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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,611 2,177 4,082
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.96% 17.69% 19.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.18% 19.27% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,320 1,328 2,676
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £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% - -0.37%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £120,000
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 21,022 11,298 20,010
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 91.83% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,471 7,350 14,325
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,800
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,703 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
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 24 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 24 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 +7 624 £90,000 +16.13% 239
West London +28 110 £70,000 +14.29% 59
South London +19 58 £80,000 -25.58% 20
East London -6 15 £89,000 +11.25% 14
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 640 (17.72%) AWS
2 601 (16.64%) Python
3 595 (16.48%) AI
4 586 (16.23%) Azure
5 582 (16.12%) Software Engineering
6 497 (13.76%) Agile
7 454 (12.57%) Analytics
8 442 (12.24%) Mentoring
9 420 (11.63%) CI/CD
10 368 (10.19%) Microsoft
11 334 (9.25%) DevOps
12 328 (9.08%) SQL
13 324 (8.97%) Degree
14 317 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
15 307 (8.50%) Roadmaps
16 297 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 275 (7.62%) Java
18 274 (7.59%) Security Cleared
19 258 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
20 244 (6.76%) Business Development
20 244 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
21 235 (6.51%) Decision-Making
21 235 (6.51%) Kubernetes
21 235 (6.51%) Machine Learning
22 232 (6.42%) GCP
23 227 (6.29%) Terraform
24 223 (6.18%) Microservices
25 209 (5.79%) SaaS
26 206 (5.70%) Test Automation
27 189 (5.23%) 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 71 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 62 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.66%) Apache
6 21 (0.58%) SAS
7 20 (0.55%) CMS
8 16 (0.44%) Confluence
9 8 (0.22%) WordPress
10 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.028%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.028%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.028%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
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 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.083%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.083%) Blender
10 3 (0.083%) Maya
10 3 (0.083%) SPSS
11 2 (0.055%) InVision
11 2 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
4 10 (0.28%) Maximo
4 10 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.11%) Shopify
8 3 (0.083%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.083%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.083%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.083%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.083%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 640 (17.72%) AWS
2 586 (16.23%) Azure
3 232 (6.42%) GCP
4 209 (5.79%) SaaS
5 153 (4.24%) Serverless
6 144 (3.99%) Power Platform
7 143 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
9 120 (3.32%) GitHub
10 88 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (1.83%) Entra ID
14 60 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
16 48 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 42 (1.16%) dbt
19 40 (1.11%) Figma
20 38 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.16%) Firewall
2 108 (2.99%) Network Security
3 73 (2.02%) DNS
4 65 (1.80%) VPN
5 58 (1.61%) Broadband
6 53 (1.47%) VLAN
7 49 (1.36%) WAN
8 48 (1.33%) DHCP
9 43 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.11%) BGP
11 38 (1.05%) OSPF
12 36 (1.00%) Internet
13 33 (0.91%) Wireless
14 28 (0.78%) TCP/IP
15 27 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 26 (0.72%) LAN
17 22 (0.61%) SAN
18 20 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
19 17 (0.47%) Multicast
20 16 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (3.27%) Power BI
2 104 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 65 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 56 (1.55%) Tableau
6 55 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 48 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 42 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 42 (1.16%) Relational Database
11 40 (1.11%) DynamoDB
12 35 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 35 (0.97%) Metadata
13 34 (0.94%) MySQL
14 33 (0.91%) Big Data
15 27 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (0.55%) Looker
16 20 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 124 (3.43%) Git
2 57 (1.58%) JIRA
3 50 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.27%) GitLab
5 25 (0.69%) MLflow
6 23 (0.64%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.61%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 12 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
11 6 (0.17%) Vite
12 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.14%) JUnit
13 4 (0.11%) Gatling
13 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 914 (25.31%) Finance
2 607 (16.81%) Social Skills
3 272 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (7.14%) Banking
5 241 (6.67%) Law
6 202 (5.59%) Marketing
7 192 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 159 (4.40%) Public Sector
9 153 (4.24%) Legal
10 144 (3.99%) Retail
