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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,477 2,107 4,677
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.48% 17.25% 19.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.82% 19.06% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,285 1,280 3,225
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -10.31%

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 19,515 11,054 23,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 90.50% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,434 6,940 17,131
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +7 709 £90,000 +12.50% 322
West London +32 105 £75,000 +17.65% 19
South London +38 67 £60,000 -44.19% 11
East London -3 17 £68,000 -28.42% 21
North London +2 2 £70,000 -6.67% 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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.

1 574 (16.51%) Azure
2 530 (15.24%) Python
3 523 (15.04%) Software Engineering
4 505 (14.52%) AWS
5 471 (13.55%) Agile
6 462 (13.29%) AI
7 374 (10.76%) Analytics
7 374 (10.76%) Microsoft
8 365 (10.50%) Mentoring
9 358 (10.30%) CI/CD
10 313 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
11 295 (8.48%) Degree
12 285 (8.20%) DevOps
13 282 (8.11%) SQL
14 262 (7.54%) Java
15 259 (7.45%) Roadmaps
16 253 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 236 (6.79%) Kubernetes
18 227 (6.53%) Microservices
19 221 (6.36%) Security Cleared
20 218 (6.27%) Decision-Making
20 218 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
21 211 (6.07%) GCP
21 211 (6.07%) Test Automation
22 205 (5.90%) Infrastructure as Code
23 199 (5.72%) SaaS
24 195 (5.61%) Terraform
25 192 (5.52%) Business Development
26 191 (5.49%) Full-Stack Development
27 183 (5.26%) Machine Learning

