Test Automation
15 177 (5.54%) Computer Science
16 176 (5.51%) Coaching
16 176 (5.51%) Fintech
17 175 (5.47%) Full-Stack Development
17 175 (5.47%) Machine Learning
18 172 (5.38%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 445 (13.92%) Python
2 280 (8.76%) Java
3 249 (7.79%) SQL
4 139 (4.35%) C#
5 137 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 137 (4.29%) TypeScript
6 121 (3.78%) C++
7 85 (2.66%) Go
8 63 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.35%) Bash
10 32 (1.00%) Bicep
11 27 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.81%) Rust
13 24 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 22 (0.69%) Scala
15 21 (0.66%) SOQL
16 19 (0.59%) PHP
17 15 (0.47%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.38%) R
19 11 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 327 (10.23%) Degree
2 177 (5.54%) Security Cleared
3 135 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 54 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 52 (1.63%) CISSP
8 45 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.22%) ACCA
9 39 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.13%) CISM
12 30 (0.94%) PhD
13 27 (0.84%) CRISC
14 26 (0.81%) CCNP
15 25 (0.78%) CIMA
16 24 (0.75%) OSCP
17 23 (0.72%) AWS Certification
18 21 (0.66%) CREST Certified
19 14 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (2.78%) QA
2 75 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.25%) NIST
4 70 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.53%) GDPR
6 34 (1.06%) GRC
7 22 (0.69%) SLA
8 19 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 17 (0.53%) IFRS
11 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.47%) NCSC
13 13 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.31%) MiFID
15 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.22%) IFRS 17
16 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 132 (4.13%) Docker
2 105 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.28%) Firmware
6 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.094%) vSphere
9 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.063%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.031%) HDFS
10 1 (0.031%) IAG
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.031%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 228 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 167 (5.22%) Terraform
3 48 (1.50%) Ansible
4 45 (1.41%) Grafana
5 44 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.72%) SCCM
8 11 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.28%) Nagios
9 9 (0.28%) Nessus
10 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) Istio
12 5 (0.16%) Kibana
13 4 (0.13%) Argo
13 4 (0.13%) Cilium
14 3 (0.094%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.094%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.094%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 346 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 82 (2.56%) SAP
3 76 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 73 (2.28%) Cisco
5 72 (2.25%) VMware
6 65 (2.03%) Databricks
7 58 (1.81%) Google
8 51 (1.60%) Dell
9 49 (1.53%) Oracle
10 38 (1.19%) Adobe
11 37 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 25 (0.78%) IBM
13 24 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 24 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 23 (0.72%) ServiceNow
15 22 (0.69%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.66%) Apple
16 21 (0.66%) Workday
17 19 (0.59%) Intapp
17 19 (0.59%) Meraki