11 73 (2.02%) Front Office
12 68 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 52 (1.44%) Advertising
15 48 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.11%) Games
17 39 (1.08%) Legal Technology
18 35 (0.97%) Billing
18 35 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (4.10%) React
2 147 (4.07%) .NET
3 117 (3.24%) REST
4 105 (2.91%) Kafka
5 87 (2.41%) Node.js
6 74 (2.05%) Spring
7 64 (1.77%) RESTful
8 62 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 46 (1.27%) CSS
10 41 (1.14%) HTML
11 35 (0.97%) Django
12 34 (0.94%) PySpark
13 33 (0.91%) LangChain
13 33 (0.91%) Next.js
14 32 (0.89%) SOAP
15 30 (0.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 30 (0.83%) OAuth
16 28 (0.78%) .NET Core
16 28 (0.78%) AngularJS
17 27 (0.75%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 270 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 142 (3.93%) Onboarding
3 122 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 100 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 68 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 64 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (1.66%) AI Agents
10 59 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 54 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
14 45 (1.25%) Equities
15 44 (1.22%) Derivative
16 42 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
18 39 (1.08%) Public Cloud
19 37 (1.02%) Social Media
20 36 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.68%) Linux
2 105 (2.91%) Windows
3 34 (0.94%) Unix
4 31 (0.86%) Android
5 29 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.36%) AIX
8 13 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.083%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.055%) CentOS
12 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.055%) tvOS
13 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (16.48%) AI
2 582 (16.12%) Software Engineering
3 497 (13.76%) Agile
4 454 (12.57%) Analytics
5 442 (12.24%) Mentoring
6 420 (11.63%) CI/CD
7 334 (9.25%) DevOps
8 317 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
9 307 (8.50%) Roadmaps
10 297 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 258 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 244 (6.76%) Business Development
12 244 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 235 (6.51%) Decision-Making
13 235 (6.51%) Machine Learning
14 223 (6.18%) Microservices
15 206 (5.70%) Test Automation
16 189 (5.23%) Full-Stack Development
17 171 (4.74%) Data Science
18 169 (4.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 601 (16.64%) Python
2 328 (9.08%) SQL
3 275 (7.62%) Java
4 156 (4.32%) TypeScript
5 155 (4.29%) C#
6 151 (4.18%) JavaScript
7 114 (3.16%) C++
8 69 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 65 (1.80%) Bash
10 64 (1.77%) Go
11 31 (0.86%) Bicep
12 30 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 29 (0.80%) PHP
14 22 (0.61%) SOQL
15 20 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 20 (0.55%) Scala
15 20 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.50%) Ruby
17 17 (0.47%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 324 (8.97%) Degree
2 274 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 173 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 109 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 71 (1.97%) CISSP
7 64 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 56 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.36%) CISM
9 49 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 48 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.00%) CCNP
11 36 (1.00%) PhD
12 34 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.80%) CISA
15 25 (0.69%) CRISC
16 21 (0.58%) ACCA
16 21 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.43%) QA
2 101 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 94 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.46%) NIST
5 77 (2.13%) GDPR
6 73 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.30%) GRC
8 24 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 15 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.36%) PMO
14 12 (0.33%) COBIT
14 12 (0.33%) WCAG
15 11 (0.30%) NCSC
15 11 (0.30%) SLA
16 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 129 (3.57%) Docker
2 71 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.083%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.055%) Firmware
8 2 (0.055%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 235 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 227 (6.29%) Terraform
3 48 (1.33%) Ansible
4 40 (1.11%) Grafana
5 32 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.69%) FortiGate
6 25 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.44%) Nagios
7 16 (0.44%) Puppet
8 14 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.36%) Data Guard
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (0.33%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Cilium
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
12 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.083%) CASB
Vendors
1 368 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.30%) Salesforce
3 111 (3.07%) SAP
4 93 (2.58%) Oracle
5 90 (2.49%) Databricks
6 73 (2.02%) Google
7 68 (1.88%) Cisco
8 63 (1.74%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.63%) VMware
10 41 (1.14%) Dell
11 40 (1.11%) Adobe
11 40 (1.11%) ServiceNow
12 35 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 34 (0.94%) IBM
14 28 (0.78%) Splunk
15 26 (0.72%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.72%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.64%) Foundry
16 23 (0.64%) Intapp
16 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds