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 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,144 3,859 3,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.94% 20.01% 16.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.68% 20.98% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 2,277 2,980
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £64,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -

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 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -3 365 £77,500 -3.13% 390
South London -27 17 £107,500 +95.45% 11
West London -20 15 £49,200 -34.40% 26
East London -8 10 £72,500 +11.54% 25
North London -13 2 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 927 (43.24%) Finance
2 796 (37.13%) Agile
3 612 (28.54%) AWS
4 594 (27.71%) Python
5 567 (26.45%) Social Skills
6 481 (22.43%) Azure
7 392 (18.28%) Software Engineering
8 368 (17.16%) Degree
9 353 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
10 348 (16.23%) Artificial Intelligence
11 342 (15.95%) Banking
12 316 (14.74%) Mentoring
12 316 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
13 311 (14.51%) CI/CD
14 307 (14.32%) Law
15 303 (14.13%) Analytics
16 289 (13.48%) SQL
17 276 (12.87%) Microsoft
18 272 (12.69%) Java
19 265 (12.36%) TypeScript
20 259 (12.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 239 (11.15%) DevOps
21 239 (11.15%) JavaScript
22 204 (9.51%) Roadmaps
23 203 (9.47%) Marketing
24 195 (9.10%) Project Management
25 193 (9.00%) React
26 191 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
26 191 (8.91%) Computer Science
27 188 (8.77%) Business Strategy

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
1 113 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (4.57%) Apache
3 53 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.59%) Apache Spark
6 26 (1.21%) Confluence
7 19 (0.89%) CMS
8 10 (0.47%) WordPress
9 8 (0.37%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.23%) nginx
11 5 (0.23%) SAS
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
12 3 (0.14%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.047%) CICS
14 1 (0.047%) JBoss
14 1 (0.047%) Moodle
14 1 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 65 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.96%) Maya
4 32 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.65%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.37%) Sketch
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.14%) Stata
12 2 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.093%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.093%) InDesign
12 2 (0.093%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.59%) SAP IBP
3 27 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.84%) SAP CO
4 18 (0.84%) SAP FI
4 18 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
5 15 (0.70%) SAP FSCM
6 12 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
6 12 (0.56%) Shopify
7 11 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.47%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.28%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.14%) Aladdin
11 3 (0.14%) Endur
11 3 (0.14%) SAP SCM
11 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 612 (28.54%) AWS
2 481 (22.43%) Azure
3 178 (8.30%) GCP
4 160 (7.46%) Snowflake
5 133 (6.20%) Power Platform
6 120 (5.60%) Serverless
7 110 (5.13%) dbt
8 90 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
9 84 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 83 (3.87%) SaaS
11 50 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 35 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 33 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
14 33 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
16 31 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (1.45%) GitHub
17 28 (1.31%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.13%) Firewall
2 46 (2.15%) Network Security
3 41 (1.91%) VPN
3 41 (1.91%) WAN
4 37 (1.73%) LAN
5 33 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (1.17%) DNS
7 20 (0.93%) BGP
8 18 (0.84%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.79%) Wireless
10 15 (0.70%) OSPF
11 13 (0.61%) Multicast
12 11 (0.51%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.47%) Broadband
13 10 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
15 8 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
15 8 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (6.44%) Data Lake
2 106 (4.94%) Power BI
3 94 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
4 92 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 89 (4.15%) Apache Arrow
5 89 (4.15%) Apache Iceberg
5 89 (4.15%) Apache Ignite
5 89 (4.15%) Dremio
6 75 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 62 (2.89%) NoSQL
8 58 (2.71%) Tableau
9 54 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.33%) DynamoDB
11 47 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
12 31 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.40%) SAP BW
14 26 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.12%) Looker
16 22 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
16 22 (1.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 82 (3.82%) JIRA
2 79 (3.68%) Git
3 31 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.75%) GitLab
5 14 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 13 (0.61%) JUnit
6 13 (0.61%) Vite
7 11 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.51%) Maven
8 10 (0.47%) Selenium
9 9 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.42%) Mockito
10 8 (0.37%) Postman
10 8 (0.37%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.33%) IntelliJ
12 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.23%) JMeter
13 5 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.19%) MLflow
14 4 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 927 (43.24%) Finance
2 567 (26.45%) Social Skills
3 342 (15.95%) Banking
4 316 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 307 (14.32%) Law
