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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,430 2,054 4,590
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.29% 17.06% 19.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.64% 18.92% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,249 1,254 3,178
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 £96,750
90th Percentile £106,500 £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 19,445 10,857 22,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 90.16% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,292 6,878 16,909
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,700 £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 £99,413 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 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 5 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 +7 697 £90,000 +12.50% 434
West London +29 101 £75,000 +20.00% 21
South London +31 65 £60,000 -44.19% 24
East London -4 16 £68,000 -28.42% 22
North London 0 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 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.

1 570 (16.62%) Azure
2 520 (15.16%) Python
3 514 (14.99%) Software Engineering
4 497 (14.49%) AWS
5 473 (13.79%) Agile
6 454 (13.24%) AI
7 374 (10.90%) Analytics
8 373 (10.87%) Microsoft
9 369 (10.76%) Mentoring
10 347 (10.12%) CI/CD
11 314 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
12 300 (8.75%) Degree
13 283 (8.25%) DevOps
14 273 (7.96%) SQL
15 261 (7.61%) Java
16 256 (7.46%) Roadmaps
17 246 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 234 (6.82%) Kubernetes
19 228 (6.65%) Microservices
20 222 (6.47%) Decision-Making
21 219 (6.38%) Security Cleared
22 217 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
23 213 (6.21%) GCP
24 206 (6.01%) Test Automation
25 204 (5.95%) SaaS
26 198 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
27 192 (5.60%) Terraform
28 191 (5.57%) Business Development
29 183 (5.34%) Full-Stack Development
30 180 (5.25%) 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 66 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.64%) Apache
6 19 (0.55%) CMS
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) Drupal
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.087%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Maya
9 3 (0.087%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.087%) Blender
9 3 (0.087%) SPSS
10 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.058%) InDesign
10 2 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 11 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.12%) Shopify
10 3 (0.087%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.087%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.087%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.087%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.058%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.058%) SAP PM
11 2 (0.058%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.058%) SAP WM
11 2 (0.058%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 570 (16.62%) Azure
2 497 (14.49%) AWS
3 213 (6.21%) GCP
4 204 (5.95%) SaaS
5 153 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.73%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.47%) Serverless
8 117 (3.41%) GitHub
9 75 (2.19%) Entra ID
10 64 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 45 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 42 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 39 (1.14%) IaaS
15 38 (1.11%) Datadog
15 38 (1.11%) Figma
15 38 (1.11%) PaaS
16 37 (1.08%) Snowflake
17 36 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 100 (2.92%) Firewall
2 78 (2.27%) DNS
3 71 (2.07%) Broadband
4 69 (2.01%) VPN
5 67 (1.95%) Network Security
6 60 (1.75%) DHCP
7 53 (1.55%) VLAN
8 52 (1.52%) WAN
9 49 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.22%) Wireless
11 33 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 30 (0.87%) BGP
12 30 (0.87%) SAN
13 29 (0.85%) OSPF
14 28 (0.82%) LAN
14 28 (0.82%) TCP/IP
15 24 (0.70%) Multicast
16 20 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.50%) HTTP
18 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (2.97%) Power BI
1 102 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 52 (1.52%) NoSQL
3 48 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.34%) Tableau
5 43 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 36 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 35 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
11 32 (0.93%) Metadata
11 32 (0.93%) MongoDB
12 31 (0.90%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (0.64%) MySQL
15 20 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.58%) Db2
16 19 (0.55%) Big Data
16 19 (0.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 114 (3.32%) Git
2 70 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 53 (1.55%) JIRA
4 42 (1.22%) GitLab
5 35 (1.02%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) MLflow
7 20 (0.58%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 7 (0.20%) Chocolatey
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
10 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.12%) Gatling
11 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 897 (26.15%) Finance
2 560 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 267 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (7.70%) Banking
5 223 (6.50%) Law
6 202 (5.89%) Marketing
7 182 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 170 (4.96%) Legal
9 153 (4.46%) Retail
10 151 (4.40%) Public Sector
11 70 (2.04%) Front Office
