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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,763 2,179 3,907
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.72% 17.97% 20.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.92% 19.60% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 1,288 2,466
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,925 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £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 22,240 11,116 18,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 91.66% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,208 7,206 12,693
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.11% -2.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 August 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 August 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 +7 563 £90,000 +20.00% 200
West London +25 108 £60,000 - 76
South London +18 54 £80,000 -25.58% 24
East London -4 14 £120,000 +50.00% 12
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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.

1 657 (17.46%) AI
2 655 (17.41%) AWS
3 636 (16.90%) Software Engineering
4 621 (16.50%) Python
5 590 (15.68%) Azure
6 510 (13.55%) Agile
7 484 (12.86%) Analytics
8 452 (12.01%) Mentoring
9 445 (11.83%) CI/CD
10 366 (9.73%) Microsoft
11 359 (9.54%) SQL
12 345 (9.17%) DevOps
13 340 (9.04%) Degree
14 327 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
14 327 (8.69%) Roadmaps
15 317 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 292 (7.76%) Java
17 282 (7.49%) Security Cleared
18 280 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
19 267 (7.10%) Machine Learning
20 249 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
21 248 (6.59%) Decision-Making
22 243 (6.46%) Business Development
23 237 (6.30%) GCP
24 226 (6.01%) Microservices
25 222 (5.90%) Kubernetes
26 220 (5.85%) SaaS
27 219 (5.82%) Terraform
28 215 (5.71%) Data Science
29 214 (5.69%) 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 74 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.74%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) Confluence
7 20 (0.53%) SAS
8 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 33 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.16%) InDesign
7 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.11%) PlantUML
9 4 (0.11%) SPSS
10 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.080%) Blender
10 3 (0.080%) Maya
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
3 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.21%) Maximo
7 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Shopify
10 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
10 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.080%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 655 (17.41%) AWS
2 590 (15.68%) Azure
3 237 (6.30%) GCP
4 220 (5.85%) SaaS
5 146 (3.88%) Serverless
6 139 (3.69%) Power Platform
7 131 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.22%) GitHub
9 120 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
10 100 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 66 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
13 64 (1.70%) Entra ID
14 61 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (1.20%) dbt
17 45 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
18 44 (1.17%) Figma
19 41 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 119 (3.16%) Firewall
2 105 (2.79%) Network Security
3 74 (1.97%) DNS
4 65 (1.73%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 47 (1.25%) DHCP
6 47 (1.25%) WAN
7 44 (1.17%) Broadband
8 42 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.06%) BGP
10 38 (1.01%) Internet
11 37 (0.98%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 31 (0.82%) LAN
14 25 (0.66%) Wireless
15 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.53%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (3.03%) Power BI
2 108 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 58 (1.54%) Tableau
6 55 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 55 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 52 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 40 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (1.04%) MySQL
11 37 (0.98%) Metadata
12 36 (0.96%) Big Data
12 36 (0.96%) DynamoDB
13 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
14 30 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (0.56%) Looker
16 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 116 (3.08%) Git
2 57 (1.51%) JIRA
3 48 (1.28%) GitLab
4 44 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 27 (0.72%) MLflow
6 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 10 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.19%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) JUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
11 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.13%) Vite
12 4 (0.11%) Spock
12 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 968 (25.72%) Finance
2 651 (17.30%) Social Skills
3 294 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (7.55%) Banking
5 274 (7.28%) Law
6 231 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (6.14%) Marketing
7 161 (4.28%) Public Sector
8 144 (3.83%) Legal
9 143 (3.80%) Retail
10 73 (1.94%) Front Office
11 68 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 64 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.17%) Advertising
15 42 (1.12%) Games
16 40 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
17 33 (0.88%) Billing
17 33 (0.88%) Manufacturing
18 32 (0.85%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (3.88%) React
2 144 (3.83%) .NET
3 118 (3.14%) REST
4 113 (3.00%) Kafka
5 88 (2.34%) Spring
6 86 (2.29%) Node.js
7 74 (1.97%) RESTful
8 65 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.20%) HTML
10 42 (1.12%) CSS
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 38 (1.01%) LangChain
13 35 (0.93%) Django
14 33 (0.88%) PySpark
15 30 (0.80%) .NET Core
15 30 (0.80%) AngularJS
15 30 (0.80%) JSON
16 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
16 26 (0.69%) OAuth
16 26 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 271 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 141 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 98 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 74 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 60 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 59 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 54 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 46 (1.22%) Blog
14 45 (1.20%) Derivative
14 45 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 44 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (1.12%) Security Posture
17 40 (1.06%) Equities
17 40 (1.06%) Mobile App
18 38 (1.01%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 116 (3.08%) Linux
2 96 (2.55%) Windows
3 44 (1.17%) Android
4 34 (0.90%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.29%) AIX
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.13%) VMS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
11 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (17.46%) AI
2 636 (16.90%) Software Engineering
3 510 (13.55%) Agile
4 484 (12.86%) Analytics
5 452 (12.01%) Mentoring
6 445 (11.83%) CI/CD
7 345 (9.17%) DevOps
8 327 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
8 327 (8.69%) Roadmaps
9 317 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 280 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 267 (7.10%) Machine Learning
12 249 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 248 (6.59%) Decision-Making
14 243 (6.46%) Business Development
15 226 (6.01%) Microservices
16 215 (5.71%) Data Science
17 214 (5.69%) Test Automation
18 189 (5.02%) Full-Stack Development
19 188 (5.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 621 (16.50%) Python
2 359 (9.54%) SQL
3 292 (7.76%) Java
4 152 (4.04%) C#
5 150 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 139 (3.69%) JavaScript
7 93 (2.47%) C++
8 65 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 63 (1.67%) Go
10 56 (1.49%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 29 (0.77%) PHP
12 28 (0.74%) Bicep
13 25 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 23 (0.61%) Ruby
15 22 (0.58%) R
16 21 (0.56%) SOQL
17 20 (0.53%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.48%) Scala
18 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 340 (9.04%) Degree
2 282 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 116 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.67%) CISSP
7 60 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 58 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 44 (1.17%) CISM
11 43 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.06%) PhD
13 38 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (0.88%) CCNP
15 31 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.77%) CISA
17 21 (0.56%) CRISC
18 20 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.48%) PMI Certification
20 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.35%) QA
2 121 (3.22%) Data Quality
3 90 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.37%) GDPR
5 87 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 83 (2.21%) NIST
7 46 (1.22%) GRC
8 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.35%) COBIT
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
17 7 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 128 (3.40%) Docker
2 65 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 222 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 219 (5.82%) Terraform
3 43 (1.14%) Ansible
4 35 (0.93%) Grafana
5 26 (0.69%) FortiGate
6 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.48%) Puppet
8 16 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.35%) Nagios
10 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.24%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) Argo
14 4 (0.11%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 366 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 116 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 106 (2.82%) SAP
4 105 (2.79%) Databricks
5 98 (2.60%) Oracle
6 85 (2.26%) Google
7 75 (1.99%) Cisco
8 62 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 60 (1.59%) VMware
10 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 36 (0.96%) Adobe
14 33 (0.88%) Dell
15 29 (0.77%) HP
15 29 (0.77%) IBM
16 25 (0.66%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Fortinet
17 24 (0.64%) Foundry
18 23 (0.61%) Intapp