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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,250 2,117 4,375
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.14% 16.69% 18.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.56% 18.49% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,119 1,359 3,119
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 18,509 11,449 22,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 90.26% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,488 7,469 16,715
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,112
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 May 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 May 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 +7 690 £90,000 +15.38% 407
West London +5 91 £75,000 +15.38% 31
South London +23 60 £60,000 -5.88% 17
East London -16 14 £79,000 -16.84% 38
North London -6 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 561 (17.26%) Azure
2 473 (14.55%) Software Engineering
3 468 (14.40%) AWS
4 459 (14.12%) Agile
5 454 (13.97%) Python
6 449 (13.82%) AI
7 377 (11.60%) Mentoring
8 357 (10.98%) Microsoft
9 352 (10.83%) Analytics
10 321 (9.88%) Degree
11 302 (9.29%) CI/CD
12 299 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
13 280 (8.62%) DevOps
14 277 (8.52%) Java
15 251 (7.72%) SQL
16 248 (7.63%) Roadmaps
17 231 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 230 (7.08%) Kubernetes
19 224 (6.89%) Microservices
20 219 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
20 219 (6.74%) GCP
21 209 (6.43%) SaaS
22 201 (6.18%) Decision-Making
23 185 (5.69%) Test Automation
24 181 (5.57%) Security Cleared
25 178 (5.48%) Full-Stack Development
26 177 (5.45%) Fintech
27 175 (5.38%) Machine Learning
28 172 (5.29%) Coaching
28 172 (5.29%) Computer Science

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 64 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 43 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.52%) CMS
6 16 (0.49%) Apache
7 13 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.28%) JBoss
10 8 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.22%) WordPress
12 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
12 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.12%) Drupal
13 4 (0.12%) SAS
14 3 (0.092%) nginx
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.092%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.22%) Maya
7 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 6 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.12%) InVision
10 3 (0.092%) SPSS
11 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.062%) Weka
12 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.031%) InDesign
12 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.37%) Maximo
4 10 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
7 6 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.15%) Shopify
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.092%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.092%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.062%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.062%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.062%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.062%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 561 (17.26%) Azure
2 468 (14.40%) AWS
3 219 (6.74%) GCP
4 209 (6.43%) SaaS
5 144 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (3.97%) Power Platform
7 120 (3.69%) GitHub
8 97 (2.98%) Serverless
9 85 (2.62%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 43 (1.32%) Amazon S3
13 40 (1.23%) PaaS
13 40 (1.23%) Snowflake
14 38 (1.17%) Figma
15 37 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.14%) IaaS
16 36 (1.11%) Datadog
17 34 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 92 (2.83%) Firewall
2 74 (2.28%) DNS
3 66 (2.03%) VPN
4 62 (1.91%) DHCP
5 60 (1.85%) Broadband
5 60 (1.85%) WAN
6 53 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (1.51%) Network Security
8 44 (1.35%) VLAN
9 43 (1.32%) Wireless
10 39 (1.20%) LAN
11 35 (1.08%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.95%) SAN
13 29 (0.89%) TCP/IP
14 24 (0.74%) Multicast
15 23 (0.71%) HTTP
16 20 (0.62%) BGP
17 18 (0.55%) OSPF
18 17 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
19 14 (0.43%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.32%) SQL Server
2 101 (3.11%) Power BI
3 54 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 47 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 44 (1.35%) BigQuery
7 43 (1.32%) Tableau
8 37 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (0.98%) DynamoDB
10 31 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.95%) Metadata
10 31 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (0.89%) Relational Database
12 23 (0.71%) DB2
13 22 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.65%) Looker
14 21 (0.65%) MongoDB
15 17 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (0.49%) MySQL
16 16 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (3.02%) Git
2 67 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 53 (1.63%) JIRA
4 37 (1.14%) GitLab
5 31 (0.95%) TeamCity
6 27 (0.83%) MLflow
7 20 (0.62%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.28%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.28%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.28%) Vite
9 8 (0.25%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.25%) Selenium
10 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.18%) JMeter
12 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.12%) Gatling
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 890 (27.38%) Finance
2 528 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 263 (8.09%) Banking
4 261 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
5 215 (6.62%) Marketing
6 211 (6.49%) Law
7 187 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (5.20%) Legal
9 161 (4.95%) Retail
10 135 (4.15%) Public Sector
11 63 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (1.88%) Front Office
