Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,097 3,330 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.94% 19.11% 16.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.56% 20.21% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 2,031 2,411
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,150 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.23% -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,942 16,474 17,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.56% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,747 10,025 14,453
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -4 358 £85,000 +6.25% 140
South London -2 22 £54,600 +9.20% 14
West London -23 21 £49,200 -32.14% 22
East London -14 11 £49,200 -32.14% 14
North London +11 6 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, 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.

1 609 (29.04%) Agile
2 475 (22.65%) AWS
3 463 (22.08%) Python
4 439 (20.93%) Azure
5 388 (18.50%) AI
6 362 (17.26%) Degree
7 329 (15.69%) Software Engineering
8 311 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
9 305 (14.54%) CI/CD
10 300 (14.31%) Mentoring
11 296 (14.12%) Analytics
12 265 (12.64%) Microsoft
13 262 (12.49%) SQL
14 256 (12.21%) Java
15 234 (11.16%) DevOps
16 224 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 202 (9.63%) Roadmaps
18 200 (9.54%) Decision-Making
19 197 (9.39%) JavaScript
20 193 (9.20%) Computer Science
20 193 (9.20%) TypeScript
21 182 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
22 176 (8.39%) Business Strategy
23 170 (8.11%) GCP
24 169 (8.06%) Project Management
25 167 (7.96%) React
26 164 (7.82%) Machine Learning
27 161 (7.68%) Business Development
28 158 (7.53%) Kubernetes
29 152 (7.25%) 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 64 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.67%) Apache
3 49 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.00%) Confluence
7 8 (0.38%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.33%) CMS
8 7 (0.33%) JBoss
8 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.29%) nginx
9 6 (0.29%) SAS
10 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 2 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.048%) Appian
13 1 (0.048%) Moodle
13 1 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 68 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.96%) Maya
4 21 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Sketch
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.24%) InDesign
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.14%) Stata
12 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.095%) Blender
12 2 (0.095%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.095%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.19%) SAP IBP
4 16 (0.76%) SAP CO
4 16 (0.76%) SAP FI
4 16 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
5 13 (0.62%) SAP FSCM
6 12 (0.57%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.52%) SAP IS-U
7 11 (0.52%) Shopify
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) Relativity
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
12 2 (0.095%) Magento
12 2 (0.095%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.095%) SAP PLM
12 2 (0.095%) SAP SCM
12 2 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 475 (22.65%) AWS
2 439 (20.93%) Azure
3 170 (8.11%) GCP
4 138 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 109 (5.20%) Snowflake
6 97 (4.63%) SaaS
7 94 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
8 88 (4.20%) Serverless
9 78 (3.72%) dbt
10 60 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (2.53%) GitHub
13 45 (2.15%) Entra ID
14 39 (1.86%) Figma
15 38 (1.81%) Amazon S3
16 29 (1.38%) Amazon Bedrock
16 29 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
18 25 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.34%) Firewall
2 51 (2.43%) WAN
3 48 (2.29%) LAN
4 43 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (1.62%) VPN
6 26 (1.24%) Network Security
7 25 (1.19%) Wireless
8 24 (1.14%) DNS
8 24 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.86%) BGP
10 17 (0.81%) Broadband
10 17 (0.81%) Multicast
11 16 (0.76%) OSPF
12 13 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (0.62%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.57%) DHCP
14 11 (0.52%) VoIP
15 10 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.43%) SNMP
17 8 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.53%) Power BI
2 102 (4.86%) Data Lake
3 91 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 83 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 57 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
7 54 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 54 (2.58%) Tableau
8 51 (2.43%) Apache Arrow
8 51 (2.43%) Apache Iceberg
8 51 (2.43%) Apache Ignite
8 51 (2.43%) Dremio
9 45 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (1.53%) DynamoDB
11 27 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.24%) Looker
13 24 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.10%) MySQL
14 23 (1.10%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 80 (3.81%) Git
1 80 (3.81%) JIRA
2 21 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (0.86%) Cypress.io
4 14 (0.67%) GitLab
5 13 (0.62%) Selenium
6 11 (0.52%) Vite
7 10 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.33%) Postman
11 6 (0.29%) JMeter
12 5 (0.24%) JUnit
12 5 (0.24%) MLflow
13 4 (0.19%) Maven
13 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.19%) Storybook
14 3 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 834 (39.77%) Finance
2 568 (27.09%) Social Skills
3 311 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (13.54%) Banking
5 255 (12.16%) Law
6 220 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 207 (9.87%) Marketing
8 113 (5.39%) Front Office
9 106 (5.05%) Retail
10 101 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
11 78 (3.72%) Legal
