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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,506 2,111 4,690
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.46% 17.28% 19.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.80% 19.10% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,304 1,281 3,230
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 £95,938
90th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -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 19,697 11,055 23,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 90.50% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13,573 6,940 17,175
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -12.98%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +7 714 £90,000 +12.50% 210
West London +33 105 £75,000 +17.65% 46
South London +36 67 £60,000 -44.19% 10
East London -3 17 £68,000 -28.42% 24
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 579 (16.51%) Azure
2 532 (15.17%) Python
3 531 (15.15%) Software Engineering
4 510 (14.55%) AWS
5 470 (13.41%) Agile
6 462 (13.18%) AI
7 377 (10.75%) Analytics
8 372 (10.61%) Microsoft
9 366 (10.44%) Mentoring
10 364 (10.38%) CI/CD
11 318 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
12 296 (8.44%) Degree
13 286 (8.16%) DevOps
14 281 (8.01%) SQL
15 261 (7.44%) Java
16 259 (7.39%) Roadmaps
17 258 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 237 (6.76%) Kubernetes
19 229 (6.53%) Microservices
20 223 (6.36%) Security Cleared
21 219 (6.25%) Decision-Making
21 219 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
22 217 (6.19%) GCP
23 212 (6.05%) Test Automation
24 208 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
25 200 (5.70%) SaaS
26 197 (5.62%) Terraform
27 195 (5.56%) Business Development
28 194 (5.53%) Full-Stack Development
29 185 (5.28%) 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 67 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 57 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.66%) Apache
5 20 (0.57%) CMS
6 14 (0.40%) Confluence
7 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.17%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.17%) SAS
9 5 (0.14%) Drupal
9 5 (0.14%) JBoss
10 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.086%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) Sketch
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) InVision
10 3 (0.086%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.086%) Blender
10 3 (0.086%) InDesign
10 3 (0.086%) Maya
10 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.086%) SPSS
11 2 (0.057%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 18 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
1 18 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.34%) Maximo
4 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.11%) Shopify
8 3 (0.086%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.086%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.086%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.086%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.057%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.057%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.057%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.057%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.057%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 579 (16.51%) Azure
2 510 (14.55%) AWS
3 217 (6.19%) GCP
4 200 (5.70%) SaaS
5 151 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 126 (3.59%) Power Platform
7 120 (3.42%) GitHub
8 118 (3.37%) Serverless
9 75 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 68 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.34%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
13 42 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 40 (1.14%) Figma
15 38 (1.08%) IaaS
16 37 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 37 (1.06%) Datadog
16 37 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.05%) Firewall
2 81 (2.31%) DNS
3 76 (2.17%) Broadband
4 74 (2.11%) VPN
5 73 (2.08%) Network Security
6 61 (1.74%) DHCP
7 56 (1.60%) VLAN
8 53 (1.51%) WAN
9 50 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.23%) Wireless
11 34 (0.97%) BGP
11 34 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 33 (0.94%) OSPF
13 30 (0.86%) SAN
13 30 (0.86%) TCP/IP
14 27 (0.77%) LAN
15 24 (0.68%) Multicast
16 21 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.48%) HTTP
18 13 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 101 (2.88%) Power BI
3 53 (1.51%) NoSQL
4 45 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (1.28%) Tableau
5 43 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 43 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 39 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 39 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 36 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 34 (0.97%) Metadata
10 32 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.63%) MySQL
13 20 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (0.57%) Db2
14 18 (0.51%) Big Data
14 18 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 121 (3.45%) Git
2 70 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.57%) JIRA
4 42 (1.20%) GitLab
5 37 (1.06%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.68%) MLflow
7 19 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.31%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.26%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 909 (25.93%) Finance
2 561 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 266 (7.59%) Banking
