Senior Jobs in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,380 4,321 4,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.24% 19.08% 17.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.88% 20.21% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,335 2,872 3,903
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year - -0.37% +3.60%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £63,150 £64,080 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.45% -8.46% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,970 21,382 27,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 94.44% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,362 15,411 21,218
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in London.

Salary trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

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 18 July 2025. 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 -5 447 £77,500 -1.59% 319
South London +4 87 £107,500 +65.38% 94
West London -6 69 £61,250 +6.52% 45
East London +5 43 £80,000 +39.13% 32
North London -10 23 £75,000 +7.14% 11
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 920 (38.66%) Finance
2 842 (35.38%) Agile
3 688 (28.91%) Python
4 679 (28.53%) AWS
5 602 (25.29%) Social Skills
6 595 (25.00%) Azure
7 533 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
8 435 (18.28%) Degree
9 431 (18.11%) Software Engineering
10 409 (17.18%) CI/CD
11 391 (16.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 377 (15.84%) Mentoring
13 361 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
14 358 (15.04%) SQL
15 353 (14.83%) TypeScript
16 350 (14.71%) Banking
17 290 (12.18%) Microsoft
18 283 (11.89%) Java
18 283 (11.89%) Analytics
19 258 (10.84%) Law
20 257 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 256 (10.76%) JavaScript
22 255 (10.71%) DevOps
22 255 (10.71%) GCP
23 227 (9.54%) React
24 225 (9.45%) Kubernetes
25 210 (8.82%) Broadband
26 207 (8.70%) Roadmaps
27 205 (8.61%) Machine Learning
28 203 (8.53%) Computer Science

