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 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,056 3,382 3,141
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.94% 19.61% 16.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.59% 20.63% 17.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 2,011 2,569
10th Percentile £49,200 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £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 11,061 16,390 18,473
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.13% 95.04% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,230 10,053 15,089
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 -4 332 £85,000 +6.25% 576
South London +1 21 £75,000 +50.00% 29
West London -17 17 £49,100 -32.28% 41
East London -3 11 £49,200 -32.14% 44
North London +4 6 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 November 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.

1 673 (32.73%) Agile
2 525 (25.54%) AWS
3 517 (25.15%) Python
4 443 (21.55%) Azure
5 389 (18.92%) AI
6 351 (17.07%) Degree
7 345 (16.78%) Software Engineering
8 326 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
9 316 (15.37%) CI/CD
10 314 (15.27%) Mentoring
11 299 (14.54%) Analytics
12 273 (13.28%) SQL
13 261 (12.69%) Microsoft
14 257 (12.50%) Java
15 243 (11.82%) DevOps
16 227 (11.04%) TypeScript
17 218 (10.60%) JavaScript
18 205 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 204 (9.92%) Decision-Making
20 195 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
21 193 (9.39%) Computer Science
22 192 (9.34%) Roadmaps
23 191 (9.29%) React
24 184 (8.95%) Project Management
25 175 (8.51%) Business Strategy
26 170 (8.27%) Kubernetes
27 168 (8.17%) Machine Learning
28 166 (8.07%) GCP
29 161 (7.83%) Business Development
30 159 (7.73%) User Experience

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 81 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (3.31%) Apache
3 52 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 28 (1.36%) Confluence
7 11 (0.54%) CMS
8 8 (0.39%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.29%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) nginx
11 5 (0.24%) SAS
12 4 (0.19%) JBoss
13 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.049%) Apache Pulsar
15 1 (0.049%) Drupal
15 1 (0.049%) Moodle
15 1 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 69 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.80%) Maya
4 24 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.39%) Sketch
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 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.26%) SAP IBP
4 16 (0.78%) SAP CO
4 16 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 16 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
5 14 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 14 (0.68%) SAP FSCM
6 12 (0.58%) SAP IS-U
7 11 (0.54%) Shopify
8 9 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) Relativity
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.097%) Magento
12 2 (0.097%) SAP SCM
13 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
13 1 (0.049%) Lorenzo
13 1 (0.049%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 525 (25.54%) AWS
2 443 (21.55%) Azure
3 166 (8.07%) GCP
4 129 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 129 (6.27%) Snowflake
5 99 (4.82%) Serverless
6 96 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
7 92 (4.47%) dbt
8 91 (4.43%) SaaS
9 69 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (2.04%) Entra ID
11 41 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 41 (1.99%) GitHub
12 38 (1.85%) Figma
13 31 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (1.46%) Amazon Bedrock
15 29 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
17 25 (1.22%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.40%) Firewall
2 47 (2.29%) WAN
3 42 (2.04%) LAN
4 38 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (1.65%) VPN
6 30 (1.46%) Network Security
7 22 (1.07%) BGP
7 22 (1.07%) Wireless
8 21 (1.02%) DNS
8 21 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.83%) OSPF
10 16 (0.78%) Broadband
11 15 (0.73%) Multicast
12 13 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (0.54%) VoIP
14 10 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (0.44%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.39%) EIGRP
16 8 (0.39%) SNMP
16 8 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.54%) Data Lake
2 109 (5.30%) Power BI
3 90 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 69 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
6 64 (3.11%) NoSQL
7 63 (3.06%) Apache Arrow
7 63 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
7 63 (3.06%) Apache Ignite
7 63 (3.06%) Dremio
8 58 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 56 (2.72%) Tableau
10 48 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
11 39 (1.90%) DynamoDB
12 28 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.17%) Looker
15 24 (1.17%) MySQL
16 23 (1.12%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 84 (4.09%) JIRA
2 79 (3.84%) Git
3 22 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 14 (0.68%) GitLab
5 14 (0.68%) Vite
6 11 (0.54%) Selenium
7 9 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.39%) JUnit
8 8 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.34%) Postman
10 6 (0.29%) JMeter
10 6 (0.29%) Maven
10 6 (0.29%) Mockito
11 4 (0.19%) MLflow
11 4 (0.19%) rollup.js
11 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 853 (41.49%) Finance
2 565 (27.48%) Social Skills
3 310 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (14.69%) Banking
5 281 (13.67%) Law
6 257 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 207 (10.07%) Marketing
8 132 (6.42%) Front Office
9 109 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
10 103 (5.01%) Public Sector
11 93 (4.52%) Retail
12 86 (4.18%) Legal
13 85 (4.13%) Investment Banking
14 68 (3.31%) Games
15 60 (2.92%) Telecoms
