Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £86,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,949 2,144 3,839
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.73% 17.97% 20.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 19.71% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,529 1,263 2,263
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 23,267 10,877 18,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 91.16% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,987 7,089 11,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 17 September 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 September 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 +6 502 £90,000 +16.13% 865
West London +26 102 £60,000 +21.95% 144
South London +23 48 £80,000 -25.58% 56
East London +10 26 £120,000 +65.52% 30
North London +1 2 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 720 (18.23%) AI
2 693 (17.55%) Software Engineering
3 637 (16.13%) AWS
4 593 (15.02%) Azure
5 584 (14.79%) Python
6 496 (12.56%) Agile
7 480 (12.15%) Analytics
8 450 (11.40%) CI/CD
9 430 (10.89%) Mentoring
10 408 (10.33%) Microsoft
11 364 (9.22%) SQL
12 355 (8.99%) DevOps
13 338 (8.56%) Degree
14 332 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
15 331 (8.38%) Roadmaps
16 320 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 310 (7.85%) Stakeholder Management
18 303 (7.67%) Java
19 278 (7.04%) Security Cleared
20 274 (6.94%) Machine Learning
21 248 (6.28%) Decision-Making
22 246 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
23 240 (6.08%) GCP
24 238 (6.03%) Business Development
25 227 (5.75%) Data Science
26 225 (5.70%) Kubernetes
27 224 (5.67%) Microservices
28 216 (5.47%) Terraform
29 208 (5.27%) Test Automation
30 198 (5.01%) SaaS

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 69 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 54 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.71%) Apache
6 22 (0.56%) Confluence
7 19 (0.48%) SAS
8 14 (0.35%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.076%) Kinematics
12 3 (0.076%) WinCC
13 2 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.051%) nginx
13 2 (0.051%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.051%) Umbraco
Applications
1 41 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.18%) InDesign
8 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
12 3 (0.076%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.076%) Blender
12 3 (0.076%) Maya
12 3 (0.076%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.076%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.076%) Revit
12 3 (0.076%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.38%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
7 5 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 5 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.10%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.076%) Endur
9 3 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.076%) Oracle SCM
9 3 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.076%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 637 (16.13%) AWS
2 593 (15.02%) Azure
3 240 (6.08%) GCP
4 198 (5.01%) SaaS
5 145 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 141 (3.57%) Serverless
7 127 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
9 116 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 114 (2.89%) GitHub
11 78 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (1.62%) Entra ID
13 59 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 54 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
16 47 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
17 45 (1.14%) Azure AKS
18 43 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
19 41 (1.04%) Snowflake
20 40 (1.01%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 112 (2.84%) Firewall
2 100 (2.53%) Network Security
3 75 (1.90%) DNS
4 65 (1.65%) VPN
5 52 (1.32%) VLAN
6 45 (1.14%) DHCP
7 41 (1.04%) WAN
8 40 (1.01%) Internet
9 39 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (0.91%) BGP
11 35 (0.89%) TCP/IP
12 34 (0.86%) Broadband
12 34 (0.86%) OSPF
13 27 (0.68%) LAN
14 20 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 20 (0.51%) Wireless
15 18 (0.46%) SAN
16 16 (0.41%) VXLAN
17 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
17 13 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (2.89%) Power BI
2 107 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 57 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.32%) Tableau
7 51 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (1.29%) Data Lake
8 47 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 42 (1.06%) Big Data
10 37 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (0.94%) Metadata
11 36 (0.91%) MySQL
12 32 (0.81%) DynamoDB
13 31 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (0.61%) BigQuery
15 23 (0.58%) SAP HANA
16 21 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
17 20 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 105 (2.66%) Git
2 57 (1.44%) JIRA
3 44 (1.11%) GitLab
4 42 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.51%) MLflow
6 20 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 7 (0.18%) NUnit
10 6 (0.15%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) JUnit
12 4 (0.10%) Maven
12 4 (0.10%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.10%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 999 (25.30%) Finance
2 677 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 291 (7.37%) Banking
4 289 (7.32%) Law
5 279 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 228 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 211 (5.34%) Marketing
8 161 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 148 (3.75%) Retail
