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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,658 2,182 3,993
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.97% 17.81% 19.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.18% 19.42% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,327 2,599
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £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% - -0.37%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
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 21,291 11,236 19,431
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.72% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 14,610 7,337 13,796
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,622
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +7 614 £90,000 +16.13% 245
West London +25 112 £70,000 +14.29% 68
South London +12 54 £80,000 -25.58% 15
East London -6 14 £110,000 +37.50% 15
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 648 (17.71%) AWS
2 612 (16.73%) AI
3 603 (16.48%) Python
4 596 (16.29%) Software Engineering
5 591 (16.16%) Azure
6 497 (13.59%) Agile
7 470 (12.85%) Analytics
8 445 (12.17%) Mentoring
9 427 (11.67%) CI/CD
10 371 (10.14%) Microsoft
11 340 (9.29%) DevOps
12 336 (9.19%) SQL
13 326 (8.91%) Degree
14 318 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
15 308 (8.42%) Roadmaps
16 301 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 283 (7.74%) Java
18 279 (7.63%) Security Cleared
19 257 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
20 244 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
20 244 (6.67%) Machine Learning
21 240 (6.56%) Business Development
22 238 (6.51%) Kubernetes
23 237 (6.48%) GCP
24 236 (6.45%) Decision-Making
25 228 (6.23%) Microservices
25 228 (6.23%) Terraform
26 207 (5.66%) SaaS
27 206 (5.63%) Test Automation
28 191 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development

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 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 62 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.68%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) SAS
7 20 (0.55%) CMS
8 16 (0.44%) Confluence
9 9 (0.25%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) 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 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.082%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.027%) Moodle
14 1 (0.027%) nginx
14 1 (0.027%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.16%) 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%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.082%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.082%) Blender
9 3 (0.082%) Maya
10 2 (0.055%) InVision
10 2 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
4 10 (0.27%) Maximo
5 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Shopify
10 3 (0.082%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.082%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.082%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.082%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.082%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.082%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.082%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 648 (17.71%) AWS
2 591 (16.16%) Azure
3 237 (6.48%) GCP
4 207 (5.66%) SaaS
5 153 (4.18%) Serverless
6 146 (3.99%) Power Platform
7 143 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.34%) GitHub
9 121 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
10 91 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 65 (1.78%) Entra ID
14 59 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 49 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (1.20%) dbt
18 43 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 40 (1.09%) Figma
20 39 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.17%) Firewall
2 108 (2.95%) Network Security
3 74 (2.02%) DNS
4 65 (1.78%) VPN
5 54 (1.48%) Broadband
6 52 (1.42%) VLAN
7 50 (1.37%) DHCP
7 50 (1.37%) WAN
8 44 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (1.07%) BGP
10 37 (1.01%) OSPF
11 36 (0.98%) Internet
12 30 (0.82%) TCP/IP
12 30 (0.82%) Wireless
13 27 (0.74%) LAN
13 27 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.60%) SAN
15 19 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
16 17 (0.46%) Multicast
17 16 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.28%) Power BI
2 107 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.59%) Tableau
6 57 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 49 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 37 (1.01%) Metadata
13 35 (0.96%) BigQuery
14 34 (0.93%) MySQL
15 33 (0.90%) Big Data
16 28 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.55%) Looker
17 20 (0.55%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 124 (3.39%) Git
2 57 (1.56%) JIRA
3 49 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.26%) GitLab
5 24 (0.66%) MLflow
6 23 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.36%) CircleCI
7 13 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.25%) Selenium
9 6 (0.16%) JMeter
9 6 (0.16%) Vite
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) JUnit
11 4 (0.11%) Gatling
11 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.11%) NUnit
11 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Spock
11 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 933 (25.51%) Finance
2 624 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 278 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (7.24%) Banking
5 248 (6.78%) Law
6 208 (5.69%) Marketing
7 203 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 160 (4.37%) Public Sector
