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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 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 3,896 2,129 3,828
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.76% 17.79% 19.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.98% 19.49% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,515 1,254 2,281
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 22,949 10,921 18,288
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 91.25% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,858 7,134 11,722
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 £98,750 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £119,050
England median annual salary £59,300 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.82% - -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 13 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 13 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 +7 505 £90,000 +16.13% 675
West London +27 105 £60,000 +21.95% 132
South London +25 48 £80,000 -25.58% 37
East London +5 21 £120,000 +57.38% 32
North London -2 2 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 693 (17.79%) AI
2 681 (17.48%) Software Engineering
3 636 (16.32%) AWS
4 592 (15.20%) Python
5 580 (14.89%) Azure
6 485 (12.45%) Agile
7 471 (12.09%) Analytics
8 443 (11.37%) CI/CD
9 432 (11.09%) Mentoring
10 388 (9.96%) Microsoft
11 353 (9.06%) SQL
12 347 (8.91%) DevOps
13 335 (8.60%) Degree
14 333 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
15 324 (8.32%) Roadmaps
16 320 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 298 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 295 (7.57%) Java
19 274 (7.03%) Security Cleared
20 270 (6.93%) Machine Learning
21 244 (6.26%) Decision-Making
22 242 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
23 236 (6.06%) Business Development
24 234 (6.01%) GCP
25 226 (5.80%) Data Science
26 218 (5.60%) Microservices
27 214 (5.49%) Kubernetes
28 211 (5.42%) Terraform
28 211 (5.42%) Test Automation
29 197 (5.06%) 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 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 52 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.69%) Apache
6 22 (0.56%) Confluence
7 19 (0.49%) SAS
8 13 (0.33%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
10 5 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.077%) Kinematics
12 3 (0.077%) WinCC
13 2 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.051%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.051%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 37 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.39%) 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
11 4 (0.10%) SPSS
12 3 (0.077%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.077%) Blender
12 3 (0.077%) Maya
12 3 (0.077%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.077%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 39 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.39%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.13%) Maximo
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.077%) Endur
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.077%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.077%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.077%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 636 (16.32%) AWS
2 580 (14.89%) Azure
3 234 (6.01%) GCP
4 197 (5.06%) SaaS
5 135 (3.47%) Power Platform
6 133 (3.41%) Serverless
7 124 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
9 113 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.90%) GitHub
10 76 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (1.54%) Entra ID
12 59 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (1.39%) Amazon S3
14 52 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
16 44 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.13%) Azure AKS
17 38 (0.98%) dbt
17 38 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (2.80%) Firewall
2 102 (2.62%) Network Security
3 72 (1.85%) DNS
4 64 (1.64%) VPN
5 51 (1.31%) VLAN
6 43 (1.10%) DHCP
7 42 (1.08%) WAN
8 39 (1.00%) Broadband
8 39 (1.00%) Internet
9 38 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (0.92%) BGP
11 35 (0.90%) TCP/IP
12 34 (0.87%) OSPF
13 28 (0.72%) LAN
14 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.51%) Wireless
16 17 (0.44%) SAN
17 16 (0.41%) VXLAN
18 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
18 13 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (2.80%) Power BI
2 103 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 55 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 53 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 51 (1.31%) Tableau
9 50 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 42 (1.08%) Big Data
12 37 (0.95%) MySQL
13 36 (0.92%) Metadata
14 34 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
15 32 (0.82%) DynamoDB
16 31 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.59%) BigQuery
18 22 (0.56%) SAP HANA
19 19 (0.49%) Looker
20 18 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 107 (2.75%) Git
2 56 (1.44%) JIRA
3 45 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.13%) GitLab
5 29 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.49%) MLflow
7 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 18 (0.46%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.36%) 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%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.077%) Oracle APEX
General
1 976 (25.05%) Finance
2 661 (16.97%) Social Skills
3 284 (7.29%) Banking
3 284 (7.29%) Law
4 272 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (5.39%) Marketing
7 159 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 143 (3.67%) Retail
9 138 (3.54%) Legal
10 87 (2.23%) Financial Institution
11 71 (1.82%) Front Office
12 65 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 62 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 39 (1.00%) Games
