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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,575 2,108 4,547
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.31% 17.23% 18.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.58% 18.94% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,343 1,298 3,144
10th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,848 £62,160
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 £117,500
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 20,332 11,131 22,775
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 90.98% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14,001 7,096 16,864
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,284
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 £97,500 £93,750
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 30 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 30 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 +7 717 £90,000 +12.50% 119
West London +30 111 £75,000 +22.45% 33
South London +30 60 £70,000 -34.88% 8
East London +2 16 £68,000 -15.00% 23
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 593 (16.59%) Azure
2 574 (16.06%) AWS
3 564 (15.78%) Python
4 554 (15.50%) Software Engineering
5 506 (14.15%) AI
6 487 (13.62%) Agile
7 402 (11.24%) Analytics
8 401 (11.22%) Mentoring
9 379 (10.60%) CI/CD
10 377 (10.55%) Microsoft
11 323 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
12 305 (8.53%) Degree
13 303 (8.48%) SQL
14 299 (8.36%) DevOps
15 280 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 279 (7.80%) Roadmaps
17 260 (7.27%) Java
18 251 (7.02%) Security Cleared
19 247 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
20 238 (6.66%) Kubernetes
21 231 (6.46%) Decision-Making
22 230 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
23 226 (6.32%) GCP
24 224 (6.27%) Microservices
25 223 (6.24%) Business Development
26 216 (6.04%) Terraform
27 200 (5.59%) SaaS
28 199 (5.57%) Test Automation
29 194 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
29 194 (5.43%) 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 70 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 21 (0.59%) CMS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
8 13 (0.36%) SAS
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.084%) IIS
14 3 (0.084%) JBoss
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
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%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.084%) InVision
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 32 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
3 14 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Maximo
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 593 (16.59%) Azure
2 574 (16.06%) AWS
3 226 (6.32%) GCP
4 200 (5.59%) SaaS
5 161 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 135 (3.78%) Power Platform
7 126 (3.52%) Serverless
8 117 (3.27%) GitHub
9 81 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 75 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
12 55 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (1.40%) Amazon S3
14 47 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 41 (1.15%) Figma
17 40 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
18 36 (1.01%) dbt
19 35 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.30%) Firewall
2 94 (2.63%) Network Security
3 85 (2.38%) DNS
4 77 (2.15%) VPN
5 71 (1.99%) Broadband
6 61 (1.71%) DHCP
7 58 (1.62%) VLAN
8 57 (1.59%) WAN
9 51 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.12%) Wireless
11 39 (1.09%) BGP
12 37 (1.03%) OSPF
13 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 31 (0.87%) TCP/IP
15 30 (0.84%) LAN
16 28 (0.78%) SAN
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
17 20 (0.56%) Multicast
18 15 (0.42%) HTTP
18 15 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.02%) Power BI
2 102 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 56 (1.57%) NoSQL
4 49 (1.37%) Tableau
5 48 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 47 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 47 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
7 45 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 39 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 38 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 37 (1.03%) Metadata
12 36 (1.01%) Relational Database
13 27 (0.76%) MySQL
14 25 (0.70%) Big Data
15 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.53%) Db2
17 18 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 121 (3.38%) Git
2 60 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.54%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 32 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.62%) MLflow
7 17 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 17 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.22%) Metasploit
9 8 (0.22%) Vite
10 6 (0.17%) JMeter
10 6 (0.17%) Selenium
11 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.11%) Gatling
11 4 (0.11%) JUnit
11 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 917 (25.65%) Finance
2 589 (16.48%) Social Skills
3 270 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.30%) Banking
5 225 (6.29%) Law
6 197 (5.51%) Marketing
7 180 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (4.67%) Legal
9 154 (4.31%) Retail
10 147 (4.11%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.90%) Front Office
11 68 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (1.48%) Advertising
12 53 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 44 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.17%) Games
15 36 (1.01%) Billing
15 36 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (0.98%) Legal Technology
16 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.20%) React
2 144 (4.03%) .NET
3 116 (3.24%) REST
4 100 (2.80%) Kafka
5 87 (2.43%) Node.js
6 71 (1.99%) Spring
7 64 (1.79%) RESTful
8 62 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 52 (1.45%) CSS
10 46 (1.29%) HTML
11 45 (1.26%) SOAP
12 37 (1.03%) PyTorch
13 35 (0.98%) Django
14 34 (0.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 32 (0.90%) OAuth
15 32 (0.90%) PySpark
16 30 (0.84%) LangChain
17 27 (0.76%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 260 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 88 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 87 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 83 (2.32%) Onboarding
7 72 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 68 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 53 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 51 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 50 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.23%) Equities
13 44 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 39 (1.09%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 37 (1.03%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.03%) Social Media
16 36 (1.01%) Derivative
17 31 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 145 (4.06%) Linux
2 126 (3.52%) Windows
3 39 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 33 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
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
1 554 (15.50%) Software Engineering
2 506 (14.15%) AI
3 487 (13.62%) Agile
4 402 (11.24%) Analytics
5 401 (11.22%) Mentoring
6 379 (10.60%) CI/CD
7 323 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
8 299 (8.36%) DevOps
9 280 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 279 (7.80%) Roadmaps
11 247 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 231 (6.46%) Decision-Making
13 230 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 224 (6.27%) Microservices
15 223 (6.24%) Business Development
16 199 (5.57%) Test Automation
17 194 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
17 194 (5.43%) Machine Learning
18 178 (4.98%) Fintech
19 172 (4.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 564 (15.78%) Python
2 303 (8.48%) SQL
3 260 (7.27%) Java
4 151 (4.22%) C#
4 151 (4.22%) TypeScript
5 148 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 125 (3.50%) C++
7 78 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.01%) Go
9 63 (1.76%) Bash
10 32 (0.90%) Bicep
11 27 (0.76%) SOQL
12 26 (0.73%) Apex Code
12 26 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.70%) PHP
14 22 (0.62%) Scala
15 19 (0.53%) Rust
16 18 (0.50%) R
17 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 305 (8.53%) Degree
2 251 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 174 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (1.96%) CISSP
5 70 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 51 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (1.26%) CISM
9 44 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 43 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.20%) PhD
11 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (1.03%) CCNP
13 27 (0.76%) CRISC
14 25 (0.70%) CISA
15 23 (0.64%) ACCA
16 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 20 (0.56%) OSCP
18 19 (0.53%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (3.24%) QA
2 96 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 92 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 91 (2.55%) NIST
5 66 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 59 (1.65%) GDPR
7 44 (1.23%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.36%) SLA
14 11 (0.31%) NCSC
15 10 (0.28%) COBIT
15 10 (0.28%) IFRS
15 10 (0.28%) MiFID
16 9 (0.25%) PMO
16 9 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (3.47%) Docker
2 98 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
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
1 238 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 216 (6.04%) Terraform
3 47 (1.31%) Ansible
4 46 (1.29%) Grafana
5 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.59%) SCCM
9 13 (0.36%) Nagios
10 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.22%) Nessus
11 8 (0.22%) Puppet
12 7 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
12 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 377 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 110 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 103 (2.88%) SAP
4 82 (2.29%) Databricks
5 78 (2.18%) Oracle
6 72 (2.01%) VMware
7 66 (1.85%) Cisco
7 66 (1.85%) Google
8 64 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 46 (1.29%) Dell
10 45 (1.26%) Adobe
11 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 32 (0.90%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.87%) IBM
14 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.76%) Splunk
15 25 (0.70%) Intapp
16 24 (0.67%) Foundry
17 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
18 21 (0.59%) Apple