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 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 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 3,776 2,122 3,872
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.64% 17.75% 20.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.83% 19.42% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,429 1,264 2,359
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,110
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 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 22,442 10,927 18,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 91.39% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15,465 7,131 12,099
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 3 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 3 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 +7 524 £90,000 +16.13% 444
West London +25 103 £60,000 +21.95% 151
South London +26 50 £80,000 -25.58% 43
East London +2 14 £120,000 +50.00% 26
North London - 1 £62,500 - 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 668 (17.69%) AI
2 655 (17.35%) Software Engineering
3 648 (17.16%) AWS
4 601 (15.92%) Python
5 578 (15.31%) Azure
6 485 (12.84%) Agile
7 463 (12.26%) Analytics
8 446 (11.81%) CI/CD
9 443 (11.73%) Mentoring
10 374 (9.90%) Microsoft
11 357 (9.45%) SQL
12 346 (9.16%) DevOps
13 331 (8.77%) Degree
14 326 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
15 320 (8.47%) Roadmaps
16 312 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 296 (7.84%) Java
18 283 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
19 264 (6.99%) Machine Learning
20 262 (6.94%) Security Cleared
21 242 (6.41%) Infrastructure as Code
22 237 (6.28%) Decision-Making
23 236 (6.25%) GCP
24 233 (6.17%) Business Development
25 224 (5.93%) Microservices
26 218 (5.77%) Kubernetes
27 217 (5.75%) Data Science
28 214 (5.67%) Terraform
29 212 (5.61%) Test Automation
30 201 (5.32%) 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 67 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 52 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.72%) Apache
6 19 (0.50%) Confluence
6 19 (0.50%) SAS
7 15 (0.40%) CMS
8 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.16%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.079%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.053%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.053%) WinCC
14 1 (0.026%) nginx
14 1 (0.026%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.19%) InDesign
8 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.11%) SPSS
12 3 (0.079%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.079%) Blender
12 3 (0.079%) Maya
13 2 (0.053%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.053%) Revit
Business Applications
1 37 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.16%) Maximo
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.079%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (17.16%) AWS
2 578 (15.31%) Azure
3 236 (6.25%) GCP
4 201 (5.32%) SaaS
5 138 (3.65%) Serverless
6 127 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
6 127 (3.36%) Power Platform
7 121 (3.20%) GitHub
8 119 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
9 107 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (1.62%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.51%) Amazon S3
14 53 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 47 (1.24%) GitHub Copilot
16 44 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (1.11%) Azure AKS
18 41 (1.09%) Figma
19 40 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 113 (2.99%) Firewall
2 103 (2.73%) Network Security
3 71 (1.88%) DNS
4 64 (1.69%) VPN
5 50 (1.32%) VLAN
6 44 (1.17%) DHCP
7 42 (1.11%) WAN
8 40 (1.06%) Broadband
9 38 (1.01%) Internet
9 38 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.98%) BGP
11 35 (0.93%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 28 (0.74%) LAN
14 22 (0.58%) Wireless
15 21 (0.56%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.48%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 15 (0.40%) Multicast
19 14 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (2.83%) SQL Server
2 104 (2.75%) Power BI
3 76 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 53 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 52 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 50 (1.32%) Tableau
8 48 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (1.22%) MongoDB
10 39 (1.03%) Big Data
11 37 (0.98%) MySQL
12 35 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 34 (0.90%) Metadata
14 32 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (0.66%) BigQuery
17 22 (0.58%) SAP HANA
18 18 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
18 18 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 113 (2.99%) Git
2 54 (1.43%) JIRA
3 47 (1.24%) GitLab
4 46 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.53%) MLflow
7 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.34%) Selenium
10 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
13 4 (0.11%) Maven
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 950 (25.16%) Finance
2 649 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 277 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
3 277 (7.34%) Banking
4 274 (7.26%) Law
5 226 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 213 (5.64%) Marketing
