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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,771 2,151 3,892
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.63% 17.83% 20.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.82% 19.51% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 1,280 2,383
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,210
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% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,313 £98,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 22,424 11,027 18,443
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.39% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,401 7,193 12,210
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +7 536 £90,000 +16.13% 302
West London +29 108 £60,000 +15.16% 150
South London +23 52 £80,000 -25.58% 29
East London +4 14 £120,000 +50.00% 25
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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.

1 667 (17.69%) AI
2 655 (17.37%) AWS
3 648 (17.18%) Software Engineering
4 611 (16.20%) Python
5 589 (15.62%) Azure
6 491 (13.02%) Agile
7 469 (12.44%) Analytics
8 447 (11.85%) Mentoring
9 440 (11.67%) CI/CD
10 372 (9.86%) Microsoft
11 366 (9.71%) SQL
12 340 (9.02%) DevOps
13 339 (8.99%) Degree
14 324 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
14 324 (8.59%) Roadmaps
15 315 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 292 (7.74%) Java
17 285 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 267 (7.08%) Machine Learning
19 266 (7.05%) Security Cleared
20 241 (6.39%) Decision-Making
21 240 (6.36%) Infrastructure as Code
22 236 (6.26%) Business Development
22 236 (6.26%) GCP
23 225 (5.97%) Microservices
24 222 (5.89%) Data Science
25 217 (5.75%) Kubernetes
26 213 (5.65%) Test Automation
27 212 (5.62%) Terraform
28 205 (5.44%) SaaS

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 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 54 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.74%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) Confluence
7 19 (0.50%) SAS
8 16 (0.42%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.080%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
Applications
1 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.19%) InDesign
8 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.11%) SPSS
12 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.080%) Blender
12 3 (0.080%) Maya
13 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.053%) Revit
Business Applications
1 38 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 13 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
7 6 (0.16%) Maximo
8 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
10 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 655 (17.37%) AWS
2 589 (15.62%) Azure
3 236 (6.26%) GCP
4 205 (5.44%) SaaS
5 140 (3.71%) Serverless
6 135 (3.58%) Power Platform
7 131 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
8 119 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
8 119 (3.16%) GitHub
9 105 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 64 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (1.64%) Entra ID
13 59 (1.56%) Amazon S3
14 53 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 47 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
16 45 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.14%) dbt
17 43 (1.14%) Figma
18 40 (1.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.10%) Firewall
2 103 (2.73%) Network Security
3 72 (1.91%) DNS
4 65 (1.72%) VPN
5 51 (1.35%) VLAN
6 45 (1.19%) DHCP
7 43 (1.14%) WAN
8 41 (1.09%) Broadband
9 40 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (1.03%) BGP
11 38 (1.01%) Internet
12 36 (0.95%) OSPF
13 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
14 29 (0.77%) LAN
15 24 (0.64%) Wireless
16 22 (0.58%) SD-WAN
17 19 (0.50%) SAN
18 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
19 16 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
20 15 (0.40%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.97%) Power BI
2 108 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 56 (1.49%) Tableau
7 55 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 54 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 52 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 47 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.03%) Big Data
11 39 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
12 38 (1.01%) MySQL
13 36 (0.95%) DynamoDB
14 34 (0.90%) Metadata
15 31 (0.82%) BigQuery
16 30 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (0.58%) Looker
17 22 (0.58%) SAP HANA
18 18 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 112 (2.97%) Git
2 55 (1.46%) JIRA
3 46 (1.22%) GitLab
4 44 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.72%) MLflow
7 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.34%) Selenium
10 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.13%) Vite
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 960 (25.46%) Finance
2 651 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 286 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (7.53%) Banking
5 279 (7.40%) Law
6 229 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 221 (5.86%) Marketing
8 154 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 144 (3.82%) Retail
10 130 (3.45%) Legal
11 78 (2.07%) Front Office
12 74 (1.96%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 59 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 43 (1.14%) Games
16 40 (1.06%) Advertising
17 38 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (0.82%) Investment Banking
18 31 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 30 (0.80%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (5.62%) Terraform
2 141 (3.74%) .NET
3 137 (3.63%) React
4 122 (3.24%) REST
5 121 (3.21%) Kafka
6 86 (2.28%) Spring
7 82 (2.17%) Node.js
8 75 (1.99%) RESTful
9 63 (1.67%) Spring Boot
10 44 (1.17%) HTML
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 37 (0.98%) CSS
12 37 (0.98%) LangChain
13 34 (0.90%) Django
14 33 (0.88%) JSON
15 32 (0.85%) PySpark
16 30 (0.80%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.74%) AngularJS
18 27 (0.72%) React Native
19 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 264 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 103 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 89 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 70 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 60 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 59 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 51 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
12 50 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.17%) Blog
14 44 (1.17%) Derivative
15 42 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (1.11%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 39 (1.03%) Equities
18 38 (1.01%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.92%) Linux
2 95 (2.52%) Windows
3 46 (1.22%) Android
4 36 (0.95%) Unix
5 31 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.27%) AIX
8 10 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.080%) VMS
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (17.69%) AI
2 648 (17.18%) Software Engineering
3 491 (13.02%) Agile
4 469 (12.44%) Analytics
5 447 (11.85%) Mentoring
6 440 (11.67%) CI/CD
7 340 (9.02%) DevOps
8 324 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
8 324 (8.59%) Roadmaps
9 315 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 285 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 267 (7.08%) Machine Learning
12 241 (6.39%) Decision-Making
13 240 (6.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 236 (6.26%) Business Development
15 225 (5.97%) Microservices
16 222 (5.89%) Data Science
17 213 (5.65%) Test Automation
18 187 (4.96%) Migration
19 180 (4.77%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 611 (16.20%) Python
2 366 (9.71%) SQL
3 292 (7.74%) Java
4 148 (3.92%) TypeScript
5 145 (3.85%) C#
6 124 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 89 (2.36%) C++
8 66 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.62%) Go
10 54 (1.43%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.69%) Bicep
12 26 (0.69%) PHP
13 24 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.58%) R
14 22 (0.58%) Ruby
15 20 (0.53%) SOQL
16 19 (0.50%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.50%) Scala
17 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 339 (8.99%) Degree
2 266 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 174 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 112 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 61 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.59%) CISSP
8 55 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (1.11%) CISM
11 40 (1.06%) PhD
12 39 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.88%) CCNP
14 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.77%) CISA
16 19 (0.50%) CRISC
16 19 (0.50%) PMI Certification
17 17 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.29%) QA
2 123 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 90 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 89 (2.36%) GDPR
5 81 (2.15%) NIST
6 48 (1.27%) GRC
7 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
8 21 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.34%) COBIT
13 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 9 (0.24%) NCSC
16 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (3.34%) Docker
2 63 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 217 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.01%) Ansible
3 30 (0.80%) Grafana
4 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.48%) Puppet
8 16 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.32%) Nagios
10 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.21%) Istio
11 8 (0.21%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Argo
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.080%) CASB
Vendors
1 372 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 113 (3.00%) Salesforce
3 103 (2.73%) Databricks
3 103 (2.73%) Oracle
4 100 (2.65%) SAP
5 88 (2.33%) Google
6 73 (1.94%) Cisco
7 58 (1.54%) Palo Alto
8 57 (1.51%) VMware
9 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
11 37 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 34 (0.90%) Adobe
13 32 (0.85%) Dell
14 29 (0.77%) HP
15 25 (0.66%) IBM
15 25 (0.66%) Splunk
16 24 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.61%) Intapp
18 22 (0.58%) Workday