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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 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 3,300 2,120 4,388
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.17% 16.63% 18.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.59% 18.42% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,145 1,356 3,122
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 £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 18,760 11,508 22,045
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 90.28% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,687 7,459 16,753
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,150
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 £102,500 £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 7 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 7 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 +7 703 £90,000 +12.50% 353
West London +9 92 £75,000 +15.38% 30
South London +26 60 £60,000 -5.88% 17
East London -17 14 £79,000 -16.84% 38
North London -7 2 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 572 (17.33%) Azure
2 481 (14.58%) Software Engineering
3 475 (14.39%) AWS
4 468 (14.18%) Python
5 461 (13.97%) Agile
6 448 (13.58%) AI
7 376 (11.39%) Mentoring
8 361 (10.94%) Microsoft
9 360 (10.91%) Analytics
10 317 (9.61%) Degree
11 311 (9.42%) CI/CD
12 304 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
13 283 (8.58%) DevOps
14 273 (8.27%) Java
15 252 (7.64%) SQL
16 249 (7.55%) Roadmaps
17 229 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 225 (6.82%) Kubernetes
19 224 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 224 (6.79%) Microservices
20 218 (6.61%) GCP
21 209 (6.33%) SaaS
22 205 (6.21%) Decision-Making
23 191 (5.79%) Test Automation
24 187 (5.67%) Security Cleared
25 183 (5.55%) Full-Stack Development
26 180 (5.45%) Terraform
27 179 (5.42%) Machine Learning
28 177 (5.36%) Fintech
28 177 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 43 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.55%) Apache
6 17 (0.52%) CMS
7 13 (0.39%) Confluence
8 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.24%) JBoss
10 7 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.21%) WordPress
11 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
11 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.12%) Drupal
14 3 (0.091%) nginx
14 3 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.091%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.21%) Maya
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
6 6 (0.18%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 3 (0.091%) SPSS
10 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.061%) Weka
11 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 15 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.36%) Maximo
4 11 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
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 (0.091%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.061%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.061%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.061%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.061%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.061%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.061%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 572 (17.33%) Azure
2 475 (14.39%) AWS
3 218 (6.61%) GCP
4 209 (6.33%) SaaS
5 145 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 125 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 120 (3.64%) GitHub
8 104 (3.15%) Serverless
9 82 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 62 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (1.33%) Amazon S3
11 44 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 41 (1.24%) PaaS
13 40 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.18%) Figma
14 39 (1.18%) Snowflake
15 38 (1.15%) IaaS
16 37 (1.12%) Datadog
16 37 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (2.85%) Firewall
2 76 (2.30%) DNS
3 68 (2.06%) VPN
4 63 (1.91%) DHCP
5 62 (1.88%) Broadband
6 61 (1.85%) WAN
7 53 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 51 (1.55%) Network Security
9 45 (1.36%) VLAN
10 44 (1.33%) Wireless
11 38 (1.15%) LAN
12 36 (1.09%) SD-WAN
13 32 (0.97%) SAN
14 29 (0.88%) TCP/IP
15 25 (0.76%) Multicast
16 22 (0.67%) HTTP
17 20 (0.61%) BGP
18 19 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
19 18 (0.55%) OSPF
20 14 (0.42%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 99 (3.00%) Power BI
3 52 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 47 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 44 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 43 (1.30%) Tableau
8 39 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (1.03%) DynamoDB
10 32 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
11 31 (0.94%) Metadata
12 29 (0.88%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.70%) DB2
13 23 (0.70%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (0.64%) Looker
16 17 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (0.48%) Big Data
17 16 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (3.06%) Git
2 66 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.67%) JIRA
4 38 (1.15%) GitLab
5 31 (0.94%) TeamCity
6 27 (0.82%) MLflow
7 20 (0.61%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.27%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.27%) Vite
9 8 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.24%) Selenium
10 7 (0.21%) 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
1 889 (26.94%) Finance
2 531 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 262 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (7.79%) Banking
5 216 (6.55%) Law
6 213 (6.45%) Marketing
7 188 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (5.12%) Legal
9 157 (4.76%) Retail
10 136 (4.12%) Public Sector
11 64 (1.94%) Front Office
