Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £86,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,086 2,068 3,771
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.87% 17.65% 20.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.16% 19.39% 21.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 1,202 2,164
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 23,813 10,663 17,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.01% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,162 6,902 11,066
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% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 29 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 29 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 +6 471 £90,000 +14.29% 830
West London +23 92 £60,000 +21.95% 144
South London +22 46 £70,000 -34.88% 45
East London +13 29 £120,000 +97.21% 27
North London -5 2 £62,500 -16.67% 3
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 767 (18.77%) AI
2 725 (17.74%) Software Engineering
3 633 (15.49%) AWS
4 592 (14.49%) Azure
5 589 (14.42%) Python
6 502 (12.29%) Analytics
7 501 (12.26%) Agile
8 470 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 429 (10.50%) Mentoring
10 422 (10.33%) Microsoft
11 366 (8.96%) SQL
12 362 (8.86%) DevOps
13 349 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
14 341 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 337 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 335 (8.20%) Roadmaps
17 319 (7.81%) Degree
18 311 (7.61%) Java
19 287 (7.02%) Security Cleared
20 276 (6.75%) Machine Learning
21 252 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
22 241 (5.90%) Decision-Making
23 239 (5.85%) Kubernetes
24 234 (5.73%) GCP
25 230 (5.63%) Business Development
26 226 (5.53%) Microservices
27 225 (5.51%) Data Science
28 222 (5.43%) Terraform
29 211 (5.16%) Test Automation
30 210 (5.14%) Migration

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 63 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.76%) Apache
5 24 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.54%) Confluence
7 19 (0.47%) SAS
8 15 (0.37%) CMS
9 7 (0.17%) WordPress
10 6 (0.15%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.098%) IIS
12 4 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.049%) Camunda
14 2 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.049%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.049%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.049%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.12%) Navisworks
10 5 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.098%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.098%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.098%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.073%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.073%) Blender
12 3 (0.073%) Maya
13 2 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.37%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 7 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.098%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.098%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.073%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.073%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 633 (15.49%) AWS
2 592 (14.49%) Azure
3 234 (5.73%) GCP
4 200 (4.89%) SaaS
5 148 (3.62%) Power Platform
6 138 (3.38%) Serverless
7 130 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
7 130 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (3.03%) GitHub
9 122 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
10 77 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 69 (1.69%) Entra ID
12 56 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 52 (1.27%) Amazon S3
15 47 (1.15%) Azure AKS
15 47 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
16 45 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
18 36 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 112 (2.74%) Firewall
2 99 (2.42%) Network Security
3 77 (1.88%) DNS
4 67 (1.64%) VPN
5 53 (1.30%) VLAN
6 43 (1.05%) DHCP
6 43 (1.05%) Internet
7 40 (0.98%) WAN
8 38 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (0.88%) BGP
11 32 (0.78%) OSPF
12 31 (0.76%) Broadband
13 25 (0.61%) LAN
14 20 (0.49%) Wireless
15 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.42%) SAN
17 16 (0.39%) VXLAN
18 12 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
19 11 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (2.72%) Power BI
2 103 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 59 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 52 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.17%) Big Data
8 45 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 45 (1.10%) Tableau
9 41 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 39 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 39 (0.95%) Metadata
11 37 (0.91%) MySQL
12 32 (0.78%) DynamoDB
13 24 (0.59%) SAP HANA
14 21 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
15 20 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (0.49%) Hadoop
16 19 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (2.47%) Git
2 58 (1.42%) JIRA
3 46 (1.13%) GitLab
4 40 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.32%) Selenium
9 12 (0.29%) MLflow
10 8 (0.20%) NUnit
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
11 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.098%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.098%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.098%) JUnit
12 4 (0.098%) Maven
12 4 (0.098%) Spock
12 4 (0.098%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,027 (25.13%) Finance
2 706 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 297 (7.27%) Banking
4 295 (7.22%) Law
5 269 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 237 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 213 (5.21%) Marketing
