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 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,578 2,169 4,491
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.18% 17.42% 18.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.44% 19.04% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,339 1,337 3,098
10th Percentile £57,900 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,509 £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 £118,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,384 £62,879
% change year-on-year +0.89% +10.34% -10.17%

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 20,511 11,393 22,556
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 91.51% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 14,133 7,318 16,681
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,538 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,375 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +6.25% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,121 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.90% -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 7 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 7 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 +7 695 £90,000 +12.50% 256
West London +33 107 £75,000 +20.00% 62
South London +33 59 £80,000 -25.58% 12
East London -1 17 £68,000 -15.00% 27
North London +4 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 594 (16.60%) AWS
2 593 (16.57%) Azure
3 578 (16.15%) Python
4 555 (15.51%) Software Engineering
5 520 (14.53%) AI
6 496 (13.86%) Agile
7 419 (11.71%) Mentoring
8 412 (11.51%) Analytics
9 389 (10.87%) CI/CD
10 376 (10.51%) Microsoft
11 318 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
12 309 (8.64%) Degree
13 308 (8.61%) SQL
14 304 (8.50%) DevOps
15 283 (7.91%) Roadmaps
16 280 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 267 (7.46%) Java
18 262 (7.32%) Security Cleared
19 247 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
20 242 (6.76%) Kubernetes
21 236 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
22 234 (6.54%) GCP
23 229 (6.40%) Business Development
23 229 (6.40%) Decision-Making
24 227 (6.34%) Microservices
25 226 (6.32%) Terraform
26 203 (5.67%) SaaS
27 201 (5.62%) Machine Learning
28 200 (5.59%) Test Automation
29 187 (5.23%) 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 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 22 (0.61%) CMS
7 16 (0.45%) SAS
8 15 (0.42%) Confluence
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.084%) IIS
14 3 (0.084%) JBoss
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
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 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Maximo
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 594 (16.60%) AWS
2 593 (16.57%) Azure
3 234 (6.54%) GCP
4 203 (5.67%) SaaS
5 159 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 139 (3.88%) Serverless
7 138 (3.86%) Power Platform
8 114 (3.19%) GitHub
9 79 (2.21%) Entra ID
10 75 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
12 61 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (1.51%) Amazon S3
15 50 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 40 (1.12%) Figma
19 37 (1.03%) dbt
20 34 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.27%) Firewall
2 99 (2.77%) Network Security
3 83 (2.32%) DNS
4 76 (2.12%) VPN
5 69 (1.93%) Broadband
6 58 (1.62%) DHCP
7 57 (1.59%) VLAN
8 56 (1.57%) WAN
9 50 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.12%) BGP
11 39 (1.09%) Wireless
12 38 (1.06%) OSPF
13 31 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 29 (0.81%) LAN
16 27 (0.75%) SAN
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
18 19 (0.53%) Multicast
19 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
20 15 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (3.10%) Power BI
2 102 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 56 (1.57%) NoSQL
4 52 (1.45%) Tableau
5 49 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 49 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 43 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 39 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 38 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 36 (1.01%) Metadata
12 36 (1.01%) Relational Database
13 29 (0.81%) Big Data
13 29 (0.81%) MySQL
14 22 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.53%) Db2
17 18 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 120 (3.35%) Git
2 59 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.59%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 32 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 21 (0.59%) MLflow
7 18 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.22%) Metasploit
10 8 (0.22%) Vite
11 7 (0.20%) Selenium
12 6 (0.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 903 (25.24%) Finance
2 596 (16.66%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (7.24%) Banking
5 228 (6.37%) Law
6 192 (5.37%) Marketing
7 182 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 163 (4.56%) Legal
9 153 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 153 (4.28%) Retail
10 68 (1.90%) Front Office
