Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,170 2,041 3,737
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.07% 17.42% 20.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.37% 19.14% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,580 1,189 2,156
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £63,629
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -5.80%

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 24,003 10,661 17,613
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 90.97% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,104 6,886 10,855
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +6 457 £90,000 +12.50% 883
West London +21 93 £55,000 +11.79% 113
South London +18 48 £70,000 -25.33% 46
East London +15 32 £110,000 +123.58% 27
North London -5 2 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 801 (19.21%) AI
2 742 (17.79%) Software Engineering
3 629 (15.08%) AWS
4 596 (14.29%) Azure
5 585 (14.03%) Python
6 513 (12.30%) Analytics
7 502 (12.04%) Agile
8 476 (11.41%) CI/CD
9 426 (10.22%) Mentoring
10 424 (10.17%) Microsoft
11 369 (8.85%) SQL
12 364 (8.73%) DevOps
13 350 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
14 348 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 342 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 330 (7.91%) Roadmaps
17 321 (7.70%) Degree
18 311 (7.46%) Java
19 291 (6.98%) Security Cleared
20 287 (6.88%) Machine Learning
21 253 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
22 243 (5.83%) Decision-Making
23 239 (5.73%) Kubernetes
24 233 (5.59%) Data Science
24 233 (5.59%) GCP
25 230 (5.52%) Microservices
26 224 (5.37%) Business Development
27 220 (5.28%) Terraform
28 218 (5.23%) Full-Stack Development
29 213 (5.11%) Test Automation

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 64 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 40 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.74%) Apache
5 26 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.50%) Confluence
7 19 (0.46%) SAS
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) WordPress
10 7 (0.17%) Drupal
11 5 (0.12%) WinCC
12 4 (0.096%) IIS
12 4 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Camunda
14 2 (0.048%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.048%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.17%) InDesign
8 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.14%) Revit
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.096%) Civil 3D
11 4 (0.096%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.072%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.072%) Blender
12 3 (0.072%) Maya
13 2 (0.048%) DaVinci Resolve
13 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
7 8 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 7 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.096%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
11 3 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 629 (15.08%) AWS
2 596 (14.29%) Azure
3 233 (5.59%) GCP
4 204 (4.89%) SaaS
5 149 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 142 (3.41%) Serverless
7 133 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
9 125 (3.00%) GitHub
10 120 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
11 76 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 55 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
15 51 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 47 (1.13%) Azure AKS
17 46 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
18 44 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 108 (2.59%) Firewall
2 96 (2.30%) Network Security
3 73 (1.75%) DNS
4 65 (1.56%) VPN
5 48 (1.15%) VLAN
6 43 (1.03%) Internet
7 40 (0.96%) DHCP
8 38 (0.91%) WAN
9 37 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 35 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (0.79%) BGP
12 32 (0.77%) Broadband
13 28 (0.67%) OSPF
14 23 (0.55%) LAN
15 17 (0.41%) Wireless
16 16 (0.38%) SAN
16 16 (0.38%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 11 (0.26%) Multicast
19 10 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (2.66%) Power BI
2 103 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 92 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 60 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.15%) Big Data
8 47 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (1.01%) MySQL
11 41 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (0.98%) Metadata
11 41 (0.98%) Tableau
12 37 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 31 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 25 (0.60%) SAP HANA
15 22 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
16 21 (0.50%) Redis
16 21 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
17 19 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (2.37%) Git
2 58 (1.39%) JIRA
3 48 (1.15%) GitLab
4 42 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.29%) MLflow
8 12 (0.29%) Selenium
9 8 (0.19%) NUnit
10 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.12%) Appium
11 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.12%) Mocha
12 4 (0.096%) JUnit
12 4 (0.096%) Maven
12 4 (0.096%) Spock
13 3 (0.072%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,037 (24.87%) Finance
2 709 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 300 (7.19%) Banking
4 293 (7.03%) Law
5 264 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 240 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (4.99%) Marketing
8 178 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 171 (4.10%) Legal
