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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,509 2,111 4,706
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.47% 17.28% 19.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.80% 19.10% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,304 1,287 3,243
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 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -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 19,710 11,054 23,192
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 90.49% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13,587 6,953 17,198
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.32%

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 June 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 June 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 +7 714 £90,000 +12.50% 251
West London +32 104 £75,000 +17.65% 49
South London +37 66 £60,000 -44.19% 12
East London -4 17 £68,000 -22.29% 30
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 575 (16.39%) Azure
2 534 (15.22%) Software Engineering
3 533 (15.19%) Python
4 508 (14.48%) AWS
5 473 (13.48%) Agile
6 461 (13.14%) AI
7 379 (10.80%) Analytics
8 373 (10.63%) Microsoft
9 370 (10.54%) Mentoring
10 362 (10.32%) CI/CD
11 321 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
12 291 (8.29%) Degree
13 285 (8.12%) DevOps
14 283 (8.06%) SQL
15 261 (7.44%) Java
16 259 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 259 (7.38%) Roadmaps
17 236 (6.73%) Kubernetes
18 228 (6.50%) Security Cleared
19 224 (6.38%) Microservices
20 222 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
21 220 (6.27%) Decision-Making
22 214 (6.10%) GCP
23 209 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
23 209 (5.96%) Test Automation
24 201 (5.73%) SaaS
25 197 (5.61%) Terraform
26 196 (5.59%) Business Development
27 193 (5.50%) Full-Stack Development
28 183 (5.22%) Machine Learning

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 66 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 58 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.66%) Apache
6 20 (0.57%) CMS
7 14 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.17%) SAS
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) JBoss
11 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.085%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) InDesign
8 4 (0.11%) InVision
8 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.085%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.085%) Blender
9 3 (0.085%) Maya
9 3 (0.085%) SPSS
10 2 (0.057%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 19 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
4 12 (0.34%) Maximo
5 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.085%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.085%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.085%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.085%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.057%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.057%) SAP PP
10 2 (0.057%) SAP Retail
10 2 (0.057%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.057%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 575 (16.39%) Azure
2 508 (14.48%) AWS
3 214 (6.10%) GCP
4 201 (5.73%) SaaS
5 151 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.65%) Power Platform
7 120 (3.42%) GitHub
8 117 (3.33%) Serverless
9 75 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 69 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 46 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 42 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
14 40 (1.14%) Figma
15 38 (1.08%) IaaS
16 37 (1.05%) Datadog
16 37 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (1.05%) PaaS
17 36 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.02%) Firewall
2 80 (2.28%) DNS
3 76 (2.17%) Broadband
4 75 (2.14%) Network Security
5 73 (2.08%) VPN
6 59 (1.68%) DHCP
7 56 (1.60%) VLAN
8 53 (1.51%) WAN
9 49 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.23%) Wireless
11 35 (1.00%) BGP
12 34 (0.97%) OSPF
13 33 (0.94%) SD-WAN
14 29 (0.83%) SAN
14 29 (0.83%) TCP/IP
15 27 (0.77%) LAN
16 24 (0.68%) Multicast
17 21 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
18 17 (0.48%) HTTP
19 14 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (2.94%) Power BI
2 102 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 53 (1.51%) NoSQL
4 47 (1.34%) Tableau
5 45 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 43 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 39 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 36 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 36 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 33 (0.94%) Metadata
12 32 (0.91%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (0.63%) MySQL
15 21 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.54%) Db2
17 18 (0.51%) Big Data
17 18 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 122 (3.48%) Git
2 70 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.57%) JIRA
4 42 (1.20%) GitLab
5 37 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.68%) MLflow
7 19 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.31%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.26%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 907 (25.85%) Finance
2 566 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 269 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (7.61%) Banking
