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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,403 2,005 4,459
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 16.61% 19.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.78% 18.47% 20.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 1,246 3,121
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,692 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.44% +11.01% -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 19,143 10,858 22,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 89.97% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,094 6,935 16,595
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
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 £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%

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 22 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 22 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 +7 716 £90,000 +16.13% 418
West London +26 97 £75,000 +17.65% 23
South London +30 63 £60,000 -44.19% 24
East London -12 16 £79,000 -16.84% 24
North London +1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 11
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 564 (16.57%) Azure
2 502 (14.75%) Python
2 502 (14.75%) Software Engineering
3 487 (14.31%) AWS
4 468 (13.75%) Agile
5 452 (13.28%) AI
6 372 (10.93%) Mentoring
7 366 (10.76%) Analytics
7 366 (10.76%) Microsoft
8 332 (9.76%) CI/CD
9 314 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
10 305 (8.96%) Degree
11 273 (8.02%) DevOps
12 270 (7.93%) Java
13 265 (7.79%) SQL
14 250 (7.35%) Roadmaps
15 238 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 235 (6.91%) Microservices
17 232 (6.82%) Kubernetes
18 224 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 217 (6.38%) Decision-Making
20 212 (6.23%) GCP
21 209 (6.14%) SaaS
22 204 (5.99%) Security Cleared
23 201 (5.91%) Test Automation
24 190 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
25 185 (5.44%) Fintech
26 184 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
27 180 (5.29%) Business Development
28 179 (5.26%) Terraform

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 63 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.59%) CMS
6 19 (0.56%) Apache
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) Drupal
9 6 (0.18%) JBoss
9 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
10 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.059%) nginx
12 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.24%) Maya
7 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 6 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.12%) InVision
10 3 (0.088%) SPSS
11 2 (0.059%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.059%) Weka
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 9 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
7 7 (0.21%) 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
12 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.059%) SAP CO
12 2 (0.059%) SAP FI
12 2 (0.059%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
12 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 564 (16.57%) Azure
2 487 (14.31%) AWS
3 212 (6.23%) GCP
4 209 (6.14%) SaaS
5 149 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 124 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.50%) GitHub
8 112 (3.29%) Serverless
9 79 (2.32%) Entra ID
10 59 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 43 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 39 (1.15%) Datadog
14 39 (1.15%) Figma
15 38 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 38 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (1.12%) IaaS
15 38 (1.12%) PaaS
15 38 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.85%) Firewall
2 79 (2.32%) DNS
3 71 (2.09%) VPN
4 70 (2.06%) Broadband
5 64 (1.88%) DHCP
6 58 (1.70%) Network Security
7 55 (1.62%) WAN
8 53 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
9 50 (1.47%) VLAN
10 42 (1.23%) Wireless
11 34 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 33 (0.97%) SAN
13 32 (0.94%) LAN
14 29 (0.85%) TCP/IP
15 24 (0.71%) Multicast
16 23 (0.68%) BGP
17 22 (0.65%) OSPF
18 20 (0.59%) HTTP
19 19 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
20 12 (0.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 99 (2.91%) Power BI
3 53 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.41%) NoSQL
5 46 (1.35%) Tableau
6 45 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 41 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 41 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (0.94%) Metadata
11 31 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (0.85%) MongoDB
12 29 (0.85%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.62%) Looker
14 21 (0.62%) MySQL
15 20 (0.59%) DB2
16 19 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 107 (3.14%) Git
2 69 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 53 (1.56%) 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 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.24%) Selenium
10 6 (0.18%) JMeter
11 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.12%) Gatling
12 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.088%) Cypress.io
General
1 899 (26.42%) Finance
2 550 (16.16%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (7.76%) Banking
5 223 (6.55%) Law
6 207 (6.08%) Marketing
7 192 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 172 (5.05%) Legal
9 158 (4.64%) Retail
10 146 (4.29%) Public Sector
11 64 (1.88%) Front Office
12 61 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (1.44%) Advertising
