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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 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 3,596 2,181 4,128
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.92% 17.69% 19.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.13% 19.26% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 1,329 2,717
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £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% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £120,000
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 20,997 11,323 20,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 91.83% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,465 7,352 14,579
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 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £116,250
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 23 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 23 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 +6 625 £90,000 +16.13% 333
West London +27 112 £70,000 +14.29% 52
South London +26 60 £80,000 -25.58% 17
East London -7 15 £89,000 +11.25% 20
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 636 (17.69%) AWS
2 595 (16.55%) Python
3 586 (16.30%) Azure
4 583 (16.21%) AI
5 575 (15.99%) Software Engineering
6 497 (13.82%) Agile
7 448 (12.46%) Analytics
8 438 (12.18%) Mentoring
9 418 (11.62%) CI/CD
10 367 (10.21%) Microsoft
11 332 (9.23%) DevOps
12 326 (9.07%) Degree
13 325 (9.04%) SQL
14 309 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
15 305 (8.48%) Roadmaps
16 298 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 272 (7.56%) Security Cleared
18 267 (7.42%) Java
19 256 (7.12%) Stakeholder Management
20 246 (6.84%) Business Development
21 240 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
22 234 (6.51%) Kubernetes
23 233 (6.48%) Decision-Making
24 230 (6.40%) GCP
25 228 (6.34%) Machine Learning
26 222 (6.17%) Terraform
27 221 (6.15%) Microservices
28 207 (5.76%) SaaS
29 205 (5.70%) Test Automation
30 189 (5.26%) 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 71 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 63 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 21 (0.58%) CMS
6 21 (0.58%) SAS
7 16 (0.44%) Confluence
8 9 (0.25%) 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%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.056%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.028%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.028%) Mendix
Applications
1 35 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) InDesign
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.083%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.083%) Blender
9 3 (0.083%) Maya
9 3 (0.083%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) InVision
10 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
5 10 (0.28%) Maximo
6 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.083%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.083%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.083%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.083%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.083%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 636 (17.69%) AWS
2 586 (16.30%) Azure
3 230 (6.40%) GCP
4 207 (5.76%) SaaS
5 155 (4.31%) Serverless
6 145 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
7 143 (3.98%) Power Platform
8 121 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
9 120 (3.34%) GitHub
10 87 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 67 (1.86%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.67%) Amazon S3
14 56 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 50 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
16 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 40 (1.11%) dbt
17 40 (1.11%) Figma
18 37 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.20%) Firewall
2 108 (3.00%) Network Security
3 75 (2.09%) DNS
4 67 (1.86%) VPN
5 58 (1.61%) Broadband
6 54 (1.50%) VLAN
7 50 (1.39%) DHCP
7 50 (1.39%) WAN
8 44 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.11%) BGP
10 38 (1.06%) OSPF
11 36 (1.00%) Internet
12 33 (0.92%) Wireless
13 28 (0.78%) SD-WAN
13 28 (0.78%) TCP/IP
14 26 (0.72%) LAN
15 23 (0.64%) SAN
16 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.47%) Multicast
18 16 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (3.25%) Power BI
2 105 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 63 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 56 (1.56%) Tableau
6 53 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 53 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 48 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 41 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 41 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 35 (0.97%) Metadata
13 33 (0.92%) Big Data
13 33 (0.92%) MySQL
14 27 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (0.56%) Looker
15 20 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 126 (3.50%) Git
2 58 (1.61%) JIRA
3 50 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.28%) GitLab
5 24 (0.67%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.64%) MLflow
7 21 (0.58%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 12 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Vite
12 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.14%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) Gatling
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 902 (25.08%) Finance
2 599 (16.66%) Social Skills
3 267 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (7.04%) Banking
5 236 (6.56%) Law
