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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,110 2,074 3,750
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.88% 17.65% 20.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.18% 19.39% 21.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 1,209 2,147
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 £101,250 £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 23,928 10,698 17,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.04% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,205 6,931 10,984
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 £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 30 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 30 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 +6 470 £90,000 +14.29% 831
West London +24 93 £57,500 +16.87% 144
South London +18 47 £70,000 -34.88% 48
East London +11 29 £120,000 +97.21% 26
North London -5 2 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 774 (18.83%) AI
2 732 (17.81%) Software Engineering
3 636 (15.47%) AWS
4 596 (14.50%) Azure
5 589 (14.33%) Python
6 508 (12.36%) Analytics
7 505 (12.29%) Agile
8 474 (11.53%) CI/CD
9 432 (10.51%) Mentoring
10 423 (10.29%) Microsoft
11 368 (8.95%) SQL
12 365 (8.88%) DevOps
13 351 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
14 342 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 339 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 337 (8.20%) Roadmaps
17 321 (7.81%) Degree
18 313 (7.62%) Java
19 286 (6.96%) Security Cleared
20 279 (6.79%) Machine Learning
21 253 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
22 242 (5.89%) Decision-Making
23 240 (5.84%) Kubernetes
24 235 (5.72%) GCP
25 229 (5.57%) Business Development
25 229 (5.57%) Data Science
26 228 (5.55%) Microservices
27 222 (5.40%) Terraform
28 212 (5.16%) Test Automation
29 210 (5.11%) 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 64 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 60 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.75%) Apache
5 24 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.54%) Confluence
7 19 (0.46%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 7 (0.17%) WordPress
10 6 (0.15%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.097%) IIS
12 4 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.073%) 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 45 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.41%) 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 (0.097%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.097%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.097%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.073%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.073%) Blender
12 3 (0.073%) Maya
13 2 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.32%) 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 6 (0.15%) 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 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.073%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.073%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 636 (15.47%) AWS
2 596 (14.50%) Azure
3 235 (5.72%) GCP
4 200 (4.87%) SaaS
5 148 (3.60%) Power Platform
6 139 (3.38%) Serverless
7 131 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
9 124 (3.02%) GitHub
10 122 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
11 78 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (1.68%) Entra ID
13 56 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.27%) Amazon S3
16 47 (1.14%) Azure AKS
16 47 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
17 45 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
19 36 (0.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 112 (2.73%) Firewall
2 99 (2.41%) Network Security
3 77 (1.87%) DNS
4 67 (1.63%) VPN
5 53 (1.29%) VLAN
6 43 (1.05%) DHCP
6 43 (1.05%) Internet
7 40 (0.97%) WAN
8 38 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (0.88%) BGP
11 32 (0.78%) OSPF
12 31 (0.75%) Broadband
13 25 (0.61%) LAN
14 20 (0.49%) Wireless
15 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.41%) SAN
17 16 (0.39%) VXLAN
18 12 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
19 11 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.73%) Power BI
2 104 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 60 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 53 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.17%) Big Data
8 45 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 45 (1.09%) Tableau
9 42 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (0.97%) Metadata
11 39 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 37 (0.90%) MySQL
13 32 (0.78%) DynamoDB
14 24 (0.58%) SAP HANA
15 21 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (0.49%) Hadoop
17 19 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (2.46%) Git
2 58 (1.41%) JIRA
3 47 (1.14%) GitLab
4 40 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.32%) Selenium
9 12 (0.29%) MLflow
10 8 (0.19%) NUnit
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
11 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.097%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.097%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.097%) JUnit
12 4 (0.097%) Maven
12 4 (0.097%) Spock
12 4 (0.097%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,034 (25.16%) Finance
2 709 (17.25%) Social Skills
3 300 (7.30%) Banking
4 296 (7.20%) Law
5 271 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 240 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 213 (5.18%) Marketing
