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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,216 2,009 3,676
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.18% 17.23% 20.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.50% 18.93% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,573 1,186 2,141
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £119,375 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 24,089 10,610 17,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.01% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,011 6,920 10,642
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £74,073
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.12% -1.24%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +6 423 £90,000 +12.50% 708
West London +18 91 £55,000 +11.79% 66
South London +18 51 £70,000 -12.50% 33
East London +15 35 £110,000 +123.58% 17
North London -4 2 £62,500 -16.67%
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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.

1 824 (19.54%) AI
2 752 (17.84%) Software Engineering
3 634 (15.04%) AWS
4 597 (14.16%) Azure
5 590 (13.99%) Python
6 518 (12.29%) Analytics
7 500 (11.86%) Agile
8 491 (11.65%) CI/CD
9 429 (10.18%) Microsoft
10 423 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 387 (9.18%) SQL
12 364 (8.63%) DevOps
13 361 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 353 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
15 338 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 326 (7.73%) Roadmaps
17 318 (7.54%) Degree
18 315 (7.47%) Java
19 291 (6.90%) Security Cleared
20 289 (6.85%) Machine Learning
21 253 (6.00%) Decision-Making
22 251 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
23 244 (5.79%) Kubernetes
24 242 (5.74%) GCP
25 233 (5.53%) Data Science
25 233 (5.53%) Microservices
26 229 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
27 226 (5.36%) Business Development
28 223 (5.29%) Terraform
29 217 (5.15%) Test Automation

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 63 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.74%) Apache
5 27 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.52%) Confluence
7 19 (0.45%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 9 (0.21%) WordPress
10 8 (0.19%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.095%) IIS
13 3 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.047%) Camunda
14 2 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.024%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 43 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.14%) InDesign
8 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.14%) Revit
9 4 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.095%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.095%) ProjectWise
10 3 (0.071%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.071%) Blender
10 3 (0.071%) Maya
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 38 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 10 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
7 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
7 9 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.095%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.095%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.095%) Shopify
11 3 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
11 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 634 (15.04%) AWS
2 597 (14.16%) Azure
3 242 (5.74%) GCP
4 212 (5.03%) SaaS
5 164 (3.89%) Power Platform
6 137 (3.25%) Serverless
7 133 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (2.87%) GitHub
9 119 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
10 77 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (1.76%) Entra ID
12 54 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
13 53 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 50 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 46 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (1.07%) Snowflake
17 44 (1.04%) Azure AKS
18 43 (1.02%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 105 (2.49%) Firewall
2 96 (2.28%) Network Security
3 68 (1.61%) DNS
4 66 (1.57%) VPN
5 46 (1.09%) VLAN
6 43 (1.02%) Internet
7 41 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.85%) BGP
8 36 (0.85%) DHCP
9 34 (0.81%) WAN
10 33 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (0.76%) Broadband
12 27 (0.64%) OSPF
13 21 (0.50%) LAN
14 16 (0.38%) SAN
14 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.36%) Wireless
16 14 (0.33%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.26%) Multicast
18 9 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (2.85%) Power BI
2 104 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 69 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 62 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.16%) Big Data
8 46 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 45 (1.07%) MySQL
10 44 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 43 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (1.00%) Tableau
13 41 (0.97%) Metadata
14 36 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 31 (0.74%) DynamoDB
16 26 (0.62%) SAP HANA
17 24 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (0.55%) Redis
19 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
20 19 (0.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 100 (2.37%) Git
2 56 (1.33%) JIRA
3 51 (1.21%) GitLab
4 44 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 30 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 11 (0.26%) Selenium
9 10 (0.24%) MLflow
10 8 (0.19%) NUnit
11 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.12%) Appium
12 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.12%) Mocha
13 4 (0.095%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.095%) JUnit
13 4 (0.095%) Maven
