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 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,404 1,993 4,496
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.33% 16.60% 19.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.71% 18.46% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 1,234 3,149
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% +3.87% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 19,222 10,795 22,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 89.90% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,160 6,880 16,693
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 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% -12.83%

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 25 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 25 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 +7 710 £90,000 +12.50% 352
West London +26 97 £75,000 +17.65% 18
South London +30 65 £60,000 -44.19% 20
East London -10 17 £79,000 -16.84% 22
North London -1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 563 (16.54%) Azure
2 502 (14.75%) Software Engineering
3 501 (14.72%) Python
4 487 (14.31%) AWS
5 473 (13.90%) Agile
6 448 (13.16%) AI
7 371 (10.90%) Mentoring
8 366 (10.75%) Microsoft
9 365 (10.72%) Analytics
10 334 (9.81%) CI/CD
11 312 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
12 301 (8.84%) Degree
13 271 (7.96%) DevOps
14 266 (7.81%) Java
15 263 (7.73%) SQL
16 249 (7.31%) Roadmaps
17 240 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 235 (6.90%) Microservices
19 233 (6.84%) Kubernetes
20 224 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
21 217 (6.37%) Decision-Making
22 211 (6.20%) GCP
23 209 (6.14%) SaaS
24 207 (6.08%) Security Cleared
25 202 (5.93%) Test Automation
26 190 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
27 187 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
28 182 (5.35%) Fintech
29 181 (5.32%) Terraform
30 180 (5.29%) Business 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 65 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.59%) Apache
5 20 (0.59%) CMS
6 14 (0.41%) Confluence
7 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.18%) JBoss
8 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.15%) Drupal
9 5 (0.15%) SAS
9 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.059%) nginx
11 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.24%) Maya
7 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 6 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.12%) InVision
10 3 (0.088%) SPSS
11 2 (0.059%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.059%) Weka
12 1 (0.029%) Blender
12 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
5 8 (0.24%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.15%) Shopify
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.088%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.059%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.059%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.059%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.059%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 563 (16.54%) Azure
2 487 (14.31%) AWS
3 211 (6.20%) GCP
4 209 (6.14%) SaaS
5 150 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 125 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 117 (3.44%) GitHub
8 113 (3.32%) Serverless
9 80 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 44 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 39 (1.15%) Datadog
14 39 (1.15%) Figma
14 39 (1.15%) PaaS
15 38 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (1.12%) IaaS
15 38 (1.12%) Snowflake
16 37 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 99 (2.91%) Firewall
2 81 (2.38%) DNS
3 73 (2.14%) VPN
4 70 (2.06%) Broadband
5 65 (1.91%) DHCP
6 61 (1.79%) Network Security
7 56 (1.65%) WAN
8 53 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
9 51 (1.50%) VLAN
10 42 (1.23%) Wireless
11 34 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 33 (0.97%) SAN
13 32 (0.94%) LAN
14 30 (0.88%) TCP/IP
15 25 (0.73%) BGP
16 24 (0.71%) Multicast
16 24 (0.71%) OSPF
17 19 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (0.56%) HTTP
18 12 (0.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 100 (2.94%) Power BI
3 52 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (1.44%) NoSQL
5 45 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 44 (1.29%) Tableau
7 41 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (0.94%) Metadata
12 31 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (0.85%) MongoDB
13 29 (0.85%) Relational Database
14 23 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (0.62%) MySQL
16 20 (0.59%) DB2
17 19 (0.56%) Big Data
17 19 (0.56%) Looker
18 18 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 108 (3.17%) Git
2 70 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.53%) JIRA
4 41 (1.20%) GitLab
5 35 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) MLflow
7 20 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 8 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.21%) Selenium
11 6 (0.18%) JMeter
12 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.12%) Gatling
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.088%) XCUITest
General
1 896 (26.32%) Finance
2 551 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 263 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (7.70%) Banking
5 223 (6.55%) Law
6 206 (6.05%) Marketing
7 188 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 172 (5.05%) Legal
9 156 (4.58%) Retail
10 149 (4.38%) Public Sector
11 65 (1.91%) Front Office
12 59 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (1.44%) Advertising
