Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 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 3,906 2,144 3,839
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.70% 17.97% 20.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.93% 19.71% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,515 1,263 2,263
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
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 23,070 10,877 18,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 91.16% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,887 7,089 11,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 16 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 16 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 +6 494 £90,000 +16.13% 894
West London +26 102 £60,000 +21.95% 145
South London +24 48 £80,000 -25.58% 67
East London +6 24 £120,000 +65.52% 34
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 16 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.

1 702 (17.97%) AI
2 685 (17.54%) Software Engineering
3 633 (16.21%) AWS
4 585 (14.98%) Azure
5 579 (14.82%) Python
6 490 (12.54%) Agile
7 475 (12.16%) Analytics
8 446 (11.42%) CI/CD
9 425 (10.88%) Mentoring
10 397 (10.16%) Microsoft
11 357 (9.14%) SQL
12 351 (8.99%) DevOps
13 333 (8.53%) Degree
14 327 (8.37%) Roadmaps
15 326 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
16 316 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 300 (7.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 299 (7.65%) Java
19 277 (7.09%) Security Cleared
20 271 (6.94%) Machine Learning
21 247 (6.32%) Decision-Making
22 244 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
23 236 (6.04%) GCP
24 234 (5.99%) Business Development
25 223 (5.71%) Data Science
26 222 (5.68%) Microservices
27 220 (5.63%) Kubernetes
28 212 (5.43%) Terraform
29 207 (5.30%) Test Automation
30 196 (5.02%) 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 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 54 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.69%) Apache
6 22 (0.56%) Confluence
7 19 (0.49%) SAS
8 13 (0.33%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.077%) Kinematics
12 3 (0.077%) WinCC
13 2 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.051%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.051%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 39 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.18%) InDesign
8 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
12 3 (0.077%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.077%) Blender
12 3 (0.077%) Maya
12 3 (0.077%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.077%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.077%) Revit
12 3 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.38%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
6 5 (0.13%) Maximo
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.077%) Endur
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.077%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.077%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 633 (16.21%) AWS
2 585 (14.98%) Azure
3 236 (6.04%) GCP
4 196 (5.02%) SaaS
5 140 (3.58%) Power Platform
6 139 (3.56%) Serverless
7 125 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
9 114 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (2.87%) GitHub
11 78 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (1.61%) Entra ID
13 59 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (1.38%) Amazon S3
14 54 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
16 44 (1.13%) Azure AKS
17 43 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (1.00%) dbt
18 39 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 111 (2.84%) Firewall
2 100 (2.56%) Network Security
3 74 (1.89%) DNS
4 65 (1.66%) VPN
5 52 (1.33%) VLAN
6 45 (1.15%) DHCP
7 41 (1.05%) WAN
8 40 (1.02%) Internet
9 39 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (0.92%) BGP
11 35 (0.90%) TCP/IP
12 34 (0.87%) Broadband
12 34 (0.87%) OSPF
13 27 (0.69%) LAN
14 20 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 20 (0.51%) Wireless
15 18 (0.46%) SAN
16 16 (0.41%) VXLAN
17 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
17 13 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.87%) Power BI
2 105 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 75 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 56 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 52 (1.33%) Tableau
8 51 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 47 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 42 (1.08%) Big Data
11 37 (0.95%) Metadata
12 36 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (0.92%) MySQL
13 32 (0.82%) DynamoDB
14 31 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.59%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.56%) SAP HANA
17 20 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
18 19 (0.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 104 (2.66%) Git
2 56 (1.43%) JIRA
3 44 (1.13%) GitLab
4 42 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.51%) MLflow
6 20 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 7 (0.18%) NUnit
10 6 (0.15%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) JUnit
12 4 (0.10%) Maven
12 4 (0.10%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.10%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 984 (25.19%) Finance
2 662 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 289 (7.40%) Banking
4 284 (7.27%) Law
5 274 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 223 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 207 (5.30%) Marketing
8 159 (4.07%) Public Sector
9 145 (3.71%) Retail
10 138 (3.53%) Legal
11 93 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 72 (1.84%) Front Office
13 67 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
