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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,875 2,140 3,823
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.70% 17.82% 19.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.91% 19.52% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,265 2,278
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 22,910 10,961 18,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 91.30% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15,812 7,151 11,736
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,591 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +6 509 £90,000 +16.13% 449
West London +29 104 £60,000 +21.95% 129
South London +24 50 £80,000 -25.58% 29
East London +5 21 £120,000 +50.00% 29
North London +1 2 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 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.

1 688 (17.75%) AI
2 671 (17.32%) Software Engineering
3 647 (16.70%) AWS
4 604 (15.59%) Python
5 588 (15.17%) Azure
6 490 (12.65%) Agile
7 472 (12.18%) Analytics
8 447 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 443 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 390 (10.06%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.29%) SQL
12 349 (9.01%) DevOps
13 336 (8.67%) Degree
14 333 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
15 329 (8.49%) Roadmaps
16 323 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 297 (7.66%) Java
17 297 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 278 (7.17%) Security Cleared
19 269 (6.94%) Machine Learning
20 246 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
21 243 (6.27%) Decision-Making
22 240 (6.19%) GCP
23 235 (6.06%) Business Development
24 224 (5.78%) Data Science
25 222 (5.73%) Microservices
26 218 (5.63%) Kubernetes
27 216 (5.57%) Terraform
28 211 (5.45%) Test Automation
29 200 (5.16%) SaaS

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 68 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 51 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.70%) Apache
6 21 (0.54%) Confluence
7 19 (0.49%) SAS
8 15 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.15%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.10%) IIS
12 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.077%) Kinematics
13 3 (0.077%) WinCC
14 2 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.052%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.052%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 36 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.18%) InDesign
8 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.10%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.10%) SPSS
12 3 (0.077%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.077%) Blender
12 3 (0.077%) Maya
12 3 (0.077%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.077%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 39 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
4 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
7 5 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.077%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.077%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.077%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.077%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.077%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.077%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 647 (16.70%) AWS
2 588 (15.17%) Azure
3 240 (6.19%) GCP
4 200 (5.16%) SaaS
5 136 (3.51%) Serverless
6 132 (3.41%) Power Platform
7 128 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 119 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
8 119 (3.07%) GitHub
9 111 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 78 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (1.63%) Entra ID
12 61 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 53 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
15 47 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
16 44 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.14%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
18 38 (0.98%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 115 (2.97%) Firewall
2 104 (2.68%) Network Security
3 73 (1.88%) DNS
4 66 (1.70%) VPN
5 51 (1.32%) VLAN
6 44 (1.14%) DHCP
7 43 (1.11%) WAN
8 40 (1.03%) Broadband
9 38 (0.98%) Internet
9 38 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.95%) BGP
11 36 (0.93%) TCP/IP
12 35 (0.90%) OSPF
13 29 (0.75%) LAN
14 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.54%) Wireless
15 18 (0.46%) SAN
16 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.39%) Multicast
18 13 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (2.79%) Power BI
2 106 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 77 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.50%) NoSQL
5 57 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 52 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 51 (1.32%) Tableau
9 49 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 41 (1.06%) Big Data
12 38 (0.98%) MySQL
13 35 (0.90%) Metadata
14 34 (0.88%) DynamoDB
15 33 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 31 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
17 24 (0.62%) BigQuery
18 22 (0.57%) SAP HANA
19 18 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
19 18 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 112 (2.89%) Git
2 56 (1.45%) JIRA
3 48 (1.24%) GitLab
4 47 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.49%) MLflow
6 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.36%) Selenium
9 7 (0.18%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.18%) NUnit
10 5 (0.13%) Appium
10 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.13%) JUnit
10 5 (0.13%) Mocha
11 4 (0.10%) Maven
11 4 (0.10%) Spock
11 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 979 (25.26%) Finance
2 666 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 286 (7.38%) Banking
4 277 (7.15%) Law
5 276 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 229 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 212 (5.47%) Marketing
8 161 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 143 (3.69%) Retail
