Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,408 2,676 3,621
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.25% 17.49% 17.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.80% 19.07% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,514 1,587 2,793
10th Percentile £50,375 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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% -10.34%

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 13,527 14,036 20,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 91.75% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,954 8,010 16,268
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
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 £95,000
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% -12.00%

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 2 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 2 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 +1 486 £90,000 +12.50% 366
South London +34 42 £60,000 +4.35% 16
West London -8 38 £50,000 -29.82% 50
East London -12 13 £54,600 -31.75% 42
North London +13 8 £75,000 - 6
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 461 (19.14%) Azure
2 440 (18.27%) Agile
3 414 (17.19%) AI
4 403 (16.74%) AWS
5 371 (15.41%) Degree
6 370 (15.37%) Python
7 327 (13.58%) Software Engineering
8 317 (13.16%) Mentoring
9 302 (12.54%) Analytics
10 300 (12.46%) Microsoft
11 291 (12.08%) CI/CD
12 283 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
13 238 (9.88%) DevOps
14 237 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 223 (9.26%) SQL
16 221 (9.18%) Java
17 203 (8.43%) Decision-Making
18 199 (8.26%) Roadmaps
19 197 (8.18%) Computer Science
20 182 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
21 176 (7.31%) Business Strategy
22 170 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
23 169 (7.02%) SaaS
24 164 (6.81%) Kubernetes
25 163 (6.77%) Machine Learning
25 163 (6.77%) Microservices
26 160 (6.64%) GCP
27 158 (6.56%) Test Automation
28 154 (6.40%) Coaching
29 145 (6.02%) Business 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 56 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.96%) Apache
5 21 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.71%) Confluence
7 12 (0.50%) JBoss
7 12 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.37%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.21%) SAS
11 4 (0.17%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Drupal
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.083%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.042%) Appian
14 1 (0.042%) IIS
14 1 (0.042%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.042%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.54%) Maya
4 16 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) Sketch
6 5 (0.21%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.21%) InDesign
7 4 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
9 2 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.083%) Blender
9 2 (0.083%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.083%) Stata
9 2 (0.083%) Weka
10 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.71%) SAP IBP
4 12 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.50%) SAP CO
4 12 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 12 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
5 10 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.37%) SAP FSCM
7 8 (0.33%) SAP IS-U
8 5 (0.21%) Relativity
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.17%) Shopify
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.083%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.083%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 461 (19.14%) Azure
2 403 (16.74%) AWS
3 169 (7.02%) SaaS
4 160 (6.64%) GCP
5 137 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
6 121 (5.02%) Power Platform
7 74 (3.07%) Entra ID
7 74 (3.07%) GitHub
8 72 (2.99%) Serverless
9 55 (2.28%) Snowflake
10 53 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (1.58%) Figma
13 35 (1.45%) dbt
14 31 (1.29%) Datadog
15 30 (1.25%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (1.12%) PaaS
17 26 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.95%) Firewall
2 60 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (2.33%) WAN
4 55 (2.28%) VPN
5 46 (1.91%) DNS
6 41 (1.70%) Broadband
6 41 (1.70%) DHCP
6 41 (1.70%) LAN
7 33 (1.37%) Wireless
8 27 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.12%) VLAN
9 22 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.87%) Multicast
11 20 (0.83%) SAN
12 16 (0.66%) Network Security
12 16 (0.66%) WebEx
13 11 (0.46%) BGP
13 11 (0.46%) HTTP
14 10 (0.42%) OSPF
15 9 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 100 (4.15%) Power BI
3 69 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (2.49%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.83%) Tableau
6 41 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 32 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (1.04%) DynamoDB
10 19 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (0.79%) Big Data
10 19 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 18 (0.75%) Looker
11 18 (0.75%) Metadata
12 17 (0.71%) SAP BW
13 16 (0.66%) MySQL
14 15 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 74 (3.07%) Git
2 68 (2.82%) JIRA
3 42 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 17 (0.71%) GitLab
6 13 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.50%) Selenium
8 10 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.37%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.37%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.37%) MLflow
9 9 (0.37%) Vite
10 8 (0.33%) Chocolatey
10 8 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.29%) Metasploit
11 7 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.25%) Storybook
13 5 (0.21%) Postman
14 4 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 760 (31.56%) Finance
2 559 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 272 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (9.18%) Banking
5 201 (8.35%) Marketing
6 187 (7.77%) Law
7 174 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (5.65%) Retail
9 109 (4.53%) Legal
10 90 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
