Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,058 2,093 3,811
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.79% 17.64% 20.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.08% 19.38% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,561 1,226 2,193
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 23,764 10,802 18,115
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.05% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,164 7,036 11,207
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 27 September 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 September 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 +5 476 £90,000 +16.13% 814
West London +20 94 £60,000 +21.95% 144
South London +22 46 £70,000 -34.88% 43
East London +13 29 £120,000 +97.21% 21
North London -1 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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.

1 761 (18.75%) AI
2 718 (17.69%) Software Engineering
3 628 (15.48%) AWS
4 587 (14.47%) Azure
5 581 (14.32%) Python
6 500 (12.32%) Agile
7 496 (12.22%) Analytics
8 463 (11.41%) CI/CD
9 429 (10.57%) Mentoring
10 415 (10.23%) Microsoft
11 362 (8.92%) SQL
12 358 (8.82%) DevOps
13 344 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
14 338 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 337 (8.30%) Roadmaps
16 333 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 319 (7.86%) Degree
18 312 (7.69%) Java
19 287 (7.07%) Security Cleared
20 272 (6.70%) Machine Learning
21 249 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
22 241 (5.94%) Decision-Making
23 234 (5.77%) Kubernetes
24 230 (5.67%) GCP
25 229 (5.64%) Business Development
26 225 (5.54%) Microservices
27 222 (5.47%) Data Science
28 217 (5.35%) Terraform
29 209 (5.15%) Test Automation
30 207 (5.10%) Migration

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 63 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 59 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.76%) Apache
5 23 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.54%) Confluence
7 19 (0.47%) SAS
8 15 (0.37%) CMS
9 7 (0.17%) WordPress
10 6 (0.15%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.099%) IIS
12 4 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.074%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.074%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.049%) Camunda
14 2 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.049%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.049%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.049%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.12%) Navisworks
10 5 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.099%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.099%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.099%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.074%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.074%) Blender
12 3 (0.074%) Maya
13 2 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.37%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 7 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
8 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.099%) Maximo
9 4 (0.099%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.099%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.074%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 628 (15.48%) AWS
2 587 (14.47%) Azure
3 230 (5.67%) GCP
4 199 (4.90%) SaaS
5 145 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 137 (3.38%) Serverless
7 129 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 127 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 123 (3.03%) GitHub
10 122 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
11 77 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 68 (1.68%) Entra ID
13 56 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 48 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
17 46 (1.13%) Azure AKS
18 43 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
19 42 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
20 36 (0.89%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (2.78%) Firewall
2 101 (2.49%) Network Security
3 76 (1.87%) DNS
4 67 (1.65%) VPN
5 53 (1.31%) VLAN
6 43 (1.06%) DHCP
6 43 (1.06%) Internet
7 41 (1.01%) WAN
8 38 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (0.91%) BGP
9 37 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 33 (0.81%) OSPF
11 32 (0.79%) Broadband
12 26 (0.64%) LAN
13 21 (0.52%) Wireless
14 19 (0.47%) SD-WAN
15 17 (0.42%) SAN
16 16 (0.39%) VXLAN
17 13 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
18 11 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (2.71%) Power BI
2 102 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 82 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 58 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 51 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (1.13%) Big Data
8 45 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 45 (1.11%) Tableau
9 41 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 39 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 39 (0.96%) Metadata
11 37 (0.91%) MySQL
12 31 (0.76%) DynamoDB
13 24 (0.59%) SAP HANA
14 21 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
15 20 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (0.49%) Hadoop
16 19 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 100 (2.46%) Git
2 57 (1.40%) JIRA
3 46 (1.13%) GitLab
4 41 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 21 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.32%) Selenium
9 11 (0.27%) MLflow
10 8 (0.20%) NUnit
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
11 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.099%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.099%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.099%) JUnit
12 4 (0.099%) Maven
12 4 (0.099%) Spock
12 4 (0.099%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,020 (25.14%) Finance
2 702 (17.30%) Social Skills
