Senior Job Trends 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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,077 3,257 2,934
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.69% 19.05% 16.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.31% 20.17% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 1,980 2,364
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,465 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -3.02% -3.57%

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 12,001 16,146 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.43% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,915 9,771 14,135
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -3 364 £85,000 +6.25% 161
South London -3 22 £54,600 +9.20% 49
West London -27 20 £49,100 -32.28% 23
East London -16 12 £49,200 -38.50% 22
North London +10 6 £75,000 -6.25% 12
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, 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.

1 568 (27.35%) Agile
2 450 (21.67%) AWS
3 435 (20.94%) Azure
4 431 (20.75%) Python
5 377 (18.15%) AI
6 352 (16.95%) Degree
7 296 (14.25%) Mentoring
8 293 (14.11%) Software Engineering
9 288 (13.87%) CI/CD
10 285 (13.72%) Analytics
10 285 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
11 267 (12.86%) Microsoft
12 256 (12.33%) SQL
13 232 (11.17%) DevOps
13 232 (11.17%) Java
14 224 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 196 (9.44%) Roadmaps
16 191 (9.20%) Decision-Making
17 186 (8.96%) JavaScript
18 181 (8.71%) TypeScript
19 180 (8.67%) Computer Science
20 175 (8.43%) Business Strategy
21 169 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
22 168 (8.09%) GCP
23 165 (7.94%) Project Management
24 160 (7.70%) Business Development
25 154 (7.41%) React
26 150 (7.22%) Kubernetes
26 150 (7.22%) Machine Learning
27 147 (7.08%) 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 59 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.46%) Apache
3 47 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.91%) Confluence
7 8 (0.39%) CMS
7 8 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.34%) JBoss
8 7 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) SAS
10 5 (0.24%) nginx
11 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 2 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.048%) Appian
14 1 (0.048%) IIS
14 1 (0.048%) Moodle
14 1 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 64 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.02%) Maya
4 20 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.43%) Sketch
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.24%) InDesign
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.14%) Stata
11 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.096%) Blender
11 2 (0.096%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.096%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.20%) SAP IBP
4 17 (0.82%) SAP CO
4 17 (0.82%) SAP FI
4 17 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
5 13 (0.63%) SAP FSCM
6 12 (0.58%) Shopify
7 11 (0.53%) SAP IS-U
8 8 (0.39%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.19%) Relativity
10 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
12 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
12 2 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 2 (0.096%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.096%) SAP PLM
12 2 (0.096%) Workday HCM
13 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 450 (21.67%) AWS
2 435 (20.94%) Azure
3 168 (8.09%) GCP
4 135 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 103 (4.96%) Snowflake
6 100 (4.81%) SaaS
7 97 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
8 84 (4.04%) Serverless
9 73 (3.51%) dbt
10 57 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
11 56 (2.70%) GitHub
12 54 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (2.36%) Entra ID
14 39 (1.88%) Figma
15 38 (1.83%) Amazon S3
16 29 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
18 26 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
19 25 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.37%) Firewall
2 51 (2.46%) WAN
3 48 (2.31%) LAN
4 45 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
5 36 (1.73%) VPN
6 26 (1.25%) Wireless
7 24 (1.16%) DNS
8 23 (1.11%) Network Security
9 22 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.82%) BGP
10 17 (0.82%) Broadband
10 17 (0.82%) Multicast
11 16 (0.77%) OSPF
12 14 (0.67%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (0.63%) DHCP
14 11 (0.53%) VoIP
15 10 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.43%) HTTP
16 9 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.54%) Power BI
2 96 (4.62%) Data Lake
3 92 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 80 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 53 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
6 53 (2.55%) Tableau
7 49 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 47 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
8 47 (2.26%) Apache Iceberg
8 47 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
8 47 (2.26%) Dremio
9 40 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (1.40%) DynamoDB
11 28 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (1.30%) Looker
13 23 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.11%) SAP BW
14 22 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (3.76%) Git
2 77 (3.71%) JIRA
3 20 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 14 (0.67%) GitLab
6 13 (0.63%) Selenium
7 10 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.39%) Vite
10 7 (0.34%) Postman
11 6 (0.29%) JMeter
12 5 (0.24%) MLflow
13 4 (0.19%) JUnit
13 4 (0.19%) Maven
13 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.19%) Storybook
14 3 (0.14%) JBehave
General
1 799 (38.47%) Finance
2 552 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 299 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (12.08%) Banking
5 219 (10.54%) Law
6 197 (9.48%) Marketing
