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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 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 3,331 2,101 4,401
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.34% 16.60% 18.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.75% 18.38% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 1,349 3,108
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 £107,500 £121,500 £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 18,771 11,430 22,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.28% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,759 7,434 16,662
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
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 £59,400 £53,818
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.37% -11.48%

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 10 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 10 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 +7 714 £90,000 +12.50% 390
West London +22 95 £75,000 +15.38% 25
South London +25 59 £60,000 -17.24% 20
East London -13 16 £79,000 -16.84% 38
North London -2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 573 (17.20%) Azure
2 484 (14.53%) Software Engineering
3 478 (14.35%) Python
4 477 (14.32%) AWS
5 472 (14.17%) Agile
6 456 (13.69%) AI
7 383 (11.50%) Mentoring
8 365 (10.96%) Microsoft
9 364 (10.93%) Analytics
10 318 (9.55%) CI/CD
11 314 (9.43%) Degree
12 301 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
13 282 (8.47%) DevOps
14 277 (8.32%) Java
15 257 (7.72%) SQL
16 250 (7.51%) Roadmaps
17 231 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 231 (6.93%) Microservices
18 228 (6.84%) Kubernetes
18 228 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 213 (6.39%) GCP
20 210 (6.30%) SaaS
21 208 (6.24%) Decision-Making
22 194 (5.82%) Test Automation
23 189 (5.67%) Security Cleared
24 185 (5.55%) Full-Stack Development
25 181 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
25 181 (5.43%) Machine Learning
26 178 (5.34%) Coaching
27 177 (5.31%) Fintech

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 64 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.60%) CMS
6 19 (0.57%) Apache
7 13 (0.39%) Confluence
8 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.30%) WordPress
9 8 (0.24%) JBoss
10 7 (0.21%) Drupal
10 7 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
11 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.18%) SAS
12 3 (0.090%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.090%) nginx
12 3 (0.090%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.090%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.090%) SPSS
10 2 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.060%) Weka
11 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
2 15 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.36%) Maximo
3 12 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
7 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.15%) Shopify
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.090%) Misys Opics
10 2 (0.060%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.060%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.060%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.060%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.060%) SAP Retail
10 2 (0.060%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 573 (17.20%) Azure
2 477 (14.32%) AWS
3 213 (6.39%) GCP
4 210 (6.30%) SaaS
5 145 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 124 (3.72%) Power Platform
7 120 (3.60%) GitHub
8 108 (3.24%) Serverless
9 83 (2.49%) Entra ID
10 62 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 44 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 42 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (1.23%) PaaS
14 39 (1.17%) IaaS
14 39 (1.17%) Snowflake
15 38 (1.14%) Figma
16 37 (1.11%) Datadog
17 36 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
18 35 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (2.85%) Firewall
2 77 (2.31%) DNS
3 69 (2.07%) Broadband
3 69 (2.07%) VPN
4 63 (1.89%) DHCP
5 59 (1.77%) WAN
6 52 (1.56%) Network Security
6 52 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (1.38%) VLAN
8 44 (1.32%) Wireless
9 36 (1.08%) LAN
9 36 (1.08%) SD-WAN
10 31 (0.93%) SAN
11 30 (0.90%) TCP/IP
12 26 (0.78%) Multicast
13 22 (0.66%) HTTP
14 21 (0.63%) BGP
15 19 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
15 19 (0.57%) OSPF
16 13 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.18%) SQL Server
2 99 (2.97%) Power BI
3 53 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 46 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 44 (1.32%) Tableau
7 43 (1.29%) BigQuery
8 39 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 33 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
11 32 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (0.93%) Metadata
12 31 (0.93%) Relational Database
13 26 (0.78%) MongoDB
14 23 (0.69%) DB2
15 22 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (0.63%) Looker
17 20 (0.60%) MySQL
18 17 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
18 17 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 102 (3.06%) Git
2 65 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.71%) JIRA
4 40 (1.20%) GitLab
5 30 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 26 (0.78%) MLflow
7 20 (0.60%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.27%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.27%) Vite
9 8 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.24%) Selenium
10 6 (0.18%) JMeter
11 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.12%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.12%) Gatling
12 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 886 (26.60%) Finance
2 539 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 262 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
3 262 (7.87%) Banking
4 215 (6.45%) Law
5 211 (6.33%) Marketing
6 191 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 168 (5.04%) Legal
8 158 (4.74%) Retail
