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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 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 3,536 2,091 4,680
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 17.18% 18.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.70% 18.92% 20.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,315 1,288 3,254
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,350
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 19,983 11,053 23,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 90.80% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,756 6,999 17,364
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,400 £37,283
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 20 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 20 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 +7 713 £90,000 +12.50% 125
West London +32 109 £75,000 +17.65% 28
South London +37 65 £70,000 -34.88% 11
East London -3 17 £68,000 -22.29% 24
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 20 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 (16.35%) Azure
2 544 (15.38%) Python
3 543 (15.36%) Software Engineering
4 540 (15.27%) AWS
5 476 (13.46%) Agile
6 475 (13.43%) AI
7 392 (11.09%) Analytics
8 386 (10.92%) Mentoring
9 368 (10.41%) Microsoft
10 365 (10.32%) CI/CD
11 317 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
12 292 (8.26%) Degree
13 288 (8.14%) SQL
14 285 (8.06%) DevOps
15 267 (7.55%) Roadmaps
16 264 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 255 (7.21%) Java
18 239 (6.76%) Security Cleared
19 236 (6.67%) Kubernetes
20 231 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
21 223 (6.31%) Microservices
22 221 (6.25%) Decision-Making
23 218 (6.17%) GCP
24 215 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
25 207 (5.85%) Business Development
26 205 (5.80%) Test Automation
27 202 (5.71%) Terraform
28 197 (5.57%) Full-Stack Development
29 195 (5.51%) SaaS
30 186 (5.26%) 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 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 62 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 41 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.74%) Apache
6 20 (0.57%) CMS
7 14 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.28%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) JBoss
12 3 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.085%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.085%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) InDesign
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) InVision
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.085%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.085%) Blender
9 3 (0.085%) Maya
9 3 (0.085%) SPSS
10 2 (0.057%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 26 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.085%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.085%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.085%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.085%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.085%) Shopify
11 2 (0.057%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.057%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.057%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 578 (16.35%) Azure
2 540 (15.27%) AWS
3 218 (6.17%) GCP
4 195 (5.51%) SaaS
5 151 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.62%) Power Platform
7 123 (3.48%) Serverless
8 119 (3.37%) GitHub
9 72 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 70 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (1.33%) Amazon S3
13 44 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 43 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (1.19%) Figma
16 38 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
17 37 (1.05%) IaaS
18 36 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
18 36 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
18 36 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.05%) Firewall
2 81 (2.29%) DNS
3 80 (2.26%) Network Security
4 78 (2.21%) Broadband
5 72 (2.04%) VPN
6 59 (1.67%) DHCP
7 56 (1.58%) VLAN
8 52 (1.47%) WAN
9 47 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.19%) Wireless
11 34 (0.96%) BGP
12 33 (0.93%) OSPF
13 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 29 (0.82%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.79%) SAN
16 25 (0.71%) LAN
17 21 (0.59%) Multicast
18 20 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.45%) HTTP
20 13 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (2.94%) Power BI
1 104 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 54 (1.53%) NoSQL
3 46 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
3 46 (1.30%) Tableau
4 45 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 45 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 39 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
7 37 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 36 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 35 (0.99%) Metadata
10 33 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 25 (0.71%) MySQL
12 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (0.59%) Big Data
13 19 (0.54%) Db2
14 17 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 120 (3.39%) Git
2 69 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.53%) JIRA
4 41 (1.16%) GitLab
5 38 (1.07%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.65%) MLflow
7 18 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 14 (0.40%) 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
1 914 (25.85%) Finance
2 566 (16.01%) Social Skills
3 268 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.38%) Banking
5 219 (6.19%) Law
6 204 (5.77%) Marketing
7 177 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 165 (4.67%) Legal
