Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,249 2,005 3,589
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.25% 17.11% 19.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.57% 18.81% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 1,188 2,149
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 24,179 10,661 17,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 90.96% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,055 6,951 10,691
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +6 426 £90,000 +7.46% 700
West London +17 92 £55,000 +11.79% 73
South London +18 52 £70,000 -12.50% 32
East London +15 39 £87,500 +77.85% 14
North London -4 2 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 840 (19.77%) AI
2 755 (17.77%) Software Engineering
3 639 (15.04%) AWS
4 605 (14.24%) Azure
5 590 (13.89%) Python
6 522 (12.29%) Analytics
7 503 (11.84%) Agile
8 496 (11.67%) CI/CD
9 434 (10.21%) Microsoft
10 426 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 391 (9.20%) SQL
12 370 (8.71%) DevOps
13 369 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 358 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
15 342 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 329 (7.74%) Roadmaps
17 323 (7.60%) Degree
18 317 (7.46%) Java
19 294 (6.92%) Security Cleared
20 291 (6.85%) Machine Learning
21 258 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
22 252 (5.93%) Decision-Making
23 246 (5.79%) GCP
24 245 (5.77%) Kubernetes
25 237 (5.58%) Business Development
26 236 (5.55%) Microservices
27 232 (5.46%) Data Science
28 231 (5.44%) Full-Stack Development
29 225 (5.30%) Terraform
30 221 (5.20%) Test Automation

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 63 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 59 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.73%) Apache
5 27 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.49%) Confluence
7 19 (0.45%) SAS
8 13 (0.31%) CMS
9 9 (0.21%) WordPress
10 8 (0.19%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.094%) IIS
13 3 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.047%) Camunda
14 2 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.024%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 43 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.14%) InDesign
8 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.14%) Revit
9 4 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.094%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.094%) ProjectWise
10 3 (0.071%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.071%) Blender
10 3 (0.071%) Maya
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 38 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 10 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
6 10 (0.24%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
8 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.094%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.094%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.094%) Shopify
11 3 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
11 3 (0.071%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.071%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 639 (15.04%) AWS
2 605 (14.24%) Azure
3 246 (5.79%) GCP
4 214 (5.04%) SaaS
5 168 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 140 (3.29%) Serverless
7 135 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
8 134 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
9 119 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
10 117 (2.75%) GitHub
11 81 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 76 (1.79%) Entra ID
13 56 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 53 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
16 51 (1.20%) Amazon S3
17 46 (1.08%) Snowflake
18 45 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
19 44 (1.04%) Azure AKS
20 42 (0.99%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 103 (2.42%) Firewall
2 94 (2.21%) Network Security
3 67 (1.58%) DNS
4 66 (1.55%) VPN
5 46 (1.08%) VLAN
6 43 (1.01%) Internet
7 40 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.85%) BGP
9 35 (0.82%) DHCP
10 33 (0.78%) WAN
10 33 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (0.71%) Broadband
12 27 (0.64%) OSPF
13 21 (0.49%) LAN
14 17 (0.40%) SAN
15 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
16 14 (0.33%) Wireless
17 13 (0.31%) SD-WAN
18 12 (0.28%) Multicast
19 8 (0.19%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (2.82%) Power BI
2 105 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 71 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 64 (1.51%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (1.18%) Big Data
8 46 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 46 (1.08%) MySQL
9 44 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (0.99%) Tableau
12 41 (0.96%) Metadata
13 35 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 32 (0.75%) DynamoDB
15 26 (0.61%) SAP HANA
16 25 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (0.59%) Redis
17 23 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
18 19 (0.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 102 (2.40%) Git
2 56 (1.32%) JIRA
3 50 (1.18%) GitLab
4 44 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.78%) Claude Code
6 30 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 11 (0.26%) Selenium
9 10 (0.24%) MLflow
10 8 (0.19%) NUnit
11 7 (0.16%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.12%) Appium
12 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.12%) Mocha
13 4 (0.094%) JUnit
13 4 (0.094%) Maven
13 4 (0.094%) Spock
14 3 (0.071%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.071%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,071 (25.21%) Finance
