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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,406 2,020 4,583
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.27% 16.86% 19.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.62% 18.72% 20.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 1,237 3,180
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 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £115,000
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 19,327 10,788 22,650
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 90.07% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,205 6,862 16,939
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,508 £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 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 June 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 June 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 +7 692 £90,000 +12.50% 383
West London +26 100 £75,000 +20.00% 22
South London +31 65 £60,000 -44.19% 25
East London -7 16 £68,000 -28.42% 24
North London +1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 (16.50%) Azure
2 517 (15.18%) Python
3 508 (14.91%) Software Engineering
4 495 (14.53%) AWS
5 475 (13.95%) Agile
6 453 (13.30%) AI
7 372 (10.92%) Analytics
8 369 (10.83%) Mentoring
9 366 (10.75%) Microsoft
10 347 (10.19%) CI/CD
11 310 (9.10%) Problem-Solving
12 297 (8.72%) Degree
13 281 (8.25%) DevOps
14 268 (7.87%) SQL
15 261 (7.66%) Java
16 254 (7.46%) Roadmaps
17 245 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 234 (6.87%) Kubernetes
19 229 (6.72%) Microservices
20 221 (6.49%) Decision-Making
21 215 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
22 214 (6.28%) GCP
22 214 (6.28%) Security Cleared
23 208 (6.11%) Test Automation
24 203 (5.96%) SaaS
25 197 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
26 191 (5.61%) Terraform
27 190 (5.58%) Business Development
28 181 (5.31%) Full-Stack Development
29 180 (5.28%) Machine Learning

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 66 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.65%) Apache
6 20 (0.59%) CMS
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) Drupal
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.029%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Maya
9 3 (0.088%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.088%) Blender
9 3 (0.088%) SPSS
10 2 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.059%) InDesign
10 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 11 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.12%) Shopify
10 3 (0.088%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.088%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.088%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.088%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
11 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.059%) SAP WM
11 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 562 (16.50%) Azure
2 495 (14.53%) AWS
3 214 (6.28%) GCP
4 203 (5.96%) SaaS
5 152 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
6 127 (3.73%) Power Platform
7 118 (3.46%) Serverless
8 117 (3.44%) GitHub
9 74 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 63 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 45 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 40 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 39 (1.15%) IaaS
16 38 (1.12%) Datadog
16 38 (1.12%) Figma
16 38 (1.12%) PaaS
16 38 (1.12%) Snowflake
17 36 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 99 (2.91%) Firewall
2 79 (2.32%) DNS
3 71 (2.08%) Broadband
4 70 (2.06%) VPN
5 65 (1.91%) Network Security
6 61 (1.79%) DHCP
7 53 (1.56%) VLAN
8 52 (1.53%) WAN
9 50 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.23%) Wireless
11 33 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.91%) SAN
13 29 (0.85%) BGP
14 28 (0.82%) LAN
14 28 (0.82%) OSPF
14 28 (0.82%) TCP/IP
15 24 (0.70%) Multicast
16 20 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.50%) HTTP
18 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (3.02%) SQL Server
2 102 (2.99%) Power BI
3 52 (1.53%) NoSQL
4 48 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (1.35%) Tableau
6 43 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 42 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (0.94%) Metadata
11 32 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
11 32 (0.94%) Relational Database
12 31 (0.91%) MongoDB
13 23 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (0.65%) MySQL
15 20 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.59%) Big Data
15 20 (0.59%) DB2
15 20 (0.59%) Looker
Development Applications
1 115 (3.38%) Git
2 70 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 53 (1.56%) JIRA
4 42 (1.23%) GitLab
5 35 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) MLflow
7 20 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 7 (0.21%) Chocolatey
9 7 (0.21%) Selenium
10 6 (0.18%) JMeter
11 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.12%) Gatling
12 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 890 (26.13%) Finance
2 555 (16.29%) Social Skills
3 264 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (7.72%) Banking
5 220 (6.46%) Law
6 204 (5.99%) Marketing
7 182 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 170 (4.99%) Legal
9 153 (4.49%) Retail
10 149 (4.37%) Public Sector
11 69 (2.03%) Front Office
12 55 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 51 (1.50%) Advertising
