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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,570 2,141 4,537
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.27% 17.30% 18.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.54% 18.95% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,327 3,138
10th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,848 £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 £107,500 £120,000 £117,875
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 20,353 11,297 22,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 91.28% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 14,015 7,236 16,886
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
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 £98,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,201 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.52% +8.95% -12.50%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +7 714 £90,000 +12.50% 360
West London +34 107 £75,000 +22.45% 61
South London +36 59 £80,000 -25.58% 10
East London +2 16 £68,000 -15.00% 34
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 596 (16.69%) Azure
2 583 (16.33%) AWS
3 570 (15.97%) Python
4 555 (15.55%) Software Engineering
5 518 (14.51%) AI
6 488 (13.67%) Agile
7 408 (11.43%) Analytics
8 406 (11.37%) Mentoring
9 383 (10.73%) CI/CD
10 377 (10.56%) Microsoft
11 320 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
12 306 (8.57%) SQL
13 305 (8.54%) Degree
14 302 (8.46%) DevOps
15 283 (7.93%) Roadmaps
16 279 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 263 (7.37%) Java
18 254 (7.11%) Security Cleared
19 248 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
20 240 (6.72%) Kubernetes
21 232 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
22 231 (6.47%) Decision-Making
23 228 (6.39%) GCP
24 226 (6.33%) Microservices
25 223 (6.25%) Business Development
26 220 (6.16%) Terraform
27 201 (5.63%) SaaS
28 200 (5.60%) Test Automation
29 198 (5.55%) Machine Learning
30 192 (5.38%) Full-Stack Development

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 70 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.73%) Apache
6 22 (0.62%) CMS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
7 15 (0.42%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.084%) IIS
13 3 (0.084%) JBoss
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.084%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 596 (16.69%) Azure
2 583 (16.33%) AWS
3 228 (6.39%) GCP
4 201 (5.63%) SaaS
5 160 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
6 139 (3.89%) Power Platform
7 133 (3.73%) Serverless
8 114 (3.19%) GitHub
9 80 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 75 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 65 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (1.46%) Amazon S3
14 49 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 49 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 43 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (1.12%) Figma
18 37 (1.04%) dbt
19 34 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.28%) Firewall
2 96 (2.69%) Network Security
3 83 (2.32%) DNS
4 76 (2.13%) VPN
5 69 (1.93%) Broadband
6 59 (1.65%) DHCP
7 56 (1.57%) VLAN
7 56 (1.57%) WAN
8 50 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (1.09%) BGP
9 39 (1.09%) Wireless
10 37 (1.04%) OSPF
11 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.87%) TCP/IP
13 29 (0.81%) LAN
14 27 (0.76%) SAN
15 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (0.53%) Multicast
17 15 (0.42%) Internet
17 15 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.14%) Power BI
2 103 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 56 (1.57%) NoSQL
4 52 (1.46%) Tableau
5 50 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 46 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
7 46 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 39 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 38 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 36 (1.01%) Relational Database
13 35 (0.98%) Metadata
14 28 (0.78%) MySQL
15 27 (0.76%) Big Data
16 22 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (0.53%) Db2
19 18 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 119 (3.33%) Git
2 59 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.60%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 32 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.62%) MLflow
7 17 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 17 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.22%) Metasploit
9 8 (0.22%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 912 (25.55%) Finance
2 593 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.31%) Banking
5 225 (6.30%) Law
6 194 (5.43%) Marketing
7 181 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 164 (4.59%) Legal
9 155 (4.34%) Retail
10 147 (4.12%) Public Sector
11 67 (1.88%) Front Office
11 67 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (1.48%) Advertising
12 53 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 45 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.23%) Games
15 36 (1.01%) Billing
16 35 (0.98%) Legal Technology
16 35 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
17 34 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (4.31%) React
2 147 (4.12%) .NET
3 116 (3.25%) REST
4 101 (2.83%) Kafka
5 88 (2.46%) Node.js
6 70 (1.96%) Spring
7 63 (1.76%) RESTful
8 61 (1.71%) Spring Boot
9 52 (1.46%) CSS
10 46 (1.29%) HTML
11 43 (1.20%) SOAP
12 37 (1.04%) PyTorch
13 34 (0.95%) Django
14 33 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 32 (0.90%) PySpark
16 31 (0.87%) LangChain
16 31 (0.87%) OAuth
17 27 (0.76%) .NET Core
18 26 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 263 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 105 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 93 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 92 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 85 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 71 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 53 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 52 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 50 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.20%) Equities
13 43 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.15%) AI Agents
15 38 (1.06%) Social Media
16 37 (1.04%) Derivative
16 37 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 37 (1.04%) Public Cloud
17 33 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.01%) Linux
2 123 (3.45%) Windows
3 39 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 32 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (15.55%) Software Engineering
2 518 (14.51%) AI
3 488 (13.67%) Agile
4 408 (11.43%) Analytics
5 406 (11.37%) Mentoring
6 383 (10.73%) CI/CD
7 320 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
8 302 (8.46%) DevOps
9 283 (7.93%) Roadmaps
10 279 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 248 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 232 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 231 (6.47%) Decision-Making
14 226 (6.33%) Microservices
15 223 (6.25%) Business Development
16 200 (5.60%) Test Automation
17 198 (5.55%) Machine Learning
18 192 (5.38%) Full-Stack Development
19 179 (5.01%) Fintech
20 170 (4.76%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 570 (15.97%) Python
2 306 (8.57%) SQL
3 263 (7.37%) Java
4 154 (4.31%) C#
5 151 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 150 (4.20%) JavaScript
7 124 (3.47%) C++
8 77 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 72 (2.02%) Go
10 64 (1.79%) Bash
11 31 (0.87%) Bicep
12 26 (0.73%) PHP
12 26 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.73%) SOQL
13 25 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 22 (0.62%) Scala
15 19 (0.53%) R
15 19 (0.53%) Rust
16 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 305 (8.54%) Degree
2 254 (7.11%) Security Cleared
3 171 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 93 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (1.96%) CISSP
5 70 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 55 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 50 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 45 (1.26%) CISM
10 43 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.20%) PhD
11 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (1.04%) CCNP
13 27 (0.76%) CRISC
14 25 (0.70%) CISA
15 24 (0.67%) ACCA
16 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 19 (0.53%) CREST Certified
17 19 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (3.33%) QA
2 96 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 92 (2.58%) NIST
4 91 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 67 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 61 (1.71%) GDPR
7 45 (1.26%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.56%) NIST 800
9 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) SLA
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) MiFID
13 10 (0.28%) NCSC
13 10 (0.28%) WCAG
14 9 (0.25%) IFRS
14 9 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 126 (3.53%) Docker
2 95 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 240 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 220 (6.16%) Terraform
3 47 (1.32%) Ansible
4 45 (1.26%) Grafana
5 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (1.04%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 19 (0.53%) SCCM
9 13 (0.36%) Nagios
10 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.28%) Puppet
11 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.22%) Nessus
13 7 (0.20%) Cilium
13 7 (0.20%) Istio
14 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 377 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 111 (3.11%) Salesforce
3 104 (2.91%) SAP
4 82 (2.30%) Databricks
5 81 (2.27%) Oracle
6 70 (1.96%) VMware
7 68 (1.90%) Google
8 65 (1.82%) Cisco
9 64 (1.79%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
11 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 32 (0.90%) IBM
12 32 (0.90%) OpenAI
13 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
13 27 (0.76%) Splunk
14 25 (0.70%) Intapp
15 24 (0.67%) Foundry
16 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.59%) Apple