2 732 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 311 (7.32%) Banking
4 299 (7.04%) Law
5 269 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 243 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (4.78%) Marketing
8 182 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 176 (4.14%) Legal
10 165 (3.88%) Retail
11 126 (2.97%) Financial Institution
12 68 (1.60%) Front Office
12 68 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 41 (0.96%) Billing
17 40 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
18 39 (0.92%) Games
19 36 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (5.30%) Terraform
2 136 (3.20%) .NET
3 129 (3.04%) REST
4 128 (3.01%) React
5 101 (2.38%) Kafka
6 94 (2.21%) RESTful
7 92 (2.17%) Spring
8 72 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 69 (1.62%) Node.js
10 54 (1.27%) HTML
11 43 (1.01%) Next.js
12 42 (0.99%) CSS
13 39 (0.92%) JSON
14 34 (0.80%) AngularJS
14 34 (0.80%) FastAPI
15 31 (0.73%) PySpark
16 30 (0.71%) Django
17 28 (0.66%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.64%) Swagger
19 25 (0.59%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 269 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.79%) Onboarding
3 153 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (3.41%) AI Agents
5 131 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 128 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 114 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 81 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 65 (1.53%) Blog
10 51 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.11%) e-Learning
12 47 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 37 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 35 (0.82%) Derivative
16 35 (0.82%) Reinsurance
17 34 (0.80%) Data Structures
18 33 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.75%) Linux
2 90 (2.12%) Windows
3 46 (1.08%) Android
4 38 (0.89%) Unix
5 32 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.14%) macOS
10 3 (0.071%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.047%) tvOS
11 2 (0.047%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (19.77%) AI
2 755 (17.77%) Software Engineering
3 522 (12.29%) Analytics
4 503 (11.84%) Agile
5 496 (11.67%) CI/CD
6 426 (10.03%) Mentoring
7 370 (8.71%) DevOps
8 369 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 358 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
10 342 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 329 (7.74%) Roadmaps
12 291 (6.85%) Machine Learning
13 258 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 252 (5.93%) Decision-Making
15 237 (5.58%) Business Development
16 236 (5.55%) Microservices
17 232 (5.46%) Data Science
18 231 (5.44%) Full-Stack Development
19 221 (5.20%) Test Automation
20 208 (4.90%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 590 (13.89%) Python
2 391 (9.20%) SQL
3 317 (7.46%) Java
4 151 (3.55%) C#
5 149 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 113 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 82 (1.93%) C++
8 68 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 67 (1.58%) Go
10 54 (1.27%) Bash
11 43 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.71%) Bicep
13 28 (0.66%) PHP
14 26 (0.61%) R
15 25 (0.59%) Scala
16 21 (0.49%) Ruby
17 20 (0.47%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.45%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.40%) Apex Code
19 17 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 323 (7.60%) Degree
2 294 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 69 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 62 (1.46%) CISSP
8 60 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 43 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.01%) PhD
11 41 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (0.92%) CISM
12 39 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.66%) ACCA
14 27 (0.64%) CISA
15 26 (0.61%) CCNP
16 24 (0.56%) CIMA
17 23 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 109 (2.57%) QA
3 92 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 83 (1.95%) GDPR
6 67 (1.58%) NIST
7 41 (0.96%) GRC
8 28 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.28%) WCAG
12 11 (0.26%) COBIT
12 11 (0.26%) NCSC
12 11 (0.26%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.21%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.16%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 146 (3.44%) Docker
2 60 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.071%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.047%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
9 1 (0.024%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 245 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 54 (1.27%) Grafana
3 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.73%) Ansible
5 21 (0.49%) Puppet
6 20 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.45%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.24%) Nagios
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.21%) Cilium
12 8 (0.19%) EnCase
12 8 (0.19%) FTK
13 7 (0.16%) SCCM
14 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.12%) Argo
15 5 (0.12%) Istio
16 3 (0.071%) CASB
Vendors
1 434 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 144 (3.39%) Oracle
3 128 (3.01%) Google
4 123 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 107 (2.52%) SAP
6 90 (2.12%) Databricks
7 63 (1.48%) Cisco
8 52 (1.22%) VMware
9 45 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 42 (0.99%) Palo Alto
11 41 (0.96%) Zscaler
12 38 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.78%) Workday
14 30 (0.71%) HP
15 26 (0.61%) Splunk
16 21 (0.49%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.49%) Foundry
17 20 (0.47%) Adobe
18 19 (0.45%) IBM
18 19 (0.45%) Meraki