Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,087 3,318 3,070
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.25% 19.28% 16.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.89% 20.34% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 1,995 2,493
10th Percentile £49,200 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £64,471 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,666 16,315 18,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.81% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,489 9,913 14,788
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -4 333 £85,000 +6.25% 876
South London -5 23 £54,600 +9.20% 21
West London -28 20 £49,100 -32.28% 57
East London -16 11 £49,200 -32.14% 43
North London +6 6 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, 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.

1 648 (31.05%) Agile
2 503 (24.10%) AWS
3 499 (23.91%) Python
4 446 (21.37%) Azure
5 394 (18.88%) AI
6 360 (17.25%) Degree
7 350 (16.77%) Software Engineering
8 323 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
9 319 (15.29%) CI/CD
10 304 (14.57%) Mentoring
11 299 (14.33%) Analytics
12 268 (12.84%) SQL
13 265 (12.70%) Java
14 264 (12.65%) Microsoft
15 244 (11.69%) DevOps
16 215 (10.30%) TypeScript
17 211 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 206 (9.87%) JavaScript
19 202 (9.68%) Decision-Making
20 200 (9.58%) Computer Science
21 198 (9.49%) Roadmaps
22 193 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
23 179 (8.58%) Project Management
24 178 (8.53%) React
25 172 (8.24%) GCP
26 171 (8.19%) Machine Learning
27 169 (8.10%) Business Strategy
27 169 (8.10%) Kubernetes
28 164 (7.86%) Business Development
29 157 (7.52%) 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 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (3.02%) Apache
3 52 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 24 (1.15%) Confluence
7 9 (0.43%) CMS
8 8 (0.38%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.34%) JBoss
9 7 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.29%) SAS
10 6 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.29%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) nginx
12 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.096%) Drupal
13 2 (0.096%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.048%) IIS
14 1 (0.048%) Moodle
Applications
1 68 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.72%) Maya
4 22 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.38%) Sketch
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.24%) InDesign
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.14%) Stata
11 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.096%) Blender
11 2 (0.096%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.096%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.20%) SAP IBP
4 15 (0.72%) SAP CO
4 15 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 15 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
5 14 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.62%) SAP FSCM
7 11 (0.53%) SAP IS-U
7 11 (0.53%) Shopify
8 8 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) Relativity
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.096%) Magento
12 2 (0.096%) SAP SCM
13 1 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
13 1 (0.048%) SAP GRC
13 1 (0.048%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 503 (24.10%) AWS
2 446 (21.37%) Azure
3 172 (8.24%) GCP
4 135 (6.47%) Power Platform
5 121 (5.80%) Snowflake
6 96 (4.60%) SaaS
7 95 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (4.41%) Serverless
9 87 (4.17%) dbt
10 63 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
11 50 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (2.40%) GitHub
12 45 (2.16%) Entra ID
13 40 (1.92%) Figma
14 39 (1.87%) Amazon S3
15 30 (1.44%) Amazon Bedrock
16 29 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
17 28 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.35%) Firewall
2 50 (2.40%) WAN
3 48 (2.30%) LAN
4 41 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (1.53%) VPN
6 28 (1.34%) Network Security
7 23 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.10%) Wireless
8 21 (1.01%) DNS
9 20 (0.96%) BGP
10 18 (0.86%) Broadband
11 17 (0.81%) Multicast
12 16 (0.77%) OSPF
13 13 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (0.53%) VoIP
15 10 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
15 10 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.38%) EIGRP
16 8 (0.38%) SNMP
17 7 (0.34%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.32%) Data Lake
1 111 (5.32%) Power BI
2 87 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 65 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
4 62 (2.97%) NoSQL
5 59 (2.83%) Apache Arrow
5 59 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
5 59 (2.83%) Apache Ignite
5 59 (2.83%) Dremio
5 59 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 52 (2.49%) Tableau
7 46 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 26 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (1.15%) Looker
11 24 (1.15%) MySQL
12 23 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (3.93%) Git
1 82 (3.93%) JIRA
2 21 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 18 (0.86%) Cypress.io
4 14 (0.67%) GitLab
4 14 (0.67%) Vite
5 12 (0.57%) Selenium
6 11 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.34%) Postman
10 6 (0.29%) JMeter
10 6 (0.29%) JUnit
11 5 (0.24%) MLflow
12 4 (0.19%) Maven
12 4 (0.19%) Mockito
12 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 860 (41.21%) Finance
2 574 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 309 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (14.66%) Banking
5 278 (13.32%) Law
6 250 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 215 (10.30%) Marketing
8 129 (6.18%) Front Office