5 220 (6.27%) Law
6 201 (5.73%) Marketing
7 179 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (4.76%) Legal
9 153 (4.36%) Retail
10 150 (4.27%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.91%) Front Office
12 62 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (1.48%) Advertising
14 51 (1.45%) Financial Institution
15 49 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 38 (1.08%) Games
18 34 (0.97%) Legal Technology
19 30 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
20 29 (0.83%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.16%) .NET
2 141 (4.02%) React
3 116 (3.31%) REST
4 100 (2.85%) Kafka
5 85 (2.42%) Node.js
6 75 (2.14%) Spring
7 65 (1.85%) RESTful
7 65 (1.85%) Spring Boot
8 52 (1.48%) CSS
9 46 (1.31%) SOAP
10 44 (1.25%) HTML
11 40 (1.14%) PyTorch
12 36 (1.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 34 (0.97%) PySpark
14 33 (0.94%) OAuth
15 31 (0.88%) LangChain
16 30 (0.85%) Django
16 30 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (0.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 251 (7.15%) Cloud Native
2 100 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 71 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 71 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 67 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 52 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 47 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 46 (1.31%) Equities
13 45 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.08%) Derivative
15 38 (1.08%) Social Media
16 35 (1.00%) Low-Code
17 33 (0.94%) Hedge funds
17 33 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.16%) Linux
2 129 (3.68%) Windows
3 47 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 34 (0.97%) Android
5 31 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.74%) Unix
7 15 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 8 (0.23%) AIX
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.057%) tvOS
13 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (15.22%) Software Engineering
2 473 (13.48%) Agile
3 461 (13.14%) AI
4 379 (10.80%) Analytics
5 370 (10.54%) Mentoring
6 362 (10.32%) CI/CD
7 321 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (8.12%) DevOps
9 259 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 259 (7.38%) Roadmaps
10 224 (6.38%) Microservices
11 222 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 220 (6.27%) Decision-Making
13 209 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 209 (5.96%) Test Automation
14 196 (5.59%) Business Development
15 193 (5.50%) Full-Stack Development
16 183 (5.22%) Machine Learning
17 179 (5.10%) Fintech
18 170 (4.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 533 (15.19%) Python
2 283 (8.06%) SQL
3 261 (7.44%) Java
4 148 (4.22%) C#
5 144 (4.10%) TypeScript
6 142 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 128 (3.65%) C++
8 78 (2.22%) Go
9 75 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 56 (1.60%) Bash
11 33 (0.94%) Bicep
12 27 (0.77%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.77%) SOQL
13 25 (0.71%) Scala
14 23 (0.66%) PHP
15 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) Rust
16 18 (0.51%) R
17 15 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 291 (8.29%) Degree
2 228 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 172 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 87 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 65 (1.85%) CISSP
7 63 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.20%) PhD
11 41 (1.17%) CISM
12 36 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 35 (1.00%) CCNP
14 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.77%) CRISC
16 25 (0.71%) ACCA
16 25 (0.71%) OSCP
17 22 (0.63%) CREST Certified
18 21 (0.60%) CISA
19 20 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (3.16%) QA
2 88 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 83 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 83 (2.37%) NIST
4 63 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.40%) GDPR
6 39 (1.11%) GRC
7 22 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.40%) NCSC
10 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.40%) SLA
10 14 (0.40%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.31%) IFRS
11 11 (0.31%) MiFID
12 9 (0.26%) COBIT
13 8 (0.23%) WCAG
14 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 126 (3.59%) Docker
2 97 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) Firmware
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.085%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 197 (5.61%) Terraform
3 48 (1.37%) Grafana
4 47 (1.34%) Ansible
5 43 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.60%) SCCM
9 13 (0.37%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.23%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.085%) Argo
14 3 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 373 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 100 (2.85%) Salesforce
3 95 (2.71%) SAP
4 80 (2.28%) Databricks
5 73 (2.08%) VMware
6 71 (2.02%) Cisco
7 70 (1.99%) Oracle
8 60 (1.71%) Google
9 59 (1.68%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.34%) Dell
11 46 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 43 (1.23%) Adobe
13 32 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 29 (0.83%) IBM
16 24 (0.68%) SolarWinds
16 24 (0.68%) Splunk
17 23 (0.66%) Apple
17 23 (0.66%) Foundry
18 21 (0.60%) Intapp