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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,404 1,970 4,502
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.30% 16.64% 19.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.67% 18.50% 20.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 1,214 3,151
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,325 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 19,264 10,646 22,241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 89.94% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,218 6,784 16,738
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,196
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,501
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +7 706 £90,000 +12.50% 358
West London +26 97 £75,000 +17.65% 18
South London +29 65 £60,000 -44.19% 24
East London -9 17 £79,000 -16.84% 23
North London -1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 568 (16.69%) Azure
2 511 (15.01%) Python
3 506 (14.86%) Software Engineering
4 490 (14.39%) AWS
5 477 (14.01%) Agile
6 458 (13.45%) AI
7 369 (10.84%) Microsoft
8 368 (10.81%) Mentoring
9 366 (10.75%) Analytics
10 340 (9.99%) CI/CD
11 305 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
12 298 (8.75%) Degree
13 277 (8.14%) DevOps
14 268 (7.87%) Java
15 265 (7.78%) SQL
16 252 (7.40%) Roadmaps
17 241 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 232 (6.82%) Kubernetes
18 232 (6.82%) Microservices
19 219 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
20 216 (6.35%) Decision-Making
21 213 (6.26%) GCP
22 211 (6.20%) SaaS
23 208 (6.11%) Security Cleared
24 204 (5.99%) Test Automation
25 190 (5.58%) Infrastructure as Code
26 188 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
27 186 (5.46%) Terraform
28 185 (5.43%) Fintech
29 183 (5.38%) Business Development

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 65 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.62%) Apache
6 20 (0.59%) CMS
7 14 (0.41%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) JBoss
9 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) Drupal
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
10 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.059%) nginx
12 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.18%) PlantUML
6 6 (0.18%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Maya
9 3 (0.088%) SPSS
10 2 (0.059%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.059%) Blender
10 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.059%) Weka
11 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 16 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 9 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.088%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.059%) SAP CO
12 2 (0.059%) SAP FI
12 2 (0.059%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
12 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
12 2 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 568 (16.69%) Azure
2 490 (14.39%) AWS
3 213 (6.26%) GCP
4 211 (6.20%) SaaS
5 152 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 124 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.50%) GitHub
8 114 (3.35%) Serverless
9 80 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 44 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 40 (1.18%) Datadog
14 40 (1.18%) PaaS
15 39 (1.15%) IaaS
16 38 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 38 (1.12%) Figma
17 37 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 100 (2.94%) Firewall
2 81 (2.38%) DNS
3 72 (2.12%) VPN
4 70 (2.06%) Broadband
5 65 (1.91%) DHCP
6 61 (1.79%) Network Security
7 55 (1.62%) WAN
8 52 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 51 (1.50%) VLAN
10 42 (1.23%) Wireless
11 34 (1.00%) SAN
11 34 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.91%) LAN
13 29 (0.85%) TCP/IP
14 25 (0.73%) BGP
15 24 (0.71%) Multicast
15 24 (0.71%) OSPF
16 19 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (0.56%) HTTP
17 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 98 (2.88%) Power BI
3 51 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (1.44%) NoSQL
5 44 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 43 (1.26%) Tableau
7 41 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 41 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 37 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (0.94%) Metadata
10 32 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 30 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 23 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.62%) MySQL
14 20 (0.59%) DB2
15 19 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (0.56%) Big Data
15 19 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (3.29%) Git
2 69 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.53%) JIRA
4 41 (1.20%) GitLab
5 35 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) MLflow
7 20 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.26%) Vite
9 8 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.21%) Selenium
11 6 (0.18%) JMeter
12 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.12%) Gatling
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) XCUITest
General
1 894 (26.26%) Finance
2 547 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 263 (7.73%) Banking
4 262 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
5 218 (6.40%) Law
6 208 (6.11%) Marketing
7 187 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 172 (5.05%) Legal
9 154 (4.52%) Retail
10 149 (4.38%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.97%) Front Office
12 59 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (1.44%) Advertising
