Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,069 3,331 3,014
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.01% 19.08% 16.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.64% 20.14% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,234 2,022 2,429
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £121,875 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,150 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.23% -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,729 16,538 17,793
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.72% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,601 10,071 14,511
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -3 350 £85,000 +6.25% 155
South London -5 22 £54,600 +9.20% 15
West London -23 21 £49,200 -32.14% 25
East London -16 11 £49,200 -32.14% 20
North London +11 6 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 2025, 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.

1 611 (29.53%) Agile
2 481 (23.25%) AWS
3 468 (22.62%) Python
4 439 (21.22%) Azure
5 382 (18.46%) AI
6 360 (17.40%) Degree
7 332 (16.05%) Software Engineering
8 305 (14.74%) CI/CD
9 302 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
10 294 (14.21%) Mentoring
11 292 (14.11%) Analytics
12 262 (12.66%) Microsoft
13 260 (12.57%) SQL
14 258 (12.47%) Java
15 236 (11.41%) DevOps
16 214 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 199 (9.62%) JavaScript
17 199 (9.62%) TypeScript
18 196 (9.47%) Roadmaps
19 195 (9.42%) Decision-Making
20 194 (9.38%) Computer Science
21 179 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
22 171 (8.26%) Business Strategy
22 171 (8.26%) GCP
23 168 (8.12%) Project Management
24 167 (8.07%) Machine Learning
24 167 (8.07%) React
25 162 (7.83%) Business Development
26 160 (7.73%) Kubernetes
27 154 (7.44%) User Experience

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 68 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (2.85%) Apache
3 49 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 22 (1.06%) Confluence
7 8 (0.39%) CMS
7 8 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.34%) JBoss
9 6 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.29%) SAS
9 6 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) nginx
11 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 2 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.097%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.048%) Moodle
14 1 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 68 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.74%) Maya
4 21 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.39%) Sketch
7 7 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.24%) InDesign
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.14%) Stata
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.097%) Blender
11 2 (0.097%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.21%) SAP IBP
4 15 (0.72%) SAP CO
4 15 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 15 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
5 14 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.63%) SAP FSCM
7 11 (0.53%) SAP IS-U
7 11 (0.53%) Shopify
8 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) Relativity
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
12 2 (0.097%) Magento
12 2 (0.097%) SAP PLM
12 2 (0.097%) SAP SCM
12 2 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
13 1 (0.048%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 481 (23.25%) AWS
2 439 (21.22%) Azure
3 171 (8.26%) GCP
4 138 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 113 (5.46%) Snowflake
6 95 (4.59%) SaaS
7 91 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
8 88 (4.25%) Serverless
9 81 (3.91%) dbt
10 60 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (2.46%) GitHub
13 43 (2.08%) Entra ID
14 38 (1.84%) Figma
15 37 (1.79%) Amazon S3
16 29 (1.40%) Amazon Bedrock
16 29 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
17 28 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
19 26 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.33%) Firewall
2 49 (2.37%) WAN
3 46 (2.22%) LAN
4 40 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
5 31 (1.50%) VPN
6 26 (1.26%) Network Security
7 24 (1.16%) Wireless
8 22 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.97%) DNS
10 19 (0.92%) BGP
11 17 (0.82%) Broadband
11 17 (0.82%) Multicast
12 16 (0.77%) OSPF
13 13 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.58%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.53%) VoIP
16 10 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.39%) DHCP
17 8 (0.39%) EIGRP
17 8 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.51%) Power BI
2 105 (5.07%) Data Lake
3 89 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
6 59 (2.85%) NoSQL
7 55 (2.66%) Apache Arrow
7 55 (2.66%) Apache Iceberg
7 55 (2.66%) Apache Ignite
7 55 (2.66%) Dremio
7 55 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.56%) Tableau
9 44 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (1.55%) DynamoDB
11 26 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (1.26%) Looker
12 24 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.06%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 81 (3.91%) JIRA
2 79 (3.82%) Git
3 21 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 14 (0.68%) GitLab
6 13 (0.63%) Selenium
7 12 (0.58%) Vite
8 11 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.34%) Postman
13 6 (0.29%) JMeter
14 5 (0.24%) JUnit
14 5 (0.24%) MLflow
15 4 (0.19%) Maven
15 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
15 4 (0.19%) Storybook
16 3 (0.14%) Gradle
General
1 831 (40.16%) Finance
2 560 (27.07%) Social Skills
3 306 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (13.82%) Banking
5 252 (12.18%) Law
6 219 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 209 (10.10%) Marketing
