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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,562 2,098 4,622
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 17.20% 18.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.68% 18.92% 19.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,338 1,295 3,199
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
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 20,144 11,087 23,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 90.91% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13,871 7,045 17,186
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,283
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +7 716 £90,000 +12.50% 87
West London +30 110 £75,000 +17.65% 31
South London +34 63 £70,000 -34.88% 9
East London +5 17 £68,000 -15.00% 24
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 589 (16.54%) Azure
2 565 (15.86%) AWS
3 557 (15.64%) Python
4 549 (15.41%) Software Engineering
5 493 (13.84%) AI
6 485 (13.62%) Agile
7 400 (11.23%) Analytics
8 396 (11.12%) Mentoring
9 375 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 373 (10.47%) Microsoft
11 317 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
12 301 (8.45%) Degree
13 296 (8.31%) SQL
14 292 (8.20%) DevOps
15 274 (7.69%) Roadmaps
16 271 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 258 (7.24%) Java
18 245 (6.88%) Security Cleared
19 242 (6.79%) Kubernetes
20 238 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
21 227 (6.37%) Decision-Making
22 225 (6.32%) Microservices
23 223 (6.26%) Infrastructure as Code
24 222 (6.23%) GCP
25 218 (6.12%) Business Development
26 210 (5.90%) Terraform
27 203 (5.70%) Test Automation
28 199 (5.59%) Full-Stack Development
29 195 (5.47%) SaaS
30 194 (5.45%) 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 67 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (0.76%) Apache
5 21 (0.59%) CMS
6 14 (0.39%) Confluence
7 12 (0.34%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 9 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) JBoss
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) 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 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.084%) Blender
8 3 (0.084%) InVision
8 3 (0.084%) Maya
8 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.084%) Sketch
8 3 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 31 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.34%) Maximo
4 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.084%) Shopify
8 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.056%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.056%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 589 (16.54%) Azure
2 565 (15.86%) AWS
3 222 (6.23%) GCP
4 195 (5.47%) SaaS
5 157 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 131 (3.68%) Power Platform
7 124 (3.48%) Serverless
8 119 (3.34%) GitHub
9 76 (2.13%) Entra ID
10 72 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
11 52 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 45 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 45 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 41 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (1.15%) Figma
15 37 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
16 36 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (0.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.23%) Firewall
2 87 (2.44%) Network Security
3 83 (2.33%) DNS
4 78 (2.19%) Broadband
5 76 (2.13%) VPN
6 60 (1.68%) DHCP
7 57 (1.60%) VLAN
8 55 (1.54%) WAN
9 50 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (1.15%) Wireless
11 37 (1.04%) BGP
12 35 (0.98%) OSPF
13 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 31 (0.87%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.79%) LAN
15 28 (0.79%) SAN
16 21 (0.59%) Multicast
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
18 15 (0.42%) HTTP
18 15 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (2.98%) Power BI
2 105 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 56 (1.57%) NoSQL
4 47 (1.32%) Data Lake
4 47 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
4 47 (1.32%) Tableau
5 46 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 38 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 36 (1.01%) Metadata
10 35 (0.98%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.76%) MySQL
12 23 (0.65%) Big Data
13 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.53%) Db2
15 17 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 121 (3.40%) Git
2 69 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.54%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 39 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.65%) MLflow
7 18 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
10 8 (0.22%) Vite
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Selenium
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 918 (25.77%) Finance
2 578 (16.23%) Social Skills
3 266 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (7.36%) Banking
5 220 (6.18%) Law
6 204 (5.73%) Marketing
7 178 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (4.72%) Legal
9 154 (4.32%) Retail
10 146 (4.10%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.91%) Front Office
12 65 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.49%) Advertising
13 53 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 43 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.12%) Games
16 36 (1.01%) Billing
16 36 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.95%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (4.27%) React
2 149 (4.18%) .NET
3 116 (3.26%) REST
4 100 (2.81%) Kafka
5 89 (2.50%) Node.js
6 74 (2.08%) Spring
7 66 (1.85%) RESTful
8 65 (1.82%) Spring Boot
9 54 (1.52%) CSS
10 47 (1.32%) HTML
11 46 (1.29%) SOAP
12 41 (1.15%) PyTorch
13 35 (0.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 34 (0.95%) Django
15 33 (0.93%) PySpark
16 32 (0.90%) OAuth
17 30 (0.84%) LangChain
18 28 (0.79%) .NET Core
18 28 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
19 27 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 258 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 86 (2.41%) Algorithms
5 85 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 79 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 71 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 50 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 46 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 45 (1.26%) Equities
14 38 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.04%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.04%) Derivative
15 37 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 37 (1.04%) Social Media
16 32 (0.90%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.04%) Linux
2 125 (3.51%) Windows
3 41 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (15.41%) Software Engineering
2 493 (13.84%) AI
3 485 (13.62%) Agile
4 400 (11.23%) Analytics
5 396 (11.12%) Mentoring
6 375 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 317 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (8.20%) DevOps
9 274 (7.69%) Roadmaps
10 271 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 238 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 227 (6.37%) Decision-Making
13 225 (6.32%) Microservices
14 223 (6.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 218 (6.12%) Business Development
16 203 (5.70%) Test Automation
17 199 (5.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 194 (5.45%) Machine Learning
19 179 (5.03%) Fintech
20 172 (4.83%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 557 (15.64%) Python
2 296 (8.31%) SQL
3 258 (7.24%) Java
4 154 (4.32%) C#
5 152 (4.27%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.18%) JavaScript
7 125 (3.51%) C++
8 78 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.05%) Go
10 62 (1.74%) Bash
11 31 (0.87%) Bicep
12 29 (0.81%) Scala
13 28 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 28 (0.79%) SOQL
14 25 (0.70%) PHP
15 24 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.53%) R
16 19 (0.53%) Rust
17 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 301 (8.45%) Degree
2 245 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 175 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 69 (1.94%) CISSP
7 57 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.26%) CISM
10 43 (1.21%) PhD
11 42 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 41 (1.15%) AWS Certification
13 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 35 (0.98%) CCNP
15 27 (0.76%) CRISC
16 24 (0.67%) ACCA
16 24 (0.67%) CISA
17 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (0.59%) OSCP
18 20 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (3.23%) QA
2 94 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (2.53%) NIST
4 88 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 66 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 55 (1.54%) GDPR
7 42 (1.18%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.34%) NCSC
11 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.34%) SLA
12 10 (0.28%) IFRS
12 10 (0.28%) MiFID
13 9 (0.25%) COBIT
13 9 (0.25%) WCAG
14 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 131 (3.68%) Docker
2 95 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 242 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 210 (5.90%) Terraform
3 46 (1.29%) Ansible
3 46 (1.29%) Grafana
4 39 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 20 (0.56%) SCCM
8 13 (0.36%) Nagios
9 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.25%) Nessus
11 7 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.20%) Cilium
11 7 (0.20%) Istio
12 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 373 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 109 (3.06%) Salesforce
3 102 (2.86%) SAP
4 82 (2.30%) Databricks
5 74 (2.08%) Oracle
6 71 (1.99%) VMware
7 67 (1.88%) Cisco
8 65 (1.82%) Google
9 63 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 44 (1.24%) Adobe
12 42 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 33 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 31 (0.87%) IBM
15 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.73%) Splunk
17 24 (0.67%) Foundry
18 23 (0.65%) Intapp
18 23 (0.65%) SolarWinds
19 21 (0.59%) Apple