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 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,471 2,607 3,635
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.32% 17.28% 17.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.88% 18.85% 18.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 1,556 2,786
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -9.41%

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 13,822 13,830 20,137
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 91.66% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,194 7,930 16,243
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -0.97%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,350 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +1 505 £90,000 +12.50% 249
South London +43 44 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West London -2 43 £52,500 -19.23% 40
East London -14 13 £54,600 -31.75% 30
North London +13 8 £75,000 - 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 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.

1 470 (19.02%) Azure
2 434 (17.56%) Agile
3 416 (16.84%) AI
4 393 (15.90%) AWS
5 375 (15.18%) Python
6 359 (14.53%) Degree
7 340 (13.76%) Software Engineering
8 327 (13.23%) Mentoring
9 313 (12.67%) Microsoft
10 311 (12.59%) Analytics
11 295 (11.94%) CI/CD
12 283 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
13 241 (9.75%) DevOps
14 231 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 227 (9.19%) Java
15 227 (9.19%) SQL
16 208 (8.42%) Decision-Making
17 202 (8.17%) Roadmaps
18 192 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
19 189 (7.65%) Computer Science
20 177 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
21 176 (7.12%) SaaS
22 174 (7.04%) Kubernetes
23 171 (6.92%) Business Strategy
24 168 (6.80%) Microservices
25 165 (6.68%) Test Automation
26 161 (6.52%) GCP
27 156 (6.31%) Machine Learning
28 155 (6.27%) Coaching
29 144 (5.83%) Microsoft 365