10 68 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 53 (1.48%) Advertising
13 45 (1.26%) Games
13 45 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (0.98%) Billing
14 35 (0.98%) Legal Technology
14 35 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (4.28%) React
2 143 (4.00%) .NET
3 116 (3.24%) REST
4 101 (2.82%) Kafka
5 89 (2.49%) Node.js
6 71 (1.98%) Spring
7 62 (1.73%) Spring Boot
8 61 (1.70%) RESTful
9 51 (1.43%) CSS
10 46 (1.29%) HTML
11 43 (1.20%) SOAP
12 36 (1.01%) Django
13 35 (0.98%) PyTorch
14 33 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 31 (0.87%) LangChain
15 31 (0.87%) OAuth
15 31 (0.87%) PySpark
16 26 (0.73%) .NET Core
16 26 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
17 25 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 265 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 100 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 85 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 53 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.23%) Equities
14 42 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 40 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 39 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
17 38 (1.06%) Social Media
18 37 (1.03%) Derivative
18 37 (1.03%) Low-Code
18 37 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 141 (3.94%) Linux
2 122 (3.41%) Windows
3 37 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.81%) Android
6 28 (0.78%) Unix
7 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.31%) AIX
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.28%) VMS
11 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.056%) CentOS
12 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.056%) tvOS
13 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (15.51%) Software Engineering
2 520 (14.53%) AI
3 496 (13.86%) Agile
4 419 (11.71%) Mentoring
5 412 (11.51%) Analytics
6 389 (10.87%) CI/CD
7 318 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
8 304 (8.50%) DevOps
9 283 (7.91%) Roadmaps
10 280 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 247 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 236 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 229 (6.40%) Business Development
13 229 (6.40%) Decision-Making
14 227 (6.34%) Microservices
15 201 (5.62%) Machine Learning
16 200 (5.59%) Test Automation
17 187 (5.23%) Full-Stack Development
18 174 (4.86%) Fintech
19 170 (4.75%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 578 (16.15%) Python
2 308 (8.61%) SQL
3 267 (7.46%) Java
4 154 (4.30%) C#
5 150 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 150 (4.19%) TypeScript
6 122 (3.41%) C++
7 76 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 71 (1.98%) Go
9 67 (1.87%) Bash
10 31 (0.87%) Bicep
11 28 (0.78%) PHP
12 27 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 26 (0.73%) SOQL
14 25 (0.70%) Apex Code
15 23 (0.64%) Scala
16 19 (0.53%) Rust
17 18 (0.50%) R
17 18 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 309 (8.64%) Degree
2 262 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 173 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (2.04%) CISSP
6 69 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 51 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.31%) CISM
11 45 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 44 (1.23%) PhD
13 38 (1.06%) CCNP
14 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.75%) CRISC
16 25 (0.70%) CISA
17 23 (0.64%) ACCA
18 22 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
20 19 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (3.38%) QA
2 96 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (2.60%) NIST
4 91 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 67 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 62 (1.73%) GDPR
7 46 (1.29%) GRC
8 22 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) SLA
14 10 (0.28%) COBIT
14 10 (0.28%) MiFID
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
14 10 (0.28%) WCAG
15 9 (0.25%) PMO
16 8 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 127 (3.55%) Docker
2 94 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.28%) 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 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 226 (6.32%) Terraform
3 47 (1.31%) Ansible
4 45 (1.26%) Grafana
5 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 19 (0.53%) SCCM
9 14 (0.39%) Nagios
10 12 (0.34%) Puppet
11 11 (0.31%) Data Guard
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.22%) Nessus
13 7 (0.20%) Cilium
13 7 (0.20%) Istio
14 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 376 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 112 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 103 (2.88%) SAP
4 84 (2.35%) Oracle
5 81 (2.26%) Databricks
6 71 (1.98%) Google
7 69 (1.93%) VMware
8 66 (1.84%) Cisco
9 64 (1.79%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
11 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.95%) IBM
13 32 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.75%) Splunk
15 25 (0.70%) Intapp
16 23 (0.64%) Foundry
16 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.59%) Apple