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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 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 3,515 2,097 4,637
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.41% 17.20% 18.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.73% 18.99% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,312 1,285 3,234
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
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 £105,000 £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 19,824 11,041 23,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 90.55% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13,676 6,968 17,241
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,283
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.22%

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 16 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 16 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 +7 719 £90,000 +12.50% 299
West London +32 107 £75,000 +17.65% 50
South London +36 66 £70,000 -34.88% 11
East London -7 17 £68,000 -22.29% 25
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 16 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.

1 576 (16.39%) Azure
2 533 (15.16%) Python
2 533 (15.16%) Software Engineering
3 509 (14.48%) AWS
4 469 (13.34%) Agile
5 463 (13.17%) AI
6 382 (10.87%) Analytics
7 374 (10.64%) Microsoft
8 365 (10.38%) Mentoring
9 363 (10.33%) CI/CD
10 321 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
11 288 (8.19%) Degree
12 287 (8.17%) SQL
13 282 (8.02%) DevOps
14 263 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 257 (7.31%) Roadmaps
16 255 (7.25%) Java
17 236 (6.71%) Kubernetes
18 230 (6.54%) Security Cleared
19 224 (6.37%) Microservices
20 222 (6.32%) Decision-Making
21 220 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
22 214 (6.09%) GCP
23 210 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
23 210 (5.97%) Test Automation
24 199 (5.66%) SaaS
25 197 (5.60%) Business Development
25 197 (5.60%) Terraform
26 194 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
27 182 (5.18%) 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 66 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 58 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.65%) Apache
6 20 (0.57%) CMS
7 14 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.17%) SAS
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) JBoss
11 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.085%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) InDesign
8 4 (0.11%) InVision
8 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.085%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.085%) Blender
9 3 (0.085%) Maya
9 3 (0.085%) SPSS
10 2 (0.057%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 19 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
4 12 (0.34%) Maximo
5 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.085%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.085%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.085%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.085%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.057%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.057%) SAP PP
10 2 (0.057%) SAP Retail
10 2 (0.057%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.057%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 576 (16.39%) Azure
2 509 (14.48%) AWS
3 214 (6.09%) GCP
4 199 (5.66%) SaaS
5 153 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.39%) GitHub
8 117 (3.33%) Serverless
9 74 (2.11%) Entra ID
10 70 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 46 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 43 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 41 (1.17%) Figma
14 38 (1.08%) IaaS
15 37 (1.05%) Datadog
15 37 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.05%) PaaS
16 36 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.07%) Firewall
2 80 (2.28%) DNS
3 78 (2.22%) Broadband
4 76 (2.16%) Network Security
5 75 (2.13%) VPN
6 59 (1.68%) DHCP
7 56 (1.59%) VLAN
8 53 (1.51%) WAN
9 49 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.22%) Wireless
11 35 (1.00%) BGP
12 34 (0.97%) OSPF
13 33 (0.94%) SD-WAN
14 29 (0.83%) SAN
14 29 (0.83%) TCP/IP
15 27 (0.77%) LAN
16 23 (0.65%) Multicast
17 21 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (0.46%) HTTP
19 14 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (2.96%) Power BI
2 103 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 53 (1.51%) NoSQL
4 47 (1.34%) Tableau
5 45 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 43 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 38 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 38 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 36 (1.02%) DynamoDB
11 33 (0.94%) Metadata
12 32 (0.91%) Relational Database
13 23 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (0.65%) MySQL
14 21 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (0.54%) Db2
16 18 (0.51%) Big Data
16 18 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 122 (3.47%) Git
2 71 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.54%) JIRA
4 42 (1.19%) GitLab
5 37 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.68%) MLflow
7 19 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.31%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.26%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 907 (25.80%) Finance
2 564 (16.05%) Social Skills
3 268 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.43%) Banking
