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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,585 2,190 4,234
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.95% 17.62% 19.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.17% 19.25% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,328 1,342 2,828
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £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% - -0.93%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £120,000
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 20,879 11,375 20,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.53% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,416 7,387 15,153
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +7 640 £90,000 +16.13% 218
West London +31 109 £72,500 +18.37% 45
South London +28 60 £80,000 -25.58% 22
East London -3 16 £68,000 -15.00% 19
North London +5 1 £70,000 -6.67% 3
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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.

1 642 (17.91%) AWS
2 593 (16.54%) Azure
3 583 (16.26%) Python
4 562 (15.68%) Software Engineering
5 560 (15.62%) AI
6 491 (13.70%) Agile
7 442 (12.33%) Analytics
8 439 (12.25%) Mentoring
9 407 (11.35%) CI/CD
10 373 (10.40%) Microsoft
11 329 (9.18%) DevOps
12 325 (9.07%) Degree
13 315 (8.79%) SQL
14 305 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
15 303 (8.45%) Roadmaps
16 289 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 270 (7.53%) Security Cleared
18 268 (7.48%) Java
19 253 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
20 243 (6.78%) Business Development
21 241 (6.72%) Infrastructure as Code
22 236 (6.58%) Kubernetes
23 231 (6.44%) GCP
24 230 (6.42%) Decision-Making
25 229 (6.39%) Terraform
26 223 (6.22%) Microservices
27 219 (6.11%) Machine Learning
28 208 (5.80%) SaaS
29 200 (5.58%) Test Automation
30 181 (5.05%) Full-Stack Development

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 67 (1.87%) Apache Spark
2 65 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.67%) Apache
6 21 (0.59%) CMS
6 21 (0.59%) SAS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
8 9 (0.25%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.056%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.028%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.028%) Mendix
Applications
1 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.084%) Blender
10 3 (0.084%) Maya
10 3 (0.084%) SPSS
11 2 (0.056%) InVision
11 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.31%) Maximo
4 11 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.084%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.084%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 642 (17.91%) AWS
2 593 (16.54%) Azure
3 231 (6.44%) GCP
4 208 (5.80%) SaaS
5 151 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (4.21%) Serverless
6 142 (3.96%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
8 117 (3.26%) GitHub
9 85 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (2.06%) Entra ID
11 68 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
12 66 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 58 (1.62%) Amazon S3
14 55 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
16 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 41 (1.14%) Figma
18 39 (1.09%) dbt
19 37 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.21%) Firewall
2 106 (2.96%) Network Security
3 78 (2.18%) DNS
4 71 (1.98%) VPN
5 58 (1.62%) Broadband
6 55 (1.53%) VLAN
7 53 (1.48%) DHCP
8 51 (1.42%) WAN
9 46 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.12%) BGP
11 38 (1.06%) OSPF
12 36 (1.00%) Internet
13 33 (0.92%) Wireless
14 29 (0.81%) SD-WAN
15 28 (0.78%) TCP/IP
16 26 (0.73%) LAN
17 24 (0.67%) SAN
18 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 18 (0.50%) Multicast
20 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.21%) Power BI
2 101 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 57 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (1.51%) NoSQL
4 54 (1.51%) Tableau
5 53 (1.48%) Data Lake
6 46 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 41 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 38 (1.06%) Relational Database
10 36 (1.00%) BigQuery
10 36 (1.00%) Metadata
11 32 (0.89%) Big Data
11 32 (0.89%) MySQL
12 26 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.56%) Looker
14 20 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 122 (3.40%) Git
2 56 (1.56%) JIRA
3 52 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.23%) GitLab
5 26 (0.73%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.61%) MLflow
7 21 (0.59%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Selenium
11 7 (0.20%) Vite
12 6 (0.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) Gatling
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
14 3 (0.084%) Taiga
General
1 896 (24.99%) Finance
2 600 (16.74%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (7.06%) Banking
5 227 (6.33%) Law
6 192 (5.36%) Marketing
7 180 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 159 (4.44%) Public Sector
9 157 (4.38%) Legal
10 149 (4.16%) Retail
11 70 (1.95%) Front Office
