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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,322 2,056 4,413
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.48% 16.59% 18.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.89% 18.40% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,150 1,308 3,104
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,625 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 18,570 11,172 22,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 90.17% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 12,694 7,249 16,626
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +7 710 £90,000 +12.50% 344
West London +20 95 £75,000 +17.65% 25
South London +31 59 £60,000 -43.53% 23
East London -12 16 £79,000 -16.84% 34
North London -1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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.

1 562 (16.92%) Azure
2 488 (14.69%) Software Engineering
3 479 (14.42%) AWS
4 476 (14.33%) Python
5 463 (13.94%) Agile
6 451 (13.58%) AI
7 378 (11.38%) Mentoring
8 363 (10.93%) Microsoft
9 359 (10.81%) Analytics
10 312 (9.39%) CI/CD
11 309 (9.30%) Degree
12 304 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
13 277 (8.34%) Java
14 273 (8.22%) DevOps
15 253 (7.62%) SQL
16 248 (7.47%) Roadmaps
17 229 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 228 (6.86%) Microservices
19 227 (6.83%) Kubernetes
20 221 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
21 210 (6.32%) GCP
22 209 (6.29%) SaaS
23 207 (6.23%) Decision-Making
24 195 (5.87%) Test Automation
25 193 (5.81%) Security Cleared
26 186 (5.60%) Full-Stack Development
27 182 (5.48%) Fintech
28 180 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
29 177 (5.33%) Terraform
30 176 (5.30%) Machine Learning

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 62 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.60%) CMS
6 19 (0.57%) Apache
7 14 (0.42%) Confluence
8 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.30%) WordPress
9 7 (0.21%) Drupal
9 7 (0.21%) JBoss
10 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
10 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.15%) SAS
12 3 (0.090%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.090%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.060%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.060%) nginx
13 2 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.21%) Maya
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
6 6 (0.18%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 3 (0.090%) SPSS
10 2 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.060%) Weka
11 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
2 15 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.36%) Maximo
3 12 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
7 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.15%) Shopify
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.090%) Misys Opics
10 2 (0.060%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.060%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.060%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.060%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.060%) SAP Retail
10 2 (0.060%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 562 (16.92%) Azure
2 479 (14.42%) AWS
3 210 (6.32%) GCP
4 209 (6.29%) SaaS
5 143 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 125 (3.76%) Power Platform
7 116 (3.49%) GitHub
8 109 (3.28%) Serverless
9 79 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 58 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 43 (1.29%) Amazon S3
13 42 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (1.23%) PaaS
15 39 (1.17%) IaaS
16 38 (1.14%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.11%) Datadog
17 37 (1.11%) Figma
18 36 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
18 36 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 93 (2.80%) Firewall
2 75 (2.26%) DNS
3 68 (2.05%) Broadband
3 68 (2.05%) VPN
4 61 (1.84%) DHCP
5 57 (1.72%) WAN
6 52 (1.57%) Network Security
7 51 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
8 46 (1.38%) VLAN
9 42 (1.26%) Wireless
10 35 (1.05%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.02%) LAN
12 30 (0.90%) SAN
13 28 (0.84%) TCP/IP
14 25 (0.75%) Multicast
15 22 (0.66%) HTTP
16 21 (0.63%) BGP
17 19 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (0.57%) OSPF
18 13 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.01%) Power BI
3 53 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 45 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 44 (1.32%) Tableau
6 42 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 40 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 32 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 30 (0.90%) Metadata
11 30 (0.90%) Relational Database
12 28 (0.84%) MongoDB
13 23 (0.69%) DB2
14 22 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (0.63%) Looker
16 20 (0.60%) MySQL
17 19 (0.57%) Big Data
18 18 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 103 (3.10%) Git
2 66 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.57%) JIRA
4 39 (1.17%) GitLab
5 32 (0.96%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.75%) MLflow
7 20 (0.60%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.27%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.27%) Vite
9 8 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.24%) Selenium
10 6 (0.18%) JMeter
11 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.12%) Gatling
12 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.090%) Cypress.io
General
1 881 (26.52%) Finance
2 532 (16.01%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (7.74%) Banking
5 220 (6.62%) Law
6 208 (6.26%) Marketing
7 190 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (5.03%) Legal
9 151 (4.55%) Retail
10 141 (4.24%) Public Sector
11 64 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 63 (1.90%) Front Office
