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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,753 2,147 3,911
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.60% 17.82% 20.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.79% 19.46% 21.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 1,274 2,436
10th Percentile £57,341 £53,825 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 22,359 11,031 18,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.54% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,311 7,177 12,556
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,840
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +7 551 £90,000 +20.00% 218
West London +25 109 £60,000 +5.26% 158
South London +22 54 £80,000 -25.58% 18
East London 0 14 £120,000 +50.00% 13
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 661 (17.61%) AI
2 650 (17.32%) AWS
3 642 (17.11%) Software Engineering
4 612 (16.31%) Python
5 584 (15.56%) Azure
6 500 (13.32%) Agile
7 479 (12.76%) Analytics
8 448 (11.94%) Mentoring
9 439 (11.70%) CI/CD
10 365 (9.73%) Microsoft
11 364 (9.70%) SQL
12 341 (9.09%) DevOps
13 339 (9.03%) Degree
14 327 (8.71%) Roadmaps
15 323 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
16 317 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 292 (7.78%) Java
18 283 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
19 276 (7.35%) Security Cleared
20 268 (7.14%) Machine Learning
21 248 (6.61%) Decision-Making
22 242 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
23 238 (6.34%) Business Development
24 236 (6.29%) GCP
25 225 (6.00%) Microservices
26 219 (5.84%) Data Science
27 217 (5.78%) Kubernetes
28 215 (5.73%) Terraform
29 213 (5.68%) SaaS
30 211 (5.62%) Test Automation

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 74 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 56 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.75%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) Confluence
7 20 (0.53%) SAS
8 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.19%) InDesign
6 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.080%) Blender
9 3 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.080%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
2 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.32%) Elite 3E
4 9 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.19%) Maximo
5 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.11%) Shopify
8 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 650 (17.32%) AWS
2 584 (15.56%) Azure
3 236 (6.29%) GCP
4 213 (5.68%) SaaS
5 141 (3.76%) Serverless
6 136 (3.62%) Power Platform
7 128 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.20%) GitHub
9 119 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
10 104 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (1.65%) Entra ID
14 59 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 54 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 45 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
17 44 (1.17%) dbt
18 43 (1.15%) Figma
19 40 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.14%) Firewall
2 104 (2.77%) Network Security
3 73 (1.95%) DNS
4 66 (1.76%) VPN
5 52 (1.39%) VLAN
6 46 (1.23%) DHCP
7 44 (1.17%) WAN
8 42 (1.12%) Broadband
9 41 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (1.04%) BGP
11 38 (1.01%) Internet
12 36 (0.96%) OSPF
13 34 (0.91%) TCP/IP
14 29 (0.77%) LAN
15 24 (0.64%) Wireless
16 22 (0.59%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.53%) SAN
18 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
19 16 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.98%) Power BI
2 109 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.52%) Tableau
7 55 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 53 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 45 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 39 (1.04%) MySQL
12 37 (0.99%) Big Data
13 35 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 35 (0.93%) Metadata
14 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 30 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.56%) Looker
16 21 (0.56%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 114 (3.04%) Git
2 57 (1.52%) JIRA
3 46 (1.23%) GitLab
4 42 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.72%) MLflow
7 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.13%) Vite
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 955 (25.45%) Finance
2 649 (17.29%) Social Skills
3 293 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (7.54%) Banking
5 274 (7.30%) Law
6 228 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 226 (6.02%) Marketing
8 158 (4.21%) Public Sector
9 143 (3.81%) Retail
10 131 (3.49%) Legal
11 72 (1.92%) Front Office
12 69 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.12%) Advertising
15 42 (1.12%) Games
16 38 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
17 32 (0.85%) Billing
18 31 (0.83%) Investment Banking
18 31 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (5.73%) Terraform
2 143 (3.81%) .NET
3 138 (3.68%) React
4 118 (3.14%) REST
5 114 (3.04%) Kafka
6 87 (2.32%) Spring
7 86 (2.29%) Node.js
8 73 (1.95%) RESTful
9 64 (1.71%) Spring Boot
10 44 (1.17%) HTML
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 40 (1.07%) CSS
13 37 (0.99%) LangChain
14 35 (0.93%) Django
15 33 (0.88%) PySpark
16 31 (0.83%) JSON
17 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
17 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
18 26 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 266 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 151 (4.02%) Onboarding
3 140 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 102 (2.72%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 83 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 73 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 59 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 59 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 45 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 44 (1.17%) Blog
12 44 (1.17%) Derivative
13 42 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 40 (1.07%) Equities
15 40 (1.07%) Mobile App
16 39 (1.04%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.98%) Linux
2 96 (2.56%) Windows
3 45 (1.20%) Android
4 34 (0.91%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.27%) AIX
7 10 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) VMS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (17.61%) AI
2 642 (17.11%) Software Engineering
3 500 (13.32%) Agile
4 479 (12.76%) Analytics
5 448 (11.94%) Mentoring
6 439 (11.70%) CI/CD
7 341 (9.09%) DevOps
8 327 (8.71%) Roadmaps
9 323 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
10 317 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 283 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (7.14%) Machine Learning
13 248 (6.61%) Decision-Making
14 242 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
15 238 (6.34%) Business Development
16 225 (6.00%) Microservices
17 219 (5.84%) Data Science
18 211 (5.62%) Test Automation
19 188 (5.01%) Migration
20 181 (4.82%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 612 (16.31%) Python
2 364 (9.70%) SQL
3 292 (7.78%) Java
4 148 (3.94%) TypeScript
5 147 (3.92%) C#
6 130 (3.46%) JavaScript
7 92 (2.45%) C++
8 66 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.63%) Go
10 54 (1.44%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 29 (0.77%) PHP
12 27 (0.72%) Bicep
13 24 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 23 (0.61%) Ruby
15 22 (0.59%) R
16 20 (0.53%) SOQL
17 19 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.51%) Scala
18 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 339 (9.03%) Degree
2 276 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 181 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 114 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 61 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.60%) CISSP
8 56 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.12%) CISM
12 40 (1.07%) PhD
13 39 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (0.88%) CCNP
15 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.77%) CISA
17 20 (0.53%) CRISC
18 18 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.48%) PMI Certification
19 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.30%) QA
2 122 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 89 (2.37%) GDPR
4 88 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 88 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 81 (2.16%) NIST
6 46 (1.23%) GRC
7 25 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 22 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.37%) PMO
12 13 (0.35%) COBIT
12 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.21%) NCSC
15 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (3.36%) Docker
2 64 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 217 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.04%) Ansible
3 31 (0.83%) Grafana
4 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
4 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.48%) Puppet
7 16 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.32%) Nagios
9 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.21%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
11 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.11%) Argo
13 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.080%) CASB
Vendors
1 365 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 115 (3.06%) Salesforce
3 104 (2.77%) Databricks
4 102 (2.72%) SAP
5 96 (2.56%) Oracle
6 86 (2.29%) Google
7 73 (1.95%) Cisco
8 59 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 58 (1.55%) VMware
10 43 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 35 (0.93%) Adobe
13 32 (0.85%) Dell
14 29 (0.77%) HP
15 25 (0.67%) IBM
15 25 (0.67%) Splunk
16 24 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 23 (0.61%) Intapp