14 62 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 38 (0.97%) Games
16 38 (0.97%) Manufacturing
17 33 (0.84%) Military
17 33 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 30 (0.77%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (5.43%) Terraform
2 135 (3.46%) .NET
3 126 (3.23%) React
4 120 (3.07%) REST
5 114 (2.92%) Kafka
6 89 (2.28%) Spring
7 82 (2.10%) RESTful
8 78 (2.00%) Node.js
9 66 (1.69%) Spring Boot
10 50 (1.28%) HTML
11 40 (1.02%) Next.js
12 37 (0.95%) CSS
13 35 (0.90%) JSON
14 33 (0.84%) PySpark
15 32 (0.82%) LangChain
16 30 (0.77%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.77%) Django
17 29 (0.74%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.69%) FastAPI
18 27 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 255 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 154 (3.94%) Onboarding
3 144 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
4 117 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 116 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 101 (2.59%) AI Agents
7 63 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 61 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 53 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 48 (1.23%) Blog
11 46 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 45 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (1.08%) e-Learning
14 41 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 41 (1.05%) Derivative
14 41 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 36 (0.92%) Security Posture
16 35 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.61%) Linux
2 97 (2.48%) Windows
3 45 (1.15%) Android
4 35 (0.90%) Unix
5 31 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.77%) Apple iOS
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 (0.077%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.051%) CentOS
11 2 (0.051%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) VMS
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (17.97%) AI
2 685 (17.54%) Software Engineering
3 490 (12.54%) Agile
4 475 (12.16%) Analytics
5 446 (11.42%) CI/CD
6 425 (10.88%) Mentoring
7 351 (8.99%) DevOps
8 327 (8.37%) Roadmaps
9 326 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
10 316 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 300 (7.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 271 (6.94%) Machine Learning
13 247 (6.32%) Decision-Making
14 244 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 234 (5.99%) Business Development
16 223 (5.71%) Data Science
17 222 (5.68%) Microservices
18 207 (5.30%) Test Automation
19 193 (4.94%) Migration
20 187 (4.79%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 579 (14.82%) Python
2 357 (9.14%) SQL
3 299 (7.65%) Java
4 140 (3.58%) C#
5 137 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 120 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.23%) C++
8 68 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 53 (1.36%) Bash
9 53 (1.36%) Go
10 30 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 26 (0.67%) Bicep
11 26 (0.67%) PHP
12 24 (0.61%) R
13 21 (0.54%) Ruby
13 21 (0.54%) Scala
14 20 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.46%) SOQL
16 17 (0.44%) Apex Code
16 17 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 333 (8.53%) Degree
2 277 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 180 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 105 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 66 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 55 (1.41%) CISSP
8 49 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 41 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.02%) CISM
12 39 (1.00%) PhD
13 32 (0.82%) CCNP
14 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.69%) CISA
16 20 (0.51%) ACCA
17 17 (0.44%) CCNA
18 16 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 121 (3.10%) QA
3 91 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.18%) GDPR
5 80 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 75 (1.92%) NIST
7 48 (1.23%) GRC
8 23 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) COBIT
12 12 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.28%) NCSC
13 11 (0.28%) PMO
13 11 (0.28%) WCAG
14 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.23%) MiFID
15 9 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 125 (3.20%) Docker
2 62 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.077%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.051%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.051%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) Firmware
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
9 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 220 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 37 (0.95%) Ansible
3 32 (0.82%) Grafana
4 27 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.54%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.51%) Puppet
7 19 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.28%) Nagios
9 10 (0.26%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.20%) SCCM
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Istio
13 4 (0.10%) Argo
13 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.077%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.077%) FTK
Vendors
1 397 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.28%) Oracle
3 115 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 112 (2.87%) Google
5 102 (2.61%) SAP
6 95 (2.43%) Databricks
7 68 (1.74%) Cisco
8 55 (1.41%) VMware
9 52 (1.33%) Palo Alto
10 45 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 40 (1.02%) Zscaler
12 33 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.79%) Adobe
14 27 (0.69%) HP
14 27 (0.69%) Splunk
15 26 (0.67%) Workday
16 25 (0.64%) Dell
16 25 (0.64%) Intapp
17 23 (0.59%) IBM
18 22 (0.56%) Fortinet