Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £86,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,976 2,139 3,843
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.70% 17.90% 19.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.96% 19.62% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,541 1,259 2,259
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £120,200 £122,500
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 23,446 10,900 18,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.21% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,105 7,112 11,567
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,313 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +6 494 £90,000 +16.13% 823
West London +26 101 £60,000 +21.95% 136
South London +23 46 £80,000 -25.58% 44
East London +9 26 £120,000 +97.21% 30
North London +1 2 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 723 (18.18%) AI
2 699 (17.58%) Software Engineering
3 630 (15.85%) AWS
4 589 (14.81%) Azure
5 580 (14.59%) Python
6 494 (12.42%) Agile
7 482 (12.12%) Analytics
8 451 (11.34%) CI/CD
9 427 (10.74%) Mentoring
10 409 (10.29%) Microsoft
11 361 (9.08%) SQL
12 356 (8.95%) DevOps
13 338 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
14 330 (8.30%) Degree
15 328 (8.25%) Roadmaps
16 323 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 314 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
18 304 (7.65%) Java
19 282 (7.09%) Security Cleared
20 272 (6.84%) Machine Learning
21 246 (6.19%) Decision-Making
22 245 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
23 234 (5.89%) Business Development
23 234 (5.89%) GCP
24 225 (5.66%) Kubernetes
25 223 (5.61%) Data Science
26 221 (5.56%) Microservices
27 217 (5.46%) Terraform
28 204 (5.13%) Test Automation
29 198 (4.98%) Migration

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 68 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (0.73%) Apache
5 27 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.53%) Confluence
7 19 (0.48%) SAS
8 14 (0.35%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.10%) WinCC
12 3 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.050%) Camunda
13 2 (0.050%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.050%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.050%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.050%) OpenStack
Applications
1 42 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.18%) InDesign
7 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.075%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.075%) Blender
11 3 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.075%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.075%) Revit
11 3 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.38%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 6 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.10%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.075%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.075%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 630 (15.85%) AWS
2 589 (14.81%) Azure
3 234 (5.89%) GCP
4 196 (4.93%) SaaS
5 144 (3.62%) Power Platform
6 137 (3.45%) Serverless
7 126 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
9 120 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
10 118 (2.97%) GitHub
11 76 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (1.58%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 53 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 49 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
17 47 (1.18%) Azure AKS
18 42 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
19 40 (1.01%) Snowflake
20 39 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (2.79%) Firewall
2 99 (2.49%) Network Security
3 77 (1.94%) DNS
4 65 (1.63%) VPN
5 53 (1.33%) VLAN
6 45 (1.13%) DHCP
7 42 (1.06%) Internet
8 41 (1.03%) WAN
9 39 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (0.91%) BGP
11 35 (0.88%) TCP/IP
12 34 (0.86%) OSPF
13 32 (0.80%) Broadband
14 27 (0.68%) LAN
15 20 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.50%) Wireless
16 18 (0.45%) SAN
17 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
18 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
18 13 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (2.84%) Power BI
2 107 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.46%) NoSQL
4 58 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 56 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 50 (1.26%) Tableau
7 48 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 47 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.11%) Big Data
10 39 (0.98%) Metadata
11 37 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (0.91%) MySQL
13 31 (0.78%) DynamoDB
14 27 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.58%) SAP HANA
16 20 (0.50%) BigQuery
16 20 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
17 19 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 107 (2.69%) Git
2 56 (1.41%) JIRA
3 43 (1.08%) GitLab
4 41 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.78%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.43%) MLflow
9 13 (0.33%) Selenium
10 8 (0.20%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.10%) JUnit
12 4 (0.10%) Maven
12 4 (0.10%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.10%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 994 (25.00%) Finance
2 681 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 291 (7.32%) Law
4 290 (7.29%) Banking
5 273 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 210 (5.28%) Marketing
8 161 (4.05%) Public Sector
9 147 (3.70%) Legal
10 146 (3.67%) Retail
11 98 (2.46%) Financial Institution
12 74 (1.86%) Front Office
