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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,572 2,189 4,423
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.12% 17.40% 18.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.37% 19.03% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,352 3,028
10th Percentile £58,000 £55,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,300 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.91% -4.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,875 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,373 £63,275
% change year-on-year +0.90% +9.64% -9.61%

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 20,559 11,500 22,154
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 91.41% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,135 7,402 16,292
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,043 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.46% +3.85% -11.67%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +7 673 £90,000 +12.50% 336
West London +34 107 £75,000 +20.00% 48
South London +31 58 £80,000 -25.58% 11
East London +1 17 £68,000 -15.00% 22
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 623 (17.44%) AWS
2 592 (16.57%) Azure
3 575 (16.10%) Python
4 563 (15.76%) Software Engineering
5 544 (15.23%) AI
6 502 (14.05%) Agile
7 431 (12.07%) Analytics
8 430 (12.04%) Mentoring
9 401 (11.23%) CI/CD
10 376 (10.53%) Microsoft
11 323 (9.04%) Degree
12 317 (8.87%) DevOps
13 314 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
14 310 (8.68%) SQL
15 297 (8.31%) Roadmaps
16 285 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 269 (7.53%) Java
18 264 (7.39%) Security Cleared
19 249 (6.97%) Stakeholder Management
20 245 (6.86%) Kubernetes
21 242 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
22 238 (6.66%) Business Development
23 233 (6.52%) Decision-Making
23 233 (6.52%) GCP
24 231 (6.47%) Terraform
25 228 (6.38%) Microservices
26 208 (5.82%) Machine Learning
27 205 (5.74%) Test Automation
28 203 (5.68%) SaaS
29 185 (5.18%) Full-Stack Development

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 68 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 22 (0.62%) CMS
7 19 (0.53%) SAS
8 16 (0.45%) Confluence
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.056%) JBoss
14 2 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.14%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
11 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.084%) Blender
11 3 (0.084%) Maya
11 3 (0.084%) SPSS
12 2 (0.056%) InVision
12 2 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.31%) Maximo
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.084%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 623 (17.44%) AWS
2 592 (16.57%) Azure
3 233 (6.52%) GCP
4 203 (5.68%) SaaS
5 159 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.09%) Serverless
7 141 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 116 (3.25%) GitHub
9 98 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
10 79 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (2.18%) Entra ID
12 66 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 53 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 49 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.15%) Figma
19 37 (1.04%) dbt
20 35 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.25%) Firewall
2 102 (2.86%) Network Security
3 81 (2.27%) DNS
4 74 (2.07%) VPN
5 69 (1.93%) Broadband
6 56 (1.57%) DHCP
6 56 (1.57%) VLAN
7 53 (1.48%) WAN
8 48 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.12%) BGP
10 38 (1.06%) OSPF
11 36 (1.01%) Wireless
12 30 (0.84%) SD-WAN
13 29 (0.81%) TCP/IP
14 27 (0.76%) LAN
15 26 (0.73%) Internet
15 26 (0.73%) SAN
16 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (0.53%) Multicast
18 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (3.19%) Power BI
2 103 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 57 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 53 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (1.48%) Tableau
5 52 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 45 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 41 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 40 (1.12%) Relational Database
10 37 (1.04%) BigQuery
11 34 (0.95%) Metadata
12 31 (0.87%) Big Data
12 31 (0.87%) MySQL
13 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.53%) Hadoop
16 18 (0.50%) Db2
Development Applications
1 123 (3.44%) Git
2 61 (1.71%) JIRA
3 58 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.18%) GitLab
5 32 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 21 (0.59%) Claude Code
6 21 (0.59%) MLflow
7 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.22%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 905 (25.34%) Finance
2 602 (16.85%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (7.25%) Banking
5 226 (6.33%) Law
6 192 (5.38%) Marketing
7 178 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 160 (4.48%) Legal
9 155 (4.34%) Public Sector
10 150 (4.20%) Retail
11 69 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (1.90%) Front Office
13 56 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 53 (1.48%) Advertising
15 45 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
