Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,193 2,051 3,736
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.11% 17.40% 20.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.42% 19.13% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,587 1,199 2,158
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -6.40%

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 24,072 10,722 17,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 90.97% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,132 6,932 10,838
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +6 461 £90,000 +12.50% 867
West London +19 93 £55,000 +11.79% 109
South London +18 49 £70,000 -25.33% 46
East London +16 33 £110,000 +123.58% 24
North London -4 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 October 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.

1 809 (19.29%) AI
2 746 (17.79%) Software Engineering
3 630 (15.03%) AWS
4 603 (14.38%) Azure
5 589 (14.05%) Python
6 518 (12.35%) Analytics
7 506 (12.07%) Agile
8 479 (11.42%) CI/CD
9 430 (10.26%) Microsoft
10 427 (10.18%) Mentoring
11 372 (8.87%) SQL
12 367 (8.75%) DevOps
13 353 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
13 353 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 342 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 332 (7.92%) Roadmaps
16 323 (7.70%) Degree
17 312 (7.44%) Java
18 291 (6.94%) Security Cleared
19 289 (6.89%) Machine Learning
20 255 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
21 244 (5.82%) Decision-Making
22 240 (5.72%) Kubernetes
23 236 (5.63%) GCP
24 233 (5.56%) Data Science
25 232 (5.53%) Microservices
26 227 (5.41%) Business Development
27 221 (5.27%) Full-Stack Development
27 221 (5.27%) Terraform
28 214 (5.10%) Test Automation

