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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 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 3,777 2,194 3,905
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.88% 17.99% 19.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.09% 19.62% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 1,313 2,489
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £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 22,099 11,184 18,613
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 91.69% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,123 7,260 12,867
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.84% -3.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,750 £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 11 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 11 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 +7 584 £90,000 +20.00% 384
West London +25 115 £60,000 - 81
South London +14 52 £80,000 -25.58% 31
East London -4 15 £120,000 +50.00% 10
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 668 (17.69%) AWS
2 646 (17.10%) AI
3 632 (16.73%) Software Engineering
4 629 (16.65%) Python
5 601 (15.91%) Azure
6 522 (13.82%) Agile
7 485 (12.84%) Analytics
8 460 (12.18%) Mentoring
9 443 (11.73%) CI/CD
10 376 (9.95%) Microsoft
11 352 (9.32%) SQL
12 351 (9.29%) DevOps
13 335 (8.87%) Degree
14 324 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
14 324 (8.58%) Roadmaps
15 315 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 300 (7.94%) Java
17 289 (7.65%) Security Cleared
18 270 (7.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 264 (6.99%) Machine Learning
20 248 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
21 245 (6.49%) Decision-Making
21 245 (6.49%) GCP
22 244 (6.46%) Business Development
23 234 (6.20%) Kubernetes
23 234 (6.20%) Microservices
24 223 (5.90%) Terraform
25 216 (5.72%) SaaS
26 213 (5.64%) Test Automation
27 209 (5.53%) Data Science

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 76 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.71%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) SAS
7 18 (0.48%) CMS
8 17 (0.45%) Confluence
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 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.026%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 36 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.26%) 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
8 5 (0.13%) PlantUML
9 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
9 4 (0.11%) SPSS
10 3 (0.079%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.079%) Blender
10 3 (0.079%) Maya
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 39 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
4 9 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.21%) Maximo
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.11%) Shopify
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.079%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.079%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.079%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.079%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 668 (17.69%) AWS
2 601 (15.91%) Azure
3 245 (6.49%) GCP
4 216 (5.72%) SaaS
5 149 (3.94%) Serverless
6 141 (3.73%) Power Platform
7 136 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (3.28%) GitHub
9 122 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
10 98 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (1.72%) Entra ID
14 61 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 47 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (1.24%) dbt
17 44 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
18 43 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 43 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.12%) Firewall
2 108 (2.86%) Network Security
3 73 (1.93%) DNS
4 63 (1.67%) VPN
5 50 (1.32%) Broadband
5 50 (1.32%) VLAN
6 48 (1.27%) DHCP
7 47 (1.24%) WAN
8 42 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (1.03%) BGP
10 36 (0.95%) Internet
10 36 (0.95%) OSPF
11 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
12 28 (0.74%) LAN
13 25 (0.66%) Wireless
14 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.53%) SAN
16 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
17 16 (0.42%) Multicast
17 16 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.04%) Power BI
2 108 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 75 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.54%) Tableau
6 57 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 56 (1.48%) Relational Database
8 54 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (1.43%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 41 (1.09%) Metadata
11 40 (1.06%) MySQL
12 37 (0.98%) DynamoDB
13 36 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 33 (0.87%) Big Data
15 28 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.56%) Looker
17 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 125 (3.31%) Git
2 58 (1.54%) JIRA
3 47 (1.24%) GitLab
3 47 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 26 (0.69%) MLflow
5 25 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 21 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.34%) Selenium
9 12 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.19%) NUnit
11 6 (0.16%) Vite
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JMeter
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 980 (25.95%) Finance
2 647 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 294 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (7.52%) Banking
5 281 (7.44%) Law
6 232 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 228 (6.04%) Marketing
