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 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,402 2,031 4,570
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.27% 16.84% 19.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.63% 18.72% 20.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,239 1,242 3,173
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 £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 19,295 10,851 22,606
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 90.00% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,196 6,903 16,908
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,903 £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 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.91%

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 2 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 2 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 +7 693 £90,000 +12.50% 397
West London +24 99 £75,000 +20.00% 34
South London +31 65 £60,000 -44.19% 32
East London -7 17 £79,000 -16.84% 28
North London +1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 12
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 566 (16.64%) Azure
2 513 (15.08%) Python
3 506 (14.87%) Software Engineering
4 497 (14.61%) AWS
5 473 (13.90%) Agile
6 451 (13.26%) AI
7 372 (10.93%) Analytics
8 369 (10.85%) Mentoring
8 369 (10.85%) Microsoft
9 345 (10.14%) CI/CD
10 307 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
11 298 (8.76%) Degree
12 279 (8.20%) DevOps
13 266 (7.82%) SQL
14 261 (7.67%) Java
15 252 (7.41%) Roadmaps
16 245 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 234 (6.88%) Kubernetes
18 228 (6.70%) Microservices
19 218 (6.41%) Decision-Making
20 215 (6.32%) GCP
21 213 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
22 212 (6.23%) Security Cleared
23 208 (6.11%) Test Automation
24 205 (6.03%) SaaS
25 196 (5.76%) Infrastructure as Code
26 190 (5.58%) Terraform
27 189 (5.56%) Business Development
28 183 (5.38%) Full-Stack Development
29 179 (5.26%) 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 66 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.65%) Apache
6 20 (0.59%) CMS
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) Drupal
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.029%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 3 (0.088%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.088%) Maya
9 3 (0.088%) SPSS
10 2 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.059%) Blender
10 2 (0.059%) InDesign
10 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 10 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.12%) Shopify
11 3 (0.088%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.088%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.088%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
12 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
12 2 (0.059%) SAP WM
12 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 566 (16.64%) Azure
2 497 (14.61%) AWS
3 215 (6.32%) GCP
4 205 (6.03%) SaaS
5 151 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 125 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 118 (3.47%) GitHub
7 118 (3.47%) Serverless
8 77 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 61 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 45 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 42 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 39 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 39 (1.15%) IaaS
14 38 (1.12%) Datadog
14 38 (1.12%) Figma
14 38 (1.12%) PaaS
14 38 (1.12%) Snowflake
15 37 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 100 (2.94%) Firewall
2 79 (2.32%) DNS
3 71 (2.09%) Broadband
3 71 (2.09%) VPN
4 65 (1.91%) Network Security
5 61 (1.79%) DHCP
6 54 (1.59%) WAN
7 53 (1.56%) VLAN
8 51 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 42 (1.23%) Wireless
10 33 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 31 (0.91%) SAN
12 30 (0.88%) LAN
13 29 (0.85%) BGP
14 28 (0.82%) OSPF
14 28 (0.82%) TCP/IP
15 24 (0.71%) Multicast
16 20 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.50%) HTTP
18 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 100 (2.94%) Power BI
3 51 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 47 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.29%) Tableau
6 43 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 42 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.21%) BigQuery
9 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (0.94%) Metadata
11 32 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
11 32 (0.94%) Relational Database
12 31 (0.91%) MongoDB
13 23 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (0.65%) MySQL
15 20 (0.59%) Big Data
15 20 (0.59%) DB2
16 19 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 114 (3.35%) Git
2 70 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.53%) JIRA
4 42 (1.23%) 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%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 7 (0.21%) Chocolatey
9 7 (0.21%) 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%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 888 (26.10%) Finance
2 551 (16.20%) Social Skills
3 263 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (7.70%) Banking
5 220 (6.47%) Law
6 204 (6.00%) Marketing
7 183 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 170 (5.00%) Legal
9 155 (4.56%) Retail
10 151 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 69 (2.03%) Front Office
12 55 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 55 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (1.50%) Advertising
