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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,767 2,138 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.63% 17.77% 20.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.82% 19.43% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 1,268 2,440
10th Percentile £57,305 £53,750 £50,000
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 £98,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 22,400 11,002 18,638
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.42% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,387 7,148 12,522
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,850 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,781 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.69% -0.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +7 542 £90,000 +16.13% 414
West London +27 108 £60,000 +9.09% 153
South London +22 53 £80,000 -25.58% 35
East London +2 14 £120,000 +50.00% 28
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 665 (17.65%) AI
2 655 (17.39%) AWS
3 646 (17.15%) Software Engineering
4 610 (16.19%) Python
5 587 (15.58%) Azure
6 495 (13.14%) Agile
7 472 (12.53%) Analytics
8 448 (11.89%) Mentoring
9 443 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 370 (9.82%) Microsoft
11 366 (9.72%) SQL
12 346 (9.19%) DevOps
13 339 (9.00%) Degree
14 324 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
15 323 (8.57%) Roadmaps
16 314 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 293 (7.78%) Java
18 287 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
19 272 (7.22%) Security Cleared
20 268 (7.11%) Machine Learning
21 244 (6.48%) Decision-Making
22 243 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
23 237 (6.29%) GCP
24 235 (6.24%) Business Development
25 227 (6.03%) Microservices
26 221 (5.87%) Data Science
27 219 (5.81%) Kubernetes
28 214 (5.68%) Terraform
29 213 (5.65%) Test Automation
30 207 (5.50%) 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 73 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 54 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.74%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) Confluence
7 20 (0.53%) SAS
8 16 (0.42%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.080%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
Applications
1 31 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.19%) InDesign
8 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.11%) SPSS
11 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.080%) Blender
11 3 (0.080%) Maya
12 2 (0.053%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.053%) Revit
Business Applications
1 39 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
3 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.16%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 655 (17.39%) AWS
2 587 (15.58%) Azure
3 237 (6.29%) GCP
4 207 (5.50%) SaaS
5 140 (3.72%) Serverless
6 136 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 128 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.21%) GitHub
9 119 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
10 106 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
11 74 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (1.65%) Entra ID
14 59 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 53 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
16 47 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
17 45 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (1.14%) dbt
18 43 (1.14%) Figma
19 40 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.11%) Firewall
2 104 (2.76%) Network Security
3 72 (1.91%) DNS
4 65 (1.73%) VPN
5 51 (1.35%) VLAN
6 45 (1.19%) DHCP
7 44 (1.17%) WAN
8 40 (1.06%) Broadband
8 40 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (1.04%) BGP
10 38 (1.01%) Internet
11 36 (0.96%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 29 (0.77%) LAN
14 24 (0.64%) Wireless
15 22 (0.58%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.50%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
19 15 (0.40%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.00%) Power BI
2 108 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.51%) Tableau
7 55 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 54 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 52 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 47 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.04%) Big Data
11 39 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 39 (1.04%) MySQL
12 36 (0.96%) DynamoDB
13 33 (0.88%) Metadata
14 31 (0.82%) BigQuery
15 30 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.56%) Looker
16 21 (0.56%) SAP HANA
17 18 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 112 (2.97%) Git
2 56 (1.49%) JIRA
3 46 (1.22%) GitLab
4 45 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.72%) MLflow
7 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 8 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.13%) Vite
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 953 (25.30%) Finance
2 651 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 289 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (7.49%) Banking
5 277 (7.35%) Law
6 226 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 222 (5.89%) Marketing
8 156 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 142 (3.77%) Retail
10 129 (3.42%) Legal
11 76 (2.02%) Front Office
12 68 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 64 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 62 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.11%) Advertising
15 42 (1.11%) Games
16 37 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 32 (0.85%) Investment Banking
18 31 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 30 (0.80%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (5.68%) Terraform
2 141 (3.74%) .NET
3 139 (3.69%) React
4 122 (3.24%) REST
5 120 (3.19%) Kafka
6 87 (2.31%) Spring
7 85 (2.26%) Node.js
8 74 (1.96%) RESTful
9 64 (1.70%) Spring Boot
10 44 (1.17%) HTML
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 40 (1.06%) CSS
13 37 (0.98%) LangChain
14 34 (0.90%) Django
15 32 (0.85%) PySpark
16 31 (0.82%) JSON
17 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
17 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
18 27 (0.72%) React Native
19 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 266 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 151 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 144 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 103 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 86 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 70 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 60 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 59 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 51 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 51 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 44 (1.17%) Blog
13 44 (1.17%) Derivative
14 43 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (1.11%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 39 (1.04%) Equities
18 38 (1.01%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.97%) Linux
2 95 (2.52%) Windows
3 46 (1.22%) Android
4 36 (0.96%) Unix
5 31 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.27%) AIX
8 10 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.080%) VMS
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (17.65%) AI
2 646 (17.15%) Software Engineering
3 495 (13.14%) Agile
4 472 (12.53%) Analytics
5 448 (11.89%) Mentoring
6 443 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 346 (9.19%) DevOps
8 324 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
9 323 (8.57%) Roadmaps
10 314 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 287 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 268 (7.11%) Machine Learning
13 244 (6.48%) Decision-Making
14 243 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
15 235 (6.24%) Business Development
16 227 (6.03%) Microservices
17 221 (5.87%) Data Science
18 213 (5.65%) Test Automation
19 187 (4.96%) Migration
20 179 (4.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 610 (16.19%) Python
2 366 (9.72%) SQL
3 293 (7.78%) Java
4 150 (3.98%) TypeScript
5 144 (3.82%) C#
6 128 (3.40%) JavaScript
7 90 (2.39%) C++
8 65 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.62%) Go
10 54 (1.43%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 28 (0.74%) PHP
13 27 (0.72%) Bicep
14 24 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.58%) R
15 22 (0.58%) Ruby
16 20 (0.53%) SOQL
17 19 (0.50%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.50%) Scala
18 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 339 (9.00%) Degree
2 272 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 178 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 62 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.62%) CISSP
8 55 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.14%) CISM
11 40 (1.06%) PhD
12 39 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.88%) CCNP
14 31 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.80%) CISA
16 20 (0.53%) CRISC
17 19 (0.50%) PMI Certification
18 18 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
19 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.29%) QA
2 123 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 89 (2.36%) GDPR
3 89 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 82 (2.18%) NIST
6 47 (1.25%) GRC
7 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
8 22 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.37%) PMO
12 13 (0.35%) COBIT
12 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 9 (0.24%) MiFID
14 9 (0.24%) NCSC
15 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (3.40%) Docker
2 63 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 219 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.01%) Ansible
3 30 (0.80%) Grafana
4 25 (0.66%) FortiGate
4 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.48%) Puppet
7 16 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.32%) Nagios
9 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.21%) Istio
10 8 (0.21%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.080%) CASB
Vendors
1 370 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 113 (3.00%) Salesforce
3 103 (2.73%) Databricks
4 101 (2.68%) SAP
5 100 (2.65%) Oracle
6 87 (2.31%) Google
7 73 (1.94%) Cisco
8 59 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.51%) VMware
10 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.88%) Adobe
14 32 (0.85%) Dell
15 29 (0.77%) HP
16 25 (0.66%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Foundry
17 24 (0.64%) IBM
18 23 (0.61%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.61%) Intapp