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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,412 1,988 4,509
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.30% 16.72% 19.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.67% 18.57% 20.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,244 1,228 3,149
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% +3.55% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -10.31%

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 19,313 10,704 22,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 90.00% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 13,233 6,837 16,746
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,108
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,200 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.52% -13.65%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +7 702 £90,000 +12.50% 194
West London +29 98 £75,000 +17.65% 16
South London +31 65 £60,000 -44.19% 24
East London -8 17 £79,000 -16.84% 19
North London +1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 11
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 573 (16.79%) Azure
2 513 (15.04%) Python
3 509 (14.92%) Software Engineering
4 499 (14.62%) AWS
5 480 (14.07%) Agile
6 456 (13.36%) AI
7 372 (10.90%) Analytics
8 371 (10.87%) Mentoring
8 371 (10.87%) Microsoft
9 343 (10.05%) CI/CD
10 309 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
11 303 (8.88%) Degree
12 281 (8.24%) DevOps
13 268 (7.85%) SQL
14 266 (7.80%) Java
15 251 (7.36%) Roadmaps
16 247 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 235 (6.89%) Kubernetes
18 230 (6.74%) Microservices
19 218 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
20 217 (6.36%) Decision-Making
20 217 (6.36%) GCP
21 211 (6.18%) Security Cleared
22 206 (6.04%) SaaS
22 206 (6.04%) Test Automation
23 193 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
24 190 (5.57%) Terraform
25 185 (5.42%) Full-Stack Development
26 184 (5.39%) Business Development
27 182 (5.33%) Machine Learning

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 66 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.62%) Apache
6 20 (0.59%) CMS
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) Drupal
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.029%) OpenStack
Applications
1 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
6 6 (0.18%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Maya
9 3 (0.088%) SPSS
10 2 (0.059%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.059%) Blender
10 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.059%) Weka
11 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 10 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.088%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.088%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.088%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
12 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
12 2 (0.059%) SAP WM
12 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 573 (16.79%) Azure
2 499 (14.62%) AWS
3 217 (6.36%) GCP
4 206 (6.04%) SaaS
5 153 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
6 125 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 117 (3.43%) GitHub
8 116 (3.40%) Serverless
9 79 (2.32%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 44 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 40 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 39 (1.14%) Datadog
16 38 (1.11%) Figma
16 38 (1.11%) IaaS
16 38 (1.11%) PaaS
16 38 (1.11%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (2.96%) Firewall
2 79 (2.32%) DNS
3 72 (2.11%) VPN
4 71 (2.08%) Broadband
5 64 (1.88%) Network Security
6 63 (1.85%) DHCP
7 54 (1.58%) WAN
8 52 (1.52%) VLAN
8 52 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (1.26%) Wireless
10 34 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 32 (0.94%) SAN
12 30 (0.88%) LAN
13 28 (0.82%) TCP/IP
14 27 (0.79%) BGP
15 26 (0.76%) OSPF
16 24 (0.70%) Multicast
17 20 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
18 18 (0.53%) HTTP
19 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 98 (2.87%) Power BI
3 50 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 44 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 44 (1.29%) Tableau
5 41 (1.20%) BigQuery
5 41 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (1.06%) DynamoDB
7 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 32 (0.94%) Metadata
9 32 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (0.91%) MongoDB
11 24 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (0.67%) MySQL
13 20 (0.59%) Big Data
13 20 (0.59%) DB2
14 19 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 113 (3.31%) Git
2 69 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.52%) JIRA
4 41 (1.20%) GitLab
5 35 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) MLflow
7 20 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 8 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.21%) Chocolatey
10 7 (0.21%) Selenium
11 6 (0.18%) JMeter
12 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.12%) Gatling
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) XCUITest
General
1 895 (26.23%) Finance
2 555 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (7.71%) Banking
5 220 (6.45%) Law
6 207 (6.07%) Marketing
7 186 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 172 (5.04%) Legal
9 155 (4.54%) Retail
