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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,561 2,150 4,532
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.25% 17.30% 18.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.52% 18.92% 19.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,332 1,332 3,130
10th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,848 £62,160
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 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -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 20,330 11,364 22,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 91.46% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 14,008 7,289 16,801
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% -12.50%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +7 705 £90,000 +12.50% 360
West London +32 107 £75,000 +22.45% 61
South London +34 60 £80,000 -25.58% 10
East London +2 16 £68,000 -15.00% 34
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 593 (16.65%) Azure
2 579 (16.26%) AWS
3 569 (15.98%) Python
4 555 (15.59%) Software Engineering
5 517 (14.52%) AI
6 488 (13.70%) Agile
7 408 (11.46%) Analytics
8 407 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 383 (10.76%) CI/CD
10 376 (10.56%) Microsoft
11 320 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
12 306 (8.59%) Degree
12 306 (8.59%) SQL
13 300 (8.42%) DevOps
14 282 (7.92%) Roadmaps
15 278 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 264 (7.41%) Java
17 254 (7.13%) Security Cleared
18 248 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
19 240 (6.74%) Kubernetes
20 232 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
21 229 (6.43%) Decision-Making
22 228 (6.40%) GCP
23 225 (6.32%) Business Development
23 225 (6.32%) Microservices
24 220 (6.18%) Terraform
25 200 (5.62%) SaaS
25 200 (5.62%) Test Automation
26 197 (5.53%) Machine Learning
27 188 (5.28%) 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 69 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.73%) Apache
6 22 (0.62%) CMS
7 16 (0.45%) Confluence
8 15 (0.42%) SAS
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.084%) IIS
14 3 (0.084%) JBoss
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 32 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 13 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 593 (16.65%) Azure
2 579 (16.26%) AWS
3 228 (6.40%) GCP
4 200 (5.62%) SaaS
5 159 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 139 (3.90%) Power Platform
7 132 (3.71%) Serverless
8 115 (3.23%) GitHub
9 79 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 75 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 64 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
12 57 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (1.43%) Amazon S3
14 49 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 49 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 43 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (1.12%) Figma
18 37 (1.04%) dbt
19 34 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.29%) Firewall
2 97 (2.72%) Network Security
3 83 (2.33%) DNS
4 76 (2.13%) VPN
5 69 (1.94%) Broadband
6 58 (1.63%) DHCP
7 57 (1.60%) VLAN
8 56 (1.57%) WAN
9 50 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.12%) BGP
11 39 (1.10%) Wireless
12 38 (1.07%) OSPF
13 31 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 29 (0.81%) LAN
16 27 (0.76%) SAN
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
18 19 (0.53%) Multicast
19 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
20 15 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.15%) Power BI
2 102 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 54 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 52 (1.46%) Tableau
5 49 (1.38%) Data Lake
5 49 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 47 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
10 38 (1.07%) DynamoDB
11 36 (1.01%) Relational Database
12 35 (0.98%) Metadata
13 28 (0.79%) MySQL
14 27 (0.76%) Big Data
15 22 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.53%) Db2
17 18 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 120 (3.37%) Git
2 59 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.63%) JIRA
4 40 (1.12%) GitLab
5 32 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 21 (0.59%) MLflow
7 18 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.22%) Metasploit
10 8 (0.22%) Vite
11 7 (0.20%) Selenium
12 6 (0.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 908 (25.50%) Finance
2 592 (16.62%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.33%) Banking
5 226 (6.35%) Law
6 192 (5.39%) Marketing
7 181 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 165 (4.63%) Legal
9 155 (4.35%) Retail
10 148 (4.16%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.91%) Front Office
12 67 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.49%) Advertising
13 53 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.24%) Games
16 36 (1.01%) Billing
17 35 (0.98%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (4.30%) React
2 145 (4.07%) .NET
3 116 (3.26%) REST
4 100 (2.81%) Kafka
5 87 (2.44%) Node.js
6 70 (1.97%) Spring
7 61 (1.71%) RESTful
7 61 (1.71%) Spring Boot
8 51 (1.43%) CSS
9 46 (1.29%) HTML
10 43 (1.21%) SOAP
11 35 (0.98%) Django
11 35 (0.98%) PyTorch
12 33 (0.93%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 31 (0.87%) OAuth
13 31 (0.87%) PySpark
14 30 (0.84%) LangChain
15 26 (0.73%) .NET Core
15 26 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
16 25 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 261 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 106 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 94 (2.64%) Data Centre
5 93 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 85 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 71 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 53 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 51 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 50 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.24%) Equities
12 44 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.15%) AI Agents
15 38 (1.07%) Social Media
16 37 (1.04%) Derivative
16 37 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 37 (1.04%) Public Cloud
17 33 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 142 (3.99%) Linux
2 122 (3.43%) Windows
3 38 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (15.59%) Software Engineering
2 517 (14.52%) AI
3 488 (13.70%) Agile
4 408 (11.46%) Analytics
5 407 (11.43%) Mentoring
6 383 (10.76%) CI/CD
7 320 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
8 300 (8.42%) DevOps
9 282 (7.92%) Roadmaps
10 278 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 248 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 232 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 229 (6.43%) Decision-Making
14 225 (6.32%) Business Development
14 225 (6.32%) Microservices
15 200 (5.62%) Test Automation
16 197 (5.53%) Machine Learning
17 188 (5.28%) Full-Stack Development
18 178 (5.00%) Fintech
19 169 (4.75%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 569 (15.98%) Python
2 306 (8.59%) SQL
3 264 (7.41%) Java
4 153 (4.30%) C#
5 150 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.18%) JavaScript
7 124 (3.48%) C++
8 76 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 71 (1.99%) Go
10 64 (1.80%) Bash
11 31 (0.87%) Bicep
12 26 (0.73%) PHP
12 26 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.73%) SOQL
13 25 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 22 (0.62%) Scala
15 19 (0.53%) Rust
16 18 (0.51%) R
17 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 306 (8.59%) Degree
2 254 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 171 (4.80%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (1.99%) CISSP
6 69 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 45 (1.26%) CISM
11 43 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.21%) PhD
12 38 (1.07%) CCNP
13 37 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.76%) CRISC
15 25 (0.70%) CISA
16 23 (0.65%) ACCA
17 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (3.37%) QA
2 96 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 92 (2.58%) NIST
5 67 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 61 (1.71%) GDPR
7 45 (1.26%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.56%) NIST 800
9 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) SLA
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) MiFID
13 10 (0.28%) NCSC
13 10 (0.28%) WCAG
14 9 (0.25%) IFRS
14 9 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 124 (3.48%) Docker
2 94 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 240 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 220 (6.18%) Terraform
3 47 (1.32%) Ansible
4 45 (1.26%) Grafana
5 37 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 19 (0.53%) SCCM
9 13 (0.37%) Nagios
10 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.28%) Puppet
11 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.22%) Nessus
13 7 (0.20%) Cilium
13 7 (0.20%) Istio
14 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 376 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 110 (3.09%) Salesforce
3 103 (2.89%) SAP
4 81 (2.27%) Databricks
4 81 (2.27%) Oracle
5 69 (1.94%) VMware
6 68 (1.91%) Google
7 65 (1.83%) Cisco
8 64 (1.80%) Palo Alto
9 46 (1.29%) Dell
10 43 (1.21%) Adobe
10 43 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 32 (0.90%) IBM
11 32 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
12 27 (0.76%) Splunk
13 25 (0.70%) Intapp
14 23 (0.65%) Foundry
14 23 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.59%) Apple