Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,152 2,050 3,773
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.04% 17.41% 20.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.35% 19.13% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 1,198 2,167
10th Percentile £58,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £63,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,300 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -5.45%

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 23,937 10,716 17,822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.01% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,069 6,935 10,962
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,125 £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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +6 457 £90,000 +12.50% 863
West London +21 93 £55,000 +11.79% 102
South London +20 48 £70,000 -34.88% 46
East London +12 31 £120,000 +143.90% 25
North London -4 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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.

1 797 (19.20%) AI
2 738 (17.77%) Software Engineering
3 626 (15.08%) AWS
4 592 (14.26%) Azure
5 585 (14.09%) Python
6 511 (12.31%) Analytics
7 501 (12.07%) Agile
8 473 (11.39%) CI/CD
9 424 (10.21%) Mentoring
10 421 (10.14%) Microsoft
11 369 (8.89%) SQL
12 360 (8.67%) DevOps
13 351 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
14 347 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 338 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 329 (7.92%) Roadmaps
17 321 (7.73%) Degree
18 308 (7.42%) Java
19 290 (6.98%) Security Cleared
20 286 (6.89%) Machine Learning
21 251 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
22 243 (5.85%) Decision-Making
23 238 (5.73%) Kubernetes
24 234 (5.64%) Data Science
25 233 (5.61%) GCP
26 229 (5.52%) Microservices
27 223 (5.37%) Business Development
28 218 (5.25%) Terraform
29 215 (5.18%) Full-Stack Development
30 211 (5.08%) 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 64 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.75%) Apache
5 26 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.51%) Confluence
7 19 (0.46%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) WordPress
10 7 (0.17%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.096%) IIS
12 4 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Camunda
14 2 (0.048%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.048%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 42 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.14%) Revit
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.096%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.096%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.072%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.072%) Blender
12 3 (0.072%) Maya
13 2 (0.048%) DaVinci Resolve
13 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
7 8 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 7 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.096%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.072%) Maximo
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
11 3 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 626 (15.08%) AWS
2 592 (14.26%) Azure
3 233 (5.61%) GCP
4 203 (4.89%) SaaS
5 150 (3.61%) Power Platform
6 140 (3.37%) Serverless
7 130 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 130 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 123 (2.96%) GitHub
9 120 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
10 76 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 71 (1.71%) Entra ID
12 55 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 51 (1.23%) Amazon S3
15 46 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (1.11%) Azure AKS
15 46 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
16 43 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (0.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 107 (2.58%) Firewall
2 95 (2.29%) Network Security
3 72 (1.73%) DNS
4 64 (1.54%) VPN
5 48 (1.16%) VLAN
6 43 (1.04%) Internet
7 40 (0.96%) DHCP
8 38 (0.92%) WAN
9 36 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 35 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (0.79%) BGP
12 31 (0.75%) Broadband
13 28 (0.67%) OSPF
14 23 (0.55%) LAN
15 17 (0.41%) Wireless
16 16 (0.39%) SAN
16 16 (0.39%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 11 (0.26%) Multicast
19 10 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.70%) Power BI
2 103 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 92 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 60 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.16%) Big Data
8 47 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (1.01%) MySQL
11 41 (0.99%) Metadata
11 41 (0.99%) Tableau
12 40 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 37 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 31 (0.75%) DynamoDB
15 25 (0.60%) SAP HANA
16 22 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
17 21 (0.51%) Redis
17 21 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
18 19 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (2.38%) Git
2 58 (1.40%) JIRA
3 48 (1.16%) GitLab
4 42 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.29%) MLflow
8 12 (0.29%) Selenium
9 8 (0.19%) NUnit
10 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
12 4 (0.096%) JUnit
12 4 (0.096%) Maven
12 4 (0.096%) Spock
13 3 (0.072%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,035 (24.93%) Finance
2 706 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 297 (7.15%) Banking
4 293 (7.06%) Law