16 38 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 33 (0.85%) Military
18 32 (0.82%) Telecoms
19 31 (0.80%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (5.42%) Terraform
2 133 (3.41%) .NET
3 129 (3.31%) React
4 118 (3.03%) REST
5 116 (2.98%) Kafka
6 87 (2.23%) Spring
7 79 (2.03%) Node.js
8 77 (1.98%) RESTful
9 64 (1.64%) Spring Boot
10 50 (1.28%) HTML
11 40 (1.03%) Next.js
12 37 (0.95%) CSS
13 34 (0.87%) JSON
14 33 (0.85%) Django
14 33 (0.85%) PySpark
15 31 (0.80%) LangChain
16 28 (0.72%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.69%) AngularJS
17 27 (0.69%) FastAPI
17 27 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 250 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 154 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 145 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.98%) Product Ownership
5 115 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 112 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 94 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 63 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 62 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 53 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
10 53 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.18%) Blog
12 45 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 44 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.10%) Data Structures
15 42 (1.08%) Derivative
15 42 (1.08%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.05%) e-Learning
17 38 (0.98%) Security Posture
18 35 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 105 (2.70%) Linux
2 94 (2.41%) Windows
3 46 (1.18%) Android
4 35 (0.90%) Unix
5 32 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.26%) AIX
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.077%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.051%) CentOS
11 2 (0.051%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) VMS
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (17.79%) AI
2 681 (17.48%) Software Engineering
3 485 (12.45%) Agile
4 471 (12.09%) Analytics
5 443 (11.37%) CI/CD
6 432 (11.09%) Mentoring
7 347 (8.91%) DevOps
8 333 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
9 324 (8.32%) Roadmaps
10 320 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 298 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 270 (6.93%) Machine Learning
13 244 (6.26%) Decision-Making
14 242 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 236 (6.06%) Business Development
16 226 (5.80%) Data Science
17 218 (5.60%) Microservices
18 211 (5.42%) Test Automation
19 191 (4.90%) Migration
20 185 (4.75%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 592 (15.20%) Python
2 353 (9.06%) SQL
3 295 (7.57%) Java
4 140 (3.59%) TypeScript
5 137 (3.52%) C#
6 123 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.23%) C++
8 68 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 57 (1.46%) Go
10 55 (1.41%) Bash
11 29 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.67%) Bicep
12 26 (0.67%) PHP
13 24 (0.62%) R
14 21 (0.54%) Ruby
14 21 (0.54%) Scala
15 20 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.46%) SOQL
17 17 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 335 (8.60%) Degree
2 274 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 178 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 68 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.49%) CISSP
8 50 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 41 (1.05%) CISM
11 40 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.03%) PhD
12 32 (0.82%) CCNP
13 29 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.69%) CISA
15 19 (0.49%) ACCA
15 19 (0.49%) CRISC
16 17 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (3.31%) Data Quality
2 125 (3.21%) QA
3 92 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.18%) GDPR
5 84 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 77 (1.98%) NIST
7 50 (1.28%) GRC
8 23 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 15 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) COBIT
12 12 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 12 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.31%) PMO
13 11 (0.28%) NCSC
13 11 (0.28%) WCAG
14 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.23%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (3.23%) Docker
2 59 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 11 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.13%) vSphere
6 3 (0.077%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.051%) Firmware
7 2 (0.051%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.026%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.026%) IAG
8 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 214 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 36 (0.92%) Ansible
3 30 (0.77%) Grafana
4 26 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.54%) FortiGate
6 19 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.49%) Puppet
7 18 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.28%) Nagios
9 10 (0.26%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.21%) Istio
10 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.18%) SCCM
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.10%) Argo
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.077%) CASB
Vendors
1 388 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 124 (3.18%) Oracle
3 115 (2.95%) Salesforce
4 112 (2.87%) Google
5 101 (2.59%) SAP
6 97 (2.49%) Databricks
7 69 (1.77%) Cisco
8 54 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 53 (1.36%) VMware
10 45 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 39 (1.00%) Zscaler
12 33 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 30 (0.77%) Adobe
14 28 (0.72%) HP
15 26 (0.67%) Dell
15 26 (0.67%) Splunk
15 26 (0.67%) Workday
16 25 (0.64%) Intapp
17 23 (0.59%) IBM
18 22 (0.56%) Fortinet