15 48 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (1.03%) Games
18 31 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (0.91%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (4.17%) .NET
2 141 (4.14%) React
3 112 (3.29%) REST
4 101 (2.97%) Kafka
5 86 (2.52%) Node.js
6 78 (2.29%) Spring
7 68 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 64 (1.88%) RESTful
9 53 (1.56%) CSS
10 44 (1.29%) HTML
11 43 (1.26%) SOAP
12 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
13 36 (1.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 36 (1.06%) PySpark
14 32 (0.94%) LangChain
14 32 (0.94%) OAuth
15 30 (0.88%) Django
16 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.79%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 245 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 95 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.41%) Algorithms
5 67 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 66 (1.94%) Security Posture
7 63 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 52 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 49 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 47 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.35%) Equities
14 39 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 39 (1.15%) Social Media
15 38 (1.12%) Derivative
15 38 (1.12%) Hedge funds
16 32 (0.94%) Reinsurance
17 29 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.23%) Linux
2 132 (3.88%) Windows
3 50 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 39 (1.15%) Android
5 32 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.73%) Unix
7 16 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.21%) AIX
10 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.059%) CentOS
11 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.059%) tvOS
12 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (14.91%) Software Engineering
2 475 (13.95%) Agile
3 453 (13.30%) AI
4 372 (10.92%) Analytics
5 369 (10.83%) Mentoring
6 347 (10.19%) CI/CD
7 310 (9.10%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (8.25%) DevOps
9 254 (7.46%) Roadmaps
10 245 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 229 (6.72%) Microservices
12 221 (6.49%) Decision-Making
13 215 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 208 (6.11%) Test Automation
15 197 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 190 (5.58%) Business Development
17 181 (5.31%) Full-Stack Development
18 180 (5.28%) Machine Learning
19 175 (5.14%) Fintech
20 172 (5.05%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 517 (15.18%) Python
2 268 (7.87%) SQL
3 261 (7.66%) Java
4 145 (4.26%) C#
5 144 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 141 (4.14%) TypeScript
7 126 (3.70%) C++
8 77 (2.26%) Go
9 73 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 51 (1.50%) Bash
11 33 (0.97%) Bicep
12 26 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 26 (0.76%) Scala
12 26 (0.76%) SOQL
13 23 (0.68%) PHP
14 22 (0.65%) Rust
15 19 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.50%) R
18 15 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 297 (8.72%) Degree
2 214 (6.28%) Security Cleared
3 159 (4.67%) SC Cleared
4 93 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 64 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 58 (1.70%) CISSP
8 48 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 46 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.15%) PhD
11 37 (1.09%) CISM
12 35 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 32 (0.94%) CCNP
14 27 (0.79%) ACCA
14 27 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.76%) CRISC
16 25 (0.73%) OSCP
17 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.56%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.05%) QA
2 81 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.17%) NIST
5 63 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.20%) GDPR
7 37 (1.09%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 17 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.44%) SLA
12 14 (0.41%) NCSC
13 12 (0.35%) IFRS
13 12 (0.35%) MiFID
14 11 (0.32%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.23%) COBIT
15 8 (0.23%) WCAG
16 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 127 (3.73%) Docker
2 99 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.21%) Firmware
6 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.15%) vSphere
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.088%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 234 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 191 (5.61%) Terraform
3 49 (1.44%) Ansible
4 47 (1.38%) Grafana
5 42 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 22 (0.65%) SCCM
8 12 (0.35%) Nagios
9 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.21%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.21%) Istio
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.18%) Cilium
13 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.15%) Kibana
14 4 (0.12%) Argo
14 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 366 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 97 (2.85%) Salesforce
3 90 (2.64%) SAP
4 78 (2.29%) Databricks
5 75 (2.20%) VMware
6 72 (2.11%) Cisco
7 63 (1.85%) Oracle
8 57 (1.67%) Google
9 53 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.38%) Dell
11 41 (1.20%) Adobe
12 35 (1.03%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.88%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.82%) IBM
16 24 (0.70%) SolarWinds
17 23 (0.68%) Apple
18 22 (0.65%) Foundry
18 22 (0.65%) Splunk
19 20 (0.59%) Intapp