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 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,104 3,344 2,974
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.02% 19.04% 16.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.65% 20.13% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 2,035 2,395
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 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% -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 11,919 16,613 17,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.59% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,727 10,094 14,365
10th Percentile £36,250 £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 £117,500 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 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 28 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 -3 357 £85,000 +6.25% 177
South London -5 22 £54,600 +9.20% 15
West London -26 21 £49,200 -32.14% 22
East London -13 11 £49,200 -32.14% 14
North London +10 6 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 612 (29.09%) Agile
2 478 (22.72%) AWS
3 468 (22.24%) Python
4 443 (21.06%) Azure
5 390 (18.54%) AI
6 361 (17.16%) Degree
7 334 (15.87%) Software Engineering
8 313 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
9 311 (14.78%) CI/CD
10 298 (14.16%) Mentoring
11 297 (14.12%) Analytics
12 264 (12.55%) Microsoft
13 263 (12.50%) SQL
14 256 (12.17%) Java
15 237 (11.26%) DevOps
16 223 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
17 201 (9.55%) Decision-Making
17 201 (9.55%) Roadmaps
18 198 (9.41%) JavaScript
19 196 (9.32%) TypeScript
20 193 (9.17%) Computer Science
21 184 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
22 177 (8.41%) Business Strategy
23 173 (8.22%) GCP
24 169 (8.03%) Project Management
24 169 (8.03%) React
25 167 (7.94%) Machine Learning
26 162 (7.70%) Business Development
27 159 (7.56%) Kubernetes
28 154 (7.32%) 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 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.66%) Apache
3 49 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 22 (1.05%) Confluence
7 8 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.38%) JBoss
8 7 (0.33%) CMS
8 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.29%) nginx
9 6 (0.29%) SAS
9 6 (0.29%) WordPress
10 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 2 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.048%) Appian
13 1 (0.048%) Moodle
13 1 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 67 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.95%) Maya
4 21 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Sketch
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.24%) InDesign
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.14%) Stata
12 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.095%) Blender
12 2 (0.095%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.095%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.19%) SAP IBP
4 15 (0.71%) SAP CO
4 15 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 15 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
5 14 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.62%) SAP FSCM
7 11 (0.52%) SAP IS-U
7 11 (0.52%) Shopify
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) Relativity
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
12 2 (0.095%) Magento
12 2 (0.095%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.095%) SAP PLM
12 2 (0.095%) SAP SCM
12 2 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 478 (22.72%) AWS
2 443 (21.06%) Azure
3 173 (8.22%) GCP
4 139 (6.61%) Power Platform
5 109 (5.18%) Snowflake
6 96 (4.56%) SaaS
7 92 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
8 90 (4.28%) Serverless
9 78 (3.71%) dbt
10 61 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (2.52%) GitHub
12 45 (2.14%) Entra ID
13 39 (1.85%) Figma
14 38 (1.81%) Amazon S3
15 29 (1.38%) Amazon Bedrock
15 29 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
17 25 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.23%) Firewall
2 52 (2.47%) WAN
3 48 (2.28%) LAN
4 41 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (1.52%) VPN
6 26 (1.24%) Network Security
7 25 (1.19%) Wireless
8 24 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 22 (1.05%) DNS
10 19 (0.90%) BGP
11 17 (0.81%) Broadband
11 17 (0.81%) Multicast
12 16 (0.76%) OSPF
13 13 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (0.62%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.52%) VoIP
15 10 (0.48%) DHCP
15 10 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.43%) SNMP
17 8 (0.38%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.47%) Power BI
2 102 (4.85%) Data Lake
3 88 (4.18%) SQL Server
4 83 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 57 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
7 55 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 54 (2.57%) Tableau
9 51 (2.42%) Apache Arrow
9 51 (2.42%) Apache Iceberg
9 51 (2.42%) Apache Ignite
9 51 (2.42%) Dremio
10 46 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (1.57%) DynamoDB
12 26 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.24%) Looker
13 24 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.09%) MySQL
14 23 (1.09%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 81 (3.85%) Git
2 80 (3.80%) JIRA
3 22 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.86%) Cypress.io
5 14 (0.67%) GitLab
6 13 (0.62%) Selenium
7 12 (0.57%) Vite
8 11 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.33%) Postman
13 6 (0.29%) JMeter
14 5 (0.24%) JUnit
14 5 (0.24%) MLflow
15 4 (0.19%) Maven
15 4 (0.19%) SpecFlow
15 4 (0.19%) Storybook
16 3 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 838 (39.83%) Finance
2 573 (27.23%) Social Skills
3 311 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (13.64%) Banking
5 258 (12.26%) Law
6 223 (10.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 211 (10.03%) Marketing
8 114 (5.42%) Front Office
