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 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,381 2,044 4,450
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.42% 16.49% 18.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.82% 18.31% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,193 1,300 3,117
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 £120,000 £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 18,969 11,166 22,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 90.09% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12,964 7,258 16,651
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 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 17 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 17 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 +7 722 £90,000 +15.38% 324
West London +22 96 £75,000 +17.65% 21
South London +31 60 £60,000 -43.53% 18
East London -10 16 £79,000 -16.84% 26
North London -1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 11
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 566 (16.74%) Azure
2 500 (14.79%) Software Engineering
3 489 (14.46%) AWS
4 488 (14.43%) Python
5 468 (13.84%) Agile
6 452 (13.37%) AI
7 380 (11.24%) Mentoring
8 367 (10.85%) Microsoft
9 364 (10.77%) Analytics
10 322 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 308 (9.11%) Degree
12 306 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
13 279 (8.25%) Java
14 274 (8.10%) DevOps
15 256 (7.57%) SQL
16 251 (7.42%) Roadmaps
17 233 (6.89%) Microservices
18 232 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 231 (6.83%) Kubernetes
20 224 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
21 213 (6.30%) GCP
22 211 (6.24%) Decision-Making
23 209 (6.18%) SaaS
24 198 (5.86%) Security Cleared
24 198 (5.86%) Test Automation
25 188 (5.56%) Full-Stack Development
26 185 (5.47%) Fintech
26 185 (5.47%) Infrastructure as Code
27 179 (5.29%) Coaching
27 179 (5.29%) Terraform

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 64 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.59%) CMS
6 19 (0.56%) Apache
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.30%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) Drupal
9 6 (0.18%) JBoss
9 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
10 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.089%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.089%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.059%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.059%) nginx
12 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.59%) 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 (0.089%) SPSS
10 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.059%) 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 18 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 15 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.35%) Maximo
3 12 (0.35%) 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 (0.089%) Misys Opics
10 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.059%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.059%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.059%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
10 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 566 (16.74%) Azure
2 489 (14.46%) AWS
3 213 (6.30%) GCP
4 209 (6.18%) SaaS
5 147 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 124 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 118 (3.49%) GitHub
8 111 (3.28%) Serverless
9 81 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 58 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.33%) Amazon S3
12 44 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
12 44 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 39 (1.15%) PaaS
14 38 (1.12%) Datadog
14 38 (1.12%) Figma
14 38 (1.12%) IaaS
14 38 (1.12%) Snowflake
15 37 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
15 37 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.87%) Firewall
2 78 (2.31%) DNS
3 70 (2.07%) VPN
4 68 (2.01%) Broadband
5 63 (1.86%) DHCP
6 57 (1.69%) WAN
7 55 (1.63%) Network Security
8 52 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
9 48 (1.42%) VLAN
10 42 (1.24%) Wireless
11 35 (1.04%) SD-WAN
12 34 (1.01%) LAN
13 31 (0.92%) SAN
14 29 (0.86%) TCP/IP
15 26 (0.77%) Multicast
16 22 (0.65%) BGP
16 22 (0.65%) HTTP
17 20 (0.59%) OSPF
18 19 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 13 (0.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.14%) SQL Server
2 99 (2.93%) Power BI
3 53 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 46 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 44 (1.30%) Tableau
7 41 (1.21%) BigQuery
8 40 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 35 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (0.92%) Metadata
13 29 (0.86%) Relational Database
14 28 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 23 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (0.68%) DB2
16 21 (0.62%) Looker
17 20 (0.59%) MySQL
18 19 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 103 (3.05%) Git
2 67 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.54%) JIRA
4 41 (1.21%) GitLab
5 34 (1.01%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.74%) MLflow
7 20 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
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%) 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 (0.089%) Cypress.io
General
1 892 (26.38%) Finance
2 538 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
3 265 (7.84%) Banking
4 223 (6.60%) Law
5 207 (6.12%) Marketing
6 192 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 170 (5.03%) Legal
8 156 (4.61%) Retail
9 143 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 64 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (1.86%) Front Office
