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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,774 2,187 3,905
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.80% 18.01% 20.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.02% 19.66% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 1,309 2,480
10th Percentile £57,251 £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 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £119,000 £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 22,178 11,126 18,556
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 91.63% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,153 7,234 12,776
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,528
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.80% -2.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +7 571 £90,000 +20.00% 320
West London +25 113 £60,000 - 89
South London +14 53 £80,000 -25.58% 34
East London -4 15 £120,000 +50.00% 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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.

1 661 (17.51%) AWS
2 655 (17.36%) AI
3 636 (16.85%) Software Engineering
4 628 (16.64%) Python
5 601 (15.92%) Azure
6 517 (13.70%) Agile
7 490 (12.98%) Analytics
8 457 (12.11%) Mentoring
9 443 (11.74%) CI/CD
10 376 (9.96%) Microsoft
11 359 (9.51%) SQL
12 350 (9.27%) DevOps
13 342 (9.06%) Degree
14 326 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
15 324 (8.59%) Roadmaps
16 315 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 295 (7.82%) Java
18 286 (7.58%) Security Cleared
19 278 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
20 268 (7.10%) Machine Learning
21 250 (6.62%) Decision-Making
22 247 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
23 245 (6.49%) Business Development
24 240 (6.36%) GCP
25 229 (6.07%) Microservices
26 222 (5.88%) Kubernetes
27 220 (5.83%) Terraform
28 219 (5.80%) SaaS
29 216 (5.72%) Data Science
30 210 (5.56%) Test Automation

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 76 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.74%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) SAS
7 18 (0.48%) CMS
8 17 (0.45%) Confluence
9 8 (0.21%) WordPress
10 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.026%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 33 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.16%) InDesign
6 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) PlantUML
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.079%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.079%) Blender
9 3 (0.079%) Maya
10 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
3 10 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.21%) Maximo
4 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.11%) Shopify
7 3 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.079%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.079%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.079%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.079%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.079%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 661 (17.51%) AWS
2 601 (15.92%) Azure
3 240 (6.36%) GCP
4 219 (5.80%) SaaS
5 150 (3.97%) Serverless
6 140 (3.71%) Power Platform
7 135 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (3.29%) GitHub
9 121 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
10 100 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (1.78%) Entra ID
14 62 (1.64%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 48 (1.27%) dbt
17 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (1.17%) Figma
18 44 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
19 43 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 122 (3.23%) Firewall
2 106 (2.81%) Network Security
3 76 (2.01%) DNS
4 67 (1.78%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 50 (1.32%) Broadband
7 49 (1.30%) DHCP
8 48 (1.27%) WAN
9 43 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.06%) BGP
11 37 (0.98%) Internet
11 37 (0.98%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 30 (0.79%) LAN
14 25 (0.66%) Wireless
15 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.56%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (3.02%) Power BI
2 110 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.51%) Tableau
7 55 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 54 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 53 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
11 42 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (1.06%) Metadata
12 40 (1.06%) MySQL
13 37 (0.98%) DynamoDB
14 36 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 35 (0.93%) Big Data
16 29 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.56%) Looker
18 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
19 18 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (3.23%) Git
2 55 (1.46%) JIRA
3 47 (1.25%) GitLab
4 46 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.72%) MLflow
6 26 (0.69%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.34%) Selenium
10 12 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 6 (0.16%) Vite
13 5 (0.13%) Appium
13 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.13%) JUnit
13 5 (0.13%) Mocha
13 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.11%) JMeter
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 977 (25.89%) Finance
2 651 (17.25%) Social Skills
3 299 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (7.50%) Banking
5 280 (7.42%) Law
6 231 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 230 (6.09%) Marketing
8 164 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 148 (3.92%) Legal
10 142 (3.76%) Retail
11 73 (1.93%) Front Office
12 66 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 64 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 59 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 46 (1.22%) Advertising
16 43 (1.14%) Games
17 36 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.90%) Billing
18 34 (0.90%) Legal Technology
19 31 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (3.97%) React
2 148 (3.92%) .NET
3 117 (3.10%) REST
4 116 (3.07%) Kafka
5 90 (2.38%) Spring
6 88 (2.33%) Node.js
7 77 (2.04%) RESTful
8 67 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.19%) CSS
10 43 (1.14%) HTML
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 39 (1.03%) LangChain
13 36 (0.95%) Django
14 33 (0.87%) PySpark
15 31 (0.82%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.79%) JSON
17 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.72%) OAuth
19 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
20 25 (0.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 276 (7.31%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.05%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 81 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 77 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 61 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 61 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 58 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 50 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.25%) Blog
13 45 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.17%) Derivative
15 43 (1.14%) Security Posture
16 41 (1.09%) Equities
17 37 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 120 (3.18%) Linux
2 98 (2.60%) Windows
3 40 (1.06%) Android
4 33 (0.87%) Unix
5 30 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.079%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.079%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (17.36%) AI
2 636 (16.85%) Software Engineering
3 517 (13.70%) Agile
4 490 (12.98%) Analytics
5 457 (12.11%) Mentoring
6 443 (11.74%) CI/CD
7 350 (9.27%) DevOps
8 326 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
9 324 (8.59%) Roadmaps
10 315 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 278 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (7.10%) Machine Learning
13 250 (6.62%) Decision-Making
14 247 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 245 (6.49%) Business Development
16 229 (6.07%) Microservices
17 216 (5.72%) Data Science
18 210 (5.56%) Test Automation
19 193 (5.11%) Full-Stack Development
20 190 (5.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 628 (16.64%) Python
2 359 (9.51%) SQL
3 295 (7.82%) Java
4 156 (4.13%) C#
5 153 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 147 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 99 (2.62%) C++
8 64 (1.70%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.64%) Go
10 56 (1.48%) Bash
11 30 (0.79%) PHP
12 29 (0.77%) Bicep
12 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.58%) R
14 22 (0.58%) Ruby
15 21 (0.56%) Scala
15 21 (0.56%) SOQL
16 19 (0.50%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 342 (9.06%) Degree
2 286 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.72%) CISSP
7 58 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 55 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.19%) CISM
10 44 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.06%) PhD
12 37 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 34 (0.90%) CCNP
14 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.77%) CISA
16 22 (0.58%) CRISC
17 21 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
18 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
18 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.29%) QA
2 120 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 92 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.36%) GDPR
5 86 (2.28%) NIST
6 85 (2.25%) Accessibility
7 46 (1.22%) GRC
8 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.34%) COBIT
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 9 (0.24%) SLA
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
17 7 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 128 (3.39%) Docker
2 67 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.079%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
9 1 (0.026%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 222 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 220 (5.83%) Terraform
3 43 (1.14%) Ansible
4 35 (0.93%) Grafana
5 26 (0.69%) FortiGate
5 26 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.42%) Puppet
8 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.37%) Nagios
10 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.24%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.13%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 376 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 117 (3.10%) Salesforce
3 107 (2.84%) SAP
4 104 (2.76%) Databricks
5 98 (2.60%) Oracle
6 87 (2.31%) Google
7 76 (2.01%) Cisco
8 63 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 63 (1.67%) VMware
9 42 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 38 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
11 37 (0.98%) Adobe
12 33 (0.87%) Dell
13 29 (0.77%) HP
13 29 (0.77%) IBM
14 26 (0.69%) Fortinet
15 25 (0.66%) Foundry
15 25 (0.66%) Splunk
16 24 (0.64%) Intapp