11 85 (3.53%) Public Sector
12 73 (3.03%) Games
12 73 (3.03%) Telecoms
13 63 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
14 60 (2.49%) Front Office
15 52 (2.16%) Financial Institution
16 40 (1.66%) Advertising
17 34 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
18 31 (1.29%) Automotive
19 28 (1.16%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (5.48%) React
2 93 (3.86%) .NET
3 92 (3.82%) REST
4 73 (3.03%) Node.js
5 70 (2.91%) RESTful
6 58 (2.41%) Kafka
7 57 (2.37%) Spring
8 51 (2.12%) CSS
9 47 (1.95%) HTML
10 46 (1.91%) GraphQL
11 43 (1.79%) Spring Boot
12 39 (1.62%) gRPC
13 38 (1.58%) SOAP
14 31 (1.29%) LangChain
15 30 (1.25%) Django
15 30 (1.25%) Middleware
16 28 (1.16%) Boost C++ Libraries
17 27 (1.12%) PyTorch
18 26 (1.08%) Pandas
19 25 (1.04%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 172 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 75 (3.11%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 56 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 49 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 46 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.83%) Equities
9 44 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.70%) Hedge funds
11 40 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.62%) Security Posture
13 33 (1.37%) Derivative
13 33 (1.37%) Fixed Income
14 31 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 31 (1.29%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.25%) Reinsurance
16 24 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 117 (4.86%) Linux
2 109 (4.53%) Windows
3 56 (2.33%) Android
4 48 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.16%) Unix
7 23 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.21%) VMS
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.083%) CentOS
13 2 (0.083%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.042%) AIX
14 1 (0.042%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.042%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (18.27%) Agile
2 414 (17.19%) AI
3 327 (13.58%) Software Engineering
4 317 (13.16%) Mentoring
5 302 (12.54%) Analytics
6 291 (12.08%) CI/CD
7 283 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (9.88%) DevOps
9 237 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 203 (8.43%) Decision-Making
11 199 (8.26%) Roadmaps
12 197 (8.18%) Computer Science
13 182 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 176 (7.31%) Business Strategy
15 170 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
16 163 (6.77%) Machine Learning
16 163 (6.77%) Microservices
17 158 (6.56%) Test Automation
18 154 (6.40%) Coaching
19 145 (6.02%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 370 (15.37%) Python
2 223 (9.26%) SQL
3 221 (9.18%) Java
4 136 (5.65%) JavaScript
5 133 (5.52%) TypeScript
6 117 (4.86%) C#
7 90 (3.74%) C++
8 67 (2.78%) Go
9 56 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.62%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.37%) Rust
12 27 (1.12%) Bash
12 27 (1.12%) Scala
13 23 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 21 (0.87%) Bicep
16 15 (0.62%) PHP
17 13 (0.54%) C
18 11 (0.46%) SOQL
19 10 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 371 (15.41%) Degree
2 127 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 90 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.11%) SC Cleared
5 53 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 51 (2.12%) ACCA
7 45 (1.87%) CISSP
8 43 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.45%) AWS Certification
11 32 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.33%) PhD
12 31 (1.29%) CIMA
13 30 (1.25%) CISM
14 27 (1.12%) CISA
15 23 (0.96%) DV Cleared
16 22 (0.91%) CCNP
17 19 (0.79%) CRISC
18 18 (0.75%) OSCP
19 17 (0.71%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.78%) QA
2 68 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 62 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.37%) GDPR
5 49 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.66%) NIST
7 24 (1.00%) IFRS
8 23 (0.96%) GRC
9 18 (0.75%) SLA
10 15 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.50%) NCSC
12 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.33%) PMO
14 7 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.29%) PERC
14 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.25%) WCAG
16 5 (0.21%) GAAP
16 5 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 103 (4.28%) Docker
2 101 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 49 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.37%) Firmware
7 8 (0.33%) HDFS
7 8 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
9 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.083%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.083%) NFS
11 2 (0.083%) ProxySG
11 2 (0.083%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.083%) XenApp
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.042%) Postfix
12 1 (0.042%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 164 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 101 (4.19%) Terraform
3 60 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.54%) Ansible
5 34 (1.41%) Grafana
6 23 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.83%) SCCM
8 9 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.29%) Nessus
10 6 (0.25%) Argo
10 6 (0.25%) CASB
10 6 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.17%) Nagios
13 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.083%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.083%) Puppet
14 2 (0.083%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.083%) VxRail
Vendors
1 300 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 87 (3.61%) SAP
3 86 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 81 (3.36%) VMware
5 71 (2.95%) Cisco
6 56 (2.33%) Google
7 50 (2.08%) Databricks
7 50 (2.08%) Oracle
8 42 (1.74%) Adobe
9 40 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.50%) Dell
11 26 (1.08%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.04%) Meraki
12 25 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 22 (0.91%) Guidewire
14 18 (0.75%) Apple
15 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
15 17 (0.71%) Workday
16 13 (0.54%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.54%) Ruckus Wireless