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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,162 2,037 3,738
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.10% 17.23% 20.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.41% 18.95% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,558 1,197 2,168
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
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 £101,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.46% +1.15% -3.74%

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 23,908 10,752 17,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 90.97% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 15,984 6,982 10,838
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% -1.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%

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 9 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 9 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 +6 443 £90,000 +12.50% 882
West London +19 89 £55,000 +11.79% 101
South London +20 49 £70,000 -12.50% 40
East London +15 33 £110,000 +123.58% 25
North London -4 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 809 (19.44%) AI
2 740 (17.78%) Software Engineering
3 627 (15.06%) AWS
4 592 (14.22%) Azure
5 583 (14.01%) Python
6 513 (12.33%) Analytics
7 494 (11.87%) Agile
8 479 (11.51%) CI/CD
9 423 (10.16%) Microsoft
10 421 (10.12%) Mentoring
11 374 (8.99%) SQL
12 359 (8.63%) DevOps
13 350 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 346 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
15 337 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 324 (7.78%) Roadmaps
17 314 (7.54%) Degree
18 309 (7.42%) Java
19 291 (6.99%) Security Cleared
20 284 (6.82%) Machine Learning
21 250 (6.01%) Infrastructure as Code
22 245 (5.89%) Decision-Making
23 238 (5.72%) GCP
24 236 (5.67%) Kubernetes
25 229 (5.50%) Data Science
26 227 (5.45%) Business Development
27 225 (5.41%) Microservices
28 222 (5.33%) Full-Stack Development
29 220 (5.29%) Terraform
30 212 (5.09%) Test Automation

