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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,583 2,188 4,445
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.16% 17.39% 18.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.42% 19.02% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 1,353 3,045
10th Percentile £58,000 £55,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,300 £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 £119,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,018 £62,879
% change year-on-year +1.42% +9.76% -10.17%

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 20,567 11,505 22,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 91.44% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 14,141 7,412 16,449
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,125 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +5.89% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £52,837
% change year-on-year +2.68% +5.99% -11.94%

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 9 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 9 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 +7 678 £90,000 +12.50% 232
West London +33 107 £75,000 +20.00% 53
South London +32 58 £80,000 -25.58% 8
East London +3 17 £68,000 -15.00% 23
North London +3 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 623 (17.39%) AWS
2 594 (16.58%) Azure
3 581 (16.22%) Python
4 562 (15.69%) Software Engineering
5 547 (15.27%) AI
6 503 (14.04%) Agile
7 433 (12.08%) Mentoring
8 432 (12.06%) Analytics
9 401 (11.19%) CI/CD
10 379 (10.58%) Microsoft
11 324 (9.04%) Degree
12 316 (8.82%) DevOps
12 316 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
13 312 (8.71%) SQL
14 299 (8.34%) Roadmaps
15 284 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 271 (7.56%) Java
17 267 (7.45%) Security Cleared
18 249 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 245 (6.84%) Kubernetes
20 242 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
21 237 (6.61%) Business Development
22 233 (6.50%) GCP
23 231 (6.45%) Decision-Making
23 231 (6.45%) Terraform
24 229 (6.39%) Microservices
25 210 (5.86%) Machine Learning
26 207 (5.78%) Test Automation
27 204 (5.69%) SaaS
28 187 (5.22%) 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 69 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 22 (0.61%) CMS
7 19 (0.53%) SAS
8 15 (0.42%) Confluence
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.11%) IIS
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.084%) JBoss
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
14 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 13 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.14%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
11 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.084%) Blender
11 3 (0.084%) Maya
11 3 (0.084%) SPSS
12 2 (0.056%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.31%) Maximo
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 623 (17.39%) AWS
2 594 (16.58%) Azure
3 233 (6.50%) GCP
4 204 (5.69%) SaaS
5 161 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.07%) Serverless
7 140 (3.91%) Power Platform
8 118 (3.29%) GitHub
9 98 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
10 80 (2.23%) Entra ID
11 78 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
12 66 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (1.56%) Amazon S3
15 52 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
16 49 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.14%) Figma
19 37 (1.03%) dbt
20 35 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.29%) Firewall
2 102 (2.85%) Network Security
3 83 (2.32%) DNS
4 76 (2.12%) VPN
5 70 (1.95%) Broadband
6 58 (1.62%) DHCP
7 57 (1.59%) VLAN
8 55 (1.54%) WAN
9 49 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.12%) BGP
11 38 (1.06%) OSPF
12 37 (1.03%) Wireless
13 31 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.78%) LAN
16 27 (0.75%) SAN
17 26 (0.73%) Internet
18 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 19 (0.53%) Multicast
20 16 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.15%) Power BI
2 103 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 57 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 53 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (1.48%) Tableau
5 51 (1.42%) Data Lake
5 51 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 45 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 41 (1.14%) DynamoDB
7 41 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 40 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 36 (1.00%) Metadata
11 31 (0.87%) Big Data
11 31 (0.87%) MySQL
12 23 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.53%) Hadoop
15 18 (0.50%) Db2
Development Applications
1 124 (3.46%) Git
2 59 (1.65%) JIRA
3 58 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.17%) GitLab
5 32 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 21 (0.59%) Claude Code
6 21 (0.59%) MLflow
7 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.22%) Selenium
9 8 (0.22%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Burp Suite
10 7 (0.20%) Metasploit
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
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%) Zephyr
General
1 906 (25.29%) Finance
2 603 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 264 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (7.26%) Banking
5 228 (6.36%) Law
6 193 (5.39%) Marketing
7 184 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 162 (4.52%) Legal
9 155 (4.33%) Public Sector
10 150 (4.19%) Retail
11 69 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (1.90%) Front Office
