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 5 July 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,579 2,157 4,511
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.26% 17.32% 18.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.53% 18.94% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,340 1,332 3,119
10th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,848 £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 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,384 £62,879
% change year-on-year +0.89% +10.34% -10.17%

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 20,417 11,390 22,644
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 91.47% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,059 7,300 16,762
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,655 £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 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +7.95% -12.50%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +7 702 £90,000 +12.50% 360
West London +32 107 £75,000 +20.00% 61
South London +34 60 £80,000 -25.58% 10
East London +1 16 £68,000 -15.00% 34
North London +5 2 £70,000 -6.67% 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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.

1 595 (16.62%) Azure
2 588 (16.43%) AWS
3 572 (15.98%) Python
4 556 (15.54%) Software Engineering
5 521 (14.56%) AI
6 491 (13.72%) Agile
7 415 (11.60%) Mentoring
8 410 (11.46%) Analytics
9 384 (10.73%) CI/CD
10 377 (10.53%) Microsoft
11 319 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
12 309 (8.63%) Degree
13 306 (8.55%) SQL
14 301 (8.41%) DevOps
15 284 (7.94%) Roadmaps
16 278 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 266 (7.43%) Java
18 260 (7.26%) Security Cleared
19 248 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
20 241 (6.73%) Kubernetes
21 233 (6.51%) Infrastructure as Code
22 230 (6.43%) Business Development
22 230 (6.43%) Decision-Making
23 229 (6.40%) GCP
24 226 (6.31%) Microservices
25 223 (6.23%) Terraform
26 202 (5.64%) SaaS
27 200 (5.59%) Test Automation
28 199 (5.56%) Machine Learning
29 187 (5.22%) 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 69 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.73%) Apache
6 22 (0.61%) CMS
7 16 (0.45%) Confluence
7 16 (0.45%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.084%) IIS
13 3 (0.084%) JBoss
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 595 (16.62%) Azure
2 588 (16.43%) AWS
3 229 (6.40%) GCP
4 202 (5.64%) SaaS
5 159 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 139 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 137 (3.83%) Serverless
8 115 (3.21%) GitHub
9 79 (2.21%) Entra ID
10 75 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
12 60 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 53 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 49 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.15%) Figma
19 37 (1.03%) dbt
20 34 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.27%) Firewall
2 99 (2.77%) Network Security
3 83 (2.32%) DNS
4 76 (2.12%) VPN
5 69 (1.93%) Broadband
6 58 (1.62%) DHCP
7 57 (1.59%) VLAN
8 56 (1.56%) WAN
9 50 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.12%) BGP
11 39 (1.09%) Wireless
12 38 (1.06%) OSPF
13 31 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 29 (0.81%) LAN
16 27 (0.75%) SAN
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
18 19 (0.53%) Multicast
19 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
20 15 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.13%) Power BI
2 103 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 54 (1.51%) NoSQL
4 52 (1.45%) Tableau
5 50 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 50 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 42 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 39 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 38 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 36 (1.01%) Metadata
12 36 (1.01%) Relational Database
13 29 (0.81%) MySQL
14 28 (0.78%) Big Data
15 22 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (0.53%) Db2
18 18 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 120 (3.35%) Git
2 59 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.62%) JIRA
4 40 (1.12%) GitLab
5 32 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 21 (0.59%) MLflow
7 18 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.22%) Metasploit
10 8 (0.22%) Vite
11 7 (0.20%) Selenium
12 6 (0.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 909 (25.40%) Finance
2 593 (16.57%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.29%) Banking
5 226 (6.31%) Law
6 193 (5.39%) Marketing
7 181 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 165 (4.61%) Legal
9 155 (4.33%) Retail
10 152 (4.25%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.90%) Front Office
12 67 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.48%) Advertising
