Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £86,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 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 3,979 2,120 3,827
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.72% 17.90% 19.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.98% 19.63% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,537 1,246 2,235
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,532
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,188 £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% -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 23,435 10,799 18,278
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.18% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,050 7,045 11,485
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 £59,773 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.68% - -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 21 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 21 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 +5 490 £90,000 +16.13% 793
West London +24 98 £60,000 +21.95% 138
South London +22 44 £80,000 -25.58% 50
East London +8 26 £120,000 +97.21% 32
North London -1 2 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 733 (18.42%) AI
2 697 (17.52%) Software Engineering
3 623 (15.66%) AWS
4 588 (14.78%) Azure
5 580 (14.58%) Python
6 494 (12.42%) Agile
7 482 (12.11%) Analytics
8 447 (11.23%) CI/CD
9 424 (10.66%) Mentoring
10 411 (10.33%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.05%) SQL
12 354 (8.90%) DevOps
13 338 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
14 331 (8.32%) Degree
15 326 (8.19%) Roadmaps
16 322 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 316 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 299 (7.51%) Java
19 281 (7.06%) Security Cleared
20 275 (6.91%) Machine Learning
21 244 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
22 242 (6.08%) Decision-Making
23 231 (5.81%) Business Development
23 231 (5.81%) GCP
24 224 (5.63%) Data Science
24 224 (5.63%) Kubernetes
25 219 (5.50%) Microservices
26 214 (5.38%) Terraform
27 201 (5.05%) Test Automation
28 199 (5.00%) 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 67 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (0.73%) Apache
5 26 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.53%) Confluence
7 19 (0.48%) SAS
8 14 (0.35%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.10%) 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 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.18%) InDesign
7 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.075%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.075%) Blender
11 3 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.075%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.075%) Revit
11 3 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.38%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 6 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.10%) Maximo
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.10%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
9 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.075%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 623 (15.66%) AWS
2 588 (14.78%) Azure
3 231 (5.81%) GCP
4 192 (4.83%) SaaS
5 145 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 136 (3.42%) Serverless
7 127 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
9 121 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
10 118 (2.97%) GitHub
11 76 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (1.58%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 53 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 49 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
17 47 (1.18%) Azure AKS
18 41 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
19 39 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
19 39 (0.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 110 (2.76%) Firewall
2 99 (2.49%) Network Security
3 75 (1.88%) DNS
4 64 (1.61%) VPN
5 52 (1.31%) VLAN
6 44 (1.11%) DHCP
7 42 (1.06%) Internet
8 41 (1.03%) WAN
9 38 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (0.88%) BGP
11 34 (0.85%) TCP/IP
12 33 (0.83%) OSPF
13 32 (0.80%) Broadband
14 26 (0.65%) LAN
15 20 (0.50%) Wireless
16 19 (0.48%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.45%) SAN
18 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
19 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
20 12 (0.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.81%) Power BI
2 105 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 75 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.46%) NoSQL
4 58 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 55 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 50 (1.26%) Tableau
7 47 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 47 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 44 (1.11%) Big Data
9 39 (0.98%) Metadata
10 36 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (0.88%) MySQL
12 31 (0.78%) DynamoDB
13 26 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (0.58%) SAP HANA
15 20 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
16 19 (0.48%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 106 (2.66%) Git
2 56 (1.41%) JIRA
3 43 (1.08%) GitLab
4 41 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 19 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.40%) MLflow
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 8 (0.20%) NUnit
10 5 (0.13%) Appium
10 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.13%) Mocha
11 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.10%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.10%) JUnit
11 4 (0.10%) Maven
11 4 (0.10%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.10%) Spock
11 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 992 (24.93%) Finance