9 139 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 65 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (1.89%) Front Office
12 53 (1.59%) Advertising
12 53 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.32%) Games
14 44 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 27 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 27 (0.81%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.41%) React
2 143 (4.29%) .NET
3 117 (3.51%) REST
4 101 (3.03%) Kafka
5 86 (2.58%) Node.js
6 76 (2.28%) RESTful
7 71 (2.13%) Spring
8 59 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 55 (1.65%) CSS
10 46 (1.38%) HTML
10 46 (1.38%) SOAP
11 41 (1.23%) PyTorch
12 34 (1.02%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 32 (0.96%) LangChain
14 31 (0.93%) OAuth
15 28 (0.84%) PySpark
15 28 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (0.78%) Django
16 26 (0.78%) gRPC
16 26 (0.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 239 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.07%) Algorithms
5 65 (1.95%) Security Posture
6 63 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 58 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 55 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 54 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 54 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 51 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
11 49 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 44 (1.32%) Equities
15 36 (1.08%) Derivative
15 36 (1.08%) Hedge funds
15 36 (1.08%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.08%) Social Media
16 28 (0.84%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.26%) Linux
2 133 (3.99%) Windows
3 56 (1.68%) Apple iOS
4 49 (1.47%) Android
5 35 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.69%) Unix
7 20 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.39%) VMS
9 11 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.12%) AIX
13 4 (0.12%) CentOS
14 2 (0.060%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.030%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.030%) Rocky
15 1 (0.030%) tvOS
15 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (14.53%) Software Engineering
2 472 (14.17%) Agile
3 456 (13.69%) AI
4 383 (11.50%) Mentoring
5 364 (10.93%) Analytics
6 318 (9.55%) CI/CD
7 301 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
8 282 (8.47%) DevOps
9 250 (7.51%) Roadmaps
10 231 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 231 (6.93%) Microservices
11 228 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
12 208 (6.24%) Decision-Making
13 194 (5.82%) Test Automation
14 185 (5.55%) Full-Stack Development
15 181 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 181 (5.43%) Machine Learning
16 178 (5.34%) Coaching
17 177 (5.31%) Fintech
18 171 (5.13%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 478 (14.35%) Python
2 277 (8.32%) Java
3 257 (7.72%) SQL
4 143 (4.29%) C#
5 140 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 139 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 131 (3.93%) C++
8 85 (2.55%) Go
9 70 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 45 (1.35%) Bash
11 33 (0.99%) Bicep
12 26 (0.78%) Apex Code
13 25 (0.75%) Rust
13 25 (0.75%) SOQL
14 23 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.69%) PHP
15 21 (0.63%) Scala
16 16 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.45%) R
18 12 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 314 (9.43%) Degree
2 189 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 144 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 107 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 57 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.65%) CISSP
8 47 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.14%) CISM
11 37 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 36 (1.08%) ACCA
13 32 (0.96%) PhD
14 29 (0.87%) CCNP
15 28 (0.84%) CRISC
16 24 (0.72%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.72%) OSCP
17 22 (0.66%) CIMA
18 21 (0.63%) CREST Certified
19 15 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.06%) QA
2 76 (2.28%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.22%) NIST
4 72 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.35%) GDPR
7 36 (1.08%) GRC
8 22 (0.66%) SLA
9 21 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.57%) NIST 800
11 18 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 16 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (0.45%) IFRS
13 15 (0.45%) NCSC
14 11 (0.33%) MiFID
15 9 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.24%) WCAG
17 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 129 (3.87%) Docker
2 105 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.27%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.090%) vSphere
9 2 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.060%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.060%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.030%) IAG
Systems Management
1 228 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 177 (5.31%) Terraform
3 49 (1.47%) Ansible
4 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (1.26%) Grafana
6 38 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.69%) SCCM
8 15 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.27%) Nagios
9 9 (0.27%) Nessus
10 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.21%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) Argo
12 5 (0.15%) Kibana
13 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 4 (0.12%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 365 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.52%) SAP
3 82 (2.46%) Salesforce
4 74 (2.22%) VMware
5 72 (2.16%) Cisco
6 71 (2.13%) Databricks
7 60 (1.80%) Oracle
8 57 (1.71%) Google
9 50 (1.50%) Dell
10 45 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 38 (1.14%) Adobe
12 28 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 27 (0.81%) OpenAI
14 26 (0.78%) IBM
15 24 (0.72%) Fortinet
15 24 (0.72%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.66%) Apple
16 22 (0.66%) Workday
17 20 (0.60%) Foundry
18 19 (0.57%) Intapp