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 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,262 2,121 4,380
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.12% 16.64% 18.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.53% 18.44% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 1,358 3,114
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 18,606 11,505 21,962
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.27% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,583 7,468 16,670
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +7 694 £90,000 +13.92% 376
West London +4 91 £75,000 +15.38% 37
South London +24 61 £60,000 -5.88% 16
East London -14 13 £79,000 -16.84% 35
North London -7 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 562 (17.23%) Azure
2 474 (14.53%) Software Engineering
3 470 (14.41%) AWS
4 458 (14.04%) Agile
4 458 (14.04%) Python
5 447 (13.70%) AI
6 374 (11.47%) Mentoring
7 357 (10.94%) Microsoft
8 353 (10.82%) Analytics
9 318 (9.75%) Degree
10 302 (9.26%) CI/CD
10 302 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
11 280 (8.58%) DevOps
12 276 (8.46%) Java
13 251 (7.69%) SQL
14 248 (7.60%) Roadmaps
15 228 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 227 (6.96%) Kubernetes
17 225 (6.90%) Microservices
18 218 (6.68%) GCP
19 217 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
20 209 (6.41%) SaaS
21 202 (6.19%) Decision-Making
22 185 (5.67%) Test Automation
23 182 (5.58%) Security Cleared
24 178 (5.46%) Full-Stack Development
25 177 (5.43%) Fintech
26 175 (5.36%) Terraform
27 174 (5.33%) Machine Learning
28 171 (5.24%) Computer Science

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 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 43 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.52%) CMS
6 16 (0.49%) Apache
7 13 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.28%) JBoss
10 8 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.21%) WordPress
12 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
12 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.12%) Drupal
13 4 (0.12%) SAS
14 3 (0.092%) nginx
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.092%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.21%) Maya
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
6 6 (0.18%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 3 (0.092%) SPSS
10 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.061%) Weka
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.37%) Maximo
4 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
7 6 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.15%) Shopify
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.092%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.061%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.061%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.061%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.061%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.061%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.061%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 562 (17.23%) Azure
2 470 (14.41%) AWS
3 218 (6.68%) GCP
4 209 (6.41%) SaaS
5 144 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 121 (3.71%) GitHub
8 99 (3.03%) Serverless
9 83 (2.54%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 43 (1.32%) Amazon S3
13 40 (1.23%) PaaS
13 40 (1.23%) Snowflake
14 38 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (1.16%) Figma
14 38 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.13%) IaaS
16 36 (1.10%) Datadog
17 34 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.79%) Firewall
2 74 (2.27%) DNS
3 66 (2.02%) VPN
4 62 (1.90%) DHCP
5 60 (1.84%) WAN
6 59 (1.81%) Broadband
7 52 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 49 (1.50%) Network Security
9 44 (1.35%) VLAN
10 43 (1.32%) Wireless
11 38 (1.16%) LAN
12 35 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 31 (0.95%) SAN
14 29 (0.89%) TCP/IP
15 25 (0.77%) Multicast
16 23 (0.71%) HTTP
17 20 (0.61%) BGP
18 18 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
18 18 (0.55%) OSPF
19 14 (0.43%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.07%) Power BI
3 53 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 47 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 44 (1.35%) BigQuery
7 43 (1.32%) Tableau
8 37 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (0.98%) DynamoDB
10 31 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.95%) Metadata
11 30 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (0.89%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.71%) DB2
14 22 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (0.64%) Looker
15 21 (0.64%) MongoDB
16 17 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 16 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (3.00%) Git
2 67 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.69%) JIRA
4 37 (1.13%) GitLab
5 31 (0.95%) TeamCity
6 27 (0.83%) MLflow
7 20 (0.61%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.28%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.28%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.28%) Selenium
8 9 (0.28%) Vite
9 8 (0.25%) Chocolatey
10 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.18%) JMeter
12 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.12%) Gatling
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 884 (27.10%) Finance
2 525 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 260 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (7.88%) Banking
5 214 (6.56%) Marketing
6 213 (6.53%) Law
7 188 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 166 (5.09%) Legal
9 156 (4.78%) Retail
10 136 (4.17%) Public Sector
11 63 (1.93%) Front Office
