Senior Jobs in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,472 6,211 14,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.93% 18.10% 21.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.11% 19.05% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 4,315 6,044
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,236 32,601 64,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.01% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,671 24,034 34,497
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in London.

Salary trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +5 762 £77,500 -8.82% 196
West London +18 189 £57,500 +4.55% 61
South London +18 118 £65,000 +6.73% 27
East London -5 23 £57,500 -11.54% 35
North London -5 13 £70,000 +27.27% 13
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 1,323 (29.58%) Finance
2 1,218 (27.24%) Social Skills
3 1,045 (23.37%) Azure
4 989 (22.12%) SQL
5 986 (22.05%) Agile
6 972 (21.74%) AWS
7 940 (21.02%) Python
8 858 (19.19%) Microsoft
9 732 (16.37%) Degree
10 658 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
11 628 (14.04%) Software Engineering
12 604 (13.51%) Mentoring
13 603 (13.48%) JavaScript
14 553 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
15 509 (11.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 487 (10.89%) Java
17 452 (10.11%) DevOps
18 433 (9.68%) C#
19 418 (9.35%) React
20 408 (9.12%) .NET
21 403 (9.01%) Analytics
22 369 (8.25%) TypeScript
23 338 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
24 332 (7.42%) Kubernetes
24 332 (7.42%) CI/CD
25 329 (7.36%) Decision-Making
26 323 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
27 317 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
28 314 (7.02%) Windows
29 312 (6.98%) Full Stack Development

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 128 (2.86%) Apache
2 117 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 105 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 101 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 59 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 41 (0.92%) CMS
7 23 (0.51%) SAS
8 19 (0.42%) Confluence
8 19 (0.42%) WordPress
9 18 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 17 (0.38%) GeoServer
11 16 (0.36%) Drupal
12 15 (0.34%) IIS
13 12 (0.27%) nginx
14 10 (0.22%) JBoss
15 9 (0.20%) Mendix
15 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
17 7 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 233 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.20%) Sketch
9 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.089%) InDesign
12 3 (0.067%) Revit
12 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.045%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.045%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.045%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.045%) SPSS
13 2 (0.045%) Stata
13 2 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (1.12%) Endur
2 35 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.29%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.27%) SAP SCM
6 10 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.16%) C-CURE
7 7 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
9 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.089%) Lawson
10 4 (0.089%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.089%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.089%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.089%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (23.37%) Azure
2 972 (21.74%) AWS
3 303 (6.78%) GCP
4 289 (6.46%) SaaS
5 246 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
6 225 (5.03%) Power Platform
7 162 (3.62%) Entra ID
8 121 (2.71%) Snowflake
9 110 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (2.15%) Serverless
11 87 (1.95%) dbt
12 83 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (1.54%) PaaS
14 65 (1.45%) GitHub
15 64 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 51 (1.14%) IaaS
17 49 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
18 48 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 41 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
20 38 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.41%) Broadband
2 195 (4.36%) Firewall
3 98 (2.19%) 5G
4 97 (2.17%) WAN
5 80 (1.79%) VPN
6 75 (1.68%) LAN
7 71 (1.59%) Network Security
8 70 (1.57%) DNS
9 59 (1.32%) MPLS
10 55 (1.23%) TCP/IP
11 54 (1.21%) Wireless
12 50 (1.12%) Internet
13 47 (1.05%) DHCP
14 44 (0.98%) BGP
15 42 (0.94%) SD-WAN
16 41 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
17 32 (0.72%) VLAN
18 31 (0.69%) SAN
19 26 (0.58%) SNMP
20 24 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 224 (5.01%) Tableau
3 177 (3.96%) Power BI
4 151 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
5 139 (3.11%) Data Lake
6 129 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 101 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 97 (2.17%) MySQL
9 82 (1.83%) NoSQL
10 79 (1.77%) MongoDB
11 76 (1.70%) Apache Ignite
12 69 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
13 67 (1.50%) Big Data
14 63 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 62 (1.39%) Dremio
16 60 (1.34%) Apache Arrow
17 57 (1.27%) Data Mining
18 55 (1.23%) Metadata
19 52 (1.16%) Hadoop
20 51 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 288 (6.44%) Git
2 131 (2.93%) Jenkins
3 97 (2.17%) JIRA
4 45 (1.01%) GitLab
5 36 (0.81%) Selenium
6 29 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 28 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 26 (0.58%) Postman
9 24 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 23 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
11 22 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.49%) TeamCity
12 21 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
13 18 (0.40%) JUnit
13 18 (0.40%) Sourcetree
13 18 (0.40%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.38%) Moq
14 17 (0.38%) NUnit
15 16 (0.36%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,323 (29.58%) Finance
2 1,218 (27.24%) Social Skills
3 658 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 509 (11.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 309 (6.91%) Banking
6 277 (6.19%) Marketing
7 254 (5.68%) Retail
8 248 (5.55%) Law
9 211 (4.72%) Front Office