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 110 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (3.82%) Apache
3 61 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 52 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 45 (1.89%) Apache Spark
6 25 (1.05%) Confluence
7 19 (0.80%) CMS
8 11 (0.46%) WordPress
9 8 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.21%) Liferay
10 5 (0.21%) Luigi
10 5 (0.21%) nginx
11 4 (0.17%) Drupal
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.084%) SAS
13 1 (0.042%) CICS
13 1 (0.042%) JBoss
13 1 (0.042%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.88%) Maya
6 15 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.29%) Sketch
8 5 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.80%) SAP IBP
4 11 (0.46%) Shopify
5 10 (0.42%) SAP CO
5 10 (0.42%) SAP FI
5 10 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
6 9 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.29%) SAP FSCM
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP IS-U
9 5 (0.21%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.17%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.17%) Endur
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
11 3 (0.13%) SAP SCM
11 3 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 679 (28.53%) AWS
2 595 (25.00%) Azure
3 255 (10.71%) GCP
4 193 (8.11%) Serverless
5 158 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
6 132 (5.55%) Snowflake
7 129 (5.42%) Power Platform
8 99 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
9 95 (3.99%) SaaS
10 94 (3.95%) dbt
11 82 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 56 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
15 43 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
16 40 (1.68%) Entra ID
17 37 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
18 35 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
18 35 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
18 35 (1.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 210 (8.82%) Broadband
2 73 (3.07%) Firewall
3 56 (2.35%) Network Security
4 48 (2.02%) VPN
5 33 (1.39%) DNS
5 33 (1.39%) WAN
6 32 (1.34%) LAN
7 22 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (0.80%) Multicast
10 17 (0.71%) BGP
10 17 (0.71%) HTTP
11 13 (0.55%) OSPF
12 12 (0.50%) Wireless
13 11 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (0.46%) DHCP
13 11 (0.46%) Wireshark
14 9 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.38%) VoIP
14 9 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.66%) Data Lake
2 95 (3.99%) Power BI
3 86 (3.61%) NoSQL
4 84 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 83 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
6 80 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 75 (3.15%) Apache Arrow
7 75 (3.15%) Apache Iceberg
7 75 (3.15%) Apache Ignite
7 75 (3.15%) Dremio
8 67 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
9 61 (2.56%) DynamoDB
10 55 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
12 50 (2.10%) Tableau
13 38 (1.60%) Big Data
14 30 (1.26%) MySQL
15 28 (1.18%) MongoDB
15 28 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 26 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 105 (4.41%) Git
2 80 (3.36%) JIRA
3 53 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 22 (0.92%) GitLab
5 18 (0.76%) JUnit
6 17 (0.71%) IntelliJ
7 16 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.55%) Mockito
8 13 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.50%) Maven
10 11 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.34%) Selenium
11 8 (0.34%) Vite
12 6 (0.25%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.25%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.21%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.17%) Moq
14 4 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 920 (38.66%) Finance
2 602 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 361 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 350 (14.71%) Banking
5 258 (10.84%) Law
6 257 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 195 (8.19%) Marketing
8 166 (6.97%) Games
9 146 (6.13%) Front Office
10 115 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
11 103 (4.33%) Investment Banking
12 92 (3.87%) Public Sector
13 88 (3.70%) Telecoms
14 84 (3.53%) Retail
15 76 (3.19%) Legal
16 55 (2.31%) Advertising
17 47 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
18 45 (1.89%) Manufacturing
19 44 (1.85%) Financial Institution
20 37 (1.55%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (9.54%) React
2 147 (6.18%) GraphQL
3 135 (5.67%) .NET
4 101 (4.24%) REST
5 98 (4.12%) HTML
6 96 (4.03%) Pandas
7 89 (3.74%) Kafka
8 86 (3.61%) CSS
9 83 (3.49%) gRPC
10 80 (3.36%) RESTful
11 79 (3.32%) AngularJS
11 79 (3.32%) NumPy
11 79 (3.32%) SciPy
12 78 (3.28%) Protocol Buffers
13 67 (2.82%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 67 (2.82%) WebGL
14 58 (2.44%) Node.js
15 53 (2.23%) Spring
16 52 (2.18%) PySpark
17 46 (1.93%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 131 (5.50%) Cloud Native
2 129 (5.42%) Derivative
3 128 (5.38%) Equities
4 114 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 108 (4.54%) Hedge funds
6 107 (4.50%) Product Ownership
7 99 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 95 (3.99%) Fixed Income
9 91 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
10 81 (3.40%) Algorithms
11 70 (2.94%) Pricing Data
12 67 (2.82%) Animation
13 66 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
14 59 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
15 52 (2.18%) Onboarding
16 47 (1.97%) Data Structures
17 38 (1.60%) Data Centre
18 36 (1.51%) Social Media
19 33 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
20 32 (1.34%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 158 (6.64%) Linux
2 128 (5.38%) Windows
3 38 (1.60%) Unix
4 37 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.13%) Android
6 27 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.25%) Solaris
8 6 (0.25%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) CentOS
9 5 (0.21%) HPUX
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.084%) zOS
13 1 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (35.38%) Agile
2 533 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
3 431 (18.11%) Software Engineering
4 409 (17.18%) CI/CD
5 391 (16.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 377 (15.84%) Mentoring
7 283 (11.89%) Analytics
8 255 (10.71%) DevOps
9 207 (8.70%) Roadmaps
10 205 (8.61%) Machine Learning
11 203 (8.53%) Computer Science
12 190 (7.98%) User Experience
13 184 (7.73%) Data Science
14 170 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 159 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 158 (6.64%) Project Management
17 157 (6.60%) Microservices
18 156 (6.55%) Business Strategy
19 155 (6.51%) Asset Management
20 154 (6.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 688 (28.91%) Python
2 358 (15.04%) SQL
3 353 (14.83%) TypeScript
4 283 (11.89%) Java
5 256 (10.76%) JavaScript
6 146 (6.13%) C#
7 103 (4.33%) C++
8 67 (2.82%) HLSL
9 53 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 51 (2.14%) Go
11 50 (2.10%) Rust
12 34 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 33 (1.39%) Bash
13 33 (1.39%) Scala
14 28 (1.18%) C
15 25 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.05%) PHP
16 21 (0.88%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.71%) Bicep
18 15 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 435 (18.28%) Degree
2 105 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 89 (3.74%) PhD
4 63 (2.65%) Security Cleared
5 62 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 57 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 47 (1.97%) CISA
7 47 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (1.72%) SC Cleared
9 31 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.18%) ACCA
10 28 (1.18%) CCNP
10 28 (1.18%) CIMA
10 28 (1.18%) CISSP
11 24 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.88%) ICAEW
14 20 (0.84%) MRICS
15 17 (0.71%) CCNA
15 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (4.75%) QA
2 59 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.55%) GDPR
4 35 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.09%) ITGC
6 23 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.97%) PMO
7 18 (0.76%) NIST
7 18 (0.76%) SLA
8 11 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.46%) WCAG
9 9 (0.38%) IFRS
10 8 (0.34%) GAAP
11 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.29%) MiFID
12 6 (0.25%) GRC
13 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.21%) EMIR
13 5 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
14 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 148 (6.22%) Docker
2 80 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) Apache Flume
7 5 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.17%) Firmware
9 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.084%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.084%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.084%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.084%) XenApp
11 1 (0.042%) pfSense
11 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 225 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 188 (7.90%) Terraform
3 66 (2.77%) Ansible
4 57 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.39%) Grafana
6 27 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.46%) SCCM
9 9 (0.38%) Nagios
9 9 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.34%) Istio
10 8 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (0.25%) Argo
11 6 (0.25%) Puppet
12 5 (0.21%) Avamar
12 5 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.21%) Oozie
13 4 (0.17%) Matomo
14 3 (0.13%) CASB
Vendors
1 290 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 113 (4.75%) ServiceNow
3 107 (4.50%) Google
4 87 (3.66%) SAP
5 79 (3.32%) Databricks
6 78 (3.28%) Cisco
6 78 (3.28%) Oracle
7 63 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 60 (2.52%) VMware
9 33 (1.39%) Meraki
10 32 (1.34%) Adobe
11 31 (1.30%) IBM
12 26 (1.09%) Apple
12 26 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 22 (0.92%) Splunk
14 21 (0.88%) SolarWinds
15 19 (0.80%) Dell
16 17 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.71%) Workday
17 16 (0.67%) F5