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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,595 2,171 4,279
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.04% 17.55% 19.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.27% 19.17% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,327 1,334 2,872
10th Percentile £58,000 £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% - -0.37%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
% change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%

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 20,816 11,326 21,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.55% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,354 7,351 15,411
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +7 650 £90,000 +16.13% 174
West London +29 108 £72,500 +18.37% 42
South London +29 60 £80,000 -25.58% 18
East London -1 16 £68,000 -15.00% 21
North London +1 1 £70,000 -6.67% 3
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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.

1 644 (17.91%) AWS
2 593 (16.50%) Azure
3 586 (16.30%) Python
4 569 (15.83%) Software Engineering
5 561 (15.61%) AI
6 494 (13.74%) Agile
7 444 (12.35%) Mentoring
8 443 (12.32%) Analytics
9 408 (11.35%) CI/CD
10 373 (10.38%) Microsoft
11 331 (9.21%) Degree
12 329 (9.15%) DevOps
13 316 (8.79%) SQL
14 309 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
15 305 (8.48%) Roadmaps
16 291 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 270 (7.51%) Java
17 270 (7.51%) Security Cleared
18 254 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
19 245 (6.82%) Business Development
20 242 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
21 235 (6.54%) Kubernetes
22 234 (6.51%) Decision-Making
23 231 (6.43%) GCP
24 230 (6.40%) Terraform
25 226 (6.29%) Microservices
26 219 (6.09%) Machine Learning
27 204 (5.67%) SaaS
28 203 (5.65%) Test Automation
29 184 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development