11 78 (3.72%) Public Sector
12 73 (3.48%) Telecoms
13 70 (3.34%) Games
14 68 (3.24%) Investment Banking
15 61 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
16 58 (2.77%) Financial Institution
17 50 (2.38%) Advertising
18 44 (2.10%) French Language
19 36 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.96%) React
2 86 (4.10%) .NET
2 86 (4.10%) REST
3 77 (3.67%) RESTful
4 69 (3.29%) gRPC
5 68 (3.24%) CSS
6 66 (3.15%) Pandas
7 65 (3.10%) HTML
8 61 (2.91%) Node.js
9 60 (2.86%) Kafka
10 59 (2.81%) NumPy
11 58 (2.77%) GraphQL
12 53 (2.53%) Protocol Buffers
13 52 (2.48%) Spring
14 51 (2.43%) SciPy
15 36 (1.72%) Spring Boot
16 32 (1.53%) Django
16 32 (1.53%) FastAPI
16 32 (1.53%) LangChain
17 31 (1.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 164 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 91 (4.34%) Derivative
2 91 (4.34%) Equities
3 88 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 87 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 82 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (3.48%) Fixed Income
7 72 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (3.43%) Hedge funds
8 63 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 59 (2.81%) Management Information System
10 55 (2.62%) Algorithms
11 51 (2.43%) Pricing Data
12 43 (2.05%) Data Structures
13 42 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
15 40 (1.91%) Data Centre
16 35 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (1.62%) Reinsurance
18 32 (1.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (5.48%) Linux
2 81 (3.86%) Windows
3 37 (1.76%) Android
4 36 (1.72%) Unix
5 31 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.76%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.24%) CentOS
10 5 (0.24%) VMS
11 4 (0.19%) Solaris
12 3 (0.14%) HPUX
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.095%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (29.04%) Agile
2 388 (18.50%) AI
3 329 (15.69%) Software Engineering
4 311 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (14.54%) CI/CD
6 300 (14.31%) Mentoring
7 296 (14.12%) Analytics
8 234 (11.16%) DevOps
9 224 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 202 (9.63%) Roadmaps
11 200 (9.54%) Decision-Making
12 193 (9.20%) Computer Science
13 182 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 176 (8.39%) Business Strategy
15 169 (8.06%) Project Management
16 164 (7.82%) Machine Learning
17 161 (7.68%) Business Development
18 152 (7.25%) Test Automation
19 151 (7.20%) User Experience
20 150 (7.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 463 (22.08%) Python
2 262 (12.49%) SQL
3 256 (12.21%) Java
4 197 (9.39%) JavaScript
5 193 (9.20%) TypeScript
6 117 (5.58%) C#
7 75 (3.58%) C++
8 49 (2.34%) Go
9 40 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.86%) Kotlin
11 30 (1.43%) Rust
12 24 (1.14%) Scala
13 19 (0.91%) Apex Code
13 19 (0.91%) Bicep
13 19 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.81%) C
15 14 (0.67%) Bash
16 13 (0.62%) Swift
17 9 (0.43%) PHP
17 9 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 362 (17.26%) Degree
2 109 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (2.96%) Master's Degree
4 59 (2.81%) ACCA
5 53 (2.53%) Security Cleared
6 48 (2.29%) AWS Certification
7 45 (2.15%) SC Cleared
8 44 (2.10%) CIMA
9 41 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.86%) CISA
11 35 (1.67%) CISSP
12 26 (1.24%) CCNP
12 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (1.14%) Azure Certification
13 24 (1.14%) PhD
14 23 (1.10%) CISM
14 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
15 19 (0.91%) CCIE
16 18 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.96%) QA
2 67 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.72%) GDPR
4 48 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 46 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.38%) IFRS
7 23 (1.10%) NIST
8 17 (0.81%) GRC
9 16 (0.76%) GAAP
10 15 (0.72%) WCAG
11 14 (0.67%) PMO
12 11 (0.52%) SLA
13 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.33%) PERC
16 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.24%) MiFID
18 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
18 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (4.39%) Docker
2 62 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.38%) HDFS
8 7 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.24%) XenApp
11 4 (0.19%) Firmware
11 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.19%) vSphere
12 2 (0.095%) NFS
12 2 (0.095%) pfSense
13 1 (0.048%) Postfix
13 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.048%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 158 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 113 (5.39%) Terraform
3 51 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (2.29%) Ansible
5 30 (1.43%) Grafana
6 17 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.72%) SCCM
8 11 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.29%) CASB
10 6 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.24%) Argo
12 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.14%) SCOM
14 2 (0.095%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.095%) Nagios
14 2 (0.095%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.095%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 2 (0.095%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 265 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 91 (4.34%) SAP
3 83 (3.96%) Google
4 79 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 68 (3.24%) Cisco
6 61 (2.91%) VMware
7 59 (2.81%) Databricks
8 55 (2.62%) Oracle
9 49 (2.34%) ServiceNow
10 47 (2.24%) Adobe
11 29 (1.38%) Dell
12 26 (1.24%) Guidewire
13 23 (1.10%) Meraki
13 23 (1.10%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.00%) Apple
15 20 (0.95%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.91%) Workday
17 16 (0.76%) Fortinet
18 15 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
19 14 (0.67%) Splunk