Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 February 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,428 2,669 3,638
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.29% 17.51% 17.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.84% 19.09% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 1,583 2,809
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 13,611 13,983 20,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 91.73% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,012 7,969 16,317
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,545
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +1 492 £90,000 +12.50% 336
South London +35 43 £60,000 +4.35% 16
West London -8 39 £50,000 -29.82% 50
East London -12 13 £54,600 -31.75% 36
North London +13 8 £75,000 - 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 February 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.

1 466 (19.19%) Azure
2 445 (18.33%) Agile
3 417 (17.17%) AI
4 404 (16.64%) AWS
5 377 (15.53%) Python
6 371 (15.28%) Degree
7 334 (13.76%) Software Engineering
8 321 (13.22%) Mentoring
9 304 (12.52%) Microsoft
10 300 (12.36%) Analytics
11 292 (12.03%) CI/CD
12 285 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
13 240 (9.88%) DevOps
14 239 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 226 (9.31%) SQL
16 222 (9.14%) Java
17 204 (8.40%) Decision-Making
18 199 (8.20%) Computer Science
18 199 (8.20%) Roadmaps
19 182 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
20 174 (7.17%) Business Strategy
21 171 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
21 171 (7.04%) SaaS
22 165 (6.80%) Kubernetes
22 165 (6.80%) Microservices
23 164 (6.75%) Machine Learning
24 162 (6.67%) Test Automation
25 160 (6.59%) GCP
26 154 (6.34%) Coaching
27 145 (5.97%) Business Development

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 56 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.95%) Apache
5 21 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.70%) Confluence
7 12 (0.49%) JBoss
7 12 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.37%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.21%) SAS
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Drupal
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.082%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.041%) Appian
14 1 (0.041%) IIS
14 1 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.041%) Tomcat
Applications
1 54 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.52%) Maya
4 15 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) Sketch
6 5 (0.21%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.21%) InDesign
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
9 2 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.082%) Blender
9 2 (0.082%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.082%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.082%) Stata
9 2 (0.082%) Weka
10 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.70%) SAP IBP
4 12 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.49%) SAP CO
4 12 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 12 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 10 (0.41%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.37%) SAP FSCM
7 8 (0.33%) SAP IS-U
8 5 (0.21%) Relativity
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.16%) Shopify
10 3 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.082%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.082%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 466 (19.19%) Azure
2 404 (16.64%) AWS
3 171 (7.04%) SaaS
4 160 (6.59%) GCP
5 138 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
6 122 (5.02%) Power Platform
7 76 (3.13%) GitHub
8 75 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 72 (2.97%) Serverless
10 56 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 54 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.57%) Figma
14 35 (1.44%) dbt
15 31 (1.28%) Datadog
16 30 (1.24%) Amazon S3
17 28 (1.15%) PaaS
18 27 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
19 26 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
20 25 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.92%) Firewall
2 60 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (2.31%) WAN
4 55 (2.27%) VPN
5 46 (1.89%) DNS
6 42 (1.73%) Broadband
7 41 (1.69%) DHCP
7 41 (1.69%) LAN
8 35 (1.44%) Wireless
9 27 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 27 (1.11%) VLAN
10 22 (0.91%) Multicast
10 22 (0.91%) SD-WAN
11 20 (0.82%) SAN
12 17 (0.70%) WebEx
13 16 (0.66%) Network Security
14 11 (0.45%) BGP
14 11 (0.45%) HTTP
15 10 (0.41%) OSPF
16 9 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 101 (4.16%) Power BI
3 69 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (2.47%) Data Lake
5 45 (1.85%) Tableau
6 41 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 32 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (1.03%) DynamoDB
10 20 (0.82%) Big Data
11 19 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
11 19 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (0.74%) BigQuery
12 18 (0.74%) Looker
12 18 (0.74%) Metadata
13 17 (0.70%) SAP BW
14 16 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 75 (3.09%) Git
2 69 (2.84%) JIRA
3 42 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.99%) TeamCity
5 17 (0.70%) GitLab
6 13 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.49%) Selenium
8 11 (0.45%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.37%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.37%) MLflow
10 9 (0.37%) Vite
11 8 (0.33%) Chocolatey
11 8 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.25%) Storybook
14 5 (0.21%) Postman
15 4 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 771 (31.75%) Finance
2 561 (23.11%) Social Skills
3 271 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (9.23%) Banking
5 199 (8.20%) Marketing
6 183 (7.54%) Law
7 174 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (5.60%) Retail
9 108 (4.45%) Legal
10 90 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
11 85 (3.50%) Public Sector
12 72 (2.97%) Games
