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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 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 3,763 2,182 3,899
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.69% 17.99% 20.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.90% 19.62% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,385 1,296 2,465
10th Percentile £57,500 £54,500 £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 £101,250 £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 22,271 11,121 18,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.68% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15,238 7,224 12,690
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 £71,217
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.80% -2.44%
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 18 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 18 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 +7 566 £90,000 +18.03% 200
West London +25 110 £60,000 - 75
South London +18 53 £80,000 -25.58% 11
East London -3 14 £120,000 +50.00% 13
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 654 (17.38%) AI
2 652 (17.33%) AWS
3 634 (16.85%) Software Engineering
4 622 (16.53%) Python
5 590 (15.68%) Azure
6 507 (13.47%) Agile
7 483 (12.84%) Analytics
8 452 (12.01%) Mentoring
9 442 (11.75%) CI/CD
10 367 (9.75%) Microsoft
11 358 (9.51%) SQL
12 344 (9.14%) DevOps
13 339 (9.01%) Degree
14 325 (8.64%) Roadmaps
15 324 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
16 315 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 292 (7.76%) Java
18 282 (7.49%) Security Cleared
19 276 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
20 266 (7.07%) Machine Learning
21 248 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
22 246 (6.54%) Decision-Making
23 244 (6.48%) Business Development
24 237 (6.30%) GCP
25 227 (6.03%) Microservices
26 221 (5.87%) Kubernetes
27 219 (5.82%) SaaS
27 219 (5.82%) Terraform
28 215 (5.71%) Data Science
29 212 (5.63%) 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 58 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.74%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) SAS
7 19 (0.50%) Confluence
8 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 8 (0.21%) WordPress
10 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
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 33 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.16%) InDesign
7 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.11%) PlantUML
9 4 (0.11%) SPSS
10 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.080%) Blender
10 3 (0.080%) Maya
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.21%) Maximo
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
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%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.080%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 652 (17.33%) AWS
2 590 (15.68%) Azure
3 237 (6.30%) GCP
4 219 (5.82%) SaaS
5 147 (3.91%) Serverless
6 136 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 131 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.22%) GitHub
9 120 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
10 100 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 67 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (1.73%) Entra ID
14 59 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 45 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (1.20%) dbt
17 44 (1.17%) Figma
17 44 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
18 41 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 120 (3.19%) Firewall
2 106 (2.82%) Network Security
3 75 (1.99%) DNS
4 65 (1.73%) VPN
5 51 (1.36%) VLAN
6 48 (1.28%) DHCP
7 47 (1.25%) WAN
8 45 (1.20%) Broadband
9 42 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (1.04%) BGP
11 37 (0.98%) Internet
12 36 (0.96%) OSPF
13 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
14 30 (0.80%) LAN
15 25 (0.66%) Wireless
16 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.53%) SAN
18 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.43%) VXLAN
20 15 (0.40%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (2.95%) Power BI
2 109 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.51%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.51%) Tableau
6 55 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 54 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 52 (1.38%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 40 (1.06%) MySQL
11 37 (0.98%) Metadata
12 35 (0.93%) Big Data
12 35 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
14 30 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (0.56%) Looker
16 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (3.14%) Git
2 56 (1.49%) JIRA
3 46 (1.22%) GitLab
4 44 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.72%) MLflow
6 26 (0.69%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 11 (0.29%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 6 (0.16%) Vite
13 5 (0.13%) Appium
13 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.13%) JUnit
13 5 (0.13%) Mocha
13 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.11%) Gatling
14 4 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 966 (25.67%) Finance
2 648 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 294 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (7.49%) Banking
5 275 (7.31%) Law
6 231 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 230 (6.11%) Marketing
8 161 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 145 (3.85%) Legal
10 144 (3.83%) Retail
11 74 (1.97%) Front Office
12 68 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 64 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 60 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.17%) Advertising
16 43 (1.14%) Games
17 38 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 33 (0.88%) Billing
19 32 (0.85%) Legal Technology
20 31 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (3.91%) .NET
1 147 (3.91%) React
2 117 (3.11%) REST
3 113 (3.00%) Kafka
4 89 (2.37%) Spring
5 86 (2.29%) Node.js
6 77 (2.05%) RESTful
7 66 (1.75%) Spring Boot
8 45 (1.20%) HTML
9 44 (1.17%) CSS
10 41 (1.09%) Next.js
11 38 (1.01%) LangChain
12 35 (0.93%) Django
13 33 (0.88%) PySpark
14 31 (0.82%) .NET Core
14 31 (0.82%) JSON
15 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.72%) OAuth
17 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
18 25 (0.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 269 (7.15%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 113 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 81 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 75 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 61 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 60 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 55 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 47 (1.25%) Blog
14 45 (1.20%) Derivative
14 45 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 44 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
16 43 (1.14%) Security Posture
17 41 (1.09%) Equities
18 38 (1.01%) e-Learning
18 38 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.11%) Linux
2 97 (2.58%) Windows
3 43 (1.14%) Android
4 33 (0.88%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.053%) CentOS
12 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
13 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (17.38%) AI
2 634 (16.85%) Software Engineering
3 507 (13.47%) Agile
4 483 (12.84%) Analytics
5 452 (12.01%) Mentoring
6 442 (11.75%) CI/CD
7 344 (9.14%) DevOps
8 325 (8.64%) Roadmaps
9 324 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
10 315 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 276 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 266 (7.07%) Machine Learning
13 248 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 246 (6.54%) Decision-Making
15 244 (6.48%) Business Development
16 227 (6.03%) Microservices
17 215 (5.71%) Data Science
18 212 (5.63%) Test Automation
19 190 (5.05%) Full-Stack Development
20 187 (4.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 622 (16.53%) Python
2 358 (9.51%) SQL
3 292 (7.76%) Java
4 154 (4.09%) C#
5 150 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 141 (3.75%) JavaScript
7 95 (2.52%) C++
8 65 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.65%) Go
10 56 (1.49%) Bash
11 30 (0.80%) PHP
12 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 28 (0.74%) Bicep
14 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.61%) Ruby
16 22 (0.58%) R
17 21 (0.56%) SOQL
18 20 (0.53%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.48%) Scala
19 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 339 (9.01%) Degree
2 282 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 116 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.73%) CISSP
7 58 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 58 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 53 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.20%) CISM
10 43 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.06%) PhD
12 38 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.88%) CCNP
14 31 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.77%) CISA
16 22 (0.58%) CRISC
17 21 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
18 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
18 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (3.32%) QA
2 119 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 91 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.37%) GDPR
5 87 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 85 (2.26%) NIST
7 46 (1.22%) GRC
8 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.58%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.35%) COBIT
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
17 7 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 129 (3.43%) Docker
2 66 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 221 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 219 (5.82%) Terraform
3 43 (1.14%) Ansible
4 35 (0.93%) Grafana
5 26 (0.69%) FortiGate
6 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.45%) Puppet
8 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.35%) Nagios
10 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.24%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.13%) Cilium
13 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 367 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 116 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 106 (2.82%) SAP
4 104 (2.76%) Databricks
5 97 (2.58%) Oracle
6 86 (2.29%) Google
7 75 (1.99%) Cisco
8 62 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 60 (1.59%) VMware
10 42 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.98%) Adobe
12 37 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.88%) Dell
14 29 (0.77%) HP
14 29 (0.77%) IBM
15 25 (0.66%) Splunk
16 24 (0.64%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.61%) Intapp