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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 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 4,149 2,062 3,785
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.01% 17.43% 20.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.32% 19.15% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,582 1,204 2,164
10th Percentile £58,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,563 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,375 £120,000 £122,500
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 23,953 10,766 17,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 90.99% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,119 6,981 10,990
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 4 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 4 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 +6 464 £90,000 +12.50% 784
West London +22 94 £57,500 +16.87% 130
South London +21 48 £70,000 -34.88% 54
East London +13 31 £120,000 +143.90% 25
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 4 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.

1 795 (19.16%) AI
2 735 (17.72%) Software Engineering
3 627 (15.11%) AWS
4 594 (14.32%) Azure
5 587 (14.15%) Python
6 511 (12.32%) Analytics
7 499 (12.03%) Agile
8 473 (11.40%) CI/CD
9 425 (10.24%) Mentoring
9 425 (10.24%) Microsoft
10 369 (8.89%) SQL
11 359 (8.65%) DevOps
12 351 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
13 348 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 338 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 330 (7.95%) Roadmaps
16 321 (7.74%) Degree
17 305 (7.35%) Java
18 290 (6.99%) Security Cleared
19 285 (6.87%) Machine Learning
20 250 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
21 241 (5.81%) Decision-Making
22 235 (5.66%) Kubernetes
23 234 (5.64%) Data Science
24 232 (5.59%) GCP
25 228 (5.50%) Microservices
26 226 (5.45%) Business Development
27 217 (5.23%) Terraform
28 212 (5.11%) Full-Stack Development
29 211 (5.09%) 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 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 58 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 40 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.75%) Apache
5 26 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.51%) 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%) Kinematics
Applications
1 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.29%) 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%) DaVinci Resolve
12 3 (0.072%) Maya
13 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.27%) 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%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 627 (15.11%) AWS
2 594 (14.32%) Azure
3 232 (5.59%) GCP
4 203 (4.89%) SaaS
5 150 (3.62%) Power Platform
6 140 (3.37%) Serverless
7 131 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 123 (2.96%) GitHub
10 120 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
11 76 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (1.74%) Entra ID
13 55 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
15 51 (1.23%) Amazon S3
16 46 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
16 46 (1.11%) Azure AKS
16 46 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
17 43 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
18 39 (0.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 108 (2.60%) Firewall
2 97 (2.34%) Network Security
3 74 (1.78%) DNS
4 66 (1.59%) VPN
5 50 (1.21%) VLAN
6 43 (1.04%) Internet
7 40 (0.96%) DHCP
8 39 (0.94%) WAN
9 36 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 35 (0.84%) BGP
11 34 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (0.75%) Broadband
13 30 (0.72%) OSPF
14 22 (0.53%) LAN
15 18 (0.43%) Wireless
16 16 (0.39%) SAN
16 16 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.39%) VXLAN
17 12 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
18 11 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.70%) Power BI
2 103 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 92 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 60 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 54 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (1.13%) Big Data
7 47 (1.13%) MongoDB
8 43 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (1.01%) MySQL
10 41 (0.99%) Metadata
10 41 (0.99%) Tableau
11 40 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 31 (0.75%) DynamoDB
14 25 (0.60%) SAP HANA
15 22 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
16 21 (0.51%) Redis
17 19 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (2.39%) Git
2 58 (1.40%) JIRA
3 48 (1.16%) GitLab
4 41 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.75%) 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 5 (0.12%) Appium
10 5 (0.12%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.12%) Mocha
10 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.096%) JUnit
11 4 (0.096%) Maven
11 4 (0.096%) Spock
12 3 (0.072%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.072%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,035 (24.95%) Finance
2 709 (17.09%) Social Skills
3 297 (7.16%) Banking
4 294 (7.09%) Law