13 4 (0.095%) Spock
14 3 (0.071%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.071%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,064 (25.24%) Finance
2 722 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 307 (7.28%) Banking
4 299 (7.09%) Law
5 265 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 244 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (4.81%) Marketing
8 178 (4.22%) Public Sector
9 177 (4.20%) Legal
10 165 (3.91%) Retail
11 124 (2.94%) Financial Institution
12 68 (1.61%) Front Office
13 64 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.97%) Billing
17 40 (0.95%) Games
18 39 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (5.29%) Terraform
2 133 (3.15%) .NET
3 129 (3.06%) REST
4 128 (3.04%) React
5 100 (2.37%) Kafka
6 93 (2.21%) RESTful
7 92 (2.18%) Spring
8 71 (1.68%) Spring Boot
9 68 (1.61%) Node.js
10 54 (1.28%) HTML
11 42 (1.00%) CSS
11 42 (1.00%) Next.js
12 39 (0.93%) JSON
13 34 (0.81%) AngularJS
13 34 (0.81%) FastAPI
14 32 (0.76%) PySpark
15 30 (0.71%) Django
16 28 (0.66%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.64%) Swagger
18 25 (0.59%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 266 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.82%) Onboarding
3 154 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 139 (3.30%) AI Agents
5 128 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 128 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 115 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 80 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 64 (1.52%) Blog
9 51 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 48 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 48 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.09%) e-Learning
12 44 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 38 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 37 (0.88%) Mobile App
15 36 (0.85%) Reinsurance
16 35 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 35 (0.83%) Derivative
17 33 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.68%) Linux
2 91 (2.16%) Windows
3 47 (1.11%) Android
4 35 (0.83%) Unix
5 31 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) macOS
10 3 (0.071%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.047%) tvOS
11 2 (0.047%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (19.54%) AI
2 752 (17.84%) Software Engineering
3 518 (12.29%) Analytics
4 500 (11.86%) Agile
5 491 (11.65%) CI/CD
6 423 (10.03%) Mentoring
7 364 (8.63%) DevOps
8 361 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 353 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
10 338 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 326 (7.73%) Roadmaps
12 289 (6.85%) Machine Learning
13 253 (6.00%) Decision-Making
14 251 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 233 (5.53%) Data Science
15 233 (5.53%) Microservices
16 229 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
17 226 (5.36%) Business Development
18 217 (5.15%) Test Automation
19 205 (4.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 590 (13.99%) Python
2 387 (9.18%) SQL
3 315 (7.47%) Java
4 148 (3.51%) C#
5 146 (3.46%) TypeScript
6 112 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.97%) C++
8 68 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 66 (1.57%) Go
10 54 (1.28%) Bash
11 42 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.71%) Bicep
13 29 (0.69%) PHP
14 26 (0.62%) R
15 25 (0.59%) Scala
16 21 (0.50%) Ruby
17 20 (0.47%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 318 (7.54%) Degree
2 291 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 187 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 68 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 63 (1.49%) CISSP
8 58 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.00%) PhD
12 41 (0.97%) CISM
13 38 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.66%) ACCA
15 27 (0.64%) CCNP
16 26 (0.62%) CISA
17 24 (0.57%) CIMA
18 22 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
19 19 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (3.63%) Data Quality
2 107 (2.54%) QA
3 92 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.90%) GDPR
6 68 (1.61%) NIST
7 42 (1.00%) GRC
8 29 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.33%) WCAG
11 11 (0.26%) COBIT
11 11 (0.26%) NCSC
11 11 (0.26%) PMO
12 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.24%) SLA
13 9 (0.21%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 142 (3.37%) Docker
2 59 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.12%) vSphere
7 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.071%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.047%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 244 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.26%) Grafana
3 34 (0.81%) Ansible
4 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.50%) Puppet
6 20 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.45%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.24%) Nagios
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.21%) Cilium
12 8 (0.19%) EnCase
12 8 (0.19%) FTK
13 7 (0.17%) SCCM
14 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.12%) Argo
15 5 (0.12%) Istio
16 3 (0.071%) Nessus
Vendors
1 429 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 143 (3.39%) Oracle
3 127 (3.01%) Google
4 123 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 107 (2.54%) SAP
6 90 (2.13%) Databricks
7 64 (1.52%) Cisco
8 51 (1.21%) VMware
9 45 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 43 (1.02%) Palo Alto
11 41 (0.97%) Zscaler
12 35 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 32 (0.76%) Workday
14 30 (0.71%) HP
15 27 (0.64%) Splunk
16 22 (0.52%) Adobe
17 21 (0.50%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.45%) Foundry
18 19 (0.45%) Intapp
18 19 (0.45%) Meraki