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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,515 2,098 4,645
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.40% 17.21% 18.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.71% 18.99% 20.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,313 1,290 3,238
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -10.31%

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 19,843 11,048 23,209
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 90.62% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,691 6,978 17,261
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,350 £37,283
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +7 716 £90,000 +12.50% 188
West London +33 107 £75,000 +17.65% 34
South London +37 65 £70,000 -34.88% 10
East London -5 17 £68,000 -22.29% 26
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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.

1 576 (16.39%) Azure
2 535 (15.22%) Software Engineering
3 534 (15.19%) Python
4 511 (14.54%) AWS
5 469 (13.34%) Agile
6 461 (13.12%) AI
7 382 (10.87%) Analytics
8 371 (10.55%) Microsoft
9 365 (10.38%) Mentoring
10 362 (10.30%) CI/CD
11 316 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
12 288 (8.19%) SQL
13 286 (8.14%) Degree
14 282 (8.02%) DevOps
15 264 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 257 (7.31%) Roadmaps
17 255 (7.25%) Java
18 236 (6.71%) Kubernetes
19 231 (6.57%) Security Cleared
20 224 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
21 223 (6.34%) Microservices
22 221 (6.29%) Decision-Making
23 215 (6.12%) GCP
24 210 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
25 209 (5.95%) Test Automation
26 199 (5.66%) Business Development
27 197 (5.60%) SaaS
27 197 (5.60%) Terraform
28 194 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
29 181 (5.15%) Machine Learning

