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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 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 3,758 2,194 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.72% 17.98% 20.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.93% 19.62% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,383 1,312 2,465
10th Percentile £57,445 £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 £98,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £119,875 £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 22,201 11,184 18,490
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.66% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15,199 7,280 12,691
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,183
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.85% -2.49%
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 17 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 17 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 +7 569 £90,000 +20.00% 214
West London +26 110 £60,000 - 77
South London +17 54 £80,000 -25.58% 11
East London -2 15 £120,000 +50.00% 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 657 (17.48%) AI
2 652 (17.35%) AWS
3 634 (16.87%) Software Engineering
4 626 (16.66%) Python
5 594 (15.81%) Azure
6 507 (13.49%) Agile
7 485 (12.91%) Analytics
8 452 (12.03%) Mentoring
9 440 (11.71%) CI/CD
10 372 (9.90%) Microsoft
11 356 (9.47%) SQL
12 343 (9.13%) Degree
13 342 (9.10%) DevOps
14 327 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
15 325 (8.65%) Roadmaps
16 315 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 293 (7.80%) Java
18 284 (7.56%) Security Cleared
19 275 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
20 268 (7.13%) Machine Learning
21 248 (6.60%) Decision-Making
22 246 (6.55%) Infrastructure as Code
23 244 (6.49%) Business Development
24 237 (6.31%) GCP
25 227 (6.04%) Microservices
26 221 (5.88%) Kubernetes
27 220 (5.85%) SaaS
27 220 (5.85%) Terraform
28 215 (5.72%) Data Science
29 207 (5.51%) 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 74 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.75%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) SAS
7 19 (0.51%) Confluence
8 18 (0.48%) CMS
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 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 33 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.27%) 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 (0.080%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.080%) Blender
9 3 (0.080%) 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 11 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.21%) Maximo
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.080%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 652 (17.35%) AWS
2 594 (15.81%) Azure
3 237 (6.31%) GCP
4 220 (5.85%) SaaS
5 148 (3.94%) Serverless
6 138 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 133 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.22%) GitHub
9 120 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
10 98 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 68 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
13 66 (1.76%) Entra ID
14 59 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 54 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (1.22%) dbt
17 45 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (1.17%) Figma
18 44 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
19 42 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 122 (3.25%) Firewall
2 106 (2.82%) Network Security
3 76 (2.02%) DNS
4 67 (1.78%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 49 (1.30%) DHCP
7 48 (1.28%) Broadband
8 47 (1.25%) 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 (0.80%) LAN
14 25 (0.67%) 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 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.98%) Power BI
2 110 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.52%) Tableau
6 55 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 54 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 41 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 40 (1.06%) MySQL
12 38 (1.01%) Metadata
13 35 (0.93%) Big Data
13 35 (0.93%) DynamoDB
14 34 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 29 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.56%) Looker
17 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
18 18 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 120 (3.19%) Git
2 55 (1.46%) JIRA
3 46 (1.22%) GitLab
4 44 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.72%) MLflow
6 26 (0.69%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 11 (0.29%) 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%) Maven
14 4 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 966 (25.71%) Finance
2 647 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 297 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (7.45%) Banking
5 278 (7.40%) Law
6 231 (6.15%) Marketing
7 230 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 163 (4.34%) Public Sector
9 145 (3.86%) Legal
10 142 (3.78%) Retail
11 73 (1.94%) Front Office
12 66 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 64 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 59 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 45 (1.20%) Advertising
16 43 (1.14%) Games
17 38 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.90%) Billing
19 33 (0.88%) Legal Technology
20 31 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (3.94%) React
2 146 (3.89%) .NET
3 117 (3.11%) REST
4 113 (3.01%) Kafka
5 90 (2.39%) Spring
6 87 (2.32%) Node.js
7 76 (2.02%) RESTful
8 67 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.17%) HTML
10 43 (1.14%) CSS
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 39 (1.04%) LangChain
13 36 (0.96%) Django
14 33 (0.88%) PySpark
15 31 (0.82%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.80%) JSON
17 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.72%) OAuth
19 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
20 25 (0.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 270 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 80 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 77 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 61 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 58 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 58 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.25%) Blog
13 45 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.17%) Derivative
14 44 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.14%) Security Posture
16 41 (1.09%) Equities
17 37 (0.98%) Mobile App
18 36 (0.96%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 120 (3.19%) Linux
2 99 (2.63%) Windows
3 40 (1.06%) Android
4 33 (0.88%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.35%) 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 (0.080%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.080%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (17.48%) AI
2 634 (16.87%) Software Engineering
3 507 (13.49%) Agile
4 485 (12.91%) Analytics
5 452 (12.03%) Mentoring
6 440 (11.71%) CI/CD
7 342 (9.10%) DevOps
8 327 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
9 325 (8.65%) Roadmaps
10 315 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 275 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (7.13%) Machine Learning
13 248 (6.60%) Decision-Making
14 246 (6.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 244 (6.49%) Business Development
16 227 (6.04%) Microservices
17 215 (5.72%) Data Science
18 207 (5.51%) Test Automation
19 190 (5.06%) Full-Stack Development
20 188 (5.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 626 (16.66%) Python
2 356 (9.47%) SQL
3 293 (7.80%) Java
4 155 (4.12%) C#
5 151 (4.02%) TypeScript
6 144 (3.83%) JavaScript
7 97 (2.58%) C++
8 66 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.62%) Go
10 56 (1.49%) Bash
11 30 (0.80%) PHP
12 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 28 (0.75%) Bicep
14 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.59%) R
15 22 (0.59%) Ruby
16 21 (0.56%) SOQL
17 19 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.51%) Scala
18 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 343 (9.13%) Degree
2 284 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 120 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.73%) CISSP
7 58 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.20%) CISM
11 44 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.06%) PhD
13 37 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (0.90%) CCNP
15 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.77%) CISA
17 22 (0.59%) CRISC
18 21 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
19 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
19 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.30%) QA
2 119 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 92 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.37%) GDPR
5 86 (2.29%) NIST
6 85 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 46 (1.22%) GRC
8 25 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.43%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.35%) COBIT
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
17 7 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 128 (3.41%) 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 (0.080%) 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 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 221 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 220 (5.85%) Terraform
3 43 (1.14%) Ansible
4 34 (0.90%) Grafana
5 26 (0.69%) FortiGate
6 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.45%) 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
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 372 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 117 (3.11%) Salesforce
3 107 (2.85%) SAP
4 104 (2.77%) Databricks
5 98 (2.61%) Oracle
6 88 (2.34%) Google
7 76 (2.02%) Cisco
8 63 (1.68%) VMware
9 62 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.98%) Adobe
13 33 (0.88%) Dell
14 29 (0.77%) HP
14 29 (0.77%) IBM
15 25 (0.67%) Fortinet
15 25 (0.67%) Foundry
15 25 (0.67%) Splunk
16 24 (0.64%) Intapp