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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,858 2,137 3,824
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.67% 17.87% 20.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.87% 19.57% 21.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 1,261 2,275
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,950
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 22,865 10,917 18,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.27% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,794 7,107 11,680
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,282
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +7 517 £90,000 +16.13% 469
West London +25 102 £60,000 +21.95% 134
South London +25 50 £80,000 -25.58% 41
East London +1 17 £120,000 +50.00% 26
North London +1 2 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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.

1 678 (17.57%) AI
2 667 (17.29%) Software Engineering
3 651 (16.87%) AWS
4 608 (15.76%) Python
5 586 (15.19%) Azure
6 492 (12.75%) Agile
7 473 (12.26%) Analytics
8 450 (11.66%) CI/CD
9 443 (11.48%) Mentoring
10 387 (10.03%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.33%) SQL
12 350 (9.07%) DevOps
13 337 (8.74%) Degree
14 330 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
15 326 (8.45%) Roadmaps
16 323 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 296 (7.67%) Java
18 295 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 274 (7.10%) Security Cleared
20 268 (6.95%) Machine Learning
21 248 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
22 242 (6.27%) GCP
23 241 (6.25%) Decision-Making
24 235 (6.09%) Business Development
25 224 (5.81%) Data Science
25 224 (5.81%) Microservices
26 222 (5.75%) Kubernetes
27 218 (5.65%) Terraform
28 213 (5.52%) Test Automation
29 200 (5.18%) SaaS

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 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 52 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.70%) Apache
6 20 (0.52%) Confluence
7 19 (0.49%) SAS
8 15 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.10%) IIS
12 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.078%) Kinematics
14 2 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.052%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.052%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.052%) WinCC
15 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 34 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.18%) InDesign
7 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.10%) SPSS
11 3 (0.078%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.078%) Blender
11 3 (0.078%) Maya
11 3 (0.078%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.078%) Revit
12 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 39 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
4 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 5 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.078%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.078%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.078%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.078%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.078%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 651 (16.87%) AWS
2 586 (15.19%) Azure
3 242 (6.27%) GCP
4 200 (5.18%) SaaS
5 137 (3.55%) Serverless
6 131 (3.40%) Power Platform
7 128 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.14%) GitHub
9 120 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
10 110 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (1.61%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.48%) Amazon S3
14 53 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
15 47 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
16 45 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (1.14%) Azure AKS
18 41 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
19 39 (1.01%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (2.93%) Firewall
2 102 (2.64%) Network Security
3 72 (1.87%) DNS
4 64 (1.66%) VPN
5 50 (1.30%) VLAN
6 44 (1.14%) DHCP
7 42 (1.09%) WAN
8 40 (1.04%) Broadband
9 38 (0.98%) Internet
9 38 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.96%) BGP
11 35 (0.91%) OSPF
11 35 (0.91%) TCP/IP
12 28 (0.73%) LAN
13 22 (0.57%) Wireless
14 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.47%) SAN
16 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.39%) Multicast
18 14 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (2.77%) Power BI
2 106 (2.75%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.53%) NoSQL
5 58 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (1.40%) Data Lake
7 53 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 51 (1.32%) Tableau
9 49 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (1.22%) MongoDB
11 41 (1.06%) Big Data
12 38 (0.98%) MySQL
13 36 (0.93%) Metadata
14 35 (0.91%) DynamoDB
15 33 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
16 32 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
17 25 (0.65%) BigQuery
18 22 (0.57%) SAP HANA
19 18 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
19 18 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 113 (2.93%) Git
2 55 (1.43%) JIRA
3 49 (1.27%) GitLab
3 49 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.75%) Claude Code
5 20 (0.52%) MLflow
6 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.36%) Selenium
9 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.18%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) JUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Maven
12 4 (0.10%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 975 (25.27%) Finance
2 665 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 286 (7.41%) Banking
