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 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,720 2,461 3,756
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.43% 17.28% 17.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.95% 18.97% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,742 1,504 2,867
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £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 £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
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 15,149 12,971 20,259
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 91.09% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,082 7,746 16,235
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +1 550 £90,000 +12.50% 353
West London -1 61 £75,000 +17.65% 63
South London +34 53 £60,000 - 27
East London -10 14 £54,600 -31.75% 47
North London +8 8 £75,000 - 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 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.

1 510 (18.75%) Azure
2 426 (15.66%) Agile
3 419 (15.40%) AI
4 411 (15.11%) AWS
5 381 (14.01%) Python
6 375 (13.79%) Software Engineering
7 335 (12.32%) Mentoring
8 334 (12.28%) Analytics
8 334 (12.28%) Microsoft
9 331 (12.17%) Degree
10 305 (11.21%) CI/CD
11 276 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
12 263 (9.67%) DevOps
13 242 (8.90%) Java
14 240 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 236 (8.68%) SQL
16 214 (7.87%) Decision-Making
17 209 (7.68%) Roadmaps
17 209 (7.68%) SaaS
18 208 (7.65%) Kubernetes
19 207 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
20 190 (6.99%) GCP
21 187 (6.88%) Microservices
22 181 (6.65%) Computer Science
23 178 (6.54%) Test Automation
24 173 (6.36%) Coaching
25 159 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
26 156 (5.74%) Business Strategy
26 156 (5.74%) Full-Stack Development
26 156 (5.74%) 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 62 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.66%) Confluence
6 16 (0.59%) Apache
7 12 (0.44%) JBoss
8 11 (0.40%) CMS
8 11 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.15%) nginx
11 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 3 (0.11%) Drupal
12 3 (0.11%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.074%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.074%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.037%) Mendix
14 1 (0.037%) Moodle
Applications
1 56 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.88%) Maya
4 11 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.26%) Sketch
7 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.15%) InDesign
8 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.11%) InVision
10 2 (0.074%) Blender
10 2 (0.074%) Weka
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.037%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.22%) Maximo
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.22%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
7 5 (0.18%) Relativity
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.15%) Shopify
9 3 (0.11%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
10 2 (0.074%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 510 (18.75%) Azure
2 411 (15.11%) AWS
3 209 (7.68%) SaaS
4 190 (6.99%) GCP
5 156 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
6 139 (5.11%) Power Platform
7 85 (3.13%) GitHub
8 83 (3.05%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.72%) Serverless
10 58 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.91%) Snowflake
12 42 (1.54%) dbt
13 38 (1.40%) Figma
13 38 (1.40%) PaaS
14 34 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 34 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 33 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 31 (1.14%) Datadog
17 30 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.83%) Firewall
2 60 (2.21%) WAN
3 58 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
4 56 (2.06%) VPN
5 53 (1.95%) Broadband
6 51 (1.88%) DNS
7 48 (1.76%) DHCP
8 40 (1.47%) LAN
9 36 (1.32%) Wireless
10 33 (1.21%) VLAN
11 27 (0.99%) TCP/IP
12 26 (0.96%) SD-WAN
13 24 (0.88%) SAN
14 23 (0.85%) Network Security
15 22 (0.81%) Multicast
16 17 (0.63%) WebEx
17 15 (0.55%) HTTP
18 14 (0.51%) BGP
19 12 (0.44%) OSPF
20 10 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (4.23%) Power BI
2 101 (3.71%) SQL Server
3 70 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (1.88%) Data Lake
5 42 (1.54%) Tableau
6 41 (1.51%) Relational Database
7 39 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 36 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.03%) Metadata
11 25 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.70%) MySQL
14 19 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (0.66%) Big Data
15 18 (0.66%) Looker
16 16 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (2.90%) Git
2 63 (2.32%) JIRA
3 50 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 23 (0.85%) GitLab
6 16 (0.59%) MLflow
7 13 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.40%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.33%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.29%) Chocolatey
11 8 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.29%) JMeter
11 8 (0.29%) Selenium
11 8 (0.29%) Vite
12 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.22%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.22%) Storybook
12 6 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 827 (30.40%) Finance
2 541 (19.89%) Social Skills
3 248 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (8.20%) Banking
5 214 (7.87%) Marketing
6 195 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 195 (7.17%) Law
7 158 (5.81%) Retail
8 150 (5.51%) Legal
9 118 (4.34%) Public Sector
10 84 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
11 70 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 63 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (2.02%) Games
14 54 (1.99%) Front Office
15 52 (1.91%) Financial Institution
16 50 (1.84%) Advertising
