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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,164 2,039 3,729
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.10% 17.29% 20.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.41% 19.02% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,573 1,192 2,176
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,938 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.09% +3.46% -3.74%

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 23,914 10,723 17,624
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 90.93% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,022 6,937 10,885
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% -2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +6 449 £90,000 +12.50% 847
West London +22 90 £55,000 +11.79% 103
South London +21 49 £70,000 -25.33% 41
East London +15 33 £110,000 +123.58% 30
North London -4 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 807 (19.38%) AI
2 739 (17.75%) Software Engineering
3 627 (15.06%) AWS
4 597 (14.34%) Azure
5 582 (13.98%) Python
6 511 (12.27%) Analytics
7 496 (11.91%) Agile
8 478 (11.48%) CI/CD
9 425 (10.21%) Microsoft
10 422 (10.13%) Mentoring
11 370 (8.89%) SQL
12 361 (8.67%) DevOps
13 348 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 344 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
15 337 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 324 (7.78%) Roadmaps
17 318 (7.64%) Degree
18 307 (7.37%) Java
19 291 (6.99%) Security Cleared
20 286 (6.87%) Machine Learning
21 251 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
22 240 (5.76%) Decision-Making
23 236 (5.67%) GCP
24 233 (5.60%) Kubernetes
25 229 (5.50%) Data Science
26 225 (5.40%) Microservices
27 222 (5.33%) Business Development
28 221 (5.31%) Full-Stack Development
29 218 (5.24%) Terraform
30 213 (5.12%) Test Automation

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 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 59 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.74%) Apache
5 26 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.48%) Confluence
7 19 (0.46%) SAS
8 14 (0.34%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) WordPress
10 7 (0.17%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.096%) IIS
12 4 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Camunda
14 2 (0.048%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.024%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.17%) InDesign
7 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.14%) Revit
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.096%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.096%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.072%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.072%) Blender
11 3 (0.072%) Maya
12 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 39 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 14 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 9 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.096%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.096%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
10 3 (0.072%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.072%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.072%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.072%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 627 (15.06%) AWS
2 597 (14.34%) Azure
3 236 (5.67%) GCP
4 205 (4.92%) SaaS
5 156 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 141 (3.39%) Serverless
7 133 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 132 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (2.93%) GitHub
10 120 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
11 77 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 54 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 50 (1.20%) Amazon S3
15 47 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
16 46 (1.10%) Azure AKS
17 45 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (1.08%) GitHub Copilot
18 44 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 106 (2.55%) Firewall
2 96 (2.31%) Network Security
3 69 (1.66%) DNS
4 65 (1.56%) VPN
5 47 (1.13%) VLAN
6 43 (1.03%) Internet
7 38 (0.91%) DHCP
8 37 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 36 (0.86%) WAN
10 35 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (0.82%) BGP
12 32 (0.77%) Broadband
13 28 (0.67%) OSPF
14 23 (0.55%) LAN
15 16 (0.38%) SAN
15 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.38%) Wireless
16 14 (0.34%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.26%) Multicast
18 9 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (2.71%) Power BI
2 101 (2.43%) SQL Server
3 93 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 61 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.15%) Big Data
8 45 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (1.01%) MySQL
11 41 (0.98%) Metadata
11 41 (0.98%) Tableau
12 36 (0.86%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.72%) DynamoDB
14 26 (0.62%) SAP HANA
15 22 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
16 21 (0.50%) Redis
17 19 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 96 (2.31%) Git
2 56 (1.34%) JIRA
3 50 (1.20%) GitLab
4 42 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 24 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.29%) Selenium
9 11 (0.26%) MLflow
10 8 (0.19%) NUnit
11 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.12%) Appium
12 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.12%) Mocha
13 4 (0.096%) JUnit
13 4 (0.096%) Maven
13 4 (0.096%) Spock