13 53 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 46 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.23%) Games
16 36 (1.01%) Billing
17 35 (0.98%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (4.27%) React
2 145 (4.05%) .NET
3 117 (3.27%) REST
4 100 (2.79%) Kafka
5 87 (2.43%) Node.js
6 70 (1.96%) Spring
7 61 (1.70%) RESTful
7 61 (1.70%) Spring Boot
8 51 (1.42%) CSS
9 46 (1.29%) HTML
10 43 (1.20%) SOAP
11 35 (0.98%) Django
11 35 (0.98%) PyTorch
12 33 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 31 (0.87%) OAuth
13 31 (0.87%) PySpark
14 30 (0.84%) LangChain
15 26 (0.73%) .NET Core
15 26 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
16 25 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 262 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 106 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (2.85%) Onboarding
3 102 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 96 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 85 (2.37%) Algorithms
6 71 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 69 (1.93%) Security Posture
8 53 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 51 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (1.23%) Equities
12 43 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.15%) AI Agents
14 39 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
15 38 (1.06%) Social Media
16 37 (1.03%) Derivative
16 37 (1.03%) Low-Code
16 37 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 141 (3.94%) Linux
2 122 (3.41%) Windows
3 38 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 27 (0.75%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (15.54%) Software Engineering
2 521 (14.56%) AI
3 491 (13.72%) Agile
4 415 (11.60%) Mentoring
5 410 (11.46%) Analytics
6 384 (10.73%) CI/CD
7 319 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (8.41%) DevOps
9 284 (7.94%) Roadmaps
10 278 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 248 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 233 (6.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 230 (6.43%) Business Development
13 230 (6.43%) Decision-Making
14 226 (6.31%) Microservices
15 200 (5.59%) Test Automation
16 199 (5.56%) Machine Learning
17 187 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 178 (4.97%) Fintech
19 168 (4.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 572 (15.98%) Python
2 306 (8.55%) SQL
3 266 (7.43%) Java
4 153 (4.27%) C#
5 149 (4.16%) JavaScript
5 149 (4.16%) TypeScript
6 124 (3.46%) C++
7 76 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 71 (1.98%) Go
9 66 (1.84%) Bash
10 31 (0.87%) Bicep
11 28 (0.78%) PHP
12 26 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.73%) SOQL
13 25 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 23 (0.64%) Scala
15 19 (0.53%) Rust
16 18 (0.50%) R
17 17 (0.47%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 309 (8.63%) Degree
2 260 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 172 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (2.01%) CISSP
6 69 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 53 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 51 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (1.29%) CISM
11 44 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 43 (1.20%) PhD
13 38 (1.06%) CCNP
14 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.75%) CISA
15 27 (0.75%) CRISC
16 23 (0.64%) ACCA
17 21 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (3.35%) QA
2 96 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 93 (2.60%) NIST
5 68 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 63 (1.76%) GDPR
7 46 (1.29%) GRC
8 22 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) SLA
14 10 (0.28%) COBIT
14 10 (0.28%) MiFID
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
14 10 (0.28%) WCAG
15 9 (0.25%) IFRS
15 9 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 125 (3.49%) Docker
2 94 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 241 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 223 (6.23%) Terraform
3 47 (1.31%) Ansible
4 45 (1.26%) Grafana
5 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 19 (0.53%) SCCM
9 13 (0.36%) Nagios
10 12 (0.34%) Puppet
11 11 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
13 8 (0.22%) Nessus
14 7 (0.20%) Cilium
14 7 (0.20%) Istio
15 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.14%) Kibana
16 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 377 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 112 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 104 (2.91%) SAP
4 83 (2.32%) Oracle
5 81 (2.26%) Databricks
6 69 (1.93%) Google
6 69 (1.93%) VMware
7 66 (1.84%) Cisco
8 64 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 46 (1.29%) Dell
10 43 (1.20%) Adobe
10 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 33 (0.92%) IBM
12 32 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 27 (0.75%) Splunk
14 25 (0.70%) Intapp
15 23 (0.64%) Foundry
15 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.59%) Apple