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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,594 2,172 4,390
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.15% 17.40% 18.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.40% 19.07% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,338 2,980
10th Percentile £57,850 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,300 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -2.74%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -9.29%

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 20,657 11,392 21,886
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 91.27% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,210 7,379 16,005
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +7 660 £90,000 +14.29% 154
West London +32 108 £72,500 +18.37% 53
South London +29 60 £80,000 -25.58% 14
East London -3 16 £68,000 -15.00% 20
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 641 (17.84%) AWS
2 589 (16.39%) Azure
3 579 (16.11%) Python
4 562 (15.64%) Software Engineering
5 556 (15.47%) AI
6 497 (13.83%) Agile
7 445 (12.38%) Mentoring
8 435 (12.10%) Analytics
9 404 (11.24%) CI/CD
10 370 (10.29%) Microsoft
11 330 (9.18%) Degree
12 325 (9.04%) DevOps
13 315 (8.76%) SQL
14 307 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
14 307 (8.54%) Roadmaps
15 289 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 270 (7.51%) Java
17 266 (7.40%) Security Cleared
18 248 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
19 243 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
20 241 (6.71%) Business Development
21 238 (6.62%) Kubernetes
22 231 (6.43%) Decision-Making
22 231 (6.43%) GCP
23 230 (6.40%) Terraform
24 224 (6.23%) Microservices
25 214 (5.95%) Machine Learning
26 203 (5.65%) SaaS
27 201 (5.59%) Test Automation
28 184 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development

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 (1.86%) Apache Spark
1 67 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (0.70%) Apache
5 22 (0.61%) CMS
6 21 (0.58%) SAS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.083%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.056%) JBoss
13 2 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.083%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.083%) Blender
10 3 (0.083%) Maya
10 3 (0.083%) SPSS
11 2 (0.056%) InVision
11 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.31%) Maximo
6 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.11%) Shopify
10 3 (0.083%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.083%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.083%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.083%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.083%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 641 (17.84%) AWS
2 589 (16.39%) Azure
3 231 (6.43%) GCP
4 203 (5.65%) SaaS
5 155 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 151 (4.20%) Serverless
7 139 (3.87%) Power Platform
8 118 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
9 116 (3.23%) GitHub
10 81 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 68 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 53 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
16 52 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 43 (1.20%) Figma
18 38 (1.06%) dbt
19 35 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.20%) Firewall
2 104 (2.89%) Network Security
3 80 (2.23%) DNS
4 73 (2.03%) VPN
5 64 (1.78%) Broadband
6 55 (1.53%) DHCP
6 55 (1.53%) VLAN
7 53 (1.47%) WAN
8 47 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.11%) BGP
10 38 (1.06%) OSPF
11 36 (1.00%) Internet
11 36 (1.00%) Wireless
12 30 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 29 (0.81%) TCP/IP
14 27 (0.75%) LAN
15 25 (0.70%) SAN
16 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (0.50%) Multicast
18 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.12%) Power BI
2 101 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 56 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 56 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (1.50%) Tableau
5 53 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 51 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (1.11%) DynamoDB
9 40 (1.11%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 37 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 35 (0.97%) Metadata
13 33 (0.92%) Big Data
14 32 (0.89%) MySQL
15 25 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (0.53%) Looker
17 19 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 122 (3.39%) Git
2 59 (1.64%) JIRA
3 52 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.20%) GitLab
5 27 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 21 (0.58%) MLflow
8 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.19%) Selenium
10 7 (0.19%) Vite
11 6 (0.17%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 907 (25.24%) Finance
2 600 (16.69%) Social Skills
3 257 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
3 257 (7.15%) Banking
4 226 (6.29%) Law
5 192 (5.34%) Marketing
6 179 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 160 (4.45%) Legal
8 159 (4.42%) Public Sector
9 152 (4.23%) Retail
