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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,385 2,028 4,446
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 16.45% 18.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.78% 18.26% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,203 1,285 3,116
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 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -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 19,040 11,104 22,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.06% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,018 7,211 16,647
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 £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -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 19 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 19 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 +7 722 £90,000 +15.76% 303
West London +22 97 £75,000 +17.65% 19
South London +31 62 £60,000 -43.53% 16
East London -10 16 £79,000 -16.84% 20
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 19 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.

1 560 (16.54%) Azure
2 497 (14.68%) Software Engineering
3 487 (14.39%) Python
4 484 (14.30%) AWS
5 465 (13.74%) Agile
6 450 (13.29%) AI
7 375 (11.08%) Mentoring
8 365 (10.78%) Microsoft
9 360 (10.64%) Analytics
10 323 (9.54%) CI/CD
11 306 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
12 303 (8.95%) Degree
13 273 (8.06%) Java
14 270 (7.98%) DevOps
15 258 (7.62%) SQL
16 250 (7.39%) Roadmaps
17 232 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 231 (6.82%) Microservices
19 228 (6.74%) Kubernetes
20 221 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
21 212 (6.26%) Decision-Making
22 211 (6.23%) GCP
23 209 (6.17%) SaaS
24 200 (5.91%) Security Cleared
25 198 (5.85%) Test Automation
26 188 (5.55%) Full-Stack Development
27 185 (5.47%) Fintech
28 183 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
29 178 (5.26%) Terraform
30 176 (5.20%) Business Development

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 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.18%) 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 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.089%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.089%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.059%) nginx
12 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 45 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.21%) 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 (0.089%) SPSS
11 2 (0.059%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.059%) Weka
12 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.030%) 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 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
7 7 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.15%) Shopify
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.089%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.059%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.059%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.059%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 560 (16.54%) Azure
2 484 (14.30%) AWS
3 211 (6.23%) GCP
4 209 (6.17%) SaaS
5 146 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 124 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 118 (3.49%) GitHub
8 111 (3.28%) Serverless
9 79 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 57 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.33%) Amazon S3
12 44 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
12 44 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 38 (1.12%) Datadog
13 38 (1.12%) Figma
13 38 (1.12%) PaaS
13 38 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 37 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.09%) IaaS
15 36 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.87%) Firewall
2 77 (2.27%) DNS
3 70 (2.07%) Broadband
4 69 (2.04%) VPN
5 62 (1.83%) DHCP
6 56 (1.65%) Network Security
7 55 (1.62%) WAN
8 51 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
9 48 (1.42%) VLAN
10 41 (1.21%) Wireless
11 34 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 32 (0.95%) LAN
13 31 (0.92%) SAN
14 29 (0.86%) TCP/IP
15 24 (0.71%) Multicast
16 23 (0.68%) BGP
17 21 (0.62%) HTTP
17 21 (0.62%) OSPF
18 19 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 12 (0.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 100 (2.95%) Power BI
3 53 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 45 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 44 (1.30%) Tableau
7 42 (1.24%) BigQuery
8 40 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 33 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 31 (0.92%) Metadata
11 31 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
12 28 (0.83%) MongoDB
12 28 (0.83%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.62%) Looker
15 20 (0.59%) DB2
15 20 (0.59%) MySQL
16 19 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 103 (3.04%) Git
2 67 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 51 (1.51%) JIRA
4 41 (1.21%) GitLab
5 34 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.74%) MLflow
7 20 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.27%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.27%) Vite
9 8 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.24%) Claude Code
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 (0.089%) Cypress.io
General
1 889 (26.26%) Finance
2 536 (15.83%) Social Skills
3 266 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (7.74%) Banking
5 221 (6.53%) Law
6 207 (6.12%) Marketing
7 191 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 170 (5.02%) Legal
9 155 (4.58%) Retail
10 143 (4.22%) Public Sector
11 63 (1.86%) Front Office
12 62 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.42%) Advertising
15 44 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 44 (1.30%) Games