9 152 (4.30%) Retail
10 148 (4.19%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.92%) Front Office
12 63 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.50%) Advertising
14 51 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 45 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (1.07%) Games
16 38 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 34 (0.96%) Legal Technology
18 33 (0.93%) Billing
18 33 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (4.19%) React
2 146 (4.13%) .NET
3 115 (3.25%) REST
4 99 (2.80%) Kafka
5 87 (2.46%) Node.js
6 74 (2.09%) Spring
7 65 (1.84%) RESTful
7 65 (1.84%) Spring Boot
8 53 (1.50%) CSS
9 46 (1.30%) HTML
9 46 (1.30%) SOAP
10 41 (1.16%) PyTorch
11 35 (0.99%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 33 (0.93%) OAuth
12 33 (0.93%) PySpark
13 31 (0.88%) Django
14 30 (0.85%) LangChain
15 28 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
15 28 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (0.74%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 255 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 100 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 83 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 77 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 71 (2.01%) Security Posture
7 70 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 64 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 55 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 51 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 46 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 46 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 45 (1.27%) Equities
13 43 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.07%) Social Media
16 37 (1.05%) Low-Code
17 36 (1.02%) Derivative
18 33 (0.93%) Reinsurance
19 32 (0.90%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.04%) Linux
2 125 (3.54%) Windows
3 42 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 30 (0.85%) Android
4 30 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.71%) Unix
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.40%) 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 (0.057%) CentOS
10 2 (0.057%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.057%) 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
1 543 (15.36%) Software Engineering
2 476 (13.46%) Agile
3 475 (13.43%) AI
4 392 (11.09%) Analytics
5 386 (10.92%) Mentoring
6 365 (10.32%) CI/CD
7 317 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (8.06%) DevOps
9 267 (7.55%) Roadmaps
10 264 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 231 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 223 (6.31%) Microservices
13 221 (6.25%) Decision-Making
14 215 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 207 (5.85%) Business Development
16 205 (5.80%) Test Automation
17 197 (5.57%) Full-Stack Development
18 186 (5.26%) Machine Learning
19 179 (5.06%) Fintech
20 170 (4.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 544 (15.38%) Python
2 288 (8.14%) SQL
3 255 (7.21%) Java
4 151 (4.27%) C#
5 149 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 144 (4.07%) JavaScript
7 125 (3.54%) C++
8 76 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 74 (2.09%) Go
10 58 (1.64%) Bash
11 33 (0.93%) Bicep
12 28 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 28 (0.79%) Scala
12 28 (0.79%) SOQL
13 23 (0.65%) PHP
13 23 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.57%) Rust
15 18 (0.51%) R
16 16 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 292 (8.26%) Degree
2 239 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 177 (5.01%) SC Cleared
4 92 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 68 (1.92%) CISSP
7 60 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 48 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.24%) CISM
10 42 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.19%) PhD
11 39 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 37 (1.05%) AWS Certification
13 33 (0.93%) CCNP
14 27 (0.76%) CRISC
15 24 (0.68%) ACCA
16 23 (0.65%) CISA
17 22 (0.62%) OSCP
18 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
19 20 (0.57%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (3.17%) QA
2 91 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (2.46%) NIST
4 86 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 64 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 51 (1.44%) GDPR
7 39 (1.10%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 15 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.37%) NCSC
11 13 (0.37%) SLA
12 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.31%) IFRS
14 10 (0.28%) MiFID
15 9 (0.25%) COBIT
16 8 (0.23%) WCAG
17 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.62%) Docker
2 94 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.74%) 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 (0.085%) Firmware
8 3 (0.085%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 202 (5.71%) Terraform
3 46 (1.30%) Grafana
4 45 (1.27%) Ansible
5 40 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.65%) 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 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.11%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 368 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 105 (2.97%) Salesforce
3 101 (2.86%) SAP
4 81 (2.29%) Databricks
5 71 (2.01%) Oracle
5 71 (2.01%) VMware
6 66 (1.87%) Cisco
7 63 (1.78%) Google
8 60 (1.70%) Palo Alto
9 46 (1.30%) Dell
10 44 (1.24%) Adobe
11 42 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 30 (0.85%) IBM
12 30 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 26 (0.74%) Fortinet
14 25 (0.71%) Splunk
15 23 (0.65%) Foundry
16 22 (0.62%) Apple
16 22 (0.62%) Intapp
16 22 (0.62%) SolarWinds