12 57 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 51 (1.49%) Advertising
15 49 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (1.02%) Games
18 31 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
19 29 (0.85%) Telecoms
20 27 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (4.14%) .NET
2 139 (4.05%) React
3 112 (3.27%) REST
4 101 (2.94%) Kafka
5 85 (2.48%) Node.js
6 76 (2.22%) Spring
7 66 (1.92%) Spring Boot
8 64 (1.87%) RESTful
9 53 (1.55%) CSS
10 44 (1.28%) HTML
11 43 (1.25%) SOAP
12 39 (1.14%) PyTorch
13 36 (1.05%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 36 (1.05%) PySpark
14 32 (0.93%) LangChain
14 32 (0.93%) OAuth
15 29 (0.85%) Django
15 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (0.76%) AngularJS
16 26 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 247 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 95 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 81 (2.36%) Algorithms
5 68 (1.98%) Security Posture
6 66 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 63 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 50 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
9 49 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 47 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 46 (1.34%) Equities
13 40 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (1.11%) Derivative
14 38 (1.11%) Social Media
15 36 (1.05%) Hedge funds
16 33 (0.96%) Reinsurance
17 30 (0.87%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.20%) Linux
2 131 (3.82%) Windows
3 50 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 38 (1.11%) Android
5 32 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.73%) Unix
7 16 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.20%) AIX
10 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.058%) CentOS
11 2 (0.058%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.058%) tvOS
12 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (14.99%) Software Engineering
2 473 (13.79%) Agile
3 454 (13.24%) AI
4 374 (10.90%) Analytics
5 369 (10.76%) Mentoring
6 347 (10.12%) CI/CD
7 314 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (8.25%) DevOps
9 256 (7.46%) Roadmaps
10 246 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 228 (6.65%) Microservices
12 222 (6.47%) Decision-Making
13 217 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 206 (6.01%) Test Automation
15 198 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 191 (5.57%) Business Development
17 183 (5.34%) Full-Stack Development
18 180 (5.25%) Machine Learning
19 175 (5.10%) Fintech
20 171 (4.99%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 520 (15.16%) Python
2 273 (7.96%) SQL
3 261 (7.61%) Java
4 146 (4.26%) C#
5 143 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 141 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 128 (3.73%) C++
8 76 (2.22%) Go
9 75 (2.19%) PowerShell
10 53 (1.55%) Bash
11 34 (0.99%) Bicep
12 26 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 26 (0.76%) Scala
12 26 (0.76%) SOQL
13 23 (0.67%) PHP
14 22 (0.64%) Rust
15 20 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.52%) R
17 16 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 300 (8.75%) Degree
2 219 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 163 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 93 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 65 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 61 (1.78%) CISSP
8 49 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 46 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.17%) PhD
11 39 (1.14%) CISM
12 36 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 31 (0.90%) CCNP
14 27 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.76%) CRISC
16 25 (0.73%) ACCA
16 25 (0.73%) OSCP
17 22 (0.64%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.55%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.06%) QA
2 82 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 77 (2.24%) NIST
5 61 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.28%) GDPR
7 38 (1.11%) GRC
8 21 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.44%) SLA
12 14 (0.41%) NCSC
13 12 (0.35%) MiFID
13 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.32%) IFRS
15 9 (0.26%) COBIT
16 8 (0.23%) WCAG
17 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.73%) Docker
2 98 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) Firmware
6 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.15%) vSphere
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.087%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 234 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 192 (5.60%) Terraform
3 47 (1.37%) Ansible
3 47 (1.37%) Grafana
4 42 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.64%) FortiGate
6 22 (0.64%) SCCM
7 12 (0.35%) Nagios
8 9 (0.26%) Nessus
9 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.20%) Data Guard
10 7 (0.20%) Istio
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.17%) Cilium
12 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.15%) Kibana
13 4 (0.12%) Argo
13 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.087%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 373 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 97 (2.83%) Salesforce
3 91 (2.65%) SAP
4 78 (2.27%) Databricks
5 74 (2.16%) VMware
6 71 (2.07%) Cisco
7 65 (1.90%) Oracle
8 55 (1.60%) Google
9 53 (1.55%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.37%) Dell
11 41 (1.20%) Adobe
12 37 (1.08%) ServiceNow
13 32 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.82%) IBM
16 24 (0.70%) SolarWinds
17 23 (0.67%) Apple
17 23 (0.67%) Foundry
17 23 (0.67%) Splunk
18 21 (0.61%) Intapp