Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £86,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,178 2,023 3,716
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.13% 17.21% 20.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.44% 18.90% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 1,192 2,154
10th Percentile £58,000 £50,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -3.74%

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 23,956 10,704 17,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.04% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,991 6,970 10,799
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,596
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.49% -1.87%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +6 437 £90,000 +9.09% 881
West London +18 89 £55,000 +11.79% 103
South London +19 50 £70,000 -12.50% 47
East London +16 33 £110,000 +123.58% 22
North London -1 2 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 815 (19.51%) AI
2 745 (17.83%) Software Engineering
3 627 (15.01%) AWS
4 590 (14.12%) Azure
5 586 (14.03%) Python
6 516 (12.35%) Analytics
7 494 (11.82%) Agile
8 486 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 423 (10.12%) Microsoft
10 419 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 379 (9.07%) SQL
12 360 (8.62%) DevOps
13 352 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 345 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
15 334 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 324 (7.75%) Roadmaps
17 313 (7.49%) Degree
18 311 (7.44%) Java
19 287 (6.87%) Security Cleared
20 286 (6.85%) Machine Learning
21 249 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
22 247 (5.91%) Decision-Making
23 240 (5.74%) GCP
24 239 (5.72%) Kubernetes
25 229 (5.48%) Data Science
25 229 (5.48%) Microservices
26 227 (5.43%) Business Development
27 223 (5.34%) Full-Stack Development
28 220 (5.27%) Terraform
29 215 (5.15%) 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 63 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.74%) Apache
5 27 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.50%) Confluence
7 19 (0.45%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 9 (0.22%) WordPress
10 8 (0.19%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.096%) IIS
12 4 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Camunda
14 2 (0.048%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.024%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.14%) Revit
10 4 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.096%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.096%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.072%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.072%) Blender
11 3 (0.072%) Maya
12 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 38 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 9 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.096%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.096%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
10 3 (0.072%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.072%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.072%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.072%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 627 (15.01%) AWS
2 590 (14.12%) Azure
3 240 (5.74%) GCP
4 209 (5.00%) SaaS
5 160 (3.83%) Power Platform
6 137 (3.28%) Serverless
7 131 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (2.92%) GitHub
10 119 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
11 77 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 54 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
16 50 (1.20%) Amazon S3
17 46 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
17 46 (1.10%) Snowflake
18 44 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
19 43 (1.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.49%) Firewall
2 95 (2.27%) Network Security
3 67 (1.60%) DNS
4 65 (1.56%) VPN
5 46 (1.10%) VLAN
6 43 (1.03%) Internet
7 37 (0.89%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.86%) DHCP
9 35 (0.84%) BGP
10 34 (0.81%) WAN
11 33 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
12 32 (0.77%) Broadband
13 27 (0.65%) OSPF
14 21 (0.50%) LAN
15 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.36%) SAN
16 15 (0.36%) Wireless
17 14 (0.34%) SD-WAN
18 11 (0.26%) Multicast
19 9 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (2.80%) Power BI
2 100 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 99 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 61 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.17%) Big Data
8 45 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (1.03%) MySQL
11 42 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (1.01%) Tableau
12 41 (0.98%) Metadata
13 36 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 31 (0.74%) DynamoDB
15 26 (0.62%) SAP HANA
16 22 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
16 22 (0.53%) Redis
16 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
17 19 (0.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (2.32%) Git
2 56 (1.34%) JIRA
3 50 (1.20%) GitLab
4 42 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 29 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 11 (0.26%) MLflow
8 11 (0.26%) Selenium
9 8 (0.19%) NUnit
10 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
12 4 (0.096%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.096%) JUnit
12 4 (0.096%) Maven
12 4 (0.096%) Spock
