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 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 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 2,442 2,667 3,609
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.27% 17.52% 17.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.81% 19.11% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,542 1,594 2,785
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 £114,875 £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 13,709 13,957 20,035
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 91.69% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,095 8,027 16,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,500
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 4 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 4 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 +1 497 £90,000 +12.50% 369
South London +38 44 £60,000 +4.35% 10
West London -8 39 £50,000 -29.82% 42
East London -12 13 £54,600 -31.75% 29
North London +14 8 £75,000 - 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 467 (19.12%) Azure
2 443 (18.14%) Agile
3 419 (17.16%) AI
4 405 (16.58%) AWS
5 378 (15.48%) Python
6 369 (15.11%) Degree
7 335 (13.72%) Software Engineering
8 323 (13.23%) Mentoring
9 305 (12.49%) Microsoft
10 302 (12.37%) Analytics
11 292 (11.96%) CI/CD
12 286 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
13 241 (9.87%) DevOps
14 239 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 228 (9.34%) SQL
16 223 (9.13%) Java
17 205 (8.39%) Decision-Making
18 200 (8.19%) Roadmaps
19 198 (8.11%) Computer Science
20 184 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
21 174 (7.13%) Business Strategy
22 172 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
22 172 (7.04%) SaaS
23 166 (6.80%) Kubernetes
24 165 (6.76%) Machine Learning
24 165 (6.76%) Microservices
25 162 (6.63%) Test Automation
26 160 (6.55%) GCP
27 156 (6.39%) Coaching
28 144 (5.90%) 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 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.94%) 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 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.20%) 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 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.52%) Maya
4 15 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) Sketch
6 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.20%) 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 (1.31%) 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 (0.20%) 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
9 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
11 2 (0.082%) SAP GRC
11 2 (0.082%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 467 (19.12%) Azure
2 405 (16.58%) AWS
3 172 (7.04%) SaaS
4 160 (6.55%) GCP
5 138 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
6 124 (5.08%) Power Platform
7 76 (3.11%) GitHub
8 75 (3.07%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.99%) Serverless
10 56 (2.29%) Snowflake
11 54 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.56%) Figma
14 35 (1.43%) dbt
15 31 (1.27%) Datadog
16 30 (1.23%) Amazon S3
17 28 (1.15%) PaaS
18 27 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
19 26 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
19 26 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.91%) Firewall
2 60 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (2.29%) WAN
4 55 (2.25%) VPN
5 46 (1.88%) DNS
6 42 (1.72%) Broadband
7 41 (1.68%) DHCP
7 41 (1.68%) LAN
8 35 (1.43%) Wireless
9 27 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 27 (1.11%) VLAN
10 22 (0.90%) Multicast
10 22 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 20 (0.82%) SAN
12 17 (0.70%) Network Security
12 17 (0.70%) WebEx
13 11 (0.45%) BGP
13 11 (0.45%) HTTP
14 10 (0.41%) OSPF
15 9 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 103 (4.22%) Power BI
3 69 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (2.46%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.80%) Tableau
6 41 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 32 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (1.02%) 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%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (0.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 75 (3.07%) Git
2 69 (2.83%) JIRA
3 42 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.98%) TeamCity
5 17 (0.70%) GitLab
6 13 (0.53%) 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 (0.20%) Postman
15 4 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 771 (31.57%) Finance
2 558 (22.85%) Social Skills
3 269 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (9.17%) Banking
5 198 (8.11%) Marketing
6 182 (7.45%) Law
7 175 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (5.57%) Retail
9 108 (4.42%) Legal
10 90 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
11 85 (3.48%) Public Sector
12 72 (2.95%) Games
13 71 (2.91%) Telecoms
14 63 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (2.50%) Front Office
16 53 (2.17%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.64%) Advertising
18 36 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
19 31 (1.27%) Automotive
20 28 (1.15%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (5.45%) React
2 98 (4.01%) .NET
3 93 (3.81%) REST
4 73 (2.99%) Node.js
5 70 (2.87%) RESTful