7 150 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 144 (3.81%) Retail
9 131 (3.47%) Legal
10 76 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 75 (1.99%) Front Office
12 63 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 59 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.11%) Games
15 39 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 33 (0.87%) Advertising
17 31 (0.82%) Billing
17 31 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 30 (0.79%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (5.67%) Terraform
2 137 (3.63%) .NET
2 137 (3.63%) React
3 121 (3.20%) REST
4 115 (3.05%) Kafka
5 87 (2.30%) Spring
6 83 (2.20%) Node.js
7 75 (1.99%) RESTful
8 64 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.17%) HTML
10 41 (1.09%) Next.js
11 37 (0.98%) CSS
12 34 (0.90%) Django
13 33 (0.87%) JSON
14 31 (0.82%) LangChain
14 31 (0.82%) PySpark
15 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
16 28 (0.74%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
17 26 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 256 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 104 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 96 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 68 (1.80%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 58 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 52 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.19%) Blog
14 44 (1.17%) Derivative
15 42 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.09%) Public Cloud
17 40 (1.06%) e-Learning
17 40 (1.06%) Security Posture
18 38 (1.01%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.86%) Linux
2 94 (2.49%) Windows
3 47 (1.24%) Android
4 36 (0.95%) Unix
5 32 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 30 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.26%) AIX
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.079%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.079%) VMS
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (17.69%) AI
2 655 (17.35%) Software Engineering
3 485 (12.84%) Agile
4 463 (12.26%) Analytics
5 446 (11.81%) CI/CD
6 443 (11.73%) Mentoring
7 346 (9.16%) DevOps
8 326 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
9 320 (8.47%) Roadmaps
10 312 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 283 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 264 (6.99%) Machine Learning
13 242 (6.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 237 (6.28%) Decision-Making
15 233 (6.17%) Business Development
16 224 (5.93%) Microservices
17 217 (5.75%) Data Science
18 212 (5.61%) Test Automation
19 186 (4.93%) Migration
20 179 (4.74%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 601 (15.92%) Python
2 357 (9.45%) SQL
3 296 (7.84%) Java
4 147 (3.89%) TypeScript
5 140 (3.71%) C#
6 124 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 88 (2.33%) C++
8 67 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.62%) Go
10 54 (1.43%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.69%) Bicep
12 26 (0.69%) PHP
13 22 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.58%) R
13 22 (0.58%) Ruby
14 20 (0.53%) SOQL
15 19 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 19 (0.50%) Scala
16 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 331 (8.77%) Degree
2 262 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 171 (4.53%) SC Cleared
4 109 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.12%) AWS Certification
6 62 (1.64%) CISSP
7 61 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 52 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (1.14%) CISM
10 42 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.06%) PhD
12 39 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.87%) CCNP
14 29 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.74%) CISA
16 20 (0.53%) CRISC
17 17 (0.45%) CCNA
18 16 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.28%) QA
2 122 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 91 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 84 (2.22%) GDPR
6 81 (2.15%) NIST
7 48 (1.27%) GRC
8 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.34%) COBIT
12 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.32%) PMO
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 10 (0.26%) NCSC
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (3.34%) Docker
2 62 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.079%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
Systems Management
1 218 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.01%) Ansible
3 30 (0.79%) Grafana
4 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.48%) Puppet
8 17 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.32%) Nagios
10 10 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.21%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Argo
14 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.079%) CASB
Vendors
1 374 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.02%) Salesforce
3 109 (2.89%) Oracle
4 99 (2.62%) SAP
5 98 (2.60%) Google
6 97 (2.57%) Databricks
7 70 (1.85%) Cisco
8 56 (1.48%) Palo Alto
9 55 (1.46%) VMware
10 44 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 35 (0.93%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.87%) Adobe
14 29 (0.77%) HP
15 26 (0.69%) Dell
16 25 (0.66%) IBM
16 25 (0.66%) Intapp
16 25 (0.66%) Splunk
17 23 (0.61%) Foundry
18 22 (0.58%) Workday