Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,625 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,989 2,133 3,842
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.74% 17.91% 19.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.99% 19.63% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 1,255 2,248
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,447
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,625 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,125 £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 23,473 10,864 18,378
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.22% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,099 7,086 11,532
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -1.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +6 494 £90,000 +16.13% 787
West London +26 100 £60,000 +21.95% 135
South London +24 46 £80,000 -25.58% 42
East London +9 26 £120,000 +97.21% 33
North London +1 2 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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.

1 728 (18.25%) AI
2 697 (17.47%) Software Engineering
3 628 (15.74%) AWS
4 590 (14.79%) Azure
5 580 (14.54%) Python
6 494 (12.38%) Agile
7 482 (12.08%) Analytics
8 449 (11.26%) CI/CD
9 428 (10.73%) Mentoring
10 410 (10.28%) Microsoft
11 361 (9.05%) SQL
12 356 (8.92%) DevOps
13 338 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
14 332 (8.32%) Degree
15 329 (8.25%) Roadmaps
16 323 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 316 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
18 305 (7.65%) Java
19 282 (7.07%) Security Cleared
20 275 (6.89%) Machine Learning
21 244 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
22 243 (6.09%) Decision-Making
23 235 (5.89%) Business Development
24 233 (5.84%) GCP
25 225 (5.64%) Data Science
25 225 (5.64%) Kubernetes
26 221 (5.54%) Microservices
27 215 (5.39%) Terraform
28 203 (5.09%) Test Automation
29 199 (4.99%) Migration

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 (1.70%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (0.73%) Apache
5 27 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.53%) Confluence
7 19 (0.48%) SAS
8 14 (0.35%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.10%) WinCC
12 3 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.050%) Camunda
13 2 (0.050%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.050%) Kinematics
13 2 (0.050%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.050%) Umbraco
Applications
1 43 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.18%) InDesign
7 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.075%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.075%) Blender
11 3 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.075%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.075%) Revit
11 3 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.38%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 6 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.10%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.075%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.075%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 628 (15.74%) AWS
2 590 (14.79%) Azure
3 233 (5.84%) GCP
4 194 (4.86%) SaaS
5 145 (3.63%) Power Platform
6 137 (3.43%) Serverless
7 126 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
9 121 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 118 (2.96%) GitHub
11 76 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (1.58%) Entra ID
13 57 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 53 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 49 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
17 47 (1.18%) Azure AKS
18 42 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
19 40 (1.00%) Snowflake
20 39 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 110 (2.76%) Firewall
2 99 (2.48%) Network Security
3 75 (1.88%) DNS
4 64 (1.60%) VPN
5 52 (1.30%) VLAN
6 44 (1.10%) DHCP
7 42 (1.05%) Internet
8 41 (1.03%) WAN
9 38 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (0.88%) BGP
11 34 (0.85%) TCP/IP
12 33 (0.83%) OSPF
13 32 (0.80%) Broadband
14 26 (0.65%) LAN
15 20 (0.50%) Wireless
16 19 (0.48%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.45%) SAN
18 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
19 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
20 12 (0.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (2.83%) Power BI
2 107 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 58 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 56 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 50 (1.25%) Tableau
7 48 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 47 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.10%) Big Data
10 39 (0.98%) Metadata
11 37 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (0.88%) MySQL
13 31 (0.78%) DynamoDB
14 27 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.58%) SAP HANA
16 20 (0.50%) BigQuery
16 20 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
17 19 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 106 (2.66%) Git
2 56 (1.40%) JIRA
3 43 (1.08%) GitLab
4 41 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.43%) MLflow
9 13 (0.33%) Selenium
10 8 (0.20%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.10%) JUnit
12 4 (0.10%) Maven
12 4 (0.10%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.10%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 996 (24.97%) Finance
2 680 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 291 (7.30%) Law
4 289 (7.24%) Banking
5 273 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 232 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 211 (5.29%) Marketing
8 162 (4.06%) Public Sector