6 59 (2.42%) Kafka
7 58 (2.38%) Spring
8 51 (2.09%) CSS
9 47 (1.92%) GraphQL
9 47 (1.92%) HTML
10 44 (1.80%) Spring Boot
11 39 (1.60%) gRPC
11 39 (1.60%) SOAP
12 30 (1.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 30 (1.23%) Django
12 30 (1.23%) LangChain
12 30 (1.23%) Middleware
13 27 (1.11%) PyTorch
14 26 (1.06%) OAuth
14 26 (1.06%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 174 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 68 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 67 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 58 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 50 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 50 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.88%) Equities
10 44 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.72%) Hedge funds
12 41 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.68%) Security Posture
13 34 (1.39%) Derivative
13 34 (1.39%) Fixed Income
14 31 (1.27%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (1.23%) Reinsurance
16 25 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 122 (5.00%) Linux
2 112 (4.59%) Windows
3 56 (2.29%) Android
4 48 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.19%) Unix
7 23 (0.94%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.25%) VMS
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.082%) AIX
13 2 (0.082%) CentOS
13 2 (0.082%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.041%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (18.14%) Agile
2 419 (17.16%) AI
3 335 (13.72%) Software Engineering
4 323 (13.23%) Mentoring
5 302 (12.37%) Analytics
6 292 (11.96%) CI/CD
7 286 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (9.87%) DevOps
9 239 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 205 (8.39%) Decision-Making
11 200 (8.19%) Roadmaps
12 198 (8.11%) Computer Science
13 184 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 174 (7.13%) Business Strategy
15 172 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
16 165 (6.76%) Machine Learning
16 165 (6.76%) Microservices
17 162 (6.63%) Test Automation
18 156 (6.39%) Coaching
19 144 (5.90%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 378 (15.48%) Python
2 228 (9.34%) SQL
3 223 (9.13%) Java
4 137 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 134 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 121 (4.95%) C#
7 93 (3.81%) C++
8 67 (2.74%) Go
9 60 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.60%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.35%) Rust
12 31 (1.27%) Bash
13 27 (1.11%) Scala
14 24 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.90%) Apex Code
15 22 (0.90%) Bicep
16 15 (0.61%) PHP
17 13 (0.53%) C
18 11 (0.45%) SOQL
19 10 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 369 (15.11%) Degree
2 126 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 90 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 51 (2.09%) ACCA
5 51 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 45 (1.84%) CISSP
7 43 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.31%) PhD
11 31 (1.27%) CIMA
12 30 (1.23%) CISM
13 27 (1.11%) CISA
14 23 (0.94%) DV Cleared
15 22 (0.90%) CCNP
16 20 (0.82%) OSCP
17 19 (0.78%) CRISC
18 17 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.77%) QA
2 69 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.33%) GDPR
5 49 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.68%) NIST
7 25 (1.02%) GRC
8 24 (0.98%) IFRS
9 19 (0.78%) SLA
10 15 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.53%) NCSC
12 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.33%) PMO
13 8 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.29%) PERC
15 6 (0.25%) WCAG
16 5 (0.20%) GAAP
16 5 (0.20%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 104 (4.26%) Docker
2 102 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 50 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.57%) 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 5 (0.20%) vSphere
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.082%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.082%) NFS
12 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.082%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.082%) XenApp
13 1 (0.041%) Postfix
13 1 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 166 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 102 (4.18%) Terraform
3 60 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.52%) Ansible
5 34 (1.39%) Grafana
6 23 (0.94%) 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 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.20%) Nagios
11 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.082%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.082%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.082%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 305 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 89 (3.64%) SAP
3 86 (3.52%) Salesforce
4 82 (3.36%) VMware
5 73 (2.99%) Cisco
6 55 (2.25%) Google
7 51 (2.09%) Databricks
7 51 (2.09%) Oracle
8 41 (1.68%) Adobe
8 41 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.47%) Dell
10 26 (1.06%) Fortinet
11 25 (1.02%) Meraki
11 25 (1.02%) Palo Alto
12 22 (0.90%) Guidewire
13 19 (0.78%) Apple
14 18 (0.74%) Workday
15 17 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.57%) IBM
17 13 (0.53%) Ruckus Wireless