2 677 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 288 (7.24%) Law
4 287 (7.21%) Banking
5 271 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 211 (5.30%) Marketing
8 160 (4.02%) Public Sector
9 148 (3.72%) Legal
10 142 (3.57%) Retail
11 96 (2.41%) Financial Institution
12 72 (1.81%) Front Office
13 68 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
14 63 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
16 43 (1.08%) Manufacturing
17 40 (1.01%) Games
18 36 (0.90%) Telecoms
19 33 (0.83%) Military
20 32 (0.80%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (5.38%) Terraform
2 136 (3.42%) .NET
3 133 (3.34%) React
4 125 (3.14%) REST
5 111 (2.79%) Kafka
6 90 (2.26%) Spring
7 83 (2.09%) RESTful
8 75 (1.88%) Node.js
9 67 (1.68%) Spring Boot
10 53 (1.33%) HTML
11 41 (1.03%) Next.js
12 40 (1.01%) CSS
13 35 (0.88%) JSON
13 35 (0.88%) PySpark
14 33 (0.83%) AngularJS
15 30 (0.75%) Django
16 29 (0.73%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.70%) FastAPI
17 28 (0.70%) LangChain
18 26 (0.65%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 255 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 156 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 145 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 118 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 117 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 108 (2.71%) AI Agents
8 64 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 59 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 53 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 47 (1.18%) Blog
12 45 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 43 (1.08%) Derivative
13 43 (1.08%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.06%) e-Learning
15 40 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 39 (0.98%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.88%) Reinsurance
18 34 (0.85%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.56%) Linux
2 98 (2.46%) Windows
3 45 (1.13%) Android
4 35 (0.88%) Unix
5 32 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.25%) AIX
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.20%) 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 Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (18.42%) AI
2 697 (17.52%) Software Engineering
3 494 (12.42%) Agile
4 482 (12.11%) Analytics
5 447 (11.23%) CI/CD
6 424 (10.66%) Mentoring
7 354 (8.90%) DevOps
8 338 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
9 326 (8.19%) Roadmaps
10 322 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 316 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 275 (6.91%) Machine Learning
13 244 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 242 (6.08%) Decision-Making
15 231 (5.81%) Business Development
16 224 (5.63%) Data Science
17 219 (5.50%) Microservices
18 201 (5.05%) Test Automation
19 199 (5.00%) Migration
20 196 (4.93%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 580 (14.58%) Python
2 360 (9.05%) SQL
3 299 (7.51%) Java
4 143 (3.59%) C#
4 143 (3.59%) TypeScript
5 120 (3.02%) JavaScript
6 86 (2.16%) C++
7 69 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 53 (1.33%) Bash
9 52 (1.31%) Go
10 31 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 29 (0.73%) Bicep
12 26 (0.65%) PHP
13 25 (0.63%) R
14 24 (0.60%) Scala
15 21 (0.53%) Ruby
16 19 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.45%) SOQL
18 17 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 331 (8.32%) Degree
2 281 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 180 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 105 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 66 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 57 (1.43%) CISSP
8 53 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 42 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.01%) DV Cleared
12 39 (0.98%) CISM
13 37 (0.93%) PhD
14 32 (0.80%) CCNP
15 31 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.68%) CISA
17 24 (0.60%) ACCA
18 19 (0.48%) CIMA
19 18 (0.45%) CCNA
20 17 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 119 (2.99%) QA
3 92 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.09%) GDPR
5 81 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 73 (1.83%) NIST
7 46 (1.16%) GRC
8 22 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) COBIT
11 13 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.28%) NCSC
12 11 (0.28%) PMO
12 11 (0.28%) WCAG
13 10 (0.25%) SLA
14 9 (0.23%) MiFID
15 6 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 129 (3.24%) Docker
2 63 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.075%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.050%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.050%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.025%) Firmware
9 1 (0.025%) IAG
9 1 (0.025%) KVM
9 1 (0.025%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 224 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 36 (0.90%) Ansible
3 30 (0.75%) Grafana
4 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.53%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.50%) Puppet
7 19 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.25%) Nagios
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.20%) SCCM
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Istio
13 4 (0.10%) EnCase
13 4 (0.10%) FTK
13 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 411 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.22%) Oracle
3 116 (2.92%) Salesforce
4 115 (2.89%) Google
5 104 (2.61%) SAP
6 95 (2.39%) Databricks
7 67 (1.68%) Cisco
8 54 (1.36%) VMware
9 52 (1.31%) Palo Alto
10 49 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 40 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 34 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.78%) Adobe
14 28 (0.70%) Splunk
14 28 (0.70%) Workday
15 27 (0.68%) HP
16 23 (0.58%) IBM
16 23 (0.58%) Intapp
17 22 (0.55%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.50%) Foundry