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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 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 3,559 2,101 4,590
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.37% 17.24% 18.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.65% 18.97% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,293 3,173
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 £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 20,162 11,078 23,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 90.90% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,876 7,040 17,075
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
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 £98,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 26 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 26 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% 132
West London +29 109 £75,000 +17.65% 40
South London +35 63 £70,000 -34.88% 10
East London +5 17 £68,000 -15.00% 26
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 588 (16.52%) Azure
2 564 (15.85%) AWS
3 556 (15.62%) Python
4 550 (15.45%) Software Engineering
5 496 (13.94%) AI
6 485 (13.63%) Agile
7 404 (11.35%) Analytics
8 395 (11.10%) Mentoring
9 375 (10.54%) CI/CD
10 370 (10.40%) Microsoft
11 318 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
12 300 (8.43%) Degree
13 299 (8.40%) SQL
14 292 (8.20%) DevOps
15 276 (7.75%) Roadmaps
16 271 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 256 (7.19%) Java
18 244 (6.86%) Security Cleared
19 243 (6.83%) Kubernetes
20 239 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
21 228 (6.41%) Decision-Making
22 224 (6.29%) Microservices
23 223 (6.27%) Infrastructure as Code
24 222 (6.24%) GCP
25 221 (6.21%) Business Development
26 210 (5.90%) Terraform
27 200 (5.62%) Test Automation
28 195 (5.48%) SaaS
29 194 (5.45%) Full-Stack Development
30 192 (5.39%) 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 67 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.73%) Apache
5 21 (0.59%) CMS
6 15 (0.42%) Confluence
7 12 (0.34%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.084%) JBoss
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) InDesign
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) InVision
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) Sketch
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 31 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.34%) Maximo
4 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.056%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.056%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.056%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 588 (16.52%) Azure
2 564 (15.85%) AWS
3 222 (6.24%) GCP
4 195 (5.48%) SaaS
5 156 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 133 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 124 (3.48%) Serverless
8 116 (3.26%) GitHub
9 76 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 73 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
13 50 (1.40%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 45 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 42 (1.18%) Figma
16 41 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
18 35 (0.98%) Azure Functions
18 35 (0.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.23%) Firewall
2 87 (2.44%) Network Security
3 83 (2.33%) DNS
4 78 (2.19%) Broadband
5 76 (2.14%) VPN
6 60 (1.69%) DHCP
7 57 (1.60%) VLAN
8 55 (1.55%) WAN
9 49 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (1.15%) Wireless
11 38 (1.07%) BGP
12 36 (1.01%) OSPF
13 33 (0.93%) SD-WAN
14 31 (0.87%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.79%) LAN
15 28 (0.79%) SAN
16 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
16 20 (0.56%) Multicast
17 15 (0.42%) HTTP
17 15 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.03%) Power BI
2 104 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 55 (1.55%) NoSQL
4 49 (1.38%) Tableau
5 47 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 47 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 44 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 38 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 36 (1.01%) Metadata
10 35 (0.98%) Relational Database
11 26 (0.73%) MySQL
12 23 (0.65%) Big Data
13 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.53%) Db2
16 17 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 120 (3.37%) Git
2 68 (1.91%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.55%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 39 (1.10%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.65%) MLflow
7 18 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
10 8 (0.22%) Vite
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Selenium
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 921 (25.88%) Finance
2 584 (16.41%) Social Skills
3 266 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (7.42%) Banking
5 222 (6.24%) Law
6 203 (5.70%) Marketing
7 176 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (4.75%) Legal
9 153 (4.30%) Retail
10 145 (4.07%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.91%) Front Office
11 68 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (1.49%) Advertising
12 53 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 44 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.15%) Games
15 36 (1.01%) Billing
15 36 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 34 (0.96%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (4.24%) React
2 148 (4.16%) .NET
3 115 (3.23%) REST
4 100 (2.81%) Kafka
5 87 (2.44%) Node.js
6 72 (2.02%) Spring
7 65 (1.83%) RESTful
8 63 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 52 (1.46%) CSS
10 45 (1.26%) HTML
10 45 (1.26%) SOAP
11 39 (1.10%) PyTorch
12 34 (0.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 34 (0.96%) Django
13 33 (0.93%) PySpark
14 32 (0.90%) OAuth
15 30 (0.84%) LangChain
16 28 (0.79%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
17 27 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 259 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 85 (2.39%) Algorithms
4 85 (2.39%) Data Centre
5 79 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 71 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 69 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 54 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 50 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 47 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 45 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.24%) Equities
13 39 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 38 (1.07%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.04%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.04%) Social Media
16 36 (1.01%) Derivative
17 31 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.02%) Linux
2 124 (3.48%) Windows
3 40 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.81%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (15.45%) Software Engineering
2 496 (13.94%) AI
3 485 (13.63%) Agile
4 404 (11.35%) Analytics
5 395 (11.10%) Mentoring
6 375 (10.54%) CI/CD
7 318 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (8.20%) DevOps
9 276 (7.75%) Roadmaps
10 271 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 239 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 228 (6.41%) Decision-Making
13 224 (6.29%) Microservices
14 223 (6.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 221 (6.21%) Business Development
16 200 (5.62%) Test Automation
17 194 (5.45%) Full-Stack Development
18 192 (5.39%) Machine Learning
19 180 (5.06%) Fintech
20 169 (4.75%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 556 (15.62%) Python
2 299 (8.40%) SQL
3 256 (7.19%) Java
4 153 (4.30%) C#
5 150 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 148 (4.16%) JavaScript
7 124 (3.48%) C++
8 78 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.05%) Go
10 62 (1.74%) Bash
11 31 (0.87%) Bicep
12 29 (0.81%) Scala
13 27 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 27 (0.76%) SOQL
14 24 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.65%) PHP
16 19 (0.53%) R
16 19 (0.53%) Rust
17 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 300 (8.43%) Degree
2 244 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 174 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 69 (1.94%) CISSP
7 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.26%) CISM
10 42 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 41 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 41 (1.15%) PhD
12 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (1.01%) CCNP
14 27 (0.76%) CRISC
15 24 (0.67%) ACCA
15 24 (0.67%) CISA
16 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.59%) OSCP
17 20 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (3.23%) QA
2 94 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 90 (2.53%) NIST
4 67 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 55 (1.55%) GDPR
6 42 (1.18%) GRC
7 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.34%) NCSC
10 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.34%) SLA
11 10 (0.28%) IFRS
11 10 (0.28%) MiFID
12 9 (0.25%) COBIT
12 9 (0.25%) WCAG
13 8 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 131 (3.68%) Docker
2 95 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 243 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 210 (5.90%) Terraform
3 46 (1.29%) Ansible
3 46 (1.29%) Grafana
4 39 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 20 (0.56%) SCCM
8 13 (0.37%) Nagios
9 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.25%) Nessus
11 7 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.20%) Cilium
11 7 (0.20%) Istio
12 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 370 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 107 (3.01%) Salesforce
3 102 (2.87%) SAP
4 83 (2.33%) Databricks
5 74 (2.08%) Oracle
6 71 (1.99%) VMware
7 66 (1.85%) Cisco
8 65 (1.83%) Google
9 63 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 44 (1.24%) Adobe
12 42 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 32 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 31 (0.87%) IBM
15 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.73%) Splunk
17 25 (0.70%) Foundry
18 23 (0.65%) Intapp
18 23 (0.65%) SolarWinds
19 21 (0.59%) Apple