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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 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 3,718 2,211 3,866
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.91% 17.91% 19.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.13% 19.51% 20.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,367 1,341 2,485
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% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 21,705 11,334 18,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.83% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 14,887 7,394 13,004
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
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 £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 3 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 3 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 +6 600 £90,000 +16.13% 361
West London +21 115 £62,500 +2.04% 80
South London +14 55 £80,000 -25.58% 19
East London -4 14 £110,000 +37.50% 19
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 (17.70%) AWS
2 631 (16.97%) AI
3 616 (16.57%) Python
4 607 (16.33%) Software Engineering
5 587 (15.79%) Azure
6 508 (13.66%) Agile
7 482 (12.96%) Analytics
8 457 (12.29%) Mentoring
9 439 (11.81%) CI/CD
10 371 (9.98%) Microsoft
11 345 (9.28%) DevOps
12 341 (9.17%) SQL
13 325 (8.74%) Degree
14 322 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
15 319 (8.58%) Roadmaps
16 308 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 286 (7.69%) Java
18 283 (7.61%) Security Cleared
19 266 (7.15%) Stakeholder Management
20 254 (6.83%) Machine Learning
21 247 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
22 243 (6.54%) Business Development
23 239 (6.43%) Decision-Making
23 239 (6.43%) GCP
24 235 (6.32%) Kubernetes
25 229 (6.16%) Terraform
26 227 (6.11%) Microservices
27 212 (5.70%) SaaS
28 210 (5.65%) Test Automation
29 196 (5.27%) 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 75 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 60 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.73%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) SAS
7 19 (0.51%) CMS
8 16 (0.43%) Confluence
9 8 (0.22%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
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 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.054%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.027%) Moodle
15 1 (0.027%) nginx
Applications
1 36 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.30%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.16%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.13%) InDesign
8 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.11%) SPSS
10 3 (0.081%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.081%) Blender
10 3 (0.081%) Maya
11 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.054%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 39 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
4 9 (0.24%) Maximo
5 8 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.11%) Shopify
10 3 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.081%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.081%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.081%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.081%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.081%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.081%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.081%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 658 (17.70%) AWS
2 587 (15.79%) Azure
3 239 (6.43%) GCP
4 212 (5.70%) SaaS
5 153 (4.12%) Serverless
6 148 (3.98%) Power Platform
7 138 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
9 120 (3.23%) GitHub
10 92 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
12 65 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 61 (1.64%) Amazon S3
14 54 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
16 46 (1.24%) dbt
17 45 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.10%) Figma
19 39 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.12%) Firewall
2 110 (2.96%) Network Security
3 72 (1.94%) DNS
4 63 (1.69%) VPN
5 53 (1.43%) Broadband
6 51 (1.37%) VLAN
7 48 (1.29%) DHCP
7 48 (1.29%) WAN
8 43 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (1.02%) BGP
10 36 (0.97%) Internet
10 36 (0.97%) OSPF
11 31 (0.83%) TCP/IP
12 27 (0.73%) LAN
12 27 (0.73%) Wireless
13 25 (0.67%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.56%) SAN
15 18 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
16 16 (0.43%) HTTP
16 16 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (3.28%) Power BI
2 106 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 72 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.59%) Tableau
6 57 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.40%) NoSQL
8 51 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 44 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 42 (1.13%) MongoDB
12 40 (1.08%) Metadata
13 39 (1.05%) DynamoDB
14 36 (0.97%) BigQuery
14 36 (0.97%) MySQL
15 33 (0.89%) Big Data
16 29 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.54%) Looker
17 20 (0.54%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 123 (3.31%) Git
2 56 (1.51%) JIRA
3 49 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.26%) GitLab
5 24 (0.65%) Claude Code
5 24 (0.65%) MLflow
6 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 13 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.32%) Selenium
9 6 (0.16%) JMeter
9 6 (0.16%) NUnit
9 6 (0.16%) Vite
10 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.13%) JUnit
10 5 (0.13%) Mocha
10 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Appium
11 4 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 949 (25.52%) Finance
2 635 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 284 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (7.29%) Banking
