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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,767 2,126 3,897
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.61% 17.77% 20.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.80% 19.45% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 1,266 2,384
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,041
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 £100,000 £100,000
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 22,429 10,931 18,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.36% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15,433 7,131 12,211
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
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 2 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 2 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 +7 527 £90,000 +16.13% 485
West London +27 104 £60,000 +15.16% 158
South London +23 51 £80,000 -25.58% 46
East London +2 14 £120,000 +50.00% 32
North London - 1 £62,500 - 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 668 (17.73%) AI
2 654 (17.36%) Software Engineering
3 652 (17.31%) AWS
4 608 (16.14%) Python
5 586 (15.56%) Azure
6 487 (12.93%) Agile
7 466 (12.37%) Analytics
8 447 (11.87%) CI/CD
9 444 (11.79%) Mentoring
10 375 (9.95%) Microsoft
11 362 (9.61%) SQL
12 346 (9.19%) DevOps
13 333 (8.84%) Degree
14 326 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
15 323 (8.57%) Roadmaps
16 314 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 293 (7.78%) Java
18 284 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
19 266 (7.06%) Machine Learning
20 263 (6.98%) Security Cleared
21 242 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
22 239 (6.34%) GCP
23 238 (6.32%) Decision-Making
24 233 (6.19%) Business Development
25 225 (5.97%) Microservices
26 221 (5.87%) Kubernetes
27 219 (5.81%) Data Science
28 216 (5.73%) Terraform
29 213 (5.65%) Test Automation
30 202 (5.36%) SaaS

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 71 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 53 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.72%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) Confluence
7 19 (0.50%) SAS
8 15 (0.40%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.080%) Kinematics
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) nginx
Applications
1 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.19%) InDesign
8 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.11%) SPSS
12 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.080%) Blender
12 3 (0.080%) Maya
13 2 (0.053%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.053%) Revit
Business Applications
1 37 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
3 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
6 6 (0.16%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 652 (17.31%) AWS
2 586 (15.56%) Azure
3 239 (6.34%) GCP
4 202 (5.36%) SaaS
5 138 (3.66%) Serverless
6 132 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 128 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.21%) GitHub
9 119 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
10 107 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (1.62%) Entra ID
14 58 (1.54%) Amazon S3
15 53 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
16 47 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
17 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
18 42 (1.11%) Azure AKS
18 42 (1.11%) Figma
19 40 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.03%) Firewall
2 103 (2.73%) Network Security
3 71 (1.88%) DNS
4 64 (1.70%) VPN
5 50 (1.33%) VLAN
6 44 (1.17%) DHCP
7 42 (1.11%) WAN
8 40 (1.06%) Broadband
9 38 (1.01%) Internet
9 38 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.98%) BGP
11 35 (0.93%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 28 (0.74%) LAN
14 23 (0.61%) Wireless
15 21 (0.56%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.48%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 15 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
18 15 (0.40%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (2.89%) Power BI
2 107 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.51%) Data Lake
6 56 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 53 (1.41%) Tableau
8 52 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 51 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.04%) Big Data
12 37 (0.98%) MySQL
13 35 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 35 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 34 (0.90%) Metadata
15 31 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (0.74%) BigQuery
17 22 (0.58%) SAP HANA
18 20 (0.53%) Looker
19 18 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 113 (3.00%) Git
2 55 (1.46%) JIRA
3 48 (1.27%) GitLab
4 46 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 24 (0.64%) MLflow
7 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) Vite
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 954 (25.33%) Finance
2 651 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 282 (7.49%) Banking
4 281 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 273 (7.25%) Law
6 227 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 215 (5.71%) Marketing
8 152 (4.04%) Public Sector
9 143 (3.80%) Retail
10 130 (3.45%) Legal
11 76 (2.02%) Financial Institution
11 76 (2.02%) Front Office
