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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 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 3,703 2,192 3,942
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.91% 17.85% 19.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.12% 19.45% 20.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,336 2,546
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 £107,500 £120,000 £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 21,627 11,270 19,026
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.76% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14,841 7,358 13,378
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,175 £39,188
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
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 £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 1 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 1 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 +6 606 £90,000 +16.13% 351
West London +21 114 £65,000 +6.12% 82
South London +13 55 £80,000 -25.58% 23
East London -4 14 £110,000 +37.50% 16
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 655 (17.69%) AWS
2 627 (16.93%) AI
3 616 (16.64%) Python
4 606 (16.37%) Software Engineering
5 590 (15.93%) Azure
6 508 (13.72%) Agile
7 476 (12.85%) Analytics
8 458 (12.37%) Mentoring
9 436 (11.77%) CI/CD
10 374 (10.10%) Microsoft
11 346 (9.34%) DevOps
12 340 (9.18%) SQL
13 324 (8.75%) Degree
13 324 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
14 318 (8.59%) Roadmaps
15 307 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 284 (7.67%) Java
17 278 (7.51%) Security Cleared
18 267 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
19 251 (6.78%) Machine Learning
20 246 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
21 240 (6.48%) Business Development
22 238 (6.43%) Decision-Making
23 236 (6.37%) GCP
23 236 (6.37%) Kubernetes
24 228 (6.16%) Terraform
25 226 (6.10%) Microservices
26 212 (5.73%) Test Automation
27 209 (5.64%) SaaS
28 194 (5.24%) 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 76 (2.05%) Apache Spark
2 60 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.73%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) SAS
7 19 (0.51%) CMS
8 16 (0.43%) Confluence
9 8 (0.22%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) 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 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.054%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.027%) Moodle
15 1 (0.027%) nginx
Applications
1 38 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.16%) PlantUML
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.14%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.11%) SPSS
11 3 (0.081%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.081%) Blender
11 3 (0.081%) Maya
12 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.054%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 14 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 9 (0.24%) Maximo
6 8 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) Shopify
11 3 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.081%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.081%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.081%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.081%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.081%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.081%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.081%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 655 (17.69%) AWS
2 590 (15.93%) Azure
3 236 (6.37%) GCP
4 209 (5.64%) SaaS
5 153 (4.13%) Serverless
6 146 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 141 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.29%) GitHub
9 121 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
10 93 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
12 69 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (1.78%) Entra ID
14 61 (1.65%) Amazon S3
15 54 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 48 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 45 (1.22%) dbt
18 40 (1.08%) Figma
19 39 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.13%) Firewall
2 110 (2.97%) Network Security
3 72 (1.94%) DNS
4 63 (1.70%) VPN
5 54 (1.46%) Broadband
6 51 (1.38%) VLAN
7 48 (1.30%) DHCP
7 48 (1.30%) WAN
8 43 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (1.03%) BGP
10 36 (0.97%) Internet
10 36 (0.97%) OSPF
11 30 (0.81%) TCP/IP
12 29 (0.78%) Wireless
13 27 (0.73%) LAN
14 25 (0.68%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.57%) SAN
16 18 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.46%) Multicast
18 16 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.24%) Power BI
2 107 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 71 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.59%) Tableau
6 56 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 51 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 47 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 44 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (1.16%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 39 (1.05%) Metadata
12 36 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 36 (0.97%) MySQL
13 34 (0.92%) Big Data
14 29 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.54%) Looker
15 20 (0.54%) SAP HANA
16 19 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 124 (3.35%) Git
2 57 (1.54%) JIRA
3 49 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.27%) GitLab
5 24 (0.65%) Claude Code
5 24 (0.65%) MLflow
6 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 13 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.32%) Selenium
9 6 (0.16%) JMeter
9 6 (0.16%) NUnit
9 6 (0.16%) Vite
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.14%) JUnit
10 5 (0.14%) Mocha
11 4 (0.11%) Appium
11 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 958 (25.87%) Finance
