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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,189 2,149 4,342
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.17% 16.75% 18.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.60% 18.57% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,075 1,379 3,089
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 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,500 £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 18,120 11,570 21,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 90.18% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,197 7,527 16,698
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
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 £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +7 680 £90,000 +16.13% 214
West London +7 89 £75,000 +15.38% 20
South London +23 58 £60,000 -4.00% 9
East London -16 13 £79,000 -16.84% 35
North London -5 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 553 (17.34%) Azure
2 466 (14.61%) AWS
3 459 (14.39%) Agile
3 459 (14.39%) Software Engineering
4 451 (14.14%) AI
5 442 (13.86%) Python
6 381 (11.95%) Mentoring
7 352 (11.04%) Analytics
8 346 (10.85%) Microsoft
9 327 (10.25%) Degree
10 294 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
11 293 (9.19%) CI/CD
12 281 (8.81%) DevOps
13 280 (8.78%) Java
14 248 (7.78%) SQL
15 245 (7.68%) Roadmaps
16 238 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
17 227 (7.12%) Kubernetes
18 222 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
19 221 (6.93%) GCP
20 218 (6.84%) Microservices
21 210 (6.59%) SaaS
22 199 (6.24%) Decision-Making
23 183 (5.74%) Test Automation
24 178 (5.58%) Coaching
25 177 (5.55%) Computer Science
26 176 (5.52%) Security Cleared
27 175 (5.49%) Fintech
28 174 (5.46%) Machine Learning
29 173 (5.42%) Full-Stack Development

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 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.56%) CMS
6 16 (0.50%) Apache
7 13 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.31%) JBoss
8 10 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.19%) Kinematics
10 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.19%) WordPress
11 5 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.094%) nginx
13 3 (0.094%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.094%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.22%) Maya
5 7 (0.22%) Sketch
6 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.19%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) InVision
9 3 (0.094%) SPSS
10 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.063%) Weka
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.38%) Maximo
5 9 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.16%) Shopify
9 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.094%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.094%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.094%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.063%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 553 (17.34%) Azure
2 466 (14.61%) AWS
3 221 (6.93%) GCP
4 210 (6.59%) SaaS
5 140 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 131 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 118 (3.70%) GitHub
8 95 (2.98%) Serverless
9 85 (2.67%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 43 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 40 (1.25%) Snowflake
14 39 (1.22%) PaaS
15 38 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.19%) Figma
16 35 (1.10%) Datadog
16 35 (1.10%) IaaS
17 34 (1.07%) dbt
18 33 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.82%) Firewall
2 72 (2.26%) DNS
3 64 (2.01%) VPN
4 61 (1.91%) DHCP
5 60 (1.88%) WAN
6 59 (1.85%) Broadband
7 52 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (1.41%) Network Security
9 42 (1.32%) VLAN
10 39 (1.22%) LAN
10 39 (1.22%) Wireless
11 33 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 30 (0.94%) SAN
13 29 (0.91%) TCP/IP
14 25 (0.78%) Multicast
15 24 (0.75%) HTTP
16 19 (0.60%) BGP
17 17 (0.53%) OSPF
18 15 (0.47%) WebEx
19 14 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.32%) SQL Server
2 103 (3.23%) Power BI
3 57 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 45 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 44 (1.38%) NoSQL
7 43 (1.35%) Tableau
8 36 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (0.97%) Metadata
9 31 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 29 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.72%) DB2
12 22 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.66%) Looker
14 18 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (0.53%) MongoDB
15 17 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 97 (3.04%) Git
2 65 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.69%) JIRA
4 32 (1.00%) GitLab
4 32 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 27 (0.85%) MLflow
6 19 (0.60%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.28%) Burp Suite
7 9 (0.28%) Metasploit
8 8 (0.25%) Chocolatey
8 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.25%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) Vite
9 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.19%) JMeter
10 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.13%) Gatling
12 4 (0.13%) LoadRunner
General
1 888 (27.85%) Finance
2 532 (16.68%) Social Skills
3 269 (8.44%) Banking
4 260 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 222 (6.96%) Marketing
6 210 (6.59%) Law
7 184 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 174 (5.46%) Legal
9 170 (5.33%) Retail
10 131 (4.11%) Public Sector
11 68 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 61 (1.91%) Front Office
14 56 (1.76%) Advertising
