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 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 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 3,894 2,138 3,841
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.72% 17.83% 20.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.95% 19.53% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,513 1,266 2,294
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 £102,500 £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 22,980 10,945 18,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 91.25% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15,854 7,137 11,798
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 £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 11 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 11 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 +6 507 £90,000 +16.13% 467
West London +29 105 £60,000 +21.95% 131
South London +25 49 £80,000 -25.58% 34
East London +6 21 £120,000 +50.00% 31
North London -1 2 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 696 (17.87%) AI
2 677 (17.39%) Software Engineering
3 643 (16.51%) AWS
4 599 (15.38%) Python
5 587 (15.07%) Azure
6 484 (12.43%) Agile
7 471 (12.10%) Analytics
8 448 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 439 (11.27%) Mentoring
10 389 (9.99%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.24%) SQL
12 348 (8.94%) DevOps
13 333 (8.55%) Degree
14 329 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
15 328 (8.42%) Roadmaps
16 319 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 296 (7.60%) Java
18 294 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
19 275 (7.06%) Security Cleared
20 271 (6.96%) Machine Learning
21 245 (6.29%) Decision-Making
21 245 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
22 239 (6.14%) GCP
23 236 (6.06%) Business Development
24 225 (5.78%) Data Science
25 222 (5.70%) Microservices
26 218 (5.60%) Kubernetes
27 216 (5.55%) Terraform
28 213 (5.47%) Test Automation
29 203 (5.21%) 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 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.69%) Apache
6 20 (0.51%) Confluence
7 19 (0.49%) SAS
8 14 (0.36%) CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
10 5 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.10%) IIS
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.077%) Kinematics
12 3 (0.077%) WinCC
13 2 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.051%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.051%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 36 (0.92%) 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 (0.33%) 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 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.23%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.13%) Maximo
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.077%) Endur
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.077%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.077%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.077%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 643 (16.51%) AWS
2 587 (15.07%) Azure
3 239 (6.14%) GCP
4 203 (5.21%) SaaS
5 135 (3.47%) Serverless
6 134 (3.44%) Power Platform
7 128 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
9 119 (3.06%) GitHub
10 112 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (1.59%) Entra ID
13 59 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.36%) Amazon S3
14 53 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
16 45 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (1.13%) Azure AKS
18 40 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
19 38 (0.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 114 (2.93%) Firewall
2 104 (2.67%) Network Security
3 72 (1.85%) DNS
4 66 (1.69%) VPN
5 51 (1.31%) VLAN
6 43 (1.10%) DHCP
6 43 (1.10%) WAN
7 39 (1.00%) Broadband
7 39 (1.00%) Internet
8 38 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (0.95%) BGP
10 35 (0.90%) OSPF
10 35 (0.90%) TCP/IP
11 29 (0.74%) LAN
12 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 21 (0.54%) Wireless
13 18 (0.46%) SAN
14 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.39%) Multicast
16 13 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (2.82%) Power BI
2 106 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 52 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 51 (1.31%) Tableau
9 49 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 41 (1.05%) Big Data
12 37 (0.95%) MySQL
13 35 (0.90%) Metadata
14 34 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
15 32 (0.82%) DynamoDB
16 31 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
17 24 (0.62%) BigQuery
18 22 (0.56%) SAP HANA
19 19 (0.49%) Looker
20 18 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 110 (2.82%) Git
2 55 (1.41%) JIRA
3 48 (1.23%) GitLab
4 47 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.49%) MLflow
8 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.36%) Selenium
10 7 (0.18%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.18%) NUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Appium
11 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.13%) JUnit
11 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 4 (0.10%) Maven
12 4 (0.10%) Spock
12 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 980 (25.17%) Finance
2 664 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 288 (7.40%) Banking
4 280 (7.19%) Law
5 275 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 213 (5.47%) Marketing