5 265 (7.13%) Law
6 223 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 218 (5.86%) Marketing
8 162 (4.36%) Public Sector
9 154 (4.14%) Legal
10 146 (3.93%) Retail
11 69 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (1.83%) Front Office
13 62 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 51 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 49 (1.32%) Advertising
16 42 (1.13%) Games
17 37 (1.00%) Legal Technology
18 35 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
19 34 (0.91%) Billing
20 32 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.01%) .NET
2 148 (3.98%) React
3 117 (3.15%) REST
4 111 (2.99%) Kafka
5 89 (2.39%) Node.js
6 83 (2.23%) Spring
7 70 (1.88%) RESTful
8 65 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.18%) CSS
10 39 (1.05%) HTML
10 39 (1.05%) Next.js
11 37 (1.00%) LangChain
12 36 (0.97%) Django
13 33 (0.89%) PySpark
14 29 (0.78%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.75%) .NET Core
15 28 (0.75%) JSON
15 28 (0.75%) OAuth
15 28 (0.75%) SOAP
16 27 (0.73%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 275 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 148 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 129 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 80 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 71 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 65 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 58 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 51 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
13 50 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 44 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.16%) Derivative
16 42 (1.13%) Equities
16 42 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 41 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
18 40 (1.08%) Blog
19 37 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.39%) Linux
2 101 (2.72%) Windows
3 37 (1.00%) Android
4 33 (0.89%) Unix
5 31 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.30%) AIX
8 11 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.054%) CentOS
12 2 (0.054%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.054%) tvOS
12 2 (0.054%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.027%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (16.97%) AI
2 607 (16.33%) Software Engineering
3 508 (13.66%) Agile
4 482 (12.96%) Analytics
5 457 (12.29%) Mentoring
6 439 (11.81%) CI/CD
7 345 (9.28%) DevOps
8 322 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
9 319 (8.58%) Roadmaps
10 308 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 266 (7.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 254 (6.83%) Machine Learning
13 247 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 243 (6.54%) Business Development
15 239 (6.43%) Decision-Making
16 227 (6.11%) Microservices
17 210 (5.65%) Test Automation
18 196 (5.27%) Full-Stack Development
19 192 (5.16%) Data Science
20 179 (4.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 616 (16.57%) Python
2 341 (9.17%) SQL
3 286 (7.69%) Java
4 158 (4.25%) C#
5 157 (4.22%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.01%) JavaScript
7 105 (2.82%) C++
8 63 (1.69%) Go
8 63 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 57 (1.53%) Bash
10 29 (0.78%) PHP
11 28 (0.75%) Bicep
12 26 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.59%) SOQL
14 21 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.56%) Scala
15 20 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 20 (0.54%) R
15 20 (0.54%) Ruby
16 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 325 (8.74%) Degree
2 283 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 70 (1.88%) CISSP
7 58 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 49 (1.32%) CISM
11 46 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.02%) PhD
13 35 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (0.94%) CCNP
14 33 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.78%) CISA
16 25 (0.67%) CRISC
17 23 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.51%) ACCA
19 18 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (3.36%) QA
2 110 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 95 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.39%) NIST
5 80 (2.15%) GDPR
6 79 (2.12%) Accessibility
7 49 (1.32%) GRC
8 26 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.35%) COBIT
12 13 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 11 (0.30%) SLA
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 9 (0.24%) NCSC
16 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 131 (3.52%) Docker
2 65 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.081%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.054%) Firmware
8 2 (0.054%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 235 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 229 (6.16%) Terraform
3 47 (1.26%) Ansible
4 39 (1.05%) Grafana
5 30 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 23 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.43%) Puppet
9 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.38%) Nagios
11 11 (0.30%) Data Guard
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.30%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.13%) Kibana
13 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.081%) Argo
Vendors
1 371 (9.98%) Microsoft
2 121 (3.25%) Salesforce
3 111 (2.99%) SAP
4 96 (2.58%) Databricks
5 94 (2.53%) Oracle
6 82 (2.21%) Google
7 68 (1.83%) Cisco
8 64 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 60 (1.61%) VMware
10 40 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 37 (1.00%) Adobe
11 37 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.89%) Dell
13 31 (0.83%) IBM
13 31 (0.83%) Zscaler
14 26 (0.70%) Fortinet
14 26 (0.70%) Splunk
15 23 (0.62%) Foundry
15 23 (0.62%) Intapp
16 21 (0.56%) SolarWinds