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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,139 2,074 3,781
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.98% 17.55% 20.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.28% 19.28% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,584 1,207 2,161
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,875 £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 23,956 10,760 17,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.02% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,153 6,964 11,017
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,250 £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 £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +6 465 £90,000 +12.50% 774
West London +24 94 £57,500 +16.87% 127
South London +22 48 £70,000 -34.88% 54
East London +12 29 £120,000 +143.90% 27
North London -5 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 788 (19.04%) AI
2 735 (17.76%) Software Engineering
3 632 (15.27%) AWS
4 594 (14.35%) Azure
5 586 (14.16%) Python
6 510 (12.32%) Analytics
7 501 (12.10%) Agile
8 474 (11.45%) CI/CD
9 426 (10.29%) Mentoring
10 421 (10.17%) Microsoft
11 365 (8.82%) SQL
12 358 (8.65%) DevOps
13 348 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
14 344 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 339 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 332 (8.02%) Roadmaps
17 321 (7.76%) Degree
18 306 (7.39%) Java
19 286 (6.91%) Security Cleared
20 282 (6.81%) Machine Learning
21 253 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
22 240 (5.80%) Decision-Making
23 238 (5.75%) Kubernetes
24 234 (5.65%) GCP
25 232 (5.61%) Data Science
26 227 (5.48%) Microservices
27 225 (5.44%) Business Development
28 220 (5.32%) Terraform
29 212 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development
29 212 (5.12%) 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 64 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 40 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.75%) Apache
5 25 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.51%) Confluence
7 19 (0.46%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) WordPress
10 7 (0.17%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.097%) IIS
12 4 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Camunda
14 2 (0.048%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.048%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.024%) GeoServer
Applications
1 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.14%) Revit
10 4 (0.097%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.097%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.072%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.072%) Blender
11 3 (0.072%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.072%) Maya
12 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 7 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
8 7 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.097%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.097%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.072%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.072%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 632 (15.27%) AWS
2 594 (14.35%) Azure
3 234 (5.65%) GCP
4 203 (4.90%) SaaS
5 147 (3.55%) Power Platform
6 140 (3.38%) Serverless
7 130 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
9 123 (2.97%) GitHub
10 121 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
11 78 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 56 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (1.26%) Amazon S3
14 52 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (1.11%) Azure AKS
15 46 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
16 43 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
17 38 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 110 (2.66%) Firewall
2 98 (2.37%) Network Security
3 75 (1.81%) DNS
4 67 (1.62%) VPN
5 51 (1.23%) VLAN
6 43 (1.04%) Internet
7 41 (0.99%) DHCP
8 39 (0.94%) WAN
9 37 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 36 (0.87%) BGP
11 35 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (0.75%) Broadband
12 31 (0.75%) OSPF
13 24 (0.58%) LAN
14 19 (0.46%) Wireless
15 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.39%) SAN
16 16 (0.39%) VXLAN
17 12 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
18 11 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (2.66%) Power BI
2 102 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 91 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 62 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 54 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (1.16%) Big Data
7 47 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 42 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (1.01%) Tableau
9 41 (0.99%) Metadata
10 40 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (0.97%) MySQL
11 38 (0.92%) Data Lake
12 32 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 25 (0.60%) SAP HANA
14 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
15 21 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (0.48%) Hadoop
16 20 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 98 (2.37%) Git
2 58 (1.40%) JIRA
3 49 (1.18%) GitLab
4 41 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.29%) MLflow
8 12 (0.29%) Selenium
9 8 (0.19%) NUnit
10 5 (0.12%) Appium
10 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.12%) Mocha
10 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.097%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.097%) JUnit
11 4 (0.097%) Maven