13 55 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 54 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 50 (1.54%) Advertising
16 46 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
17 45 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 39 (1.20%) Games
19 26 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
19 26 (0.80%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (4.43%) React
2 141 (4.34%) .NET
3 114 (3.51%) REST
4 104 (3.20%) Kafka
5 88 (2.71%) Node.js
6 72 (2.22%) RESTful
7 71 (2.18%) Spring
8 58 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 51 (1.57%) CSS
10 45 (1.38%) SOAP
11 42 (1.29%) HTML
12 41 (1.26%) PyTorch
13 32 (0.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 32 (0.98%) LangChain
13 32 (0.98%) OAuth
14 30 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
15 29 (0.89%) Django
16 28 (0.86%) gRPC
17 27 (0.83%) PySpark
18 26 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 233 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 66 (2.03%) Algorithms
5 64 (1.97%) Security Posture
6 63 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 58 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 55 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 54 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 51 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 51 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 51 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 49 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.26%) Equities
14 38 (1.17%) Social Media
15 36 (1.11%) Hedge funds
16 33 (1.02%) Derivative
17 30 (0.92%) Blockchain
17 30 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 140 (4.31%) Linux
2 130 (4.00%) Windows
3 56 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 51 (1.57%) Android
5 35 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.68%) Unix
7 20 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.40%) VMS
9 12 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.12%) CentOS
14 3 (0.092%) AIX
15 2 (0.062%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.031%) Rocky
16 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (14.55%) Software Engineering
2 459 (14.12%) Agile
3 449 (13.82%) AI
4 377 (11.60%) Mentoring
5 352 (10.83%) Analytics
6 302 (9.29%) CI/CD
7 299 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
8 280 (8.62%) DevOps
9 248 (7.63%) Roadmaps
10 231 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 224 (6.89%) Microservices
12 219 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 201 (6.18%) Decision-Making
14 185 (5.69%) Test Automation
15 178 (5.48%) Full-Stack Development
16 177 (5.45%) Fintech
17 175 (5.38%) Machine Learning
18 172 (5.29%) Coaching
18 172 (5.29%) Computer Science
19 169 (5.20%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 454 (13.97%) Python
2 277 (8.52%) Java
3 251 (7.72%) SQL
4 141 (4.34%) C#
5 138 (4.25%) TypeScript
6 132 (4.06%) JavaScript
7 124 (3.82%) C++
8 84 (2.58%) Go
9 66 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 43 (1.32%) Bash
11 32 (0.98%) Bicep
12 27 (0.83%) Rust
13 25 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 24 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.68%) SOQL
16 20 (0.62%) PHP
16 20 (0.62%) Scala
17 15 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.40%) R
19 11 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 321 (9.88%) Degree
2 181 (5.57%) Security Cleared
3 139 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 109 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 54 (1.66%) CISSP
6 54 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 47 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (1.17%) ACCA
10 37 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.11%) CISM
12 31 (0.95%) PhD
13 28 (0.86%) CCNP
14 27 (0.83%) CRISC
15 24 (0.74%) AWS Certification
15 24 (0.74%) CIMA
15 24 (0.74%) OSCP
16 21 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (2.80%) QA
2 75 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 73 (2.25%) NIST
4 70 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.42%) GDPR
7 35 (1.08%) GRC
8 22 (0.68%) SLA
9 20 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.49%) IFRS
11 16 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.46%) NCSC
13 14 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.31%) MiFID
15 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.22%) IFRS 17
16 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 132 (4.06%) Docker
2 106 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.28%) Firmware
6 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.092%) vSphere
9 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.062%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.062%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.031%) IAG
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 230 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 172 (5.29%) Terraform
3 47 (1.45%) Ansible
4 44 (1.35%) Grafana
4 44 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.71%) SCCM
7 13 (0.40%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.28%) Nagios
8 9 (0.28%) Nessus
9 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.22%) Istio
11 5 (0.15%) Argo
11 5 (0.15%) Kibana
12 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 3 (0.092%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.092%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.092%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 357 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 80 (2.46%) SAP
3 76 (2.34%) Salesforce
4 74 (2.28%) VMware
5 72 (2.22%) Cisco
6 66 (2.03%) Databricks
7 59 (1.82%) Google
8 56 (1.72%) Oracle
9 50 (1.54%) Dell
10 40 (1.23%) Palo Alto
11 37 (1.14%) Adobe
12 26 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 25 (0.77%) IBM
14 24 (0.74%) Fortinet
14 24 (0.74%) ServiceNow
15 23 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.68%) Workday
17 21 (0.65%) Apple
18 19 (0.58%) Foundry
18 19 (0.58%) Intapp