4 265 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 218 (6.22%) Law
6 200 (5.70%) Marketing
7 177 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 166 (4.73%) Legal
9 154 (4.39%) Retail
10 150 (4.28%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.94%) Front Office
12 60 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (1.45%) Advertising
13 51 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 49 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 38 (1.08%) Games
17 34 (0.97%) Legal Technology
18 30 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
19 29 (0.83%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.16%) .NET
2 142 (4.05%) React
3 117 (3.34%) REST
4 101 (2.88%) Kafka
5 86 (2.45%) Node.js
6 76 (2.17%) Spring
7 71 (2.03%) RESTful
8 66 (1.88%) Spring Boot
9 52 (1.48%) CSS
10 46 (1.31%) SOAP
11 44 (1.25%) HTML
12 40 (1.14%) PyTorch
13 37 (1.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 35 (1.00%) PySpark
15 34 (0.97%) OAuth
16 31 (0.88%) LangChain
17 30 (0.86%) Django
18 29 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
19 27 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
20 25 (0.71%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 253 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 83 (2.37%) Algorithms
5 71 (2.03%) Security Posture
6 70 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 68 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 51 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 50 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 47 (1.34%) Equities
13 45 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 40 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.08%) Derivative
15 38 (1.08%) Social Media
16 35 (1.00%) Hedge funds
16 35 (1.00%) Low-Code
17 32 (0.91%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.19%) Linux
2 131 (3.74%) Windows
3 48 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 38 (1.08%) Android
5 32 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.74%) Unix
7 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.29%) VMS
10 8 (0.23%) AIX
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.057%) tvOS
13 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (15.15%) Software Engineering
2 470 (13.41%) Agile
3 462 (13.18%) AI
4 377 (10.75%) Analytics
5 366 (10.44%) Mentoring
6 364 (10.38%) CI/CD
7 318 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (8.16%) DevOps
9 259 (7.39%) Roadmaps
10 258 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 229 (6.53%) Microservices
12 219 (6.25%) Decision-Making
12 219 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 212 (6.05%) Test Automation
14 208 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
15 195 (5.56%) Business Development
16 194 (5.53%) Full-Stack Development
17 185 (5.28%) Machine Learning
18 177 (5.05%) Fintech
19 168 (4.79%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 532 (15.17%) Python
2 281 (8.01%) SQL
3 261 (7.44%) Java
4 147 (4.19%) C#
5 144 (4.11%) TypeScript
6 142 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 131 (3.74%) C++
8 82 (2.34%) Go
9 75 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 56 (1.60%) Bash
11 33 (0.94%) Bicep
12 27 (0.77%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.77%) SOQL
13 26 (0.74%) Scala
14 23 (0.66%) PHP
15 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) Rust
16 18 (0.51%) R
17 17 (0.48%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 296 (8.44%) Degree
2 223 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 168 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 92 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 63 (1.80%) CISSP
7 62 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.20%) PhD
11 40 (1.14%) CISM
12 37 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 34 (0.97%) CCNP
14 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.74%) CRISC
16 25 (0.71%) ACCA
16 25 (0.71%) OSCP
17 22 (0.63%) CREST Certified
18 21 (0.60%) CISA
19 20 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (3.11%) QA
2 86 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 84 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.31%) NIST
5 63 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.31%) GDPR
7 38 (1.08%) GRC
8 21 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.40%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.31%) IFRS
13 11 (0.31%) MiFID
14 9 (0.26%) COBIT
15 8 (0.23%) WCAG
16 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.65%) Docker
2 99 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) Firmware
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 237 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 197 (5.62%) Terraform
3 48 (1.37%) Grafana
4 47 (1.34%) Ansible
5 43 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.60%) SCCM
9 13 (0.37%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.23%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.086%) Argo
14 3 (0.086%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 372 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 99 (2.82%) Salesforce
3 94 (2.68%) SAP
4 80 (2.28%) Databricks
5 75 (2.14%) VMware
6 72 (2.05%) Cisco
7 69 (1.97%) Oracle
8 59 (1.68%) Google
9 58 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.34%) Dell
11 45 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 42 (1.20%) Adobe
13 31 (0.88%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.83%) Fortinet
14 29 (0.83%) IBM
15 24 (0.68%) SolarWinds
15 24 (0.68%) Splunk
16 23 (0.66%) Apple
16 23 (0.66%) Foundry
17 21 (0.60%) Intapp