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 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,415 2,042 4,559
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.28% 16.82% 19.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.64% 18.69% 20.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,249 1,248 3,165
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 £96,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 19,362 10,928 22,532
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 90.03% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,249 6,960 16,856
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,979 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
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 £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%

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 1 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 1 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 +7 701 £90,000 +12.50% 201
West London +25 98 £75,000 +20.00% 27
South London +30 65 £60,000 -44.19% 30
East London -7 17 £79,000 -16.84% 25
North London +1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 567 (16.60%) Azure
2 514 (15.05%) Python
3 509 (14.90%) Software Engineering
4 498 (14.58%) AWS
5 478 (14.00%) Agile
6 456 (13.35%) AI
7 373 (10.92%) Microsoft
8 372 (10.89%) Analytics
8 372 (10.89%) Mentoring
9 346 (10.13%) CI/CD
10 308 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
11 299 (8.76%) Degree
12 282 (8.26%) DevOps
13 268 (7.85%) SQL
14 265 (7.76%) Java
15 253 (7.41%) Roadmaps
16 248 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 236 (6.91%) Kubernetes
18 228 (6.68%) Microservices
19 220 (6.44%) Decision-Making
20 216 (6.33%) GCP
20 216 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
21 214 (6.27%) Security Cleared
22 210 (6.15%) Test Automation
23 207 (6.06%) SaaS
24 196 (5.74%) Infrastructure as Code
25 190 (5.56%) Terraform
26 188 (5.51%) Business Development
27 184 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development
28 181 (5.30%) 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 67 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.64%) Apache
6 20 (0.59%) CMS
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) Drupal
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.029%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 3 (0.088%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.088%) Maya
9 3 (0.088%) SPSS
10 2 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.059%) Blender
10 2 (0.059%) InDesign
10 2 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 10 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.088%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.088%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.088%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
12 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
12 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 567 (16.60%) Azure
2 498 (14.58%) AWS
3 216 (6.33%) GCP
4 207 (6.06%) SaaS
5 154 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 125 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.48%) GitHub
8 118 (3.46%) Serverless
9 79 (2.31%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 45 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 39 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
14 39 (1.14%) Datadog
14 39 (1.14%) IaaS
15 38 (1.11%) Figma
15 38 (1.11%) PaaS
15 38 (1.11%) Snowflake
16 37 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (2.96%) Firewall
2 80 (2.34%) DNS
3 73 (2.14%) VPN
4 71 (2.08%) Broadband
5 66 (1.93%) Network Security
6 62 (1.82%) DHCP
7 55 (1.61%) WAN
8 53 (1.55%) VLAN
9 51 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.26%) Wireless
11 34 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.91%) SAN
13 30 (0.88%) LAN
14 29 (0.85%) BGP
14 29 (0.85%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.82%) OSPF
16 24 (0.70%) Multicast
17 20 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
18 18 (0.53%) HTTP
19 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (3.02%) SQL Server
2 100 (2.93%) Power BI
3 51 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 48 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.29%) Tableau
6 43 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 42 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 36 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 32 (0.94%) Metadata
12 32 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (0.91%) MongoDB
14 24 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (0.67%) MySQL
16 20 (0.59%) Big Data
16 20 (0.59%) DB2
17 19 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 19 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 114 (3.34%) Git
2 70 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.52%) JIRA
4 42 (1.23%) GitLab
5 35 (1.02%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) MLflow
7 20 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 7 (0.20%) Chocolatey
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
10 6 (0.18%) JMeter
11 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.12%) Gatling
12 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.12%) XCUITest
General
1 895 (26.21%) Finance
2 556 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 264 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (7.70%) Banking
5 222 (6.50%) Law
6 207 (6.06%) Marketing
7 185 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 172 (5.04%) Legal
9 155 (4.54%) Retail
10 151 (4.42%) Public Sector
