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 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 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 3,840 2,116 3,822
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.69% 17.85% 20.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.87% 19.56% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 1,248 2,299
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,428
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £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 22,762 10,819 18,097
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 91.28% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15,707 7,030 11,797
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,015 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.48% - -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 8 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 8 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 +7 518 £90,000 +16.13% 477
West London +26 103 £60,000 +21.95% 143
South London +24 50 £80,000 -25.58% 41
East London -1 14 £120,000 +50.00% 27
North London +2 1 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 673 (17.53%) AI
2 665 (17.32%) Software Engineering
3 650 (16.93%) AWS
4 605 (15.76%) Python
5 584 (15.21%) Azure
6 490 (12.76%) Agile
7 467 (12.16%) Analytics
8 450 (11.72%) CI/CD
9 439 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 382 (9.95%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.38%) SQL
12 349 (9.09%) DevOps
13 333 (8.67%) Degree
14 327 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
15 324 (8.44%) Roadmaps
16 318 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 295 (7.68%) Java
18 293 (7.63%) Stakeholder Management
19 271 (7.06%) Security Cleared
20 268 (6.98%) Machine Learning
21 247 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
22 241 (6.28%) GCP
23 237 (6.17%) Decision-Making
24 233 (6.07%) Business Development
25 224 (5.83%) Microservices
26 222 (5.78%) Data Science
27 221 (5.76%) Kubernetes
28 217 (5.65%) Terraform
29 214 (5.57%) Test Automation
30 201 (5.23%) SaaS

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 69 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 52 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.70%) Apache
6 19 (0.49%) Confluence
6 19 (0.49%) SAS
7 15 (0.39%) CMS
8 7 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.16%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.078%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.052%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.052%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.052%) WinCC
14 1 (0.026%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.18%) InDesign
8 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.10%) SPSS
12 3 (0.078%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.078%) Blender
12 3 (0.078%) Maya
12 3 (0.078%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.078%) Revit
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 39 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.13%) Maximo
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.078%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.078%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.078%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (16.93%) AWS
2 584 (15.21%) Azure
3 241 (6.28%) GCP
4 201 (5.23%) SaaS
5 137 (3.57%) Serverless
6 129 (3.36%) Power Platform
7 127 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.15%) GitHub
9 120 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
10 109 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (1.61%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.48%) Amazon S3
14 53 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 47 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
16 44 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.15%) Azure AKS
17 41 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
18 40 (1.04%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (2.94%) Firewall
2 102 (2.66%) Network Security
3 72 (1.88%) DNS
4 64 (1.67%) VPN
5 50 (1.30%) VLAN
6 44 (1.15%) DHCP
7 42 (1.09%) WAN
8 40 (1.04%) Broadband
9 38 (0.99%) Internet
9 38 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.96%) BGP
11 35 (0.91%) OSPF
11 35 (0.91%) TCP/IP
12 28 (0.73%) LAN
13 22 (0.57%) Wireless
14 21 (0.55%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.47%) SAN
16 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.39%) Multicast
18 14 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 106 (2.76%) Power BI
3 77 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 58 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 51 (1.33%) Tableau
9 49 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (1.22%) MongoDB
11 41 (1.07%) Big Data
12 38 (0.99%) MySQL
13 35 (0.91%) DynamoDB
13 35 (0.91%) Metadata
14 33 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 32 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (0.65%) BigQuery
17 22 (0.57%) SAP HANA
18 18 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
18 18 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 113 (2.94%) Git
2 54 (1.41%) JIRA
3 49 (1.28%) GitLab
3 49 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.76%) Claude Code
5 20 (0.52%) MLflow
6 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.36%) Selenium
9 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.18%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) JUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Maven
12 4 (0.10%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.10%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 968 (25.21%) Finance
2 660 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 285 (7.42%) Banking
4 277 (7.21%) Law