12 54 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (1.48%) Advertising
14 45 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.30%) Games
16 43 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (0.80%) Publishing
18 26 (0.77%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.29%) React
2 140 (4.14%) .NET
3 116 (3.43%) REST
4 99 (2.93%) Kafka
5 84 (2.48%) Node.js
6 72 (2.13%) Spring
7 69 (2.04%) RESTful
8 62 (1.83%) Spring Boot
9 54 (1.60%) CSS
10 45 (1.33%) HTML
10 45 (1.33%) SOAP
11 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
12 33 (0.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 32 (0.95%) LangChain
14 30 (0.89%) OAuth
15 29 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (0.83%) PySpark
17 26 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
18 25 (0.74%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 240 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 96 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 63 (1.86%) Security Posture
6 61 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 55 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 54 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 54 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 54 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 51 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 45 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.30%) Equities
12 44 (1.30%) Management Information System
13 37 (1.09%) Derivative
14 36 (1.06%) Low-Code
14 36 (1.06%) Social Media
15 35 (1.04%) Hedge funds
16 29 (0.86%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.20%) Linux
2 135 (3.99%) Windows
3 53 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.36%) Android
5 34 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.65%) Unix
7 19 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.35%) VMS
9 11 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.12%) AIX
14 3 (0.089%) CentOS
15 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.059%) tvOS
16 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.030%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.030%) Rocky
16 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (14.79%) Software Engineering
2 468 (13.84%) Agile
3 452 (13.37%) AI
4 380 (11.24%) Mentoring
5 364 (10.77%) Analytics
6 322 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 306 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
8 274 (8.10%) DevOps
9 251 (7.42%) Roadmaps
10 233 (6.89%) Microservices
11 232 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 224 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 211 (6.24%) Decision-Making
14 198 (5.86%) Test Automation
15 188 (5.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 185 (5.47%) Fintech
16 185 (5.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 179 (5.29%) Coaching
18 175 (5.18%) Business Development
19 173 (5.12%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 488 (14.43%) Python
2 279 (8.25%) Java
3 256 (7.57%) SQL
4 143 (4.23%) C#
5 139 (4.11%) TypeScript
6 138 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 130 (3.85%) C++
8 83 (2.45%) Go
9 72 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 45 (1.33%) Bash
11 33 (0.98%) Bicep
12 27 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.77%) SOQL
14 25 (0.74%) Rust
15 23 (0.68%) PHP
16 22 (0.65%) Scala
17 20 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.47%) PL/SQL
19 15 (0.44%) R
20 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 308 (9.11%) Degree
2 198 (5.86%) Security Cleared
3 148 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 61 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.63%) CISSP
8 47 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.06%) CISM
11 35 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.01%) PhD
13 33 (0.98%) ACCA
14 29 (0.86%) CCNP
15 26 (0.77%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.77%) CRISC
16 25 (0.74%) OSCP
17 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
18 21 (0.62%) CIMA
19 16 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.05%) QA
2 76 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (2.10%) NIST
5 57 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.21%) GDPR
7 36 (1.06%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.62%) SLA
9 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.41%) IFRS
12 14 (0.41%) NCSC
13 11 (0.33%) MiFID
14 10 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.24%) WCAG
16 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 128 (3.79%) Docker
2 104 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.95%) 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 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.059%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.030%) IAG
Systems Management
1 231 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 179 (5.29%) Terraform
3 49 (1.45%) Ansible
4 46 (1.36%) Grafana
5 41 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.68%) SCCM
8 18 (0.53%) 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%) Cilium
12 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.15%) Kibana
13 4 (0.12%) Argo
13 4 (0.12%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.089%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.059%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 367 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.63%) Salesforce
2 89 (2.63%) SAP
3 76 (2.25%) VMware
4 73 (2.16%) Cisco
4 73 (2.16%) Databricks
5 61 (1.80%) Oracle
6 59 (1.75%) Google
7 49 (1.45%) Dell
8 47 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 39 (1.15%) Adobe
10 29 (0.86%) OpenAI
10 29 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 27 (0.80%) Fortinet
11 27 (0.80%) IBM
12 24 (0.71%) SolarWinds
13 23 (0.68%) Apple
14 22 (0.65%) Workday
15 21 (0.62%) Foundry
16 19 (0.56%) Intapp