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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 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 3,756 2,192 3,886
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.87% 17.95% 19.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.09% 19.58% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,375 1,316 2,498
10th Percentile £57,459 £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 £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 21,981 11,197 18,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.70% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15,030 7,264 12,954
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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% -2.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +6 586 £90,000 +16.13% 380
West London +21 116 £60,000 - 84
South London +16 54 £80,000 -25.58% 33
East London -2 14 £110,000 +37.50% 14
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 665 (17.71%) AWS
2 641 (17.07%) AI
3 624 (16.61%) Software Engineering
4 621 (16.53%) Python
5 595 (15.84%) Azure
6 519 (13.82%) Agile
7 485 (12.91%) Analytics
8 461 (12.27%) Mentoring
9 441 (11.74%) CI/CD
10 373 (9.93%) Microsoft
11 348 (9.27%) DevOps
11 348 (9.27%) SQL
12 329 (8.76%) Degree
13 326 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
14 321 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 311 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 299 (7.96%) Java
17 286 (7.61%) Security Cleared
18 271 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 262 (6.98%) Machine Learning
20 245 (6.52%) Decision-Making
20 245 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
21 244 (6.50%) Business Development
22 242 (6.44%) GCP
23 235 (6.26%) Microservices
24 233 (6.20%) Kubernetes
25 224 (5.96%) Terraform
26 216 (5.75%) SaaS
27 213 (5.67%) Test Automation
28 200 (5.32%) 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 74 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.72%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) SAS
7 18 (0.48%) CMS
8 16 (0.43%) Confluence
9 8 (0.21%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) 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 36 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.16%) InDesign
6 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.13%) PlantUML
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
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 39 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
4 8 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.21%) Maximo
5 6 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.13%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.11%) Shopify
8 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 665 (17.71%) AWS
2 595 (15.84%) Azure
3 242 (6.44%) GCP
4 216 (5.75%) SaaS
5 151 (4.02%) Serverless
6 146 (3.89%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 123 (3.27%) GitHub
9 121 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
10 94 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 65 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 61 (1.62%) Amazon S3
14 57 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (1.20%) dbt
17 44 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 43 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
19 42 (1.12%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.12%) Firewall
2 109 (2.90%) Network Security
3 72 (1.92%) DNS
4 62 (1.65%) VPN
5 51 (1.36%) Broadband
6 49 (1.30%) VLAN
7 48 (1.28%) DHCP
7 48 (1.28%) WAN
8 42 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (1.01%) BGP
10 36 (0.96%) Internet
11 35 (0.93%) OSPF
12 34 (0.91%) TCP/IP
13 28 (0.75%) LAN
14 26 (0.69%) Wireless
15 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.53%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (0.43%) Multicast
19 15 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.19%) Power BI
2 109 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 75 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (1.60%) Tableau
6 57 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 54 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 53 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 52 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.04%) Metadata
11 39 (1.04%) MySQL
12 38 (1.01%) DynamoDB
13 35 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 33 (0.88%) Big Data
15 29 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.53%) Looker
16 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 124 (3.30%) Git
2 58 (1.54%) JIRA
3 48 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.22%) GitLab
5 26 (0.69%) MLflow
6 25 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 23 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 12 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.16%) 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
1 978 (26.04%) Finance
2 645 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 289 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (7.61%) Banking
5 276 (7.35%) Law
6 231 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 226 (6.02%) Marketing
8 161 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 157 (4.18%) Legal
10 147 (3.91%) Retail
11 70 (1.86%) Front Office
12 67 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.25%) Advertising
16 44 (1.17%) Games
17 35 (0.93%) Legal Technology
18 34 (0.91%) Billing
18 34 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 32 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (3.97%) .NET
2 147 (3.91%) React
3 118 (3.14%) REST
4 112 (2.98%) Kafka
5 89 (2.37%) Node.js
6 88 (2.34%) Spring
7 75 (2.00%) RESTful
8 67 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.20%) CSS
10 40 (1.06%) HTML
11 38 (1.01%) Next.js
12 37 (0.99%) Django
12 37 (0.99%) LangChain
13 32 (0.85%) PySpark
14 31 (0.83%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.77%) JSON
16 28 (0.75%) OAuth
17 27 (0.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
18 26 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 280 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 150 (3.99%) Onboarding
3 136 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 96 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 80 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 76 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 71 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 64 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 61 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 51 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
13 48 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 46 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 44 (1.17%) Derivative
15 44 (1.17%) Public Cloud
16 43 (1.14%) Blog
16 43 (1.14%) Equities
17 40 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 123 (3.27%) Linux
2 97 (2.58%) Windows
3 38 (1.01%) Android
4 34 (0.91%) Unix
5 31 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.19%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.053%) CentOS
12 2 (0.053%) tvOS
13 1 (0.027%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
13 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (17.07%) AI
2 624 (16.61%) Software Engineering
3 519 (13.82%) Agile
4 485 (12.91%) Analytics
5 461 (12.27%) Mentoring
6 441 (11.74%) CI/CD
7 348 (9.27%) DevOps
8 326 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
9 321 (8.55%) Roadmaps
10 311 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 271 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 262 (6.98%) Machine Learning
13 245 (6.52%) Decision-Making
13 245 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 244 (6.50%) Business Development
15 235 (6.26%) Microservices
16 213 (5.67%) Test Automation
17 200 (5.32%) Data Science
18 193 (5.14%) Full-Stack Development
19 182 (4.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 621 (16.53%) Python
2 348 (9.27%) SQL
3 299 (7.96%) Java
4 160 (4.26%) C#
5 152 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 149 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 104 (2.77%) C++
8 63 (1.68%) Go
9 61 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.46%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) PHP
12 28 (0.75%) Bicep
13 27 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.59%) R
15 22 (0.59%) SOQL
16 21 (0.56%) Ruby
16 21 (0.56%) Scala
17 20 (0.53%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 329 (8.76%) Degree
2 286 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 116 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 69 (1.84%) CISSP
7 58 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 48 (1.28%) CISM
11 44 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (1.04%) PhD
13 36 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (0.91%) CCNP
15 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.77%) CISA
17 25 (0.67%) CRISC
18 24 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
19 19 (0.51%) ACCA
20 18 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (3.33%) QA
2 112 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 97 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (2.40%) NIST
5 87 (2.32%) GDPR
6 80 (2.13%) Accessibility
7 50 (1.33%) GRC
8 26 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.35%) COBIT
12 13 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 9 (0.24%) MiFID
14 9 (0.24%) NCSC
14 9 (0.24%) SLA
15 8 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 133 (3.54%) Docker
2 63 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 233 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 224 (5.96%) Terraform
3 44 (1.17%) Ansible
4 36 (0.96%) Grafana
5 27 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.43%) 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 (0.27%) SCCM
13 7 (0.19%) Cilium
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.11%) Kibana
15 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 373 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 110 (2.93%) SAP
4 99 (2.64%) Databricks
5 98 (2.61%) Oracle
6 85 (2.26%) Google
7 72 (1.92%) Cisco
8 63 (1.68%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.57%) VMware
10 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Adobe
11 38 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 37 (0.99%) Zscaler
13 33 (0.88%) Dell
14 30 (0.80%) IBM
15 27 (0.72%) HP
16 25 (0.67%) Fortinet
16 25 (0.67%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Foundry
18 23 (0.61%) Intapp