17 43 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
18 28 (1.03%) Automotive
19 23 (0.85%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (4.71%) React
2 120 (4.41%) .NET
3 100 (3.68%) REST
4 84 (3.09%) Kafka
5 81 (2.98%) Node.js
6 70 (2.57%) RESTful
7 69 (2.54%) Spring
8 56 (2.06%) Spring Boot
9 55 (2.02%) CSS
10 46 (1.69%) HTML
11 43 (1.58%) SOAP
12 39 (1.43%) GraphQL
13 31 (1.14%) gRPC
13 31 (1.14%) OAuth
14 30 (1.10%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 30 (1.10%) Django
15 28 (1.03%) PyTorch
16 25 (0.92%) .NET Core
16 25 (0.92%) AngularJS
17 24 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 213 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 86 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (2.46%) Onboarding
4 65 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 62 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
6 59 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 58 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.95%) Data Structures
10 50 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 48 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.62%) Social Media
13 43 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.43%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.40%) Equities
16 37 (1.36%) Hedge funds
17 25 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
17 25 (0.92%) Data Centre
17 25 (0.92%) Fixed Income
18 24 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.93%) Linux
2 127 (4.67%) Windows
3 55 (2.02%) Android
4 51 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 40 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.14%) Unix
7 23 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.37%) VMS
10 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
14 2 (0.074%) CentOS
14 2 (0.074%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.037%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.037%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (15.66%) Agile
2 419 (15.40%) AI
3 375 (13.79%) Software Engineering
4 335 (12.32%) Mentoring
5 334 (12.28%) Analytics
6 305 (11.21%) CI/CD
7 276 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
8 263 (9.67%) DevOps
9 240 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 214 (7.87%) Decision-Making
11 209 (7.68%) Roadmaps
12 207 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 187 (6.88%) Microservices
14 181 (6.65%) Computer Science
15 178 (6.54%) Test Automation
16 173 (6.36%) Coaching
17 159 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
18 156 (5.74%) Business Strategy
18 156 (5.74%) Full-Stack Development
18 156 (5.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 381 (14.01%) Python
2 242 (8.90%) Java
3 236 (8.68%) SQL
4 135 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 134 (4.93%) C#
6 128 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 103 (3.79%) C++
8 73 (2.68%) Go
9 64 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 36 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 34 (1.25%) Bash
11 34 (1.25%) Rust
12 25 (0.92%) Scala
13 21 (0.77%) Bicep
13 21 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.74%) Apex Code
15 19 (0.70%) PHP
16 13 (0.48%) SOQL
17 12 (0.44%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 331 (12.17%) Degree
2 133 (4.89%) Security Cleared
3 114 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 104 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 53 (1.95%) ACCA
6 52 (1.91%) CISSP
7 46 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 38 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 34 (1.25%) CISM
12 33 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.18%) CIMA
14 29 (1.07%) PhD
15 26 (0.96%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.88%) CRISC
17 22 (0.81%) OSCP
18 21 (0.77%) CISA
19 19 (0.70%) CCNP
20 18 (0.66%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (2.94%) QA
2 76 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 68 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (1.91%) GDPR
5 51 (1.88%) NIST
6 44 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.92%) GRC
8 24 (0.88%) IFRS
8 24 (0.88%) SLA
9 17 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.55%) NCSC
11 10 (0.37%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.29%) PMO
14 7 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.26%) PERC
14 7 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.22%) IFRS 17
16 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 112 (4.12%) Active Directory
1 112 (4.12%) Docker
2 50 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.51%) Hyper-V
3 14 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.33%) Firmware
4 9 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.18%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.15%) vSphere
7 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.074%) NFS
9 2 (0.074%) XenApp
10 1 (0.037%) Postfix
10 1 (0.037%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 208 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 130 (4.78%) Terraform
3 60 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (1.76%) Grafana
5 46 (1.69%) Ansible
6 32 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.92%) SCCM
8 9 (0.33%) Nessus
9 7 (0.26%) Argo
9 7 (0.26%) Nagios
10 6 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.18%) Kibana
12 4 (0.15%) CASB
13 3 (0.11%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.11%) Istio
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 334 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 86 (3.16%) Salesforce
2 86 (3.16%) VMware
3 84 (3.09%) SAP
4 74 (2.72%) Cisco
5 60 (2.21%) Databricks
6 47 (1.73%) Oracle
7 43 (1.58%) Google
8 38 (1.40%) Adobe
9 37 (1.36%) Dell
10 33 (1.21%) Palo Alto
11 30 (1.10%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.07%) Fortinet
13 23 (0.85%) Meraki
13 23 (0.85%) Workday
14 22 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
15 21 (0.77%) Apple
16 19 (0.70%) IBM
17 18 (0.66%) Guidewire
18 15 (0.55%) AppDynamics