9 106 (5.04%) Retail
10 102 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
11 80 (3.80%) Public Sector
12 79 (3.75%) Legal
13 76 (3.61%) Telecoms
14 70 (3.33%) Games
15 68 (3.23%) Investment Banking
16 61 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
17 58 (2.76%) Financial Institution
18 50 (2.38%) Advertising
19 44 (2.09%) French Language
20 37 (1.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (8.03%) React
2 86 (4.09%) .NET
2 86 (4.09%) REST
3 78 (3.71%) RESTful
4 71 (3.37%) CSS
5 69 (3.28%) gRPC
6 67 (3.18%) HTML
7 66 (3.14%) Pandas
8 62 (2.95%) Kafka
9 60 (2.85%) Node.js
10 59 (2.80%) GraphQL
10 59 (2.80%) NumPy
11 53 (2.52%) Protocol Buffers
12 52 (2.47%) Spring
13 51 (2.42%) SciPy
14 36 (1.71%) Spring Boot
15 35 (1.66%) Django
15 35 (1.66%) Flask
16 33 (1.57%) FastAPI
17 32 (1.52%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 165 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 93 (4.42%) Equities
3 91 (4.33%) Derivative
4 88 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 87 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 82 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
7 74 (3.52%) Hedge funds
8 73 (3.47%) Fixed Income
9 72 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 61 (2.90%) Management Information System
12 57 (2.71%) Algorithms
13 51 (2.42%) Pricing Data
14 44 (2.09%) Data Structures
14 44 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.95%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (1.62%) Reinsurance
18 30 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (5.61%) Linux
2 79 (3.75%) Windows
3 37 (1.76%) Android
3 37 (1.76%) Unix
4 31 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.24%) VMS
10 4 (0.19%) Solaris
11 3 (0.14%) HPUX
11 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.095%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (29.09%) Agile
2 390 (18.54%) AI
3 334 (15.87%) Software Engineering
4 313 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
5 311 (14.78%) CI/CD
6 298 (14.16%) Mentoring
7 297 (14.12%) Analytics
8 237 (11.26%) DevOps
9 223 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 201 (9.55%) Decision-Making
10 201 (9.55%) Roadmaps
11 193 (9.17%) Computer Science
12 184 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 177 (8.41%) Business Strategy
14 169 (8.03%) Project Management
15 167 (7.94%) Machine Learning
16 162 (7.70%) Business Development
17 154 (7.32%) Test Automation
17 154 (7.32%) User Experience
18 150 (7.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 468 (22.24%) Python
2 263 (12.50%) SQL
3 256 (12.17%) Java
4 198 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 196 (9.32%) TypeScript
6 117 (5.56%) C#
7 75 (3.56%) C++
8 50 (2.38%) Go
9 39 (1.85%) Kotlin
9 39 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 30 (1.43%) Rust
11 24 (1.14%) Scala
12 19 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 19 (0.90%) Bicep
12 19 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 17 (0.81%) C
14 14 (0.67%) Bash
15 13 (0.62%) Swift
16 11 (0.52%) PHP
17 9 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 361 (17.16%) Degree
2 108 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (2.95%) Master's Degree
4 59 (2.80%) ACCA
5 52 (2.47%) Security Cleared
6 48 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 44 (2.09%) CIMA
7 44 (2.09%) SC Cleared
8 42 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 39 (1.85%) CISA
10 35 (1.66%) CISSP
11 27 (1.28%) CCNP
12 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (1.14%) PhD
14 23 (1.09%) Azure Certification
14 23 (1.09%) CISM
14 23 (1.09%) PMI Certification
15 19 (0.90%) CCIE
16 18 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.99%) QA
2 68 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.71%) GDPR
4 48 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 46 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.38%) IFRS
7 23 (1.09%) NIST
8 17 (0.81%) GRC
9 16 (0.76%) GAAP
9 16 (0.76%) WCAG
10 14 (0.67%) PMO
11 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.48%) SLA
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.33%) PERC
14 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.24%) MiFID
16 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (4.47%) Docker
2 60 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.38%) HDFS
8 7 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.24%) XenApp
11 4 (0.19%) Firmware
11 4 (0.19%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.19%) vSphere
12 2 (0.095%) NFS
12 2 (0.095%) pfSense
13 1 (0.048%) Postfix
13 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.048%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 159 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 118 (5.61%) Terraform
3 51 (2.42%) Ansible
4 50 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (1.43%) Grafana
6 18 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.67%) SCCM
8 11 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.29%) CASB
10 6 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.24%) Argo
12 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.14%) SCOM
14 2 (0.095%) Nagios
14 2 (0.095%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.095%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 2 (0.095%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.095%) VxRail
Vendors
1 264 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 91 (4.33%) SAP
3 85 (4.04%) Google
4 81 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 69 (3.28%) Cisco
6 61 (2.90%) Databricks
7 59 (2.80%) VMware
8 56 (2.66%) Oracle
9 49 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 47 (2.23%) Adobe
11 29 (1.38%) Dell
12 26 (1.24%) Guidewire
13 23 (1.09%) Meraki
13 23 (1.09%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.00%) Apple
15 20 (0.95%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.90%) Workday
17 16 (0.76%) Fortinet
18 15 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
19 14 (0.67%) Splunk