11 69 (2.02%) Front Office
12 56 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
14 50 (1.46%) Advertising
15 48 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (1.02%) Games
18 33 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 30 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
20 27 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.19%) React
2 141 (4.13%) .NET
3 113 (3.31%) REST
4 100 (2.93%) Kafka
5 87 (2.55%) Node.js
6 78 (2.28%) Spring
7 68 (1.99%) Spring Boot
8 64 (1.87%) RESTful
9 54 (1.58%) CSS
10 45 (1.32%) HTML
11 44 (1.29%) SOAP
12 39 (1.14%) PyTorch
13 36 (1.05%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 34 (1.00%) PySpark
15 32 (0.94%) LangChain
15 32 (0.94%) OAuth
16 29 (0.85%) Django
16 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.79%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 245 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 80 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 67 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 66 (1.93%) Security Posture
7 63 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 52 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 52 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 52 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 48 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 46 (1.35%) Equities
12 39 (1.14%) Derivative
12 39 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (1.14%) Social Media
13 38 (1.11%) Hedge funds
14 32 (0.94%) Reinsurance
15 30 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 145 (4.25%) Linux
2 134 (3.92%) Windows
3 51 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 40 (1.17%) Android
5 33 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.73%) Unix
7 17 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.18%) AIX
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.059%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.059%) tvOS
14 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.029%) Rocky
14 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (14.90%) Software Engineering
2 478 (14.00%) Agile
3 456 (13.35%) AI
4 372 (10.89%) Analytics
4 372 (10.89%) Mentoring
5 346 (10.13%) CI/CD
6 308 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
7 282 (8.26%) DevOps
8 253 (7.41%) Roadmaps
9 248 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 228 (6.68%) Microservices
11 220 (6.44%) Decision-Making
12 216 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 210 (6.15%) Test Automation
14 196 (5.74%) Infrastructure as Code
15 188 (5.51%) Business Development
16 184 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development
17 181 (5.30%) Machine Learning
18 179 (5.24%) Fintech
19 173 (5.07%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 514 (15.05%) Python
2 268 (7.85%) SQL
3 265 (7.76%) Java
4 145 (4.25%) C#
5 144 (4.22%) JavaScript
6 143 (4.19%) TypeScript
7 126 (3.69%) C++
8 79 (2.31%) Go
9 75 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 50 (1.46%) Bash
11 32 (0.94%) Bicep
12 27 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.76%) SOQL
14 25 (0.73%) Scala
15 24 (0.70%) PHP
16 22 (0.64%) Rust
17 19 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.53%) Kotlin
19 17 (0.50%) R
20 15 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 299 (8.76%) Degree
2 214 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 157 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 65 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 59 (1.73%) CISSP
8 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 46 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.14%) PhD
11 38 (1.11%) CISM
12 36 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 32 (0.94%) CCNP
14 27 (0.79%) ACCA
14 27 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.76%) CRISC
16 25 (0.73%) OSCP
17 22 (0.64%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.56%) CIMA
19 18 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (3.10%) QA
2 80 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.17%) NIST
5 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.26%) GDPR
7 37 (1.08%) GRC
8 21 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
12 14 (0.41%) NCSC
13 12 (0.35%) IFRS
13 12 (0.35%) MiFID
14 11 (0.32%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.23%) COBIT
15 8 (0.23%) WCAG
16 7 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 127 (3.72%) Docker
2 103 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Firmware
6 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.088%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 190 (5.56%) Terraform
3 49 (1.43%) Ansible
4 47 (1.38%) Grafana
5 42 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.64%) FortiGate
7 22 (0.64%) SCCM
8 11 (0.32%) Nagios
9 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.20%) Istio
12 6 (0.18%) Cilium
12 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.15%) Kibana
14 4 (0.12%) Argo
14 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 373 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.87%) Salesforce
3 89 (2.61%) SAP
4 78 (2.28%) VMware
5 76 (2.23%) Databricks
6 75 (2.20%) Cisco
7 65 (1.90%) Oracle
8 57 (1.67%) Google
9 53 (1.55%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.38%) Dell
11 41 (1.20%) Adobe
12 35 (1.02%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.91%) Fortinet
13 31 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.79%) IBM
15 24 (0.70%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.67%) Apple
17 22 (0.64%) Foundry
17 22 (0.64%) Splunk
18 19 (0.56%) Intapp