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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 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 3,657 2,194 3,993
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.01% 17.80% 19.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.23% 19.40% 20.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,336 1,337 2,602
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% - -0.18%
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 21,227 11,311 19,460
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.74% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,569 7,393 13,829
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,606 £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 27 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 27 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 +7 617 £90,000 +16.13% 250
West London +25 112 £70,000 +14.29% 66
South London +19 56 £80,000 -25.58% 15
East London -5 15 £89,000 +11.25% 17
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 650 (17.77%) AWS
2 612 (16.74%) AI
3 604 (16.52%) Python
4 596 (16.30%) Software Engineering
5 587 (16.05%) Azure
6 500 (13.67%) Agile
7 470 (12.85%) Analytics
8 447 (12.22%) Mentoring
9 424 (11.59%) CI/CD
10 371 (10.14%) Microsoft
11 337 (9.22%) DevOps
12 335 (9.16%) SQL
13 325 (8.89%) Degree
14 323 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
15 311 (8.50%) Roadmaps
16 301 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 281 (7.68%) Java
18 280 (7.66%) Security Cleared
19 257 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
20 246 (6.73%) Machine Learning
21 245 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
22 240 (6.56%) Business Development
23 239 (6.54%) Kubernetes
24 236 (6.45%) GCP
25 234 (6.40%) Decision-Making
26 228 (6.23%) Terraform
27 226 (6.18%) Microservices
28 210 (5.74%) SaaS
29 205 (5.61%) Test Automation
30 192 (5.25%) 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 72 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.68%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) SAS
7 20 (0.55%) CMS
8 16 (0.44%) Confluence
9 9 (0.25%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) 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 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.082%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.027%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.027%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
Applications
1 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.16%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) InDesign
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.082%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.082%) Blender
9 3 (0.082%) Maya
10 2 (0.055%) InVision
10 2 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
3 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
4 10 (0.27%) Maximo
4 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.082%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.082%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.082%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.082%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.082%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.082%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.082%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 650 (17.77%) AWS
2 587 (16.05%) Azure
3 236 (6.45%) GCP
4 210 (5.74%) SaaS
5 153 (4.18%) Serverless
6 146 (3.99%) Power Platform
7 141 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
8 122 (3.34%) GitHub
9 89 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
10 69 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 67 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.64%) Amazon S3
14 54 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 49 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.20%) dbt
17 43 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 42 (1.15%) Figma
19 39 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.14%) Firewall
2 109 (2.98%) Network Security
3 74 (2.02%) DNS
4 66 (1.80%) VPN
5 57 (1.56%) Broadband
6 53 (1.45%) VLAN
7 50 (1.37%) WAN
8 49 (1.34%) DHCP
9 43 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.09%) BGP
11 38 (1.04%) OSPF
12 36 (0.98%) Internet
13 32 (0.88%) Wireless
14 29 (0.79%) TCP/IP
15 28 (0.77%) SD-WAN
16 26 (0.71%) LAN
17 22 (0.60%) SAN
18 20 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
19 17 (0.46%) Multicast
20 16 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.28%) Power BI
2 106 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 68 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.59%) Tableau
6 57 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 48 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 40 (1.09%) DynamoDB
12 37 (1.01%) Metadata
13 35 (0.96%) BigQuery
14 34 (0.93%) MySQL
15 33 (0.90%) Big Data
16 28 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (0.55%) Looker
17 20 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 124 (3.39%) Git
2 57 (1.56%) JIRA
3 50 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.26%) GitLab
5 24 (0.66%) MLflow
6 23 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 12 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) Selenium
10 6 (0.16%) JMeter
10 6 (0.16%) Vite
11 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.14%) JUnit
12 4 (0.11%) Gatling
12 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.11%) NUnit
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Spock
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 930 (25.43%) Finance
2 622 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 278 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (7.27%) Banking
5 249 (6.81%) Law
6 209 (5.72%) Marketing
