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 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,551 2,094 4,676
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 17.20% 18.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.69% 18.94% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,322 1,291 3,246
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,750
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 £106,250 £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 20,068 11,055 23,360
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 90.82% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,815 7,015 17,361
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,250
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 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 22 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 22 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% 134
West London +31 110 £75,000 +17.65% 27
South London +37 65 £70,000 -34.88% 10
East London -2 17 £68,000 -22.29% 25
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 578 (16.28%) Azure
2 549 (15.46%) AWS
3 546 (15.38%) Python
4 544 (15.32%) Software Engineering
5 479 (13.49%) Agile
5 479 (13.49%) AI
6 396 (11.15%) Analytics
7 390 (10.98%) Mentoring
8 368 (10.36%) Microsoft
9 366 (10.31%) CI/CD
10 316 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
11 295 (8.31%) Degree
12 290 (8.17%) SQL
13 285 (8.03%) DevOps
14 269 (7.58%) Roadmaps
15 267 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 255 (7.18%) Java
17 245 (6.90%) Security Cleared
18 238 (6.70%) Kubernetes
19 234 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
20 225 (6.34%) Decision-Making
21 224 (6.31%) Microservices
22 218 (6.14%) GCP
22 218 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
23 209 (5.89%) Business Development
24 204 (5.74%) Terraform
24 204 (5.74%) Test Automation
25 196 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
25 196 (5.52%) SaaS
26 188 (5.29%) 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 66 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 63 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 41 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.73%) Apache
6 21 (0.59%) CMS
7 14 (0.39%) Confluence
8 11 (0.31%) SAS
9 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
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 36 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) InVision
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.084%) Blender
10 3 (0.084%) Maya
10 3 (0.084%) SPSS
11 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 27 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.084%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.084%) Shopify
11 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.056%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.056%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 578 (16.28%) Azure
2 549 (15.46%) AWS
3 218 (6.14%) GCP
4 196 (5.52%) SaaS
5 153 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (3.63%) Power Platform
7 124 (3.49%) Serverless
8 119 (3.35%) GitHub
9 74 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 70 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
14 44 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 43 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
16 42 (1.18%) Figma
17 40 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
18 37 (1.04%) IaaS
19 36 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
19 36 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.10%) Firewall
2 84 (2.37%) Network Security
3 82 (2.31%) DNS
4 78 (2.20%) Broadband
5 74 (2.08%) VPN
6 59 (1.66%) DHCP
7 58 (1.63%) VLAN
8 52 (1.46%) WAN
9 48 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.18%) Wireless
11 36 (1.01%) BGP
12 35 (0.99%) OSPF
13 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.79%) SAN
16 25 (0.70%) LAN
17 21 (0.59%) Multicast
18 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.45%) HTTP
20 14 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (2.96%) Power BI
1 105 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 55 (1.55%) NoSQL
3 46 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 46 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
3 46 (1.30%) Tableau
4 40 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
6 38 (1.07%) DynamoDB
7 37 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (1.01%) Metadata
9 33 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 26 (0.73%) MySQL
11 22 (0.62%) Big Data
12 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (0.54%) Db2
14 17 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 120 (3.38%) Git
2 69 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.52%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 38 (1.07%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.65%) MLflow
7 18 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 14 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.25%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 5 (0.14%) Chocolatey
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) Gatling
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 918 (25.85%) Finance
2 570 (16.05%) Social Skills
3 268 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.35%) Banking
5 218 (6.14%) Law
6 204 (5.74%) Marketing
7 178 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (4.73%) Legal
9 152 (4.28%) Retail
10 148 (4.17%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.91%) Front Office
12 63 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.49%) Advertising
14 51 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 45 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (1.10%) Games