9 106 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
9 106 (5.08%) Retail
10 91 (4.36%) Public Sector
11 84 (4.02%) Legal
12 81 (3.88%) Investment Banking
13 74 (3.55%) Telecoms
14 63 (3.02%) Games
15 57 (2.73%) Financial Institution
16 56 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
17 49 (2.35%) Advertising
18 42 (2.01%) French Language
19 37 (1.77%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.53%) React
2 84 (4.02%) REST
3 81 (3.88%) .NET
4 79 (3.79%) RESTful
5 77 (3.69%) gRPC
6 76 (3.64%) Pandas
7 72 (3.45%) CSS
8 67 (3.21%) HTML
8 67 (3.21%) NumPy
9 66 (3.16%) Kafka
10 62 (2.97%) Protocol Buffers
11 61 (2.92%) Node.js
12 60 (2.87%) GraphQL
13 59 (2.83%) SciPy
14 55 (2.64%) Spring
15 38 (1.82%) Spring Boot
16 37 (1.77%) Flask
17 36 (1.72%) FastAPI
18 34 (1.63%) Django
19 33 (1.58%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 166 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 108 (5.17%) Derivative
3 104 (4.98%) Equities
4 88 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 86 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
6 82 (3.93%) Hedge funds
6 82 (3.93%) Onboarding
7 76 (3.64%) Fixed Income
8 74 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 66 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (3.16%) Management Information System
10 61 (2.92%) Algorithms
11 59 (2.83%) Pricing Data
12 46 (2.20%) Data Structures
13 43 (2.06%) Data Centre
13 43 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
16 33 (1.58%) Reinsurance
17 30 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (5.75%) Linux
2 83 (3.98%) Windows
3 42 (2.01%) Unix
4 33 (1.58%) Android
5 32 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 24 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.43%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.29%) CentOS
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.29%) Solaris
11 5 (0.24%) HPUX
11 5 (0.24%) VMS
12 2 (0.096%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (31.05%) Agile
2 394 (18.88%) AI
3 350 (16.77%) Software Engineering
4 323 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 319 (15.29%) CI/CD
6 304 (14.57%) Mentoring
7 299 (14.33%) Analytics
8 244 (11.69%) DevOps
9 211 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 202 (9.68%) Decision-Making
11 200 (9.58%) Computer Science
12 198 (9.49%) Roadmaps
13 193 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 179 (8.58%) Project Management
15 171 (8.19%) Machine Learning
16 169 (8.10%) Business Strategy
17 164 (7.86%) Business Development
18 157 (7.52%) Test Automation
19 153 (7.33%) User Experience
20 144 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 499 (23.91%) Python
2 268 (12.84%) SQL
3 265 (12.70%) Java
4 215 (10.30%) TypeScript
5 206 (9.87%) JavaScript
6 115 (5.51%) C#
7 80 (3.83%) C++
8 56 (2.68%) Go
9 41 (1.96%) Kotlin
10 37 (1.77%) PowerShell
11 35 (1.68%) Rust
12 25 (1.20%) Scala
13 21 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.91%) C
15 18 (0.86%) Apex Code
16 17 (0.81%) Bicep
17 13 (0.62%) Bash
17 13 (0.62%) Swift
18 11 (0.53%) PHP
18 11 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 360 (17.25%) Degree
2 106 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.02%) Master's Degree
4 58 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 54 (2.59%) ACCA
6 47 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 47 (2.25%) SC Cleared
7 43 (2.06%) CIMA
7 43 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.01%) CISA
9 37 (1.77%) CISSP
10 27 (1.29%) CCNP
10 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.20%) PhD
12 24 (1.15%) CISM
13 23 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.86%) CCIE
15 14 (0.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.13%) QA
2 72 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 60 (2.87%) GDPR
4 49 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 48 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.29%) IFRS
7 24 (1.15%) NIST
8 18 (0.86%) GRC
9 17 (0.81%) WCAG
10 16 (0.77%) GAAP
11 15 (0.72%) PMO
12 11 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.34%) MiFID
14 7 (0.34%) PERC
14 7 (0.34%) SLA
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) EMIR
17 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (4.74%) Docker
2 62 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) HDFS
7 7 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.29%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.24%) XenApp
10 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.19%) vSphere
11 3 (0.14%) Firmware
12 2 (0.096%) NFS
12 2 (0.096%) pfSense
13 1 (0.048%) Postfix
13 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.048%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 169 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 133 (6.37%) Terraform
3 51 (2.44%) Ansible
3 51 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.58%) Grafana
5 19 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.67%) SCCM
7 12 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.29%) CASB
10 5 (0.24%) Argo
10 5 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.14%) SCOM
13 2 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.096%) Nagios
13 2 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.096%) VxRail
Vendors
1 264 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 89 (4.26%) SAP
3 85 (4.07%) Google
4 80 (3.83%) Salesforce
5 70 (3.35%) Cisco
6 65 (3.11%) Databricks
7 63 (3.02%) VMware
8 60 (2.87%) Oracle
9 55 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 47 (2.25%) Adobe
11 28 (1.34%) Dell
12 24 (1.15%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.05%) Meraki
14 21 (1.01%) Guidewire
14 21 (1.01%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.96%) Apple
16 16 (0.77%) Workday
17 15 (0.72%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 15 (0.72%) Splunk