5 276 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
6 227 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 212 (5.52%) Marketing
8 158 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 145 (3.78%) Retail
10 135 (3.52%) Legal
11 81 (2.11%) Financial Institution
12 75 (1.95%) Front Office
13 63 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 62 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.07%) Games
16 38 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 33 (0.86%) Advertising
18 32 (0.83%) Manufacturing
19 30 (0.78%) Billing
19 30 (0.78%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (5.65%) Terraform
2 137 (3.57%) .NET
3 133 (3.46%) React
4 118 (3.07%) Kafka
4 118 (3.07%) REST
5 87 (2.27%) Spring
6 82 (2.14%) Node.js
7 77 (2.01%) RESTful
8 64 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.17%) HTML
10 41 (1.07%) Next.js
11 38 (0.99%) CSS
12 34 (0.89%) Django
13 33 (0.86%) JSON
14 32 (0.83%) PySpark
15 31 (0.81%) LangChain
16 29 (0.76%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.70%) AngularJS
17 27 (0.70%) FastAPI
17 27 (0.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 147 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 107 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 103 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 68 (1.77%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 53 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.17%) Blog
14 44 (1.15%) Derivative
14 44 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (1.09%) e-Learning
17 41 (1.07%) Mobile App
18 40 (1.04%) Security Posture
19 38 (0.99%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.84%) Linux
2 96 (2.50%) Windows
3 47 (1.22%) Android
4 36 (0.94%) Unix
5 32 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 31 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.26%) AIX
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.078%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.078%) VMS
11 2 (0.052%) CentOS
11 2 (0.052%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (17.53%) AI
2 665 (17.32%) Software Engineering
3 490 (12.76%) Agile
4 467 (12.16%) Analytics
5 450 (11.72%) CI/CD
6 439 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 349 (9.09%) DevOps
8 327 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
9 324 (8.44%) Roadmaps
10 318 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 293 (7.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (6.98%) Machine Learning
13 247 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 237 (6.17%) Decision-Making
15 233 (6.07%) Business Development
16 224 (5.83%) Microservices
17 222 (5.78%) Data Science
18 214 (5.57%) Test Automation
19 189 (4.92%) Migration
20 181 (4.71%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 605 (15.76%) Python
2 360 (9.38%) SQL
3 295 (7.68%) Java
4 143 (3.72%) TypeScript
5 139 (3.62%) C#
6 124 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.27%) C++
8 68 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.56%) Go
10 55 (1.43%) Bash
11 29 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.68%) Bicep
12 26 (0.68%) PHP
13 23 (0.60%) R
14 22 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.57%) Ruby
15 20 (0.52%) Scala
16 19 (0.49%) SOQL
17 18 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 333 (8.67%) Degree
2 271 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 177 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 109 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.11%) AWS Certification
6 61 (1.59%) CISSP
6 61 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 53 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (1.12%) CISM
8 43 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (1.04%) PhD
10 33 (0.86%) CCNP
11 29 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (0.70%) CISA
13 20 (0.52%) CRISC
14 17 (0.44%) CCNA
15 16 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 125 (3.26%) QA
3 93 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 84 (2.19%) GDPR
6 81 (2.11%) NIST
7 50 (1.30%) GRC
8 25 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.39%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.34%) COBIT
12 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.31%) PMO
13 12 (0.31%) WCAG
14 10 (0.26%) NCSC
15 9 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.23%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (3.36%) Docker
2 63 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.13%) vSphere
6 3 (0.078%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.052%) Firmware
7 2 (0.052%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.052%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.026%) IAG
Systems Management
1 221 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.02%) Ansible
3 31 (0.81%) Grafana
4 26 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 21 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.49%) Puppet
8 18 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.31%) Nagios
10 10 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.21%) Istio
11 8 (0.21%) SCCM
12 7 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.10%) Argo
14 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.078%) CASB
Vendors
1 382 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 115 (2.99%) Oracle
2 115 (2.99%) Salesforce
3 105 (2.73%) Google
4 101 (2.63%) SAP
5 98 (2.55%) Databricks
6 70 (1.82%) Cisco
7 55 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 55 (1.43%) VMware
8 45 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.02%) Zscaler
10 35 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 33 (0.86%) Adobe
12 28 (0.73%) HP
13 26 (0.68%) Splunk
14 25 (0.65%) Dell
14 25 (0.65%) Intapp
15 24 (0.63%) IBM
15 24 (0.63%) Workday
16 23 (0.60%) Foundry