Senior Jobs in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,186 4,106 6,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.67% 18.18% 17.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.51% 19.32% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,427 3,032 4,693
10th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £70,588
% change year-on-year -2.34% -9.33% +0.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,808 21,257 36,356
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.10% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,533 16,527 26,405
10th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.65% -8.71% +0.42%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in London.

Salary trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 2025. 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 -4 518 £80,000 - 174
South London -28 40 £61,644 -5.16% 30
West London -17 34 £65,000 +19.02% 89
East London -4 17 £87,500 +53.51% 36
North London -2 5 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 April 2025, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 799 (36.55%) Finance
2 613 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 577 (26.40%) Agile
4 569 (26.03%) Python
5 537 (24.57%) Azure
6 510 (23.33%) AWS
7 451 (20.63%) Degree
8 417 (19.08%) SQL
9 408 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
10 367 (16.79%) Software Engineering
11 320 (14.64%) Analytics
12 306 (14.00%) Microsoft
13 298 (13.63%) CI/CD
14 290 (13.27%) DevOps
15 281 (12.85%) Mentoring
16 280 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
17 269 (12.31%) JavaScript
18 257 (11.76%) Kubernetes
19 246 (11.25%) Banking
20 225 (10.29%) Java
21 220 (10.06%) C#
22 215 (9.84%) TypeScript
23 195 (8.92%) Project Management
24 192 (8.78%) Terraform
25 190 (8.69%) Computer Science
26 189 (8.65%) React
27 185 (8.46%) .NET
28 184 (8.42%) Linux
29 182 (8.33%) GCP
30 180 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (3.16%) Apache
3 66 (3.02%) SharePoint
4 65 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 61 (2.79%) Apache Spark
6 26 (1.19%) CMS
7 15 (0.69%) Confluence
8 12 (0.55%) Drupal
9 10 (0.46%) WordPress
10 9 (0.41%) SAS
11 5 (0.23%) Luigi
11 5 (0.23%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.18%) IIS
13 3 (0.14%) Liferay
14 2 (0.091%) Appian
14 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.046%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.046%) Solana
Applications
1 77 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.41%) Maya
5 9 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.23%) Stata
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.18%) QuarkXPress
9 4 (0.18%) Trello
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.14%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.091%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.091%) InDesign
12 1 (0.046%) Revit
Business Applications
1 40 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (0.46%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.41%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.27%) Shopify
7 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
7 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.14%) ION MarketView
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.14%) Relativity
8 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.091%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.091%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.091%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.091%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.091%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 537 (24.57%) Azure
2 510 (23.33%) AWS
3 182 (8.33%) GCP
4 139 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
5 135 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 132 (6.04%) SaaS
7 101 (4.62%) Serverless
8 85 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
9 81 (3.71%) Snowflake
10 76 (3.48%) Amazon S3
11 73 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
12 70 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
13 69 (3.16%) GitHub
14 64 (2.93%) dbt
15 59 (2.70%) PaaS
16 58 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
17 53 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
18 49 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
19 48 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
20 45 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.89%) Firewall
2 62 (2.84%) Network Security
3 50 (2.29%) VPN
4 39 (1.78%) DNS
5 31 (1.42%) HTTP
5 31 (1.42%) WAN
6 28 (1.28%) LAN
7 24 (1.10%) DHCP
7 24 (1.10%) Wireless
8 23 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (0.96%) BGP
10 19 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
10 19 (0.87%) VLAN
11 18 (0.82%) OSPF
12 17 (0.78%) Multicast
12 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.78%) TCP/IP
13 16 (0.73%) SAN
14 15 (0.69%) MPLS
15 12 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.40%) SQL Server
2 98 (4.48%) Power BI
3 88 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 78 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
6 70 (3.20%) Tableau
7 59 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
8 56 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
9 50 (2.29%) Apache Arrow
9 50 (2.29%) Apache Iceberg
9 50 (2.29%) Apache Ignite
9 50 (2.29%) Dremio
9 50 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 47 (2.15%) MySQL
11 45 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 44 (2.01%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
14 40 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 33 (1.51%) MongoDB
16 32 (1.46%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 158 (7.23%) Git
2 68 (3.11%) JIRA
3 64 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.24%) GitLab
4 27 (1.24%) IntelliJ
5 24 (1.10%) Selenium
6 23 (1.05%) Maven
7 22 (1.01%) JUnit
8 17 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.69%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.64%) Mockito
11 12 (0.55%) Postman
12 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.37%) Gradle
13 7 (0.32%) JMeter
14 6 (0.27%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.27%) TestNG
15 5 (0.23%) Burp Suite
General
1 799 (36.55%) Finance
2 613 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 280 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (11.25%) Banking
