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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 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 3,595 2,178 4,169
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.98% 17.61% 19.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.20% 19.25% 20.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,335 1,331 2,766
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% - -3.03%
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 20,901 11,317 20,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.52% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,431 7,346 14,756
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £116,250
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 21 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 21 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 +7 634 £90,000 +16.13% 235
West London +30 110 £71,250 +16.33% 40
South London +27 61 £80,000 -25.58% 25
East London -6 16 £68,000 -15.00% 19
North London +4 1 £70,000 -6.67% 3
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 643 (17.89%) AWS
2 596 (16.58%) Azure
3 584 (16.24%) Python
4 566 (15.74%) Software Engineering
5 564 (15.69%) AI
6 490 (13.63%) Agile
7 440 (12.24%) Analytics
8 438 (12.18%) Mentoring
9 409 (11.38%) CI/CD
10 374 (10.40%) Microsoft
11 329 (9.15%) DevOps
12 326 (9.07%) Degree
13 319 (8.87%) SQL
14 304 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
14 304 (8.46%) Roadmaps
15 291 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 272 (7.57%) Security Cleared
17 268 (7.45%) Java
18 254 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
19 244 (6.79%) Business Development
20 242 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
21 238 (6.62%) Kubernetes
22 233 (6.48%) GCP
23 228 (6.34%) Terraform
24 227 (6.31%) Decision-Making
25 223 (6.20%) Microservices
26 216 (6.01%) Machine Learning
27 205 (5.70%) SaaS
28 201 (5.59%) Test Automation
29 184 (5.12%) 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 69 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 66 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.67%) Apache
6 21 (0.58%) CMS
6 21 (0.58%) SAS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
8 9 (0.25%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.056%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.028%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.028%) Mendix
Applications
1 35 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
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 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.083%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.083%) Blender
9 3 (0.083%) Maya
9 3 (0.083%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) InVision
10 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.31%) Maximo
4 11 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.083%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.083%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.083%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.083%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 643 (17.89%) AWS
2 596 (16.58%) Azure
3 233 (6.48%) GCP
4 205 (5.70%) SaaS
5 153 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 151 (4.20%) Serverless
7 142 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 120 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
9 117 (3.25%) GitHub
10 83 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (2.11%) Entra ID
12 67 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
13 66 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 52 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.14%) Figma
19 39 (1.08%) dbt
20 37 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.23%) Firewall
2 107 (2.98%) Network Security
3 79 (2.20%) DNS
4 71 (1.97%) VPN
5 58 (1.61%) Broadband
6 54 (1.50%) DHCP
6 54 (1.50%) VLAN
7 52 (1.45%) WAN
8 46 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.11%) BGP
10 38 (1.06%) OSPF
11 36 (1.00%) Internet
12 33 (0.92%) Wireless
13 30 (0.83%) TCP/IP
14 29 (0.81%) SD-WAN
15 27 (0.75%) LAN
16 23 (0.64%) SAN
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
18 18 (0.50%) Multicast
19 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.20%) Power BI
2 102 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 57 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (1.53%) Tableau
5 54 (1.50%) NoSQL
6 53 (1.47%) Data Lake
7 47 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 41 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 38 (1.06%) Relational Database
12 36 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 35 (0.97%) Metadata
14 33 (0.92%) Big Data
15 32 (0.89%) MySQL
16 27 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (0.56%) Looker
17 20 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 121 (3.37%) Git
2 57 (1.59%) JIRA
3 52 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.22%) GitLab
5 26 (0.72%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.61%) MLflow
7 21 (0.58%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 12 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Selenium
11 7 (0.19%) Vite
12 6 (0.17%) JMeter
13 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.11%) Gatling
14 4 (0.11%) JUnit
14 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
15 3 (0.083%) Eclipse
General
1 896 (24.92%) Finance
2 600 (16.69%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (7.04%) Banking
5 228 (6.34%) Law
