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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 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 3,406 1,980 4,503
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.25% 16.70% 19.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.62% 18.56% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 1,226 3,151
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,750
90th Percentile £107,250 £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 19,330 10,668 22,233
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 89.99% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13,252 6,815 16,734
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,143
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 £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 28 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 28 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 +7 703 £90,000 +12.50% 352
West London +27 98 £75,000 +17.65% 17
South London +29 65 £60,000 -44.19% 24
East London -7 17 £79,000 -16.84% 23
North London +1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 (16.82%) Azure
2 513 (15.06%) Python
3 507 (14.89%) Software Engineering
4 497 (14.59%) AWS
5 479 (14.06%) Agile
6 456 (13.39%) AI
7 373 (10.95%) Microsoft
8 371 (10.89%) Analytics
9 370 (10.86%) Mentoring
10 340 (9.98%) CI/CD
11 308 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
12 300 (8.81%) Degree
13 282 (8.28%) DevOps
14 269 (7.90%) SQL
15 268 (7.87%) Java
16 250 (7.34%) Roadmaps
17 242 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 234 (6.87%) Kubernetes
19 231 (6.78%) Microservices
20 219 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
21 216 (6.34%) Decision-Making
21 216 (6.34%) GCP
22 210 (6.17%) Security Cleared
23 208 (6.11%) SaaS
24 203 (5.96%) Test Automation
25 192 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
26 188 (5.52%) Terraform
27 184 (5.40%) Business Development
27 184 (5.40%) Full-Stack Development
28 182 (5.34%) 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 66 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.62%) 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%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.029%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
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
8 4 (0.12%) Maya
9 3 (0.088%) SPSS
10 2 (0.059%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.059%) Blender
10 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.059%) Weka
11 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 10 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.088%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.059%) SAP CO
12 2 (0.059%) SAP FI
12 2 (0.059%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
12 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
12 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 573 (16.82%) Azure
2 497 (14.59%) AWS
3 216 (6.34%) GCP
4 208 (6.11%) SaaS
5 154 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 125 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 118 (3.46%) GitHub
8 115 (3.38%) Serverless
9 79 (2.32%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 44 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 40 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 40 (1.17%) Datadog
14 40 (1.17%) PaaS
15 39 (1.15%) IaaS
16 38 (1.12%) Figma
16 38 (1.12%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 102 (2.99%) Firewall
2 80 (2.35%) DNS
3 73 (2.14%) VPN
4 70 (2.06%) Broadband
5 64 (1.88%) DHCP
5 64 (1.88%) Network Security
6 54 (1.59%) WAN
7 53 (1.56%) VLAN
7 53 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
8 42 (1.23%) Wireless
9 34 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 33 (0.97%) SAN
11 30 (0.88%) LAN
12 28 (0.82%) TCP/IP
13 27 (0.79%) BGP
14 26 (0.76%) OSPF
15 24 (0.70%) Multicast
16 19 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (0.56%) HTTP
17 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 98 (2.88%) Power BI
3 51 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 44 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 43 (1.26%) Tableau
7 41 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 41 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 35 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 32 (0.94%) Metadata
12 31 (0.91%) MongoDB
12 31 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
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
16 19 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (3.29%) Git
2 69 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.53%) JIRA
4 41 (1.20%) 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%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 8 (0.23%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.21%) Selenium
11 6 (0.18%) JMeter
12 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.12%) Gatling
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) XCUITest
General
1 894 (26.25%) Finance
2 552 (16.21%) Social Skills
3 264 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
3 264 (7.75%) Banking
4 219 (6.43%) Law
5 208 (6.11%) Marketing
6 185 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 172 (5.05%) Legal
8 154 (4.52%) Retail
9 149 (4.37%) Public Sector
10 66 (1.94%) Front Office
11 58 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
12 53 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.44%) Advertising
14 47 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (1.09%) Games
16 37 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 28 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
18 27 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (4.17%) React
2 140 (4.11%) .NET
3 116 (3.41%) REST
4 100 (2.94%) Kafka
5 86 (2.52%) Node.js
6 78 (2.29%) Spring
7 68 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 67 (1.97%) RESTful
9 54 (1.59%) CSS
10 45 (1.32%) HTML
11 44 (1.29%) SOAP
12 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
13 35 (1.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 34 (1.00%) PySpark
15 32 (0.94%) LangChain
15 32 (0.94%) OAuth
16 29 (0.85%) Django
16 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (0.82%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 244 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 77 (2.26%) Algorithms
5 66 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 64 (1.88%) Security Posture
7 61 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 52 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 51 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 50 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 49 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 45 (1.32%) Equities
14 39 (1.15%) Derivative
14 39 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.09%) Hedge funds
15 37 (1.09%) Social Media
16 32 (0.94%) Low-Code
16 32 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.29%) Linux
2 134 (3.93%) Windows
3 50 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 42 (1.23%) Android
5 33 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.76%) Unix
7 17 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.18%) AIX
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.059%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.059%) tvOS
14 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.029%) Rocky
14 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (14.89%) Software Engineering
2 479 (14.06%) Agile
3 456 (13.39%) AI
4 371 (10.89%) Analytics
5 370 (10.86%) Mentoring
6 340 (9.98%) CI/CD
7 308 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
8 282 (8.28%) DevOps
9 250 (7.34%) Roadmaps
10 242 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 231 (6.78%) Microservices
12 219 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 216 (6.34%) Decision-Making
14 203 (5.96%) Test Automation
15 192 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 184 (5.40%) Business Development
16 184 (5.40%) Full-Stack Development
17 182 (5.34%) Fintech
18 181 (5.31%) Machine Learning
19 172 (5.05%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 513 (15.06%) Python
2 269 (7.90%) SQL
3 268 (7.87%) Java
4 144 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 143 (4.20%) C#
6 142 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 130 (3.82%) C++
8 80 (2.35%) Go
9 76 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 49 (1.44%) Bash
11 33 (0.97%) Bicep
12 27 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.76%) SOQL
14 24 (0.70%) PHP
14 24 (0.70%) Rust
14 24 (0.70%) Scala
15 20 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.50%) R
18 15 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 300 (8.81%) Degree
2 210 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 155 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 65 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 58 (1.70%) CISSP
8 49 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.12%) PhD
11 37 (1.09%) CISM
12 36 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 31 (0.91%) CCNP
14 28 (0.82%) ACCA
15 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.76%) CRISC
16 25 (0.73%) OSCP
17 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
18 20 (0.59%) CIMA
19 18 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.05%) QA
2 80 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.17%) NIST
5 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.23%) GDPR
7 37 (1.09%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
10 17 (0.50%) SLA
11 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) WCAG
16 7 (0.21%) COBIT
16 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.76%) Docker
2 105 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.088%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 234 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 188 (5.52%) Terraform
3 48 (1.41%) Ansible
4 46 (1.35%) Grafana
5 41 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.68%) SCCM
8 20 (0.59%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.32%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.21%) Istio
13 6 (0.18%) Cilium
13 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.15%) Kibana
15 4 (0.12%) Argo
15 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 373 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.88%) Salesforce
3 90 (2.64%) SAP
4 79 (2.32%) VMware
5 77 (2.26%) Databricks
6 74 (2.17%) Cisco
7 64 (1.88%) Oracle
8 57 (1.67%) Google
9 50 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.38%) Dell
11 38 (1.12%) Adobe
12 33 (0.97%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.82%) IBM
16 24 (0.70%) SolarWinds
17 22 (0.65%) Apple
17 22 (0.65%) Foundry
17 22 (0.65%) Splunk
18 19 (0.56%) Intapp