Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,068 3,247 2,963
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.78% 19.10% 16.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.40% 20.20% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,240 1,980 2,384
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,885 16,072 17,520
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 94.55% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,769 9,745 14,287
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -

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 2 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -4 355 £85,000 +6.25% 187
South London -1 22 £54,600 +9.20% 18
West London -27 20 £49,100 -32.28% 35
East London -15 11 £49,200 -38.50% 18
North London +8 6 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, 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.

1 586 (28.34%) Agile
2 462 (22.34%) AWS
3 445 (21.52%) Python
4 437 (21.13%) Azure
5 380 (18.38%) AI
6 353 (17.07%) Degree
7 313 (15.14%) Software Engineering
8 296 (14.31%) CI/CD
8 296 (14.31%) Mentoring
9 295 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
10 288 (13.93%) Analytics
11 262 (12.67%) Microsoft
12 256 (12.38%) SQL
13 245 (11.85%) Java
14 232 (11.22%) DevOps
15 223 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
16 197 (9.53%) Roadmaps
17 193 (9.33%) Decision-Making
17 193 (9.33%) JavaScript
18 189 (9.14%) TypeScript
19 186 (8.99%) Computer Science
20 175 (8.46%) Business Strategy
21 173 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
22 170 (8.22%) GCP
23 164 (7.93%) Project Management
24 161 (7.79%) Business Development
25 159 (7.69%) React
26 154 (7.45%) Machine Learning
27 153 (7.40%) Kubernetes
28 151 (7.30%) Microservices