16 55 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
17 52 (2.53%) Financial Institution
18 46 (2.24%) Advertising
19 42 (2.04%) French Language
20 34 (1.65%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (9.29%) React
2 80 (3.89%) Pandas
2 80 (3.89%) REST
3 79 (3.84%) .NET
4 74 (3.60%) CSS
4 74 (3.60%) gRPC
5 71 (3.45%) NumPy
6 68 (3.31%) HTML
6 68 (3.31%) RESTful
7 66 (3.21%) Protocol Buffers
8 63 (3.06%) SciPy
9 59 (2.87%) Node.js
10 57 (2.77%) GraphQL
11 56 (2.72%) Kafka
12 52 (2.53%) Spring
13 39 (1.90%) Flask
14 38 (1.85%) Spring Boot
15 36 (1.75%) AngularJS
16 35 (1.70%) FastAPI
16 35 (1.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 162 (7.88%) Cloud Native
2 112 (5.45%) Derivative
3 108 (5.25%) Equities
4 95 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 86 (4.18%) Hedge funds
6 82 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 79 (3.84%) Fixed Income
8 77 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 76 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
10 67 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
10 67 (3.26%) Management Information System
11 65 (3.16%) Algorithms
12 63 (3.06%) Pricing Data
13 50 (2.43%) Data Structures
14 44 (2.14%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
16 38 (1.85%) e-Learning
17 35 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
18 32 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.13%) Linux
2 91 (4.43%) Windows
3 43 (2.09%) Unix
4 31 (1.51%) Android
4 31 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.29%) Solaris
9 5 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.24%) HPUX
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.19%) VMS
11 2 (0.097%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (32.73%) Agile
2 389 (18.92%) AI
3 345 (16.78%) Software Engineering
4 326 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
5 316 (15.37%) CI/CD
6 314 (15.27%) Mentoring
7 299 (14.54%) Analytics
8 243 (11.82%) DevOps
9 205 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 204 (9.92%) Decision-Making
11 195 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 193 (9.39%) Computer Science
13 192 (9.34%) Roadmaps
14 184 (8.95%) Project Management
15 175 (8.51%) Business Strategy
16 168 (8.17%) Machine Learning
17 161 (7.83%) Business Development
18 159 (7.73%) User Experience
19 152 (7.39%) Test Automation
20 139 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 517 (25.15%) Python
2 273 (13.28%) SQL
3 257 (12.50%) Java
4 227 (11.04%) TypeScript
5 218 (10.60%) JavaScript
6 115 (5.59%) C#
7 77 (3.75%) C++
8 48 (2.33%) Go
9 38 (1.85%) Kotlin
9 38 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 37 (1.80%) Rust
11 27 (1.31%) Scala
12 21 (1.02%) C
12 21 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 20 (0.97%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.68%) Bicep
15 13 (0.63%) Bash
16 12 (0.58%) Swift
17 11 (0.54%) PHP
17 11 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 351 (17.07%) Degree
2 103 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 64 (3.11%) Master's Degree
4 60 (2.92%) Security Cleared
5 51 (2.48%) ACCA
6 47 (2.29%) AWS Certification
7 46 (2.24%) SC Cleared
8 45 (2.19%) CISA
9 43 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (2.04%) CIMA
11 38 (1.85%) CISSP
12 27 (1.31%) CCNP
13 26 (1.26%) PhD
14 25 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (1.12%) CISM
16 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
16 21 (1.02%) PMI Certification
17 17 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (0.83%) CCIE
18 13 (0.63%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.40%) QA
2 72 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 55 (2.68%) GDPR
4 50 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 47 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.26%) IFRS
7 22 (1.07%) NIST
8 17 (0.83%) WCAG
9 16 (0.78%) GAAP
9 16 (0.78%) PMO
10 15 (0.73%) GRC
11 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.39%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.34%) ITGC
13 7 (0.34%) MiFID
14 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.24%) EMIR
15 5 (0.24%) SLA
16 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (4.72%) Docker
2 64 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.39%) HDFS
7 7 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.29%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.24%) XenApp
10 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.19%) vSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Firmware
12 2 (0.097%) NFS
12 2 (0.097%) pfSense
13 1 (0.049%) Postfix
13 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.049%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 170 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 135 (6.57%) Terraform
3 54 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 53 (2.58%) Ansible
5 31 (1.51%) Grafana
6 24 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.68%) SCCM
8 11 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.29%) CASB
11 5 (0.24%) Argo
11 5 (0.24%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.15%) SCOM
14 2 (0.097%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.097%) Istio
14 2 (0.097%) linkerd
14 2 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 261 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 91 (4.43%) SAP
3 88 (4.28%) Google
4 87 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 70 (3.40%) Cisco
6 69 (3.36%) Databricks
7 63 (3.06%) VMware
8 62 (3.02%) Oracle
9 59 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 47 (2.29%) Adobe
11 27 (1.31%) Dell
12 26 (1.26%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.17%) IBM
14 23 (1.12%) Meraki
15 22 (1.07%) Guidewire
16 21 (1.02%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.97%) Apple
17 20 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 18 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
19 17 (0.83%) Splunk