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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,723 2,360 3,874
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.37% 17.26% 17.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.88% 18.98% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 1,482 2,931
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £68,813 £65,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £79,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +0.31% -3.04%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £120,000 £115,000
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 15,230 12,434 20,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 90.96% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,172 7,647 16,422
10th Percentile £37,375 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £72,150
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +3.95% -1.16%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +2 551 £90,000 +12.50% 134
West London +2 62 £75,000 +17.65% 48
South London +35 54 £60,000 -1.03% 41
East London -17 12 £64,000 -20.00% 48
North London +7 6 £75,000 - 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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.

1 500 (18.36%) Azure
2 429 (15.75%) Agile
3 413 (15.17%) AI
4 409 (15.02%) AWS
5 382 (14.03%) Software Engineering
6 372 (13.66%) Python
7 338 (12.41%) Analytics
8 328 (12.05%) Mentoring
9 323 (11.86%) Degree
10 321 (11.79%) Microsoft
11 292 (10.72%) CI/CD
12 274 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
13 260 (9.55%) DevOps
14 243 (8.92%) Java
15 242 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 232 (8.52%) SQL
17 214 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 212 (7.79%) SaaS
19 209 (7.68%) Decision-Making
20 206 (7.57%) Roadmaps
21 204 (7.49%) Kubernetes
22 188 (6.90%) GCP
23 185 (6.79%) Microservices
24 183 (6.72%) Computer Science
25 176 (6.46%) Coaching
26 173 (6.35%) Test Automation
27 158 (5.80%) Full-Stack Development
28 156 (5.73%) Machine Learning
29 152 (5.58%) Fintech
30 150 (5.51%) Microsoft 365

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 61 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 34 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.66%) Confluence
6 15 (0.55%) Apache
7 12 (0.44%) JBoss
8 11 (0.40%) CMS
8 11 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 3 (0.11%) Drupal
12 3 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 3 (0.11%) nginx
13 2 (0.073%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.073%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.037%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.62%) Maya
4 11 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.26%) Sketch
7 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
9 3 (0.11%) InDesign
9 3 (0.11%) InVision
10 2 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.073%) Blender
10 2 (0.073%) Weka
11 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 24 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.26%) Maximo
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
8 5 (0.18%) Relativity
8 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.18%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.15%) Shopify
10 3 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.073%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.073%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 500 (18.36%) Azure
2 409 (15.02%) AWS
3 212 (7.79%) SaaS
4 188 (6.90%) GCP
5 150 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
6 133 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 88 (3.23%) GitHub
8 82 (3.01%) Entra ID
9 76 (2.79%) Serverless
10 57 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.69%) Snowflake
12 41 (1.51%) Figma
13 40 (1.47%) dbt
14 38 (1.40%) Amazon S3
14 38 (1.40%) PaaS
15 36 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
16 34 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 32 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
18 30 (1.10%) Datadog
19 29 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.72%) Firewall
2 56 (2.06%) WAN
3 55 (2.02%) VPN
4 52 (1.91%) DNS
5 51 (1.87%) Broadband
5 51 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
6 49 (1.80%) DHCP
7 37 (1.36%) LAN
8 36 (1.32%) Wireless
9 32 (1.18%) VLAN
10 27 (0.99%) TCP/IP
11 26 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 24 (0.88%) Network Security
12 24 (0.88%) SAN
13 22 (0.81%) Multicast
14 17 (0.62%) WebEx
15 15 (0.55%) HTTP
16 13 (0.48%) BGP
17 11 (0.40%) OSPF
18 10 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.00%) Power BI
2 100 (3.67%) SQL Server
3 65 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.73%) Data Lake
5 39 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 38 (1.40%) Tableau
7 37 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 36 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (1.14%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.03%) Metadata
11 26 (0.95%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (0.70%) MySQL
15 18 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.62%) Big Data
17 16 (0.59%) DB2
17 16 (0.59%) Looker
Development Applications
1 82 (3.01%) Git
2 61 (2.24%) JIRA
3 51 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 23 (0.84%) GitLab
6 16 (0.59%) MLflow
7 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.37%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.33%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.33%) Vite
10 8 (0.29%) Chocolatey
10 8 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.26%) JMeter
12 6 (0.22%) Selenium
12 6 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.18%) Storybook
General
1 802 (29.45%) Finance
2 529 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 244 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (8.04%) Banking
5 215 (7.90%) Marketing
6 190 (6.98%) Law
7 179 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 159 (5.84%) Retail
