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 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,059 3,002 2,934
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.24% 18.68% 16.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.78% 19.98% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 1,776 2,291
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,465 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -3.02% -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 12,268 15,027 16,854
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 93.51% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,140 8,910 13,617
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,434 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 December 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 20 December 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 -2 373 £85,000 +6.25% 152
South London +12 26 £55,200 +4.83% 19
West London -28 19 £49,200 -33.29% 36
East London -15 11 £49,200 -38.50% 26
North London +11 6 £75,000 -6.25% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 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.

1 518 (25.16%) Agile
2 427 (20.74%) Azure
3 425 (20.64%) AWS
4 398 (19.33%) Python
5 395 (19.18%) AI
6 359 (17.44%) Degree
7 296 (14.38%) Mentoring
8 275 (13.36%) Microsoft
9 271 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (13.06%) CI/CD
11 268 (13.02%) Analytics
12 267 (12.97%) Software Engineering
13 240 (11.66%) SQL
14 231 (11.22%) DevOps
15 219 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
16 216 (10.49%) Java
17 195 (9.47%) Roadmaps
18 186 (9.03%) Decision-Making
19 178 (8.64%) Computer Science
20 176 (8.55%) JavaScript
21 171 (8.31%) Business Strategy
22 167 (8.11%) GCP
23 165 (8.01%) TypeScript
24 162 (7.87%) Project Management
25 159 (7.72%) Business Development
25 159 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
26 151 (7.33%) Kubernetes
27 148 (7.19%) Machine Learning
28 145 (7.04%) Microservices
29 141 (6.85%) Cybersecurity

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 49 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.09%) Apache
2 43 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.87%) Confluence
6 8 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.39%) JBoss
6 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.34%) CMS
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.24%) nginx
8 5 (0.24%) SAS
9 3 (0.15%) Drupal
9 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.049%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.049%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.049%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.049%) Moodle
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 60 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.09%) Maya
4 19 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.39%) Sketch
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) InDesign
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.15%) Stata
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.097%) Blender
11 2 (0.097%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.12%) SAP IBP
4 16 (0.78%) SAP CO
4 16 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 16 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
5 13 (0.63%) Shopify
6 12 (0.58%) SAP FSCM
7 11 (0.53%) SAP IS-U
8 8 (0.39%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.19%) Relativity
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.097%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.097%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.097%) Workday HCM
12 1 (0.049%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 427 (20.74%) Azure
2 425 (20.64%) AWS
3 167 (8.11%) GCP
4 132 (6.41%) Power Platform
5 116 (5.63%) SaaS
6 100 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
7 90 (4.37%) Snowflake
8 82 (3.98%) Serverless
9 65 (3.16%) dbt
10 61 (2.96%) GitHub
11 54 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (2.57%) Entra ID
13 49 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (1.75%) Figma
15 35 (1.70%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.31%) Amazon Bedrock
16 27 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
17 26 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
17 26 (1.26%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.55%) Firewall
2 55 (2.67%) WAN
3 51 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
4 49 (2.38%) LAN
5 44 (2.14%) VPN
6 28 (1.36%) DNS
7 26 (1.26%) Wireless
8 21 (1.02%) Network Security
8 21 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.97%) Multicast
10 19 (0.92%) DHCP
11 18 (0.87%) BGP
12 17 (0.83%) Broadband
12 17 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.78%) OSPF
14 14 (0.68%) VLAN
15 13 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (0.58%) SAN
17 11 (0.53%) VoIP
18 10 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.34%) Power BI
2 96 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 86 (4.18%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (2.53%) Tableau
6 51 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 45 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
8 44 (2.14%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.89%) Apache Arrow
9 39 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
9 39 (1.89%) Apache Ignite
9 39 (1.89%) Dremio
10 36 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (1.31%) Looker
12 26 (1.26%) DynamoDB
13 22 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (1.07%) SAP BW
14 21 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 75 (3.64%) Git
2 70 (3.40%) JIRA
3 20 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 13 (0.63%) GitLab
6 11 (0.53%) Selenium
7 10 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.49%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.39%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.34%) MLflow
10 7 (0.34%) Postman
11 6 (0.29%) JMeter
11 6 (0.29%) Vite
12 4 (0.19%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.19%) Maven
12 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.19%) Storybook
13 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 737 (35.79%) Finance
