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 7 February 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,465 2,631 3,642
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.32% 17.35% 17.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.87% 18.93% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 1,566 2,796
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,500 £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% -9.72%

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 13,795 13,902 20,186
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 91.67% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9,180 7,981 16,281
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% -2.03%
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% -11.31%

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 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 7 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 +1 502 £90,000 +12.50% 318
South London +42 44 £60,000 +4.35% 7
West London -6 42 £52,500 -19.23% 41
East London -11 13 £54,600 -31.75% 31
North London +14 8 £75,000 - 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 472 (19.15%) Azure
2 436 (17.69%) Agile
3 415 (16.84%) AI
4 396 (16.06%) AWS
5 376 (15.25%) Python
6 364 (14.77%) Degree
7 339 (13.75%) Software Engineering
8 325 (13.18%) Mentoring
9 312 (12.66%) Microsoft
10 309 (12.54%) Analytics
11 295 (11.97%) CI/CD
12 283 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
13 243 (9.86%) DevOps
14 231 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 228 (9.25%) SQL
16 227 (9.21%) Java
17 210 (8.52%) Decision-Making
18 203 (8.24%) Roadmaps
19 193 (7.83%) Computer Science
20 192 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
21 176 (7.14%) SaaS
22 174 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
22 174 (7.06%) Kubernetes
23 173 (7.02%) Business Strategy
24 168 (6.82%) Microservices
25 166 (6.73%) Test Automation
26 160 (6.49%) GCP
27 157 (6.37%) Machine Learning
28 154 (6.25%) Coaching
29 143 (5.80%) 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 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.89%) Apache
6 17 (0.69%) Confluence
7 12 (0.49%) JBoss
7 12 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.41%) 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 (0.081%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.041%) Appian
14 1 (0.041%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.041%) Tomcat
Applications
1 55 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.50%) Maya
4 15 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.32%) Sketch
7 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.20%) InDesign
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.12%) InVision
10 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.081%) Blender
10 2 (0.081%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.081%) Stata
10 2 (0.081%) Weka
11 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.61%) SAP IBP
4 14 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.45%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.32%) SAP FSCM
7 8 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
8 6 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.20%) Relativity
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
11 3 (0.12%) Maximo
12 2 (0.081%) SAP GRC
12 2 (0.081%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 472 (19.15%) Azure
2 396 (16.06%) AWS
3 176 (7.14%) SaaS
4 160 (6.49%) GCP
5 143 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
6 126 (5.11%) Power Platform
7 77 (3.12%) Entra ID
8 76 (3.08%) GitHub
9 73 (2.96%) Serverless
10 56 (2.27%) Snowflake
11 55 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.54%) dbt
13 38 (1.54%) Figma
14 33 (1.34%) Datadog
15 30 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 29 (1.18%) PaaS
17 28 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
18 26 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
18 26 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.00%) Firewall
2 61 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (2.27%) WAN
4 55 (2.23%) VPN
5 46 (1.87%) DNS
6 44 (1.78%) Broadband
7 42 (1.70%) DHCP
8 40 (1.62%) LAN
9 35 (1.42%) Wireless
10 30 (1.22%) VLAN
11 26 (1.05%) TCP/IP
12 23 (0.93%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.89%) Multicast
14 21 (0.85%) SAN
15 17 (0.69%) Network Security
15 17 (0.69%) WebEx
16 12 (0.49%) BGP
16 12 (0.49%) HTTP
17 11 (0.45%) OSPF
18 9 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.22%) Power BI
2 103 (4.18%) SQL Server
3 70 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (2.39%) Data Lake
5 43 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 43 (1.74%) Tableau
6 41 (1.66%) NoSQL
7 34 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (0.97%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.81%) Big Data
11 20 (0.81%) Metadata
12 19 (0.77%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.69%) Looker
15 16 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (0.65%) MySQL
15 16 (0.65%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 75 (3.04%) Git
2 66 (2.68%) JIRA
3 42 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.97%) TeamCity
5 19 (0.77%) GitLab
6 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.49%) Selenium
8 11 (0.45%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.41%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.37%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.37%) MLflow
10 9 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.37%) Vite
11 8 (0.32%) Chocolatey
12 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.24%) Storybook
14 5 (0.20%) Postman
15 4 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 779 (31.60%) Finance
2 554 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 262 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (8.97%) Banking
5 198 (8.03%) Marketing
6 188 (7.63%) Law
7 177 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (5.52%) Retail
9 111 (4.50%) Legal
10 93 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
11 89 (3.61%) Public Sector
12 71 (2.88%) Games
