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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 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 4,008 2,107 3,753
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.71% 17.82% 20.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 19.55% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,554 1,236 2,191
10th Percentile £58,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,563 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,375 £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 23,612 10,779 17,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 91.16% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 16,161 7,027 11,247
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -2.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 23 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 23 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 +6 488 £90,000 +16.13% 858
West London +20 92 £60,000 +21.95% 170
South London +22 42 £70,000 -34.88% 45
East London +11 26 £120,000 +97.21% 28
North London -1 2 £62,500 - 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 741 (18.49%) AI
2 709 (17.69%) Software Engineering
3 623 (15.54%) AWS
4 590 (14.72%) Azure
5 580 (14.47%) Python
6 502 (12.52%) Agile
7 485 (12.10%) Analytics
8 458 (11.43%) CI/CD
9 431 (10.75%) Mentoring
10 419 (10.45%) Microsoft
11 360 (8.98%) DevOps
12 359 (8.96%) SQL
13 342 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
14 337 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 330 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 329 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
17 324 (8.08%) Degree
18 306 (7.63%) Java
19 284 (7.09%) Security Cleared
20 270 (6.74%) Machine Learning
21 254 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
22 239 (5.96%) Decision-Making
23 229 (5.71%) Kubernetes
24 228 (5.69%) GCP
25 226 (5.64%) Business Development
26 221 (5.51%) Microservices
26 221 (5.51%) Terraform
27 219 (5.46%) Data Science
28 209 (5.21%) Test Automation
29 207 (5.16%) Migration

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 62 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (0.72%) Apache
5 22 (0.55%) Confluence
6 20 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.47%) SAS
8 14 (0.35%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Drupal
11 4 (0.100%) IIS
11 4 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.100%) WinCC
12 3 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.075%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.050%) Camunda
13 2 (0.050%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.050%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.050%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.050%) OpenStack
Applications
1 44 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.17%) InDesign
7 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.12%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.100%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.100%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.100%) ProjectWise
10 4 (0.100%) Revit
11 3 (0.075%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.075%) Blender
11 3 (0.075%) Maya
12 2 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.37%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
4 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.17%) SAP BPC
7 6 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
8 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.100%) Maximo
9 4 (0.100%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.100%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
10 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 623 (15.54%) AWS
2 590 (14.72%) Azure
3 228 (5.69%) GCP
4 197 (4.92%) SaaS
5 141 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 140 (3.49%) Serverless
7 128 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 125 (3.12%) GitHub
9 122 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
10 77 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 68 (1.70%) Entra ID
12 57 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
14 53 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 49 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
16 48 (1.20%) Azure AKS
17 43 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
18 41 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
19 37 (0.92%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 112 (2.79%) Firewall
2 101 (2.52%) Network Security
3 76 (1.90%) DNS
4 68 (1.70%) VPN
5 53 (1.32%) VLAN
6 44 (1.10%) DHCP
7 43 (1.07%) Internet
8 42 (1.05%) WAN
9 39 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.92%) BGP
10 37 (0.92%) TCP/IP
11 33 (0.82%) OSPF
12 32 (0.80%) Broadband
13 27 (0.67%) LAN
14 21 (0.52%) Wireless
15 20 (0.50%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.45%) SAN
17 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
18 13 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
19 12 (0.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (2.69%) Power BI
2 105 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 79 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 59 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 50 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 44 (1.10%) Big Data
8 44 (1.10%) Tableau
9 42 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 41 (1.02%) Metadata
11 39 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (0.87%) MySQL
13 32 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 24 (0.60%) SAP HANA
15 21 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (0.47%) Hadoop
18 18 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 105 (2.62%) Git
2 57 (1.42%) JIRA
3 44 (1.10%) GitLab
4 40 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 21 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.32%) Selenium
9 10 (0.25%) MLflow
10 8 (0.20%) NUnit
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
12 4 (0.100%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.100%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.100%) JUnit
12 4 (0.100%) Maven
12 4 (0.100%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.100%) Spock