8 118 (5.70%) Front Office
9 103 (4.98%) Retail
10 102 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
11 81 (3.91%) Public Sector
12 79 (3.82%) Legal
13 76 (3.67%) Telecoms
14 72 (3.48%) Investment Banking
15 64 (3.09%) Games
16 59 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
17 57 (2.75%) Financial Institution
18 50 (2.42%) Advertising
19 42 (2.03%) French Language
20 36 (1.74%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (8.07%) React
2 83 (4.01%) .NET
2 83 (4.01%) REST
3 78 (3.77%) RESTful
4 73 (3.53%) gRPC
5 70 (3.38%) CSS
5 70 (3.38%) Pandas
6 66 (3.19%) HTML
7 63 (3.04%) NumPy
8 62 (3.00%) Kafka
9 58 (2.80%) GraphQL
10 57 (2.75%) Protocol Buffers
11 56 (2.71%) Node.js
12 55 (2.66%) SciPy
13 51 (2.46%) Spring
14 36 (1.74%) Spring Boot
15 35 (1.69%) Django
15 35 (1.69%) Flask
16 33 (1.59%) FastAPI
17 32 (1.55%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 162 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 97 (4.69%) Equities
3 96 (4.64%) Derivative
4 88 (4.25%) Onboarding
5 84 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 83 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
7 78 (3.77%) Hedge funds
8 76 (3.67%) Fixed Income
9 67 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 65 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
11 62 (3.00%) Management Information System
12 57 (2.75%) Algorithms
13 55 (2.66%) Pricing Data
14 44 (2.13%) Data Structures
14 44 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
16 41 (1.98%) Data Centre
17 34 (1.64%) Reinsurance
17 34 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (5.65%) Linux
2 79 (3.82%) Windows
3 38 (1.84%) Unix
4 35 (1.69%) Android
5 31 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.24%) VMS
10 4 (0.19%) CentOS
10 4 (0.19%) Solaris
11 3 (0.14%) HPUX
12 2 (0.097%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.097%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (29.53%) Agile
2 382 (18.46%) AI
3 332 (16.05%) Software Engineering
4 305 (14.74%) CI/CD
5 302 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
6 294 (14.21%) Mentoring
7 292 (14.11%) Analytics
8 236 (11.41%) DevOps
9 214 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 196 (9.47%) Roadmaps
11 195 (9.42%) Decision-Making
12 194 (9.38%) Computer Science
13 179 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 171 (8.26%) Business Strategy
15 168 (8.12%) Project Management
16 167 (8.07%) Machine Learning
17 162 (7.83%) Business Development
18 154 (7.44%) User Experience
19 151 (7.30%) Test Automation
20 143 (6.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 468 (22.62%) Python
2 260 (12.57%) SQL
3 258 (12.47%) Java
4 199 (9.62%) JavaScript
4 199 (9.62%) TypeScript
5 118 (5.70%) C#
6 78 (3.77%) C++
7 52 (2.51%) Go
8 39 (1.88%) Kotlin
9 38 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 33 (1.59%) Rust
11 24 (1.16%) Scala
12 20 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 19 (0.92%) Bicep
14 18 (0.87%) Apex Code
14 18 (0.87%) C
15 13 (0.63%) Bash
15 13 (0.63%) Swift
16 11 (0.53%) PHP
17 9 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 360 (17.40%) Degree
2 108 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.04%) Master's Degree
4 57 (2.75%) ACCA
5 53 (2.56%) Security Cleared
6 48 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 44 (2.13%) CIMA
7 44 (2.13%) SC Cleared
8 41 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (1.93%) CISA
10 35 (1.69%) CISSP
11 26 (1.26%) CCNP
11 26 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.16%) PhD
13 23 (1.11%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.11%) CISM
13 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.87%) CCIE
15 14 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.98%) QA
2 68 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.80%) GDPR
4 47 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 46 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.35%) IFRS
7 23 (1.11%) NIST
8 17 (0.82%) GRC
9 16 (0.77%) GAAP
9 16 (0.77%) WCAG
10 14 (0.68%) PMO
11 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.39%) SLA
14 7 (0.34%) PERC
15 6 (0.29%) MiFID
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) EMIR
17 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (4.54%) Docker
2 59 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) HDFS
8 7 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.24%) XenApp
11 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.19%) vSphere
12 3 (0.14%) Firmware
13 2 (0.097%) NFS
13 2 (0.097%) pfSense
14 1 (0.048%) Postfix
14 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.048%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 160 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 120 (5.80%) Terraform
3 49 (2.37%) Ansible
4 48 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.50%) Grafana
6 18 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.68%) SCCM
8 11 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.29%) CASB
10 6 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.24%) Argo
12 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.14%) SCOM
14 2 (0.097%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.097%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.097%) Nagios
14 2 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.097%) VxRail
Vendors
1 262 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 89 (4.30%) SAP
3 84 (4.06%) Google
4 79 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 67 (3.24%) Cisco
6 61 (2.95%) Databricks
7 59 (2.85%) VMware
8 56 (2.71%) Oracle
9 51 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 45 (2.17%) Adobe
11 28 (1.35%) Dell
12 23 (1.11%) Guidewire
12 23 (1.11%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.06%) Meraki
14 20 (0.97%) Apple
14 20 (0.97%) MuleSoft
15 17 (0.82%) Workday
16 15 (0.72%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 14 (0.68%) SolarWinds