6 198 (5.51%) Marketing
7 186 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 161 (4.48%) Public Sector
9 150 (4.17%) Legal
10 145 (4.03%) Retail
11 71 (1.97%) Front Office
12 68 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 52 (1.45%) Advertising
15 48 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.11%) Games
17 38 (1.06%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.00%) Billing
19 35 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
20 32 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.03%) React
2 144 (4.00%) .NET
3 118 (3.28%) REST
4 101 (2.81%) Kafka
5 86 (2.39%) Node.js
6 71 (1.97%) Spring
7 62 (1.72%) RESTful
8 61 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 46 (1.28%) CSS
10 41 (1.14%) HTML
11 35 (0.97%) Django
12 34 (0.95%) PySpark
12 34 (0.95%) SOAP
13 32 (0.89%) LangChain
13 32 (0.89%) Next.js
14 30 (0.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 29 (0.81%) AngularJS
16 28 (0.78%) .NET Core
16 28 (0.78%) OAuth
16 28 (0.78%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 272 (7.56%) Cloud Native
2 141 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 117 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (2.89%) Product Ownership
5 100 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 63 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 56 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 55 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 54 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (1.22%) Equities
15 43 (1.20%) Derivative
16 41 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
18 39 (1.08%) Public Cloud
19 37 (1.03%) Social Media
20 35 (0.97%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 134 (3.73%) Linux
2 107 (2.98%) Windows
3 33 (0.92%) Unix
4 32 (0.89%) Android
4 32 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.36%) AIX
7 13 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (0.28%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.11%) Windows 10
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (16.21%) AI
2 575 (15.99%) Software Engineering
3 497 (13.82%) Agile
4 448 (12.46%) Analytics
5 438 (12.18%) Mentoring
6 418 (11.62%) CI/CD
7 332 (9.23%) DevOps
8 309 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
9 305 (8.48%) Roadmaps
10 298 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 256 (7.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 246 (6.84%) Business Development
13 240 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 233 (6.48%) Decision-Making
15 228 (6.34%) Machine Learning
16 221 (6.15%) Microservices
17 205 (5.70%) Test Automation
18 189 (5.26%) Full-Stack Development
19 169 (4.70%) Migration
20 167 (4.64%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 595 (16.55%) Python
2 325 (9.04%) SQL
3 267 (7.42%) Java
4 155 (4.31%) TypeScript
5 154 (4.28%) C#
6 150 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 113 (3.14%) C++
8 69 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.78%) Bash
10 63 (1.75%) Go
11 31 (0.86%) Bicep
12 30 (0.83%) PHP
12 30 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 23 (0.64%) SOQL
14 21 (0.58%) Apex Code
15 20 (0.56%) Scala
15 20 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 17 (0.47%) Ruby
17 16 (0.44%) R
18 15 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 326 (9.07%) Degree
2 272 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 172 (4.78%) SC Cleared
4 108 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (1.97%) AWS Certification
5 71 (1.97%) CISSP
6 64 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 56 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.36%) CISM
10 48 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.06%) PhD
12 36 (1.00%) CCNP
13 33 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.81%) CISA
15 25 (0.70%) CRISC
16 21 (0.58%) ACCA
16 21 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.45%) QA
2 100 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 93 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.47%) NIST
5 76 (2.11%) GDPR
6 73 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.31%) GRC
8 23 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 15 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.36%) PMO
14 12 (0.33%) COBIT
14 12 (0.33%) SLA
14 12 (0.33%) WCAG
15 11 (0.31%) NCSC
16 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 126 (3.50%) Docker
2 73 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.083%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.056%) Firmware
8 2 (0.056%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.056%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 234 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 222 (6.17%) Terraform
3 47 (1.31%) Ansible
4 41 (1.14%) Grafana
5 32 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 16 (0.44%) Nagios
8 16 (0.44%) Puppet
9 14 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.36%) Data Guard
10 13 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (0.33%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.083%) CASB
Vendors
1 367 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.34%) Salesforce
3 112 (3.11%) SAP
4 92 (2.56%) Oracle
5 86 (2.39%) Databricks
6 71 (1.97%) Google
7 67 (1.86%) Cisco
8 63 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.70%) VMware
10 43 (1.20%) Dell
11 40 (1.11%) Adobe
11 40 (1.11%) ServiceNow
12 35 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 34 (0.95%) IBM
14 28 (0.78%) Splunk
15 26 (0.72%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.70%) Zscaler
17 23 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.64%) Intapp
17 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds