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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,567 2,091 4,636
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.41% 17.17% 18.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.71% 18.91% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,340 1,289 3,217
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,160
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 £115,000
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 20,146 11,059 23,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 90.82% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13,884 7,015 17,214
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,193
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 £97,500 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +7 718 £90,000 +12.50% 173
West London +30 111 £75,000 +17.65% 28
South London +39 65 £70,000 -34.88% 13
East London +3 17 £68,000 -15.00% 27
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 586 (16.43%) Azure
2 556 (15.59%) Python
3 553 (15.50%) AWS
4 550 (15.42%) Software Engineering
5 486 (13.62%) AI
6 482 (13.51%) Agile
7 397 (11.13%) Analytics
8 391 (10.96%) Mentoring
9 373 (10.46%) CI/CD
9 373 (10.46%) Microsoft
10 315 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
11 296 (8.30%) SQL
12 295 (8.27%) Degree
13 292 (8.19%) DevOps
14 272 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 269 (7.54%) Roadmaps
16 255 (7.15%) Java
17 244 (6.84%) Security Cleared
18 241 (6.76%) Kubernetes
19 234 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 225 (6.31%) Microservices
21 224 (6.28%) Decision-Making
21 224 (6.28%) Infrastructure as Code
22 220 (6.17%) GCP
23 214 (6.00%) Business Development
24 209 (5.86%) Terraform
25 203 (5.69%) Test Automation
26 199 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
27 193 (5.41%) SaaS
28 191 (5.35%) Machine Learning

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 67 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 64 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.73%) Apache
5 21 (0.59%) CMS
6 14 (0.39%) Confluence
7 11 (0.31%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) WordPress
9 9 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) JBoss
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
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%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) InVision
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.084%) Sketch
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.34%) Maximo
4 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.084%) Shopify
8 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.056%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.056%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 586 (16.43%) Azure
2 553 (15.50%) AWS
3 220 (6.17%) GCP
4 193 (5.41%) SaaS
5 157 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 130 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 123 (3.45%) Serverless
8 119 (3.34%) GitHub
9 76 (2.13%) Entra ID
10 73 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (1.37%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 45 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 45 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (1.15%) Figma
16 37 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 36 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 36 (1.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.20%) Firewall
2 87 (2.44%) Network Security
3 84 (2.35%) DNS
4 78 (2.19%) Broadband
5 76 (2.13%) VPN
6 61 (1.71%) DHCP
7 58 (1.63%) VLAN
8 54 (1.51%) WAN
9 50 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.18%) Wireless
11 37 (1.04%) BGP
12 35 (0.98%) OSPF
13 32 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.78%) SAN
16 27 (0.76%) LAN
17 22 (0.62%) Multicast
18 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
19 15 (0.42%) HTTP
20 14 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (2.97%) Power BI
1 106 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 56 (1.57%) NoSQL
3 47 (1.32%) Data Lake
4 46 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
4 46 (1.29%) Tableau
5 43 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
7 38 (1.07%) DynamoDB
8 36 (1.01%) Metadata
9 35 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.76%) MySQL
11 22 (0.62%) Big Data
12 21 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (0.53%) Db2
14 17 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 120 (3.36%) Git
2 69 (1.93%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.54%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 39 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.64%) MLflow
7 18 (0.50%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
10 8 (0.22%) Vite
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Selenium
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
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
General
1 921 (25.82%) Finance
2 579 (16.23%) Social Skills
3 267 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (7.35%) Banking
5 219 (6.14%) Law
6 204 (5.72%) Marketing
7 180 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (4.68%) Legal
9 154 (4.32%) Retail
10 145 (4.07%) Public Sector
11 69 (1.93%) Front Office
12 64 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (1.51%) Advertising
14 52 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 43 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.12%) Games
17 36 (1.01%) Billing
17 36 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (0.95%) Legal Technology
18 34 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.21%) React
2 149 (4.18%) .NET
3 115 (3.22%) REST
4 99 (2.78%) Kafka
5 88 (2.47%) Node.js
6 74 (2.07%) Spring
7 65 (1.82%) RESTful
7 65 (1.82%) Spring Boot
8 53 (1.49%) CSS
9 46 (1.29%) HTML
9 46 (1.29%) SOAP
10 40 (1.12%) PyTorch
11 36 (1.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 33 (0.93%) PySpark
13 32 (0.90%) Django
13 32 (0.90%) OAuth
14 30 (0.84%) LangChain
15 28 (0.78%) .NET Core
15 28 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
16 27 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 256 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 85 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 82 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 73 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 71 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 51 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 46 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.29%) Equities
11 46 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 46 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 38 (1.07%) Social Media
13 37 (1.04%) Derivative
13 37 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 35 (0.98%) AI Agents
15 32 (0.90%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.12%) Linux
2 126 (3.53%) Windows
3 41 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 31 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.39%) 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
1 550 (15.42%) Software Engineering
2 486 (13.62%) AI
3 482 (13.51%) Agile
4 397 (11.13%) Analytics
5 391 (10.96%) Mentoring
6 373 (10.46%) CI/CD
7 315 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (8.19%) DevOps
9 272 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 269 (7.54%) Roadmaps
11 234 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 225 (6.31%) Microservices
13 224 (6.28%) Decision-Making
13 224 (6.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 214 (6.00%) Business Development
15 203 (5.69%) Test Automation
16 199 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
17 191 (5.35%) Machine Learning
18 182 (5.10%) Fintech
19 171 (4.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 556 (15.59%) Python
2 296 (8.30%) SQL
3 255 (7.15%) Java
4 154 (4.32%) C#
5 150 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 126 (3.53%) C++
8 77 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.05%) Go
10 62 (1.74%) Bash
11 32 (0.90%) Bicep
12 28 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 28 (0.78%) Scala
12 28 (0.78%) SOQL
13 25 (0.70%) PHP
14 24 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.53%) R
15 19 (0.53%) Rust
16 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 295 (8.27%) Degree
2 244 (6.84%) Security Cleared
3 176 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 92 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.93%) DV Cleared
6 68 (1.91%) CISSP
7 57 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 48 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.23%) CISM
10 43 (1.21%) PhD
11 41 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 40 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 34 (0.95%) CCNP
14 27 (0.76%) CRISC
15 25 (0.70%) ACCA
16 24 (0.67%) CISA
17 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (0.59%) OSCP
18 20 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (3.20%) QA
2 91 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 89 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 88 (2.47%) NIST
5 66 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 53 (1.49%) GDPR
7 41 (1.15%) GRC
8 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.34%) NCSC
12 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) SLA
13 11 (0.31%) IFRS
14 10 (0.28%) MiFID
15 9 (0.25%) COBIT
15 9 (0.25%) WCAG
16 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 130 (3.64%) Docker
2 96 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
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
1 241 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 209 (5.86%) Terraform
3 47 (1.32%) Grafana
4 46 (1.29%) Ansible
5 40 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.59%) SCCM
9 13 (0.36%) Nagios
10 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.25%) Nessus
12 8 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.20%) Cilium
13 7 (0.20%) Istio
14 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.17%) Puppet
15 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 373 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 107 (3.00%) Salesforce
3 100 (2.80%) SAP
4 82 (2.30%) Databricks
5 73 (2.05%) Oracle
6 72 (2.02%) VMware
7 67 (1.88%) Cisco
8 64 (1.79%) Google
9 63 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 44 (1.23%) Adobe
12 42 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 32 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 31 (0.87%) IBM
15 27 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.73%) Splunk
17 23 (0.64%) Foundry
17 23 (0.64%) Intapp
18 22 (0.62%) Apple
18 22 (0.62%) SolarWinds