Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,119 2,081 3,781
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.89% 17.62% 20.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.19% 19.35% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,578 1,217 2,160
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 23,968 10,756 17,941
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.07% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,211 6,970 11,037
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +6 469 £90,000 +12.50% 797
West London +23 92 £57,500 +16.87% 141
South London +19 48 £70,000 -34.88% 51
East London +10 29 £120,000 +97.21% 26
North London -5 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 777 (18.86%) AI
2 734 (17.82%) Software Engineering
3 633 (15.37%) AWS
4 597 (14.49%) Azure
5 588 (14.28%) Python
6 508 (12.33%) Analytics
7 503 (12.21%) Agile
8 474 (11.51%) CI/CD
9 431 (10.46%) Mentoring
10 425 (10.32%) Microsoft
11 368 (8.93%) SQL
12 364 (8.84%) DevOps
13 351 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
14 340 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 338 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 337 (8.18%) Roadmaps
17 321 (7.79%) Degree
18 309 (7.50%) Java
19 289 (7.02%) Security Cleared
20 282 (6.85%) Machine Learning
21 254 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
22 242 (5.88%) Decision-Making
23 241 (5.85%) Kubernetes
24 236 (5.73%) GCP
25 232 (5.63%) Data Science
26 229 (5.56%) Microservices
27 228 (5.54%) Business Development
28 222 (5.39%) Terraform
29 213 (5.17%) Test Automation
30 209 (5.07%) 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 64 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 60 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.75%) Apache
5 24 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.53%) Confluence
7 19 (0.46%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 7 (0.17%) WordPress
10 6 (0.15%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.097%) IIS
12 4 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.049%) Camunda
14 2 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.049%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.049%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.049%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.049%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.12%) Navisworks
10 5 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.097%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.097%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.097%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.073%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.073%) Blender
12 3 (0.073%) Maya
13 2 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 7 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.097%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.097%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.073%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.073%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 633 (15.37%) AWS
2 597 (14.49%) Azure
3 236 (5.73%) GCP
4 200 (4.86%) SaaS
5 146 (3.54%) Power Platform
6 140 (3.40%) Serverless
7 132 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 124 (3.01%) GitHub
10 122 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
11 78 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (1.70%) Entra ID
13 56 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.26%) Amazon S3
16 47 (1.14%) Azure AKS
17 46 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
18 45 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
18 45 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
19 36 (0.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 112 (2.72%) Firewall
2 99 (2.40%) Network Security
3 77 (1.87%) DNS
4 67 (1.63%) VPN
5 53 (1.29%) VLAN
6 43 (1.04%) DHCP
6 43 (1.04%) Internet
7 40 (0.97%) WAN
8 38 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (0.87%) BGP
11 32 (0.78%) OSPF
12 31 (0.75%) Broadband
13 25 (0.61%) LAN
14 20 (0.49%) Wireless
15 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.41%) SAN
17 16 (0.39%) VXLAN
18 12 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
19 11 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (2.69%) Power BI
2 104 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 86 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 60 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 53 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.17%) Big Data
8 46 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 45 (1.09%) Tableau
10 42 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 40 (0.97%) Metadata
12 39 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 37 (0.90%) MySQL
14 32 (0.78%) DynamoDB
15 24 (0.58%) SAP HANA
16 21 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
17 20 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (0.49%) Hadoop
18 19 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 99 (2.40%) Git
2 58 (1.41%) JIRA
3 48 (1.17%) GitLab
4 40 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.32%) Selenium
9 12 (0.29%) MLflow
10 8 (0.19%) NUnit
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
11 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.097%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.097%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.097%) JUnit
12 4 (0.097%) Maven
12 4 (0.097%) Spock
13 3 (0.073%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,030 (25.01%) Finance
2 711 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 300 (7.28%) Banking
4 296 (7.19%) Law
5 269 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 241 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 213 (5.17%) Marketing