12 4 (0.100%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,008 (25.15%) Finance
2 695 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 292 (7.29%) Banking
4 290 (7.24%) Law
5 270 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 233 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 214 (5.34%) Marketing
8 168 (4.19%) Public Sector
9 150 (3.74%) Legal
10 146 (3.64%) Retail
11 100 (2.50%) Financial Institution
12 72 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 71 (1.77%) Front Office
14 64 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
16 43 (1.07%) Manufacturing
17 40 (1.00%) Games
18 36 (0.90%) Telecoms
19 33 (0.82%) Military
20 32 (0.80%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (5.51%) Terraform
2 136 (3.39%) .NET
3 134 (3.34%) React
4 129 (3.22%) REST
5 106 (2.64%) Kafka
6 91 (2.27%) Spring
7 84 (2.10%) RESTful
8 75 (1.87%) Node.js
9 68 (1.70%) Spring Boot
10 53 (1.32%) HTML
11 41 (1.02%) Next.js
12 40 (1.00%) CSS
13 36 (0.90%) JSON
14 35 (0.87%) PySpark
15 33 (0.82%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.77%) Django
17 29 (0.72%) FastAPI
18 28 (0.70%) .NET Core
19 27 (0.67%) React Native
20 26 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 252 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 159 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 152 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 121 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 120 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 120 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 112 (2.79%) AI Agents
7 71 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 59 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 52 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.20%) Blog
12 46 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 44 (1.10%) e-Learning
14 42 (1.05%) Derivative
15 40 (1.00%) Data Structures
15 40 (1.00%) Mobile App
16 38 (0.95%) Public Cloud
17 35 (0.87%) Reinsurance
17 35 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.54%) Linux
2 100 (2.50%) Windows
3 47 (1.17%) Android
4 35 (0.87%) Unix
5 32 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.25%) AIX
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.075%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.050%) tvOS
11 2 (0.050%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.025%) CentOS
12 1 (0.025%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (18.49%) AI
2 709 (17.69%) Software Engineering
3 502 (12.52%) Agile
4 485 (12.10%) Analytics
5 458 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 431 (10.75%) Mentoring
7 360 (8.98%) DevOps
8 342 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
9 337 (8.41%) Roadmaps
10 330 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 329 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 270 (6.74%) Machine Learning
13 254 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 239 (5.96%) Decision-Making
15 226 (5.64%) Business Development
16 221 (5.51%) Microservices
17 219 (5.46%) Data Science
18 209 (5.21%) Test Automation
19 207 (5.16%) Migration
20 198 (4.94%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 580 (14.47%) Python
2 359 (8.96%) SQL
3 306 (7.63%) Java
4 144 (3.59%) TypeScript
5 143 (3.57%) C#
6 121 (3.02%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.17%) C++
8 69 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 55 (1.37%) Go
10 53 (1.32%) Bash
11 33 (0.82%) Bicep
11 33 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.65%) PHP
13 25 (0.62%) R
14 24 (0.60%) Scala
15 21 (0.52%) Ruby
16 19 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.45%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.45%) SOQL
18 17 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 324 (8.08%) Degree
2 284 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 104 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 57 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.40%) CISSP
9 44 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 43 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.00%) DV Cleared
12 39 (0.97%) CISM
13 38 (0.95%) PhD
14 32 (0.80%) CCNP
15 31 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.67%) CISA
17 24 (0.60%) ACCA
18 19 (0.47%) CIMA
19 18 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 121 (3.02%) QA
3 93 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 78 (1.95%) GDPR
6 72 (1.80%) NIST
7 46 (1.15%) GRC
8 24 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.32%) COBIT
11 13 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.27%) NCSC
12 11 (0.27%) PMO
12 11 (0.27%) WCAG
13 10 (0.25%) SLA
14 9 (0.22%) MiFID
15 6 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 129 (3.22%) Docker
2 63 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
4 11 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.12%) vSphere
6 3 (0.075%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.050%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.050%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) IAG
8 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 229 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 37 (0.92%) Grafana
3 35 (0.87%) Ansible
4 29 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.52%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.50%) Puppet
7 19 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.25%) Nagios
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.20%) SCCM
11 6 (0.15%) Cilium
12 5 (0.12%) Argo
12 5 (0.12%) Istio
13 4 (0.100%) EnCase
13 4 (0.100%) FTK
13 4 (0.100%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.075%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 419 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 129 (3.22%) Oracle
3 119 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 117 (2.92%) Google
5 107 (2.67%) SAP
6 89 (2.22%) Databricks
7 69 (1.72%) Cisco
8 53 (1.32%) VMware
9 51 (1.27%) Palo Alto
10 49 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 40 (1.00%) Zscaler
12 34 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 32 (0.80%) Adobe
14 29 (0.72%) Workday
15 28 (0.70%) Splunk
16 26 (0.65%) HP
17 24 (0.60%) Intapp
18 23 (0.57%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.57%) IBM
19 20 (0.50%) Foundry