5 218 (6.20%) Law
6 204 (5.80%) Marketing
7 178 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (4.75%) Legal
9 151 (4.30%) Retail
10 148 (4.21%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.91%) Front Office
12 62 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (1.45%) Advertising
13 51 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 46 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 39 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
16 38 (1.08%) Games
17 34 (0.97%) Legal Technology
18 32 (0.91%) Billing
19 31 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.18%) .NET
2 144 (4.10%) React
3 116 (3.30%) REST
4 99 (2.82%) Kafka
5 84 (2.39%) Node.js
6 75 (2.13%) Spring
7 65 (1.85%) RESTful
7 65 (1.85%) Spring Boot
8 54 (1.54%) CSS
9 47 (1.34%) SOAP
10 46 (1.31%) HTML
11 40 (1.14%) PyTorch
12 35 (1.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 34 (0.97%) PySpark
14 33 (0.94%) OAuth
15 30 (0.85%) LangChain
16 29 (0.83%) Django
16 29 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (0.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 252 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 73 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 69 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 68 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 54 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 50 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 49 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 47 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 45 (1.28%) Equities
14 42 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 39 (1.11%) Social Media
16 37 (1.05%) Derivative
17 35 (1.00%) Low-Code
18 33 (0.94%) Hedge funds
18 33 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.10%) Linux
2 129 (3.67%) Windows
3 46 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 33 (0.94%) Android
5 31 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.74%) Unix
7 15 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 8 (0.23%) AIX
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.057%) tvOS
13 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (15.16%) Software Engineering
2 469 (13.34%) Agile
3 463 (13.17%) AI
4 382 (10.87%) Analytics
5 365 (10.38%) Mentoring
6 363 (10.33%) CI/CD
7 321 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
8 282 (8.02%) DevOps
9 263 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 257 (7.31%) Roadmaps
11 224 (6.37%) Microservices
12 222 (6.32%) Decision-Making
13 220 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 210 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
14 210 (5.97%) Test Automation
15 197 (5.60%) Business Development
16 194 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 182 (5.18%) Machine Learning
18 180 (5.12%) Fintech
19 169 (4.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 533 (15.16%) Python
2 287 (8.17%) SQL
3 255 (7.25%) Java
4 149 (4.24%) C#
5 146 (4.15%) TypeScript
6 141 (4.01%) JavaScript
7 127 (3.61%) C++
8 78 (2.22%) Go
9 76 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.56%) Bash
11 33 (0.94%) Bicep
12 28 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 28 (0.80%) SOQL
13 25 (0.71%) Scala
14 23 (0.65%) PHP
15 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) Rust
16 18 (0.51%) R
17 15 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 288 (8.19%) Degree
2 230 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 174 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 87 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 65 (1.85%) CISSP
7 62 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.22%) PhD
11 41 (1.17%) CISM
12 35 (1.00%) CCNP
12 35 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.77%) CRISC
15 24 (0.68%) ACCA
15 24 (0.68%) OSCP
16 22 (0.63%) CISA
17 21 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (3.13%) QA
2 88 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 83 (2.36%) NIST
5 63 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 50 (1.42%) GDPR
7 39 (1.11%) GRC
8 22 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.43%) SOC 2
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.40%) SLA
13 13 (0.37%) NCSC
14 11 (0.31%) IFRS
14 11 (0.31%) MiFID
15 9 (0.26%) COBIT
16 8 (0.23%) WCAG
17 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 126 (3.58%) Docker
2 97 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.14%) Firmware
5 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.14%) vSphere
6 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.085%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 197 (5.60%) Terraform
3 48 (1.37%) Grafana
4 47 (1.34%) Ansible
5 43 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 22 (0.63%) SCCM
9 13 (0.37%) Nagios
10 9 (0.26%) Nessus
11 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.23%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.085%) Argo
14 3 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 374 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 103 (2.93%) Salesforce
3 95 (2.70%) SAP
4 81 (2.30%) Databricks
5 73 (2.08%) VMware
6 71 (2.02%) Cisco
7 70 (1.99%) Oracle
8 61 (1.74%) Google
9 60 (1.71%) Palo Alto
10 47 (1.34%) Dell
11 43 (1.22%) Adobe
12 42 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 31 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 31 (0.88%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.83%) IBM
15 25 (0.71%) Splunk
16 24 (0.68%) SolarWinds
17 23 (0.65%) Apple
17 23 (0.65%) Foundry
18 21 (0.60%) Intapp