10 71 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (1.92%) Front Office
12 59 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 53 (1.47%) Advertising
14 44 (1.22%) Games
14 44 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
15 37 (1.03%) Billing
16 36 (1.00%) Legal Technology
17 34 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.15%) React
2 145 (4.03%) .NET
3 117 (3.26%) REST
4 101 (2.81%) Kafka
5 89 (2.48%) Node.js
6 71 (1.98%) Spring
7 62 (1.73%) Spring Boot
8 61 (1.70%) RESTful
9 49 (1.36%) CSS
10 44 (1.22%) HTML
11 39 (1.09%) SOAP
12 35 (0.97%) Django
13 31 (0.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 31 (0.86%) LangChain
13 31 (0.86%) PyTorch
14 30 (0.83%) OAuth
14 30 (0.83%) PySpark
15 26 (0.72%) .NET Core
15 26 (0.72%) Web Services
16 25 (0.70%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 274 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 109 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 101 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.28%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 68 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 53 (1.47%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.17%) Equities
14 40 (1.11%) Derivative
14 40 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (1.06%) Public Cloud
16 36 (1.00%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 142 (3.95%) Linux
2 120 (3.34%) Windows
3 35 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 33 (0.92%) Android
5 32 (0.89%) Unix
6 30 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.33%) AIX
8 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
9 10 (0.28%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (15.64%) Software Engineering
2 556 (15.47%) AI
3 497 (13.83%) Agile
4 445 (12.38%) Mentoring
5 435 (12.10%) Analytics
6 404 (11.24%) CI/CD
7 325 (9.04%) DevOps
8 307 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
8 307 (8.54%) Roadmaps
9 289 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 248 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 243 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 241 (6.71%) Business Development
13 231 (6.43%) Decision-Making
14 224 (6.23%) Microservices
15 214 (5.95%) Machine Learning
16 201 (5.59%) Test Automation
17 184 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development
18 168 (4.67%) Computer Science
19 166 (4.62%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 579 (16.11%) Python
2 315 (8.76%) SQL
3 270 (7.51%) Java
4 157 (4.37%) C#
5 150 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 148 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 117 (3.26%) C++
8 74 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.92%) Bash
9 69 (1.92%) Go
10 31 (0.86%) Bicep
10 31 (0.86%) PHP
11 29 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 24 (0.67%) SOQL
13 23 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 19 (0.53%) Scala
14 19 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.50%) Ruby
16 17 (0.47%) Rust
17 16 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 330 (9.18%) Degree
2 266 (7.40%) Security Cleared
3 167 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 108 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (2.06%) CISSP
6 71 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 66 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.45%) CISM
10 50 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 41 (1.14%) PhD
13 36 (1.00%) CCNP
14 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 29 (0.81%) CISA
16 29 (0.81%) CRISC
17 22 (0.61%) ACCA
18 20 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.51%) QA
2 97 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 95 (2.64%) NIST
4 90 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 73 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 71 (1.98%) GDPR
7 50 (1.39%) GRC
8 23 (0.64%) NIST 800
9 22 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.33%) COBIT
12 12 (0.33%) PMO
12 12 (0.33%) WCAG
13 11 (0.31%) SLA
14 9 (0.25%) MiFID
14 9 (0.25%) NCSC
15 7 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 125 (3.48%) Docker
2 88 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.083%) Firmware
8 3 (0.083%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.083%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 238 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 230 (6.40%) Terraform
3 46 (1.28%) Ansible
4 43 (1.20%) Grafana
5 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.47%) Puppet
8 17 (0.47%) SCCM
9 15 (0.42%) Nagios
10 14 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.17%) Nessus
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 370 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 113 (3.14%) SAP
4 90 (2.50%) Oracle
5 80 (2.23%) Databricks
6 73 (2.03%) Google
7 68 (1.89%) Cisco
8 66 (1.84%) VMware
9 63 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.28%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
12 41 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 36 (1.00%) IBM
14 34 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.75%) Splunk
16 25 (0.70%) Intapp
17 23 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
18 21 (0.58%) Apple