13 53 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (1.48%) Advertising
15 47 (1.41%) Telecoms
16 44 (1.32%) Games
17 43 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
18 42 (1.26%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
19 27 (0.81%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.36%) React
2 141 (4.24%) .NET
3 116 (3.49%) REST
4 97 (2.92%) Kafka
5 84 (2.53%) Node.js
6 71 (2.14%) Spring
7 68 (2.05%) RESTful
8 60 (1.81%) Spring Boot
9 53 (1.60%) CSS
10 46 (1.38%) SOAP
11 44 (1.32%) HTML
12 40 (1.20%) PyTorch
13 33 (0.99%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 32 (0.96%) LangChain
15 29 (0.87%) OAuth
16 28 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.81%) PySpark
18 26 (0.78%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
19 25 (0.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 235 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 95 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 63 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 62 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 55 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 54 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 53 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 49 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 49 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.32%) Equities
11 44 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 36 (1.08%) Hedge funds
12 36 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 36 (1.08%) Social Media
13 35 (1.05%) Derivative
14 28 (0.84%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 140 (4.21%) Linux
2 132 (3.97%) Windows
3 54 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 47 (1.41%) Android
5 34 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.66%) Unix
7 19 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.36%) VMS
9 11 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.12%) AIX
14 3 (0.090%) CentOS
15 2 (0.060%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.030%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.030%) Rocky
16 1 (0.030%) tvOS
16 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (14.69%) Software Engineering
2 463 (13.94%) Agile
3 451 (13.58%) AI
4 378 (11.38%) Mentoring
5 359 (10.81%) Analytics
6 312 (9.39%) CI/CD
7 304 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
8 273 (8.22%) DevOps
9 248 (7.47%) Roadmaps
10 229 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 228 (6.86%) Microservices
12 221 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 207 (6.23%) Decision-Making
14 195 (5.87%) Test Automation
15 186 (5.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 182 (5.48%) Fintech
17 180 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
18 176 (5.30%) Machine Learning
19 174 (5.24%) Coaching
20 172 (5.18%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 476 (14.33%) Python
2 277 (8.34%) Java
3 253 (7.62%) SQL
4 143 (4.30%) C#
5 139 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 138 (4.15%) TypeScript
7 127 (3.82%) C++
8 81 (2.44%) Go
9 73 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.32%) Bash
11 33 (0.99%) Bicep
12 27 (0.81%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.78%) SOQL
14 25 (0.75%) Rust
15 23 (0.69%) PHP
16 22 (0.66%) Scala
17 21 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.48%) PL/SQL
19 14 (0.42%) R
20 13 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 309 (9.30%) Degree
2 193 (5.81%) Security Cleared
3 146 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 58 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.60%) CISSP
8 48 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.08%) CISM
11 35 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.02%) ACCA
13 32 (0.96%) PhD
14 29 (0.87%) CCNP
15 26 (0.78%) CRISC
16 25 (0.75%) OSCP
17 23 (0.69%) AWS Certification
18 22 (0.66%) CIMA
18 22 (0.66%) CREST Certified
19 15 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.01%) QA
2 75 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 71 (2.14%) NIST
4 69 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.20%) GDPR
7 34 (1.02%) GRC
8 21 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.63%) SLA
9 18 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 17 (0.51%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.42%) IFRS
13 14 (0.42%) NCSC
14 11 (0.33%) MiFID
15 9 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.24%) WCAG
17 7 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 127 (3.82%) Docker
2 102 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.27%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.090%) vSphere
10 2 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.060%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.060%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.030%) IAG
Systems Management
1 227 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 177 (5.33%) Terraform
3 48 (1.44%) Ansible
4 44 (1.32%) Grafana
5 41 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.69%) SCCM
8 16 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.27%) Nagios
9 9 (0.27%) Nessus
10 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.21%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) Argo
12 5 (0.15%) Kibana
13 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 4 (0.12%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.090%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.060%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 363 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 84 (2.53%) SAP
4 74 (2.23%) VMware
5 72 (2.17%) Cisco
6 71 (2.14%) Databricks
7 59 (1.78%) Oracle
8 57 (1.72%) Google
9 49 (1.48%) Dell
10 45 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 38 (1.14%) Adobe
12 28 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 27 (0.81%) ServiceNow
14 26 (0.78%) IBM
15 25 (0.75%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.72%) SolarWinds
17 22 (0.66%) Apple
17 22 (0.66%) Workday
18 21 (0.63%) Foundry
19 19 (0.57%) Intapp