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 29 October 2024.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,013 3,227 10,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.27% 16.15% 19.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.41% 16.97% 20.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,058 2,618 5,550
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £64,044
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +3.70%

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 17,909 19,015 53,067
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 95.19% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,237 15,330 32,703
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 29 October 2024.

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 October 2024. 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 +4 873 £80,000 -5.88% 97
South London -7 93 £50,000 -9.09% 11
West London -4 85 £72,500 +20.83% 28
East London +8 19 £80,000 +23.08% 20
North London +6 8 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 October 2024, 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 1,425 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 1,182 (29.45%) Finance
3 1,079 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
4 981 (24.45%) Agile
5 945 (23.55%) Analytics
6 887 (22.10%) AWS
7 849 (21.16%) Python
8 740 (18.44%) Azure
9 709 (17.67%) GCP
10 672 (16.75%) Degree
11 667 (16.62%) Software Engineering
12 640 (15.95%) Data Management
13 639 (15.92%) SQL
14 631 (15.72%) Customer Experience
15 590 (14.70%) Broadband
16 570 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 569 (14.18%) Data Governance
18 533 (13.28%) Data Transformation
19 514 (12.81%) JavaScript
20 501 (12.48%) Data Hub
21 497 (12.38%) DevOps
22 485 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
23 457 (11.39%) Java
23 457 (11.39%) Microsoft
24 455 (11.34%) Influencing Skills
25 444 (11.06%) CISA
26 440 (10.96%) Google
27 409 (10.19%) Kubernetes
28 404 (10.07%) Data Analysis
29 398 (9.92%) Banking

