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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 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 3,559 2,104 4,562
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.34% 17.26% 18.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.62% 18.98% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,293 3,163
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 £107,500 £120,000 £117,500
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 20,201 11,088 22,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 90.94% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13,896 7,038 16,965
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £98,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 27 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 27 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 +7 716 £90,000 +12.50% 132
West London +26 110 £75,000 +20.00% 31
South London +33 64 £70,000 -34.88% 10
East London +2 17 £68,000 -15.00% 26
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 588 (16.52%) Azure
2 563 (15.82%) AWS
3 556 (15.62%) Python
4 548 (15.40%) Software Engineering
5 497 (13.96%) AI
6 487 (13.68%) Agile
7 402 (11.30%) Analytics
8 395 (11.10%) Mentoring
9 376 (10.56%) CI/CD
10 371 (10.42%) Microsoft
11 322 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
12 300 (8.43%) SQL
13 299 (8.40%) Degree
14 292 (8.20%) DevOps
15 276 (7.75%) Roadmaps
16 274 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 256 (7.19%) Java
18 245 (6.88%) Security Cleared
19 243 (6.83%) Kubernetes
20 242 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
21 227 (6.38%) Decision-Making
22 224 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
23 223 (6.27%) Microservices
24 222 (6.24%) Business Development
24 222 (6.24%) GCP
25 210 (5.90%) Terraform
26 200 (5.62%) Test Automation
27 196 (5.51%) SaaS
28 194 (5.45%) Full-Stack Development
29 191 (5.37%) 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 69 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.73%) Apache
6 21 (0.59%) CMS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
8 12 (0.34%) SAS
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.084%) JBoss
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) InDesign
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) InVision
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) Sketch
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 32 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
3 14 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Maximo
5 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.056%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 588 (16.52%) Azure
2 563 (15.82%) AWS
3 222 (6.24%) GCP
4 196 (5.51%) SaaS
5 157 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 134 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 123 (3.46%) Serverless
8 116 (3.26%) GitHub
9 77 (2.16%) Entra ID
10 73 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
13 49 (1.38%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 45 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 42 (1.18%) Figma
16 40 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
18 35 (0.98%) dbt
18 35 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.29%) Firewall
2 91 (2.56%) Network Security
3 85 (2.39%) DNS
4 78 (2.19%) Broadband
5 76 (2.14%) VPN
6 61 (1.71%) DHCP
7 58 (1.63%) VLAN
8 57 (1.60%) WAN
9 51 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (1.15%) Wireless
11 39 (1.10%) BGP
12 37 (1.04%) OSPF
13 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 31 (0.87%) TCP/IP
15 30 (0.84%) LAN
16 28 (0.79%) SAN
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
17 20 (0.56%) Multicast
18 15 (0.42%) HTTP
18 15 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.03%) Power BI
2 103 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 54 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 49 (1.38%) Tableau
5 47 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 47 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
10 37 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 36 (1.01%) Metadata
11 36 (1.01%) Relational Database
12 26 (0.73%) MySQL
13 23 (0.65%) Big Data
14 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.53%) Db2
16 17 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 120 (3.37%) Git
2 67 (1.88%) Jenkins
3 56 (1.57%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 39 (1.10%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.62%) MLflow
7 17 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 17 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.25%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
9 8 (0.22%) Vite
10 6 (0.17%) JMeter
10 6 (0.17%) Selenium
11 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.11%) Gatling
11 4 (0.11%) JUnit
11 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 918 (25.79%) Finance
2 583 (16.38%) Social Skills
3 266 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (7.42%) Banking
5 222 (6.24%) Law
6 200 (5.62%) Marketing
7 177 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (4.72%) Legal
9 152 (4.27%) Retail
10 146 (4.10%) Public Sector
11 69 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (1.91%) Front Office
13 53 (1.49%) Advertising
13 53 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 44 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 39 (1.10%) Games
16 36 (1.01%) Billing
16 36 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.96%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.19%) React
2 146 (4.10%) .NET
3 116 (3.26%) REST
4 99 (2.78%) Kafka
5 86 (2.42%) Node.js
6 71 (1.99%) Spring
7 64 (1.80%) RESTful
8 62 (1.74%) Spring Boot
9 51 (1.43%) CSS
10 45 (1.26%) HTML
10 45 (1.26%) SOAP
11 37 (1.04%) PyTorch
12 34 (0.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 34 (0.96%) Django
13 32 (0.90%) OAuth
13 32 (0.90%) PySpark
14 29 (0.81%) LangChain
15 27 (0.76%) .NET Core
15 27 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
16 26 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 257 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 86 (2.42%) Algorithms
4 86 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 79 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 70 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 54 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 45 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.24%) Equities
13 39 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 38 (1.07%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.04%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.04%) Social Media
16 36 (1.01%) Derivative
17 31 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.05%) Linux
2 124 (3.48%) Windows
3 39 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.81%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (15.40%) Software Engineering
2 497 (13.96%) AI
3 487 (13.68%) Agile
4 402 (11.30%) Analytics
5 395 (11.10%) Mentoring
6 376 (10.56%) CI/CD
7 322 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (8.20%) DevOps
9 276 (7.75%) Roadmaps
10 274 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 242 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 227 (6.38%) Decision-Making
13 224 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 223 (6.27%) Microservices
15 222 (6.24%) Business Development
16 200 (5.62%) Test Automation
17 194 (5.45%) Full-Stack Development
18 191 (5.37%) Machine Learning
19 179 (5.03%) Fintech
20 168 (4.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 556 (15.62%) Python
2 300 (8.43%) SQL
3 256 (7.19%) Java
4 152 (4.27%) C#
5 149 (4.19%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.13%) JavaScript
7 124 (3.48%) C++
8 77 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 72 (2.02%) Go
10 62 (1.74%) Bash
11 31 (0.87%) Bicep
12 29 (0.81%) Scala
13 27 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 27 (0.76%) SOQL
14 26 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.65%) PHP
16 19 (0.53%) Rust
17 18 (0.51%) R
18 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 299 (8.40%) Degree
2 245 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 174 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (1.97%) CISSP
5 70 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 51 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (1.26%) CISM
9 42 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 41 (1.15%) PhD
11 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (1.04%) CCNP
13 27 (0.76%) CRISC
14 24 (0.67%) CISA
15 23 (0.65%) ACCA
16 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.59%) OSCP
17 20 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (3.26%) QA
2 95 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 90 (2.53%) NIST
4 67 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 57 (1.60%) GDPR
6 43 (1.21%) GRC
7 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.37%) SLA
12 12 (0.34%) NCSC
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) IFRS
13 10 (0.28%) MiFID
14 9 (0.25%) WCAG
15 8 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 129 (3.62%) Docker
2 96 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 243 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 210 (5.90%) Terraform
3 46 (1.29%) Ansible
3 46 (1.29%) Grafana
4 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.56%) SCCM
7 13 (0.37%) Nagios
8 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (0.25%) Nessus
10 7 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.20%) Cilium
10 7 (0.20%) Istio
11 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.17%) Puppet
12 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.14%) Kibana
12 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 371 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 108 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 104 (2.92%) SAP
4 82 (2.30%) Databricks
5 76 (2.14%) Oracle
6 71 (1.99%) VMware
7 66 (1.85%) Cisco
8 65 (1.83%) Google
9 63 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 44 (1.24%) Adobe
12 43 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.87%) IBM
13 31 (0.87%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.73%) Splunk
16 24 (0.67%) Foundry
17 23 (0.65%) Intapp
17 23 (0.65%) SolarWinds
18 21 (0.59%) Apple