8 157 (4.03%) Public Sector
9 146 (3.75%) Retail
10 139 (3.57%) Legal
11 87 (2.23%) Financial Institution
12 74 (1.90%) Front Office
13 65 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 62 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
16 40 (1.03%) Games
17 35 (0.90%) Manufacturing
18 33 (0.85%) Military
19 32 (0.82%) Advertising
19 32 (0.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (5.55%) Terraform
2 135 (3.47%) .NET
3 130 (3.34%) React
4 118 (3.03%) REST
5 116 (2.98%) Kafka
6 88 (2.26%) Spring
7 79 (2.03%) Node.js
8 77 (1.98%) RESTful
9 65 (1.67%) Spring Boot
10 47 (1.21%) HTML
11 41 (1.05%) 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 (0.74%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.69%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.69%) FastAPI
16 27 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 253 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 155 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 146 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.98%) Product Ownership
5 113 (2.90%) Data Centre
6 106 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 94 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 65 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 65 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 53 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 53 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 47 (1.21%) Blog
11 45 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 45 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 44 (1.13%) Derivative
12 44 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.05%) e-Learning
15 40 (1.03%) Security Posture
16 38 (0.98%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.85%) Linux
2 98 (2.52%) Windows
3 48 (1.23%) Android
4 36 (0.92%) Unix
5 33 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 31 (0.80%) 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 (0.051%) CentOS
11 2 (0.051%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (17.87%) AI
2 677 (17.39%) Software Engineering
3 484 (12.43%) Agile
4 471 (12.10%) Analytics
5 448 (11.50%) CI/CD
6 439 (11.27%) Mentoring
7 348 (8.94%) DevOps
8 329 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
9 328 (8.42%) Roadmaps
10 319 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 294 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 271 (6.96%) Machine Learning
13 245 (6.29%) Decision-Making
13 245 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 236 (6.06%) Business Development
15 225 (5.78%) Data Science
16 222 (5.70%) Microservices
17 213 (5.47%) Test Automation
18 191 (4.90%) Migration
19 183 (4.70%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 599 (15.38%) Python
2 360 (9.24%) SQL
3 296 (7.60%) Java
4 141 (3.62%) TypeScript
5 140 (3.60%) C#
6 123 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 89 (2.29%) C++
8 71 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 58 (1.49%) Go
10 57 (1.46%) Bash
11 30 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 27 (0.69%) Bicep
13 26 (0.67%) PHP
14 23 (0.59%) R
15 22 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.54%) Ruby
17 20 (0.51%) Scala
18 18 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.46%) SOQL
19 17 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 333 (8.55%) Degree
2 275 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 178 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 64 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.54%) CISSP
8 49 (1.26%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.10%) CISM
11 42 (1.08%) DV Cleared
12 41 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (1.03%) PhD
14 33 (0.85%) CCNP
15 27 (0.69%) CISA
15 27 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 20 (0.51%) CRISC
17 17 (0.44%) ACCA
17 17 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (3.29%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.24%) QA
3 94 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.21%) GDPR
5 83 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 79 (2.03%) NIST
7 50 (1.28%) GRC
8 25 (0.64%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 15 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) COBIT
11 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 12 (0.31%) PMO
13 11 (0.28%) NCSC
13 11 (0.28%) WCAG
14 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.23%) MiFID
16 8 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 127 (3.26%) Docker
2 62 (1.59%) 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 (0.051%) Firmware
8 2 (0.051%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.051%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
9 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 218 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 38 (0.98%) Ansible
3 32 (0.82%) Grafana
4 26 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.51%) 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%) Argo
13 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.077%) CASB
Vendors
1 389 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.08%) Oracle
3 116 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 113 (2.90%) Google
5 102 (2.62%) SAP
6 96 (2.47%) Databricks
7 72 (1.85%) Cisco
8 57 (1.46%) VMware
9 54 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 45 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 39 (1.00%) Zscaler
12 33 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 32 (0.82%) 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