2 634 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 282 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (7.35%) Banking
5 260 (7.02%) Law
6 219 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 216 (5.83%) Marketing
8 161 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 153 (4.13%) Legal
10 145 (3.92%) Retail
11 69 (1.86%) Front Office
11 69 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 63 (1.70%) Financial Institution
13 50 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 49 (1.32%) Advertising
15 41 (1.11%) Games
16 35 (0.95%) Legal Technology
16 35 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 34 (0.92%) Billing
18 32 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (4.08%) .NET
2 146 (3.94%) React
3 117 (3.16%) REST
4 111 (3.00%) Kafka
5 88 (2.38%) Node.js
6 81 (2.19%) Spring
7 70 (1.89%) RESTful
8 64 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.19%) CSS
10 39 (1.05%) HTML
10 39 (1.05%) Next.js
11 36 (0.97%) Django
11 36 (0.97%) LangChain
12 34 (0.92%) PySpark
13 29 (0.78%) AngularJS
13 29 (0.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 29 (0.78%) OAuth
13 29 (0.78%) SOAP
14 28 (0.76%) .NET Core
14 28 (0.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 275 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 147 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 129 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 66 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 58 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 52 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 44 (1.19%) Derivative
13 44 (1.19%) Equities
13 44 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 41 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.08%) Blog
17 37 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.46%) Linux
2 104 (2.81%) Windows
3 36 (0.97%) Android
4 33 (0.89%) Unix
5 30 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.32%) AIX
8 12 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.054%) CentOS
12 2 (0.054%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.054%) tvOS
12 2 (0.054%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.027%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (16.93%) AI
2 606 (16.37%) Software Engineering
3 508 (13.72%) Agile
4 476 (12.85%) Analytics
5 458 (12.37%) Mentoring
6 436 (11.77%) CI/CD
7 346 (9.34%) DevOps
8 324 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
9 318 (8.59%) Roadmaps
10 307 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 267 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 251 (6.78%) Machine Learning
13 246 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 240 (6.48%) Business Development
15 238 (6.43%) Decision-Making
16 226 (6.10%) Microservices
17 212 (5.73%) Test Automation
18 194 (5.24%) Full-Stack Development
19 190 (5.13%) Data Science
20 179 (4.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 616 (16.64%) Python
2 340 (9.18%) SQL
3 284 (7.67%) Java
4 159 (4.29%) C#
5 155 (4.19%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.02%) JavaScript
7 107 (2.89%) C++
8 66 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.67%) Go
10 61 (1.65%) Bash
11 29 (0.78%) Bicep
11 29 (0.78%) PHP
12 28 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.59%) SOQL
14 21 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.57%) Scala
15 20 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 20 (0.54%) R
16 19 (0.51%) Ruby
16 19 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 324 (8.75%) Degree
2 278 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 178 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 111 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 70 (1.89%) CISSP
7 58 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 49 (1.32%) CISM
11 46 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.03%) PhD
13 35 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (0.95%) CCNP
14 33 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.78%) CISA
16 25 (0.68%) CRISC
17 23 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.54%) ACCA
19 18 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.40%) QA
2 109 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 94 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (2.38%) NIST
5 79 (2.13%) GDPR
6 78 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 50 (1.35%) GRC
8 24 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.35%) COBIT
13 13 (0.35%) PMO
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 11 (0.30%) SLA
16 10 (0.27%) NCSC
17 9 (0.24%) MiFID
18 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 132 (3.56%) Docker
2 66 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.14%) vSphere
6 3 (0.081%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.054%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.027%) IAG
8 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 236 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 228 (6.16%) Terraform
3 47 (1.27%) Ansible
4 39 (1.05%) Grafana
5 30 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 23 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.43%) Puppet
9 15 (0.41%) Nagios
9 15 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.32%) Data Guard
10 12 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.30%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.081%) CASB
Vendors
1 374 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.24%) Salesforce
3 112 (3.02%) SAP
4 96 (2.59%) Databricks
5 95 (2.57%) Oracle
6 80 (2.16%) Google
7 70 (1.89%) Cisco
8 64 (1.73%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.59%) VMware
10 41 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 37 (1.00%) Adobe
11 37 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.89%) Dell
13 32 (0.86%) IBM
14 31 (0.84%) Zscaler
15 26 (0.70%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.70%) Splunk
16 23 (0.62%) Foundry
16 23 (0.62%) Intapp
17 21 (0.57%) SolarWinds