8 175 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 162 (3.94%) Legal
10 157 (3.82%) Retail
11 108 (2.63%) Financial Institution
12 71 (1.73%) Front Office
13 70 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 68 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
16 41 (1.00%) Games
17 40 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.83%) Billing
19 33 (0.80%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (5.40%) Terraform
2 135 (3.28%) React
3 134 (3.26%) .NET
4 129 (3.14%) REST
5 108 (2.63%) Kafka
6 94 (2.29%) Spring
7 87 (2.12%) RESTful
8 71 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 70 (1.70%) Node.js
10 53 (1.29%) HTML
11 41 (1.00%) Next.js
12 40 (0.97%) CSS
13 37 (0.90%) JSON
14 35 (0.85%) PySpark
15 33 (0.80%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.75%) Django
16 31 (0.75%) FastAPI
17 27 (0.66%) .NET Core
18 25 (0.61%) SpaCy
19 24 (0.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 260 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 153 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 125 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 121 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 121 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 118 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 71 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 56 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
10 52 (1.27%) Blog
11 51 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.09%) e-Learning
12 45 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (0.97%) Derivative
14 39 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 39 (0.95%) Mobile App
15 38 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 36 (0.88%) Reinsurance
17 33 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.51%) Linux
2 100 (2.43%) Windows
3 47 (1.14%) Android
4 35 (0.85%) Unix
5 33 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.073%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.049%) 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
1 774 (18.83%) AI
2 732 (17.81%) Software Engineering
3 508 (12.36%) Analytics
4 505 (12.29%) Agile
5 474 (11.53%) CI/CD
6 432 (10.51%) Mentoring
7 365 (8.88%) DevOps
8 351 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
9 342 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 339 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 337 (8.20%) Roadmaps
12 279 (6.79%) Machine Learning
13 253 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 242 (5.89%) Decision-Making
15 229 (5.57%) Business Development
15 229 (5.57%) Data Science
16 228 (5.55%) Microservices
17 212 (5.16%) Test Automation
18 210 (5.11%) Migration
19 208 (5.06%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 589 (14.33%) Python
2 368 (8.95%) SQL
3 313 (7.62%) Java
4 145 (3.53%) C#
4 145 (3.53%) TypeScript
5 117 (2.85%) JavaScript
6 86 (2.09%) C++
7 69 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 61 (1.48%) Go
9 53 (1.29%) Bash
10 35 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 32 (0.78%) Bicep
12 27 (0.66%) PHP
13 26 (0.63%) Scala
14 25 (0.61%) R
15 21 (0.51%) Ruby
16 19 (0.46%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.46%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 321 (7.81%) Degree
2 286 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 181 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 55 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.34%) CISSP
8 45 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 43 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 39 (0.95%) PhD
11 37 (0.90%) CISM
12 32 (0.78%) CCNP
12 32 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.66%) CISA
14 25 (0.61%) ACCA
15 21 (0.51%) CIMA
16 20 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (3.58%) Data Quality
2 115 (2.80%) QA
3 92 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.95%) GDPR
6 71 (1.73%) NIST
7 46 (1.12%) GRC
8 24 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
11 12 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.29%) WCAG
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%) SLA
14 6 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 140 (3.41%) Docker
2 64 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 3 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.073%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.049%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.049%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
9 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 240 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 39 (0.95%) Grafana
3 37 (0.90%) Ansible
4 30 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.49%) FortiGate
5 20 (0.49%) Puppet
6 19 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) Cilium
10 6 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) EnCase
11 5 (0.12%) FTK
11 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 3 (0.073%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 423 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 129 (3.14%) Oracle
3 123 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 120 (2.92%) Google
5 108 (2.63%) SAP
6 90 (2.19%) Databricks
7 67 (1.63%) Cisco
8 54 (1.31%) VMware
9 49 (1.19%) Palo Alto
10 48 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 40 (0.97%) Zscaler
12 33 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.80%) Splunk
13 30 (0.73%) Workday
14 29 (0.71%) Adobe
14 29 (0.71%) HP
15 23 (0.56%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.51%) IBM
16 21 (0.51%) Intapp
17 20 (0.49%) Foundry