15 45 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 42 (1.23%) Games
17 41 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 38 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.79%) Publishing
20 26 (0.76%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.26%) React
2 142 (4.17%) .NET
3 117 (3.44%) REST
4 98 (2.88%) Kafka
5 86 (2.53%) Node.js
6 75 (2.20%) Spring
7 69 (2.03%) RESTful
8 65 (1.91%) Spring Boot
9 54 (1.59%) CSS
10 45 (1.32%) HTML
10 45 (1.32%) SOAP
11 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
12 35 (1.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 32 (0.94%) LangChain
14 31 (0.91%) PySpark
15 29 (0.85%) OAuth
15 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (0.79%) Django
17 26 (0.76%) .NET Core
17 26 (0.76%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 239 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 93 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 74 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 66 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 63 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 55 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 53 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 52 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 51 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 49 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.32%) Equities
13 45 (1.32%) Management Information System
14 39 (1.15%) Derivative
15 37 (1.09%) Social Media
16 36 (1.06%) Hedge funds
17 33 (0.97%) Low-Code
18 29 (0.85%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 145 (4.26%) Linux
2 135 (3.97%) Windows
3 52 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 45 (1.32%) Android
5 34 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.73%) Unix
7 18 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.15%) AIX
13 3 (0.088%) CentOS
14 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.059%) tvOS
15 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.029%) Rocky
15 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (14.75%) Software Engineering
2 468 (13.75%) Agile
3 452 (13.28%) AI
4 372 (10.93%) Mentoring
5 366 (10.76%) Analytics
6 332 (9.76%) CI/CD
7 314 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
8 273 (8.02%) DevOps
9 250 (7.35%) Roadmaps
10 238 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 235 (6.91%) Microservices
12 224 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 217 (6.38%) Decision-Making
14 201 (5.91%) Test Automation
15 190 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
16 185 (5.44%) Fintech
17 184 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 180 (5.29%) Business Development
19 174 (5.11%) Coaching
20 173 (5.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 502 (14.75%) Python
2 270 (7.93%) Java
3 265 (7.79%) SQL
4 144 (4.23%) C#
5 141 (4.14%) TypeScript
6 139 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 131 (3.85%) C++
8 80 (2.35%) Go
9 73 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.35%) Bash
11 32 (0.94%) Bicep
12 27 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.76%) Rust
13 26 (0.76%) SOQL
14 23 (0.68%) PHP
14 23 (0.68%) Scala
15 21 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.47%) R
18 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 305 (8.96%) Degree
2 204 (5.99%) Security Cleared
3 152 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 63 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.62%) CISSP
8 48 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.06%) CISM
11 36 (1.06%) PhD
12 30 (0.88%) ACCA
12 30 (0.88%) CCNP
13 26 (0.76%) CRISC
14 25 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.73%) OSCP
15 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.59%) CIMA
17 17 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (3.11%) QA
2 78 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (2.09%) NIST
5 59 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.18%) GDPR
7 37 (1.09%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.56%) SLA
10 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 17 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.41%) NCSC
14 13 (0.38%) IFRS
15 11 (0.32%) MiFID
15 11 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.24%) WCAG
17 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 128 (3.76%) Docker
2 105 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.12%) vSphere
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
1 232 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 179 (5.26%) Terraform
3 48 (1.41%) Ansible
4 45 (1.32%) Grafana
5 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.68%) SCCM
7 18 (0.53%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.29%) Nagios
9 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.21%) Istio
12 6 (0.18%) Cilium
13 5 (0.15%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.15%) Kibana
13 5 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.12%) Argo
15 3 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 366 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 95 (2.79%) Salesforce
3 88 (2.59%) SAP
4 79 (2.32%) VMware
5 76 (2.23%) Databricks
6 73 (2.15%) Cisco
7 64 (1.88%) Oracle
8 56 (1.65%) Google
9 49 (1.44%) Dell
10 48 (1.41%) Palo Alto
11 40 (1.18%) Adobe
12 33 (0.97%) ServiceNow
13 30 (0.88%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.82%) Fortinet
14 28 (0.82%) IBM
15 24 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.68%) Apple
17 22 (0.65%) Foundry
18 21 (0.62%) Splunk
18 21 (0.62%) Workday