16 43 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 39 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 27 (0.80%) Publishing
19 26 (0.77%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.28%) React
2 140 (4.14%) .NET
3 114 (3.37%) REST
4 96 (2.84%) Kafka
5 84 (2.48%) Node.js
6 72 (2.13%) Spring
7 67 (1.98%) RESTful
8 62 (1.83%) Spring Boot
9 54 (1.60%) CSS
10 45 (1.33%) HTML
10 45 (1.33%) SOAP
11 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
12 33 (0.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 32 (0.95%) LangChain
14 29 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (0.83%) OAuth
15 28 (0.83%) PySpark
16 26 (0.77%) AngularJS
16 26 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
17 25 (0.74%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 240 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 93 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 63 (1.86%) Security Posture
6 61 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 57 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 54 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 53 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 51 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 49 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.30%) Equities
14 42 (1.24%) Management Information System
15 37 (1.09%) Derivative
15 37 (1.09%) Social Media
16 35 (1.03%) Hedge funds
16 35 (1.03%) Low-Code
17 29 (0.86%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.17%) Linux
2 133 (3.93%) Windows
3 52 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 45 (1.33%) Android
5 33 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.71%) Unix
7 18 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.35%) VMS
9 10 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.15%) AIX
14 3 (0.089%) CentOS
15 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.059%) tvOS
16 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.030%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.030%) Rocky
16 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (14.68%) Software Engineering
2 465 (13.74%) Agile
3 450 (13.29%) AI
4 375 (11.08%) Mentoring
5 360 (10.64%) Analytics
6 323 (9.54%) CI/CD
7 306 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (7.98%) DevOps
9 250 (7.39%) Roadmaps
10 232 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 231 (6.82%) Microservices
12 221 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 212 (6.26%) Decision-Making
14 198 (5.85%) Test Automation
15 188 (5.55%) Full-Stack Development
16 185 (5.47%) Fintech
17 183 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 176 (5.20%) Business Development
19 174 (5.14%) Coaching
20 169 (4.99%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 487 (14.39%) Python
2 273 (8.06%) Java
3 258 (7.62%) SQL
4 143 (4.22%) C#
5 140 (4.14%) TypeScript
6 138 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 129 (3.81%) C++
8 80 (2.36%) Go
9 72 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.36%) Bash
11 32 (0.95%) Bicep
12 27 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.77%) SOQL
14 25 (0.74%) Rust
15 23 (0.68%) PHP
16 22 (0.65%) Scala
17 21 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.50%) PL/SQL
19 15 (0.44%) R
20 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 303 (8.95%) Degree
2 200 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 150 (4.43%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 62 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.62%) CISSP
8 47 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.06%) CISM
11 35 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.00%) PhD
13 31 (0.92%) ACCA
14 28 (0.83%) CCNP
15 26 (0.77%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.77%) CRISC
16 25 (0.74%) OSCP
17 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
18 21 (0.62%) CIMA
19 16 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.04%) QA
2 76 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (2.10%) NIST
5 57 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.18%) GDPR
7 36 (1.06%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.56%) SLA
10 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 16 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.41%) NCSC
14 13 (0.38%) IFRS
15 11 (0.32%) MiFID
16 10 (0.30%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.24%) WCAG
18 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
18 7 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 126 (3.72%) Docker
2 103 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.27%) 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
9 3 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.059%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.030%) IAG
Systems Management
1 228 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 178 (5.26%) Terraform
3 48 (1.42%) Ansible
4 45 (1.33%) Grafana
5 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.68%) SCCM
8 19 (0.56%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.30%) Nagios
10 9 (0.27%) Nessus
11 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.21%) Istio
13 5 (0.15%) 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 (0.089%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.059%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 365 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.69%) Salesforce
3 90 (2.66%) SAP
4 75 (2.22%) VMware
5 73 (2.16%) Databricks
6 72 (2.13%) Cisco
7 63 (1.86%) Oracle
8 59 (1.74%) Google
9 49 (1.45%) Dell
10 47 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 40 (1.18%) Adobe
12 31 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 29 (0.86%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.83%) Fortinet
14 28 (0.83%) IBM
15 24 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.68%) Apple
17 21 (0.62%) Foundry
17 21 (0.62%) Workday
18 19 (0.56%) Intapp