11 4 (0.097%) Spock
12 3 (0.072%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,033 (24.96%) Finance
2 710 (17.15%) Social Skills
3 295 (7.13%) Banking
4 293 (7.08%) Law
5 267 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 236 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (5.03%) Marketing
8 175 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 167 (4.03%) Legal
10 158 (3.82%) Retail
11 110 (2.66%) Financial Institution
12 70 (1.69%) Front Office
12 70 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 42 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 41 (0.99%) Games
18 36 (0.87%) Billing
19 33 (0.80%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (5.32%) Terraform
2 134 (3.24%) React
3 132 (3.19%) .NET
4 125 (3.02%) REST
5 105 (2.54%) Kafka
6 92 (2.22%) Spring
7 88 (2.13%) RESTful
8 70 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 68 (1.64%) Node.js
10 52 (1.26%) HTML
11 42 (1.01%) Next.js
12 40 (0.97%) CSS
13 38 (0.92%) JSON
14 33 (0.80%) AngularJS
14 33 (0.80%) FastAPI
14 33 (0.80%) PySpark
15 30 (0.72%) Django
16 27 (0.65%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.60%) SpaCy
18 23 (0.56%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.26%) Cloud Native
2 160 (3.87%) Onboarding
3 153 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 130 (3.14%) AI Agents
5 127 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 122 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
7 117 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 71 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.30%) Blog
10 53 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 50 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
12 49 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.09%) e-Learning
13 45 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (0.94%) Derivative
14 39 (0.94%) Mobile App
15 37 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 36 (0.87%) Data Structures
16 36 (0.87%) Reinsurance
17 34 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 104 (2.51%) Linux
2 97 (2.34%) Windows
3 48 (1.16%) Android
4 35 (0.85%) Unix
5 33 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.072%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.048%) tvOS
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (19.04%) AI
2 735 (17.76%) Software Engineering
3 510 (12.32%) Analytics
4 501 (12.10%) Agile
5 474 (11.45%) CI/CD
6 426 (10.29%) Mentoring
7 358 (8.65%) DevOps
8 348 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
9 344 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 339 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 332 (8.02%) Roadmaps
12 282 (6.81%) Machine Learning
13 253 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
14 240 (5.80%) Decision-Making
15 232 (5.61%) Data Science
16 227 (5.48%) Microservices
17 225 (5.44%) Business Development
18 212 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development
18 212 (5.12%) Test Automation
19 206 (4.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 586 (14.16%) Python
2 365 (8.82%) SQL
3 306 (7.39%) Java
4 146 (3.53%) TypeScript
5 144 (3.48%) C#
6 114 (2.75%) JavaScript
7 83 (2.01%) C++
8 68 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.47%) Go
10 53 (1.28%) Bash
11 37 (0.89%) Kotlin
12 31 (0.75%) Bicep
13 28 (0.68%) PHP
14 26 (0.63%) Scala
15 25 (0.60%) R
16 21 (0.51%) Ruby
17 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 321 (7.76%) Degree
2 286 (6.91%) Security Cleared
3 181 (4.37%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 57 (1.38%) CISSP
8 56 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 40 (0.97%) PhD
12 38 (0.92%) CISM
13 34 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.77%) CCNP
15 27 (0.65%) CISA
16 25 (0.60%) ACCA
17 21 (0.51%) CIMA
18 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 113 (2.73%) QA
3 91 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.93%) GDPR
6 71 (1.72%) NIST
7 44 (1.06%) GRC
8 24 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.31%) WCAG
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
12 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.27%) NCSC
12 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.27%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 6 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (3.43%) Docker
2 63 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.072%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.048%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 238 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.04%) Grafana
3 38 (0.92%) Ansible
4 30 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.51%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 17 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.24%) Nagios
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.19%) SCCM
10 6 (0.14%) Cilium
10 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) EnCase
11 5 (0.12%) FTK
11 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 3 (0.072%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 421 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 131 (3.17%) Oracle
3 124 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 122 (2.95%) Google
5 111 (2.68%) SAP
6 90 (2.17%) Databricks
7 68 (1.64%) Cisco
8 53 (1.28%) VMware
9 47 (1.14%) Palo Alto
9 47 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 41 (0.99%) Zscaler
11 36 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 32 (0.77%) Splunk
13 30 (0.72%) Workday
14 28 (0.68%) Adobe
14 28 (0.68%) HP
15 22 (0.53%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.51%) IBM
17 20 (0.48%) Intapp
18 19 (0.46%) Foundry