8 172 (4.21%) Public Sector
9 159 (3.89%) Legal
10 154 (3.77%) Retail
11 106 (2.59%) Financial Institution
12 71 (1.74%) Front Office
13 69 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
14 68 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
16 41 (1.00%) Games
17 40 (0.98%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.83%) Billing
19 33 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (5.43%) Terraform
2 135 (3.30%) React
3 134 (3.28%) .NET
4 129 (3.16%) REST
5 107 (2.62%) Kafka
6 93 (2.28%) Spring
7 87 (2.13%) RESTful
8 70 (1.71%) Node.js
8 70 (1.71%) Spring Boot
9 53 (1.30%) HTML
10 41 (1.00%) Next.js
11 40 (0.98%) CSS
12 37 (0.91%) JSON
13 36 (0.88%) PySpark
14 33 (0.81%) AngularJS
15 31 (0.76%) Django
16 30 (0.73%) FastAPI
17 27 (0.66%) .NET Core
18 24 (0.59%) OAuth
18 24 (0.59%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 258 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.94%) Onboarding
3 152 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 126 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 121 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 119 (2.91%) AI Agents
7 117 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 71 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 56 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
11 52 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 50 (1.22%) Blog
13 45 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.05%) e-Learning
15 40 (0.98%) Derivative
16 39 (0.95%) Data Structures
16 39 (0.95%) Mobile App
17 37 (0.91%) Public Cloud
18 36 (0.88%) Reinsurance
19 33 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.52%) Linux
2 100 (2.45%) Windows
3 47 (1.15%) Android
4 35 (0.86%) Unix
5 33 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.073%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.049%) tvOS
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) Rocky
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (18.77%) AI
2 725 (17.74%) Software Engineering
3 502 (12.29%) Analytics
4 501 (12.26%) Agile
5 470 (11.50%) CI/CD
6 429 (10.50%) Mentoring
7 362 (8.86%) DevOps
8 349 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
9 341 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 337 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 335 (8.20%) Roadmaps
12 276 (6.75%) Machine Learning
13 252 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 241 (5.90%) Decision-Making
15 230 (5.63%) Business Development
16 226 (5.53%) Microservices
17 225 (5.51%) Data Science
18 211 (5.16%) Test Automation
19 210 (5.14%) Migration
20 207 (5.07%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 589 (14.42%) Python
2 366 (8.96%) SQL
3 311 (7.61%) Java
4 145 (3.55%) C#
4 145 (3.55%) TypeScript
5 118 (2.89%) JavaScript
6 86 (2.10%) C++
7 69 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 59 (1.44%) Go
9 53 (1.30%) Bash
10 34 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 32 (0.78%) Bicep
12 27 (0.66%) PHP
13 26 (0.64%) Scala
14 25 (0.61%) R
15 21 (0.51%) Ruby
16 19 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.47%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 319 (7.81%) Degree
2 287 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 182 (4.45%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 66 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 55 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.35%) CISSP
8 44 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 43 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 37 (0.91%) CISM
10 37 (0.91%) PhD
11 32 (0.78%) CCNP
11 32 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (0.66%) CISA
13 25 (0.61%) ACCA
14 21 (0.51%) CIMA
15 20 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 115 (2.81%) QA
3 92 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.96%) GDPR
6 71 (1.74%) NIST
7 46 (1.13%) GRC
8 24 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
11 12 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.29%) WCAG
12 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.27%) NCSC
12 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.27%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 6 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 140 (3.43%) Docker
2 64 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 3 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.073%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.049%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.049%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
9 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 239 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 39 (0.95%) Grafana
3 37 (0.91%) Ansible
4 30 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.49%) FortiGate
5 20 (0.49%) Puppet
6 19 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 17 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.24%) Nagios
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.20%) SCCM
10 6 (0.15%) Cilium
10 6 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) EnCase
11 5 (0.12%) FTK
11 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 3 (0.073%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 422 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 129 (3.16%) Oracle
3 122 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 120 (2.94%) Google
5 105 (2.57%) SAP
6 89 (2.18%) Databricks
7 67 (1.64%) Cisco
8 54 (1.32%) VMware
9 49 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 48 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 40 (0.98%) Zscaler
12 33 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 32 (0.78%) Splunk
14 30 (0.73%) Workday
15 29 (0.71%) Adobe
16 28 (0.69%) HP
17 23 (0.56%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.51%) IBM
18 21 (0.51%) Intapp
19 20 (0.49%) Foundry