12 71 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 63 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
14 59 (2.39%) Front Office
15 54 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.66%) Advertising
17 37 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
18 31 (1.26%) Automotive
19 27 (1.10%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (5.40%) React
2 101 (4.10%) .NET
3 96 (3.89%) REST
4 73 (2.96%) Node.js
5 70 (2.84%) RESTful
6 65 (2.64%) Kafka
7 61 (2.47%) Spring
8 52 (2.11%) CSS
9 48 (1.95%) GraphQL
9 48 (1.95%) HTML
10 47 (1.91%) Spring Boot
11 40 (1.62%) SOAP
12 39 (1.58%) gRPC
13 30 (1.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 29 (1.18%) Django
14 29 (1.18%) Middleware
15 27 (1.10%) OAuth
16 25 (1.01%) PyTorch
17 24 (0.97%) FastAPI
17 24 (0.97%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 179 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (2.96%) Onboarding
4 67 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
5 66 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 58 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 51 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 47 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.83%) Equities
11 44 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.74%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.66%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.66%) Hedge funds
14 33 (1.34%) Derivative
14 33 (1.34%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.30%) Public Cloud
16 31 (1.26%) Reinsurance
17 25 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
17 25 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 124 (5.03%) Linux
2 117 (4.75%) Windows
3 56 (2.27%) Android
4 49 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.18%) Unix
7 24 (0.97%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.24%) VMS
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.081%) AIX
13 2 (0.081%) CentOS
13 2 (0.081%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.041%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (17.69%) Agile
2 415 (16.84%) AI
3 339 (13.75%) Software Engineering
4 325 (13.18%) Mentoring
5 309 (12.54%) Analytics
6 295 (11.97%) CI/CD
7 283 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (9.86%) DevOps
9 231 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 210 (8.52%) Decision-Making
11 203 (8.24%) Roadmaps
12 193 (7.83%) Computer Science
13 192 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 174 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
15 173 (7.02%) Business Strategy
16 168 (6.82%) Microservices
17 166 (6.73%) Test Automation
18 157 (6.37%) Machine Learning
19 154 (6.25%) Coaching
20 139 (5.64%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 376 (15.25%) Python
2 228 (9.25%) SQL
3 227 (9.21%) Java
4 139 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 137 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 121 (4.91%) C#
7 94 (3.81%) C++
8 69 (2.80%) Go
9 62 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 38 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.34%) Rust
12 32 (1.30%) Bash
13 27 (1.10%) Scala
14 25 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.89%) Bicep
16 21 (0.85%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.61%) PHP
18 13 (0.53%) C
19 11 (0.45%) SOQL
20 10 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 364 (14.77%) Degree
2 121 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 93 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 77 (3.12%) SC Cleared
5 51 (2.07%) ACCA
6 49 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 46 (1.87%) CISSP
8 45 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 33 (1.34%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.26%) CIMA
12 31 (1.26%) CISM
13 30 (1.22%) PhD
14 27 (1.10%) CISA
15 23 (0.93%) DV Cleared
16 22 (0.89%) CCNP
17 21 (0.85%) OSCP
18 19 (0.77%) CRISC
19 17 (0.69%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.69%) QA
2 73 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 65 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 56 (2.27%) GDPR
5 51 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.74%) NIST
7 25 (1.01%) GRC
8 24 (0.97%) IFRS
9 21 (0.85%) SLA
10 16 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.57%) NCSC
12 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.32%) PMO
13 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.28%) PERC
15 6 (0.24%) WCAG
16 5 (0.20%) GAAP
16 5 (0.20%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 107 (4.34%) Active Directory
2 103 (4.18%) Docker
3 50 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.37%) Firmware
7 8 (0.32%) HDFS
7 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.20%) vSphere
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.081%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.081%) NFS
12 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.081%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.081%) XenApp
13 1 (0.041%) Postfix
13 1 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 174 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 106 (4.30%) Terraform
3 61 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (1.58%) Ansible
5 36 (1.46%) Grafana
6 25 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.85%) SCCM
8 9 (0.37%) Nessus
8 9 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.28%) Argo
10 6 (0.24%) CASB
10 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.20%) Nagios
12 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.081%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 312 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 87 (3.53%) Salesforce
3 85 (3.45%) SAP
4 83 (3.37%) VMware
5 73 (2.96%) Cisco
6 54 (2.19%) Databricks
7 50 (2.03%) Oracle
8 49 (1.99%) Google
9 41 (1.66%) Adobe
9 41 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.46%) Dell
11 26 (1.05%) Fortinet
11 26 (1.05%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.01%) Meraki
13 21 (0.85%) Apple
13 21 (0.85%) Guidewire
14 20 (0.81%) Workday
15 18 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.57%) IBM
17 13 (0.53%) Ruckus Wireless