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 66 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 59 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.68%) Apache
6 20 (0.57%) CMS
7 14 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.17%) SAS
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) JBoss
11 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.085%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) InDesign
8 4 (0.11%) InVision
8 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.085%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.085%) Blender
9 3 (0.085%) Maya
9 3 (0.085%) SPSS
10 2 (0.057%) Weka
Business Applications
1 20 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Shopify
10 3 (0.085%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.085%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.085%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.085%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.057%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.057%) SAP PM
11 2 (0.057%) SAP PP
11 2 (0.057%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.057%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 576 (16.39%) Azure
2 511 (14.54%) AWS
3 215 (6.12%) GCP
4 197 (5.60%) SaaS
5 153 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.39%) GitHub
8 117 (3.33%) Serverless
9 73 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 70 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 46 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 43 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 41 (1.17%) Figma
14 37 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.05%) IaaS
15 36 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
15 36 (1.02%) Datadog
15 36 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.02%) Firewall
2 80 (2.28%) DNS
3 78 (2.22%) Broadband
4 75 (2.13%) Network Security
5 73 (2.08%) VPN
6 59 (1.68%) DHCP
7 56 (1.59%) VLAN
8 52 (1.48%) WAN
9 48 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.19%) Wireless
11 33 (0.94%) BGP
12 32 (0.91%) OSPF
12 32 (0.91%) SD-WAN
13 29 (0.83%) SAN
13 29 (0.83%) TCP/IP
14 26 (0.74%) LAN
15 21 (0.60%) Multicast
16 20 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
17 16 (0.46%) HTTP
18 12 (0.34%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (2.99%) Power BI
2 103 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 52 (1.48%) NoSQL
4 47 (1.34%) Tableau
5 45 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 44 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 38 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 38 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 33 (0.94%) Metadata
10 33 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 24 (0.68%) MySQL
12 23 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.54%) Big Data
14 19 (0.54%) Db2
15 18 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 121 (3.44%) Git
2 71 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.54%) JIRA
4 42 (1.19%) GitLab
5 37 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.68%) MLflow
7 19 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 12 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.26%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 5 (0.14%) Chocolatey
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 908 (25.83%) Finance
2 567 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 264 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (7.40%) Banking
5 218 (6.20%) Law
6 204 (5.80%) Marketing
7 178 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 166 (4.72%) Legal
9 152 (4.32%) Retail
10 145 (4.13%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.91%) Front Office
12 62 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (1.45%) Advertising
13 51 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (1.08%) Games
15 38 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (0.97%) Legal Technology
17 33 (0.94%) Billing
18 32 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.18%) .NET
2 145 (4.13%) React
3 116 (3.30%) REST
4 99 (2.82%) Kafka
5 84 (2.39%) Node.js
6 75 (2.13%) Spring
7 65 (1.85%) RESTful
7 65 (1.85%) Spring Boot
8 54 (1.54%) CSS
9 47 (1.34%) SOAP
10 46 (1.31%) HTML
11 40 (1.14%) PyTorch
12 35 (1.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 34 (0.97%) PySpark
14 33 (0.94%) OAuth
15 30 (0.85%) LangChain
16 29 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (0.80%) Django
17 28 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (0.74%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 252 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 98 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 73 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 69 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 68 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 54 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 49 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 45 (1.28%) Equities
12 44 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 42 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 38 (1.08%) Social Media
15 37 (1.05%) Derivative
16 35 (1.00%) Low-Code
17 33 (0.94%) Hedge funds
17 33 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.10%) Linux
2 129 (3.67%) Windows
3 46 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 33 (0.94%) Android
5 31 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.74%) Unix
7 15 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 9 (0.26%) AIX
10 9 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.057%) tvOS
13 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (15.22%) Software Engineering
2 469 (13.34%) Agile
3 461 (13.12%) AI
4 382 (10.87%) Analytics
5 365 (10.38%) Mentoring
6 362 (10.30%) CI/CD
7 316 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
8 282 (8.02%) DevOps
9 264 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 257 (7.31%) Roadmaps
11 224 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 223 (6.34%) Microservices
13 221 (6.29%) Decision-Making
14 210 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
15 209 (5.95%) Test Automation
16 199 (5.66%) Business Development
17 194 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
18 181 (5.15%) Machine Learning
19 179 (5.09%) Fintech
20 168 (4.78%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 534 (15.19%) Python
2 288 (8.19%) SQL
3 255 (7.25%) Java
4 149 (4.24%) C#
5 147 (4.18%) TypeScript
6 141 (4.01%) JavaScript
7 127 (3.61%) C++
8 78 (2.22%) Go
9 76 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 56 (1.59%) Bash
11 33 (0.94%) Bicep
12 28 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 28 (0.80%) SOQL
13 26 (0.74%) Scala
14 23 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) PHP
15 22 (0.63%) Rust
16 19 (0.54%) R
17 16 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 286 (8.14%) Degree
2 231 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 175 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 86 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 66 (1.88%) CISSP
7 61 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 48 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.22%) PhD
11 42 (1.19%) CISM
12 35 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 33 (0.94%) CCNP
14 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.77%) CRISC
16 24 (0.68%) ACCA
16 24 (0.68%) OSCP
17 22 (0.63%) CISA
18 21 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 21 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (3.13%) QA
2 89 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 84 (2.39%) NIST
5 63 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 50 (1.42%) GDPR
7 39 (1.11%) GRC
8 22 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.43%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.37%) SLA
13 11 (0.31%) IFRS
13 11 (0.31%) MiFID
14 9 (0.26%) COBIT
15 8 (0.23%) WCAG
16 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 127 (3.61%) Docker
2 96 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) Firmware
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.085%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 197 (5.60%) Terraform
3 48 (1.37%) Grafana
4 47 (1.34%) Ansible
5 43 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.60%) SCCM
9 12 (0.34%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 9 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.085%) Argo
14 3 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 371 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 103 (2.93%) Salesforce
3 97 (2.76%) SAP
4 82 (2.33%) Databricks
5 72 (2.05%) VMware
6 71 (2.02%) Oracle
7 68 (1.93%) Cisco
8 61 (1.74%) Google
9 59 (1.68%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.34%) Dell
11 43 (1.22%) Adobe
12 42 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.88%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.85%) IBM
15 28 (0.80%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.71%) Splunk
17 23 (0.65%) Apple
17 23 (0.65%) Foundry
18 22 (0.63%) Intapp
18 22 (0.63%) SolarWinds