15 46 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 39 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 36 (1.06%) Games
19 27 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
19 27 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (4.23%) React
2 141 (4.14%) .NET
3 117 (3.44%) REST
4 100 (2.94%) Kafka
5 88 (2.59%) Node.js
6 78 (2.29%) Spring
7 67 (1.97%) Spring Boot
8 66 (1.94%) RESTful
9 54 (1.59%) CSS
10 46 (1.35%) SOAP
11 45 (1.32%) HTML
12 39 (1.15%) PyTorch
13 35 (1.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 34 (1.00%) PySpark
15 32 (0.94%) LangChain
15 32 (0.94%) OAuth
16 29 (0.85%) Django
16 29 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.79%) AngularJS
17 27 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 244 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 77 (2.26%) Algorithms
5 66 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 63 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 60 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 51 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 51 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 50 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 50 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 48 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 45 (1.32%) Equities
11 45 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 39 (1.15%) Derivative
12 39 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (1.09%) Hedge funds
13 37 (1.09%) Social Media
14 32 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 32 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.32%) Linux
2 135 (3.97%) Windows
3 50 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 42 (1.23%) Android
5 33 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.73%) Unix
7 17 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.18%) AIX
12 3 (0.088%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.059%) tvOS
14 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.029%) Rocky
14 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (14.86%) Software Engineering
2 477 (14.01%) Agile
3 458 (13.45%) AI
4 368 (10.81%) Mentoring
5 366 (10.75%) Analytics
6 340 (9.99%) CI/CD
7 305 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
8 277 (8.14%) DevOps
9 252 (7.40%) Roadmaps
10 241 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 232 (6.82%) Microservices
12 219 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 216 (6.35%) Decision-Making
14 204 (5.99%) Test Automation
15 190 (5.58%) Infrastructure as Code
16 188 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 185 (5.43%) Fintech
18 183 (5.38%) Business Development
19 178 (5.23%) Machine Learning
20 171 (5.02%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 511 (15.01%) Python
2 268 (7.87%) Java
3 265 (7.78%) SQL
4 144 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 143 (4.20%) C#
5 143 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 130 (3.82%) C++
7 80 (2.35%) Go
8 74 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.38%) Bash
10 32 (0.94%) Bicep
11 28 (0.82%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.79%) SOQL
13 24 (0.71%) Rust
13 24 (0.71%) Scala
14 23 (0.68%) PHP
15 20 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.50%) R
18 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 298 (8.75%) Degree
2 208 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 154 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 64 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 57 (1.67%) CISSP
8 48 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.09%) CISM
10 37 (1.09%) PhD
11 35 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 31 (0.91%) CCNP
13 28 (0.82%) ACCA
14 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.76%) CRISC
15 25 (0.73%) OSCP
16 22 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 20 (0.59%) CIMA
18 17 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.08%) QA
2 79 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 73 (2.14%) NIST
5 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.23%) GDPR
7 37 (1.09%) GRC
8 21 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.53%) SLA
10 17 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.41%) NCSC
13 12 (0.35%) IFRS
13 12 (0.35%) MiFID
14 11 (0.32%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.24%) WCAG
16 7 (0.21%) COBIT
16 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.76%) Docker
2 106 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Firmware
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (0.15%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.088%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 232 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 186 (5.46%) Terraform
3 50 (1.47%) Ansible
4 46 (1.35%) Grafana
5 41 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.68%) SCCM
8 20 (0.59%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.32%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.21%) Istio
13 6 (0.18%) Cilium
13 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.15%) Kibana
15 4 (0.12%) Argo
15 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 369 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.88%) Salesforce
3 87 (2.56%) SAP
4 79 (2.32%) VMware
5 77 (2.26%) Databricks
6 74 (2.17%) Cisco
7 64 (1.88%) Oracle
8 56 (1.65%) Google
9 49 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 48 (1.41%) Dell
11 38 (1.12%) Adobe
12 33 (0.97%) ServiceNow
13 30 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 30 (0.88%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.82%) IBM
15 24 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.65%) Apple
16 22 (0.65%) Foundry
17 21 (0.62%) Splunk
18 19 (0.56%) Workday