15 46 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 42 (1.23%) Games
17 40 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
18 36 (1.06%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.79%) Publishing
20 26 (0.76%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.29%) React
2 141 (4.14%) .NET
3 114 (3.35%) REST
4 98 (2.88%) Kafka
5 87 (2.56%) Node.js
6 77 (2.26%) Spring
7 67 (1.97%) Spring Boot
8 65 (1.91%) RESTful
9 55 (1.62%) CSS
10 46 (1.35%) HTML
11 45 (1.32%) SOAP
12 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
13 35 (1.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 32 (0.94%) LangChain
14 32 (0.94%) PySpark
15 30 (0.88%) OAuth
16 28 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.79%) Django
18 26 (0.76%) .NET Core
18 26 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 242 (7.11%) Cloud Native
2 93 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 74 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 65 (1.91%) Data Structures
6 63 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 58 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 52 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 52 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 50 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 50 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 47 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.32%) Equities
12 45 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.15%) Derivative
14 37 (1.09%) Social Media
15 36 (1.06%) Hedge funds
16 32 (0.94%) Low-Code
17 30 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 145 (4.26%) Linux
2 136 (4.00%) Windows
3 52 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.29%) Android
5 34 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.71%) Unix
7 18 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.15%) AIX
13 3 (0.088%) CentOS
14 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.059%) tvOS
15 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.029%) Rocky
15 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (14.75%) Software Engineering
2 473 (13.90%) Agile
3 448 (13.16%) AI
4 371 (10.90%) Mentoring
5 365 (10.72%) Analytics
6 334 (9.81%) CI/CD
7 312 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
8 271 (7.96%) DevOps
9 249 (7.31%) Roadmaps
10 240 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 235 (6.90%) Microservices
12 224 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 217 (6.37%) Decision-Making
14 202 (5.93%) Test Automation
15 190 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
16 187 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
17 182 (5.35%) Fintech
18 180 (5.29%) Business Development
19 173 (5.08%) Coaching
20 171 (5.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 501 (14.72%) Python
2 266 (7.81%) Java
3 263 (7.73%) SQL
4 142 (4.17%) C#
5 141 (4.14%) TypeScript
6 140 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 127 (3.73%) C++
8 79 (2.32%) Go
9 73 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 47 (1.38%) Bash
11 31 (0.91%) Bicep
12 27 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.76%) SOQL
14 24 (0.71%) Rust
14 24 (0.71%) Scala
15 23 (0.68%) PHP
16 20 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.47%) R
19 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 301 (8.84%) Degree
2 207 (6.08%) Security Cleared
3 153 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 64 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 57 (1.67%) CISSP
8 48 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.09%) CISM
10 37 (1.09%) PhD
11 35 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 31 (0.91%) CCNP
13 30 (0.88%) ACCA
14 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.76%) CRISC
15 25 (0.73%) OSCP
16 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 20 (0.59%) CIMA
18 17 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.03%) QA
2 78 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (2.09%) NIST
5 58 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.18%) GDPR
7 37 (1.09%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.56%) SLA
10 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 17 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.41%) NCSC
14 13 (0.38%) IFRS
15 11 (0.32%) MiFID
15 11 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.24%) WCAG
17 7 (0.21%) COBIT
17 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.76%) Docker
2 106 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.12%) vSphere
9 3 (0.088%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 233 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 181 (5.32%) Terraform
3 50 (1.47%) Ansible
4 46 (1.35%) Grafana
5 41 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.68%) SCCM
8 20 (0.59%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.29%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.21%) Istio
13 6 (0.18%) Cilium
14 5 (0.15%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.15%) Kibana
14 5 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.12%) Argo
16 3 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 366 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.88%) Salesforce
3 89 (2.61%) SAP
4 79 (2.32%) VMware
5 77 (2.26%) Databricks
6 74 (2.17%) Cisco
7 65 (1.91%) Oracle
8 56 (1.65%) Google
9 49 (1.44%) Dell
9 49 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.18%) Adobe
11 33 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 30 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 30 (0.88%) OpenAI
13 27 (0.79%) IBM
14 24 (0.71%) SolarWinds
15 23 (0.68%) Apple
16 22 (0.65%) Foundry
17 21 (0.62%) Splunk
18 20 (0.59%) Workday