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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,844 2,123 3,858
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.66% 17.79% 20.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.85% 19.49% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,484 1,252 2,328
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,096
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 £102,500 £99,063
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 22,817 10,892 18,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 91.27% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,753 7,082 11,979
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 7 September 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 September 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 +7 521 £90,000 +16.13% 486
West London +26 103 £60,000 +21.95% 157
South London +24 50 £80,000 -25.58% 35
East London 0 14 £120,000 +50.00% 24
North London +2 1 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 September 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.

1 673 (17.51%) AI
2 665 (17.30%) Software Engineering
3 648 (16.86%) AWS
4 604 (15.71%) Python
5 582 (15.14%) Azure
6 490 (12.75%) Agile
7 466 (12.12%) Analytics
8 448 (11.65%) CI/CD
9 439 (11.42%) Mentoring
10 379 (9.86%) Microsoft
11 359 (9.34%) SQL
12 348 (9.05%) DevOps
13 331 (8.61%) Degree
14 328 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
15 324 (8.43%) Roadmaps
16 317 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 296 (7.70%) Java
18 291 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
19 271 (7.05%) Security Cleared
20 267 (6.95%) Machine Learning
21 245 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
22 240 (6.24%) GCP
23 237 (6.17%) Decision-Making
24 235 (6.11%) Business Development
25 223 (5.80%) Microservices
26 221 (5.75%) Data Science
27 220 (5.72%) Kubernetes
28 216 (5.62%) Terraform
29 213 (5.54%) Test Automation
30 202 (5.25%) SaaS

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 68 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 52 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.70%) Apache
6 19 (0.49%) Confluence
6 19 (0.49%) SAS
7 15 (0.39%) CMS
8 7 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.16%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.078%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.052%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.052%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.052%) WinCC
14 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 33 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.18%) InDesign
8 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.10%) SPSS
12 3 (0.078%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.078%) Blender
12 3 (0.078%) Maya
12 3 (0.078%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.078%) Revit
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 39 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.16%) Maximo
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.078%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.078%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.078%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.078%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (16.86%) AWS
2 582 (15.14%) Azure
3 240 (6.24%) GCP
4 202 (5.25%) SaaS
5 137 (3.56%) Serverless
6 128 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 127 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.15%) GitHub
9 120 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
10 109 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (1.59%) Entra ID
14 57 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 53 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 47 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
17 44 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (1.14%) Azure AKS
18 41 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (1.04%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (2.94%) Firewall
2 102 (2.65%) Network Security
3 72 (1.87%) DNS
4 64 (1.66%) VPN
5 50 (1.30%) VLAN
6 44 (1.14%) DHCP
7 42 (1.09%) WAN
8 40 (1.04%) Broadband
9 38 (0.99%) Internet
9 38 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.96%) BGP
11 35 (0.91%) OSPF
11 35 (0.91%) TCP/IP
12 28 (0.73%) LAN
13 22 (0.57%) Wireless
14 21 (0.55%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.47%) SAN
16 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.39%) Multicast
18 14 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 105 (2.73%) Power BI
3 77 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (1.51%) NoSQL
5 54 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 52 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 51 (1.33%) Tableau
8 48 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (1.22%) MongoDB
10 41 (1.07%) Big Data
11 38 (0.99%) MySQL
12 35 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 35 (0.91%) Metadata
13 33 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (0.65%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.57%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
17 18 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 113 (2.94%) Git
2 54 (1.40%) JIRA
3 49 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.25%) GitLab
5 29 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.52%) MLflow
7 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.36%) Selenium
10 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.18%) 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
13 4 (0.10%) Maven
13 4 (0.10%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.10%) Spock
13 4 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 966 (25.13%) Finance