15 55 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
17 44 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 37 (1.16%) Games
19 25 (0.78%) Back Office
19 25 (0.78%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (4.45%) React
2 139 (4.36%) .NET
3 116 (3.64%) REST
4 104 (3.26%) Kafka
5 90 (2.82%) Node.js
6 72 (2.26%) RESTful
7 68 (2.13%) Spring
8 54 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 52 (1.63%) CSS
10 47 (1.47%) SOAP
11 43 (1.35%) HTML
12 41 (1.29%) PyTorch
13 35 (1.10%) OAuth
14 32 (1.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 31 (0.97%) LangChain
16 30 (0.94%) Django
16 30 (0.94%) gRPC
17 28 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (0.82%) TensorFlow
18 26 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 229 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 95 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 65 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 64 (2.01%) Algorithms
5 64 (2.01%) Security Posture
6 63 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 55 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 54 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 53 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 53 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.29%) Equities
14 40 (1.25%) Social Media
15 36 (1.13%) Hedge funds
16 31 (0.97%) Derivative
17 28 (0.88%) Blockchain
18 27 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 140 (4.39%) Linux
2 125 (3.92%) Windows
3 56 (1.76%) Android
4 55 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 33 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.72%) Unix
7 20 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.41%) VMS
9 12 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.13%) CentOS
14 3 (0.094%) AIX
15 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.031%) Rocky
16 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (14.39%) Agile
1 459 (14.39%) Software Engineering
2 451 (14.14%) AI
3 381 (11.95%) Mentoring
4 352 (11.04%) Analytics
5 294 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
6 293 (9.19%) CI/CD
7 281 (8.81%) DevOps
8 245 (7.68%) Roadmaps
9 238 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 222 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 218 (6.84%) Microservices
12 199 (6.24%) Decision-Making
13 183 (5.74%) Test Automation
14 178 (5.58%) Coaching
15 177 (5.55%) Computer Science
16 175 (5.49%) Fintech
17 174 (5.46%) Machine Learning
18 173 (5.42%) Full-Stack Development
19 172 (5.39%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 442 (13.86%) Python
2 280 (8.78%) Java
3 248 (7.78%) SQL
4 138 (4.33%) C#
5 137 (4.30%) JavaScript
6 136 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 121 (3.79%) C++
8 85 (2.67%) Go
9 63 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 43 (1.35%) Bash
11 32 (1.00%) Bicep
12 27 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 26 (0.82%) Rust
14 24 (0.75%) Apex Code
15 22 (0.69%) Scala
16 21 (0.66%) SOQL
17 19 (0.60%) PHP
18 15 (0.47%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.38%) R
20 11 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 327 (10.25%) Degree
2 176 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 134 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 54 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.66%) CISSP
8 45 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (1.32%) ACCA
10 39 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 36 (1.13%) CISM
13 30 (0.94%) PhD
14 27 (0.85%) CRISC
15 26 (0.82%) CCNP
15 26 (0.82%) CIMA
16 24 (0.75%) OSCP
17 23 (0.72%) AWS Certification
18 21 (0.66%) CREST Certified
19 14 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (2.79%) QA
2 75 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.26%) NIST
4 70 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.54%) GDPR
6 34 (1.07%) GRC
7 22 (0.69%) SLA
8 19 (0.60%) IFRS
8 19 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.47%) NCSC
12 13 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.31%) MiFID
14 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.22%) IFRS 17
15 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 131 (4.11%) Docker
2 105 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.28%) Firmware
6 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.094%) vSphere
9 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.063%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.031%) HDFS
10 1 (0.031%) IAG
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.031%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 227 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 167 (5.24%) Terraform
3 48 (1.51%) Ansible
4 45 (1.41%) Grafana
5 44 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.72%) SCCM
8 11 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.28%) Nagios
9 9 (0.28%) Nessus
10 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) Istio
12 5 (0.16%) Kibana
13 4 (0.13%) Argo
13 4 (0.13%) Cilium
14 3 (0.094%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.094%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.094%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 346 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 81 (2.54%) SAP
3 76 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 73 (2.29%) Cisco
5 72 (2.26%) VMware
6 64 (2.01%) Databricks
7 58 (1.82%) Google
8 51 (1.60%) Dell
9 49 (1.54%) Oracle
10 38 (1.19%) Adobe
11 37 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 25 (0.78%) IBM
13 24 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 23 (0.72%) OpenAI
14 23 (0.72%) ServiceNow
15 22 (0.69%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.66%) Apple
16 21 (0.66%) Workday
17 19 (0.60%) Intapp
17 19 (0.60%) Meraki