12 62 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 51 (1.56%) Advertising
15 46 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (1.32%) Financial Institution
17 38 (1.16%) Games
18 26 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
18 26 (0.80%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (4.35%) React
2 140 (4.29%) .NET
3 115 (3.53%) REST
4 105 (3.22%) Kafka
5 87 (2.67%) Node.js
6 73 (2.24%) RESTful
7 71 (2.18%) Spring
8 58 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 51 (1.56%) CSS
10 44 (1.35%) SOAP
11 42 (1.29%) HTML
12 41 (1.26%) PyTorch
13 33 (1.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 32 (0.98%) LangChain
14 32 (0.98%) OAuth
15 31 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (0.89%) Django
17 28 (0.86%) gRPC
18 27 (0.83%) PySpark
19 26 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 95 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 67 (2.05%) Algorithms
5 64 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 63 (1.93%) Data Structures
7 57 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 55 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 54 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 51 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
11 50 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.32%) Equities
14 38 (1.16%) Social Media
15 36 (1.10%) Hedge funds
16 34 (1.04%) Derivative
17 30 (0.92%) Low-Code
18 29 (0.89%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.32%) Linux
2 129 (3.95%) Windows
3 56 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 51 (1.56%) Android
5 35 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.67%) Unix
7 20 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.40%) VMS
9 12 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.12%) CentOS
14 3 (0.092%) AIX
15 2 (0.061%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.031%) Rocky
16 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (14.53%) Software Engineering
2 458 (14.04%) Agile
3 447 (13.70%) AI
4 374 (11.47%) Mentoring
5 353 (10.82%) Analytics
6 302 (9.26%) CI/CD
6 302 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
7 280 (8.58%) DevOps
8 248 (7.60%) Roadmaps
9 228 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 225 (6.90%) Microservices
11 217 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 202 (6.19%) Decision-Making
13 185 (5.67%) Test Automation
14 178 (5.46%) Full-Stack Development
15 177 (5.43%) Fintech
16 174 (5.33%) Machine Learning
17 171 (5.24%) Computer Science
18 170 (5.21%) Coaching
19 169 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 458 (14.04%) Python
2 276 (8.46%) Java
3 251 (7.69%) SQL
4 139 (4.26%) C#
5 138 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 132 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 125 (3.83%) C++
8 83 (2.54%) Go
9 67 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 43 (1.32%) Bash
11 32 (0.98%) Bicep
12 25 (0.77%) Apex Code
12 25 (0.77%) Rust
13 23 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.67%) SOQL
15 20 (0.61%) PHP
15 20 (0.61%) Scala
16 15 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.40%) R
18 11 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 318 (9.75%) Degree
2 182 (5.58%) Security Cleared
3 140 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 108 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.62%) CISSP
6 53 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 48 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (1.10%) ACCA
9 36 (1.10%) CISM
9 36 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 31 (0.95%) PhD
11 28 (0.86%) CCNP
12 27 (0.83%) CRISC
13 24 (0.74%) OSCP
14 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 22 (0.67%) CIMA
16 21 (0.64%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (2.88%) QA
2 76 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.21%) NIST
4 70 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.41%) GDPR
7 35 (1.07%) GRC
8 22 (0.67%) SLA
9 20 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.46%) IFRS
12 15 (0.46%) NCSC
13 14 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.34%) MiFID
15 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.21%) IFRS 17
16 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 131 (4.02%) Docker
2 105 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.28%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.092%) vSphere
9 2 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.061%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.061%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.031%) IAG
Systems Management
1 227 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 175 (5.36%) Terraform
3 47 (1.44%) Ansible
4 43 (1.32%) Grafana
4 43 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.71%) SCCM
7 14 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.28%) Nagios
8 9 (0.28%) Nessus
9 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.21%) Istio
11 5 (0.15%) Argo
11 5 (0.15%) Kibana
12 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 3 (0.092%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.092%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.092%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 357 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 79 (2.42%) SAP
3 74 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 74 (2.27%) VMware
4 72 (2.21%) Cisco
5 66 (2.02%) Databricks
6 58 (1.78%) Google
7 56 (1.72%) Oracle
8 50 (1.53%) Dell
9 42 (1.29%) Palo Alto
10 37 (1.13%) Adobe
11 27 (0.83%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.80%) ServiceNow
13 25 (0.77%) IBM
14 24 (0.74%) Fortinet
15 23 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.67%) Workday
17 21 (0.64%) Apple
18 20 (0.61%) Foundry
19 19 (0.58%) Intapp