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 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 66 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 21 (0.58%) CMS
6 21 (0.58%) SAS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
8 9 (0.25%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.083%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.028%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.028%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.28%) 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 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.083%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.083%) Blender
10 3 (0.083%) Maya
10 3 (0.083%) SPSS
11 2 (0.056%) InVision
11 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.31%) Maximo
4 11 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.083%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.083%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.083%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.083%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 644 (17.91%) AWS
2 593 (16.50%) Azure
3 231 (6.43%) GCP
4 204 (5.67%) SaaS
5 152 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 151 (4.20%) Serverless
7 141 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 119 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
9 116 (3.23%) GitHub
10 84 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 75 (2.09%) Entra ID
12 68 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
13 66 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 58 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 54 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 52 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 42 (1.17%) Figma
19 38 (1.06%) dbt
20 36 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.20%) Firewall
2 106 (2.95%) Network Security
3 78 (2.17%) DNS
4 71 (1.97%) VPN
5 62 (1.72%) Broadband
6 55 (1.53%) VLAN
7 53 (1.47%) DHCP
8 51 (1.42%) WAN
9 46 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.11%) BGP
11 38 (1.06%) OSPF
12 36 (1.00%) Internet
13 34 (0.95%) Wireless
14 29 (0.81%) SD-WAN
15 28 (0.78%) TCP/IP
16 26 (0.72%) LAN
17 24 (0.67%) SAN
18 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 18 (0.50%) Multicast
20 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (3.17%) Power BI
2 100 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 56 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (1.53%) NoSQL
5 54 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 54 (1.50%) Tableau
6 53 (1.47%) Data Lake
7 46 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 41 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 41 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 37 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 36 (1.00%) Metadata
13 33 (0.92%) Big Data
14 32 (0.89%) MySQL
15 25 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (0.56%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.53%) Looker
Development Applications
1 122 (3.39%) Git
2 57 (1.59%) JIRA
3 52 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.22%) GitLab
5 26 (0.72%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 21 (0.58%) MLflow
8 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Selenium
11 7 (0.19%) Vite
12 6 (0.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.11%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Gatling
13 4 (0.11%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 901 (25.06%) Finance
2 601 (16.72%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (7.07%) Banking
5 227 (6.31%) Law
6 192 (5.34%) Marketing
7 181 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 159 (4.42%) Public Sector
9 157 (4.37%) Legal
10 148 (4.12%) Retail
11 72 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 70 (1.95%) Front Office
13 60 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 52 (1.45%) Advertising
15 46 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 42 (1.17%) Games
17 37 (1.03%) Billing
18 36 (1.00%) Legal Technology
19 34 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
20 30 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.06%) React
2 145 (4.03%) .NET
3 117 (3.25%) REST
4 102 (2.84%) Kafka
5 89 (2.48%) Node.js
6 70 (1.95%) Spring
7 62 (1.72%) RESTful
7 62 (1.72%) Spring Boot
8 47 (1.31%) CSS
9 42 (1.17%) HTML
10 36 (1.00%) SOAP
11 35 (0.97%) Django
12 32 (0.89%) LangChain
13 31 (0.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 31 (0.86%) PySpark
13 31 (0.86%) PyTorch
14 29 (0.81%) OAuth
15 27 (0.75%) .NET Core
16 26 (0.72%) Next.js
16 26 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 273 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 142 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 112 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
4 101 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 100 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 83 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 62 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 56 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 54 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 53 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (1.22%) Equities
14 43 (1.20%) Derivative
15 41 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (1.06%) Public Cloud
18 36 (1.00%) Blog
18 36 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 140 (3.89%) Linux
2 114 (3.17%) Windows
3 32 (0.89%) Apple iOS
3 32 (0.89%) Unix
4 30 (0.83%) Android
5 29 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.33%) AIX
7 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (0.28%) VMS
9 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
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
1 569 (15.83%) Software Engineering
2 561 (15.61%) AI
3 494 (13.74%) Agile
4 444 (12.35%) Mentoring
5 443 (12.32%) Analytics
6 408 (11.35%) CI/CD
7 329 (9.15%) DevOps
8 309 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
9 305 (8.48%) Roadmaps
10 291 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 254 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 245 (6.82%) Business Development
13 242 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 234 (6.51%) Decision-Making
15 226 (6.29%) Microservices
16 219 (6.09%) Machine Learning
17 203 (5.65%) Test Automation
18 184 (5.12%) Full-Stack Development
19 168 (4.67%) Migration
20 166 (4.62%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 586 (16.30%) Python
2 316 (8.79%) SQL
3 270 (7.51%) Java
4 156 (4.34%) C#
5 149 (4.14%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 115 (3.20%) C++
8 70 (1.95%) PowerShell
9 68 (1.89%) Go
10 66 (1.84%) Bash
11 30 (0.83%) Bicep
11 30 (0.83%) PHP
12 29 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 23 (0.64%) SOQL
14 21 (0.58%) Apex Code
15 19 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.50%) Ruby
16 18 (0.50%) Scala
17 16 (0.45%) R
18 15 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 331 (9.21%) Degree
2 270 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 170 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (2.06%) CISSP
6 71 (1.97%) AWS Certification
7 66 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.45%) CISM
10 50 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.11%) PhD
13 36 (1.00%) CCNP
14 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 29 (0.81%) CISA
17 28 (0.78%) CRISC
18 22 (0.61%) ACCA
19 21 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
20 18 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (3.42%) QA
2 97 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 95 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 94 (2.61%) NIST
5 74 (2.06%) GDPR
6 73 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 49 (1.36%) GRC
8 24 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.56%) NIST 800
9 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.36%) PMO
12 12 (0.33%) COBIT
12 12 (0.33%) WCAG
13 11 (0.31%) NCSC
13 11 (0.31%) SLA
14 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 123 (3.42%) Docker
2 85 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.083%) Firmware
8 3 (0.083%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.083%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 235 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 230 (6.40%) Terraform
3 48 (1.34%) Ansible
4 43 (1.20%) Grafana
5 34 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.47%) Puppet
8 17 (0.47%) SCCM
9 15 (0.42%) Nagios
9 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
10 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.19%) Cilium
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Nessus
14 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 373 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 115 (3.20%) SAP
3 112 (3.12%) Salesforce
4 90 (2.50%) Oracle
5 82 (2.28%) Databricks
6 73 (2.03%) Google
7 67 (1.86%) Cisco
8 64 (1.78%) VMware
9 63 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.28%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
12 41 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 36 (1.00%) IBM
14 34 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.75%) Splunk
16 25 (0.70%) Intapp
17 23 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
18 21 (0.58%) Apple