13 56 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 53 (1.48%) Advertising
15 45 (1.26%) Games
15 45 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
16 36 (1.00%) Billing
17 35 (0.98%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.19%) React
2 146 (4.07%) .NET
3 120 (3.35%) REST
4 102 (2.85%) Kafka
5 90 (2.51%) Node.js
6 72 (2.01%) Spring
7 64 (1.79%) RESTful
8 62 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 51 (1.42%) CSS
10 46 (1.28%) HTML
11 43 (1.20%) SOAP
12 35 (0.98%) PyTorch
13 34 (0.95%) Django
14 33 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 31 (0.87%) LangChain
15 31 (0.87%) OAuth
16 30 (0.84%) PySpark
17 27 (0.75%) .NET Core
18 26 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
19 25 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 269 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 126 (3.52%) Onboarding
3 108 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 99 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 84 (2.34%) Algorithms
7 71 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 68 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 57 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 52 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 49 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 46 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (1.23%) Equities
15 43 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.03%) Derivative
16 37 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 37 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 143 (3.99%) Linux
2 125 (3.49%) Windows
3 35 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 32 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Unix
6 29 (0.81%) Android
7 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.31%) AIX
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.28%) VMS
11 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.056%) CentOS
12 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.056%) tvOS
13 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (15.69%) Software Engineering
2 547 (15.27%) AI
3 503 (14.04%) Agile
4 433 (12.08%) Mentoring
5 432 (12.06%) Analytics
6 401 (11.19%) CI/CD
7 316 (8.82%) DevOps
7 316 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
8 299 (8.34%) Roadmaps
9 284 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 249 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 242 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 237 (6.61%) Business Development
13 231 (6.45%) Decision-Making
14 229 (6.39%) Microservices
15 210 (5.86%) Machine Learning
16 207 (5.78%) Test Automation
17 187 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 169 (4.72%) Fintech
19 168 (4.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 581 (16.22%) Python
2 312 (8.71%) SQL
3 271 (7.56%) Java
4 157 (4.38%) C#
5 151 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.16%) JavaScript
7 120 (3.35%) C++
8 77 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 71 (1.98%) Go
10 68 (1.90%) Bash
11 31 (0.87%) Bicep
12 29 (0.81%) PHP
13 28 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.73%) SOQL
15 25 (0.70%) Apex Code
16 23 (0.64%) Scala
17 19 (0.53%) Rust
18 18 (0.50%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.47%) R
19 17 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 324 (9.04%) Degree
2 267 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 172 (4.80%) SC Cleared
4 102 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (2.07%) CISSP
6 67 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 63 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 55 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.37%) CISM
11 47 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 44 (1.23%) PhD
13 38 (1.06%) CCNP
14 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.78%) CRISC
16 27 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (0.75%) CISA
17 22 (0.61%) ACCA
18 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.46%) QA
2 96 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (2.62%) NIST
4 92 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 70 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 66 (1.84%) GDPR
7 48 (1.34%) GRC
8 22 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 22 (0.61%) PCI DSS
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 (0.33%) SLA
13 11 (0.31%) PMO
13 11 (0.31%) WCAG
14 10 (0.28%) COBIT
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
15 9 (0.25%) MiFID
16 8 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 131 (3.66%) Docker
2 94 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (0.31%) 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
1 245 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 231 (6.45%) Terraform
3 47 (1.31%) Ansible
4 45 (1.26%) Grafana
5 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 19 (0.53%) SCCM
9 16 (0.45%) Puppet
10 14 (0.39%) Nagios
11 13 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.31%) Data Guard
12 11 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.20%) Cilium
13 7 (0.20%) Istio
13 7 (0.20%) Nessus
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
1 379 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 115 (3.21%) Salesforce
3 110 (3.07%) SAP
4 88 (2.46%) Oracle
5 80 (2.23%) Databricks
6 71 (1.98%) Google
7 69 (1.93%) VMware
8 67 (1.87%) Cisco
9 64 (1.79%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.28%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
11 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 34 (0.95%) IBM
13 32 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.75%) Splunk
15 25 (0.70%) Intapp
16 23 (0.64%) Foundry
16 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.59%) Apple