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 65 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 40 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.74%) Apache
5 26 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.50%) Confluence
7 19 (0.45%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) WordPress
10 7 (0.17%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.095%) IIS
12 4 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Camunda
14 2 (0.048%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.048%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.024%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 44 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.17%) InDesign
7 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.14%) Revit
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.095%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.095%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.072%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.072%) Blender
11 3 (0.072%) Maya
12 2 (0.048%) PlantUML
12 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 41 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 9 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
7 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.095%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.095%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.072%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 630 (15.03%) AWS
2 603 (14.38%) Azure
3 236 (5.63%) GCP
4 205 (4.89%) SaaS
5 155 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 143 (3.41%) Serverless
7 134 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
8 133 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 124 (2.96%) GitHub
10 120 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
11 77 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (1.76%) Entra ID
13 55 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 51 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 47 (1.12%) Azure AKS
17 46 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
18 45 (1.07%) GitHub Copilot
19 44 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
20 42 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 108 (2.58%) Firewall
2 96 (2.29%) Network Security
3 73 (1.74%) DNS
4 65 (1.55%) VPN
5 48 (1.14%) VLAN
6 43 (1.03%) Internet
7 40 (0.95%) DHCP
8 38 (0.91%) WAN
9 37 (0.88%) TCP/IP
10 35 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (0.79%) BGP
12 32 (0.76%) Broadband
13 28 (0.67%) OSPF
14 23 (0.55%) LAN
15 17 (0.41%) Wireless
16 16 (0.38%) SAN
16 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 11 (0.26%) Multicast
19 10 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (2.69%) Power BI
2 103 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 92 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (1.55%) Relational Database
5 61 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.17%) Big Data
8 47 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (1.00%) MySQL
11 41 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (0.98%) Metadata
11 41 (0.98%) Tableau
12 37 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 31 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 26 (0.62%) SAP HANA
15 22 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
16 21 (0.50%) Redis
17 19 (0.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (2.36%) Git
2 58 (1.38%) JIRA
3 49 (1.17%) GitLab
4 42 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.29%) MLflow
8 12 (0.29%) Selenium
9 8 (0.19%) NUnit
10 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
12 4 (0.095%) JUnit
12 4 (0.095%) Maven
12 4 (0.095%) Spock
13 3 (0.072%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Mockito
13 3 (0.072%) VersionOne
General
1 1,044 (24.90%) Finance
2 716 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 302 (7.20%) Banking
4 295 (7.04%) Law
5 266 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 241 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 209 (4.98%) Marketing
8 178 (4.25%) Public Sector
9 172 (4.10%) Legal
10 159 (3.79%) Retail
11 114 (2.72%) Financial Institution
12 69 (1.65%) Front Office
13 68 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 42 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.98%) Games
16 41 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 38 (0.91%) Billing
18 34 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (5.27%) Terraform
2 134 (3.20%) React
3 132 (3.15%) .NET
4 128 (3.05%) REST
5 103 (2.46%) Kafka
6 93 (2.22%) Spring
7 89 (2.12%) RESTful
8 72 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 70 (1.67%) Node.js
10 53 (1.26%) HTML
11 42 (1.00%) Next.js
12 41 (0.98%) CSS
13 39 (0.93%) JSON
14 34 (0.81%) AngularJS
15 33 (0.79%) FastAPI
15 33 (0.79%) PySpark
16 30 (0.72%) Django
17 27 (0.64%) .NET Core
18 26 (0.62%) SpaCy
19 25 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 262 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 153 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 135 (3.22%) AI Agents
5 126 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 125 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
7 118 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 76 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 55 (1.31%) Blog
10 53 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 49 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 49 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.12%) e-Learning
13 46 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (0.93%) Mobile App
15 38 (0.91%) Public Cloud
16 37 (0.88%) Derivative
16 37 (0.88%) Reinsurance
17 36 (0.86%) Data Structures
18 33 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 107 (2.55%) Linux
2 95 (2.27%) Windows
3 48 (1.14%) Android
4 35 (0.83%) Unix
5 34 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.072%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.048%) tvOS
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (19.29%) AI
2 746 (17.79%) Software Engineering
3 518 (12.35%) Analytics
4 506 (12.07%) Agile
5 479 (11.42%) CI/CD
6 427 (10.18%) Mentoring
7 367 (8.75%) DevOps
8 353 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
8 353 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 342 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 332 (7.92%) Roadmaps
11 289 (6.89%) Machine Learning
12 255 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 244 (5.82%) Decision-Making
14 233 (5.56%) Data Science
15 232 (5.53%) Microservices
16 227 (5.41%) Business Development
17 221 (5.27%) Full-Stack Development
18 214 (5.10%) Test Automation
19 210 (5.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 589 (14.05%) Python
2 372 (8.87%) SQL
3 312 (7.44%) Java
4 147 (3.51%) TypeScript
5 146 (3.48%) C#
6 116 (2.77%) JavaScript
7 84 (2.00%) C++
8 69 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.43%) Go
10 53 (1.26%) Bash
11 39 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 32 (0.76%) Bicep
13 28 (0.67%) PHP
14 25 (0.60%) R
14 25 (0.60%) Scala
15 21 (0.50%) Ruby
16 19 (0.45%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.45%) SOQL
17 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 323 (7.70%) Degree
2 291 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 68 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 59 (1.41%) CISSP
9 46 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 41 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (0.95%) PhD
13 39 (0.93%) CISM
14 38 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.69%) CCNP
16 28 (0.67%) ACCA
17 27 (0.64%) CISA
18 24 (0.57%) CIMA
19 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
20 18 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 112 (2.67%) QA
3 93 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.93%) GDPR
6 69 (1.65%) NIST
7 44 (1.05%) GRC
8 25 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.31%) WCAG
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
12 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.26%) NCSC
12 11 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.26%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 6 (0.14%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (3.39%) Docker
2 63 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.072%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.048%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 240 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.10%) Grafana
3 36 (0.86%) Ansible
4 31 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.50%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 16 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.24%) Nagios
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.19%) SCCM
10 7 (0.17%) EnCase
10 7 (0.17%) FTK
11 6 (0.14%) Cilium
11 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.12%) Argo
12 5 (0.12%) Istio
13 3 (0.072%) CASB
Vendors
1 430 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 136 (3.24%) Oracle
3 125 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 122 (2.91%) Google
5 113 (2.69%) SAP
6 89 (2.12%) Databricks
7 65 (1.55%) Cisco
8 53 (1.26%) VMware
9 48 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 45 (1.07%) Palo Alto
11 41 (0.98%) Zscaler
12 36 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.74%) Workday
14 30 (0.72%) HP
15 27 (0.64%) Splunk
16 25 (0.60%) Adobe
17 22 (0.52%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.48%) Foundry
18 20 (0.48%) IBM
18 20 (0.48%) Intapp