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 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (2.66%) Apache
3 48 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.02%) Confluence
7 8 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.34%) CMS
8 7 (0.34%) JBoss
8 7 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) SAS
10 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.24%) nginx
11 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.15%) Drupal
13 2 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.048%) Appian
14 1 (0.048%) Moodle
14 1 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.048%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 65 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.03%) Maya
4 20 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.44%) Sketch
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.24%) InDesign
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.15%) Stata
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.097%) Blender
11 2 (0.097%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.21%) SAP IBP
4 16 (0.77%) SAP CO
4 16 (0.77%) SAP FI
4 16 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 13 (0.63%) SAP FSCM
6 11 (0.53%) SAP IS-U
6 11 (0.53%) Shopify
7 8 (0.39%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.19%) Relativity
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.097%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.097%) SAP PLM
11 2 (0.097%) Workday HCM
12 1 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
12 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
12 1 (0.048%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 462 (22.34%) AWS
2 437 (21.13%) Azure
3 170 (8.22%) GCP
4 136 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 107 (5.17%) Snowflake
6 96 (4.64%) SaaS
7 95 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
8 86 (4.16%) Serverless
9 76 (3.68%) dbt
10 58 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (2.56%) GitHub
13 44 (2.13%) Entra ID
14 39 (1.89%) Figma
15 38 (1.84%) Amazon S3
16 29 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
17 28 (1.35%) Amazon Bedrock
18 26 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
19 25 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.38%) Firewall
2 50 (2.42%) WAN
3 48 (2.32%) LAN
4 44 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (1.64%) VPN
6 25 (1.21%) Wireless
7 24 (1.16%) DNS
8 23 (1.11%) Network Security
9 22 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.82%) BGP
10 17 (0.82%) Broadband
11 16 (0.77%) Multicast
11 16 (0.77%) OSPF
12 13 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (0.63%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.58%) DHCP
14 10 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
14 10 (0.48%) VoIP
15 9 (0.44%) SNMP
15 9 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.51%) Power BI
2 101 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 92 (4.45%) SQL Server
4 82 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 57 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
7 52 (2.51%) Tableau
8 51 (2.47%) Apache Arrow
8 51 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
8 51 (2.47%) Apache Ignite
8 51 (2.47%) Dremio
8 51 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 30 (1.45%) DynamoDB
11 27 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.26%) Looker
13 23 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (1.11%) SAP BW
14 22 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (3.77%) JIRA
2 77 (3.72%) Git
3 19 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 14 (0.68%) GitLab
6 13 (0.63%) Selenium
7 10 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.48%) Vite
8 9 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.34%) Postman
10 6 (0.29%) JMeter
11 5 (0.24%) MLflow
12 4 (0.19%) JUnit
12 4 (0.19%) Maven
12 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.19%) Storybook
13 3 (0.15%) JBehave
General
1 815 (39.41%) Finance
2 550 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 302 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (12.86%) Banking
5 235 (11.36%) Law
6 200 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 198 (9.57%) Marketing
8 107 (5.17%) Front Office
9 106 (5.13%) Retail
10 99 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
11 79 (3.82%) Public Sector
12 76 (3.68%) Legal
13 73 (3.53%) Telecoms
14 71 (3.43%) Games
15 65 (3.14%) Investment Banking
16 60 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
17 57 (2.76%) Financial Institution
18 50 (2.42%) Advertising
19 44 (2.13%) French Language
20 35 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (7.69%) React
2 87 (4.21%) .NET
3 84 (4.06%) REST
4 76 (3.68%) RESTful
5 70 (3.38%) gRPC
6 65 (3.14%) Pandas
7 64 (3.09%) CSS
8 62 (3.00%) HTML
9 60 (2.90%) Kafka
9 60 (2.90%) Node.js
10 59 (2.85%) NumPy
11 58 (2.80%) GraphQL
12 52 (2.51%) Protocol Buffers
13 51 (2.47%) SciPy
13 51 (2.47%) Spring
14 37 (1.79%) Spring Boot
15 31 (1.50%) Django
15 31 (1.50%) FastAPI
15 31 (1.50%) LangChain
16 30 (1.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 161 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 89 (4.30%) Equities
3 84 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.01%) Derivative
5 82 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 79 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (3.53%) Fixed Income
8 72 (3.48%) Hedge funds
9 71 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
10 61 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 55 (2.66%) Management Information System
12 53 (2.56%) Algorithms
13 51 (2.47%) Pricing Data
14 42 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.98%) Data Structures
16 40 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
17 37 (1.79%) Data Centre
18 34 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
19 33 (1.60%) Reinsurance
20 31 (1.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 114 (5.51%) Linux
2 80 (3.87%) Windows
3 40 (1.93%) Android
4 35 (1.69%) Unix
5 31 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.24%) VMS
10 4 (0.19%) CentOS
11 3 (0.15%) Solaris
11 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.097%) HPUX
12 2 (0.097%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (28.34%) Agile
2 380 (18.38%) AI
3 313 (15.14%) Software Engineering
4 296 (14.31%) CI/CD
4 296 (14.31%) Mentoring
5 295 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
6 288 (13.93%) Analytics
7 232 (11.22%) DevOps
8 223 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 197 (9.53%) Roadmaps
10 193 (9.33%) Decision-Making
11 186 (8.99%) Computer Science
12 175 (8.46%) Business Strategy
13 173 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 164 (7.93%) Project Management
15 161 (7.79%) Business Development
16 154 (7.45%) Machine Learning
17 151 (7.30%) Microservices
18 146 (7.06%) Test Automation
18 146 (7.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 445 (21.52%) Python
2 256 (12.38%) SQL
3 245 (11.85%) Java
4 193 (9.33%) JavaScript
5 189 (9.14%) TypeScript
6 114 (5.51%) C#
7 74 (3.58%) C++
8 48 (2.32%) Go
9 40 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 40 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 30 (1.45%) Rust
11 23 (1.11%) Scala
12 20 (0.97%) Bicep
13 19 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.87%) Apex Code
15 17 (0.82%) C
16 14 (0.68%) Bash
17 13 (0.63%) Swift
18 9 (0.44%) VBA
19 8 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 353 (17.07%) Degree
2 109 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (3.00%) Master's Degree
4 60 (2.90%) ACCA
5 51 (2.47%) Security Cleared
6 47 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 45 (2.18%) CIMA
8 44 (2.13%) SC Cleared
9 39 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.84%) CISA
11 34 (1.64%) CISSP
12 26 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (1.16%) CCNP
13 24 (1.16%) PhD
14 23 (1.11%) Azure Certification
14 23 (1.11%) CISM
14 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
15 18 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.87%) CCIE
16 14 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.79%) QA
2 64 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.71%) GDPR
4 46 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.40%) IFRS
6 23 (1.11%) NIST
7 17 (0.82%) GRC
8 16 (0.77%) GAAP
9 15 (0.73%) WCAG
10 14 (0.68%) PMO
11 11 (0.53%) SLA
12 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.44%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.34%) PERC
15 5 (0.24%) MiFID
15 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (4.30%) Docker
2 62 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) HDFS
8 7 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.24%) XenApp
11 4 (0.19%) Firmware
11 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.19%) vSphere
12 2 (0.097%) NFS
12 2 (0.097%) pfSense
13 1 (0.048%) Postfix
13 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.048%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 153 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.17%) Terraform
3 50 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (2.22%) Ansible
5 30 (1.45%) Grafana
6 16 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.73%) SCCM
8 11 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.29%) CASB
10 6 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.24%) Argo
12 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.097%) Nagios
14 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 2 (0.097%) SCOM
14 2 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.097%) VxRail
Vendors
1 262 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.35%) SAP
3 80 (3.87%) Google
4 73 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 67 (3.24%) Cisco
6 60 (2.90%) VMware
7 58 (2.80%) Databricks
8 52 (2.51%) Oracle
9 46 (2.22%) ServiceNow
10 45 (2.18%) Adobe
11 28 (1.35%) Dell
12 26 (1.26%) Guidewire
13 23 (1.11%) Meraki
13 23 (1.11%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.02%) Apple
15 18 (0.87%) MuleSoft
16 16 (0.77%) Fortinet
16 16 (0.77%) Workday
17 15 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 14 (0.68%) F5