14 48 (1.41%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.03%) Games
17 31 (0.91%) Telecoms
18 30 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
19 27 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.20%) React
2 141 (4.14%) .NET
3 111 (3.26%) REST
4 100 (2.94%) Kafka
5 87 (2.56%) Node.js
6 78 (2.29%) Spring
7 68 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 64 (1.88%) RESTful
9 54 (1.59%) CSS
10 45 (1.32%) HTML
11 43 (1.26%) SOAP
12 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
13 36 (1.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 34 (1.00%) PySpark
15 32 (0.94%) LangChain
15 32 (0.94%) OAuth
16 29 (0.85%) Django
16 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.79%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 245 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 80 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 66 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 66 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 63 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 52 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 48 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 47 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 46 (1.35%) Equities
11 46 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 39 (1.15%) Social Media
13 38 (1.12%) Derivative
13 38 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (1.12%) Hedge funds
14 32 (0.94%) Reinsurance
15 30 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.20%) Linux
2 133 (3.91%) Windows
3 50 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 39 (1.15%) Android
5 32 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.73%) Unix
7 16 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.18%) AIX
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.059%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.059%) tvOS
14 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.029%) Rocky
14 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (14.87%) Software Engineering
2 473 (13.90%) Agile
3 451 (13.26%) AI
4 372 (10.93%) Analytics
5 369 (10.85%) Mentoring
6 345 (10.14%) CI/CD
7 307 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
8 279 (8.20%) DevOps
9 252 (7.41%) Roadmaps
10 245 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 228 (6.70%) Microservices
12 218 (6.41%) Decision-Making
13 213 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 208 (6.11%) Test Automation
15 196 (5.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 189 (5.56%) Business Development
17 183 (5.38%) Full-Stack Development
18 179 (5.26%) Machine Learning
19 178 (5.23%) Fintech
20 171 (5.03%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 513 (15.08%) Python
2 266 (7.82%) SQL
3 261 (7.67%) Java
4 144 (4.23%) C#
4 144 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 142 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 126 (3.70%) C++
7 78 (2.29%) Go
8 75 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 50 (1.47%) Bash
10 32 (0.94%) Bicep
11 27 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 26 (0.76%) SOQL
13 25 (0.73%) Scala
14 23 (0.68%) PHP
15 22 (0.65%) Rust
16 18 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.50%) R
18 15 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 298 (8.76%) Degree
2 212 (6.23%) Security Cleared
3 157 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 65 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 58 (1.70%) CISSP
8 50 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 46 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.15%) PhD
11 37 (1.09%) CISM
12 35 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 32 (0.94%) CCNP
14 27 (0.79%) ACCA
14 27 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.76%) CRISC
16 25 (0.73%) OSCP
17 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.56%) CIMA
19 18 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.06%) QA
2 79 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.18%) NIST
5 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.23%) GDPR
7 37 (1.09%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 17 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.44%) SLA
13 14 (0.41%) NCSC
14 12 (0.35%) IFRS
14 12 (0.35%) MiFID
15 11 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.24%) COBIT
16 8 (0.24%) WCAG
17 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 126 (3.70%) Docker
2 102 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.24%) Firmware
4 8 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.15%) vSphere
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.088%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.088%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 234 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 190 (5.58%) Terraform
3 49 (1.44%) Ansible
4 47 (1.38%) Grafana
5 42 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 22 (0.65%) SCCM
8 11 (0.32%) Nagios
9 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.21%) Istio
12 6 (0.18%) Cilium
12 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.15%) Kibana
14 4 (0.12%) Argo
14 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 369 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.88%) Salesforce
3 88 (2.59%) SAP
4 77 (2.26%) VMware
5 76 (2.23%) Databricks
6 74 (2.18%) Cisco
7 63 (1.85%) Oracle
8 57 (1.68%) Google
9 53 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.38%) Dell
11 41 (1.21%) Adobe
12 36 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.91%) Fortinet
13 31 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.79%) IBM
15 24 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.68%) Apple
17 22 (0.65%) Foundry
17 22 (0.65%) Splunk
18 20 (0.59%) Intapp