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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,578 2,124 4,547
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.30% 17.30% 18.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.57% 18.95% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,344 1,311 3,144
10th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,924 £62,160
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 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £117,500
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 20,363 11,208 22,775
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 91.31% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,036 7,154 16,861
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,283
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 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +7 719 £90,000 +12.50% 393
West London +32 109 £75,000 +22.45% 77
South London +30 60 £70,000 -34.88% 9
East London +1 16 £68,000 -15.00% 28
North London +1 2 £70,000 -6.67% 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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.

1 594 (16.60%) Azure
2 574 (16.04%) AWS
3 566 (15.82%) Python
4 556 (15.54%) Software Engineering
5 510 (14.25%) AI
6 486 (13.58%) Agile
7 406 (11.35%) Analytics
8 397 (11.10%) Mentoring
9 381 (10.65%) CI/CD
10 378 (10.56%) Microsoft
11 321 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
12 304 (8.50%) SQL
13 302 (8.44%) Degree
14 301 (8.41%) DevOps
15 282 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 279 (7.80%) Roadmaps
17 260 (7.27%) Java
18 249 (6.96%) Security Cleared
19 248 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
20 238 (6.65%) Kubernetes
21 233 (6.51%) Decision-Making
22 230 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
23 226 (6.32%) GCP
24 224 (6.26%) Microservices
25 223 (6.23%) Business Development
26 216 (6.04%) Terraform
27 202 (5.65%) SaaS
28 200 (5.59%) Test Automation
29 196 (5.48%) Machine Learning
30 193 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development

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 70 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 66 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.70%) Apache
6 21 (0.59%) CMS
7 15 (0.42%) Confluence
8 14 (0.39%) SAS
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.084%) IIS
14 3 (0.084%) JBoss
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.084%) Blender
9 3 (0.084%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.084%) Maya
9 3 (0.084%) SPSS
10 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 10 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.084%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.084%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.084%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 594 (16.60%) Azure
2 574 (16.04%) AWS
3 226 (6.32%) GCP
4 202 (5.65%) SaaS
5 161 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 137 (3.83%) Power Platform
7 126 (3.52%) Serverless
8 117 (3.27%) GitHub
9 80 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 77 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
12 55 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (1.40%) Amazon S3
13 50 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
14 44 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 44 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 40 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (1.12%) Figma
16 37 (1.03%) dbt
17 35 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.27%) Firewall
2 94 (2.63%) Network Security
3 84 (2.35%) DNS
4 76 (2.12%) VPN
5 69 (1.93%) Broadband
6 60 (1.68%) DHCP
7 57 (1.59%) VLAN
7 57 (1.59%) WAN
8 51 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.12%) Wireless
10 39 (1.09%) BGP
11 37 (1.03%) OSPF
12 32 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 31 (0.87%) TCP/IP
14 30 (0.84%) LAN
15 27 (0.75%) SAN
16 21 (0.59%) Multicast
17 20 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
18 15 (0.42%) HTTP
18 15 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (3.07%) Power BI
2 103 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 56 (1.57%) NoSQL
4 50 (1.40%) Tableau
5 49 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 46 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 45 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 38 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 36 (1.01%) Relational Database
12 35 (0.98%) Metadata
13 27 (0.75%) MySQL
14 25 (0.70%) Big Data
15 22 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.53%) Db2
17 18 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 121 (3.38%) Git
2 60 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 56 (1.57%) JIRA
4 41 (1.15%) GitLab
5 32 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.61%) MLflow
7 17 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 17 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.22%) Metasploit
9 8 (0.22%) Vite
10 6 (0.17%) JMeter
10 6 (0.17%) Selenium
11 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.11%) Gatling
11 4 (0.11%) JUnit
11 4 (0.11%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 914 (25.54%) Finance
2 592 (16.55%) Social Skills
3 267 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (7.29%) Banking
5 225 (6.29%) Law
6 197 (5.51%) Marketing
7 181 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 166 (4.64%) Legal
9 155 (4.33%) Retail
