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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 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 3,741 2,188 3,894
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.85% 17.90% 19.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.06% 19.53% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,370 1,315 2,493
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 21,928 11,206 18,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.69% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15,013 7,272 12,981
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 7 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 7 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 +7 587 £90,000 +16.13% 382
West London +22 116 £60,000 -2.04% 83
South London +18 54 £80,000 -25.58% 29
East London -4 14 £110,000 +37.50% 16
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 662 (17.70%) AWS
2 638 (17.05%) AI
3 619 (16.55%) Software Engineering
4 616 (16.47%) Python
5 594 (15.88%) Azure
6 513 (13.71%) Agile
7 483 (12.91%) Analytics
8 456 (12.19%) Mentoring
9 439 (11.73%) CI/CD
10 371 (9.92%) Microsoft
11 346 (9.25%) DevOps
11 346 (9.25%) SQL
12 326 (8.71%) Degree
13 325 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
14 320 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 309 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 296 (7.91%) Java
17 286 (7.65%) Security Cleared
18 268 (7.16%) Stakeholder Management
19 259 (6.92%) Machine Learning
20 245 (6.55%) Business Development
21 244 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
22 243 (6.50%) Decision-Making
22 243 (6.50%) GCP
23 233 (6.23%) Microservices
24 231 (6.17%) Kubernetes
25 224 (5.99%) Terraform
26 215 (5.75%) SaaS
27 212 (5.67%) Test Automation
28 198 (5.29%) 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 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.70%) 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%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 36 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
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
6 5 (0.13%) PlantUML
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
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.13%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.080%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 662 (17.70%) AWS
2 594 (15.88%) Azure
3 243 (6.50%) GCP
4 215 (5.75%) SaaS
5 149 (3.98%) Serverless
6 145 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 137 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 121 (3.23%) GitHub
9 93 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 69 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
12 64 (1.71%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.60%) Amazon S3
14 56 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 44 (1.18%) dbt
17 42 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
18 41 (1.10%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.13%) Firewall
2 108 (2.89%) Network Security
3 72 (1.92%) DNS
4 62 (1.66%) VPN
5 51 (1.36%) Broadband
6 49 (1.31%) VLAN
7 48 (1.28%) DHCP
7 48 (1.28%) WAN
8 42 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (1.02%) BGP
10 36 (0.96%) Internet
11 35 (0.94%) OSPF
12 33 (0.88%) TCP/IP
13 28 (0.75%) LAN
14 26 (0.70%) Wireless
15 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.53%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (0.43%) Multicast
19 15 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.21%) Power BI
2 109 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 73 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (1.60%) Tableau
6 57 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 53 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 51 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 43 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 42 (1.12%) MongoDB
11 38 (1.02%) DynamoDB
11 38 (1.02%) Metadata
11 38 (1.02%) MySQL
12 35 (0.94%) BigQuery
13 33 (0.88%) Big Data
14 29 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.53%) Looker
15 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
16 18 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 124 (3.31%) Git
2 57 (1.52%) JIRA
3 48 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.23%) GitLab
5 26 (0.70%) MLflow
6 25 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 23 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 12 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.16%) NUnit
11 6 (0.16%) Vite
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JMeter
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 967 (25.85%) Finance
2 638 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 287 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (7.54%) Banking
5 272 (7.27%) Law
6 227 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 224 (5.99%) Marketing
8 161 (4.30%) Public Sector
9 156 (4.17%) Legal
10 147 (3.93%) Retail
11 70 (1.87%) Front Office
12 66 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.26%) Advertising
16 44 (1.18%) Games
17 35 (0.94%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.91%) Billing
19 32 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (3.98%) .NET
2 147 (3.93%) React
3 117 (3.13%) REST
4 111 (2.97%) Kafka
5 89 (2.38%) Node.js
6 85 (2.27%) Spring
7 72 (1.92%) RESTful
8 65 (1.74%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.20%) CSS
10 40 (1.07%) HTML
11 38 (1.02%) Next.js
12 37 (0.99%) LangChain
13 36 (0.96%) Django
14 32 (0.86%) PySpark
15 31 (0.83%) AngularJS
16 29 (0.78%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.78%) JSON
17 27 (0.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
17 27 (0.72%) OAuth
18 26 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 280 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 150 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 134 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 96 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 79 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 75 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 71 (1.90%) 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 48 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 44 (1.18%) Derivative
14 44 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
14 44 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.15%) Blog
15 43 (1.15%) Equities
16 39 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 123 (3.29%) Linux
2 97 (2.59%) Windows
3 38 (1.02%) Android
4 34 (0.91%) 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%) tvOS
13 1 (0.027%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
13 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (17.05%) AI
2 619 (16.55%) Software Engineering
3 513 (13.71%) Agile
4 483 (12.91%) Analytics
5 456 (12.19%) Mentoring
6 439 (11.73%) CI/CD
7 346 (9.25%) DevOps
8 325 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
9 320 (8.55%) Roadmaps
10 309 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 268 (7.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 259 (6.92%) Machine Learning
13 245 (6.55%) Business Development
14 244 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 243 (6.50%) Decision-Making
16 233 (6.23%) Microservices
17 212 (5.67%) Test Automation
18 198 (5.29%) Data Science
19 193 (5.16%) Full-Stack Development
20 180 (4.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 616 (16.47%) Python
2 346 (9.25%) SQL
3 296 (7.91%) Java
4 159 (4.25%) C#
5 152 (4.06%) TypeScript
6 149 (3.98%) JavaScript
7 104 (2.78%) C++
8 63 (1.68%) Go
9 61 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.47%) Bash
11 29 (0.78%) PHP
12 28 (0.75%) Bicep
13 27 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.56%) R
15 21 (0.56%) Ruby
15 21 (0.56%) Scala
15 21 (0.56%) SOQL
16 19 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 326 (8.71%) Degree
2 286 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.09%) 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 44 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.04%) PhD
12 36 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 34 (0.91%) CCNP
14 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.78%) 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
1 125 (3.34%) QA
2 110 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 96 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.38%) NIST
5 86 (2.30%) GDPR
6 80 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 48 (1.28%) GRC
8 26 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.64%) 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 9 (0.24%) MiFID
14 9 (0.24%) SLA
15 8 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 132 (3.53%) Docker
2 62 (1.66%) 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
1 231 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 224 (5.99%) Terraform
3 44 (1.18%) Ansible
4 36 (0.96%) Grafana
5 27 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 23 (0.61%) 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
12 10 (0.27%) SCCM
13 7 (0.19%) Cilium
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.11%) Kibana
15 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 371 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 117 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 109 (2.91%) SAP
4 98 (2.62%) Databricks
5 96 (2.57%) Oracle
6 84 (2.25%) Google
7 72 (1.92%) Cisco
8 64 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.58%) VMware
10 42 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 37 (0.99%) Adobe
11 37 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 37 (0.99%) Zscaler
12 33 (0.88%) Dell
13 31 (0.83%) IBM
14 27 (0.72%) HP
15 26 (0.70%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.67%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Foundry
18 23 (0.61%) Intapp