13 3 (0.072%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,043 (24.96%) Finance
2 712 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 306 (7.32%) Banking
4 297 (7.11%) Law
5 262 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 242 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 204 (4.88%) Marketing
8 174 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 169 (4.04%) Legal
10 163 (3.90%) Retail
11 123 (2.94%) Financial Institution
12 68 (1.63%) Front Office
13 64 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 40 (0.96%) Billing
17 40 (0.96%) Games
18 39 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 34 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (5.27%) Terraform
2 130 (3.11%) .NET
3 128 (3.06%) React
4 127 (3.04%) REST
5 100 (2.39%) Kafka
6 91 (2.18%) RESTful
6 91 (2.18%) Spring
7 70 (1.68%) Spring Boot
8 67 (1.60%) Node.js
9 54 (1.29%) HTML
10 42 (1.01%) CSS
10 42 (1.01%) Next.js
11 39 (0.93%) JSON
12 35 (0.84%) AngularJS
13 34 (0.81%) FastAPI
14 32 (0.77%) PySpark
15 30 (0.72%) Django
16 27 (0.65%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.65%) Swagger
17 25 (0.60%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 261 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 152 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 137 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 125 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 122 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 115 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 78 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 61 (1.46%) Blog
10 51 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.10%) e-Learning
14 43 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 37 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 36 (0.86%) Derivative
17 36 (0.86%) Reinsurance
18 35 (0.84%) Data Structures
19 32 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.58%) Linux
2 89 (2.13%) Windows
3 48 (1.15%) Android
4 35 (0.84%) Unix
5 31 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.048%) tvOS
11 2 (0.048%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (19.51%) AI
2 745 (17.83%) Software Engineering
3 516 (12.35%) Analytics
4 494 (11.82%) Agile
5 486 (11.63%) CI/CD
6 419 (10.03%) Mentoring
7 360 (8.62%) DevOps
8 352 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 345 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
10 334 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 324 (7.75%) Roadmaps
12 286 (6.85%) Machine Learning
13 249 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 247 (5.91%) Decision-Making
15 229 (5.48%) Data Science
15 229 (5.48%) Microservices
16 227 (5.43%) Business Development
17 223 (5.34%) Full-Stack Development
18 215 (5.15%) Test Automation
19 204 (4.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 586 (14.03%) Python
2 379 (9.07%) SQL
3 311 (7.44%) Java
4 144 (3.45%) C#
4 144 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 112 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 82 (1.96%) C++
7 68 (1.63%) PowerShell
8 64 (1.53%) Go
9 54 (1.29%) Bash
10 40 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 30 (0.72%) Bicep
12 29 (0.69%) PHP
13 26 (0.62%) R
14 25 (0.60%) Scala
15 20 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.48%) Ruby
16 18 (0.43%) Apex Code
16 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 313 (7.49%) Degree
2 287 (6.87%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.44%) CISSP
8 57 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 41 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (0.96%) PhD
13 39 (0.93%) CISM
14 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.65%) ACCA
15 27 (0.65%) CCNP
16 26 (0.62%) CISA
17 23 (0.55%) CIMA
18 21 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
19 17 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 107 (2.56%) QA
3 91 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 78 (1.87%) GDPR
6 66 (1.58%) NIST
7 42 (1.01%) GRC
8 28 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.34%) WCAG
11 11 (0.26%) COBIT
11 11 (0.26%) NCSC
11 11 (0.26%) PMO
12 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.24%) SLA
13 9 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 138 (3.30%) Docker
2 59 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.12%) vSphere
7 3 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.072%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.048%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 239 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.22%) Grafana
3 33 (0.79%) Ansible
4 31 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.50%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.45%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.24%) Nagios
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.17%) EnCase
12 7 (0.17%) FTK
12 7 (0.17%) SCCM
13 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.12%) Argo
14 5 (0.12%) Istio
15 3 (0.072%) CASB
Vendors
1 423 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 140 (3.35%) Oracle
3 126 (3.02%) Google
4 123 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 107 (2.56%) SAP
6 90 (2.15%) Databricks
7 64 (1.53%) Cisco
8 51 (1.22%) VMware
9 44 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 43 (1.03%) Palo Alto
11 41 (0.98%) Zscaler
12 35 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.74%) Workday
14 30 (0.72%) HP
15 26 (0.62%) Splunk
16 23 (0.55%) Adobe
17 21 (0.50%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.45%) Foundry
18 19 (0.45%) IBM
18 19 (0.45%) Meraki