13 69 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 64 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 41 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 39 (0.98%) Games
18 35 (0.88%) Telecoms
19 33 (0.83%) Military
20 32 (0.80%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (5.46%) Terraform
2 138 (3.47%) .NET
3 134 (3.37%) React
4 126 (3.17%) REST
5 112 (2.82%) Kafka
6 90 (2.26%) Spring
7 83 (2.09%) RESTful
8 77 (1.94%) Node.js
9 67 (1.69%) Spring Boot
10 53 (1.33%) HTML
11 41 (1.03%) Next.js
12 40 (1.01%) CSS
13 35 (0.88%) JSON
14 34 (0.86%) PySpark
15 33 (0.83%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.75%) .NET Core
16 30 (0.75%) Django
17 29 (0.73%) LangChain
18 28 (0.70%) FastAPI
19 27 (0.68%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 257 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 156 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 119 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 118 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 108 (2.72%) AI Agents
7 65 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 61 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 53 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 47 (1.18%) Blog
11 45 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 44 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 43 (1.08%) Derivative
14 42 (1.06%) e-Learning
15 41 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 40 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.88%) Equities
17 35 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 104 (2.62%) Linux
2 99 (2.49%) Windows
3 45 (1.13%) Android
4 35 (0.88%) Unix
5 32 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.25%) AIX
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.075%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.050%) CentOS
11 2 (0.050%) tvOS
11 2 (0.050%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.025%) Rocky
12 1 (0.025%) VMS
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (18.18%) AI
2 699 (17.58%) Software Engineering
3 494 (12.42%) Agile
4 482 (12.12%) Analytics
5 451 (11.34%) CI/CD
6 427 (10.74%) Mentoring
7 356 (8.95%) DevOps
8 338 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
9 328 (8.25%) Roadmaps
10 323 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 314 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 272 (6.84%) Machine Learning
13 246 (6.19%) Decision-Making
14 245 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
15 234 (5.89%) Business Development
16 223 (5.61%) Data Science
17 221 (5.56%) Microservices
18 204 (5.13%) Test Automation
19 198 (4.98%) Migration
20 192 (4.83%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 580 (14.59%) Python
2 361 (9.08%) SQL
3 304 (7.65%) Java
4 144 (3.62%) C#
5 143 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 122 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.19%) C++
8 70 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 54 (1.36%) Bash
10 52 (1.31%) Go
11 31 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.75%) Bicep
13 26 (0.65%) PHP
14 25 (0.63%) R
15 24 (0.60%) Scala
16 21 (0.53%) Ruby
17 20 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.45%) SOQL
19 17 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 330 (8.30%) Degree
2 282 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 181 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 103 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.46%) CISSP
8 52 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 42 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 40 (1.01%) CISM
13 37 (0.93%) PhD
14 32 (0.80%) CCNP
15 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.68%) CISA
17 22 (0.55%) ACCA
18 18 (0.45%) CCNA
19 17 (0.43%) CIMA
19 17 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 121 (3.04%) QA
3 93 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (2.11%) GDPR
5 81 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 74 (1.86%) NIST
7 48 (1.21%) GRC
8 22 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) COBIT
12 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.28%) NCSC
12 11 (0.28%) PMO
12 11 (0.28%) WCAG
13 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.25%) SLA
14 9 (0.23%) MiFID
15 7 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 130 (3.27%) Docker
2 63 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.075%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.050%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.050%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.025%) Firmware
9 1 (0.025%) IAG
9 1 (0.025%) KVM
9 1 (0.025%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 225 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 37 (0.93%) Ansible
3 31 (0.78%) Grafana
4 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.53%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.50%) Puppet
7 19 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.28%) Nagios
10 10 (0.25%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.20%) SCCM
13 5 (0.13%) Argo
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Istio
14 4 (0.10%) EnCase
14 4 (0.10%) FTK
14 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 409 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.22%) Oracle
3 115 (2.89%) Salesforce
4 114 (2.87%) Google
5 103 (2.59%) SAP
6 95 (2.39%) Databricks
7 68 (1.71%) Cisco
8 55 (1.38%) VMware
9 52 (1.31%) Palo Alto
10 49 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 40 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 34 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.78%) Adobe
14 28 (0.70%) Splunk
15 27 (0.68%) HP
15 27 (0.68%) Workday
16 25 (0.63%) Intapp
17 24 (0.60%) IBM
18 22 (0.55%) Fortinet
19 21 (0.53%) Foundry