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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 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 4,254 2,001 3,579
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.23% 17.06% 19.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.56% 18.76% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,592 1,187 2,142
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 24,219 10,667 17,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 90.95% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16,067 6,965 10,633
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 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 16 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 +6 426 £90,000 +5.88% 169
West London +16 92 £55,000 +11.79% 53
South London +16 52 £70,000 -12.50% 7
East London +14 40 £87,500 +77.85% 14
North London -4 2 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 848 (19.93%) AI
2 757 (17.80%) Software Engineering
3 640 (15.04%) AWS
4 607 (14.27%) Azure
5 593 (13.94%) Python
6 525 (12.34%) Analytics
7 509 (11.97%) Agile
8 497 (11.68%) CI/CD
9 436 (10.25%) Microsoft
10 426 (10.01%) Mentoring
11 392 (9.21%) SQL
12 375 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 369 (8.67%) DevOps
14 363 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
15 344 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 332 (7.80%) Roadmaps
17 321 (7.55%) Degree
18 316 (7.43%) Java
19 299 (7.03%) Security Cleared
20 294 (6.91%) Machine Learning
21 257 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
22 253 (5.95%) Decision-Making
23 247 (5.81%) GCP
24 242 (5.69%) Kubernetes
25 236 (5.55%) Business Development
26 233 (5.48%) Data Science
26 233 (5.48%) Microservices
27 230 (5.41%) Full-Stack Development
28 223 (5.24%) Terraform
28 223 (5.24%) 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 63 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 59 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.73%) Apache
5 28 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.52%) Confluence
7 19 (0.45%) SAS
8 13 (0.31%) CMS
9 9 (0.21%) WordPress
10 8 (0.19%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.094%) IIS
13 3 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.047%) Camunda
14 2 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.024%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 42 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.14%) InDesign
8 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.14%) Revit
9 4 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.094%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.094%) ProjectWise
10 3 (0.071%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.071%) Blender
10 3 (0.071%) Maya
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 38 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 10 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
6 10 (0.24%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
8 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.094%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.094%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.094%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.094%) Shopify
11 3 (0.071%) Endur
11 3 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
11 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 640 (15.04%) AWS
2 607 (14.27%) Azure
3 247 (5.81%) GCP
4 216 (5.08%) SaaS
5 170 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 139 (3.27%) Serverless
7 134 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
9 114 (2.68%) GitHub
10 81 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 75 (1.76%) Entra ID
12 58 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 53 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
14 53 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 47 (1.10%) Snowflake
16 44 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
17 42 (0.99%) Azure AKS
18 41 (0.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 102 (2.40%) Firewall
2 93 (2.19%) Network Security
3 66 (1.55%) DNS
4 65 (1.53%) VPN
5 45 (1.06%) VLAN
6 43 (1.01%) Internet
7 40 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.85%) BGP
9 34 (0.80%) DHCP
10 33 (0.78%) WAN
11 32 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (0.71%) Broadband
13 27 (0.63%) OSPF
14 21 (0.49%) LAN
15 16 (0.38%) SAN
15 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
16 14 (0.33%) Wireless
17 13 (0.31%) SD-WAN
18 12 (0.28%) Multicast
19 8 (0.19%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (2.87%) Power BI
2 106 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 72 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 63 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 55 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (1.20%) Big Data
8 47 (1.10%) MySQL
9 45 (1.06%) MongoDB
10 43 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (1.01%) Tableau
11 42 (0.99%) Metadata
12 37 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 32 (0.75%) DynamoDB
14 27 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (0.61%) Redis
15 26 (0.61%) SAP HANA
16 23 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
17 20 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 102 (2.40%) Git
2 57 (1.34%) JIRA
3 49 (1.15%) GitLab
4 44 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.78%) Claude Code
6 29 (0.68%) TeamCity
7 23 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.28%) Selenium
9 10 (0.24%) MLflow
10 8 (0.19%) NUnit
11 7 (0.16%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.12%) Appium
12 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.12%) Mocha
13 4 (0.094%) Gatling
13 4 (0.094%) JUnit
13 4 (0.094%) Maven
13 4 (0.094%) Spock
14 3 (0.071%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,069 (25.13%) Finance
2 732 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 308 (7.24%) Banking
4 297 (6.98%) Law
