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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,592 2,194 4,377
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.12% 17.46% 18.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.38% 19.10% 20.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,354 2,981
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,300 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,875 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,018 £63,500
% change year-on-year +1.42% +8.69% -9.29%

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 20,668 11,485 21,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 91.39% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 14,215 7,420 16,017
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +7 663 £90,000 +12.50% 410
West London +31 107 £75,000 +20.00% 241
South London +29 58 £80,000 -25.58% 13
East London -1 16 £68,000 -15.00% 23
North London +5 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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.

1 642 (17.87%) AWS
2 590 (16.43%) Azure
3 578 (16.09%) Python
4 559 (15.56%) Software Engineering
5 558 (15.53%) AI
6 496 (13.81%) Agile
7 445 (12.39%) Mentoring
8 434 (12.08%) Analytics
9 400 (11.14%) CI/CD
10 372 (10.36%) Microsoft
11 333 (9.27%) Degree
12 321 (8.94%) DevOps
13 309 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
13 309 (8.60%) SQL
14 307 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 287 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 270 (7.52%) Security Cleared
17 269 (7.49%) Java
18 250 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
19 245 (6.82%) Business Development
20 243 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
21 239 (6.65%) Kubernetes
22 232 (6.46%) Decision-Making
22 232 (6.46%) GCP
22 232 (6.46%) Terraform
23 224 (6.24%) Microservices
24 214 (5.96%) Machine Learning
25 204 (5.68%) SaaS
26 203 (5.65%) Test Automation
27 182 (5.07%) Full-Stack 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 68 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 22 (0.61%) CMS
6 22 (0.61%) SAS
7 16 (0.45%) Confluence
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.056%) JBoss
13 2 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.084%) Blender
10 3 (0.084%) Maya
10 3 (0.084%) SPSS
11 2 (0.056%) InVision
11 2 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 40 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.31%) Maximo
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.084%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 642 (17.87%) AWS
2 590 (16.43%) Azure
3 232 (6.46%) GCP
4 204 (5.68%) SaaS
5 157 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 151 (4.20%) Serverless
7 139 (3.87%) Power Platform
8 118 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
9 117 (3.26%) GitHub
10 80 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (2.17%) Entra ID
12 69 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 53 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 52 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.14%) Figma
19 38 (1.06%) dbt
20 35 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.20%) Firewall
2 104 (2.90%) Network Security
3 80 (2.23%) DNS
4 73 (2.03%) VPN
5 64 (1.78%) Broadband
6 55 (1.53%) DHCP
6 55 (1.53%) VLAN
7 53 (1.48%) WAN
8 47 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.11%) BGP
10 38 (1.06%) OSPF
11 36 (1.00%) Internet
11 36 (1.00%) Wireless
12 30 (0.84%) SD-WAN
13 29 (0.81%) TCP/IP
14 27 (0.75%) LAN
15 25 (0.70%) SAN
16 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (0.50%) Multicast
18 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.12%) Power BI
2 103 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 55 (1.53%) NoSQL
3 55 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (1.48%) Tableau
5 52 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 52 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 41 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 39 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 37 (1.03%) BigQuery
11 35 (0.97%) Metadata
12 32 (0.89%) Big Data
12 32 (0.89%) MySQL
13 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.53%) Looker
15 19 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 123 (3.42%) Git
2 60 (1.67%) JIRA
3 52 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.14%) GitLab
5 27 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 21 (0.58%) MLflow
8 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.19%) Selenium
10 7 (0.19%) Vite
11 6 (0.17%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
12 4 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 903 (25.14%) Finance
2 603 (16.79%) Social Skills
3 259 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (7.07%) Banking
5 228 (6.35%) Law
6 193 (5.37%) Marketing
7 181 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 163 (4.54%) Public Sector
9 160 (4.45%) Legal
10 150 (4.18%) Retail
11 70 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (1.89%) Front Office
13 57 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 53 (1.48%) Advertising
15 45 (1.25%) Games
15 45 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