5 266 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 239 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (5.01%) Marketing
8 176 (4.24%) Public Sector
9 171 (4.12%) Legal
10 158 (3.81%) Retail
11 111 (2.67%) Financial Institution
12 70 (1.69%) Front Office
12 70 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 67 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 42 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 42 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.99%) Games
17 37 (0.89%) Billing
18 33 (0.79%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.25%) Terraform
2 134 (3.23%) React
3 130 (3.13%) .NET
4 127 (3.06%) REST
5 102 (2.46%) Kafka
6 92 (2.22%) Spring
7 88 (2.12%) RESTful
8 71 (1.71%) Spring Boot
9 70 (1.69%) Node.js
10 53 (1.28%) HTML
11 42 (1.01%) Next.js
12 41 (0.99%) CSS
13 38 (0.92%) JSON
14 34 (0.82%) AngularJS
15 33 (0.79%) FastAPI
15 33 (0.79%) PySpark
16 30 (0.72%) Django
17 27 (0.65%) .NET Core
18 25 (0.60%) SpaCy
19 23 (0.55%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.24%) Cloud Native
2 159 (3.83%) Onboarding
3 152 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 131 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 125 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 125 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 118 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 73 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.30%) Blog
9 53 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 49 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
10 49 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.08%) e-Learning
13 39 (0.94%) Derivative
13 39 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 38 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 36 (0.87%) Data Structures
15 36 (0.87%) Reinsurance
16 32 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (2.53%) Linux
2 95 (2.29%) Windows
3 48 (1.16%) Android
4 35 (0.84%) Unix
5 33 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.072%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.048%) tvOS
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (19.20%) AI
2 738 (17.77%) Software Engineering
3 511 (12.31%) Analytics
4 501 (12.07%) Agile
5 473 (11.39%) CI/CD
6 424 (10.21%) Mentoring
7 360 (8.67%) DevOps
8 351 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
9 347 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 338 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 329 (7.92%) Roadmaps
12 286 (6.89%) Machine Learning
13 251 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 243 (5.85%) Decision-Making
15 234 (5.64%) Data Science
16 229 (5.52%) Microservices
17 223 (5.37%) Business Development
18 215 (5.18%) Full-Stack Development
19 211 (5.08%) Test Automation
20 205 (4.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 585 (14.09%) Python
2 369 (8.89%) SQL
3 308 (7.42%) Java
4 147 (3.54%) TypeScript
5 144 (3.47%) C#
6 116 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 83 (2.00%) C++
8 68 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.45%) Go
10 53 (1.28%) Bash
11 37 (0.89%) Kotlin
12 29 (0.70%) Bicep
13 28 (0.67%) PHP
14 25 (0.60%) R
14 25 (0.60%) Scala
15 21 (0.51%) Ruby
16 19 (0.46%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.46%) SOQL
17 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 321 (7.73%) Degree
2 290 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 66 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.40%) CISSP
8 57 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 41 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (0.94%) PhD
13 38 (0.92%) CISM
14 35 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.70%) CCNP
16 27 (0.65%) CISA
17 26 (0.63%) ACCA
18 22 (0.53%) CIMA
19 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
20 18 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 112 (2.70%) QA
3 92 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.95%) GDPR
6 69 (1.66%) NIST
7 44 (1.06%) GRC
8 24 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.31%) WCAG
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
12 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.26%) NCSC
12 11 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.26%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 6 (0.14%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (3.40%) Docker
2 63 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.072%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.048%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 238 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 44 (1.06%) Grafana
3 36 (0.87%) Ansible
4 31 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.51%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 16 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.24%) Nagios
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.19%) SCCM
10 6 (0.14%) Cilium
10 6 (0.14%) EnCase
10 6 (0.14%) FTK
10 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 3 (0.072%) CASB
Vendors
1 421 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 133 (3.20%) Oracle
3 125 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 121 (2.91%) Google
5 111 (2.67%) SAP
6 90 (2.17%) Databricks
7 65 (1.57%) Cisco
8 53 (1.28%) VMware
9 48 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 45 (1.08%) Palo Alto
11 41 (0.99%) Zscaler
12 35 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 30 (0.72%) Workday
14 29 (0.70%) HP
15 28 (0.67%) Splunk
16 26 (0.63%) Adobe
17 22 (0.53%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.51%) IBM
19 20 (0.48%) Intapp
20 19 (0.46%) Foundry