14 3 (0.072%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,039 (24.95%) Finance
2 705 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 301 (7.23%) Banking
4 293 (7.04%) Law
5 261 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 240 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (4.88%) Marketing
8 177 (4.25%) Public Sector
9 169 (4.06%) Legal
10 156 (3.75%) Retail
11 116 (2.79%) Financial Institution
12 68 (1.63%) Front Office
13 66 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 65 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 43 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 40 (0.96%) Games
17 40 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
18 38 (0.91%) Billing
19 34 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.24%) Terraform
2 130 (3.12%) .NET
2 130 (3.12%) React
3 128 (3.07%) REST
4 100 (2.40%) Kafka
5 90 (2.16%) Spring
6 88 (2.11%) RESTful
7 70 (1.68%) Spring Boot
8 68 (1.63%) Node.js
9 53 (1.27%) HTML
10 42 (1.01%) Next.js
11 41 (0.98%) CSS
12 38 (0.91%) JSON
13 35 (0.84%) AngularJS
14 33 (0.79%) FastAPI
15 31 (0.74%) PySpark
16 30 (0.72%) Django
17 27 (0.65%) .NET Core
18 26 (0.62%) SpaCy
19 25 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 160 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 151 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 134 (3.22%) AI Agents
5 125 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 122 (2.93%) Data Centre
7 112 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 76 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 56 (1.34%) Blog
10 51 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 49 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 49 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.13%) e-Learning
13 46 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 38 (0.91%) Public Cloud
15 37 (0.89%) Reinsurance
16 36 (0.86%) Derivative
17 34 (0.82%) Data Structures
18 32 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (2.52%) Linux
2 93 (2.23%) Windows
3 49 (1.18%) Android
4 35 (0.84%) Unix
5 33 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.048%) tvOS
11 2 (0.048%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (19.38%) AI
2 739 (17.75%) Software Engineering
3 511 (12.27%) Analytics
4 496 (11.91%) Agile
5 478 (11.48%) CI/CD
6 422 (10.13%) Mentoring
7 361 (8.67%) DevOps
8 348 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 344 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
10 337 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 324 (7.78%) Roadmaps
12 286 (6.87%) Machine Learning
13 251 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 240 (5.76%) Decision-Making
15 229 (5.50%) Data Science
16 225 (5.40%) Microservices
17 222 (5.33%) Business Development
18 221 (5.31%) Full-Stack Development
19 213 (5.12%) Test Automation
20 205 (4.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 582 (13.98%) Python
2 370 (8.89%) SQL
3 307 (7.37%) Java
4 144 (3.46%) C#
4 144 (3.46%) TypeScript
5 114 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 84 (2.02%) C++
7 69 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 61 (1.46%) Go
9 53 (1.27%) Bash
10 40 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 32 (0.77%) Bicep
12 28 (0.67%) PHP
13 25 (0.60%) R
13 25 (0.60%) Scala
14 20 (0.48%) Ruby
15 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.43%) Apex Code
16 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 318 (7.64%) Degree
2 291 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 68 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.42%) CISSP
8 58 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 41 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (0.96%) PhD
13 39 (0.94%) CISM
14 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.67%) ACCA
15 28 (0.67%) CCNP
16 27 (0.65%) CISA
17 24 (0.58%) CIMA
18 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 110 (2.64%) QA
3 92 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.92%) GDPR
6 66 (1.59%) NIST
7 42 (1.01%) GRC
8 26 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.31%) WCAG
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
12 11 (0.26%) NCSC
12 11 (0.26%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.24%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 9 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 136 (3.27%) Docker
2 61 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.12%) vSphere
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.072%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.048%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 233 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.13%) Grafana
3 32 (0.77%) Ansible
4 31 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.50%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.24%) Nagios
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.17%) Cilium
9 7 (0.17%) EnCase
9 7 (0.17%) FTK
9 7 (0.17%) SCCM
10 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 3 (0.072%) CASB
Vendors
1 425 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 137 (3.29%) Oracle
3 123 (2.95%) Google
4 122 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.62%) SAP
6 89 (2.14%) Databricks
7 64 (1.54%) Cisco
8 52 (1.25%) VMware
9 44 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 44 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 41 (0.98%) Zscaler
11 35 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 31 (0.74%) Workday
13 30 (0.72%) HP
14 26 (0.62%) Splunk
15 25 (0.60%) Adobe
16 22 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 20 (0.48%) IBM
18 19 (0.46%) Foundry
18 19 (0.46%) Meraki