13 71 (2.92%) Telecoms
14 62 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (2.51%) Front Office
16 53 (2.18%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.65%) Advertising
18 35 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
19 31 (1.28%) Automotive
20 28 (1.15%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (5.44%) React
2 96 (3.95%) .NET
3 93 (3.83%) REST
4 73 (3.01%) Node.js
5 70 (2.88%) RESTful
6 59 (2.43%) Kafka
7 58 (2.39%) Spring
8 51 (2.10%) CSS
9 47 (1.94%) GraphQL
9 47 (1.94%) HTML
10 44 (1.81%) Spring Boot
11 39 (1.61%) gRPC
11 39 (1.61%) SOAP
12 31 (1.28%) LangChain
13 30 (1.24%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 30 (1.24%) Django
13 30 (1.24%) Middleware
14 27 (1.11%) PyTorch
15 26 (1.07%) OAuth
15 26 (1.07%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 174 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 68 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 67 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 58 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 50 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 49 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 47 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 46 (1.89%) Equities
11 44 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (1.73%) Hedge funds
13 41 (1.69%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 34 (1.40%) Derivative
14 34 (1.40%) Fixed Income
15 31 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (1.28%) Public Cloud
16 30 (1.24%) Reinsurance
17 25 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 120 (4.94%) Linux
2 111 (4.57%) Windows
3 56 (2.31%) Android
4 48 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.19%) Unix
7 23 (0.95%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.21%) VMS
11 4 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.082%) AIX
12 2 (0.082%) CentOS
12 2 (0.082%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.041%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (18.33%) Agile
2 417 (17.17%) AI
3 334 (13.76%) Software Engineering
4 321 (13.22%) Mentoring
5 300 (12.36%) Analytics
6 292 (12.03%) CI/CD
7 285 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
8 240 (9.88%) DevOps
9 239 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 204 (8.40%) Decision-Making
11 199 (8.20%) Computer Science
11 199 (8.20%) Roadmaps
12 182 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 174 (7.17%) Business Strategy
14 171 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
15 165 (6.80%) Microservices
16 164 (6.75%) Machine Learning
17 162 (6.67%) Test Automation
18 154 (6.34%) Coaching
19 145 (5.97%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 377 (15.53%) Python
2 226 (9.31%) SQL
3 222 (9.14%) Java
4 137 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 133 (5.48%) TypeScript
6 119 (4.90%) C#
7 93 (3.83%) C++
8 67 (2.76%) Go
9 59 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.61%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.36%) Rust
12 31 (1.28%) Bash
13 27 (1.11%) Scala
14 24 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 22 (0.91%) Bicep
16 15 (0.62%) PHP
17 13 (0.54%) C
18 11 (0.45%) SOQL
19 10 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 371 (15.28%) Degree
2 127 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 90 (3.71%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 52 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 51 (2.10%) ACCA
7 45 (1.85%) CISSP
8 43 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.44%) AWS Certification
11 32 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.32%) PhD
12 31 (1.28%) CIMA
13 30 (1.24%) CISM
14 27 (1.11%) CISA
15 23 (0.95%) DV Cleared
16 22 (0.91%) CCNP
17 20 (0.82%) OSCP
18 19 (0.78%) CRISC
19 17 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.79%) QA
2 69 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.35%) GDPR
5 49 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.69%) NIST
7 24 (0.99%) GRC
7 24 (0.99%) IFRS
8 18 (0.74%) SLA
9 15 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.54%) NCSC
11 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.33%) PMO
12 8 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.29%) PERC
14 6 (0.25%) WCAG
15 5 (0.21%) GAAP
15 5 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 104 (4.28%) Docker
2 102 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 49 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.37%) Firmware
7 8 (0.33%) HDFS
7 8 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.16%) vSphere
9 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.082%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.082%) NFS
11 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.082%) ProxySG
11 2 (0.082%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.082%) XenApp
12 1 (0.041%) Postfix
12 1 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 165 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 102 (4.20%) Terraform
3 60 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.52%) Ansible
5 34 (1.40%) Grafana
6 23 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.82%) SCCM
8 9 (0.37%) Nessus
8 9 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.25%) Argo
9 6 (0.25%) CASB
9 6 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.21%) Nagios
11 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.082%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.082%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.082%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.082%) VxRail
Vendors
1 304 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 88 (3.62%) SAP
3 86 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 81 (3.34%) VMware
5 72 (2.97%) Cisco
6 56 (2.31%) Google
7 51 (2.10%) Databricks
7 51 (2.10%) Oracle
8 41 (1.69%) Adobe
8 41 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.48%) Dell
10 26 (1.07%) Fortinet
11 25 (1.03%) Meraki
11 25 (1.03%) Palo Alto
12 22 (0.91%) Guidewire
13 19 (0.78%) Apple
14 17 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (0.70%) Workday
15 14 (0.58%) IBM
16 13 (0.54%) Ruckus Wireless