12 62 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 52 (1.58%) Advertising
16 46 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 43 (1.30%) Financial Institution
18 41 (1.24%) Games
19 27 (0.82%) Publishing
20 26 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.39%) React
2 143 (4.33%) .NET
3 116 (3.52%) REST
4 104 (3.15%) Kafka
5 87 (2.64%) Node.js
6 76 (2.30%) RESTful
7 69 (2.09%) Spring
8 57 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 51 (1.55%) CSS
10 44 (1.33%) SOAP
11 42 (1.27%) HTML
12 41 (1.24%) PyTorch
13 34 (1.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 33 (1.00%) OAuth
15 32 (0.97%) LangChain
16 29 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (0.85%) Django
17 28 (0.85%) gRPC
18 27 (0.82%) PySpark
19 26 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 234 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 99 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.09%) Algorithms
5 64 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 64 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 57 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 56 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 54 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 53 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 51 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.42%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.33%) Equities
14 38 (1.15%) Social Media
15 37 (1.12%) Hedge funds
16 35 (1.06%) Derivative
17 33 (1.00%) Low-Code
18 29 (0.88%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.33%) Linux
2 134 (4.06%) Windows
3 56 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 50 (1.52%) Android
5 36 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.67%) Unix
7 20 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.39%) VMS
9 12 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.12%) CentOS
14 3 (0.091%) AIX
15 2 (0.061%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.030%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.030%) Rocky
16 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (14.58%) Software Engineering
2 461 (13.97%) Agile
3 448 (13.58%) AI
4 376 (11.39%) Mentoring
5 360 (10.91%) Analytics
6 311 (9.42%) CI/CD
7 304 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (8.58%) DevOps
9 249 (7.55%) Roadmaps
10 229 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 224 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 224 (6.79%) Microservices
12 205 (6.21%) Decision-Making
13 191 (5.79%) Test Automation
14 183 (5.55%) Full-Stack Development
15 179 (5.42%) Machine Learning
16 177 (5.36%) Fintech
16 177 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 175 (5.30%) Coaching
18 170 (5.15%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 468 (14.18%) Python
2 273 (8.27%) Java
3 252 (7.64%) SQL
4 141 (4.27%) C#
5 139 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 135 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 129 (3.91%) C++
8 86 (2.61%) Go
9 70 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.33%) Bash
11 33 (1.00%) Bicep
12 26 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 25 (0.76%) Rust
14 23 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.70%) SOQL
15 21 (0.64%) Scala
16 20 (0.61%) PHP
17 15 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.42%) R
19 11 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 317 (9.61%) Degree
2 187 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 143 (4.33%) SC Cleared
4 108 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 55 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 54 (1.64%) CISSP
8 47 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.12%) CISM
10 37 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.09%) ACCA
12 32 (0.97%) PhD
13 29 (0.88%) CCNP
14 27 (0.82%) CRISC
15 24 (0.73%) OSCP
16 23 (0.70%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.67%) CIMA
18 21 (0.64%) CREST Certified
19 15 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (2.88%) QA
2 77 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 73 (2.21%) NIST
4 71 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.39%) GDPR
7 35 (1.06%) GRC
8 22 (0.67%) SLA
9 21 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.45%) IFRS
12 15 (0.45%) NCSC
13 11 (0.33%) MiFID
14 9 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.21%) IFRS 17
15 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 129 (3.91%) Docker
2 106 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.27%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.091%) vSphere
9 2 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.061%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.061%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.030%) IAG
Systems Management
1 225 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 180 (5.45%) Terraform
3 50 (1.52%) Ansible
4 43 (1.30%) Grafana
4 43 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.70%) SCCM
7 14 (0.42%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.27%) Nagios
8 9 (0.27%) Nessus
9 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.21%) Istio
11 5 (0.15%) Argo
11 5 (0.15%) Kibana
12 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 3 (0.091%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.091%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.091%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.091%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.091%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 361 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 82 (2.48%) SAP
3 78 (2.36%) Salesforce
4 76 (2.30%) VMware
5 73 (2.21%) Cisco
6 70 (2.12%) Databricks
7 58 (1.76%) Oracle
8 57 (1.73%) Google
9 50 (1.52%) Dell
10 43 (1.30%) Palo Alto
11 38 (1.15%) Adobe
12 27 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 25 (0.76%) IBM
14 24 (0.73%) Fortinet
14 24 (0.73%) SolarWinds
15 22 (0.67%) Workday
16 21 (0.64%) Apple
17 20 (0.61%) Foundry
18 19 (0.58%) Intapp