2 539 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 286 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (10.68%) Banking
5 200 (9.71%) Law
6 189 (9.18%) Marketing
7 159 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 112 (5.44%) Retail
9 94 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
10 87 (4.23%) Front Office
11 86 (4.18%) Public Sector
12 78 (3.79%) Telecoms
13 77 (3.74%) Legal
14 73 (3.55%) Games
15 60 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
16 51 (2.48%) Financial Institution
17 47 (2.28%) Investment Banking
18 43 (2.09%) Advertising
19 42 (2.04%) French Language
20 30 (1.46%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (6.70%) React
2 81 (3.93%) REST
3 80 (3.89%) .NET
4 77 (3.74%) RESTful
5 62 (3.01%) gRPC
5 62 (3.01%) Node.js
6 60 (2.91%) CSS
7 58 (2.82%) HTML
7 58 (2.82%) Kafka
8 55 (2.67%) GraphQL
9 52 (2.53%) Pandas
10 49 (2.38%) Spring
11 47 (2.28%) NumPy
12 39 (1.89%) Protocol Buffers
12 39 (1.89%) SciPy
13 37 (1.80%) Spring Boot
14 33 (1.60%) LangChain
15 32 (1.55%) Django
16 29 (1.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 29 (1.41%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 150 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 82 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.50%) Equities
4 71 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 69 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
6 68 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 65 (3.16%) Derivative
8 64 (3.11%) Hedge funds
9 61 (2.96%) Fixed Income
10 47 (2.28%) Management Information System
11 46 (2.23%) Algorithms
12 43 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 42 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (1.89%) Data Structures
14 39 (1.89%) Pricing Data
15 36 (1.75%) Mobile App
15 36 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.51%) Data Centre
16 31 (1.51%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 115 (5.59%) Linux
2 85 (4.13%) Windows
3 53 (2.57%) Android
4 38 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 32 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.51%) Unix
7 17 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.15%) VMS
11 2 (0.097%) CentOS
11 2 (0.097%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Solaris
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (25.16%) Agile
2 395 (19.18%) AI
3 296 (14.38%) Mentoring
4 271 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
5 269 (13.06%) CI/CD
6 268 (13.02%) Analytics
7 267 (12.97%) Software Engineering
8 231 (11.22%) DevOps
9 219 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 195 (9.47%) Roadmaps
11 186 (9.03%) Decision-Making
12 178 (8.64%) Computer Science
13 171 (8.31%) Business Strategy
14 162 (7.87%) Project Management
15 159 (7.72%) Business Development
15 159 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 148 (7.19%) Machine Learning
17 145 (7.04%) Microservices
18 141 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
18 141 (6.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 398 (19.33%) Python
2 240 (11.66%) SQL
3 216 (10.49%) Java
4 176 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 165 (8.01%) TypeScript
6 110 (5.34%) C#
7 71 (3.45%) C++
8 55 (2.67%) Go
9 44 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 42 (2.04%) Kotlin
11 27 (1.31%) Rust
12 22 (1.07%) Scala
13 19 (0.92%) Bicep
14 16 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.73%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.68%) Bash
16 14 (0.68%) C
17 13 (0.63%) Swift
18 9 (0.44%) VBA
19 8 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 359 (17.44%) Degree
2 118 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.06%) Master's Degree
4 61 (2.96%) ACCA
5 47 (2.28%) Security Cleared
6 43 (2.09%) CIMA
7 42 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 39 (1.89%) SC Cleared
10 36 (1.75%) CISSP
11 35 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 32 (1.55%) CISA
13 31 (1.51%) Azure Certification
14 29 (1.41%) CCNP
15 25 (1.21%) CISM
16 23 (1.12%) PhD
17 22 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 20 (0.97%) CCIE
19 16 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 14 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.81%) QA
2 59 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.72%) GDPR
4 48 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.36%) IFRS
6 25 (1.21%) NIST
7 18 (0.87%) GRC
8 14 (0.68%) GAAP
8 14 (0.68%) SLA
9 12 (0.58%) PMO
10 11 (0.53%) WCAG
11 10 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.44%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.34%) PERC
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.19%) NCSC
14 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.15%) Section 508
System Software
1 87 (4.23%) Docker
2 69 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) Firmware
7 8 (0.39%) HDFS
7 8 (0.39%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.24%) XenApp
10 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.19%) vSphere
11 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.097%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.097%) NFS
12 2 (0.097%) pfSense
13 1 (0.049%) Postfix
13 1 (0.049%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 151 (7.33%) Kubernetes
2 98 (4.76%) Terraform
3 47 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 45 (2.19%) Ansible
5 29 (1.41%) Grafana
6 15 (0.73%) SCCM
7 14 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.29%) Argo
9 6 (0.29%) CASB
9 6 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.15%) Nagios
11 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.097%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 2 (0.097%) SCOM
12 2 (0.097%) VxRail
Vendors
1 275 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.18%) SAP
3 70 (3.40%) Cisco
3 70 (3.40%) Google
3 70 (3.40%) Salesforce
4 63 (3.06%) VMware
5 52 (2.53%) Databricks
6 48 (2.33%) Oracle
7 44 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 41 (1.99%) Adobe
9 27 (1.31%) Dell
10 25 (1.21%) Guidewire
10 25 (1.21%) Palo Alto
11 24 (1.17%) Fortinet
12 23 (1.12%) Meraki
13 21 (1.02%) Apple
14 15 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 15 (0.73%) Workday
15 14 (0.68%) SolarWinds