11 70 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (1.67%) Financial Institution
13 52 (1.45%) Advertising
14 47 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.14%) Games
16 36 (1.00%) Billing
16 36 (1.00%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 29 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.04%) React
2 144 (4.02%) .NET
3 116 (3.24%) REST
4 101 (2.82%) Kafka
5 88 (2.45%) Node.js
6 69 (1.92%) Spring
7 63 (1.76%) RESTful
8 61 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 47 (1.31%) CSS
10 42 (1.17%) HTML
11 35 (0.98%) Django
11 35 (0.98%) SOAP
12 33 (0.92%) LangChain
13 31 (0.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 31 (0.86%) PySpark
14 30 (0.84%) PyTorch
15 28 (0.78%) Next.js
15 28 (0.78%) OAuth
16 27 (0.75%) .NET Core
17 26 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 272 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 141 (3.93%) Onboarding
3 111 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 101 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 83 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 62 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 61 (1.70%) Security Posture
10 57 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 54 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 53 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (1.23%) Equities
15 43 (1.20%) Derivative
16 41 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
17 39 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
18 38 (1.06%) Public Cloud
19 36 (1.00%) Blog
19 36 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 138 (3.85%) Linux
2 113 (3.15%) Windows
3 33 (0.92%) Apple iOS
3 33 (0.92%) Unix
4 30 (0.84%) Android
5 29 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.33%) AIX
7 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (0.28%) VMS
9 8 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (15.68%) Software Engineering
2 560 (15.62%) AI
3 491 (13.70%) Agile
4 442 (12.33%) Analytics
5 439 (12.25%) Mentoring
6 407 (11.35%) CI/CD
7 329 (9.18%) DevOps
8 305 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
9 303 (8.45%) Roadmaps
10 289 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 253 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 243 (6.78%) Business Development
13 241 (6.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 230 (6.42%) Decision-Making
15 223 (6.22%) Microservices
16 219 (6.11%) Machine Learning
17 200 (5.58%) Test Automation
18 181 (5.05%) Full-Stack Development
19 168 (4.69%) Migration
20 164 (4.57%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 583 (16.26%) Python
2 315 (8.79%) SQL
3 268 (7.48%) Java
4 155 (4.32%) C#
5 151 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 113 (3.15%) C++
8 69 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 66 (1.84%) Go
10 63 (1.76%) Bash
11 31 (0.86%) PHP
12 30 (0.84%) Bicep
13 29 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 23 (0.64%) SOQL
15 21 (0.59%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.53%) Scala
16 19 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.50%) Ruby
18 16 (0.45%) R
19 15 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 325 (9.07%) Degree
2 270 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 170 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (2.06%) CISSP
6 71 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 66 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.45%) CISM
10 49 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.06%) PhD
13 36 (1.00%) CCNP
14 33 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 29 (0.81%) CISA
17 28 (0.78%) CRISC
18 22 (0.61%) ACCA
19 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
20 18 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (3.43%) QA
2 96 (2.68%) Data Quality
2 96 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (2.59%) NIST
4 74 (2.06%) GDPR
5 73 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 49 (1.37%) GRC
7 24 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.56%) NIST 800
8 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 19 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.36%) PMO
12 12 (0.33%) COBIT
12 12 (0.33%) WCAG
13 11 (0.31%) SLA
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
15 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 125 (3.49%) Docker
2 83 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 229 (6.39%) Terraform
3 48 (1.34%) Ansible
4 43 (1.20%) Grafana
5 34 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.47%) Puppet
9 16 (0.45%) SCCM
10 15 (0.42%) Nagios
10 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 373 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 113 (3.15%) Salesforce
3 112 (3.12%) SAP
4 90 (2.51%) Oracle
5 82 (2.29%) Databricks
6 74 (2.06%) Google
7 67 (1.87%) Cisco
8 64 (1.79%) VMware
9 63 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.20%) Dell
11 41 (1.14%) Adobe
11 41 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 36 (1.00%) IBM
13 34 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.75%) Splunk
15 25 (0.70%) Intapp
16 23 (0.64%) Foundry
16 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.59%) Apple