17 38 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (0.96%) Billing
18 34 (0.96%) Legal Technology
19 33 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (4.17%) React
2 146 (4.11%) .NET
3 115 (3.24%) REST
4 100 (2.82%) Kafka
5 87 (2.45%) Node.js
6 74 (2.08%) Spring
7 65 (1.83%) RESTful
7 65 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 53 (1.49%) CSS
9 46 (1.30%) HTML
9 46 (1.30%) SOAP
10 41 (1.15%) PyTorch
11 35 (0.99%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 33 (0.93%) PySpark
13 32 (0.90%) OAuth
14 31 (0.87%) Django
15 30 (0.84%) LangChain
16 28 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
16 28 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (0.73%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 256 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 101 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 84 (2.37%) Algorithms
5 80 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 72 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 71 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 70 (1.97%) Data Structures
9 55 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 52 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 46 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 46 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 45 (1.27%) Equities
13 44 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 39 (1.10%) Public Cloud
14 39 (1.10%) Social Media
15 37 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.01%) Derivative
17 33 (0.93%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.03%) Linux
2 126 (3.55%) Windows
3 42 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Android
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.70%) Unix
6 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.28%) VMS
8 9 (0.25%) AIX
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.056%) CentOS
10 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.056%) tvOS
11 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.028%) Rocky
11 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (15.32%) Software Engineering
2 479 (13.49%) Agile
2 479 (13.49%) AI
3 396 (11.15%) Analytics
4 390 (10.98%) Mentoring
5 366 (10.31%) CI/CD
6 316 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
7 285 (8.03%) DevOps
8 269 (7.58%) Roadmaps
9 267 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 234 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 225 (6.34%) Decision-Making
12 224 (6.31%) Microservices
13 218 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 209 (5.89%) Business Development
15 204 (5.74%) Test Automation
16 196 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 188 (5.29%) Machine Learning
18 180 (5.07%) Fintech
19 173 (4.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 546 (15.38%) Python
2 290 (8.17%) SQL
3 255 (7.18%) Java
4 150 (4.22%) C#
5 147 (4.14%) TypeScript
6 144 (4.06%) JavaScript
7 126 (3.55%) C++
8 76 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.06%) Go
10 60 (1.69%) Bash
11 33 (0.93%) Bicep
12 28 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 28 (0.79%) Scala
12 28 (0.79%) SOQL
13 25 (0.70%) PHP
14 23 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.56%) Rust
16 18 (0.51%) R
17 16 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 295 (8.31%) Degree
2 245 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 177 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 93 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.94%) CISSP
5 69 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 58 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 49 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (1.27%) CISM
9 43 (1.21%) PhD
10 40 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 40 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.96%) CCNP
12 27 (0.76%) CRISC
13 25 (0.70%) CISA
14 24 (0.68%) ACCA
15 22 (0.62%) OSCP
16 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 20 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (3.15%) QA
2 92 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 89 (2.51%) NIST
4 87 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 64 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 53 (1.49%) GDPR
7 41 (1.15%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.54%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) SLA
13 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.31%) IFRS
15 10 (0.28%) MiFID
16 9 (0.25%) COBIT
17 8 (0.23%) WCAG
18 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 129 (3.63%) Docker
2 94 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
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
1 238 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 204 (5.74%) Terraform
3 46 (1.30%) Grafana
4 45 (1.27%) Ansible
5 40 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.59%) SCCM
9 12 (0.34%) Nagios
10 9 (0.25%) Data Guard
10 9 (0.25%) Nessus
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.17%) Puppet
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 368 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 107 (3.01%) Salesforce
3 99 (2.79%) SAP
4 81 (2.28%) Databricks
5 73 (2.06%) Oracle
6 72 (2.03%) VMware
7 67 (1.89%) Cisco
8 64 (1.80%) Google
9 62 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.30%) Dell
11 45 (1.27%) Adobe
12 42 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.87%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.84%) IBM
15 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.70%) Splunk
17 23 (0.65%) Foundry
17 23 (0.65%) Intapp
18 22 (0.62%) Apple
18 22 (0.62%) SolarWinds