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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,503 2,598 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.25% 17.25% 17.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.79% 18.83% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,595 1,565 2,786
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 14,069 13,799 20,036
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 91.60% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,978 16,176
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,420
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +1 515 £90,000 +12.50% 224
South London +41 46 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West London -1 46 £55,000 -15.38% 51
East London -11 13 £54,600 -31.75% 29
North London +11 8 £75,000 - 9
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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.

1 464 (18.54%) Azure
2 424 (16.94%) Agile
3 408 (16.30%) AI
4 386 (15.42%) AWS
5 371 (14.82%) Python
6 347 (13.86%) Software Engineering
7 341 (13.62%) Degree
8 328 (13.10%) Mentoring
9 315 (12.58%) Microsoft
10 304 (12.15%) Analytics
11 293 (11.71%) CI/CD
12 280 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
13 242 (9.67%) DevOps
14 236 (9.43%) Java
15 230 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 228 (9.11%) SQL
17 207 (8.27%) Decision-Making
18 200 (7.99%) Roadmaps
19 197 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
20 184 (7.35%) Kubernetes
21 182 (7.27%) Computer Science
22 181 (7.23%) SaaS
23 170 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
24 169 (6.75%) Microservices
25 167 (6.67%) Test Automation
26 162 (6.47%) Business Strategy
26 162 (6.47%) GCP
27 156 (6.23%) Coaching
28 149 (5.95%) Machine Learning
29 145 (5.79%) Microsoft 365

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 57 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.88%) Apache
6 17 (0.68%) Confluence
7 12 (0.48%) JBoss
8 11 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.40%) CMS
10 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
11 4 (0.16%) SAS
12 3 (0.12%) Drupal
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.080%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.040%) Appian
14 1 (0.040%) IIS
14 1 (0.040%) Mendix
14 1 (0.040%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.32%) Maya
4 13 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.28%) Sketch
7 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.20%) InDesign
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.12%) InVision
10 2 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.080%) Blender
10 2 (0.080%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.080%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.080%) Weka
11 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.040%) Stata
11 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.48%) SAP IBP
5 10 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
8 6 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
9 5 (0.20%) Relativity
10 4 (0.16%) Maximo
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.16%) Shopify
11 3 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
12 2 (0.080%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.080%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 464 (18.54%) Azure
2 386 (15.42%) AWS
3 181 (7.23%) SaaS
4 162 (6.47%) GCP
5 145 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (5.15%) Power Platform
7 77 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 77 (3.08%) GitHub
8 72 (2.88%) Serverless
9 58 (2.32%) Snowflake
10 55 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (1.56%) dbt
12 37 (1.48%) Figma
13 32 (1.28%) Datadog
14 30 (1.20%) Amazon S3
15 29 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (1.16%) PaaS
16 28 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
17 26 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.84%) Firewall
2 58 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (2.24%) WAN
4 53 (2.12%) VPN
5 46 (1.84%) DNS
6 44 (1.76%) Broadband
7 42 (1.68%) DHCP
8 39 (1.56%) LAN
9 34 (1.36%) Wireless
10 30 (1.20%) VLAN
11 26 (1.04%) TCP/IP
12 23 (0.92%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.88%) Multicast
14 21 (0.84%) SAN
15 17 (0.68%) WebEx
16 16 (0.64%) Network Security
17 12 (0.48%) HTTP
18 10 (0.40%) BGP
19 9 (0.36%) OSPF
19 9 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (4.31%) Power BI
2 103 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 69 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (2.28%) Data Lake
5 43 (1.72%) Tableau
6 42 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 39 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (0.84%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.80%) Big Data
11 20 (0.80%) Metadata
12 19 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (0.68%) Looker
13 17 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (0.64%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 72 (2.88%) Git
2 66 (2.64%) JIRA
3 43 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 18 (0.72%) GitLab
6 13 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.44%) Burp Suite
7 11 (0.44%) Selenium
8 10 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.36%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.36%) MLflow
9 9 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.36%) Vite
10 8 (0.32%) Chocolatey
11 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.24%) Storybook
13 4 (0.16%) JMeter
13 4 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 782 (31.24%) Finance
2 542 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 247 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (8.95%) Banking
5 198 (7.91%) Marketing
6 182 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 182 (7.27%) Law
7 144 (5.75%) Retail
8 118 (4.71%) Legal
