Senior Jobs in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,151 4,405 6,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.72% 18.70% 18.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.56% 19.87% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 3,089 4,461
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% -10.31% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,588 22,171 34,257
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 94.12% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,541 16,698 25,038
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.48% -10.84% +0.95%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in London.

Salary trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 2025. 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 -5 507 £77,750 +0.32% 169
South London -22 42 £62,072 -4.50% 15
West London -14 33 £65,000 +13.04% 48
East London -4 19 £95,000 +103.21% 28
North London 0 5 £75,000 +7.14% 3
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2025, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 802 (37.28%) Finance
2 608 (28.27%) Social Skills
3 594 (27.62%) Agile
4 576 (26.78%) Python
5 553 (25.71%) Azure
6 538 (25.01%) AWS
7 429 (19.94%) Degree
8 410 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
9 405 (18.83%) SQL
10 370 (17.20%) Software Engineering
11 310 (14.41%) Analytics
12 307 (14.27%) Microsoft
13 300 (13.95%) CI/CD
14 290 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
15 271 (12.60%) Mentoring
16 269 (12.51%) DevOps
17 264 (12.27%) Banking
18 252 (11.72%) Kubernetes
19 249 (11.58%) JavaScript
20 236 (10.97%) Java
21 221 (10.27%) TypeScript
22 205 (9.53%) C#
23 200 (9.30%) GCP
24 195 (9.07%) Artificial Intelligence
25 191 (8.88%) Computer Science
26 189 (8.79%) Terraform
27 180 (8.37%) React
27 180 (8.37%) Linux
28 178 (8.28%) .NET
29 174 (8.09%) Project Management

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 80 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (3.44%) Apache
3 70 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 67 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 58 (2.70%) Apache Spark
6 26 (1.21%) CMS
7 18 (0.84%) Confluence
8 9 (0.42%) Drupal
9 8 (0.37%) SAS
9 8 (0.37%) WordPress
10 5 (0.23%) Liferay
10 5 (0.23%) Luigi
11 4 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.19%) nginx
12 3 (0.14%) IIS
13 2 (0.093%) Appian
13 2 (0.093%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.046%) Ethereum
14 1 (0.046%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 70 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 24 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.84%) Maya
6 9 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.28%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.28%) Sketch
9 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.23%) Stata
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.19%) QuarkXPress
10 4 (0.19%) Trello
11 3 (0.14%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.046%) InDesign
12 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 43 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.46%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.23%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.23%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.23%) Shopify
6 4 (0.19%) Endur
6 4 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.14%) ION MarketView
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.14%) Relativity
7 3 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 553 (25.71%) Azure
2 538 (25.01%) AWS
3 200 (9.30%) GCP
4 135 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
5 133 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 130 (6.04%) SaaS
7 97 (4.51%) Serverless
8 91 (4.23%) Snowflake
9 79 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
10 68 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
11 67 (3.11%) dbt
12 64 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
13 62 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
14 61 (2.84%) GitHub
15 55 (2.56%) PaaS
16 49 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
17 48 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
19 45 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.81%) Firewall
2 64 (2.98%) Network Security
3 50 (2.32%) VPN
4 41 (1.91%) DNS
5 29 (1.35%) LAN
6 28 (1.30%) HTTP
6 28 (1.30%) WAN
7 24 (1.12%) DHCP
8 23 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.02%) Wireless
10 18 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 17 (0.79%) VLAN
12 16 (0.74%) BGP
13 15 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
13 15 (0.70%) Multicast
13 15 (0.70%) SAN
13 15 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.65%) OSPF
15 12 (0.56%) Internet
15 12 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 95 (4.42%) Power BI
3 89 (4.14%) Data Lake
4 80 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 74 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
6 69 (3.21%) Tableau
7 66 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
8 59 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
9 57 (2.65%) Apache Arrow
9 57 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 57 (2.65%) Apache Ignite
9 57 (2.65%) Dremio
10 50 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 42 (1.95%) Relational Database
11 42 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (1.81%) MySQL
13 37 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
14 34 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (1.35%) Big Data
15 29 (1.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 150 (6.97%) Git
2 70 (3.25%) JIRA
3 65 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.30%) IntelliJ
5 26 (1.21%) GitLab
6 24 (1.12%) Maven
7 22 (1.02%) JUnit
8 17 (0.79%) Selenium
9 15 (0.70%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.65%) Mockito
11 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.51%) Postman
13 9 (0.42%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.33%) Gradle
15 6 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.28%) JMeter
15 6 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.28%) TestNG
General
1 802 (37.28%) Finance