10 186 (4.16%) Legal
11 151 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
12 149 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
13 119 (2.66%) Public Sector
14 114 (2.55%) Back Office
15 94 (2.10%) Investment Banking
16 81 (1.81%) Games
17 66 (1.48%) Telecoms
18 49 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
18 49 (1.10%) Retail Banking
19 44 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (9.35%) React
2 408 (9.12%) .NET
3 263 (5.88%) HTML
4 237 (5.30%) CSS
5 225 (5.03%) AngularJS
6 161 (3.60%) REST
7 149 (3.33%) Kafka
8 144 (3.22%) Node.js
9 140 (3.13%) Pandas
10 113 (2.53%) Spring
11 109 (2.44%) ASP.NET
12 104 (2.33%) Vue
13 98 (2.19%) .NET Core
13 98 (2.19%) RESTful
14 94 (2.10%) PySpark
15 88 (1.97%) gRPC
16 74 (1.65%) Spring Boot
17 72 (1.61%) NumPy
17 72 (1.61%) Protocol Buffers
18 70 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 168 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 164 (3.67%) Hedge funds
3 163 (3.64%) Derivative
4 142 (3.18%) Equities
5 135 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 130 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 127 (2.84%) Fixed Income
7 127 (2.84%) Social Media
8 118 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
9 99 (2.21%) Algorithms
10 97 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
11 95 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 83 (1.86%) Cloud Native
13 79 (1.77%) Data Centre
14 74 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
15 60 (1.34%) Reinsurance
16 53 (1.19%) Mobile App
17 50 (1.12%) Data Structures
17 50 (1.12%) IoT
18 43 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 314 (7.02%) Windows
2 290 (6.48%) Linux
3 115 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 108 (2.42%) Ubuntu
5 60 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 44 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 43 (0.96%) Android
8 33 (0.74%) Unix
9 29 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (0.45%) VMS
11 20 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.089%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.089%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.067%) CentOS
15 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (22.05%) Agile
2 628 (14.04%) Software Engineering
3 604 (13.51%) Mentoring
4 553 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
5 452 (10.11%) DevOps
6 403 (9.01%) Analytics
7 338 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
8 332 (7.42%) CI/CD
9 329 (7.36%) Decision-Making
10 323 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
11 317 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 312 (6.98%) Full Stack Development
13 288 (6.44%) Project Management
14 281 (6.28%) Visualisation
15 273 (6.10%) Computer Science
16 260 (5.81%) Asset Management
17 250 (5.59%) Roadmaps
18 241 (5.39%) Microservices
19 236 (5.28%) Data Science
20 230 (5.14%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 989 (22.12%) SQL
2 940 (21.02%) Python
3 603 (13.48%) JavaScript
4 487 (10.89%) Java
5 433 (9.68%) C#
6 369 (8.25%) TypeScript
7 147 (3.29%) Bash
8 139 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 85 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 70 (1.57%) C++
11 66 (1.48%) PHP
12 61 (1.36%) Ruby
13 60 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 58 (1.30%) R
15 57 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 56 (1.25%) Go
17 54 (1.21%) Rust
18 43 (0.96%) C
19 37 (0.83%) Scala
20 35 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 732 (16.37%) Degree
2 196 (4.38%) Security Cleared
3 144 (3.22%) DBS Check
4 136 (3.04%) ACCA
5 127 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 120 (2.68%) SC Cleared
7 114 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.46%) CIMA
9 74 (1.65%) CISSP
10 66 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 65 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 45 (1.01%) PMI Certification
14 37 (0.83%) CCNP
15 36 (0.81%) DV Cleared
16 31 (0.69%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.65%) CISM
18 25 (0.56%) CEH
18 25 (0.56%) PhD
19 24 (0.54%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (3.47%) QA
2 127 (2.84%) SLA
3 118 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 51 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (0.98%) NIST
6 42 (0.94%) IFRS
7 41 (0.92%) GDPR
8 31 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 30 (0.67%) PMO
10 22 (0.49%) GRC
11 20 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 19 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.34%) COBIT
15 11 (0.25%) WCAG
16 10 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.20%) NCSC
17 9 (0.20%) Solvency II
18 8 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 289 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 252 (5.64%) Docker
3 75 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.29%) vSphere
9 12 (0.27%) KVM
10 9 (0.20%) XenApp
11 8 (0.18%) HDFS
12 6 (0.13%) Firmware
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.067%) Ceph
14 3 (0.067%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.067%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 332 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 226 (5.05%) Terraform
3 146 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 96 (2.15%) Jamf Pro
5 93 (2.08%) Ansible
6 55 (1.23%) SCCM
7 43 (0.96%) Grafana
8 34 (0.76%) Puppet
9 30 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 23 (0.51%) vCenter Server
11 20 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.42%) Nmap
13 17 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (0.29%) Nagios
16 10 (0.22%) Graphite
16 10 (0.22%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.20%) QRadar
18 8 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 858 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 212 (4.74%) Databricks
3 151 (3.38%) Google
4 146 (3.26%) Cisco
5 142 (3.18%) Oracle
6 138 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.02%) VMware
8 103 (2.30%) Dell
9 101 (2.26%) CyberArk
10 91 (2.03%) SAP
11 90 (2.01%) Tanium
12 56 (1.25%) Citrix
13 55 (1.23%) Salesforce
14 47 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.96%) Juniper
16 42 (0.94%) Adobe
17 40 (0.89%) HP
17 40 (0.89%) SolarWinds
18 33 (0.74%) Meraki
18 33 (0.74%) Sybase