16 37 (1.03%) Billing
17 35 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.95%) Legal Technology
19 32 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.06%) React
2 143 (3.98%) .NET
3 118 (3.29%) REST
4 100 (2.78%) Kafka
5 89 (2.48%) Node.js
6 70 (1.95%) Spring
7 62 (1.73%) RESTful
8 61 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 49 (1.36%) CSS
10 44 (1.22%) HTML
11 40 (1.11%) SOAP
12 33 (0.92%) Django
12 33 (0.92%) PyTorch
13 32 (0.89%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 31 (0.86%) LangChain
15 30 (0.84%) OAuth
15 30 (0.84%) PySpark
16 27 (0.75%) .NET Core
17 26 (0.72%) Web Services
18 25 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 270 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 146 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 105 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 101 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 72 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 68 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 58 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 53 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.20%) Equities
14 41 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.06%) Derivative
15 38 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.03%) Social Media
17 36 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 143 (3.98%) Linux
2 121 (3.37%) Windows
3 34 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 32 (0.89%) Android
5 31 (0.86%) Unix
6 30 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.31%) AIX
8 11 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
8 11 (0.31%) Windows 10
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
1 559 (15.56%) Software Engineering
2 558 (15.53%) AI
3 496 (13.81%) Agile
4 445 (12.39%) Mentoring
5 434 (12.08%) Analytics
6 400 (11.14%) CI/CD
7 321 (8.94%) DevOps
8 309 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
9 307 (8.55%) Roadmaps
10 287 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 250 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 245 (6.82%) Business Development
13 243 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 232 (6.46%) Decision-Making
15 224 (6.24%) Microservices
16 214 (5.96%) Machine Learning
17 203 (5.65%) Test Automation
18 182 (5.07%) Full-Stack Development
19 172 (4.79%) Computer Science
20 168 (4.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 578 (16.09%) Python
2 309 (8.60%) SQL
3 269 (7.49%) Java
4 156 (4.34%) C#
5 149 (4.15%) TypeScript
6 148 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 118 (3.29%) C++
8 75 (2.09%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.92%) Go
10 68 (1.89%) Bash
11 31 (0.86%) Bicep
11 31 (0.86%) PHP
12 27 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.70%) SOQL
14 24 (0.67%) Apex Code
15 19 (0.53%) Ruby
15 19 (0.53%) Scala
16 18 (0.50%) Rust
16 18 (0.50%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 333 (9.27%) Degree
2 270 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 170 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 110 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.09%) CISSP
6 70 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 66 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.45%) CISM
10 49 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 42 (1.17%) PhD
12 36 (1.00%) CCNP
12 36 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 29 (0.81%) CISA
14 29 (0.81%) CRISC
15 23 (0.64%) ACCA
16 21 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.45%) QA
2 97 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 95 (2.64%) NIST
4 90 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 70 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.95%) GDPR
6 50 (1.39%) GRC
7 23 (0.64%) NIST 800
8 22 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.33%) COBIT
12 11 (0.31%) PMO
12 11 (0.31%) SLA
12 11 (0.31%) WCAG
13 9 (0.25%) MiFID
13 9 (0.25%) NCSC
14 7 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 125 (3.48%) Docker
2 90 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.14%) vSphere
6 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.084%) Firmware
7 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 239 (6.65%) Kubernetes
2 232 (6.46%) Terraform
3 47 (1.31%) Ansible
4 44 (1.22%) Grafana
5 35 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 18 (0.50%) Puppet
8 18 (0.50%) SCCM
9 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.39%) Nagios
11 11 (0.31%) Data Guard
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.17%) Nessus
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 372 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 115 (3.20%) Salesforce
3 113 (3.15%) SAP
4 90 (2.51%) Oracle
5 79 (2.20%) Databricks
6 73 (2.03%) Google
7 69 (1.92%) Cisco
8 66 (1.84%) VMware
9 63 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.28%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
11 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 35 (0.97%) IBM
13 32 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.75%) Splunk
15 25 (0.70%) Intapp
16 23 (0.64%) Foundry
16 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.58%) Apple