16 44 (1.23%) Games
17 36 (1.01%) Billing
18 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
19 34 (0.95%) Legal Technology
20 33 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.12%) React
2 145 (4.06%) .NET
3 117 (3.28%) REST
4 102 (2.86%) Kafka
5 89 (2.49%) Node.js
6 71 (1.99%) Spring
7 64 (1.79%) RESTful
8 62 (1.74%) Spring Boot
9 50 (1.40%) CSS
10 45 (1.26%) HTML
11 40 (1.12%) SOAP
12 33 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 33 (0.92%) Django
12 33 (0.92%) PyTorch
13 31 (0.87%) LangChain
14 30 (0.84%) OAuth
14 30 (0.84%) PySpark
15 27 (0.76%) .NET Core
16 25 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
16 25 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 268 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 126 (3.53%) Onboarding
3 108 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 99 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 84 (2.35%) Algorithms
7 71 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 68 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 57 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 52 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
12 48 (1.34%) AI Agents
13 46 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (1.23%) Equities
15 42 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.04%) Derivative
16 37 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.04%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.04%) Social Media
17 36 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.00%) Linux
2 123 (3.44%) Windows
3 34 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Unix
6 29 (0.81%) Android
7 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.31%) AIX
8 11 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
8 11 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (15.76%) Software Engineering
2 544 (15.23%) AI
3 502 (14.05%) Agile
4 431 (12.07%) Analytics
5 430 (12.04%) Mentoring
6 401 (11.23%) CI/CD
7 317 (8.87%) DevOps
8 314 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
9 297 (8.31%) Roadmaps
10 285 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 249 (6.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 242 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 238 (6.66%) Business Development
14 233 (6.52%) Decision-Making
15 228 (6.38%) Microservices
16 208 (5.82%) Machine Learning
17 205 (5.74%) Test Automation
18 185 (5.18%) Full-Stack Development
19 168 (4.70%) Fintech
20 166 (4.65%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 575 (16.10%) Python
2 310 (8.68%) SQL
3 269 (7.53%) Java
4 157 (4.40%) C#
5 150 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 120 (3.36%) C++
8 75 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 71 (1.99%) Go
10 66 (1.85%) Bash
11 31 (0.87%) Bicep
12 29 (0.81%) PHP
13 28 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.70%) SOQL
15 24 (0.67%) Apex Code
16 23 (0.64%) Scala
17 19 (0.53%) Rust
18 18 (0.50%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.48%) R
19 17 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 323 (9.04%) Degree
2 264 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 169 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 102 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.10%) CISSP
6 67 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 63 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 55 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.46%) CISM
10 50 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 42 (1.18%) PhD
13 37 (1.04%) CCNP
13 37 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.81%) CISA
14 29 (0.81%) CRISC
15 27 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.64%) ACCA
17 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (3.50%) QA
2 98 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (2.63%) NIST
4 93 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 69 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 69 (1.93%) GDPR
6 49 (1.37%) GRC
7 22 (0.62%) NIST 800
7 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 19 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.34%) COBIT
11 12 (0.34%) SLA
12 11 (0.31%) PMO
12 11 (0.31%) WCAG
13 9 (0.25%) MiFID
13 9 (0.25%) NCSC
14 8 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 131 (3.67%) Docker
2 91 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 245 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 231 (6.47%) Terraform
3 47 (1.32%) Ansible
4 45 (1.26%) Grafana
5 36 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.53%) SCCM
8 16 (0.45%) Puppet
9 14 (0.39%) Nagios
10 13 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.31%) Data Guard
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.17%) Nessus
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 376 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.19%) Salesforce
3 109 (3.05%) SAP
4 88 (2.46%) Oracle
5 80 (2.24%) Databricks
6 72 (2.02%) Google
7 68 (1.90%) VMware
8 66 (1.85%) Cisco
9 63 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
11 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.95%) IBM
13 32 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.76%) Splunk
15 25 (0.70%) Intapp
16 23 (0.64%) Foundry
16 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.59%) Apple