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 67 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.63%) Apache
6 19 (0.55%) CMS
7 14 (0.40%) Confluence
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.17%) SAS
10 5 (0.14%) Drupal
10 5 (0.14%) JBoss
11 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.086%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.086%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.14%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 3 (0.086%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.086%) Blender
9 3 (0.086%) InDesign
9 3 (0.086%) Maya
9 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.086%) SPSS
10 2 (0.058%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 18 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
1 18 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.35%) Maximo
4 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.12%) Shopify
8 3 (0.086%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.086%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.086%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.086%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.058%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.058%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.058%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.058%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.058%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 574 (16.51%) Azure
2 505 (14.52%) AWS
3 211 (6.07%) GCP
4 199 (5.72%) SaaS
5 152 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 127 (3.65%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.42%) Serverless
8 117 (3.36%) GitHub
9 76 (2.19%) Entra ID
10 67 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 40 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 40 (1.15%) Figma
15 38 (1.09%) IaaS
16 37 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 37 (1.06%) Datadog
16 37 (1.06%) PaaS
16 37 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.99%) Firewall
2 80 (2.30%) DNS
3 76 (2.19%) Broadband
4 73 (2.10%) VPN
5 71 (2.04%) Network Security
6 61 (1.75%) DHCP
7 55 (1.58%) VLAN
8 53 (1.52%) WAN
9 50 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.24%) Wireless
11 34 (0.98%) SD-WAN
12 33 (0.95%) BGP
13 32 (0.92%) OSPF
14 30 (0.86%) SAN
15 29 (0.83%) TCP/IP
16 27 (0.78%) LAN
17 23 (0.66%) Multicast
18 21 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
19 17 (0.49%) HTTP
20 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (2.93%) Power BI
1 102 (2.93%) SQL Server
2 52 (1.50%) NoSQL
3 46 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (1.32%) Tableau
4 43 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 42 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
6 39 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 38 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 36 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (1.04%) DynamoDB
10 33 (0.95%) Metadata
11 32 (0.92%) Relational Database
12 23 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (0.63%) MySQL
14 20 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (0.58%) Db2
15 19 (0.55%) Looker
16 18 (0.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 118 (3.39%) Git
2 70 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.55%) JIRA
4 42 (1.21%) GitLab
5 36 (1.04%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.72%) MLflow
7 19 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.26%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.26%) Vite
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.12%) Gatling
12 4 (0.12%) JUnit
12 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 901 (25.91%) Finance
2 560 (16.11%) Social Skills
3 262 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
3 262 (7.54%) Banking
4 217 (6.24%) Law
5 202 (5.81%) Marketing
6 178 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (4.80%) Legal
8 153 (4.40%) Retail
9 150 (4.31%) Public Sector
10 68 (1.96%) Front Office
11 57 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 51 (1.47%) Advertising
13 50 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 50 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.09%) Games
16 30 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (0.83%) Billing
17 29 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.11%) .NET
2 141 (4.06%) React
3 117 (3.36%) REST
4 101 (2.90%) Kafka
5 85 (2.44%) Node.js
6 77 (2.21%) Spring
7 70 (2.01%) RESTful
8 67 (1.93%) Spring Boot
9 53 (1.52%) CSS
10 46 (1.32%) SOAP
11 44 (1.27%) HTML
12 40 (1.15%) PyTorch
13 36 (1.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 36 (1.04%) PySpark
14 34 (0.98%) OAuth
15 31 (0.89%) LangChain
16 29 (0.83%) Django
16 29 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (0.75%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 249 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 101 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.36%) Algorithms
5 70 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 68 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 67 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 50 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 49 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (1.35%) Onboarding
11 46 (1.32%) Equities
11 46 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 40 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (1.09%) Social Media
14 37 (1.06%) Derivative
15 35 (1.01%) Hedge funds
15 35 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 33 (0.95%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.20%) Linux
2 130 (3.74%) Windows
3 48 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 38 (1.09%) Android
5 32 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.78%) Unix
7 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.29%) VMS
10 8 (0.23%) AIX
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.058%) CentOS
12 2 (0.058%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.058%) tvOS
13 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (15.04%) Software Engineering
2 471 (13.55%) Agile
3 462 (13.29%) AI
4 374 (10.76%) Analytics
5 365 (10.50%) Mentoring
6 358 (10.30%) CI/CD
7 313 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (8.20%) DevOps
9 259 (7.45%) Roadmaps
10 253 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 227 (6.53%) Microservices
12 218 (6.27%) Decision-Making
12 218 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 211 (6.07%) Test Automation
14 205 (5.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 192 (5.52%) Business Development
16 191 (5.49%) Full-Stack Development
17 183 (5.26%) Machine Learning
18 177 (5.09%) Fintech
19 170 (4.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 530 (15.24%) Python
2 282 (8.11%) SQL
3 262 (7.54%) Java
4 144 (4.14%) C#
4 144 (4.14%) JavaScript
5 142 (4.08%) TypeScript
6 130 (3.74%) C++
7 81 (2.33%) Go
8 76 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 56 (1.61%) Bash
10 33 (0.95%) Bicep
11 27 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 27 (0.78%) SOQL
12 25 (0.72%) Scala
13 23 (0.66%) PHP
14 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.63%) Rust
15 19 (0.55%) R
16 17 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 295 (8.48%) Degree
2 221 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 166 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 91 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 63 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 61 (1.75%) CISSP
8 50 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (1.18%) PhD
11 38 (1.09%) CISM
12 36 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 35 (1.01%) CCNP
14 28 (0.81%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.75%) CRISC
16 25 (0.72%) ACCA
16 25 (0.72%) OSCP
17 22 (0.63%) CREST Certified
18 21 (0.60%) CISA
19 20 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (3.08%) QA
2 83 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 79 (2.27%) NIST
5 61 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.32%) GDPR
7 37 (1.06%) GRC
8 21 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.40%) SLA
13 13 (0.37%) NCSC
14 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.32%) IFRS
15 11 (0.32%) MiFID
16 9 (0.26%) COBIT
17 8 (0.23%) WCAG
18 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.68%) Docker
2 100 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.17%) Firmware
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.086%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 236 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 195 (5.61%) Terraform
3 48 (1.38%) Ansible
3 48 (1.38%) Grafana
4 43 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.66%) FortiGate
7 21 (0.60%) SCCM
8 13 (0.37%) Nagios
9 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.23%) Data Guard
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.20%) Istio
12 6 (0.17%) Cilium
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.086%) Argo
14 3 (0.086%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 374 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 97 (2.79%) Salesforce
3 94 (2.70%) SAP
4 80 (2.30%) Databricks
5 75 (2.16%) VMware
6 73 (2.10%) Cisco
7 67 (1.93%) Oracle
8 58 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.64%) Google
10 47 (1.35%) Dell
11 43 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 42 (1.21%) Adobe
13 32 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.86%) Fortinet
15 29 (0.83%) IBM
16 24 (0.69%) Foundry
16 24 (0.69%) SolarWinds
16 24 (0.69%) Splunk
17 23 (0.66%) Apple
18 21 (0.60%) Intapp