9 147 (3.69%) Legal
10 145 (3.63%) Retail
11 98 (2.46%) Financial Institution
12 74 (1.86%) Front Office
13 69 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 63 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 42 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 40 (1.00%) Games
18 35 (0.88%) Telecoms
19 33 (0.83%) Military
20 32 (0.80%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (5.39%) Terraform
2 138 (3.46%) .NET
3 134 (3.36%) React
4 126 (3.16%) REST
5 112 (2.81%) Kafka
6 90 (2.26%) Spring
7 83 (2.08%) RESTful
8 76 (1.91%) Node.js
9 67 (1.68%) Spring Boot
10 53 (1.33%) HTML
11 41 (1.03%) Next.js
12 40 (1.00%) CSS
13 35 (0.88%) JSON
14 34 (0.85%) PySpark
15 33 (0.83%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.75%) .NET Core
16 30 (0.75%) Django
17 29 (0.73%) LangChain
18 28 (0.70%) FastAPI
19 27 (0.68%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 257 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 156 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 119 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 118 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 108 (2.71%) AI Agents
8 65 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 60 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 53 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 47 (1.18%) Blog
12 45 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 44 (1.10%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.08%) Derivative
15 42 (1.05%) e-Learning
16 41 (1.03%) Mobile App
17 40 (1.00%) Data Structures
18 35 (0.88%) Equities
18 35 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.58%) Linux
2 99 (2.48%) Windows
3 45 (1.13%) Android
4 35 (0.88%) Unix
5 32 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.25%) AIX
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.075%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.050%) tvOS
11 2 (0.050%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.025%) CentOS
12 1 (0.025%) VMS
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (18.25%) AI
2 697 (17.47%) Software Engineering
3 494 (12.38%) Agile
4 482 (12.08%) Analytics
5 449 (11.26%) CI/CD
6 428 (10.73%) Mentoring
7 356 (8.92%) DevOps
8 338 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
9 329 (8.25%) Roadmaps
10 323 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 316 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 275 (6.89%) Machine Learning
13 244 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
14 243 (6.09%) Decision-Making
15 235 (5.89%) Business Development
16 225 (5.64%) Data Science
17 221 (5.54%) Microservices
18 203 (5.09%) Test Automation
19 199 (4.99%) Migration
20 196 (4.91%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 580 (14.54%) Python
2 361 (9.05%) SQL
3 305 (7.65%) Java
4 144 (3.61%) C#
5 143 (3.58%) TypeScript
6 121 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.18%) C++
8 70 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 53 (1.33%) Bash
10 52 (1.30%) Go
11 31 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 29 (0.73%) Bicep
13 26 (0.65%) PHP
14 25 (0.63%) R
15 24 (0.60%) Scala
16 21 (0.53%) Ruby
17 20 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.45%) SOQL
19 17 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 332 (8.32%) Degree
2 282 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 181 (4.54%) SC Cleared
4 104 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.45%) CISSP
8 52 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 42 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 40 (1.00%) CISM
13 37 (0.93%) PhD
14 32 (0.80%) CCNP
15 30 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.68%) CISA
17 23 (0.58%) ACCA
18 18 (0.45%) CCNA
18 18 (0.45%) CIMA
19 17 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 120 (3.01%) QA
3 93 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (2.11%) GDPR
5 81 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 74 (1.86%) NIST
7 48 (1.20%) GRC
8 22 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) COBIT
12 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.28%) NCSC
12 11 (0.28%) PMO
12 11 (0.28%) WCAG
13 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.25%) SLA
14 9 (0.23%) MiFID
15 7 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 130 (3.26%) Docker
2 63 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.075%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.050%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.050%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.025%) Firmware
9 1 (0.025%) IAG
9 1 (0.025%) KVM
9 1 (0.025%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 225 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 36 (0.90%) Ansible
3 31 (0.78%) Grafana
4 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.53%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.50%) Puppet
7 19 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.25%) Nagios
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.20%) SCCM
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Istio
13 4 (0.10%) EnCase
13 4 (0.10%) FTK
13 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 410 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.21%) Oracle
3 116 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 114 (2.86%) Google
5 104 (2.61%) SAP
6 95 (2.38%) Databricks
7 67 (1.68%) Cisco
8 54 (1.35%) VMware
9 52 (1.30%) Palo Alto
10 49 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 40 (1.00%) Zscaler
12 34 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.78%) Adobe
14 28 (0.70%) Splunk
15 27 (0.68%) HP
15 27 (0.68%) Workday
16 24 (0.60%) IBM
16 24 (0.60%) Intapp
17 22 (0.55%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.53%) Foundry