3 294 (7.24%) Banking
4 292 (7.20%) Law
5 266 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 233 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 214 (5.27%) Marketing
8 172 (4.24%) Public Sector
9 156 (3.84%) Legal
10 148 (3.65%) Retail
11 105 (2.59%) Financial Institution
12 71 (1.75%) Front Office
12 71 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 67 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 42 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 40 (0.99%) Games
17 39 (0.96%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.84%) Billing
19 33 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (5.35%) Terraform
2 134 (3.30%) React
3 133 (3.28%) .NET
4 131 (3.23%) REST
5 107 (2.64%) Kafka
6 93 (2.29%) Spring
7 85 (2.09%) RESTful
8 72 (1.77%) Node.js
9 70 (1.72%) Spring Boot
10 53 (1.31%) HTML
11 41 (1.01%) Next.js
12 40 (0.99%) CSS
13 37 (0.91%) JSON
14 36 (0.89%) PySpark
15 32 (0.79%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.74%) Django
17 29 (0.71%) FastAPI
18 28 (0.69%) .NET Core
19 26 (0.64%) React Native
20 24 (0.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 255 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 160 (3.94%) Onboarding
3 150 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 121 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 118 (2.91%) AI Agents
6 118 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 71 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 57 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 52 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.18%) Blog
12 46 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 43 (1.06%) e-Learning
14 41 (1.01%) Derivative
15 39 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 39 (0.96%) Mobile App
16 38 (0.94%) Public Cloud
17 35 (0.86%) Reinsurance
18 34 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 99 (2.44%) Linux
2 97 (2.39%) Windows
3 48 (1.18%) Android
4 34 (0.84%) Unix
5 32 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.25%) AIX
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.074%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.074%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.049%) tvOS
12 1 (0.025%) CentOS
12 1 (0.025%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (18.75%) AI
2 718 (17.69%) Software Engineering
3 500 (12.32%) Agile
4 496 (12.22%) Analytics
5 463 (11.41%) CI/CD
6 429 (10.57%) Mentoring
7 358 (8.82%) DevOps
8 344 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
9 338 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 337 (8.30%) Roadmaps
11 333 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 272 (6.70%) Machine Learning
13 249 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 241 (5.94%) Decision-Making
15 229 (5.64%) Business Development
16 225 (5.54%) Microservices
17 222 (5.47%) Data Science
18 209 (5.15%) Test Automation
19 207 (5.10%) Migration
20 203 (5.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 581 (14.32%) Python
2 362 (8.92%) SQL
3 312 (7.69%) Java
4 144 (3.55%) C#
5 143 (3.52%) TypeScript
6 119 (2.93%) JavaScript
7 85 (2.09%) C++
8 67 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 57 (1.40%) Go
10 52 (1.28%) Bash
11 35 (0.86%) Kotlin
12 31 (0.76%) Bicep
13 27 (0.67%) PHP
14 26 (0.64%) Scala
15 25 (0.62%) R
16 21 (0.52%) Ruby
17 19 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.47%) SOQL
18 18 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 319 (7.86%) Degree
2 287 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.38%) CISSP
8 55 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 43 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 38 (0.94%) CISM
13 37 (0.91%) PhD
14 32 (0.79%) CCNP
15 31 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.67%) CISA
17 24 (0.59%) ACCA
18 20 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.49%) CIMA
19 18 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 117 (2.88%) QA
3 94 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 79 (1.95%) GDPR
6 72 (1.77%) NIST
7 46 (1.13%) GRC
8 24 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.32%) COBIT
10 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 12 (0.30%) WCAG
12 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.27%) NCSC
12 11 (0.27%) PMO
13 10 (0.25%) SLA
14 8 (0.20%) MiFID
15 6 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 137 (3.38%) Docker
2 63 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
4 11 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.12%) vSphere
6 3 (0.074%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.049%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.049%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.049%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) IAG
8 1 (0.025%) KVM
8 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 234 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 38 (0.94%) Grafana
3 35 (0.86%) Ansible
4 29 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.52%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.49%) Puppet
7 19 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.25%) Nagios
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.20%) SCCM
11 6 (0.15%) Cilium
12 5 (0.12%) Argo
12 5 (0.12%) EnCase
12 5 (0.12%) FTK
12 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 5 (0.12%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.074%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 415 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 129 (3.18%) Oracle
3 122 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 120 (2.96%) Google
5 105 (2.59%) SAP
6 88 (2.17%) Databricks
7 68 (1.68%) Cisco
8 52 (1.28%) VMware
9 50 (1.23%) Palo Alto
10 48 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 40 (0.99%) Zscaler
12 33 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 30 (0.74%) Adobe
13 30 (0.74%) Splunk
14 29 (0.71%) Workday
15 26 (0.64%) HP
16 23 (0.57%) Fortinet
16 23 (0.57%) IBM
17 22 (0.54%) Intapp
18 20 (0.49%) Foundry