8 176 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 162 (3.93%) Legal
10 158 (3.84%) Retail
11 109 (2.65%) Financial Institution
12 70 (1.70%) Front Office
12 70 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 67 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 43 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 41 (1.00%) Games
16 40 (0.97%) Telecoms
17 34 (0.83%) Billing
18 33 (0.80%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (5.39%) Terraform
2 136 (3.30%) React
3 134 (3.25%) .NET
4 128 (3.11%) REST
5 107 (2.60%) Kafka
6 94 (2.28%) Spring
7 89 (2.16%) RESTful
8 71 (1.72%) Node.js
8 71 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 53 (1.29%) HTML
10 42 (1.02%) Next.js
11 41 (1.00%) CSS
12 37 (0.90%) JSON
13 34 (0.83%) PySpark
14 33 (0.80%) AngularJS
15 32 (0.78%) Django
15 32 (0.78%) FastAPI
16 27 (0.66%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.61%) SpaCy
18 24 (0.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 262 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 153 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 126 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 122 (2.96%) AI Agents
6 121 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 118 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 70 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 55 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
11 52 (1.26%) Blog
12 51 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.09%) e-Learning
13 45 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (0.97%) Derivative
15 39 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 38 (0.92%) Data Structures
17 37 (0.90%) Public Cloud
18 36 (0.87%) Reinsurance
19 33 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.50%) Linux
2 100 (2.43%) Windows
3 47 (1.14%) Android
4 35 (0.85%) Unix
5 34 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.073%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.049%) tvOS
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (18.86%) AI
2 734 (17.82%) Software Engineering
3 508 (12.33%) Analytics
4 503 (12.21%) Agile
5 474 (11.51%) CI/CD
6 431 (10.46%) Mentoring
7 364 (8.84%) DevOps
8 351 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
9 340 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 338 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 337 (8.18%) Roadmaps
12 282 (6.85%) Machine Learning
13 254 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 242 (5.88%) Decision-Making
15 232 (5.63%) Data Science
16 229 (5.56%) Microservices
17 228 (5.54%) Business Development
18 213 (5.17%) Test Automation
19 209 (5.07%) Full-Stack Development
20 208 (5.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 588 (14.28%) Python
2 368 (8.93%) SQL
3 309 (7.50%) Java
4 148 (3.59%) TypeScript
5 145 (3.52%) C#
6 118 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 84 (2.04%) C++
8 69 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.51%) Go
10 54 (1.31%) Bash
11 35 (0.85%) Kotlin
12 32 (0.78%) Bicep
13 27 (0.66%) PHP
14 26 (0.63%) Scala
15 25 (0.61%) R
16 21 (0.51%) Ruby
17 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.44%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 321 (7.79%) Degree
2 289 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (1.99%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 55 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.34%) CISSP
8 45 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 44 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (0.95%) PhD
12 37 (0.90%) CISM
13 32 (0.78%) CCNP
13 32 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.66%) CISA
15 25 (0.61%) ACCA
16 21 (0.51%) CIMA
17 20 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 114 (2.77%) QA
3 91 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.94%) GDPR
6 70 (1.70%) NIST
7 45 (1.09%) GRC
8 24 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
11 12 (0.29%) WCAG
12 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.27%) NCSC
12 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.27%) PMO
12 11 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 6 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (3.45%) Docker
2 65 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 3 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.073%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.049%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.049%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
9 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 241 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 40 (0.97%) Grafana
3 38 (0.92%) Ansible
4 30 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.51%) Puppet
6 20 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 17 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.24%) Nagios
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.19%) SCCM
10 6 (0.15%) Cilium
10 6 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) EnCase
11 5 (0.12%) FTK
11 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 3 (0.073%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 425 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.16%) Oracle
3 123 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 121 (2.94%) Google
5 109 (2.65%) SAP
6 90 (2.18%) Databricks
7 68 (1.65%) Cisco
8 54 (1.31%) VMware
9 48 (1.17%) Palo Alto
9 48 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 41 (1.00%) Zscaler
11 34 (0.83%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.80%) Splunk
13 31 (0.75%) Workday
14 29 (0.70%) Adobe
15 28 (0.68%) HP
16 23 (0.56%) Fortinet
17 21 (0.51%) IBM
18 20 (0.49%) Intapp
19 19 (0.46%) Foundry