10 146 (4.08%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.90%) Front Office
12 67 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.48%) Advertising
13 53 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.17%) Games
16 36 (1.01%) Billing
17 35 (0.98%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.19%) React
2 145 (4.05%) .NET
3 116 (3.24%) REST
4 100 (2.79%) Kafka
5 87 (2.43%) Node.js
6 71 (1.98%) Spring
7 63 (1.76%) RESTful
8 62 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 53 (1.48%) CSS
10 47 (1.31%) HTML
11 44 (1.23%) SOAP
12 37 (1.03%) PyTorch
13 35 (0.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 34 (0.95%) Django
15 32 (0.89%) PySpark
16 31 (0.87%) OAuth
17 30 (0.84%) LangChain
18 28 (0.78%) .NET Core
19 27 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
20 26 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 260 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 88 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 87 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 84 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 72 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 52 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 50 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 45 (1.26%) Equities
11 45 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 40 (1.12%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.06%) Social Media
15 37 (1.03%) Derivative
15 37 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 37 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 31 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.08%) Linux
2 125 (3.49%) Windows
3 39 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 33 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.84%) Android
6 27 (0.75%) Unix
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.28%) AIX
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) tvOS
12 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.028%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (15.54%) Software Engineering
2 510 (14.25%) AI
3 486 (13.58%) Agile
4 406 (11.35%) Analytics
5 397 (11.10%) Mentoring
6 381 (10.65%) CI/CD
7 321 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (8.41%) DevOps
9 282 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 279 (7.80%) Roadmaps
11 248 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 233 (6.51%) Decision-Making
13 230 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 224 (6.26%) Microservices
15 223 (6.23%) Business Development
16 200 (5.59%) Test Automation
17 196 (5.48%) Machine Learning
18 193 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development
19 177 (4.95%) Fintech
20 172 (4.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 566 (15.82%) Python
2 304 (8.50%) SQL
3 260 (7.27%) Java
4 152 (4.25%) C#
5 151 (4.22%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.16%) JavaScript
7 126 (3.52%) C++
8 77 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 72 (2.01%) Go
10 62 (1.73%) Bash
11 32 (0.89%) Bicep
12 27 (0.75%) SOQL
13 26 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 26 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.70%) PHP
15 22 (0.61%) Scala
16 19 (0.53%) R
16 19 (0.53%) Rust
17 17 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 302 (8.44%) Degree
2 249 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 172 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 93 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 69 (1.93%) CISSP
7 55 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 44 (1.23%) CISM
10 43 (1.20%) PhD
11 42 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (1.03%) CCNP
14 27 (0.75%) CRISC
15 24 (0.67%) CISA
16 23 (0.64%) ACCA
17 21 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (3.30%) QA
2 96 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 91 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 91 (2.54%) NIST
4 67 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 58 (1.62%) GDPR
6 44 (1.23%) GRC
7 22 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 19 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) SLA
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) IFRS
13 10 (0.28%) MiFID
13 10 (0.28%) NCSC
13 10 (0.28%) WCAG
14 9 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 124 (3.47%) Docker
2 96 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) Firmware
8 3 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
Systems Management
1 238 (6.65%) Kubernetes
2 216 (6.04%) Terraform
3 47 (1.31%) Ansible
4 46 (1.29%) Grafana
5 39 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 20 (0.56%) SCCM
9 13 (0.36%) Nagios
10 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.22%) Nessus
11 8 (0.22%) Puppet
12 7 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.20%) Cilium
12 7 (0.20%) Istio
12 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 378 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 110 (3.07%) Salesforce
3 103 (2.88%) SAP
4 82 (2.29%) Databricks
5 79 (2.21%) Oracle
6 71 (1.98%) VMware
7 67 (1.87%) Google
8 66 (1.84%) Cisco
9 64 (1.79%) Palo Alto
10 46 (1.29%) Dell
11 43 (1.20%) Adobe
11 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 32 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.87%) IBM
14 27 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.75%) Splunk
15 25 (0.70%) Intapp
16 24 (0.67%) Foundry
17 23 (0.64%) SolarWinds
18 21 (0.59%) Apple