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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,556 2,092 4,650
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.41% 17.19% 18.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.71% 18.93% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,326 1,292 3,224
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,750
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 20,082 11,054 23,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 90.81% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,823 7,018 17,275
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
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 £98,750 £92,625
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 23 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 23 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 +7 714 £90,000 +12.50% 168
West London +31 111 £75,000 +17.65% 29
South London +37 65 £70,000 -34.88% 13
East London -2 17 £68,000 -22.29% 27
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 581 (16.34%) Azure
2 553 (15.55%) Python
3 552 (15.52%) AWS
4 547 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 480 (13.50%) Agile
5 480 (13.50%) AI
6 398 (11.19%) Analytics
7 390 (10.97%) Mentoring
8 372 (10.46%) Microsoft
9 369 (10.38%) CI/CD
10 316 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
11 293 (8.24%) Degree
11 293 (8.24%) SQL
12 287 (8.07%) DevOps
13 271 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 269 (7.56%) Roadmaps
15 257 (7.23%) Java
16 243 (6.83%) Security Cleared
17 240 (6.75%) Kubernetes
18 234 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 225 (6.33%) Decision-Making
20 224 (6.30%) Microservices
21 221 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
22 220 (6.19%) GCP
23 210 (5.91%) Business Development
24 208 (5.85%) Terraform
25 202 (5.68%) Test Automation
26 196 (5.51%) Full-Stack Development
27 195 (5.48%) SaaS
28 189 (5.31%) 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 64 (1.80%) 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 14 (0.39%) Confluence
7 11 (0.31%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 9 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) JBoss
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 36 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
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 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
10 2 (0.056%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 27 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.084%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.084%) Shopify
11 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.056%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.056%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.056%) SAP PP
11 2 (0.056%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 581 (16.34%) Azure
2 552 (15.52%) AWS
3 220 (6.19%) GCP
4 195 (5.48%) SaaS
5 157 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (3.63%) Power Platform
7 123 (3.46%) Serverless
8 120 (3.37%) GitHub
9 76 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 71 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 44 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
14 44 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.12%) Figma
17 37 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 37 (1.04%) IaaS
18 36 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.21%) Firewall
2 87 (2.45%) Network Security
3 84 (2.36%) DNS
4 78 (2.19%) Broadband
5 76 (2.14%) VPN
6 61 (1.72%) DHCP
7 58 (1.63%) VLAN
8 54 (1.52%) WAN
9 50 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.18%) Wireless
11 37 (1.04%) BGP
12 35 (0.98%) OSPF
13 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.79%) SAN
16 27 (0.76%) LAN
17 22 (0.62%) Multicast
18 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (0.45%) HTTP
20 14 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (2.95%) Power BI
1 105 (2.95%) SQL Server
2 56 (1.57%) NoSQL
3 47 (1.32%) Data Lake
4 46 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
4 46 (1.29%) Tableau
5 42 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
7 38 (1.07%) DynamoDB
8 36 (1.01%) Metadata
9 35 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.76%) MySQL
11 22 (0.62%) Big Data
12 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (0.53%) Db2
14 17 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 120 (3.37%) Git
2 69 (1.94%) 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 16 (0.45%) 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 5 (0.14%) Chocolatey
13 4 (0.11%) Gatling
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 920 (25.87%) Finance
2 570 (16.03%) Social Skills
3 268 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (7.42%) Banking
5 219 (6.16%) Law
6 204 (5.74%) Marketing
7 180 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (4.70%) Legal
9 153 (4.30%) Retail
10 146 (4.11%) Public Sector
11 69 (1.94%) Front Office
12 62 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.49%) Advertising
14 52 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 44 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (1.10%) Games
17 37 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (0.96%) Billing