8 164 (4.34%) Public Sector
9 155 (4.10%) Legal
10 145 (3.84%) Retail
11 70 (1.85%) Front Office
12 68 (1.80%) Financial Institution
13 64 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 57 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.24%) Advertising
16 43 (1.14%) Games
17 35 (0.93%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.90%) Billing
19 33 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (3.94%) .NET
2 146 (3.87%) React
3 118 (3.12%) REST
4 114 (3.02%) Kafka
5 90 (2.38%) Spring
6 87 (2.30%) Node.js
7 75 (1.99%) RESTful
8 68 (1.80%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.16%) CSS
10 41 (1.09%) HTML
11 40 (1.06%) Next.js
12 37 (0.98%) Django
12 37 (0.98%) LangChain
13 32 (0.85%) PySpark
14 31 (0.82%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.77%) JSON
16 27 (0.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 27 (0.71%) OAuth
17 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 281 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 151 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 137 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 80 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 78 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 72 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 63 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 62 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
12 50 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 46 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 45 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 44 (1.16%) Blog
15 44 (1.16%) Derivative
16 43 (1.14%) Equities
17 38 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (0.98%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 123 (3.26%) Linux
2 96 (2.54%) Windows
3 39 (1.03%) Android
4 34 (0.90%) Unix
5 30 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.079%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (17.10%) AI
2 632 (16.73%) Software Engineering
3 522 (13.82%) Agile
4 485 (12.84%) Analytics
5 460 (12.18%) Mentoring
6 443 (11.73%) CI/CD
7 351 (9.29%) DevOps
8 324 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
8 324 (8.58%) Roadmaps
9 315 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 270 (7.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 264 (6.99%) Machine Learning
12 248 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 245 (6.49%) Decision-Making
14 244 (6.46%) Business Development
15 234 (6.20%) Microservices
16 213 (5.64%) Test Automation
17 209 (5.53%) Data Science
18 194 (5.14%) Full-Stack Development
19 187 (4.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 629 (16.65%) Python
2 352 (9.32%) SQL
3 300 (7.94%) Java
4 158 (4.18%) C#
5 150 (3.97%) TypeScript
6 148 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 103 (2.73%) C++
8 62 (1.64%) Go
9 61 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.46%) Bash
11 30 (0.79%) PHP
12 28 (0.74%) Bicep
13 27 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.58%) R
15 22 (0.58%) Ruby
15 22 (0.58%) SOQL
16 21 (0.56%) Scala
17 20 (0.53%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 335 (8.87%) Degree
2 289 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 187 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.77%) CISSP
7 59 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 59 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 46 (1.22%) CISM
10 44 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.06%) PhD
12 37 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 34 (0.90%) CCNP
14 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.77%) CISA
16 24 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
17 23 (0.61%) CRISC
18 18 (0.48%) ACCA
19 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (3.26%) QA
2 116 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 94 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (2.33%) NIST
5 87 (2.30%) GDPR
6 82 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.24%) GRC
8 26 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.34%) COBIT
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 9 (0.24%) SLA
16 8 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 133 (3.52%) Docker
2 64 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.079%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.026%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
9 1 (0.026%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.026%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 234 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 223 (5.90%) Terraform
3 44 (1.16%) Ansible
4 36 (0.95%) Grafana
5 27 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.66%) FortiGate
7 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.42%) Puppet
9 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.37%) Nagios
11 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
11 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
12 10 (0.26%) SCCM
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 6 (0.16%) Cilium
14 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.13%) Kibana
16 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 376 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.15%) Salesforce
3 109 (2.89%) SAP
4 100 (2.65%) Databricks
5 98 (2.59%) Oracle
6 86 (2.28%) Google
7 74 (1.96%) Cisco
8 63 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 60 (1.59%) VMware
10 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Adobe
11 38 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 37 (0.98%) Zscaler
13 33 (0.87%) Dell
14 30 (0.79%) IBM
15 28 (0.74%) HP
16 25 (0.66%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.66%) Foundry
16 25 (0.66%) Splunk
17 23 (0.61%) Intapp