2 658 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 283 (7.36%) Banking
4 277 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (7.21%) Law
5 227 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 213 (5.54%) Marketing
7 156 (4.06%) Public Sector
8 146 (3.80%) Retail
9 135 (3.51%) Legal
10 79 (2.06%) Financial Institution
11 76 (1.98%) Front Office
12 64 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.07%) Games
15 39 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 33 (0.86%) Advertising
17 32 (0.83%) Manufacturing
18 30 (0.78%) Military
18 30 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (5.62%) Terraform
2 137 (3.56%) .NET
3 133 (3.46%) React
4 118 (3.07%) REST
5 117 (3.04%) Kafka
6 86 (2.24%) Spring
7 82 (2.13%) Node.js
8 77 (2.00%) RESTful
9 63 (1.64%) Spring Boot
10 45 (1.17%) HTML
11 41 (1.07%) Next.js
12 38 (0.99%) CSS
13 34 (0.88%) Django
14 33 (0.86%) JSON
15 32 (0.83%) PySpark
16 31 (0.81%) LangChain
17 29 (0.75%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.70%) AngularJS
18 27 (0.70%) FastAPI
18 27 (0.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 258 (6.71%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 108 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 103 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 68 (1.77%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 53 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.17%) Blog
14 44 (1.14%) Derivative
15 43 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.12%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.07%) Mobile App
17 40 (1.04%) e-Learning
17 40 (1.04%) Security Posture
18 38 (0.99%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.84%) Linux
2 95 (2.47%) Windows
3 47 (1.22%) Android
4 36 (0.94%) Unix
5 32 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 30 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.26%) AIX
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.078%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.078%) VMS
11 2 (0.052%) CentOS
11 2 (0.052%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (17.51%) AI
2 665 (17.30%) Software Engineering
3 490 (12.75%) Agile
4 466 (12.12%) Analytics
5 448 (11.65%) CI/CD
6 439 (11.42%) Mentoring
7 348 (9.05%) DevOps
8 328 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
9 324 (8.43%) Roadmaps
10 317 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 291 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 267 (6.95%) Machine Learning
13 245 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 237 (6.17%) Decision-Making
15 235 (6.11%) Business Development
16 223 (5.80%) Microservices
17 221 (5.75%) Data Science
18 213 (5.54%) Test Automation
19 189 (4.92%) Migration
20 182 (4.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 604 (15.71%) Python
2 359 (9.34%) SQL
3 296 (7.70%) Java
4 144 (3.75%) TypeScript
5 139 (3.62%) C#
6 124 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.26%) C++
8 68 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.56%) Go
10 55 (1.43%) Bash
11 29 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.68%) Bicep
12 26 (0.68%) PHP
13 23 (0.60%) R
14 22 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.57%) Ruby
15 20 (0.52%) Scala
16 19 (0.49%) SOQL
17 18 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 331 (8.61%) Degree
2 271 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 177 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 109 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 62 (1.61%) CISSP
7 60 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 53 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.12%) CISM
11 39 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.01%) PhD
12 33 (0.86%) CCNP
13 29 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.73%) CISA
15 20 (0.52%) CRISC
16 17 (0.44%) CCNA
17 16 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
17 16 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (3.25%) Data Quality
1 125 (3.25%) QA
2 93 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 84 (2.19%) GDPR
5 82 (2.13%) NIST
6 50 (1.30%) GRC
7 25 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 22 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.39%) NIST 800
11 13 (0.34%) COBIT
11 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 12 (0.31%) PMO
12 12 (0.31%) WCAG
13 10 (0.26%) NCSC
14 9 (0.23%) MiFID
15 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (3.36%) Docker
2 62 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.078%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.052%) Firmware
8 2 (0.052%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.052%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
Systems Management
1 220 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 38 (0.99%) Ansible
3 31 (0.81%) Grafana
4 26 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 21 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.47%) Puppet
8 17 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.31%) Nagios
10 10 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.21%) Istio
11 8 (0.21%) SCCM
12 7 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.10%) Argo
14 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.078%) CASB
Vendors
1 379 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 115 (2.99%) Oracle
2 115 (2.99%) Salesforce
3 105 (2.73%) Google
4 101 (2.63%) SAP
5 98 (2.55%) Databricks
6 69 (1.80%) Cisco
7 55 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 54 (1.40%) VMware
9 44 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 38 (0.99%) Zscaler
11 35 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.86%) Adobe
13 28 (0.73%) HP
14 26 (0.68%) Splunk
15 25 (0.65%) Dell
15 25 (0.65%) IBM
15 25 (0.65%) Intapp
16 24 (0.62%) Workday
17 23 (0.60%) Foundry