5 274 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
6 242 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 199 (4.68%) Marketing
8 187 (4.40%) Public Sector
9 176 (4.14%) Legal
10 162 (3.81%) Retail
11 125 (2.94%) Financial Institution
12 68 (1.60%) Front Office
12 68 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
14 47 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 45 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 42 (0.99%) Billing
17 40 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
18 39 (0.92%) Games
19 36 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (5.24%) Terraform
2 134 (3.15%) .NET
3 129 (3.03%) React
4 128 (3.01%) REST
5 100 (2.35%) Kafka
6 93 (2.19%) RESTful
7 91 (2.14%) Spring
8 71 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 69 (1.62%) Node.js
10 55 (1.29%) HTML
11 42 (0.99%) CSS
11 42 (0.99%) Next.js
12 40 (0.94%) JSON
13 34 (0.80%) AngularJS
14 33 (0.78%) FastAPI
15 31 (0.73%) PySpark
16 30 (0.71%) Django
17 28 (0.66%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.63%) Swagger
19 25 (0.59%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 267 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.78%) Onboarding
3 152 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 147 (3.46%) AI Agents
5 130 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 129 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 114 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 81 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 65 (1.53%) Blog
10 52 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 47 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.08%) e-Learning
13 44 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (0.89%) Public Cloud
15 37 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 35 (0.82%) Derivative
16 35 (0.82%) Reinsurance
17 34 (0.80%) Data Structures
18 33 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (2.77%) Linux
2 90 (2.12%) Windows
3 46 (1.08%) Android
4 38 (0.89%) Unix
5 32 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.14%) macOS
10 3 (0.071%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.047%) tvOS
11 2 (0.047%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (19.93%) AI
2 757 (17.80%) Software Engineering
3 525 (12.34%) Analytics
4 509 (11.97%) Agile
5 497 (11.68%) CI/CD
6 426 (10.01%) Mentoring
7 375 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 369 (8.67%) DevOps
9 363 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
10 344 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 332 (7.80%) Roadmaps
12 294 (6.91%) Machine Learning
13 257 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 253 (5.95%) Decision-Making
15 236 (5.55%) Business Development
16 233 (5.48%) Data Science
16 233 (5.48%) Microservices
17 230 (5.41%) Full-Stack Development
18 223 (5.24%) Test Automation
19 207 (4.87%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 593 (13.94%) Python
2 392 (9.21%) SQL
3 316 (7.43%) Java
4 151 (3.55%) C#
5 150 (3.53%) TypeScript
6 114 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.95%) C++
8 68 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 66 (1.55%) Go
10 54 (1.27%) Bash
11 43 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 28 (0.66%) Bicep
12 28 (0.66%) R
13 27 (0.63%) PHP
14 25 (0.59%) Scala
15 21 (0.49%) Ruby
16 20 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.40%) Apex Code
18 17 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 321 (7.55%) Degree
2 299 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 194 (4.56%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (1.93%) AWS Certification
6 68 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 63 (1.48%) CISSP
8 59 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 43 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 42 (0.99%) PhD
12 41 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 40 (0.94%) CISM
14 38 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.66%) ACCA
16 27 (0.63%) CISA
17 26 (0.61%) CCNP
18 24 (0.56%) CIMA
19 23 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
20 18 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 110 (2.59%) QA
3 91 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 85 (2.00%) GDPR
5 69 (1.62%) NIST
6 39 (0.92%) GRC
7 27 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 25 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.28%) WCAG
11 11 (0.26%) COBIT
11 11 (0.26%) NCSC
11 11 (0.26%) PMO
12 10 (0.24%) SLA
13 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.21%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 145 (3.41%) Docker
2 58 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.071%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.047%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
9 1 (0.024%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 242 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.29%) Grafana
3 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.73%) Ansible
5 21 (0.49%) Puppet
6 20 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.45%) FortiGate
8 16 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.24%) Nagios
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.19%) Cilium
11 8 (0.19%) EnCase
11 8 (0.19%) FTK
12 7 (0.16%) SCCM
13 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.12%) Argo
14 5 (0.12%) Istio
15 3 (0.071%) CASB
Vendors
1 436 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 145 (3.41%) Oracle
3 128 (3.01%) Google
4 123 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 108 (2.54%) SAP
6 95 (2.23%) Databricks
7 63 (1.48%) Cisco
8 52 (1.22%) VMware
9 45 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 42 (0.99%) Palo Alto
11 41 (0.96%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.78%) Workday
14 30 (0.71%) HP
15 27 (0.63%) Splunk
16 21 (0.49%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.49%) Foundry
17 20 (0.47%) Adobe
18 19 (0.45%) IBM
18 19 (0.45%) Meraki