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 62 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.72%) Apache
5 26 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.48%) Confluence
7 19 (0.46%) SAS
8 14 (0.34%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) WordPress
10 7 (0.17%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.096%) IIS
12 4 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Camunda
14 2 (0.048%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.024%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 44 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.14%) Revit
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.096%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.096%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.072%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.072%) Blender
12 3 (0.072%) Maya
13 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
14 1 (0.024%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 38 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
3 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
5 9 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 9 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.096%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.096%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
9 3 (0.072%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.072%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.072%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 627 (15.06%) AWS
2 592 (14.22%) Azure
3 238 (5.72%) GCP
4 208 (5.00%) SaaS
5 158 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 137 (3.29%) Serverless
7 132 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 131 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
9 121 (2.91%) GitHub
10 120 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
11 77 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 54 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
15 50 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (1.20%) Amazon S3
16 45 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (1.08%) Snowflake
17 44 (1.06%) Azure AKS
17 44 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 106 (2.55%) Firewall
2 97 (2.33%) Network Security
3 68 (1.63%) DNS
4 66 (1.59%) VPN
5 47 (1.13%) VLAN
6 43 (1.03%) Internet
7 39 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 37 (0.89%) DHCP
9 36 (0.86%) BGP
9 36 (0.86%) WAN
10 34 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (0.77%) Broadband
12 28 (0.67%) OSPF
13 23 (0.55%) LAN
14 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
14 16 (0.38%) Wireless
15 15 (0.36%) SAN
16 14 (0.34%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.26%) Multicast
18 9 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (2.76%) Power BI
2 100 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 96 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 61 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.15%) Big Data
8 45 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (1.01%) MySQL
10 42 (1.01%) Tableau
11 41 (0.99%) Metadata
12 36 (0.86%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.72%) DynamoDB
14 26 (0.62%) SAP HANA
15 22 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
16 21 (0.50%) Redis
17 19 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (2.28%) Git
2 56 (1.35%) JIRA
3 50 (1.20%) GitLab
4 42 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.65%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 11 (0.26%) MLflow
8 11 (0.26%) Selenium
9 8 (0.19%) NUnit
10 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
12 4 (0.096%) JUnit
12 4 (0.096%) Maven
12 4 (0.096%) Spock
13 3 (0.072%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.072%) Mockito
13 3 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,038 (24.94%) Finance
2 708 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 303 (7.28%) Banking
4 296 (7.11%) Law
5 263 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 241 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 205 (4.93%) Marketing
8 176 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 168 (4.04%) Legal
10 162 (3.89%) Retail
11 121 (2.91%) Financial Institution
12 68 (1.63%) Front Office
13 66 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 40 (0.96%) Games
18 39 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
19 38 (0.91%) Billing
20 34 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (5.29%) Terraform
2 129 (3.10%) React
3 127 (3.05%) .NET
4 126 (3.03%) REST
5 99 (2.38%) Kafka
6 91 (2.19%) RESTful
7 90 (2.16%) Spring
8 70 (1.68%) Spring Boot
9 68 (1.63%) Node.js
10 53 (1.27%) HTML
11 42 (1.01%) Next.js
12 41 (0.99%) CSS
13 38 (0.91%) JSON
14 35 (0.84%) AngularJS
15 33 (0.79%) FastAPI
16 31 (0.74%) PySpark
17 30 (0.72%) Django
18 27 (0.65%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.65%) Swagger
19 25 (0.60%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 261 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 160 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 151 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 134 (3.22%) AI Agents
5 126 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 121 (2.91%) Data Centre
7 114 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 77 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 59 (1.42%) Blog
10 51 (1.23%) Algorithms
11 49 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.11%) e-Learning
14 43 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 37 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 36 (0.86%) Derivative
17 36 (0.86%) Reinsurance
18 34 (0.82%) Data Structures
19 33 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (2.52%) Linux
2 90 (2.16%) Windows
3 48 (1.15%) Android
4 34 (0.82%) Unix
5 32 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.048%) tvOS
11 2 (0.048%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (19.44%) AI
2 740 (17.78%) Software Engineering
3 513 (12.33%) Analytics
4 494 (11.87%) Agile
5 479 (11.51%) CI/CD
6 421 (10.12%) Mentoring
7 359 (8.63%) DevOps
8 350 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 346 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
10 337 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 324 (7.78%) Roadmaps
12 284 (6.82%) Machine Learning
13 250 (6.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 245 (5.89%) Decision-Making
15 229 (5.50%) Data Science
16 227 (5.45%) Business Development
17 225 (5.41%) Microservices
18 222 (5.33%) Full-Stack Development
19 212 (5.09%) Test Automation
20 206 (4.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 583 (14.01%) Python
2 374 (8.99%) SQL
3 309 (7.42%) Java
4 144 (3.46%) TypeScript
5 141 (3.39%) C#
6 112 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 82 (1.97%) C++
8 69 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.54%) Go
10 54 (1.30%) Bash
11 39 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.72%) Bicep
13 28 (0.67%) PHP
14 26 (0.62%) R
15 25 (0.60%) Scala
16 20 (0.48%) Ruby
17 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 314 (7.54%) Degree
2 291 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.47%) CISSP
8 57 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (0.96%) CISM
13 39 (0.94%) PhD
14 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.67%) CCNP
16 27 (0.65%) ACCA
17 26 (0.62%) CISA
18 23 (0.55%) CIMA
19 21 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
20 18 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 108 (2.59%) QA
3 94 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.92%) GDPR
6 67 (1.61%) NIST
7 43 (1.03%) GRC
8 28 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.31%) WCAG
12 12 (0.29%) COBIT
13 11 (0.26%) NCSC
13 11 (0.26%) PMO
14 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.24%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.24%) SLA
15 9 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.14%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 135 (3.24%) Docker
2 60 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.12%) vSphere
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.072%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.048%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 236 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.20%) Grafana
3 32 (0.77%) Ansible
4 31 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.50%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 16 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.24%) Nagios
9 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.19%) Cilium
11 7 (0.17%) EnCase
11 7 (0.17%) FTK
11 7 (0.17%) SCCM
12 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.12%) Argo
13 5 (0.12%) Istio
14 3 (0.072%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 423 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 139 (3.34%) Oracle
3 126 (3.03%) Google
4 122 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 107 (2.57%) SAP
6 89 (2.14%) Databricks
7 64 (1.54%) Cisco
8 51 (1.23%) VMware
9 44 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 44 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 41 (0.99%) Zscaler
11 35 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 31 (0.74%) Workday
13 30 (0.72%) HP
14 26 (0.62%) Splunk
15 24 (0.58%) Adobe
16 22 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 20 (0.48%) IBM
18 19 (0.46%) Foundry
18 19 (0.46%) Meraki