5 148 (6.77%) Marketing
6 146 (6.68%) Law
7 139 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 118 (5.40%) Retail
9 113 (5.17%) Front Office
10 110 (5.03%) Legal
11 95 (4.35%) Games
12 77 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
13 73 (3.34%) Telecoms
14 70 (3.20%) Public Sector
15 68 (3.11%) Advertising
16 66 (3.02%) Investment Banking
17 52 (2.38%) Manufacturing
18 46 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
19 44 (2.01%) Financial Institution
20 36 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (8.65%) React
2 185 (8.46%) .NET
3 134 (6.13%) HTML
4 110 (5.03%) CSS
5 107 (4.89%) AngularJS
6 103 (4.71%) Kafka
7 89 (4.07%) REST
8 76 (3.48%) RESTful
9 73 (3.34%) Pandas
10 68 (3.11%) Node.js
11 63 (2.88%) NumPy
12 58 (2.65%) Spring
13 54 (2.47%) gRPC
13 54 (2.47%) SciPy
14 50 (2.29%) .NET Framework
14 50 (2.29%) GraphQL
14 50 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
15 47 (2.15%) Spring Boot
16 44 (2.01%) PySpark
17 43 (1.97%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 98 (4.48%) Management Information System
2 96 (4.39%) Equities
3 95 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 86 (3.93%) Hedge funds
5 78 (3.57%) Derivative
6 74 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
7 69 (3.16%) Algorithms
8 68 (3.11%) Fixed Income
8 68 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 60 (2.74%) Mobile App
10 58 (2.65%) Product Ownership
11 49 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (1.88%) Security Posture
13 39 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (1.56%) Onboarding
15 33 (1.51%) Data Structures
15 33 (1.51%) Pricing Data
16 29 (1.33%) Data Centre
17 27 (1.24%) Public Cloud
18 25 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.42%) Linux
2 167 (7.64%) Windows
3 56 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.33%) Android
6 28 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.05%) Unix
8 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.41%) Solaris
10 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.27%) VMS
10 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
12 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.091%) CentOS
14 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.046%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (26.40%) Agile
2 408 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
3 367 (16.79%) Software Engineering
4 320 (14.64%) Analytics
5 298 (13.63%) CI/CD
6 290 (13.27%) DevOps
7 281 (12.85%) Mentoring
8 195 (8.92%) Project Management
9 190 (8.69%) Computer Science
10 180 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
11 157 (7.18%) Microservices
11 157 (7.18%) Roadmaps
12 136 (6.22%) Fintech
12 136 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 130 (5.95%) Asset Management
14 129 (5.90%) Business Intelligence
14 129 (5.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 129 (5.90%) Process Improvement
15 128 (5.86%) Full-Stack Development
16 127 (5.81%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 569 (26.03%) Python
2 417 (19.08%) SQL
3 269 (12.31%) JavaScript
4 225 (10.29%) Java
5 220 (10.06%) C#
6 215 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 109 (4.99%) C++
8 86 (3.93%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.38%) Rust
10 46 (2.10%) Go
10 46 (2.10%) Scala
11 44 (2.01%) C
12 38 (1.74%) T-SQL
13 32 (1.46%) Bash
14 28 (1.28%) PHP
15 26 (1.19%) PL/SQL
16 25 (1.14%) VB.NET
17 22 (1.01%) R
18 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
19 17 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 451 (20.63%) Degree
2 125 (5.72%) Master's Degree
3 85 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (3.39%) Security Cleared
5 65 (2.97%) DBS Check
6 58 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
7 46 (2.10%) SC Cleared
8 37 (1.69%) CISSP
9 33 (1.51%) CCNA
9 33 (1.51%) PhD
10 31 (1.42%) CCNP
11 30 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 30 (1.37%) CISA
12 28 (1.28%) MBA
13 25 (1.14%) Azure Certification
14 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
15 21 (0.96%) CISM
16 16 (0.73%) PMI Certification
17 14 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (6.13%) QA
2 57 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 42 (1.92%) GDPR
4 40 (1.83%) NIST
5 39 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.10%) ITGC
8 23 (1.05%) SLA
9 22 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.91%) GRC
11 19 (0.87%) GMP
12 13 (0.59%) PMO
12 13 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.41%) IFRS
14 9 (0.41%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.37%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
16 7 (0.32%) IFRS 9
17 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (7.46%) Docker
2 83 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.50%) vSphere
8 8 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Flume
10 4 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.091%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.091%) Firmware
11 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.046%) GPFS
12 1 (0.046%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.046%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 257 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 192 (8.78%) Terraform
3 81 (3.71%) Ansible
4 41 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.87%) Grafana
7 14 (0.64%) SCCM
8 12 (0.55%) Nagios
9 10 (0.46%) NetBackup
9 10 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.41%) Argo
10 9 (0.41%) Avamar
11 8 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 8 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.37%) WSUS
12 6 (0.27%) CASB
13 5 (0.23%) Istio
13 5 (0.23%) Opsgenie
13 5 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 306 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 131 (5.99%) Google
3 82 (3.75%) Cisco
4 80 (3.66%) Databricks
5 75 (3.43%) VMware
6 70 (3.20%) Oracle
7 64 (2.93%) SAP
8 61 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 35 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.42%) Adobe
10 31 (1.42%) Apple
11 30 (1.37%) Citrix
12 27 (1.24%) IBM
13 25 (1.14%) Meraki
13 25 (1.14%) Red Hat
14 20 (0.91%) SolarWinds
14 20 (0.91%) Splunk
14 20 (0.91%) Veeam
15 17 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 16 (0.73%) Dell