5 268 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 237 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (5.01%) Marketing
8 177 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 170 (4.10%) Legal
10 159 (3.83%) Retail
11 111 (2.68%) Financial Institution
12 70 (1.69%) Front Office
12 70 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 67 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 42 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 41 (0.99%) Games
18 37 (0.89%) Billing
19 33 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (5.23%) Terraform
2 133 (3.21%) React
3 132 (3.18%) .NET
4 126 (3.04%) REST
5 102 (2.46%) Kafka
6 91 (2.19%) Spring
7 87 (2.10%) RESTful
8 70 (1.69%) Node.js
8 70 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 53 (1.28%) HTML
10 42 (1.01%) Next.js
11 41 (0.99%) CSS
12 38 (0.92%) JSON
13 33 (0.80%) AngularJS
13 33 (0.80%) FastAPI
13 33 (0.80%) PySpark
14 30 (0.72%) Django
15 27 (0.65%) .NET Core
16 25 (0.60%) SpaCy
17 23 (0.55%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 257 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 160 (3.86%) Onboarding
3 152 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 131 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 128 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 122 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 117 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 72 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.30%) Blog
10 53 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 50 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
12 49 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.08%) e-Learning
15 39 (0.94%) Derivative
15 39 (0.94%) Mobile App
16 37 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 36 (0.87%) Data Structures
17 36 (0.87%) Reinsurance
18 34 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (2.53%) Linux
2 97 (2.34%) Windows
3 48 (1.16%) Android
4 35 (0.84%) Unix
5 33 (0.80%) 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
1 795 (19.16%) AI
2 735 (17.72%) Software Engineering
3 511 (12.32%) Analytics
4 499 (12.03%) Agile
5 473 (11.40%) CI/CD
6 425 (10.24%) Mentoring
7 359 (8.65%) DevOps
8 351 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
9 348 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 338 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 330 (7.95%) Roadmaps
12 285 (6.87%) Machine Learning
13 250 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 241 (5.81%) Decision-Making
15 234 (5.64%) Data Science
16 228 (5.50%) Microservices
17 226 (5.45%) Business Development
18 212 (5.11%) Full-Stack Development
19 211 (5.09%) Test Automation
20 206 (4.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 587 (14.15%) Python
2 369 (8.89%) SQL
3 305 (7.35%) Java
4 146 (3.52%) C#
5 145 (3.49%) TypeScript
6 116 (2.80%) JavaScript
7 84 (2.02%) C++
8 69 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.45%) Go
10 53 (1.28%) Bash
11 37 (0.89%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.72%) Bicep
13 28 (0.67%) PHP
14 25 (0.60%) R
14 25 (0.60%) Scala
15 21 (0.51%) 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 (7.74%) Degree
2 290 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 67 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.40%) CISSP
8 57 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 43 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (0.96%) PhD
13 38 (0.92%) CISM
14 35 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.75%) CCNP
16 27 (0.65%) CISA
17 26 (0.63%) ACCA
18 22 (0.53%) CIMA
19 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
20 18 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 113 (2.72%) QA
3 91 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.93%) GDPR
6 71 (1.71%) NIST
7 44 (1.06%) GRC
8 24 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.31%) WCAG
11 12 (0.29%) COBIT
12 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.27%) NCSC
12 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.27%) PMO
13 10 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.24%) SLA
14 6 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 139 (3.35%) Docker
2 63 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.27%) 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
1 235 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 44 (1.06%) Grafana
3 38 (0.92%) Ansible
4 31 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.51%) Puppet
6 20 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 16 (0.39%) 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%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 425 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 131 (3.16%) Oracle
3 125 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 121 (2.92%) Google
5 111 (2.68%) SAP
6 91 (2.19%) Databricks
7 66 (1.59%) Cisco
8 53 (1.28%) VMware
9 47 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 47 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 41 (0.99%) Zscaler
11 36 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 32 (0.77%) Splunk
13 30 (0.72%) Workday
14 29 (0.70%) HP
15 27 (0.65%) Adobe
16 22 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 21 (0.51%) IBM
18 20 (0.48%) Intapp
19 19 (0.46%) Foundry