9 153 (4.18%) Legal
10 143 (3.91%) Retail
11 72 (1.97%) Front Office
12 67 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 49 (1.34%) Advertising
14 49 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.12%) Games
16 36 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 35 (0.96%) Billing
17 35 (0.96%) Legal Technology
18 32 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.10%) .NET
2 149 (4.07%) React
3 117 (3.20%) REST
4 110 (3.01%) Kafka
5 89 (2.43%) Node.js
6 81 (2.21%) Spring
7 65 (1.78%) RESTful
8 64 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.23%) CSS
10 40 (1.09%) HTML
11 37 (1.01%) Next.js
12 35 (0.96%) Django
13 34 (0.93%) LangChain
13 34 (0.93%) PySpark
14 30 (0.82%) SOAP
15 29 (0.79%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 29 (0.79%) OAuth
16 28 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 269 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 143 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 128 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 98 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 81 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 67 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 66 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 59 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 53 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 52 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
14 45 (1.23%) Derivative
15 44 (1.20%) Equities
16 43 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 42 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
18 41 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
19 39 (1.07%) Blog
20 37 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.53%) Linux
2 105 (2.87%) Windows
3 33 (0.90%) Android
3 33 (0.90%) Unix
4 30 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.33%) AIX
7 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 9 (0.25%) VMS
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.082%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.055%) CentOS
12 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.055%) tvOS
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (16.73%) AI
2 596 (16.29%) Software Engineering
3 497 (13.59%) Agile
4 470 (12.85%) Analytics
5 445 (12.17%) Mentoring
6 427 (11.67%) CI/CD
7 340 (9.29%) DevOps
8 318 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
9 308 (8.42%) Roadmaps
10 301 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 257 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 244 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 244 (6.67%) Machine Learning
13 240 (6.56%) Business Development
14 236 (6.45%) Decision-Making
15 228 (6.23%) Microservices
16 206 (5.63%) Test Automation
17 191 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 182 (4.98%) Data Science
19 174 (4.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 603 (16.48%) Python
2 336 (9.19%) SQL
3 283 (7.74%) Java
4 158 (4.32%) C#
4 158 (4.32%) TypeScript
5 151 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 111 (3.03%) C++
7 66 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 63 (1.72%) Go
9 61 (1.67%) Bash
10 29 (0.79%) Bicep
10 29 (0.79%) PHP
10 29 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 22 (0.60%) SOQL
12 20 (0.55%) Apex Code
12 20 (0.55%) Scala
13 19 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 19 (0.52%) R
13 19 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 326 (8.91%) Degree
2 279 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 178 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 112 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 71 (1.94%) CISSP
7 62 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 49 (1.34%) CISM
11 48 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (1.01%) PhD
13 36 (0.98%) CCNP
14 35 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.79%) CISA
17 25 (0.68%) CRISC
18 22 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
19 19 (0.52%) ACCA
20 18 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.39%) QA
2 106 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 94 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (2.38%) NIST
5 77 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 76 (2.08%) GDPR
7 47 (1.28%) GRC
8 24 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.36%) PMO
14 12 (0.33%) COBIT
14 12 (0.33%) SLA
14 12 (0.33%) WCAG
15 9 (0.25%) NCSC
16 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 129 (3.53%) Docker
2 68 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.11%) vSphere
6 3 (0.082%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.055%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.027%) IAG
8 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 238 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 228 (6.23%) Terraform
3 47 (1.28%) Ansible
4 40 (1.09%) Grafana
5 31 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.44%) Puppet
9 15 (0.41%) Nagios
10 14 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.30%) SCCM
13 7 (0.19%) Cilium
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.082%) Argo
Vendors
1 371 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 118 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 111 (3.03%) SAP
4 93 (2.54%) Databricks
5 92 (2.52%) Oracle
6 77 (2.10%) Google
7 70 (1.91%) Cisco
8 64 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.61%) VMware
10 40 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.04%) Adobe
12 36 (0.98%) Dell
13 35 (0.96%) OpenAI
14 33 (0.90%) IBM
15 30 (0.82%) Zscaler
16 27 (0.74%) Splunk
17 26 (0.71%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.63%) Foundry
18 23 (0.63%) Intapp
19 22 (0.60%) SolarWinds