7 183 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 108 (5.20%) Retail
9 102 (4.91%) Front Office
10 99 (4.77%) Presentation Skills
11 78 (3.76%) Public Sector
12 76 (3.66%) Legal
13 75 (3.61%) Telecoms
14 71 (3.42%) Games
15 61 (2.94%) Investment Banking
16 60 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
17 56 (2.70%) Financial Institution
18 50 (2.41%) Advertising
19 44 (2.12%) French Language
20 35 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (7.41%) React
2 87 (4.19%) .NET
3 84 (4.04%) REST
4 72 (3.47%) RESTful
5 66 (3.18%) gRPC
6 63 (3.03%) CSS
7 62 (2.99%) HTML
8 61 (2.94%) Node.js
9 60 (2.89%) Pandas
10 59 (2.84%) Kafka
11 58 (2.79%) GraphQL
12 55 (2.65%) NumPy
13 50 (2.41%) Spring
14 48 (2.31%) Protocol Buffers
15 47 (2.26%) SciPy
16 38 (1.83%) Spring Boot
17 31 (1.49%) Django
18 30 (1.44%) FastAPI
18 30 (1.44%) Flask
18 30 (1.44%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 157 (7.56%) Cloud Native
2 84 (4.04%) Equities
3 83 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 81 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 76 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (3.61%) Derivative
7 71 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
7 71 (3.42%) Hedge funds
8 70 (3.37%) Fixed Income
9 56 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 53 (2.55%) Management Information System
11 52 (2.50%) Algorithms
12 47 (2.26%) Pricing Data
13 42 (2.02%) Data Structures
14 41 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (1.78%) Data Centre
17 36 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
18 32 (1.54%) Mobile App
18 32 (1.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 118 (5.68%) Linux
2 81 (3.90%) Windows
3 42 (2.02%) Android
4 33 (1.59%) Unix
5 32 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.44%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.24%) VMS
10 4 (0.19%) CentOS
10 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Solaris
12 2 (0.096%) HPUX
12 2 (0.096%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (27.35%) Agile
2 377 (18.15%) AI
3 296 (14.25%) Mentoring
4 293 (14.11%) Software Engineering
5 288 (13.87%) CI/CD
6 285 (13.72%) Analytics
6 285 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
7 232 (11.17%) DevOps
8 224 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 196 (9.44%) Roadmaps
10 191 (9.20%) Decision-Making
11 180 (8.67%) Computer Science
12 175 (8.43%) Business Strategy
13 169 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 165 (7.94%) Project Management
15 160 (7.70%) Business Development
16 150 (7.22%) Machine Learning
17 147 (7.08%) Test Automation
18 146 (7.03%) Microservices
18 146 (7.03%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 431 (20.75%) Python
2 256 (12.33%) SQL
3 232 (11.17%) Java
4 186 (8.96%) JavaScript
5 181 (8.71%) TypeScript
6 114 (5.49%) C#
7 74 (3.56%) C++
8 48 (2.31%) Go
9 42 (2.02%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 29 (1.40%) Rust
12 22 (1.06%) Scala
13 20 (0.96%) Bicep
14 19 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.87%) Apex Code
16 16 (0.77%) C
17 13 (0.63%) Bash
17 13 (0.63%) Swift
18 9 (0.43%) VBA
19 8 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 352 (16.95%) Degree
2 109 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 62 (2.99%) ACCA
5 52 (2.50%) Security Cleared
6 47 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 45 (2.17%) CIMA
8 43 (2.07%) SC Cleared
9 40 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.83%) CISA
11 35 (1.69%) CISSP
12 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 25 (1.20%) CCNP
14 24 (1.16%) CISM
14 24 (1.16%) PhD
15 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
16 19 (0.91%) CCIE
17 18 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 14 (0.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.86%) QA
2 63 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.79%) GDPR
4 48 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 46 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.44%) IFRS
7 23 (1.11%) NIST
8 16 (0.77%) GAAP
8 16 (0.77%) GRC
9 14 (0.67%) PMO
9 14 (0.67%) WCAG
10 12 (0.58%) SLA
11 11 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.34%) PERC
14 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.19%) MiFID
15 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (4.09%) Docker
2 66 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) HDFS
7 8 (0.39%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.24%) Firmware
9 5 (0.24%) XenApp
10 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.19%) vSphere
11 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.096%) NFS
12 2 (0.096%) pfSense
13 1 (0.048%) Postfix
13 1 (0.048%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 150 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.96%) Terraform
3 50 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (2.21%) Ansible
5 29 (1.40%) Grafana
6 15 (0.72%) SCCM
6 15 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.29%) CASB
9 6 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.24%) Argo
11 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.096%) AWS Copilot
13 2 (0.096%) Nagios
13 2 (0.096%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.096%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 2 (0.096%) SCOM
13 2 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 267 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 92 (4.43%) SAP
3 78 (3.76%) Google
4 73 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 69 (3.32%) Cisco
6 63 (3.03%) VMware
7 57 (2.74%) Databricks
8 51 (2.46%) Oracle
9 46 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 45 (2.17%) Adobe
11 28 (1.35%) Dell
12 26 (1.25%) Guidewire
13 24 (1.16%) Meraki
14 23 (1.11%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.01%) Apple
16 17 (0.82%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.82%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.82%) Workday
17 15 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 14 (0.67%) Splunk