10 158 (3.79%) Retail
11 111 (2.66%) Financial Institution
12 71 (1.70%) Front Office
13 69 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 67 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 41 (0.98%) Games
17 41 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 38 (0.91%) Billing
19 33 (0.79%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (5.28%) Terraform
2 134 (3.21%) React
3 130 (3.12%) .NET
4 128 (3.07%) REST
5 102 (2.45%) Kafka
6 92 (2.21%) Spring
7 88 (2.11%) RESTful
8 71 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 70 (1.68%) Node.js
10 53 (1.27%) HTML
11 42 (1.01%) Next.js
12 41 (0.98%) CSS
13 39 (0.94%) JSON
14 34 (0.82%) AngularJS
15 33 (0.79%) FastAPI
15 33 (0.79%) PySpark
16 30 (0.72%) Django
17 27 (0.65%) .NET Core
18 25 (0.60%) SpaCy
19 24 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 260 (6.24%) Cloud Native
2 161 (3.86%) Onboarding
3 152 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 132 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 126 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 125 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 117 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 75 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 55 (1.32%) Blog
10 53 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 49 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 49 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.08%) e-Learning
14 39 (0.94%) Mobile App
15 38 (0.91%) Derivative
15 38 (0.91%) Public Cloud
16 36 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 36 (0.86%) Reinsurance
17 33 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.54%) Linux
2 95 (2.28%) Windows
3 48 (1.15%) Android
4 35 (0.84%) Unix
5 33 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) AIX
8 10 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.072%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.048%) 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
1 801 (19.21%) AI
2 742 (17.79%) Software Engineering
3 513 (12.30%) Analytics
4 502 (12.04%) Agile
5 476 (11.41%) CI/CD
6 426 (10.22%) Mentoring
7 364 (8.73%) DevOps
8 350 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
9 348 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 342 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 330 (7.91%) Roadmaps
12 287 (6.88%) Machine Learning
13 253 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 243 (5.83%) Decision-Making
15 233 (5.59%) Data Science
16 230 (5.52%) Microservices
17 224 (5.37%) Business Development
18 218 (5.23%) Full-Stack Development
19 213 (5.11%) Test Automation
20 206 (4.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 585 (14.03%) Python
2 369 (8.85%) SQL
3 311 (7.46%) Java
4 147 (3.53%) TypeScript
5 144 (3.45%) C#
6 116 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 83 (1.99%) C++
8 68 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.44%) Go
10 53 (1.27%) Bash
11 38 (0.91%) Kotlin
12 31 (0.74%) Bicep
13 28 (0.67%) PHP
14 25 (0.60%) R
14 25 (0.60%) Scala
15 21 (0.50%) Ruby
16 19 (0.46%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.46%) SOQL
17 18 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 321 (7.70%) Degree
2 291 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 186 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 66 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 59 (1.41%) CISSP
8 45 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 43 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 41 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (0.94%) CISM
11 39 (0.94%) PhD
12 35 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 29 (0.70%) CCNP
14 27 (0.65%) CISA
15 26 (0.62%) ACCA
16 22 (0.53%) CIMA
17 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 112 (2.69%) QA
3 93 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.94%) GDPR
6 69 (1.65%) NIST
7 44 (1.06%) GRC
8 25 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.31%) WCAG
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
12 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.26%) NCSC
12 11 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.26%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 6 (0.14%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (3.41%) Docker
2 63 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.072%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.048%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.024%) Firmware
9 1 (0.024%) IAG
9 1 (0.024%) KVM
Systems Management
1 239 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.10%) Grafana
3 36 (0.86%) Ansible
4 31 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.50%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 16 (0.38%) 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 (0.19%) SCCM
10 6 (0.14%) Cilium
10 6 (0.14%) EnCase
10 6 (0.14%) FTK
10 6 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.12%) Argo
11 5 (0.12%) Istio
12 3 (0.072%) CASB
Vendors
1 424 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 134 (3.21%) Oracle
3 125 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 121 (2.90%) Google
5 111 (2.66%) SAP
6 89 (2.13%) Databricks
7 65 (1.56%) Cisco
8 53 (1.27%) VMware
9 48 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 45 (1.08%) Palo Alto
11 41 (0.98%) Zscaler
12 35 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 30 (0.72%) HP
13 30 (0.72%) Workday
14 28 (0.67%) Splunk
15 26 (0.62%) Adobe
16 22 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 20 (0.48%) IBM
17 20 (0.48%) Intapp
18 19 (0.46%) Foundry