9 92 (3.68%) Public Sector
10 89 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (2.76%) Telecoms
12 67 (2.68%) Games
13 62 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
14 59 (2.36%) Front Office
15 56 (2.24%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.64%) Advertising
17 38 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
18 31 (1.24%) Automotive
19 26 (1.04%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (5.15%) React
2 102 (4.08%) .NET
3 93 (3.72%) REST
4 75 (3.00%) Node.js
5 67 (2.68%) Kafka
5 67 (2.68%) RESTful
6 62 (2.48%) Spring
7 52 (2.08%) CSS
8 49 (1.96%) Spring Boot
9 47 (1.88%) HTML
10 46 (1.84%) GraphQL
11 41 (1.64%) SOAP
12 39 (1.56%) gRPC
13 30 (1.20%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 29 (1.16%) Django
15 28 (1.12%) Middleware
15 28 (1.12%) OAuth
16 23 (0.92%) .NET Core
16 23 (0.92%) FastAPI
16 23 (0.92%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 185 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 81 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 53 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 46 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.84%) Security Posture
10 45 (1.80%) Equities
10 45 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.64%) Hedge funds
13 33 (1.32%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.28%) Derivative
15 31 (1.24%) Public Cloud
16 27 (1.08%) Reinsurance
17 26 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
18 24 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.91%) Linux
2 118 (4.71%) Windows
3 56 (2.24%) Android
4 50 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 40 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.12%) Unix
7 23 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.28%) VMS
11 4 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.080%) AIX
12 2 (0.080%) CentOS
13 1 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.040%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.040%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (16.94%) Agile
2 408 (16.30%) AI
3 347 (13.86%) Software Engineering
4 328 (13.10%) Mentoring
5 304 (12.15%) Analytics
6 293 (11.71%) CI/CD
7 280 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (9.67%) DevOps
9 230 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 207 (8.27%) Decision-Making
11 200 (7.99%) Roadmaps
12 197 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 182 (7.27%) Computer Science
14 170 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
15 169 (6.75%) Microservices
16 167 (6.67%) Test Automation
17 162 (6.47%) Business Strategy
18 156 (6.23%) Coaching
19 149 (5.95%) Machine Learning
20 142 (5.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 371 (14.82%) Python
2 236 (9.43%) Java
3 228 (9.11%) SQL
4 133 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 132 (5.27%) JavaScript
6 125 (4.99%) C#
7 96 (3.84%) C++
8 71 (2.84%) Go
9 61 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 37 (1.48%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.32%) Bash
11 33 (1.32%) Rust
12 27 (1.08%) Scala
13 25 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.84%) Bicep
15 20 (0.80%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.60%) PHP
17 12 (0.48%) C
18 10 (0.40%) R
18 10 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 341 (13.62%) Degree
2 111 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 78 (3.12%) SC Cleared
5 51 (2.04%) ACCA
6 46 (1.84%) CISSP
7 44 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.28%) CISM
11 31 (1.24%) CIMA
12 29 (1.16%) PhD
13 25 (1.00%) DV Cleared
14 24 (0.96%) CISA
15 22 (0.88%) OSCP
16 21 (0.84%) CRISC
17 20 (0.80%) CCNP
18 17 (0.68%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.60%) QA
2 72 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 66 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.16%) GDPR
5 49 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.76%) NIST
7 27 (1.08%) GRC
8 24 (0.96%) IFRS
9 21 (0.84%) SLA
10 16 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.60%) NCSC
12 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.28%) PERC
16 6 (0.24%) IFRS 17
16 6 (0.24%) PMO
17 5 (0.20%) WCAG
18 4 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (4.19%) Active Directory
2 102 (4.08%) Docker
3 49 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.36%) Firmware
7 8 (0.32%) HDFS
7 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.16%) vSphere
9 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.080%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.080%) NFS
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.080%) XenApp
12 1 (0.040%) Postfix
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 184 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.43%) Terraform
3 61 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (1.56%) Ansible
4 39 (1.56%) Grafana
5 26 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.84%) SCCM
7 9 (0.36%) Nessus
8 8 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.28%) Argo
10 6 (0.24%) CASB
11 5 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.20%) Nagios
12 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.080%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.080%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.080%) VxRail
Vendors
1 315 (12.58%) Microsoft
2 86 (3.44%) Salesforce
3 83 (3.32%) SAP
4 82 (3.28%) VMware
5 72 (2.88%) Cisco
6 54 (2.16%) Databricks
7 48 (1.92%) Oracle
8 41 (1.64%) Google
9 39 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 38 (1.52%) Adobe
11 35 (1.40%) Dell
12 29 (1.16%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.08%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.00%) Meraki
15 21 (0.84%) Apple
15 21 (0.84%) Guidewire
15 21 (0.84%) Workday
16 19 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
17 14 (0.56%) IBM
18 13 (0.52%) Ruckus Wireless