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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 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 3,947 2,139 3,843
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.70% 17.90% 19.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.95% 19.62% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,526 1,259 2,259
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 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £104,375 £120,200 £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 23,283 10,900 18,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 91.21% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,005 7,112 11,567
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 £97,313 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 18 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 18 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 +6 493 £90,000 +16.13% 838
West London +26 101 £60,000 +21.95% 137
South London +23 46 £80,000 -25.58% 42
East London +8 26 £120,000 +97.21% 31
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 18 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.

1 719 (18.22%) AI
2 693 (17.56%) Software Engineering
3 628 (15.91%) AWS
4 585 (14.82%) Azure
5 579 (14.67%) Python
6 491 (12.44%) Agile
7 478 (12.11%) Analytics
8 449 (11.38%) CI/CD
9 425 (10.77%) Mentoring
10 407 (10.31%) Microsoft
11 359 (9.10%) SQL
12 354 (8.97%) DevOps
13 335 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
14 329 (8.34%) Degree
15 328 (8.31%) Roadmaps
16 320 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 311 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
18 301 (7.63%) Java
19 278 (7.04%) Security Cleared
20 270 (6.84%) Machine Learning
21 245 (6.21%) Decision-Making
22 244 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
23 234 (5.93%) GCP
24 233 (5.90%) Business Development
25 224 (5.68%) Kubernetes
26 222 (5.62%) Data Science
27 221 (5.60%) Microservices
28 216 (5.47%) Terraform
29 204 (5.17%) Test Automation
30 197 (4.99%) Migration

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 67 (1.70%) Apache Spark
2 56 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (0.73%) Apache
5 27 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.53%) 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
11 4 (0.10%) WinCC
12 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.051%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.051%) nginx
13 2 (0.051%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.051%) Umbraco
Applications
1 42 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.18%) InDesign
7 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.076%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.076%) Blender
11 3 (0.076%) Maya
11 3 (0.076%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.076%) Revit
11 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%) Distributed Ledger
6 6 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.10%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
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
9 3 (0.076%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 628 (15.91%) AWS
2 585 (14.82%) Azure
3 234 (5.93%) GCP
4 196 (4.97%) SaaS
5 143 (3.62%) Power Platform
6 137 (3.47%) Serverless
7 126 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
9 118 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
10 117 (2.96%) GitHub
11 76 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 53 (1.34%) Amazon S3
16 49 (1.24%) GitHub Copilot
17 47 (1.19%) Azure AKS
18 42 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
19 40 (1.01%) Snowflake
20 39 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (2.81%) Firewall
2 99 (2.51%) Network Security
3 76 (1.93%) DNS
4 65 (1.65%) VPN
5 53 (1.34%) VLAN
6 45 (1.14%) DHCP
7 41 (1.04%) Internet
7 41 (1.04%) WAN
8 39 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (0.91%) BGP
10 35 (0.89%) TCP/IP
11 34 (0.86%) OSPF
12 32 (0.81%) Broadband
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
1 112 (2.84%) Power BI
2 107 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 57 (1.44%) Relational Database
5 55 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.24%) Tableau
7 48 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 47 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.09%) Big Data
10 38 (0.96%) Metadata
11 36 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (0.91%) MySQL
12 31 (0.79%) DynamoDB
13 27 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (0.58%) SAP HANA
15 20 (0.51%) BigQuery
15 20 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
16 19 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 106 (2.69%) Git
2 56 (1.42%) JIRA
3 42 (1.06%) GitLab
4 40 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.79%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.43%) MLflow
9 13 (0.33%) Selenium
10 8 (0.20%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) CircleCI
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
1 989 (25.06%) Finance
2 676 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 290 (7.35%) Law
4 289 (7.32%) Banking
5 272 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (5.27%) Marketing