10 144 (3.65%) Legal
11 96 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 73 (1.85%) Front Office
13 68 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
14 64 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
16 39 (0.99%) Manufacturing
17 38 (0.96%) Games
18 33 (0.84%) Military
18 33 (0.84%) Telecoms
19 31 (0.79%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (5.47%) Terraform
2 137 (3.47%) .NET
3 133 (3.37%) React
4 124 (3.14%) REST
5 115 (2.91%) Kafka
6 90 (2.28%) Spring
7 85 (2.15%) RESTful
8 79 (2.00%) Node.js
9 67 (1.70%) Spring Boot
10 53 (1.34%) HTML
11 41 (1.04%) Next.js
12 40 (1.01%) CSS
13 35 (0.89%) JSON
14 33 (0.84%) AngularJS
14 33 (0.84%) PySpark
15 32 (0.81%) LangChain
16 31 (0.79%) Django
17 29 (0.73%) .NET Core
17 29 (0.73%) React Native
18 28 (0.71%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 258 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 154 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 145 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 118 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 116 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 108 (2.73%) AI Agents
8 64 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 62 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 53 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.22%) Blog
12 47 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 45 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (1.06%) Derivative
14 42 (1.06%) e-Learning
15 41 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 41 (1.04%) Mobile App
16 36 (0.91%) Equities
16 36 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 104 (2.63%) Linux
2 99 (2.51%) Windows
3 45 (1.14%) Android
4 35 (0.89%) Unix
5 32 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.25%) AIX
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.076%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.051%) CentOS
11 2 (0.051%) tvOS
11 2 (0.051%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.025%) Rocky
12 1 (0.025%) VMS
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (18.23%) AI
2 693 (17.55%) Software Engineering
3 496 (12.56%) Agile
4 480 (12.15%) Analytics
5 450 (11.40%) CI/CD
6 430 (10.89%) Mentoring
7 355 (8.99%) DevOps
8 332 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
9 331 (8.38%) Roadmaps
10 320 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 310 (7.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 274 (6.94%) Machine Learning
13 248 (6.28%) Decision-Making
14 246 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 238 (6.03%) Business Development
16 227 (5.75%) Data Science
17 224 (5.67%) Microservices
18 208 (5.27%) Test Automation
19 197 (4.99%) Migration
20 191 (4.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 584 (14.79%) Python
2 364 (9.22%) SQL
3 303 (7.67%) Java
4 143 (3.62%) C#
4 143 (3.62%) TypeScript
5 124 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 88 (2.23%) C++
7 69 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.37%) Bash
9 53 (1.34%) Go
10 30 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 27 (0.68%) Bicep
12 26 (0.66%) PHP
13 24 (0.61%) R
14 22 (0.56%) Scala
15 21 (0.53%) Ruby
16 20 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.46%) SOQL
18 17 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 338 (8.56%) Degree
2 278 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 180 (4.56%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 66 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.42%) CISSP
8 50 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 42 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.01%) CISM
12 39 (0.99%) PhD
13 32 (0.81%) CCNP
14 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.68%) CISA
16 22 (0.56%) ACCA
17 17 (0.43%) CCNA
17 17 (0.43%) CIMA
18 16 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 121 (3.06%) QA
3 91 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.18%) GDPR
5 81 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 75 (1.90%) NIST
7 48 (1.22%) GRC
8 23 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) COBIT
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.28%) NCSC
13 11 (0.28%) PMO
13 11 (0.28%) WCAG
14 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.23%) MiFID
15 9 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (3.27%) Docker
2 63 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.076%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.051%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.051%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.025%) Firmware
9 1 (0.025%) IAG
9 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 225 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 37 (0.94%) Ansible
3 32 (0.81%) Grafana
4 27 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.53%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.51%) Puppet
7 19 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.28%) Nagios
9 10 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.20%) SCCM
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Istio
13 4 (0.10%) EnCase
13 4 (0.10%) FTK
13 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 408 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 129 (3.27%) Oracle
3 115 (2.91%) Google
3 115 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 104 (2.63%) SAP
5 95 (2.41%) Databricks
6 68 (1.72%) Cisco
7 55 (1.39%) VMware
8 52 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 46 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 40 (1.01%) Zscaler
11 35 (0.89%) OpenAI
12 31 (0.79%) Adobe
13 28 (0.71%) Splunk
14 27 (0.68%) HP
15 26 (0.66%) Workday
16 25 (0.63%) Dell
16 25 (0.63%) Intapp
17 24 (0.61%) IBM
18 22 (0.56%) Fortinet