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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,541 2,098 4,678
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.44% 17.22% 18.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.74% 18.96% 20.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,316 1,291 3,256
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 19,957 11,064 23,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 90.82% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,732 7,003 17,363
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,517 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.87%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +7 712 £90,000 +12.50% 131
West London +32 109 £75,000 +17.65% 27
South London +39 66 £70,000 -34.88% 11
East London -3 17 £68,000 -22.29% 21
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 582 (16.44%) Azure
2 545 (15.39%) Python
3 541 (15.28%) Software Engineering
4 540 (15.25%) AWS
5 475 (13.41%) AI
6 474 (13.39%) Agile
7 391 (11.04%) Analytics
8 383 (10.82%) Mentoring
9 372 (10.51%) Microsoft
10 364 (10.28%) CI/CD
11 316 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
12 293 (8.27%) Degree
13 288 (8.13%) SQL
14 285 (8.05%) DevOps
15 267 (7.54%) Roadmaps
16 265 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 256 (7.23%) Java
18 237 (6.69%) Security Cleared
19 236 (6.66%) Kubernetes
20 231 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
21 222 (6.27%) Microservices
22 221 (6.24%) Decision-Making
23 218 (6.16%) GCP
24 214 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
25 207 (5.85%) Business Development
26 204 (5.76%) Test Automation
27 201 (5.68%) Terraform
28 197 (5.56%) SaaS
29 195 (5.51%) Full-Stack Development
30 186 (5.25%) Machine Learning

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 67 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 62 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 41 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.73%) Apache
6 20 (0.56%) CMS
7 14 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.28%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) JBoss
10 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.085%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) InDesign
8 4 (0.11%) InVision
8 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.085%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.085%) Blender
9 3 (0.085%) Maya
9 3 (0.085%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 26 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.085%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.085%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.085%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.085%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.085%) Shopify
11 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.056%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.056%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 582 (16.44%) Azure
2 540 (15.25%) AWS
3 218 (6.16%) GCP
4 197 (5.56%) SaaS
5 154 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 122 (3.45%) Serverless
8 119 (3.36%) GitHub
9 73 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 70 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (1.33%) Amazon S3
13 44 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 43 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (1.16%) Figma
16 38 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
17 37 (1.04%) IaaS
18 36 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
18 36 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
18 36 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.08%) Firewall
2 82 (2.32%) DNS
3 79 (2.23%) Network Security
4 78 (2.20%) Broadband
5 73 (2.06%) VPN
6 61 (1.72%) DHCP
7 56 (1.58%) VLAN
8 52 (1.47%) WAN
9 48 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.19%) Wireless
11 33 (0.93%) BGP
11 33 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 32 (0.90%) OSPF
13 30 (0.85%) TCP/IP
14 29 (0.82%) SAN
15 25 (0.71%) LAN
16 21 (0.59%) Multicast
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (0.45%) HTTP
19 12 (0.34%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 104 (2.94%) Power BI
3 52 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 46 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
4 46 (1.30%) Tableau
5 45 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 39 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 39 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 36 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 35 (0.99%) Metadata
10 33 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 25 (0.71%) MySQL
12 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (0.59%) Big Data
13 19 (0.54%) Db2
14 17 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 120 (3.39%) Git
2 69 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.52%) JIRA
4 41 (1.16%) GitLab
5 38 (1.07%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.68%) MLflow
7 18 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 14 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.25%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 5 (0.14%) Chocolatey
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) Gatling
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 915 (25.84%) Finance
2 570 (16.10%) Social Skills
3 267 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (7.34%) Banking
5 218 (6.16%) Law
6 206 (5.82%) Marketing
7 176 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 166 (4.69%) Legal
