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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,655 2,179 3,977
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.96% 17.78% 19.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.17% 19.40% 20.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,324 1,327 2,576
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
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% - -0.37%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
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 21,286 11,232 19,283
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 91.66% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,596 7,335 13,598
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +6 606 £90,000 +16.13% 250
West London +23 112 £67,500 +10.20% 69
South London +15 54 £80,000 -25.58% 15
East London -6 14 £110,000 +37.50% 15
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 645 (17.65%) AWS
2 614 (16.80%) AI
3 604 (16.53%) Python
4 599 (16.39%) Software Engineering
5 584 (15.98%) Azure
6 497 (13.60%) Agile
7 467 (12.78%) Analytics
8 443 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 426 (11.66%) CI/CD
10 370 (10.12%) Microsoft
11 337 (9.22%) DevOps
12 336 (9.19%) SQL
13 323 (8.84%) Degree
14 318 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
15 310 (8.48%) Roadmaps
16 301 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 282 (7.72%) Java
18 276 (7.55%) Security Cleared
19 259 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
20 245 (6.70%) Machine Learning
21 243 (6.65%) Infrastructure as Code
22 240 (6.57%) Business Development
23 236 (6.46%) Decision-Making
23 236 (6.46%) Kubernetes
24 233 (6.37%) GCP
25 227 (6.21%) Terraform
26 226 (6.18%) Microservices
27 208 (5.69%) Test Automation
28 205 (5.61%) SaaS
29 190 (5.20%) 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 73 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 62 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.68%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) SAS
7 20 (0.55%) CMS
8 15 (0.41%) Confluence
9 9 (0.25%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.027%) nginx
15 1 (0.027%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.027%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.30%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.16%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.11%) SPSS
10 3 (0.082%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.082%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.082%) Blender
10 3 (0.082%) Maya
11 2 (0.055%) InVision
Business Applications
1 40 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 14 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 9 (0.25%) Maximo
6 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) Shopify
11 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.082%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.082%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.082%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.082%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.082%) SAP HCM
11 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.082%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 645 (17.65%) AWS
2 584 (15.98%) Azure
3 233 (6.37%) GCP
4 205 (5.61%) SaaS
5 151 (4.13%) Serverless
6 144 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 142 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.34%) GitHub
9 121 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
10 89 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 68 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 64 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 58 (1.59%) Amazon S3
14 54 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.20%) dbt
17 43 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.12%) Figma
19 39 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.15%) Firewall
2 108 (2.95%) Network Security
3 73 (2.00%) DNS
4 64 (1.75%) VPN
5 54 (1.48%) Broadband
6 52 (1.42%) VLAN
7 50 (1.37%) DHCP
8 49 (1.34%) WAN
9 44 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 38 (1.04%) BGP
11 36 (0.98%) Internet
11 36 (0.98%) OSPF
12 30 (0.82%) TCP/IP
13 29 (0.79%) Wireless
14 27 (0.74%) LAN
15 26 (0.71%) SD-WAN
16 22 (0.60%) SAN
17 18 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
18 17 (0.47%) Multicast
19 16 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (3.26%) Power BI
2 107 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 70 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.59%) Tableau
6 56 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 49 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 37 (1.01%) Metadata
13 35 (0.96%) BigQuery
14 34 (0.93%) MySQL
15 33 (0.90%) Big Data
16 28 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.55%) Looker
17 20 (0.55%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 124 (3.39%) Git
2 56 (1.53%) JIRA
3 49 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.29%) GitLab
5 24 (0.66%) MLflow
6 23 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.36%) CircleCI
7 13 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.27%) Selenium
9 6 (0.16%) JMeter
9 6 (0.16%) Vite
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) JUnit
10 5 (0.14%) NUnit
11 4 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.11%) Mocha
11 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 937 (25.64%) Finance
2 623 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 279 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (7.25%) Banking
5 252 (6.89%) Law
