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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,499 2,107 4,677
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.46% 17.25% 19.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.80% 19.06% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,298 1,280 3,225
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,375 £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 19,657 11,054 23,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 90.50% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,535 6,940 17,131
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%

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 11 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 11 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 +7 711 £90,000 +12.50% 220
West London +32 105 £75,000 +17.65% 44
South London +37 67 £60,000 -44.19% 12
East London -3 17 £68,000 -28.42% 23
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 580 (16.58%) Azure
2 532 (15.20%) Python
3 524 (14.98%) Software Engineering
4 508 (14.52%) AWS
5 472 (13.49%) Agile
6 465 (13.29%) AI
7 378 (10.80%) Analytics
8 377 (10.77%) Microsoft
9 367 (10.49%) Mentoring
10 362 (10.35%) CI/CD
11 316 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
12 297 (8.49%) Degree
13 287 (8.20%) DevOps
14 284 (8.12%) SQL
15 262 (7.49%) Java
15 262 (7.49%) Roadmaps
16 259 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 237 (6.77%) Kubernetes
18 228 (6.52%) Microservices
19 221 (6.32%) Security Cleared
20 220 (6.29%) Decision-Making
21 219 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
22 214 (6.12%) GCP
23 212 (6.06%) Test Automation
24 207 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
25 200 (5.72%) SaaS
26 196 (5.60%) Terraform
27 194 (5.54%) Business Development
28 191 (5.46%) Full-Stack Development
29 185 (5.29%) 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 67 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.63%) Apache
5 20 (0.57%) CMS
6 14 (0.40%) Confluence
7 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.17%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.17%) SAS
9 5 (0.14%) Drupal
9 5 (0.14%) JBoss
10 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.086%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) Sketch
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) InVision
9 3 (0.086%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.086%) Blender
9 3 (0.086%) InDesign
9 3 (0.086%) Maya
9 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.086%) SPSS
10 2 (0.057%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 18 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
1 18 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.34%) Maximo
4 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.11%) Shopify
8 3 (0.086%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.086%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.086%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.086%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.086%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.057%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.057%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.057%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.057%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 580 (16.58%) Azure
2 508 (14.52%) AWS
3 214 (6.12%) GCP
4 200 (5.72%) SaaS
5 152 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
6 127 (3.63%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.40%) Serverless
8 118 (3.37%) GitHub
9 76 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 68 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.34%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
13 42 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 40 (1.14%) Figma
15 38 (1.09%) IaaS
16 37 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 37 (1.06%) Datadog
16 37 (1.06%) PaaS
16 37 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.06%) Firewall
2 81 (2.31%) DNS
3 76 (2.17%) Broadband
4 74 (2.11%) VPN
5 72 (2.06%) Network Security
6 61 (1.74%) DHCP
7 56 (1.60%) VLAN
8 53 (1.51%) WAN
9 50 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.23%) Wireless
11 34 (0.97%) BGP
11 34 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 33 (0.94%) OSPF
13 30 (0.86%) SAN
13 30 (0.86%) TCP/IP
14 27 (0.77%) LAN
15 23 (0.66%) Multicast
16 21 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.49%) HTTP
18 13 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 102 (2.92%) Power BI
3 52 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 46 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.31%) Tableau
5 43 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 42 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 38 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 38 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 36 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 34 (0.97%) Metadata
12 33 (0.94%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (0.63%) MySQL
15 20 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.57%) Db2
16 19 (0.54%) Looker
17 18 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 120 (3.43%) Git
2 70 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.54%) JIRA
4 42 (1.20%) GitLab
5 36 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.71%) MLflow
7 19 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.31%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.26%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 909 (25.98%) Finance
2 564 (16.12%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (7.55%) Banking
5 218 (6.23%) Law
6 203 (5.80%) Marketing
