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 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,650 2,189 4,016
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.99% 17.78% 19.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.21% 19.37% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 1,336 2,621
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £120,000
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 21,213 11,300 19,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 91.78% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,570 7,380 13,962
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,734 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +7 623 £90,000 +16.13% 236
West London +25 112 £70,000 +14.29% 60
South London +15 58 £80,000 -25.58% 17
East London -5 15 £89,000 +11.25% 16
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 646 (17.70%) AWS
2 608 (16.66%) AI
3 605 (16.58%) Python
4 591 (16.19%) Software Engineering
5 590 (16.16%) Azure
6 503 (13.78%) Agile
7 468 (12.82%) Analytics
8 448 (12.27%) Mentoring
9 425 (11.64%) CI/CD
10 371 (10.16%) Microsoft
11 339 (9.29%) DevOps
12 331 (9.07%) SQL
13 327 (8.96%) Degree
14 323 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
15 311 (8.52%) Roadmaps
16 299 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 280 (7.67%) Java
18 277 (7.59%) Security Cleared
19 257 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
20 246 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
21 244 (6.68%) Business Development
22 243 (6.66%) Machine Learning
23 237 (6.49%) Kubernetes
24 236 (6.47%) Decision-Making
25 235 (6.44%) GCP
26 228 (6.25%) Terraform
27 226 (6.19%) Microservices
28 209 (5.73%) SaaS
29 208 (5.70%) Test Automation
30 190 (5.21%) Full-Stack 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 72 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 63 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.68%) Apache
6 21 (0.58%) SAS
7 20 (0.55%) CMS
8 16 (0.44%) Confluence
9 9 (0.25%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.082%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.027%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.027%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
Applications
1 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.16%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) InDesign
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.082%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.082%) Blender
9 3 (0.082%) Maya
10 2 (0.055%) InVision
10 2 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
4 10 (0.27%) Maximo
4 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.11%) Shopify
8 3 (0.082%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.082%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.082%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.082%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.082%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.082%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 646 (17.70%) AWS
2 590 (16.16%) Azure
3 235 (6.44%) GCP
4 209 (5.73%) SaaS
5 153 (4.19%) Serverless
6 144 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 143 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 123 (3.37%) GitHub
9 122 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
10 89 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 65 (1.78%) Entra ID
14 60 (1.64%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 49 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (1.21%) dbt
18 43 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 41 (1.12%) Figma
20 39 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.15%) Firewall
2 109 (2.99%) Network Security
3 74 (2.03%) DNS
4 66 (1.81%) VPN
5 57 (1.56%) Broadband
6 53 (1.45%) VLAN
7 50 (1.37%) WAN
8 49 (1.34%) DHCP
9 43 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.10%) BGP
11 38 (1.04%) OSPF
12 36 (0.99%) Internet
13 33 (0.90%) Wireless
14 29 (0.79%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.77%) SD-WAN
16 26 (0.71%) LAN
17 22 (0.60%) SAN
18 20 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
19 17 (0.47%) Multicast
20 16 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (3.23%) Power BI
2 105 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 67 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.56%) Tableau
6 56 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 48 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 42 (1.15%) MongoDB
12 40 (1.10%) DynamoDB
13 36 (0.99%) Metadata
14 35 (0.96%) BigQuery
15 34 (0.93%) MySQL
16 33 (0.90%) Big Data
17 27 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
18 20 (0.55%) Looker
18 20 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 124 (3.40%) Git
2 57 (1.56%) JIRA
3 50 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.26%) GitLab
5 25 (0.68%) MLflow
6 23 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 12 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) Selenium
10 6 (0.16%) JMeter
10 6 (0.16%) Vite
11 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.14%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) NUnit
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Spock
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 929 (25.45%) Finance
2 618 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 276 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (7.26%) Banking
5 247 (6.77%) Law
6 207 (5.67%) Marketing
7 199 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 160 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 154 (4.22%) Legal
10 145 (3.97%) Retail