7 204 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 160 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 155 (4.24%) Legal
10 145 (3.96%) Retail
11 72 (1.97%) Front Office
12 71 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 51 (1.39%) Advertising
15 49 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 41 (1.12%) Games
17 37 (1.01%) Legal Technology
18 36 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (0.96%) Billing
20 31 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.07%) .NET
1 149 (4.07%) React
2 117 (3.20%) REST
3 109 (2.98%) Kafka
4 88 (2.41%) Node.js
5 79 (2.16%) Spring
6 66 (1.80%) RESTful
7 62 (1.70%) Spring Boot
8 45 (1.23%) CSS
9 40 (1.09%) HTML
10 36 (0.98%) Next.js
11 35 (0.96%) Django
12 34 (0.93%) LangChain
12 34 (0.93%) PySpark
13 31 (0.85%) SOAP
14 30 (0.82%) OAuth
15 29 (0.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 28 (0.77%) .NET Core
16 28 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.71%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 270 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 143 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 125 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 99 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 67 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 65 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 61 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 59 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 54 (1.48%) Security Posture
13 52 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
14 45 (1.23%) Derivative
15 44 (1.20%) Equities
16 42 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
17 41 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
17 41 (1.12%) Public Cloud
18 38 (1.04%) Blog
19 37 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.58%) Linux
2 104 (2.84%) Windows
3 33 (0.90%) Unix
4 32 (0.88%) Android
5 30 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.33%) AIX
8 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.082%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.055%) CentOS
12 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.055%) tvOS
13 1 (0.027%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (16.74%) AI
2 596 (16.30%) Software Engineering
3 500 (13.67%) Agile
4 470 (12.85%) Analytics
5 447 (12.22%) Mentoring
6 424 (11.59%) CI/CD
7 337 (9.22%) DevOps
8 323 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
9 311 (8.50%) Roadmaps
10 301 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 257 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 246 (6.73%) Machine Learning
13 245 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 240 (6.56%) Business Development
15 234 (6.40%) Decision-Making
16 226 (6.18%) Microservices
17 205 (5.61%) Test Automation
18 192 (5.25%) Full-Stack Development
19 181 (4.95%) Data Science
20 174 (4.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 604 (16.52%) Python
2 335 (9.16%) SQL
3 281 (7.68%) Java
4 158 (4.32%) TypeScript
5 157 (4.29%) C#
6 151 (4.13%) JavaScript
7 113 (3.09%) C++
8 67 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.75%) Go
10 62 (1.70%) Bash
11 29 (0.79%) Bicep
11 29 (0.79%) PHP
11 29 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 22 (0.60%) SOQL
13 20 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.55%) Scala
14 19 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.52%) R
14 19 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 325 (8.89%) Degree
2 280 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 177 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 112 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 71 (1.94%) CISSP
7 64 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 56 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (1.34%) CISM
9 49 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 37 (1.01%) CCNP
11 36 (0.98%) PhD
12 34 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.79%) CISA
15 25 (0.68%) CRISC
16 22 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
17 19 (0.52%) ACCA
18 18 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (3.36%) QA
2 106 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 95 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.43%) NIST
5 76 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 76 (2.08%) GDPR
6 47 (1.29%) GRC
7 25 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 19 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.36%) PMO
13 12 (0.33%) COBIT
13 12 (0.33%) WCAG
14 11 (0.30%) SLA
15 10 (0.27%) NCSC
16 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (3.55%) Docker
2 68 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.11%) vSphere
6 3 (0.082%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.055%) Firmware
7 2 (0.055%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.027%) IAG
8 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 239 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 228 (6.23%) Terraform
3 48 (1.31%) Ansible
4 40 (1.09%) Grafana
5 32 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.44%) Puppet
9 15 (0.41%) Nagios
10 14 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.30%) SCCM
13 7 (0.19%) Cilium
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.082%) Argo
Vendors
1 371 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 121 (3.31%) Salesforce
3 111 (3.04%) SAP
4 92 (2.52%) Databricks
4 92 (2.52%) Oracle
5 77 (2.11%) Google
6 69 (1.89%) Cisco
7 65 (1.78%) Palo Alto
8 58 (1.59%) VMware
9 40 (1.09%) Adobe
9 40 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 36 (0.98%) Dell
11 35 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.90%) IBM
13 28 (0.77%) Splunk
14 27 (0.74%) Zscaler
15 26 (0.71%) Fortinet
16 23 (0.63%) Foundry
16 23 (0.63%) Intapp
16 23 (0.63%) SolarWinds