9 153 (5.62%) Legal
10 119 (4.37%) Public Sector
11 72 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (2.42%) Telecoms
13 62 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
14 53 (1.95%) Front Office
15 49 (1.80%) Advertising
15 49 (1.80%) Financial Institution
16 48 (1.76%) Games
17 42 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.95%) Automotive
19 22 (0.81%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (4.81%) React
2 123 (4.52%) .NET
3 103 (3.78%) REST
4 84 (3.08%) Node.js
5 83 (3.05%) Kafka
6 71 (2.61%) RESTful
7 67 (2.46%) Spring
8 56 (2.06%) CSS
9 54 (1.98%) Spring Boot
10 47 (1.73%) HTML
11 45 (1.65%) SOAP
12 38 (1.40%) GraphQL
13 31 (1.14%) gRPC
14 30 (1.10%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 30 (1.10%) OAuth
15 29 (1.07%) Django
16 28 (1.03%) PyTorch
17 25 (0.92%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.92%) AngularJS
17 25 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 214 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 84 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (2.46%) Product Ownership
4 63 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 58 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 56 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 54 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 50 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 48 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.54%) Social Media
14 39 (1.43%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.36%) Equities
15 37 (1.36%) Hedge funds
16 27 (0.99%) Data Centre
17 25 (0.92%) Low-Code
18 24 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
18 24 (0.88%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.88%) Linux
2 125 (4.59%) Windows
3 55 (2.02%) Android
4 51 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.03%) Unix
7 23 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.37%) VMS
10 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.037%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.037%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (15.75%) Agile
2 413 (15.17%) AI
3 382 (14.03%) Software Engineering
4 338 (12.41%) Analytics
5 328 (12.05%) Mentoring
6 292 (10.72%) CI/CD
7 274 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
8 260 (9.55%) DevOps
9 242 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 214 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 209 (7.68%) Decision-Making
12 206 (7.57%) Roadmaps
13 185 (6.79%) Microservices
14 183 (6.72%) Computer Science
15 176 (6.46%) Coaching
16 173 (6.35%) Test Automation
17 158 (5.80%) Full-Stack Development
18 156 (5.73%) Machine Learning
19 152 (5.58%) Fintech
20 149 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 372 (13.66%) Python
2 243 (8.92%) Java
3 232 (8.52%) SQL
4 133 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 131 (4.81%) C#
6 130 (4.77%) TypeScript
7 105 (3.86%) C++
8 75 (2.75%) Go
9 61 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 35 (1.29%) Kotlin
10 35 (1.29%) Rust
11 34 (1.25%) Bash
12 24 (0.88%) Scala
13 21 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 21 (0.77%) Bicep
14 19 (0.70%) PHP
14 19 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.55%) SOQL
16 12 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 323 (11.86%) Degree
2 134 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 114 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 106 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 53 (1.95%) CISSP
6 52 (1.91%) ACCA
7 43 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 43 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 33 (1.21%) CISM
11 31 (1.14%) CIMA
12 30 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 30 (1.10%) PhD
13 24 (0.88%) CRISC
14 22 (0.81%) OSCP
15 21 (0.77%) CISA
16 20 (0.73%) AWS Certification
17 18 (0.66%) CREST Certified
18 17 (0.62%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (2.79%) Data Quality
2 74 (2.72%) QA
3 69 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (1.91%) NIST
5 47 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.73%) GDPR
6 26 (0.95%) GRC
7 25 (0.92%) IFRS
8 24 (0.88%) SLA
9 17 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.55%) NCSC
11 10 (0.37%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.29%) PMO
14 7 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.26%) PERC
15 6 (0.22%) IFRS 17
16 5 (0.18%) GAAP
System Software
1 112 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 107 (3.93%) Docker
3 42 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.33%) Firmware
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.15%) HDFS
9 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.037%) NFS
12 1 (0.037%) Postfix
12 1 (0.037%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.037%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 204 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 129 (4.74%) Terraform
3 59 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 45 (1.65%) Grafana
5 44 (1.62%) Ansible
6 32 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.88%) SCCM
8 9 (0.33%) Nessus
9 7 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.26%) Nagios
10 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.22%) Argo
11 5 (0.18%) Kibana
11 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.11%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.11%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.11%) Istio
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 321 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 81 (2.97%) Salesforce
3 79 (2.90%) VMware
4 77 (2.83%) SAP
5 73 (2.68%) Cisco
6 58 (2.13%) Databricks
7 43 (1.58%) Oracle
8 42 (1.54%) Google
9 36 (1.32%) Adobe
10 35 (1.29%) Dell
11 33 (1.21%) Palo Alto
12 27 (0.99%) Fortinet
13 24 (0.88%) ServiceNow
14 23 (0.84%) Workday
15 22 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
16 21 (0.77%) Meraki
17 20 (0.73%) IBM
18 19 (0.70%) Apple
19 15 (0.55%) AppDynamics
19 15 (0.55%) Guidewire