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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 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 3,762 2,187 3,901
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.72% 18.02% 20.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.92% 19.65% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 1,298 2,460
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 22,237 11,129 18,535
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.72% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15,200 7,207 12,668
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 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.40% -1.77%
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 20 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 20 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 +7 561 £90,000 +20.00% 222
West London +23 107 £60,000 +0.84% 75
South London +16 54 £80,000 -25.58% 16
East London -6 14 £120,000 +50.00% 13
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 658 (17.49%) AWS
2 657 (17.46%) AI
3 633 (16.83%) Software Engineering
4 619 (16.45%) Python
5 588 (15.63%) Azure
6 511 (13.58%) Agile
7 486 (12.92%) Analytics
8 453 (12.04%) Mentoring
9 445 (11.83%) CI/CD
10 364 (9.68%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.57%) SQL
12 345 (9.17%) DevOps
13 342 (9.09%) Degree
14 329 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
15 327 (8.69%) Roadmaps
16 315 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 292 (7.76%) Java
18 283 (7.52%) Security Cleared
19 281 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
20 268 (7.12%) Machine Learning
21 250 (6.65%) Decision-Making
22 248 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
23 243 (6.46%) Business Development
24 240 (6.38%) GCP
25 228 (6.06%) Microservices
26 223 (5.93%) Kubernetes
27 220 (5.85%) SaaS
28 218 (5.79%) Terraform
29 215 (5.72%) Data Science
29 215 (5.72%) 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 73 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.06%) 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 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
5 9 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.21%) Maximo
7 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) SAP BPC
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%) Payment Gateway
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
1 658 (17.49%) AWS
2 588 (15.63%) Azure
3 240 (6.38%) GCP
4 220 (5.85%) SaaS
5 144 (3.83%) Serverless
6 138 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 130 (3.46%) 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 65 (1.73%) Entra ID
14 62 (1.65%) Amazon S3
15 54 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
18 44 (1.17%) dbt
19 43 (1.14%) Figma
20 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 66 (1.75%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 47 (1.25%) DHCP
7 46 (1.22%) WAN
8 44 (1.17%) Broadband
9 41 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (1.04%) BGP
11 38 (1.01%) Internet
12 36 (0.96%) OSPF
13 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
14 30 (0.80%) LAN
15 24 (0.64%) Wireless
16 23 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.53%) SAN
18 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
19 16 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.00%) Power BI
2 107 (2.84%) 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
7 54 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 53 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 44 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 39 (1.04%) MySQL
12 37 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 37 (0.98%) Metadata
13 36 (0.96%) Big Data
14 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 29 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.56%) Looker
16 21 (0.56%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 117 (3.11%) Git
2 57 (1.52%) JIRA
3 47 (1.25%) GitLab
4 45 (1.20%) 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
1 967 (25.70%) Finance
2 650 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 295 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (7.55%) Banking
5 277 (7.36%) Law
6 231 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 230 (6.11%) Marketing
8 161 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 142 (3.77%) Retail
10 140 (3.72%) Legal
11 73 (1.94%) Front Office
12 68 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 62 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.17%) Advertising
16 42 (1.12%) Games
17 40 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
18 33 (0.88%) Billing
19 32 (0.85%) Legal Technology
19 32 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.79%) Terraform
2 145 (3.85%) React
3 143 (3.80%) .NET
4 120 (3.19%) REST
5 114 (3.03%) Kafka
6 87 (2.31%) Spring
7 85 (2.26%) Node.js
8 74 (1.97%) RESTful
9 64 (1.70%) Spring Boot
10 45 (1.20%) HTML
11 42 (1.12%) CSS
12 41 (1.09%) Next.js
13 38 (1.01%) LangChain
14 35 (0.93%) Django
15 33 (0.88%) PySpark
16 30 (0.80%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.80%) JSON
17 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
18 26 (0.69%) OAuth
18 26 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 271 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 142 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 98 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 74 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 60 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 60 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 54 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.22%) Blog
13 45 (1.20%) Derivative
13 45 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (1.12%) Security Posture
16 40 (1.06%) Equities
17 39 (1.04%) Mobile App
18 38 (1.01%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.11%) Linux
2 96 (2.55%) Windows
3 44 (1.17%) Android
4 35 (0.93%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) VMS
11 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.053%) CentOS
12 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
13 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (17.46%) AI
2 633 (16.83%) Software Engineering
3 511 (13.58%) Agile
4 486 (12.92%) Analytics
5 453 (12.04%) Mentoring
6 445 (11.83%) CI/CD
7 345 (9.17%) DevOps
8 329 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
9 327 (8.69%) Roadmaps
10 315 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 281 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (7.12%) Machine Learning
13 250 (6.65%) Decision-Making
14 248 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 243 (6.46%) Business Development
16 228 (6.06%) Microservices
17 215 (5.72%) Data Science
17 215 (5.72%) Test Automation
18 188 (5.00%) Migration
19 187 (4.97%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 619 (16.45%) Python
2 360 (9.57%) SQL
3 292 (7.76%) Java
4 151 (4.01%) C#
5 150 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 138 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 94 (2.50%) C++
8 64 (1.70%) 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
1 342 (9.09%) Degree
2 283 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 184 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.67%) CISSP
7 61 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 57 (1.52%) 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
1 127 (3.38%) QA
2 122 (3.24%) 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 66 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.13%) vSphere
6 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.053%) Firmware
7 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.027%) IAG
8 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 223 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.14%) Ansible
3 34 (0.90%) Grafana
4 25 (0.66%) FortiGate
4 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.48%) Puppet
7 16 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.35%) Nagios
9 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
9 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.21%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
11 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.11%) Argo
13 4 (0.11%) Kibana
13 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 364 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 116 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 107 (2.84%) SAP
4 105 (2.79%) Databricks
5 98 (2.60%) Oracle
6 86 (2.29%) Google
7 74 (1.97%) Cisco
8 61 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.57%) VMware
10 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 35 (0.93%) Adobe
14 33 (0.88%) Dell
15 29 (0.77%) HP
16 28 (0.74%) IBM
17 25 (0.66%) Splunk
18 24 (0.64%) Fortinet
18 24 (0.64%) Foundry
18 24 (0.64%) Intapp