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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 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 3,773 2,203 3,912
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.85% 18.06% 19.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.07% 19.70% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 1,310 2,489
10th Percentile £57,251 £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 £100,001 £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 22,106 11,181 18,627
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.69% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15,131 7,245 12,863
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,825 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.84% -3.42%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £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 12 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 12 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 +7 577 £90,000 +20.00% 327
West London +22 116 £60,000 - 90
South London +16 53 £80,000 -25.58% 43
East London -4 15 £120,000 +50.00% 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 666 (17.65%) AWS
2 647 (17.15%) AI
3 631 (16.72%) Software Engineering
4 630 (16.70%) Python
5 604 (16.01%) Azure
6 524 (13.89%) Agile
7 488 (12.93%) Analytics
8 460 (12.19%) Mentoring
9 442 (11.71%) CI/CD
10 377 (9.99%) Microsoft
11 357 (9.46%) SQL
12 351 (9.30%) DevOps
13 337 (8.93%) Degree
14 324 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
14 324 (8.59%) Roadmaps
15 313 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 298 (7.90%) Java
17 291 (7.71%) Security Cleared
18 274 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 265 (7.02%) Machine Learning
20 248 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
21 246 (6.52%) Decision-Making
22 245 (6.49%) GCP
23 244 (6.47%) Business Development
24 233 (6.18%) Microservices
25 232 (6.15%) Kubernetes
26 222 (5.88%) Terraform
27 218 (5.78%) SaaS
28 211 (5.59%) Test Automation
29 210 (5.57%) Data 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 76 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.72%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) SAS
7 18 (0.48%) CMS
7 18 (0.48%) Confluence
8 8 (0.21%) WordPress
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.053%) WinCC
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 34 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.16%) InDesign
7 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.13%) PlantUML
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.11%) SPSS
10 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.080%) Blender
10 3 (0.080%) Maya
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
4 9 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.21%) Maximo
6 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 666 (17.65%) AWS
2 604 (16.01%) Azure
3 245 (6.49%) GCP
4 218 (5.78%) SaaS
5 150 (3.98%) Serverless
6 142 (3.76%) Power Platform
7 136 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (3.29%) GitHub
9 122 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
10 99 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (1.72%) Entra ID
14 61 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 56 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 49 (1.30%) dbt
17 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
19 43 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 43 (1.14%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 119 (3.15%) Firewall
2 108 (2.86%) Network Security
3 74 (1.96%) DNS
4 64 (1.70%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 50 (1.33%) Broadband
7 49 (1.30%) DHCP
8 47 (1.25%) WAN
9 43 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.06%) BGP
11 37 (0.98%) Internet
11 37 (0.98%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 29 (0.77%) LAN
14 25 (0.66%) Wireless
15 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.56%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.05%) Power BI
2 109 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 75 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.54%) Tableau
6 57 (1.51%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.51%) Relational Database
7 54 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 54 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 43 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 41 (1.09%) Metadata
10 40 (1.06%) MySQL
11 37 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 36 (0.95%) BigQuery
13 33 (0.87%) Big Data
14 28 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (0.56%) Looker
16 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
17 19 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 124 (3.29%) Git
2 58 (1.54%) JIRA
3 47 (1.25%) GitLab
3 47 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 26 (0.69%) MLflow
5 25 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.34%) Selenium
9 12 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.19%) NUnit
11 6 (0.16%) Vite
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JMeter
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 980 (25.97%) Finance
2 649 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 297 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (7.50%) Banking
5 279 (7.39%) Law
6 232 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 229 (6.07%) Marketing
8 165 (4.37%) Public Sector
9 155 (4.11%) Legal
10 142 (3.76%) Retail
11 69 (1.83%) Front Office
12 67 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 64 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.25%) Advertising
16 43 (1.14%) Games
17 35 (0.93%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.90%) Billing
19 33 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (3.95%) .NET
2 146 (3.87%) React
3 118 (3.13%) REST
4 114 (3.02%) Kafka
5 90 (2.39%) Spring
6 87 (2.31%) Node.js
7 75 (1.99%) RESTful
8 67 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.17%) CSS
10 41 (1.09%) HTML
11 40 (1.06%) Next.js
12 37 (0.98%) Django
12 37 (0.98%) LangChain
13 33 (0.87%) PySpark
14 31 (0.82%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.77%) JSON
16 27 (0.72%) OAuth
17 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
18 25 (0.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 280 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 135 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 80 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 72 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 61 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 61 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 57 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.19%) Blog
12 45 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 45 (1.19%) Security Posture
13 44 (1.17%) Derivative
14 41 (1.09%) Equities
15 37 (0.98%) e-Learning
15 37 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.21%) Linux
2 95 (2.52%) Windows
3 39 (1.03%) Android
4 34 (0.90%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.080%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (17.15%) AI
2 631 (16.72%) Software Engineering
3 524 (13.89%) Agile
4 488 (12.93%) Analytics
5 460 (12.19%) Mentoring
6 442 (11.71%) CI/CD
7 351 (9.30%) DevOps
8 324 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
8 324 (8.59%) Roadmaps
9 313 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 274 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 265 (7.02%) Machine Learning
12 248 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 246 (6.52%) Decision-Making
14 244 (6.47%) Business Development
15 233 (6.18%) Microservices
16 211 (5.59%) Test Automation
17 210 (5.57%) Data Science
18 194 (5.14%) Full-Stack Development
19 189 (5.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 630 (16.70%) Python
2 357 (9.46%) SQL
3 298 (7.90%) Java
4 158 (4.19%) C#
5 150 (3.98%) TypeScript
6 148 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 101 (2.68%) C++
8 62 (1.64%) Go
9 61 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.46%) Bash
11 30 (0.80%) PHP
12 28 (0.74%) Bicep
12 28 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 23 (0.61%) R
15 22 (0.58%) Ruby
15 22 (0.58%) SOQL
16 21 (0.56%) Scala
17 20 (0.53%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 337 (8.93%) Degree
2 291 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 189 (5.01%) SC Cleared
4 118 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.78%) CISSP
7 60 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 59 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 53 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 46 (1.22%) CISM
11 44 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.06%) PhD
13 37 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (0.90%) CCNP
15 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.77%) CISA
17 23 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
17 23 (0.61%) CRISC
18 18 (0.48%) ACCA
19 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (3.26%) QA
2 117 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 94 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (2.33%) NIST
5 87 (2.31%) GDPR
6 83 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.25%) GRC
8 26 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.34%) COBIT
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 10 (0.27%) SLA
16 9 (0.24%) MiFID
17 8 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 133 (3.53%) Docker
2 65 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 232 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 222 (5.88%) Terraform
3 44 (1.17%) Ansible
4 35 (0.93%) Grafana
5 27 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.42%) Puppet
8 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.37%) Nagios
10 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (0.29%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 6 (0.16%) Cilium
12 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.13%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 377 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 118 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 109 (2.89%) SAP
4 101 (2.68%) Databricks
5 98 (2.60%) Oracle
6 87 (2.31%) Google
7 73 (1.93%) Cisco
8 62 (1.64%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.62%) VMware
10 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Adobe
11 38 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 37 (0.98%) Zscaler
13 33 (0.87%) Dell
14 30 (0.80%) IBM
15 28 (0.74%) HP
16 25 (0.66%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.66%) Foundry
16 25 (0.66%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Intapp