6 213 (5.83%) Marketing
7 210 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 159 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 149 (4.08%) Legal
10 143 (3.91%) Retail
11 70 (1.92%) Front Office
12 67 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 49 (1.34%) Advertising
15 47 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 41 (1.12%) Games
17 35 (0.96%) Billing
17 35 (0.96%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.10%) .NET
2 145 (3.97%) React
3 116 (3.17%) REST
4 109 (2.98%) Kafka
5 88 (2.41%) Node.js
6 81 (2.22%) Spring
7 66 (1.81%) RESTful
8 64 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.20%) CSS
10 39 (1.07%) HTML
11 37 (1.01%) Next.js
12 36 (0.98%) Django
13 34 (0.93%) LangChain
13 34 (0.93%) PySpark
14 30 (0.82%) SOAP
15 29 (0.79%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 29 (0.79%) OAuth
16 28 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 27 (0.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 268 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 145 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 128 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 96 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 67 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 64 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 58 (1.59%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 52 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 44 (1.20%) Derivative
13 44 (1.20%) Equities
14 43 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 42 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 40 (1.09%) Blog
16 40 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.50%) Linux
2 105 (2.87%) Windows
3 34 (0.93%) Android
4 33 (0.90%) Unix
5 31 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.33%) AIX
8 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.082%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.055%) CentOS
13 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.055%) tvOS
14 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (16.80%) AI
2 599 (16.39%) Software Engineering
3 497 (13.60%) Agile
4 467 (12.78%) Analytics
5 443 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 426 (11.66%) CI/CD
7 337 (9.22%) DevOps
8 318 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
9 310 (8.48%) Roadmaps
10 301 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 259 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 245 (6.70%) Machine Learning
13 243 (6.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 240 (6.57%) Business Development
15 236 (6.46%) Decision-Making
16 226 (6.18%) Microservices
17 208 (5.69%) Test Automation
18 190 (5.20%) Full-Stack Development
19 182 (4.98%) Data Science
20 174 (4.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 604 (16.53%) Python
2 336 (9.19%) SQL
3 282 (7.72%) Java
4 157 (4.30%) C#
5 154 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 108 (2.95%) C++
8 66 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 63 (1.72%) Go
10 61 (1.67%) Bash
11 29 (0.79%) Bicep
11 29 (0.79%) PHP
12 28 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.60%) SOQL
14 20 (0.55%) Apex Code
14 20 (0.55%) R
14 20 (0.55%) Scala
15 19 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 323 (8.84%) Degree
2 276 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 177 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 110 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 70 (1.92%) CISSP
7 59 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 49 (1.34%) CISM
11 46 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.04%) PhD
13 35 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (0.96%) CCNP
14 32 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.79%) CISA
16 25 (0.68%) CRISC
17 22 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.55%) ACCA
19 18 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.45%) QA
2 105 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 93 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.35%) NIST
5 78 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 77 (2.11%) GDPR
7 47 (1.29%) GRC
8 23 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 19 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.36%) PMO
13 12 (0.33%) COBIT
13 12 (0.33%) SLA
13 12 (0.33%) WCAG
14 9 (0.25%) NCSC
15 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 129 (3.53%) Docker
2 66 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.11%) vSphere
6 3 (0.082%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.055%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.027%) IAG
8 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 236 (6.46%) Kubernetes
2 227 (6.21%) Terraform
3 47 (1.29%) Ansible
4 39 (1.07%) Grafana
5 30 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.44%) Puppet
9 15 (0.41%) Nagios
9 15 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
10 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.30%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.082%) CASB
Vendors
1 370 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.26%) Salesforce
3 110 (3.01%) SAP
4 92 (2.52%) Databricks
5 91 (2.49%) Oracle
6 77 (2.11%) Google
7 68 (1.86%) Cisco
8 63 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 60 (1.64%) VMware
10 40 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.04%) Adobe
12 36 (0.98%) Dell
13 35 (0.96%) OpenAI
14 32 (0.88%) IBM
15 30 (0.82%) Zscaler
16 26 (0.71%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.71%) Splunk
17 23 (0.63%) Foundry
17 23 (0.63%) Intapp
18 21 (0.57%) SolarWinds