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 58 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.89%) Apache
6 17 (0.69%) Confluence
7 12 (0.49%) JBoss
7 12 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.40%) CMS
10 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.20%) SAS
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Drupal
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.081%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.040%) Appian
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.040%) Tomcat
Applications
1 55 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.50%) Maya
4 14 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.32%) Sketch
6 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.20%) InDesign
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.081%) Blender
9 2 (0.081%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.081%) Stata
9 2 (0.081%) Weka
10 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (0.61%) SAP IBP
4 11 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 11 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 10 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.32%) SAP FSCM
6 8 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
7 7 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.20%) Relativity
9 4 (0.16%) Maximo
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.16%) Shopify
10 3 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.081%) SAP GRC
11 2 (0.081%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 470 (19.02%) Azure
2 393 (15.90%) AWS
3 176 (7.12%) SaaS
4 161 (6.52%) GCP
5 144 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
6 126 (5.10%) Power Platform
7 76 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 76 (3.08%) GitHub
8 73 (2.95%) Serverless
9 56 (2.27%) Snowflake
10 55 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (1.54%) dbt
12 38 (1.54%) Figma
13 33 (1.34%) Datadog
14 30 (1.21%) Amazon S3
15 28 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (1.13%) PaaS
16 26 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.91%) Firewall
2 59 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
3 54 (2.19%) WAN
4 53 (2.14%) VPN
5 46 (1.86%) DNS
6 44 (1.78%) Broadband
7 42 (1.70%) DHCP
8 38 (1.54%) LAN
9 33 (1.34%) Wireless
10 30 (1.21%) VLAN
11 26 (1.05%) TCP/IP
12 23 (0.93%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.89%) Multicast
14 21 (0.85%) SAN
15 17 (0.69%) WebEx
16 15 (0.61%) Network Security
17 12 (0.49%) HTTP
18 10 (0.40%) BGP
19 9 (0.36%) OSPF
19 9 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.21%) Power BI
2 102 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 70 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (2.39%) Data Lake
5 43 (1.74%) Tableau
6 42 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 41 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (0.97%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.81%) Big Data
11 20 (0.81%) Metadata
12 19 (0.77%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.69%) Looker
15 16 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (0.65%) MySQL
15 16 (0.65%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 74 (2.99%) Git
2 67 (2.71%) JIRA
3 42 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.97%) TeamCity
5 19 (0.77%) GitLab
6 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.49%) Selenium
8 11 (0.45%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.40%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.36%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.36%) MLflow
10 9 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.36%) Vite
11 8 (0.32%) Chocolatey
12 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.24%) Storybook
14 5 (0.20%) Postman
15 4 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 777 (31.44%) Finance
2 551 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 258 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (9.02%) Banking
5 198 (8.01%) Marketing
6 187 (7.57%) Law
7 179 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 140 (5.67%) Retail
9 113 (4.57%) Legal
10 92 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
11 90 (3.64%) Public Sector
12 71 (2.87%) Games
12 71 (2.87%) Telecoms
13 63 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
14 59 (2.39%) Front Office
15 54 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.66%) Advertising
17 37 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.30%) Automotive
19 27 (1.09%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (5.38%) React
2 101 (4.09%) .NET
3 95 (3.84%) REST
4 73 (2.95%) Node.js
5 70 (2.83%) RESTful
6 65 (2.63%) Kafka
7 61 (2.47%) Spring
8 52 (2.10%) CSS
9 48 (1.94%) HTML
10 47 (1.90%) GraphQL
10 47 (1.90%) Spring Boot
11 40 (1.62%) SOAP
12 39 (1.58%) gRPC
13 29 (1.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 29 (1.17%) Django
13 29 (1.17%) Middleware
14 27 (1.09%) OAuth
15 25 (1.01%) PyTorch
16 24 (0.97%) FastAPI
17 23 (0.93%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 180 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 78 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (2.87%) Onboarding
4 69 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
5 65 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 58 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 51 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 46 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 44 (1.78%) Equities
11 44 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.66%) Data Structures
13 40 (1.62%) Hedge funds
14 33 (1.34%) Derivative
14 33 (1.34%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.30%) Public Cloud
16 30 (1.21%) Reinsurance
17 25 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
18 24 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.98%) Linux
2 117 (4.73%) Windows
3 56 (2.27%) Android
4 50 (2.02%) Apple iOS
5 40 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.17%) Unix
7 24 (0.97%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.24%) VMS
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.081%) AIX
13 2 (0.081%) CentOS
13 2 (0.081%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.040%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (17.56%) Agile
2 416 (16.84%) AI
3 340 (13.76%) Software Engineering
4 327 (13.23%) Mentoring
5 311 (12.59%) Analytics
6 295 (11.94%) CI/CD
7 283 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (9.75%) DevOps
9 231 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 208 (8.42%) Decision-Making
11 202 (8.17%) Roadmaps
12 192 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 189 (7.65%) Computer Science
14 177 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
15 171 (6.92%) Business Strategy
16 168 (6.80%) Microservices
17 165 (6.68%) Test Automation
18 156 (6.31%) Machine Learning
19 155 (6.27%) Coaching
20 139 (5.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 375 (15.18%) Python
2 227 (9.19%) Java
2 227 (9.19%) SQL
3 138 (5.58%) JavaScript
4 136 (5.50%) TypeScript
5 121 (4.90%) C#
6 93 (3.76%) C++
7 69 (2.79%) Go
8 61 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 33 (1.34%) Rust
11 32 (1.30%) Bash
12 27 (1.09%) Scala
13 25 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.89%) Bicep
15 21 (0.85%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.61%) PHP
17 13 (0.53%) C
18 11 (0.45%) R
18 11 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 359 (14.53%) Degree
2 117 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 94 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 78 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 50 (2.02%) ACCA
6 48 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 47 (1.90%) CISSP
8 44 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.30%) CISM
12 30 (1.21%) CIMA
12 30 (1.21%) PhD
13 26 (1.05%) CISA
14 24 (0.97%) DV Cleared
15 21 (0.85%) CRISC
15 21 (0.85%) OSCP
16 20 (0.81%) CCNP
17 16 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.76%) QA
2 72 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 66 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (2.23%) GDPR
5 51 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.82%) NIST
7 27 (1.09%) GRC
8 23 (0.93%) IFRS
9 21 (0.85%) SLA
10 16 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.57%) NCSC
12 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.28%) PERC
16 6 (0.24%) PMO
16 6 (0.24%) WCAG
17 5 (0.20%) IFRS 17
18 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 105 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 103 (4.17%) Docker
3 49 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.36%) Firmware
7 8 (0.32%) HDFS
7 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.16%) vSphere
9 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.081%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.081%) NFS
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.081%) XenApp
12 1 (0.040%) Postfix
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 174 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 106 (4.29%) Terraform
3 61 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (1.58%) Ansible
5 36 (1.46%) Grafana
6 25 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.85%) SCCM
8 9 (0.36%) Nessus
8 9 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.28%) Argo
10 6 (0.24%) CASB
10 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.20%) Nagios
12 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.081%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 313 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 88 (3.56%) Salesforce
3 84 (3.40%) SAP
4 82 (3.32%) VMware
5 71 (2.87%) Cisco
6 54 (2.19%) Databricks
7 50 (2.02%) Oracle
8 48 (1.94%) Google
9 41 (1.66%) Adobe
10 40 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 36 (1.46%) Dell
12 27 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.09%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.01%) Meraki
14 22 (0.89%) Apple
15 21 (0.85%) Guidewire
15 21 (0.85%) Workday
16 19 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
17 15 (0.61%) IBM
18 13 (0.53%) Ruckus Wireless