7 180 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (4.77%) Legal
9 153 (4.37%) Retail
10 150 (4.29%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.94%) Front Office
12 60 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (1.46%) Advertising
13 51 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 50 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 38 (1.09%) Games
17 35 (1.00%) Legal Technology
18 30 (0.86%) Billing
18 30 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.17%) .NET
2 142 (4.06%) React
3 118 (3.37%) REST
4 101 (2.89%) Kafka
5 85 (2.43%) Node.js
6 77 (2.20%) Spring
7 70 (2.00%) RESTful
8 67 (1.91%) Spring Boot
9 53 (1.51%) CSS
10 46 (1.31%) SOAP
11 44 (1.26%) HTML
12 40 (1.14%) PyTorch
13 36 (1.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 36 (1.03%) PySpark
14 34 (0.97%) OAuth
15 31 (0.89%) LangChain
16 29 (0.83%) Django
16 29 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (0.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 250 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 101 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 71 (2.03%) Security Posture
6 70 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 68 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 51 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 50 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 46 (1.31%) Equities
12 46 (1.31%) Public Cloud
13 41 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (1.09%) Social Media
15 37 (1.06%) Derivative
16 35 (1.00%) Hedge funds
16 35 (1.00%) Low-Code
17 33 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.17%) Linux
2 131 (3.74%) Windows
3 48 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 38 (1.09%) Android
5 32 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.77%) Unix
7 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.29%) VMS
10 8 (0.23%) AIX
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.057%) tvOS
13 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (14.98%) Software Engineering
2 472 (13.49%) Agile
3 465 (13.29%) AI
4 378 (10.80%) Analytics
5 367 (10.49%) Mentoring
6 362 (10.35%) CI/CD
7 316 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
8 287 (8.20%) DevOps
9 262 (7.49%) Roadmaps
10 259 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 228 (6.52%) Microservices
12 220 (6.29%) Decision-Making
13 219 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 212 (6.06%) Test Automation
15 207 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 194 (5.54%) Business Development
17 191 (5.46%) Full-Stack Development
18 185 (5.29%) Machine Learning
19 177 (5.06%) Fintech
20 170 (4.86%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 532 (15.20%) Python
2 284 (8.12%) SQL
3 262 (7.49%) Java
4 147 (4.20%) C#
5 144 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 143 (4.09%) TypeScript
7 130 (3.72%) C++
8 81 (2.31%) Go
9 76 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 56 (1.60%) Bash
11 33 (0.94%) Bicep
12 27 (0.77%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.77%) SOQL
13 25 (0.71%) Scala
14 23 (0.66%) PHP
15 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) Rust
16 19 (0.54%) R
17 17 (0.49%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 297 (8.49%) Degree
2 221 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 166 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 91 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 63 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 63 (1.80%) CISSP
7 50 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (1.20%) PhD
10 40 (1.14%) CISM
11 37 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.00%) CCNP
13 28 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.74%) CRISC
15 25 (0.71%) ACCA
15 25 (0.71%) OSCP
16 22 (0.63%) CREST Certified
17 21 (0.60%) CISA
18 20 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (3.09%) QA
2 85 (2.43%) Data Quality
2 85 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (2.31%) NIST
4 63 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.31%) GDPR
6 37 (1.06%) GRC
7 21 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.49%) NIST 800
10 15 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.40%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
13 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.31%) IFRS
14 11 (0.31%) MiFID
15 9 (0.26%) COBIT
16 8 (0.23%) WCAG
17 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.66%) Docker
2 100 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.17%) Firmware
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) vSphere
8 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.086%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 237 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 196 (5.60%) Terraform
3 48 (1.37%) Ansible
3 48 (1.37%) Grafana
4 43 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 21 (0.60%) SCCM
8 13 (0.37%) Nagios
9 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.23%) Data Guard
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.20%) Istio
12 6 (0.17%) Cilium
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.086%) Argo
14 3 (0.086%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 377 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 99 (2.83%) Salesforce
3 94 (2.69%) SAP
4 81 (2.31%) Databricks
5 75 (2.14%) VMware
6 73 (2.09%) Cisco
7 68 (1.94%) Oracle
8 59 (1.69%) Palo Alto
9 58 (1.66%) Google
10 47 (1.34%) Dell
11 44 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 42 (1.20%) Adobe
13 32 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 31 (0.89%) Fortinet
15 29 (0.83%) IBM
16 24 (0.69%) Foundry
16 24 (0.69%) SolarWinds
16 24 (0.69%) Splunk
17 23 (0.66%) Apple
18 21 (0.60%) Intapp