11 73 (2.00%) Front Office
12 71 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (1.70%) Financial Institution
14 51 (1.40%) Advertising
15 49 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.10%) Games
17 37 (1.01%) Legal Technology
18 35 (0.96%) Billing
18 35 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.11%) .NET
2 149 (4.08%) React
3 117 (3.21%) REST
4 109 (2.99%) Kafka
5 88 (2.41%) Node.js
6 78 (2.14%) Spring
7 65 (1.78%) RESTful
8 62 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 46 (1.26%) CSS
10 41 (1.12%) HTML
11 35 (0.96%) Django
12 34 (0.93%) LangChain
12 34 (0.93%) Next.js
12 34 (0.93%) PySpark
13 31 (0.85%) SOAP
14 30 (0.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 29 (0.79%) OAuth
16 28 (0.77%) .NET Core
16 28 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 27 (0.74%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 271 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 144 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 125 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 99 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 68 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 65 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 60 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 55 (1.51%) Security Posture
12 52 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
13 45 (1.23%) Equities
14 44 (1.21%) Derivative
15 42 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.01%) Blog
17 37 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.64%) Linux
2 105 (2.88%) Windows
3 34 (0.93%) Unix
4 31 (0.85%) Android
5 29 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.36%) AIX
8 13 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.082%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.055%) CentOS
12 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.055%) tvOS
13 1 (0.027%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (16.66%) AI
2 591 (16.19%) Software Engineering
3 503 (13.78%) Agile
4 468 (12.82%) Analytics
5 448 (12.27%) Mentoring
6 425 (11.64%) CI/CD
7 339 (9.29%) DevOps
8 323 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
9 311 (8.52%) Roadmaps
10 299 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 257 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 246 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 244 (6.68%) Business Development
14 243 (6.66%) Machine Learning
15 236 (6.47%) Decision-Making
16 226 (6.19%) Microservices
17 208 (5.70%) Test Automation
18 190 (5.21%) Full-Stack Development
19 178 (4.88%) Data Science
20 171 (4.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 605 (16.58%) Python
2 331 (9.07%) SQL
3 280 (7.67%) Java
4 157 (4.30%) C#
4 157 (4.30%) TypeScript
5 152 (4.16%) JavaScript
6 114 (3.12%) C++
7 68 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 64 (1.75%) Bash
8 64 (1.75%) Go
9 31 (0.85%) Bicep
10 30 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.79%) PHP
12 22 (0.60%) SOQL
13 20 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.55%) Scala
13 20 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.52%) R
15 18 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 327 (8.96%) Degree
2 277 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 175 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 111 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 71 (1.95%) CISSP
7 64 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 56 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (1.34%) CISM
9 49 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 37 (1.01%) CCNP
11 36 (0.99%) PhD
12 34 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.79%) CISA
15 25 (0.68%) CRISC
16 21 (0.58%) ACCA
16 21 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (3.37%) QA
2 105 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 94 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.44%) NIST
5 77 (2.11%) GDPR
6 74 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.29%) GRC
8 24 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 22 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.36%) PMO
14 12 (0.33%) COBIT
14 12 (0.33%) WCAG
15 11 (0.30%) SLA
16 10 (0.27%) NCSC
17 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (3.56%) Docker
2 70 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
5 13 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.082%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.055%) Firmware
8 2 (0.055%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 237 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 228 (6.25%) Terraform
3 48 (1.32%) Ansible
4 40 (1.10%) Grafana
5 32 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.44%) Nagios
7 16 (0.44%) Puppet
8 14 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.36%) Data Guard
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (0.33%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Cilium
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.082%) CASB
Vendors
1 371 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.29%) Salesforce
3 111 (3.04%) SAP
4 93 (2.55%) Oracle
5 90 (2.47%) Databricks
6 76 (2.08%) Google
7 68 (1.86%) Cisco
8 64 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.62%) VMware
10 40 (1.10%) Adobe
10 40 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 39 (1.07%) Dell
12 35 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 34 (0.93%) IBM
14 28 (0.77%) Splunk
15 26 (0.71%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.71%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.63%) Foundry
16 23 (0.63%) Intapp
16 23 (0.63%) SolarWinds