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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 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 2,192 3,895
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.92% 17.93% 19.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.13% 19.56% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 1,318 2,495
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% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 21,903 11,208 18,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.67% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,001 7,273 13,023
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
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 £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 6 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 6 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 +7 590 £90,000 +16.13% 388
West London +19 118 £60,000 -2.04% 88
South London +17 54 £80,000 -25.58% 26
East London -4 14 £110,000 +37.50% 14
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 664 (17.69%) AWS
2 637 (16.97%) AI
3 619 (16.49%) Software Engineering
4 617 (16.44%) Python
5 596 (15.88%) Azure
6 514 (13.70%) Agile
7 485 (12.92%) Analytics
8 457 (12.18%) Mentoring
9 443 (11.80%) CI/CD
10 373 (9.94%) Microsoft
11 348 (9.27%) DevOps
12 345 (9.19%) SQL
13 327 (8.71%) Degree
14 323 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
15 320 (8.53%) Roadmaps
16 311 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 293 (7.81%) Java
18 286 (7.62%) Security Cleared
19 271 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
20 257 (6.85%) Machine Learning
21 249 (6.63%) Infrastructure as Code
22 246 (6.55%) Business Development
23 243 (6.47%) Decision-Making
23 243 (6.47%) GCP
24 235 (6.26%) Microservices
25 234 (6.24%) Kubernetes
26 228 (6.08%) Terraform
27 216 (5.76%) SaaS
28 215 (5.73%) Test Automation
29 197 (5.25%) Data Science

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 73 (1.95%) Apache Spark
2 60 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.72%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) SAS
7 18 (0.48%) CMS
8 16 (0.43%) Confluence
9 8 (0.21%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
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%) Moodle
Applications
1 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.16%) PlantUML
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.13%) InDesign
6 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
7 4 (0.11%) SPSS
8 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.080%) Blender
8 3 (0.080%) Maya
9 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 39 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
4 9 (0.24%) Maximo
5 8 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 664 (17.69%) AWS
2 596 (15.88%) Azure
3 243 (6.47%) GCP
4 216 (5.76%) SaaS
5 152 (4.05%) Serverless
6 145 (3.86%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
8 122 (3.25%) GitHub
9 93 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (1.73%) Entra ID
12 63 (1.68%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 47 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 44 (1.17%) dbt
16 42 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
17 41 (1.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 119 (3.17%) Firewall
2 109 (2.90%) Network Security
3 74 (1.97%) DNS
4 64 (1.71%) VPN
5 52 (1.39%) Broadband
6 51 (1.36%) VLAN
7 49 (1.31%) DHCP
7 49 (1.31%) WAN
8 43 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (1.04%) BGP
10 36 (0.96%) Internet
10 36 (0.96%) OSPF
11 33 (0.88%) TCP/IP
12 28 (0.75%) LAN
13 27 (0.72%) Wireless
14 25 (0.67%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.56%) SAN
16 18 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
17 16 (0.43%) Multicast
18 15 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.20%) Power BI
2 110 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 74 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (1.60%) Tableau
6 57 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 54 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 52 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 51 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
11 42 (1.12%) MongoDB
12 40 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 40 (1.07%) Metadata
13 38 (1.01%) MySQL
14 35 (0.93%) BigQuery
15 33 (0.88%) Big Data
16 29 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.53%) Looker
17 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 125 (3.33%) Git
2 57 (1.52%) JIRA
3 48 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.25%) GitLab
5 25 (0.67%) Claude Code
5 25 (0.67%) MLflow
6 23 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.35%) CircleCI
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 6 (0.16%) NUnit
9 6 (0.16%) Vite
10 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.13%) JMeter
10 5 (0.13%) JUnit
10 5 (0.13%) Mocha
10 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Appium
11 4 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 970 (25.85%) Finance
2 638 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 285 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (7.49%) Banking
5 270 (7.19%) Law
6 225 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 222 (5.92%) Marketing
8 162 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 156 (4.16%) Legal
10 148 (3.94%) Retail
11 70 (1.87%) Front Office
12 67 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (1.76%) Financial Institution