18 34 (0.96%) Legal Technology
18 34 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.11%) React
2 145 (4.08%) .NET
3 115 (3.23%) REST
4 99 (2.78%) Kafka
5 87 (2.45%) Node.js
6 74 (2.08%) Spring
7 65 (1.83%) RESTful
7 65 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 52 (1.46%) CSS
9 46 (1.29%) SOAP
10 45 (1.27%) HTML
11 40 (1.12%) PyTorch
12 36 (1.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 33 (0.93%) PySpark
14 32 (0.90%) OAuth
15 31 (0.87%) Django
16 30 (0.84%) LangChain
17 28 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
18 27 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
19 26 (0.73%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 255 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 100 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
2 100 (2.81%) Product Ownership
3 85 (2.39%) Algorithms
4 81 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 73 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 70 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 69 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 54 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 52 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 46 (1.29%) Equities
10 46 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 46 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 45 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 39 (1.10%) Social Media
13 37 (1.04%) Derivative
13 37 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 33 (0.93%) AI Agents
14 33 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.11%) Linux
2 126 (3.54%) Windows
3 41 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 26 (0.73%) Unix
7 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.28%) VMS
9 9 (0.25%) AIX
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
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
1 547 (15.38%) Software Engineering
2 480 (13.50%) Agile
2 480 (13.50%) AI
3 398 (11.19%) Analytics
4 390 (10.97%) Mentoring
5 369 (10.38%) CI/CD
6 316 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
7 287 (8.07%) DevOps
8 271 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 269 (7.56%) Roadmaps
10 234 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 225 (6.33%) Decision-Making
12 224 (6.30%) Microservices
13 221 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 210 (5.91%) Business Development
15 202 (5.68%) Test Automation
16 196 (5.51%) Full-Stack Development
17 189 (5.31%) Machine Learning
18 180 (5.06%) Fintech
19 172 (4.84%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 553 (15.55%) Python
2 293 (8.24%) SQL
3 257 (7.23%) Java
4 150 (4.22%) C#
5 146 (4.11%) TypeScript
6 143 (4.02%) JavaScript
7 127 (3.57%) C++
8 77 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.05%) Go
10 61 (1.72%) Bash
11 32 (0.90%) Bicep
12 28 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 28 (0.79%) Scala
12 28 (0.79%) SOQL
13 25 (0.70%) PHP
14 23 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.56%) Rust
16 19 (0.53%) R
17 16 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 293 (8.24%) Degree
2 243 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 175 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 93 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.94%) CISSP
5 69 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 58 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 49 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (1.27%) CISM
9 43 (1.21%) PhD
10 41 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (0.96%) CCNP
13 27 (0.76%) CRISC
14 25 (0.70%) CISA
15 24 (0.67%) ACCA
16 22 (0.62%) OSCP
17 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (3.21%) QA
2 91 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 89 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 88 (2.47%) NIST
5 64 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 53 (1.49%) GDPR
7 41 (1.15%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.37%) SLA
13 12 (0.34%) NCSC
13 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.31%) IFRS
15 10 (0.28%) MiFID
16 9 (0.25%) COBIT
17 8 (0.22%) WCAG
18 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 130 (3.66%) Docker
2 96 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
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
1 240 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 208 (5.85%) Terraform
3 47 (1.32%) Grafana
4 46 (1.29%) Ansible
5 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 22 (0.62%) SCCM
8 12 (0.34%) Nagios
9 9 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.25%) Nessus
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.22%) 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
1 372 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 108 (3.04%) Salesforce
3 99 (2.78%) SAP
4 81 (2.28%) Databricks
5 72 (2.02%) Oracle
5 72 (2.02%) VMware
6 68 (1.91%) Cisco
7 64 (1.80%) Google
8 63 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 46 (1.29%) Dell
10 44 (1.24%) Adobe
11 42 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 32 (0.90%) OpenAI
13 30 (0.84%) IBM
14 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.73%) Splunk
16 23 (0.65%) Foundry
16 23 (0.65%) Intapp
17 22 (0.62%) Apple
17 22 (0.62%) SolarWinds