12 63 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 59 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.11%) Games
15 39 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 34 (0.90%) Advertising
17 31 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 30 (0.80%) Billing
18 30 (0.80%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (5.73%) Terraform
2 138 (3.66%) .NET
3 136 (3.61%) React
4 121 (3.21%) REST
5 120 (3.19%) Kafka
6 87 (2.31%) Spring
7 83 (2.20%) Node.js
8 75 (1.99%) RESTful
9 64 (1.70%) Spring Boot
10 44 (1.17%) HTML
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 37 (0.98%) CSS
13 34 (0.90%) Django
13 34 (0.90%) LangChain
14 33 (0.88%) JSON
15 32 (0.85%) PySpark
16 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.74%) AngularJS
18 27 (0.72%) React Native
19 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 262 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.09%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 104 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 94 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 89 (2.36%) AI Agents
8 69 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 60 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 58 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 52 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 49 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.19%) Blog
14 44 (1.17%) Derivative
15 43 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 42 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
17 41 (1.09%) Mobile App
18 40 (1.06%) e-Learning
18 40 (1.06%) Security Posture
19 39 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.92%) Linux
2 93 (2.47%) Windows
3 46 (1.22%) Android
4 36 (0.96%) Unix
5 31 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.27%) AIX
8 10 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.080%) VMS
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (17.73%) AI
2 654 (17.36%) Software Engineering
3 487 (12.93%) Agile
4 466 (12.37%) Analytics
5 447 (11.87%) CI/CD
6 444 (11.79%) Mentoring
7 346 (9.19%) DevOps
8 326 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
9 323 (8.57%) Roadmaps
10 314 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 284 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 266 (7.06%) Machine Learning
13 242 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
14 238 (6.32%) Decision-Making
15 233 (6.19%) Business Development
16 225 (5.97%) Microservices
17 219 (5.81%) Data Science
18 213 (5.65%) Test Automation
19 187 (4.96%) Migration
20 178 (4.73%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 608 (16.14%) Python
2 362 (9.61%) SQL
3 293 (7.78%) Java
4 146 (3.88%) TypeScript
5 142 (3.77%) C#
6 124 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 89 (2.36%) C++
8 67 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.65%) Go
10 54 (1.43%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.69%) Bicep
12 26 (0.69%) PHP
13 23 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.58%) R
14 22 (0.58%) Ruby
15 20 (0.53%) SOQL
16 19 (0.50%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.50%) Scala
17 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 333 (8.84%) Degree
2 263 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 172 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 111 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 62 (1.65%) CISSP
7 61 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 53 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (1.14%) CISM
9 43 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.06%) PhD
11 39 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 33 (0.88%) CCNP
13 31 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.74%) CISA
15 20 (0.53%) CRISC
16 17 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.45%) CCNA
16 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.29%) QA
2 123 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 91 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 87 (2.31%) GDPR
6 81 (2.15%) NIST
7 48 (1.27%) GRC
8 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.35%) COBIT
12 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.32%) PMO
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 10 (0.27%) NCSC
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (3.40%) Docker
2 62 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
Systems Management
1 221 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.04%) Ansible
3 30 (0.80%) Grafana
4 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.64%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.48%) Puppet
8 17 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.32%) Nagios
10 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.24%) Istio
12 8 (0.21%) SCCM
13 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.13%) Argo
14 5 (0.13%) Cilium
14 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
16 3 (0.080%) CASB
Vendors
1 375 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 109 (2.89%) Oracle
4 101 (2.68%) Databricks
5 99 (2.63%) SAP
6 96 (2.55%) Google
7 71 (1.88%) Cisco
8 57 (1.51%) Palo Alto
9 55 (1.46%) VMware
10 44 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 36 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.88%) Adobe
14 29 (0.77%) Dell
14 29 (0.77%) HP
15 25 (0.66%) IBM
15 25 (0.66%) Splunk
16 23 (0.61%) Foundry
16 23 (0.61%) Intapp
17 22 (0.58%) Workday