14 51 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.25%) Advertising
16 43 (1.15%) Games
17 35 (0.93%) Billing
17 35 (0.93%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 33 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (4.02%) .NET
2 147 (3.92%) React
3 119 (3.17%) REST
4 113 (3.01%) Kafka
5 89 (2.37%) Node.js
6 85 (2.26%) Spring
7 72 (1.92%) RESTful
8 65 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.17%) CSS
10 39 (1.04%) HTML
11 38 (1.01%) Next.js
12 37 (0.99%) LangChain
13 36 (0.96%) Django
14 32 (0.85%) PySpark
15 31 (0.83%) AngularJS
16 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.77%) JSON
17 28 (0.75%) OAuth
17 28 (0.75%) SOAP
18 27 (0.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 281 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 150 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 135 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 79 (2.10%) Algorithms
7 73 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 70 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 64 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 60 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 51 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
13 49 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 44 (1.17%) Derivative
14 44 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 44 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.15%) Blog
15 43 (1.15%) Equities
16 40 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 123 (3.28%) Linux
2 100 (2.66%) Windows
3 37 (0.99%) Android
4 33 (0.88%) Unix
5 31 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.19%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.053%) CentOS
12 2 (0.053%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 2 (0.053%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.027%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (16.97%) AI
2 619 (16.49%) Software Engineering
3 514 (13.70%) Agile
4 485 (12.92%) Analytics
5 457 (12.18%) Mentoring
6 443 (11.80%) CI/CD
7 348 (9.27%) DevOps
8 323 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
9 320 (8.53%) Roadmaps
10 311 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 271 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 257 (6.85%) Machine Learning
13 249 (6.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 246 (6.55%) Business Development
15 243 (6.47%) Decision-Making
16 235 (6.26%) Microservices
17 215 (5.73%) Test Automation
18 197 (5.25%) Data Science
19 192 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development
20 182 (4.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 617 (16.44%) Python
2 345 (9.19%) SQL
3 293 (7.81%) Java
4 160 (4.26%) C#
5 152 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 148 (3.94%) JavaScript
7 105 (2.80%) C++
8 64 (1.71%) Go
9 62 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 56 (1.49%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) PHP
12 28 (0.75%) Bicep
13 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 24 (0.64%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.59%) SOQL
16 21 (0.56%) R
16 21 (0.56%) Ruby
16 21 (0.56%) Scala
17 20 (0.53%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 327 (8.71%) Degree
2 286 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 187 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 69 (1.84%) CISSP
7 58 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 58 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 51 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.28%) CISM
10 45 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.04%) PhD
12 36 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (0.93%) CCNP
14 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.77%) CISA
16 25 (0.67%) CRISC
17 24 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.51%) ACCA
19 18 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.36%) QA
2 111 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 96 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (2.40%) NIST
5 85 (2.26%) GDPR
6 79 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 48 (1.28%) GRC
8 26 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.35%) COBIT
12 13 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 11 (0.29%) SLA
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 9 (0.24%) NCSC
16 8 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 133 (3.54%) Docker
2 65 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 234 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 228 (6.08%) Terraform
3 46 (1.23%) Ansible
4 36 (0.96%) Grafana
5 28 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.43%) Puppet
9 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.37%) Nagios
11 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
11 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.29%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Kibana
15 3 (0.080%) CASB
Vendors
1 373 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 110 (2.93%) SAP
4 98 (2.61%) Databricks
5 94 (2.50%) Oracle
6 83 (2.21%) Google
7 72 (1.92%) Cisco
8 65 (1.73%) Palo Alto
9 60 (1.60%) VMware
10 41 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 37 (0.99%) Adobe
11 37 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 36 (0.96%) Zscaler
13 33 (0.88%) Dell
14 31 (0.83%) IBM
15 26 (0.69%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.69%) HP
15 26 (0.69%) Splunk
16 24 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.61%) Intapp