6 191 (5.31%) Marketing
7 180 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 160 (4.45%) Public Sector
9 157 (4.37%) Legal
10 148 (4.12%) Retail
11 70 (1.95%) Front Office
11 70 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 62 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 52 (1.45%) Advertising
14 47 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.14%) Games
16 36 (1.00%) Billing
16 36 (1.00%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.03%) React
2 144 (4.01%) .NET
3 114 (3.17%) REST
4 101 (2.81%) Kafka
5 88 (2.45%) Node.js
6 69 (1.92%) Spring
7 62 (1.72%) RESTful
8 61 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 46 (1.28%) CSS
10 41 (1.14%) HTML
11 35 (0.97%) Django
12 34 (0.95%) SOAP
13 33 (0.92%) LangChain
14 32 (0.89%) PySpark
15 31 (0.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 30 (0.83%) Next.js
17 29 (0.81%) PyTorch
18 28 (0.78%) OAuth
19 27 (0.75%) .NET Core
20 26 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 272 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 140 (3.89%) Onboarding
3 114 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 101 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 83 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 63 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 58 (1.61%) AI Agents
11 53 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 53 (1.47%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (1.22%) Derivative
13 44 (1.22%) Equities
14 41 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 36 (1.00%) Blog
16 36 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 140 (3.89%) Linux
2 114 (3.17%) Windows
3 34 (0.95%) Unix
4 33 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 31 (0.86%) Android
5 31 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.36%) AIX
7 13 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (0.28%) VMS
9 8 (0.22%) Windows 10
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
1 566 (15.74%) Software Engineering
2 564 (15.69%) AI
3 490 (13.63%) Agile
4 440 (12.24%) Analytics
5 438 (12.18%) Mentoring
6 409 (11.38%) CI/CD
7 329 (9.15%) DevOps
8 304 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
8 304 (8.46%) Roadmaps
9 291 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 254 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 244 (6.79%) Business Development
12 242 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 227 (6.31%) Decision-Making
14 223 (6.20%) Microservices
15 216 (6.01%) Machine Learning
16 201 (5.59%) Test Automation
17 184 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development
18 168 (4.67%) Migration
19 164 (4.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 584 (16.24%) Python
2 319 (8.87%) SQL
3 268 (7.45%) Java
4 155 (4.31%) C#
5 152 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 114 (3.17%) C++
8 70 (1.95%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.78%) Bash
9 64 (1.78%) Go
10 31 (0.86%) Bicep
10 31 (0.86%) PHP
11 30 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 22 (0.61%) SOQL
13 20 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.56%) Scala
13 20 (0.56%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.50%) Ruby
15 16 (0.45%) R
16 15 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 326 (9.07%) Degree
2 272 (7.57%) Security Cleared
3 172 (4.78%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (2.03%) CISSP
6 72 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 66 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.42%) CISM
10 50 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.11%) PhD
13 36 (1.00%) CCNP
14 33 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.81%) CISA
16 27 (0.75%) CRISC
17 21 (0.58%) ACCA
17 21 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.45%) QA
2 96 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 95 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (2.56%) NIST
5 74 (2.06%) GDPR
6 73 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 48 (1.34%) GRC
8 24 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 19 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.36%) PMO
13 12 (0.33%) COBIT
13 12 (0.33%) WCAG
14 11 (0.31%) SLA
15 10 (0.28%) NCSC
16 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 126 (3.50%) Docker
2 84 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.083%) Firmware
8 3 (0.083%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.083%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 238 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 228 (6.34%) Terraform
3 48 (1.34%) Ansible
4 43 (1.20%) Grafana
5 33 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.47%) Puppet
8 16 (0.45%) Nagios
9 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.42%) SCCM
10 13 (0.36%) Data Guard
10 13 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.19%) Cilium
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.083%) CASB
Vendors
1 374 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 112 (3.12%) Salesforce
2 112 (3.12%) SAP
3 91 (2.53%) Oracle
4 82 (2.28%) Databricks
5 74 (2.06%) Google
6 68 (1.89%) Cisco
7 64 (1.78%) VMware
8 63 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 43 (1.20%) Dell
10 41 (1.14%) Adobe
10 41 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 37 (1.03%) IBM
12 33 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 27 (0.75%) Splunk
14 25 (0.70%) Intapp
15 23 (0.64%) Foundry
15 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.61%) Zscaler