8 160 (4.05%) Public Sector
9 145 (3.67%) Legal
9 145 (3.67%) Retail
10 97 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.85%) Front Office
12 69 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 39 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 38 (0.96%) Games
17 33 (0.84%) Military
17 33 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 31 (0.79%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (5.47%) Terraform
2 137 (3.47%) .NET
3 132 (3.34%) React
4 126 (3.19%) REST
5 111 (2.81%) Kafka
6 90 (2.28%) Spring
7 83 (2.10%) RESTful
8 77 (1.95%) 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 30 (0.76%) Django
16 29 (0.73%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.73%) LangChain
17 28 (0.71%) FastAPI
18 27 (0.68%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 257 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 155 (3.93%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 118 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 117 (2.96%) Data Centre
7 108 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 65 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 61 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 53 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 47 (1.19%) Blog
12 45 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
13 44 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.06%) Derivative
14 42 (1.06%) e-Learning
15 40 (1.01%) Data Structures
15 40 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 35 (0.89%) Equities
16 35 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 104 (2.63%) Linux
2 98 (2.48%) Windows
3 45 (1.14%) Android
4 35 (0.89%) Unix
5 32 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.73%) 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
1 719 (18.22%) AI
2 693 (17.56%) Software Engineering
3 491 (12.44%) Agile
4 478 (12.11%) Analytics
5 449 (11.38%) CI/CD
6 425 (10.77%) Mentoring
7 354 (8.97%) DevOps
8 335 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
9 328 (8.31%) Roadmaps
10 320 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 311 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 270 (6.84%) Machine Learning
13 245 (6.21%) Decision-Making
14 244 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 233 (5.90%) Business Development
16 222 (5.62%) Data Science
17 221 (5.60%) Microservices
18 204 (5.17%) Test Automation
19 197 (4.99%) Migration
20 190 (4.81%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 579 (14.67%) Python
2 359 (9.10%) SQL
3 301 (7.63%) Java
4 143 (3.62%) C#
5 141 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 120 (3.04%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.20%) C++
8 69 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 54 (1.37%) Bash
10 52 (1.32%) Go
11 31 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 29 (0.73%) Bicep
13 26 (0.66%) PHP
14 24 (0.61%) R
15 23 (0.58%) Scala
16 21 (0.53%) Ruby
17 20 (0.51%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.46%) SOQL
19 17 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 329 (8.34%) Degree
2 278 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 180 (4.56%) SC Cleared
4 103 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.42%) CISSP
8 50 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 41 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.01%) CISM
12 37 (0.94%) PhD
13 32 (0.81%) CCNP
14 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.68%) CISA
16 21 (0.53%) ACCA
17 17 (0.43%) CCNA
17 17 (0.43%) PMI Certification
18 16 (0.41%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 121 (3.07%) QA
3 91 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (2.13%) GDPR
5 81 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 73 (1.85%) NIST
7 47 (1.19%) GRC
8 22 (0.56%) 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 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.28%) NCSC
12 11 (0.28%) PMO
12 11 (0.28%) WCAG
13 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.23%) MiFID
14 9 (0.23%) SLA
15 7 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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
1 224 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 37 (0.94%) Ansible
3 31 (0.79%) Grafana
4 28 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.53%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.51%) Puppet
7 19 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.28%) Nagios
10 10 (0.25%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.20%) SCCM
13 5 (0.13%) Argo
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Istio
14 4 (0.10%) EnCase
14 4 (0.10%) FTK
14 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 407 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.24%) Oracle
3 115 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 113 (2.86%) Google
5 103 (2.61%) SAP
6 94 (2.38%) Databricks
7 68 (1.72%) Cisco
8 55 (1.39%) VMware
9 52 (1.32%) Palo Alto
10 49 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 40 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 34 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.79%) Adobe
14 28 (0.71%) Splunk
15 27 (0.68%) HP
15 27 (0.68%) Workday
16 25 (0.63%) Intapp
17 24 (0.61%) IBM
18 22 (0.56%) Fortinet
19 21 (0.53%) Foundry