10 137 (3.54%) Legal
11 83 (2.14%) Financial Institution
12 74 (1.91%) Front Office
13 65 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 63 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
15 41 (1.06%) Games
15 41 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 35 (0.90%) Manufacturing
17 33 (0.85%) Military
18 32 (0.83%) Advertising
18 32 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (5.57%) Terraform
2 134 (3.46%) .NET
3 131 (3.38%) React
4 117 (3.02%) REST
5 116 (2.99%) Kafka
6 88 (2.27%) Spring
7 80 (2.06%) Node.js
8 75 (1.94%) RESTful
9 65 (1.68%) Spring Boot
10 47 (1.21%) HTML
11 41 (1.06%) Next.js
12 37 (0.95%) CSS
13 33 (0.85%) Django
13 33 (0.85%) JSON
14 31 (0.80%) LangChain
14 31 (0.80%) PySpark
15 29 (0.75%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.70%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.70%) FastAPI
16 27 (0.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 255 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 154 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 147 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 111 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 103 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 66 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 64 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 55 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 53 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.16%) Blog
13 45 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.14%) Derivative
15 43 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (1.06%) e-Learning
16 41 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 40 (1.03%) Security Posture
18 38 (0.98%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.89%) Linux
2 99 (2.55%) Windows
3 48 (1.24%) Android
4 36 (0.93%) Unix
5 33 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 32 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.26%) AIX
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.077%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.077%) VMS
11 2 (0.052%) CentOS
11 2 (0.052%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (17.75%) AI
2 671 (17.32%) Software Engineering
3 490 (12.65%) Agile
4 472 (12.18%) Analytics
5 447 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 443 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 349 (9.01%) DevOps
8 333 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
9 329 (8.49%) Roadmaps
10 323 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 297 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 269 (6.94%) Machine Learning
13 246 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 243 (6.27%) Decision-Making
15 235 (6.06%) Business Development
16 224 (5.78%) Data Science
17 222 (5.73%) Microservices
18 211 (5.45%) Test Automation
19 190 (4.90%) Migration
20 185 (4.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 604 (15.59%) Python
2 360 (9.29%) SQL
3 297 (7.66%) Java
4 143 (3.69%) TypeScript
5 141 (3.64%) C#
6 123 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 91 (2.35%) C++
8 72 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 58 (1.50%) Go
10 57 (1.47%) Bash
11 29 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 27 (0.70%) Bicep
13 26 (0.67%) PHP
14 23 (0.59%) R
15 22 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.54%) Ruby
17 20 (0.52%) Scala
18 18 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.46%) SOQL
19 17 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 336 (8.67%) Degree
2 278 (7.17%) Security Cleared
3 181 (4.67%) SC Cleared
4 107 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 64 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.55%) CISSP
8 51 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.11%) CISM
10 43 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 41 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.03%) PhD
13 33 (0.85%) CCNP
14 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.67%) CISA
16 20 (0.52%) CRISC
17 17 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.44%) CCNA
18 16 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.25%) QA
3 94 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.22%) GDPR
5 85 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 79 (2.04%) NIST
7 50 (1.29%) GRC
8 25 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.39%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.34%) COBIT
12 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.31%) PMO
13 12 (0.31%) WCAG
14 11 (0.28%) NCSC
15 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.23%) MiFID
17 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (3.30%) Docker
2 63 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.077%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.052%) Firmware
8 2 (0.052%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.052%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
9 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 218 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 38 (0.98%) Ansible
3 31 (0.80%) Grafana
4 26 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.57%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.49%) Puppet
8 18 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.31%) Nagios
10 10 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.21%) Istio
11 8 (0.21%) SCCM
11 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.10%) Argo
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.077%) CASB
Vendors
1 390 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 118 (3.05%) Oracle
3 115 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 110 (2.84%) Google
5 101 (2.61%) SAP
6 96 (2.48%) Databricks
7 72 (1.86%) Cisco
8 57 (1.47%) VMware
9 54 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 45 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 39 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 34 (0.88%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.85%) Adobe
14 28 (0.72%) HP
15 26 (0.67%) Dell
15 26 (0.67%) Splunk
16 24 (0.62%) IBM
16 24 (0.62%) Intapp
16 24 (0.62%) Workday
17 23 (0.59%) Fortinet