4 279 (7.23%) Law
5 277 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 228 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 213 (5.52%) Marketing
8 159 (4.12%) Public Sector
9 144 (3.73%) Retail
10 136 (3.53%) Legal
11 82 (2.13%) Financial Institution
12 74 (1.92%) Front Office
13 63 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 63 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.06%) Games
15 40 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 34 (0.88%) Manufacturing
17 32 (0.83%) Advertising
17 32 (0.83%) Military
18 31 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.65%) Terraform
2 136 (3.53%) .NET
3 133 (3.45%) React
4 118 (3.06%) Kafka
4 118 (3.06%) REST
5 87 (2.26%) Spring
6 82 (2.13%) Node.js
7 77 (2.00%) RESTful
8 64 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 47 (1.22%) HTML
10 41 (1.06%) Next.js
11 38 (0.98%) CSS
12 34 (0.88%) Django
13 33 (0.86%) JSON
14 32 (0.83%) PySpark
15 31 (0.80%) LangChain
16 29 (0.75%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.70%) AngularJS
17 27 (0.70%) FastAPI
17 27 (0.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 260 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 154 (3.99%) Onboarding
3 147 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.98%) Product Ownership
5 110 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 102 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 68 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 61 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 53 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.17%) Blog
14 44 (1.14%) Derivative
14 44 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (1.09%) e-Learning
17 40 (1.04%) Mobile App
17 40 (1.04%) Security Posture
18 38 (0.98%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.83%) Linux
2 96 (2.49%) Windows
3 47 (1.22%) Android
4 36 (0.93%) Unix
5 32 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 31 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.26%) AIX
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.078%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.078%) VMS
11 2 (0.052%) CentOS
11 2 (0.052%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (17.57%) AI
2 667 (17.29%) Software Engineering
3 492 (12.75%) Agile
4 473 (12.26%) Analytics
5 450 (11.66%) CI/CD
6 443 (11.48%) Mentoring
7 350 (9.07%) DevOps
8 330 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
9 326 (8.45%) Roadmaps
10 323 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 295 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (6.95%) Machine Learning
13 248 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 241 (6.25%) Decision-Making
15 235 (6.09%) Business Development
16 224 (5.81%) Data Science
16 224 (5.81%) Microservices
17 213 (5.52%) Test Automation
18 190 (4.92%) Migration
19 182 (4.72%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 608 (15.76%) Python
2 360 (9.33%) SQL
3 296 (7.67%) Java
4 143 (3.71%) TypeScript
5 139 (3.60%) C#
6 124 (3.21%) JavaScript
7 89 (2.31%) C++
8 69 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.56%) Go
10 56 (1.45%) Bash
11 29 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.67%) Bicep
12 26 (0.67%) PHP
13 23 (0.60%) R
14 22 (0.57%) PL/SQL
15 21 (0.54%) Ruby
16 20 (0.52%) Scala
17 19 (0.49%) SOQL
18 18 (0.47%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 337 (8.74%) Degree
2 274 (7.10%) Security Cleared
3 179 (4.64%) SC Cleared
4 109 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.58%) CISSP
8 53 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (1.11%) CISM
9 43 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (1.04%) PhD
11 33 (0.86%) CCNP
12 29 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.70%) CISA
14 20 (0.52%) CRISC
15 17 (0.44%) CCNA
16 16 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 125 (3.24%) QA
3 94 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.20%) GDPR
5 84 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 81 (2.10%) NIST
7 50 (1.30%) GRC
8 25 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.39%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.34%) COBIT
12 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.31%) PMO
13 12 (0.31%) WCAG
14 11 (0.29%) NCSC
15 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.23%) MiFID
17 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (3.34%) Docker
2 63 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.13%) vSphere
6 3 (0.078%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.052%) Firmware
7 2 (0.052%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.052%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.026%) IAG
Systems Management
1 222 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.01%) Ansible
3 31 (0.80%) Grafana
4 26 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 21 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.49%) Puppet
8 18 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.31%) Nagios
10 10 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.21%) Istio
11 8 (0.21%) SCCM
11 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.10%) Argo
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.078%) CASB
Vendors
1 387 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 116 (3.01%) Oracle
3 115 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 108 (2.80%) Google
5 101 (2.62%) SAP
6 98 (2.54%) Databricks
7 70 (1.81%) Cisco
8 55 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 55 (1.43%) VMware
9 45 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 39 (1.01%) Zscaler
11 35 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.86%) Adobe
13 28 (0.73%) HP
14 26 (0.67%) Splunk
15 25 (0.65%) Dell
15 25 (0.65%) Intapp
16 24 (0.62%) IBM
16 24 (0.62%) Workday
17 23 (0.60%) Foundry