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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,752 2,164 3,909
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.62% 17.85% 20.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.81% 19.49% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 1,288 2,436
10th Percentile £57,359 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £122,500
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 22,318 11,101 18,592
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.57% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,285 7,225 12,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,840
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +7 555 £90,000 +20.00% 186
West London +28 108 £60,000 +5.26% 100
South London +19 54 £80,000 -25.58% 15
East London -1 14 £120,000 +50.00% 12
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 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.

1 658 (17.54%) AI
2 651 (17.35%) AWS
3 640 (17.06%) Software Engineering
4 614 (16.36%) Python
5 584 (15.57%) Azure
6 500 (13.33%) Agile
7 476 (12.69%) Analytics
8 447 (11.91%) Mentoring
9 436 (11.62%) CI/CD
10 363 (9.67%) Microsoft
10 363 (9.67%) SQL
11 340 (9.06%) DevOps
12 339 (9.04%) Degree
13 327 (8.72%) Roadmaps
14 324 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
15 317 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 291 (7.76%) Java
17 281 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
18 277 (7.38%) Security Cleared
19 268 (7.14%) Machine Learning
20 247 (6.58%) Decision-Making
21 241 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
22 238 (6.34%) Business Development
23 236 (6.29%) GCP
24 224 (5.97%) Microservices
25 219 (5.84%) Data Science
26 218 (5.81%) Kubernetes
27 215 (5.73%) Terraform
28 214 (5.70%) SaaS
29 211 (5.62%) 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 74 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 56 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.77%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) Confluence
7 20 (0.53%) SAS
8 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.19%) InDesign
6 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.080%) Blender
9 3 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.080%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 41 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
2 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.32%) Elite 3E
4 9 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.19%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.080%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 651 (17.35%) AWS
2 584 (15.57%) Azure
3 236 (6.29%) GCP
4 214 (5.70%) SaaS
5 142 (3.78%) Serverless
6 136 (3.62%) Power Platform
7 127 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
8 119 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
8 119 (3.17%) GitHub
9 104 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 65 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (1.65%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.60%) Amazon S3
14 54 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
15 45 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
16 44 (1.17%) dbt
17 43 (1.15%) Figma
18 40 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.14%) Firewall
2 104 (2.77%) Network Security
3 73 (1.95%) DNS
4 66 (1.76%) VPN
5 52 (1.39%) VLAN
6 46 (1.23%) DHCP
7 45 (1.20%) WAN
8 42 (1.12%) Broadband
9 41 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (1.04%) BGP
11 38 (1.01%) Internet
12 36 (0.96%) OSPF
13 34 (0.91%) TCP/IP
14 30 (0.80%) LAN
15 24 (0.64%) Wireless
16 23 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.53%) SAN
18 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
19 16 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.99%) Power BI
2 109 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.52%) Tableau
7 55 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 52 (1.39%) NoSQL
10 45 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 41 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
12 39 (1.04%) MySQL
13 38 (1.01%) Big Data
14 36 (0.96%) DynamoDB
14 36 (0.96%) Metadata
15 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 30 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.56%) Looker
17 21 (0.56%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 115 (3.07%) Git
2 56 (1.49%) JIRA
3 45 (1.20%) GitLab
4 41 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.72%) MLflow
7 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.13%) Vite
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 952 (25.37%) Finance
2 646 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 295 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (7.49%) Banking
5 275 (7.33%) Law
6 229 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 226 (6.02%) Marketing
8 161 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 144 (3.84%) Retail
10 132 (3.52%) Legal
11 72 (1.92%) Front Office
12 67 (1.79%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 43 (1.15%) Advertising
16 42 (1.12%) Games
17 38 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (0.85%) Billing
19 31 (0.83%) Investment Banking
19 31 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (5.73%) Terraform
2 143 (3.81%) .NET
3 139 (3.70%) React
4 118 (3.14%) REST
5 114 (3.04%) Kafka
6 86 (2.29%) Node.js
6 86 (2.29%) Spring
7 74 (1.97%) RESTful
8 63 (1.68%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.17%) HTML
10 41 (1.09%) Next.js
11 40 (1.07%) CSS
12 37 (0.99%) LangChain
13 35 (0.93%) Django
14 33 (0.88%) PySpark
15 30 (0.80%) JSON
16 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
17 26 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 265 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 151 (4.02%) Onboarding
3 142 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 101 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 81 (2.16%) AI Agents
8 74 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 59 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 54 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.20%) Derivative
13 44 (1.17%) Blog
13 44 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 40 (1.07%) Equities
16 40 (1.07%) Mobile App
17 37 (0.99%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.04%) Linux
2 95 (2.53%) Windows
3 45 (1.20%) Android
4 35 (0.93%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.27%) AIX
7 10 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) VMS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
11 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (17.54%) AI
2 640 (17.06%) Software Engineering
3 500 (13.33%) Agile
4 476 (12.69%) Analytics
5 447 (11.91%) Mentoring
6 436 (11.62%) CI/CD
7 340 (9.06%) DevOps
8 327 (8.72%) Roadmaps
9 324 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
10 317 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 281 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (7.14%) Machine Learning
13 247 (6.58%) Decision-Making
14 241 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 238 (6.34%) Business Development
16 224 (5.97%) Microservices
17 219 (5.84%) Data Science
18 211 (5.62%) Test Automation
19 188 (5.01%) Migration
20 181 (4.82%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 614 (16.36%) Python
2 363 (9.67%) SQL
3 291 (7.76%) Java
4 149 (3.97%) TypeScript
5 147 (3.92%) C#
6 131 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 92 (2.45%) C++
8 65 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.63%) Go
10 54 (1.44%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 29 (0.77%) PHP
12 27 (0.72%) Bicep
13 24 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 23 (0.61%) Ruby
15 22 (0.59%) R
16 20 (0.53%) SOQL
17 19 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.51%) Scala
18 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 339 (9.04%) Degree
2 277 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 182 (4.85%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 60 (1.60%) CISSP
6 60 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 43 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (1.12%) CISM
11 39 (1.04%) PhD
12 38 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.88%) CCNP
14 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.77%) CISA
16 20 (0.53%) CRISC
17 19 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.48%) PMI Certification
19 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.30%) QA
2 123 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 89 (2.37%) GDPR
4 88 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 87 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 81 (2.16%) NIST
7 46 (1.23%) GRC
8 25 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.35%) COBIT
13 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 9 (0.24%) SLA
16 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 125 (3.33%) Docker
2 64 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 218 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.07%) Ansible
3 33 (0.88%) Grafana
4 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.48%) Puppet
8 16 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.32%) Nagios
10 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
11 7 (0.19%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.11%) Argo
13 4 (0.11%) Kibana
13 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 363 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.04%) Salesforce
3 105 (2.80%) SAP
4 104 (2.77%) Databricks
5 96 (2.56%) Oracle
6 86 (2.29%) Google
7 74 (1.97%) Cisco
8 60 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 58 (1.55%) VMware
10 43 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 35 (0.93%) Adobe
14 33 (0.88%) Dell
15 29 (0.77%) HP
16 25 (0.67%) IBM
16 25 (0.67%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Foundry
18 23 (0.61%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.61%) Intapp