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
1 184 (4.59%) Apache
2 175 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 60 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 24 (0.60%) Confluence
6 24 (0.60%) SAS
7 17 (0.42%) CMS
8 11 (0.27%) nginx
9 8 (0.20%) IIS
10 6 (0.15%) WordPress
11 5 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.12%) Drupal
12 3 (0.075%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.050%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.050%) Mule
14 1 (0.025%) Ethereum
14 1 (0.025%) Luigi
14 1 (0.025%) Tornado
14 1 (0.025%) Umbraco
Applications
1 112 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.100%) Revit
9 4 (0.100%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.075%) InDesign
11 2 (0.050%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.025%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.025%) Trello
Business Applications
1 60 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.77%) Ripple
3 26 (0.65%) NEC Housing
4 24 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 22 (0.55%) Endur
6 13 (0.32%) Shopify
7 12 (0.30%) Aladdin
8 10 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.15%) C-CURE
9 6 (0.15%) Magento
9 6 (0.15%) Maximo
9 6 (0.15%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.12%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
11 4 (0.100%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.100%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.100%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
12 3 (0.075%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 887 (22.10%) AWS
2 740 (18.44%) Azure
3 709 (17.67%) GCP
4 197 (4.91%) Power Platform
5 193 (4.81%) Snowflake
6 175 (4.36%) dbt
7 129 (3.21%) Serverless
8 128 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
9 125 (3.11%) SaaS
10 114 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 106 (2.64%) Collibra
12 105 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
13 102 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 85 (2.12%) Amazon S3
15 71 (1.77%) PaaS
16 68 (1.69%) Entra ID
16 68 (1.69%) GitHub
17 53 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
18 52 (1.30%) IaaS
19 46 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 590 (14.70%) Broadband
2 151 (3.76%) Network Security
3 131 (3.26%) Firewall
4 86 (2.14%) DNS
5 66 (1.64%) WAN
6 58 (1.45%) DHCP
7 54 (1.35%) VPN
8 50 (1.25%) SD-WAN
9 49 (1.22%) LAN
10 48 (1.20%) Wireless
11 40 (1.00%) TCP/IP
12 34 (0.85%) HTTP
13 32 (0.80%) BGP
14 27 (0.67%) MPLS
14 27 (0.67%) VLAN
15 26 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
16 23 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
17 22 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 20 (0.50%) Internet
19 19 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 501 (12.48%) Data Hub
2 197 (4.91%) Data Lake
3 165 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
4 155 (3.86%) Power BI
5 151 (3.76%) Apache Ignite
6 150 (3.74%) Dremio
7 148 (3.69%) Apache Arrow
8 146 (3.64%) SQL Server
9 144 (3.59%) Tableau
10 142 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
11 134 (3.34%) BigQuery
12 121 (3.02%) Metadata
13 99 (2.47%) NoSQL
14 81 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
15 76 (1.89%) Big Data
16 64 (1.59%) MySQL
16 64 (1.59%) Relational Database
17 62 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
18 37 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
19 36 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 218 (5.43%) Git
2 86 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 63 (1.57%) GitLab
4 61 (1.52%) JIRA
5 24 (0.60%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.57%) Gradle
7 21 (0.52%) Artifactory
8 18 (0.45%) Maven
9 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.40%) Mockito
9 16 (0.40%) MSTest
9 16 (0.40%) Selenium
10 13 (0.32%) IntelliJ
10 13 (0.32%) JUnit
11 12 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (0.27%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.25%) Moq
13 10 (0.25%) Snyk
13 10 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,425 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 1,182 (29.45%) Finance
3 485 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 455 (11.34%) Influencing Skills
5 398 (9.92%) Banking
6 267 (6.65%) Retail
7 255 (6.35%) Front Office
8 234 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 193 (4.81%) Investment Banking
10 188 (4.68%) Law
11 167 (4.16%) Legal
11 167 (4.16%) Marketing
12 124 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
13 112 (2.79%) Manufacturing
14 100 (2.49%) Public Sector
15 92 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 84 (2.09%) Games
17 66 (1.64%) Advertising
17 66 (1.64%) Financial Institution
18 50 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (6.93%) React
2 219 (5.46%) .NET
3 195 (4.86%) Pandas
4 184 (4.59%) HTML
5 168 (4.19%) NumPy
6 159 (3.96%) gRPC
7 155 (3.86%) CSS
8 150 (3.74%) SciPy
9 148 (3.69%) Protocol Buffers
10 147 (3.66%) AngularJS
11 126 (3.14%) Kafka
12 107 (2.67%) RESTful
13 101 (2.52%) REST
14 86 (2.14%) Node.js
15 80 (1.99%) GraphQL
16 74 (1.84%) Web Services
17 60 (1.50%) Spring
18 58 (1.45%) Django
19 57 (1.42%) Spring Boot
20 56 (1.40%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 225 (5.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 216 (5.38%) Derivative
3 211 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 206 (5.13%) Equities
5 186 (4.63%) Fixed Income
6 151 (3.76%) Cloud Native
7 130 (3.24%) Product Ownership
8 117 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 114 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
9 114 (2.84%) Over-the-Top Content
10 99 (2.47%) Pricing Data
11 83 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
11 83 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
12 82 (2.04%) Social Media
13 79 (1.97%) Algorithms
14 73 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
15 70 (1.74%) Life Science
16 69 (1.72%) Management Information System
17 66 (1.64%) Cyberattack
18 63 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 218 (5.43%) Linux
2 206 (5.13%) Windows
3 45 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 41 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 28 (0.70%) Unix
6 27 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.62%) Android
8 17 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.40%) Solaris
10 15 (0.37%) CentOS
10 15 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.17%) VMS
13 3 (0.075%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.025%) AIX
14 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.025%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.025%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,079 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
2 981 (24.45%) Agile
3 945 (23.55%) Analytics
4 667 (16.62%) Software Engineering
5 640 (15.95%) Data Management
6 631 (15.72%) Customer Experience
7 570 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 569 (14.18%) Data Governance
9 533 (13.28%) Data Transformation
10 497 (12.38%) DevOps
11 404 (10.07%) Data Analysis
12 367 (9.15%) Mentoring
13 354 (8.82%) CI/CD
14 299 (7.45%) Risk Management
15 288 (7.18%) Asset Management
16 273 (6.80%) Project Management
17 268 (6.68%) Computer Science
18 266 (6.63%) IT Audit
19 241 (6.01%) Full-Stack Development
20 238 (5.93%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 849 (21.16%) Python
2 639 (15.92%) SQL
3 514 (12.81%) JavaScript
4 457 (11.39%) Java
5 379 (9.44%) TypeScript
6 268 (6.68%) C#
7 123 (3.07%) PowerShell
8 79 (1.97%) Scala
9 75 (1.87%) C++
10 70 (1.74%) Go
10 70 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 69 (1.72%) Rust
12 52 (1.30%) R
13 46 (1.15%) PHP
14 45 (1.12%) Bash
14 45 (1.12%) C
15 30 (0.75%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.40%) Solidity
17 16 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 672 (16.75%) Degree
2 444 (11.06%) CISA
3 164 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 128 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 124 (3.09%) DBS Check
6 108 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 103 (2.57%) SC Cleared
8 96 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (1.92%) CISSP
10 65 (1.62%) CCNP
11 40 (1.00%) ACCA
12 37 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 33 (0.82%) CISM
14 32 (0.80%) Azure Certification
14 32 (0.80%) CCIE
15 31 (0.77%) NVQ Level 3
16 30 (0.75%) CCNA
17 28 (0.70%) PhD
18 25 (0.62%) CEH
19 22 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (9.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 246 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 132 (3.29%) QA
4 96 (2.39%) NIST
5 95 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (2.24%) GDPR
7 61 (1.52%) HIPAA
8 53 (1.32%) IFRS
9 51 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 48 (1.20%) Good Clinical Practice
11 27 (0.67%) GAAP
11 27 (0.67%) GMP
12 25 (0.62%) PMO
13 22 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 22 (0.55%) SLA
14 21 (0.52%) GRC
15 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.27%) IFRS 9
16 10 (0.25%) IFRS 17
16 10 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 298 (7.43%) Docker
2 127 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.57%) vSphere
5 20 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.15%) RACF
9 6 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.12%) Ceph
10 5 (0.12%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.100%) Firmware
12 3 (0.075%) KVM
12 3 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.025%) NFS
13 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 409 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 286 (7.13%) Terraform
3 144 (3.59%) Ansible
4 46 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.97%) SCCM
6 34 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 30 (0.75%) Grafana
8 27 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 27 (0.67%) Puppet
8 27 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 18 (0.45%) Consul
11 17 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 17 (0.42%) Packer
12 11 (0.27%) Nessus
13 10 (0.25%) Nagios
14 7 (0.17%) CASB
15 6 (0.15%) Kibana
15 6 (0.15%) QRadar
15 6 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 457 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 440 (10.96%) Google
3 201 (5.01%) Oracle
4 130 (3.24%) Cisco
5 129 (3.21%) Databricks
6 110 (2.74%) Informatica
7 108 (2.69%) Cloudera
8 106 (2.64%) SAP
9 105 (2.62%) VMware
10 60 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 56 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 53 (1.32%) Salesforce
13 46 (1.15%) F5
14 40 (1.00%) Apple
15 36 (0.90%) Fortinet
16 35 (0.87%) Citrix
16 35 (0.87%) Palo Alto
17 32 (0.80%) Meraki
17 32 (0.80%) NEC
18 30 (0.75%) Bloomberg