9 152 (4.29%) Retail
10 148 (4.18%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.89%) Front Office
12 62 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (1.47%) Advertising
14 51 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 45 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (1.10%) Games
17 38 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (0.96%) Legal Technology
19 33 (0.93%) Billing
19 33 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.15%) .NET
1 147 (4.15%) React
2 115 (3.25%) REST
3 99 (2.80%) Kafka
4 87 (2.46%) Node.js
5 75 (2.12%) Spring
6 65 (1.84%) Spring Boot
7 64 (1.81%) RESTful
8 54 (1.52%) CSS
9 47 (1.33%) SOAP
10 46 (1.30%) HTML
11 42 (1.19%) PyTorch
12 35 (0.99%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 34 (0.96%) PySpark
14 33 (0.93%) OAuth
15 31 (0.88%) LangChain
16 30 (0.85%) Django
17 28 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
17 28 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 255 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 98 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
2 98 (2.77%) Product Ownership
3 83 (2.34%) Algorithms
4 76 (2.15%) Data Centre
5 71 (2.01%) Security Posture
6 70 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 64 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 55 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 47 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 46 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 45 (1.27%) Equities
13 44 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.07%) Social Media
16 37 (1.04%) Low-Code
17 36 (1.02%) Derivative
18 33 (0.93%) Reinsurance
19 32 (0.90%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.04%) Linux
2 127 (3.59%) Windows
3 43 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.85%) Android
6 25 (0.71%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 9 (0.25%) AIX
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.056%) CentOS
12 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.056%) tvOS
13 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (15.28%) Software Engineering
2 475 (13.41%) AI
3 474 (13.39%) Agile
4 391 (11.04%) Analytics
5 383 (10.82%) Mentoring
6 364 (10.28%) CI/CD
7 316 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (8.05%) DevOps
9 267 (7.54%) Roadmaps
10 265 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 231 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
12 222 (6.27%) Microservices
13 221 (6.24%) Decision-Making
14 214 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 207 (5.85%) Business Development
16 204 (5.76%) Test Automation
17 195 (5.51%) Full-Stack Development
18 186 (5.25%) Machine Learning
19 178 (5.03%) Fintech
20 170 (4.80%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 545 (15.39%) Python
2 288 (8.13%) SQL
3 256 (7.23%) Java
4 150 (4.24%) C#
5 147 (4.15%) TypeScript
6 144 (4.07%) JavaScript
7 126 (3.56%) C++
8 77 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 75 (2.12%) Go
10 58 (1.64%) Bash
11 33 (0.93%) Bicep
12 28 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 28 (0.79%) Scala
12 28 (0.79%) SOQL
13 23 (0.65%) PHP
13 23 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 21 (0.59%) Rust
15 19 (0.54%) R
16 16 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 293 (8.27%) Degree
2 237 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 175 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 91 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 67 (1.89%) CISSP
7 60 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 48 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.24%) CISM
10 43 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 42 (1.19%) PhD
12 39 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 37 (1.04%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.93%) CCNP
15 27 (0.76%) CRISC
16 24 (0.68%) ACCA
17 23 (0.65%) CISA
18 22 (0.62%) OSCP
19 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
20 20 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (3.16%) QA
2 91 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (2.46%) NIST
4 86 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 64 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 51 (1.44%) GDPR
7 40 (1.13%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 15 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.37%) NCSC
11 13 (0.37%) SLA
12 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.31%) IFRS
14 10 (0.28%) MiFID
15 9 (0.25%) COBIT
16 8 (0.23%) WCAG
17 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 129 (3.64%) Docker
2 96 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.085%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 201 (5.68%) Terraform
3 47 (1.33%) Grafana
4 46 (1.30%) Ansible
5 41 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.59%) SCCM
9 12 (0.34%) Nagios
10 9 (0.25%) Data Guard
10 9 (0.25%) Nessus
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.11%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 372 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 105 (2.97%) Salesforce
3 101 (2.85%) SAP
4 82 (2.32%) Databricks
5 73 (2.06%) VMware
6 71 (2.01%) Oracle
7 67 (1.89%) Cisco
8 62 (1.75%) Google
9 60 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.30%) Dell
11 43 (1.21%) Adobe
12 42 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.88%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.85%) IBM
15 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.71%) Splunk
17 24 (0.68%) Foundry
18 22 (0.62%) Apple
18 22 (0.62%) Intapp
18 22 (0.62%) SolarWinds