6 259 (12.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (9.47%) Marketing
8 159 (7.42%) Front Office
9 126 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
10 117 (5.46%) Investment Banking
11 102 (4.76%) Public Sector
12 83 (3.87%) Games
13 82 (3.82%) Legal
14 73 (3.40%) Telecoms
15 66 (3.08%) Retail
16 50 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
17 45 (2.10%) French Language
17 45 (2.10%) Manufacturing
18 42 (1.96%) Financial Institution
18 42 (1.96%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (9.00%) React
2 107 (4.99%) Pandas
3 100 (4.66%) gRPC
4 98 (4.57%) NumPy
5 92 (4.29%) Protocol Buffers
6 91 (4.24%) SciPy
7 90 (4.20%) REST
8 85 (3.96%) .NET
9 76 (3.54%) HTML
10 74 (3.45%) CSS
11 73 (3.40%) RESTful
12 62 (2.89%) Kafka
13 53 (2.47%) Spring
14 51 (2.38%) GraphQL
14 51 (2.38%) Node.js
15 48 (2.24%) AngularJS
16 43 (2.01%) Flask
17 41 (1.91%) Spring Boot
18 38 (1.77%) Swagger
19 37 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 142 (6.62%) Derivative
3 135 (6.30%) Equities
4 115 (5.36%) Hedge funds
5 105 (4.90%) Fixed Income
5 105 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 95 (4.43%) Product Ownership
7 89 (4.15%) Pricing Data
8 78 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
9 71 (3.31%) Onboarding
10 66 (3.08%) Management Information System
11 61 (2.85%) Algorithms
12 56 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
13 48 (2.24%) Data Structures
14 42 (1.96%) Data Centre
15 40 (1.87%) Reinsurance
16 37 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
19 33 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.06%) Linux
2 88 (4.10%) Windows
3 34 (1.59%) Unix
4 22 (1.03%) Android
4 22 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.28%) Solaris
9 5 (0.23%) CentOS
9 5 (0.23%) HPUX
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.23%) VMS
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.093%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.093%) zOS
12 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (37.13%) Agile
2 392 (18.28%) Software Engineering
3 353 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
4 348 (16.23%) Artificial Intelligence
5 316 (14.74%) Mentoring
6 311 (14.51%) CI/CD
7 303 (14.13%) Analytics
8 239 (11.15%) DevOps
9 204 (9.51%) Roadmaps
10 195 (9.10%) Project Management
11 191 (8.91%) Computer Science
11 191 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 188 (8.77%) Business Strategy
13 173 (8.07%) Decision-Making
14 171 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 168 (7.84%) User Experience
16 158 (7.37%) Business Development
17 157 (7.32%) Machine Learning
18 150 (7.00%) Asset Management
19 143 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 594 (27.71%) Python
2 289 (13.48%) SQL
3 272 (12.69%) Java
4 265 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 239 (11.15%) JavaScript
6 106 (4.94%) C#
7 86 (4.01%) C++
8 45 (2.10%) Go
9 40 (1.87%) PowerShell
10 36 (1.68%) Rust
11 26 (1.21%) Scala
12 24 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 24 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 21 (0.98%) Bash
14 20 (0.93%) C
15 19 (0.89%) Apex Code
16 16 (0.75%) Bicep
17 15 (0.70%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.65%) PHP
18 14 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 368 (17.16%) Degree
2 102 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (2.89%) Master's Degree
4 56 (2.61%) Security Cleared
5 49 (2.29%) CISA
6 48 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 46 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.87%) SC Cleared
9 36 (1.68%) CISSP
10 35 (1.63%) ACCA
11 34 (1.59%) CIMA
12 30 (1.40%) CCNP
13 28 (1.31%) PMI Certification
14 24 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (1.07%) PhD
16 21 (0.98%) Azure Certification
16 21 (0.98%) MRICS
17 19 (0.89%) ICAEW
18 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 15 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.46%) QA
2 64 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 45 (2.10%) GDPR
4 39 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.07%) PMO
7 20 (0.93%) NIST
8 17 (0.79%) ITGC
9 15 (0.70%) WCAG
10 13 (0.61%) IFRS
11 12 (0.56%) GAAP
12 9 (0.42%) GRC
13 7 (0.33%) MiFID
13 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.23%) EMIR
15 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 117 (5.46%) Docker
2 64 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.23%) HDFS
7 5 (0.23%) XenDesktop
8 4 (0.19%) Firmware
8 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
8 4 (0.19%) XenApp
9 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.093%) NFS
10 2 (0.093%) pfSense
10 2 (0.093%) vSphere
11 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 177 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 156 (7.28%) Terraform
3 58 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 52 (2.43%) Ansible
5 30 (1.40%) Grafana
6 27 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.65%) SCCM
8 12 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.33%) Argo
10 7 (0.33%) CASB
10 7 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.28%) Istio
12 5 (0.23%) CSIRT
12 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.23%) SCOM
13 4 (0.19%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.14%) Puppet
15 2 (0.093%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.093%) linkerd
Vendors
1 276 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.04%) SAP
3 95 (4.43%) Google
4 88 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 84 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 76 (3.54%) Cisco
7 73 (3.40%) Oracle
8 62 (2.89%) Databricks
9 59 (2.75%) VMware
10 42 (1.96%) Adobe
11 28 (1.31%) Meraki
12 26 (1.21%) IBM
13 25 (1.17%) Dell
14 24 (1.12%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.03%) Apple
16 21 (0.98%) Ariba
17 20 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.93%) Workday
18 19 (0.89%) Palo Alto
19 17 (0.79%) Guidewire