10 150 (4.40%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.96%) Front Office
12 57 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 50 (1.47%) Advertising
15 47 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (1.08%) Games
18 36 (1.06%) Telecoms
19 29 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
20 26 (0.76%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.19%) React
2 141 (4.13%) .NET
3 114 (3.34%) REST
4 100 (2.93%) Kafka
5 86 (2.52%) Node.js
6 77 (2.26%) Spring
7 67 (1.96%) RESTful
7 67 (1.96%) Spring Boot
8 54 (1.58%) CSS
9 45 (1.32%) HTML
10 44 (1.29%) SOAP
11 39 (1.14%) PyTorch
12 36 (1.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 34 (1.00%) PySpark
14 32 (0.94%) LangChain
14 32 (0.94%) OAuth
15 29 (0.85%) Django
15 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (0.79%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 244 (7.15%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 79 (2.32%) Algorithms
5 67 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 64 (1.88%) Security Posture
7 61 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 52 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 51 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 47 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 46 (1.35%) Equities
14 39 (1.14%) Derivative
14 39 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.11%) Hedge funds
15 38 (1.11%) Social Media
16 32 (0.94%) Low-Code
16 32 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.31%) Linux
2 134 (3.93%) Windows
3 51 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.26%) Android
5 33 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.76%) Unix
7 17 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.18%) AIX
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.059%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.059%) tvOS
14 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.029%) Rocky
14 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (14.92%) Software Engineering
2 480 (14.07%) Agile
3 456 (13.36%) AI
4 372 (10.90%) Analytics
5 371 (10.87%) Mentoring
6 343 (10.05%) CI/CD
7 309 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (8.24%) DevOps
9 251 (7.36%) Roadmaps
10 247 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 230 (6.74%) Microservices
12 218 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 217 (6.36%) Decision-Making
14 206 (6.04%) Test Automation
15 193 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 185 (5.42%) Full-Stack Development
17 184 (5.39%) Business Development
18 182 (5.33%) Machine Learning
19 181 (5.30%) Fintech
20 172 (5.04%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 513 (15.04%) Python
2 268 (7.85%) SQL
3 266 (7.80%) Java
4 144 (4.22%) C#
5 143 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 143 (4.19%) TypeScript
6 130 (3.81%) C++
7 81 (2.37%) Go
8 75 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.44%) Bash
10 33 (0.97%) Bicep
11 27 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 26 (0.76%) SOQL
13 24 (0.70%) PHP
13 24 (0.70%) Rust
13 24 (0.70%) Scala
14 20 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.50%) R
17 15 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 303 (8.88%) Degree
2 211 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 156 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (1.91%) Azure Certification
5 65 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 58 (1.70%) CISSP
7 49 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (1.11%) CISM
9 38 (1.11%) PhD
10 37 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 31 (0.91%) CCNP
12 28 (0.82%) ACCA
13 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.76%) CRISC
14 25 (0.73%) OSCP
15 22 (0.64%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.59%) CIMA
17 18 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.08%) QA
2 80 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.17%) NIST
5 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.23%) GDPR
7 37 (1.08%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
12 14 (0.41%) NCSC
13 12 (0.35%) IFRS
13 12 (0.35%) MiFID
14 11 (0.32%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.23%) COBIT
15 8 (0.23%) WCAG
16 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.75%) Docker
2 104 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Firmware
6 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.088%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 235 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 190 (5.57%) Terraform
3 48 (1.41%) Ansible
4 46 (1.35%) Grafana
5 41 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.64%) SCCM
8 21 (0.62%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.32%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.21%) Istio
13 6 (0.18%) Cilium
13 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.15%) Kibana
15 4 (0.12%) Argo
15 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 371 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.87%) Salesforce
3 90 (2.64%) SAP
4 78 (2.29%) VMware
5 77 (2.26%) Databricks
6 75 (2.20%) Cisco
7 66 (1.93%) Oracle
8 57 (1.67%) Google
9 51 (1.49%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.38%) Dell
11 38 (1.11%) Adobe
12 33 (0.97%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.82%) IBM
16 24 (0.70%) SolarWinds
17 22 (0.64%) Apple
17 22 (0.64%) Foundry
17 22 (0.64%) Splunk
18 19 (0.56%) Intapp