2 608 (28.27%) Social Skills
3 290 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.27%) Banking
5 165 (7.67%) Law
6 164 (7.62%) Marketing
7 151 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 121 (5.63%) Front Office
9 116 (5.39%) Retail
10 108 (5.02%) Legal
11 101 (4.70%) Games
12 90 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
13 87 (4.04%) Telecoms
14 71 (3.30%) Investment Banking
15 64 (2.98%) Public Sector
16 61 (2.84%) Advertising
17 47 (2.19%) Financial Institution
18 44 (2.05%) Manufacturing
19 35 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
20 33 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (8.37%) React
2 178 (8.28%) .NET
3 121 (5.63%) HTML
4 104 (4.83%) Kafka
5 98 (4.56%) AngularJS
6 93 (4.32%) CSS
7 90 (4.18%) REST
8 74 (3.44%) RESTful
9 73 (3.39%) Pandas
10 68 (3.16%) Node.js
11 64 (2.98%) NumPy
12 61 (2.84%) gRPC
12 61 (2.84%) SciPy
13 59 (2.74%) Spring
14 57 (2.65%) Protocol Buffers
15 49 (2.28%) Spring Boot
16 47 (2.19%) PySpark
17 46 (2.14%) .NET Framework
17 46 (2.14%) GraphQL
18 42 (1.95%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 106 (4.93%) Equities
2 105 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 97 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 96 (4.46%) Hedge funds
5 82 (3.81%) Derivative
6 75 (3.49%) Fixed Income
7 74 (3.44%) Algorithms
8 72 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 66 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
11 59 (2.74%) Mobile App
12 58 (2.70%) Product Ownership
13 41 (1.91%) Security Posture
14 40 (1.86%) Pricing Data
15 39 (1.81%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (1.44%) Onboarding
18 28 (1.30%) Data Centre
19 26 (1.21%) Public Cloud
20 25 (1.16%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 180 (8.37%) Linux
2 165 (7.67%) Windows
3 55 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 31 (1.44%) Android
6 30 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.98%) Unix
8 10 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.28%) VMS
9 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.19%) Solaris
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.046%) CentOS
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.046%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (27.62%) Agile
2 410 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
3 370 (17.20%) Software Engineering
4 310 (14.41%) Analytics
5 300 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 271 (12.60%) Mentoring
7 269 (12.51%) DevOps
8 195 (9.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 191 (8.88%) Computer Science
10 174 (8.09%) Project Management
11 162 (7.53%) Roadmaps
12 159 (7.39%) Microservices
13 147 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 137 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (6.32%) Fintech
16 134 (6.23%) Asset Management
16 134 (6.23%) User Experience
17 124 (5.76%) Risk Management
18 118 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
19 117 (5.44%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 576 (26.78%) Python
2 405 (18.83%) SQL
3 249 (11.58%) JavaScript
4 236 (10.97%) Java
5 221 (10.27%) TypeScript
6 205 (9.53%) C#
7 119 (5.53%) C++
8 93 (4.32%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.42%) Rust
10 48 (2.23%) Go
11 45 (2.09%) C
12 43 (2.00%) Scala
13 40 (1.86%) Bash
13 40 (1.86%) T-SQL
14 26 (1.21%) PL/SQL
15 25 (1.16%) VB.NET
16 24 (1.12%) PHP
17 23 (1.07%) R
18 17 (0.79%) Bicep
19 16 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 429 (19.94%) Degree
2 110 (5.11%) Master's Degree
3 90 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (3.35%) Security Cleared
5 61 (2.84%) DBS Check
6 60 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (2.09%) SC Cleared
8 42 (1.95%) CISSP
9 38 (1.77%) CISA
10 33 (1.53%) PhD
11 32 (1.49%) CCNA
12 31 (1.44%) CCNP
13 30 (1.39%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.21%) Azure Certification
15 25 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (0.98%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.93%) MBA
18 18 (0.84%) CISM
19 16 (0.74%) ACCA
19 16 (0.74%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.67%) QA
2 48 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 44 (2.05%) GDPR
4 40 (1.86%) NIST
5 32 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 30 (1.39%) ITGC
7 29 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.93%) PMO
8 20 (0.93%) SLA
9 17 (0.79%) GRC
10 14 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.19%) COREP
13 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.19%) GMP
System Software
1 164 (7.62%) Docker
2 89 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 50 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.33%) vSphere
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Flume
10 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (0.14%) Firmware
12 2 (0.093%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.046%) GPFS
13 1 (0.046%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.046%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 252 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 189 (8.79%) Terraform
3 70 (3.25%) Ansible
4 51 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.07%) Grafana
6 22 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.65%) SCCM
8 12 (0.56%) Nagios
8 12 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.51%) Argo
10 10 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.42%) Avamar
11 9 (0.42%) CASB
12 8 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.37%) WSUS
13 7 (0.33%) Puppet
14 6 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.28%) Istio
15 5 (0.23%) Oozie
Vendors
1 307 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.95%) Google
3 80 (3.72%) Cisco
4 78 (3.63%) Databricks
5 73 (3.39%) VMware
6 72 (3.35%) Oracle
7 71 (3.30%) ServiceNow
8 66 (3.07%) SAP
9 40 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 30 (1.39%) Meraki
11 29 (1.35%) Adobe
11 29 (1.35%) Apple
12 27 (1.26%) IBM
13 26 (1.21%) Citrix
14 20 (0.93%) Veeam
15 19 (0.88%) Splunk
16 18 (0.84%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.74%) CheckPoint
17 16 (0.74%) Dell
17 16 (0.74%) Fortinet