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 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 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 3,463 2,094 4,655
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 17.12% 19.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.73% 18.97% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,276 1,266 3,205
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 £96,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 19,532 11,040 22,930
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 90.26% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,446 6,934 17,034
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 £56,400 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +9.52% -12.98%

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 9 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 9 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 +6 707 £90,000 +12.50% 322
West London +34 102 £75,000 +17.65% 24
South London +34 67 £60,000 -44.19% 15
East London -3 17 £68,000 -28.42% 21
North London 0 2 £70,000 -6.67% 7
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 (16.58%) Azure
2 522 (15.07%) Python
3 519 (14.99%) Software Engineering
4 503 (14.52%) AWS
5 472 (13.63%) Agile
6 458 (13.23%) AI
7 374 (10.80%) Analytics
8 372 (10.74%) Microsoft
9 367 (10.60%) Mentoring
10 355 (10.25%) CI/CD
11 311 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
12 297 (8.58%) Degree
13 283 (8.17%) DevOps
14 275 (7.94%) SQL
15 261 (7.54%) Java
16 258 (7.45%) Roadmaps
17 250 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 237 (6.84%) Kubernetes
19 228 (6.58%) Microservices
20 220 (6.35%) Security Cleared
21 219 (6.32%) Decision-Making
22 217 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
23 214 (6.18%) GCP
24 210 (6.06%) Test Automation
25 203 (5.86%) Infrastructure as Code
26 202 (5.83%) SaaS
27 194 (5.60%) Terraform
28 191 (5.52%) Business Development
29 190 (5.49%) Full-Stack Development
30 181 (5.23%) 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 66 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 40 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.64%) 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 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.087%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.72%) 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 (0.087%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.087%) Blender
9 3 (0.087%) InDesign
9 3 (0.087%) Maya
9 3 (0.087%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.087%) SPSS
10 2 (0.058%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 19 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 18 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) Maximo
5 11 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.12%) Shopify
10 3 (0.087%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.087%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.087%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.087%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.058%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.058%) SAP PM
11 2 (0.058%) SAP PP
11 2 (0.058%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.058%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 574 (16.58%) Azure
2 503 (14.52%) AWS
3 214 (6.18%) GCP
4 202 (5.83%) SaaS
5 153 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 121 (3.49%) Serverless
8 118 (3.41%) GitHub
9 74 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 67 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 41 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (1.16%) Figma
16 39 (1.13%) IaaS
17 38 (1.10%) Datadog
17 38 (1.10%) PaaS
18 37 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.07%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 102 (2.95%) Firewall
2 80 (2.31%) DNS
3 74 (2.14%) Broadband
4 72 (2.08%) VPN
5 70 (2.02%) Network Security
6 61 (1.76%) DHCP
7 56 (1.62%) VLAN
8 53 (1.53%) WAN
9 51 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.24%) Wireless
11 33 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 32 (0.92%) BGP
13 31 (0.90%) OSPF
13 31 (0.90%) SAN
14 28 (0.81%) LAN
14 28 (0.81%) TCP/IP
15 24 (0.69%) Multicast
16 21 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.49%) HTTP
18 12 (0.35%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 103 (2.97%) Power BI
3 52 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 46 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.33%) Tableau
5 43 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 37 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 36 (1.04%) MongoDB
10 33 (0.95%) Metadata
11 31 (0.90%) Relational Database
12 23 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (0.64%) 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
1 117 (3.38%) Git
2 71 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 53 (1.53%) JIRA
4 42 (1.21%) GitLab
5 36 (1.04%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.72%) MLflow
7 20 (0.58%) 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%) Chocolatey
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
11 6 (0.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.12%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.12%) Gatling
12 4 (0.12%) JUnit
12 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 901 (26.02%) Finance
2 558 (16.11%) Social Skills
3 264 (7.62%) Banking
4 261 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 220 (6.35%) Law
6 203 (5.86%) Marketing
7 178 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (4.85%) Legal
9 152 (4.39%) Retail
10 150 (4.33%) Public Sector
11 68 (1.96%) Front Office
12 57 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.53%) Advertising
14 51 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
15 49 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (1.04%) Games
18 30 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
19 29 (0.84%) Telecoms
20 28 (0.81%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.19%) .NET
2 142 (4.10%) React
3 113 (3.26%) REST
4 100 (2.89%) Kafka
5 86 (2.48%) Node.js
6 77 (2.22%) Spring
7 68 (1.96%) RESTful
8 67 (1.93%) Spring Boot
9 55 (1.59%) CSS
10 46 (1.33%) HTML
11 44 (1.27%) SOAP
12 40 (1.16%) PyTorch
13 36 (1.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 36 (1.04%) PySpark
14 32 (0.92%) OAuth
15 31 (0.90%) LangChain
16 29 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (0.81%) Django
18 27 (0.78%) AngularJS
18 27 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 249 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.37%) Algorithms
5 68 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 68 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 66 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 51 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 50 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 47 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 47 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 46 (1.33%) Equities
12 39 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (1.10%) Social Media
14 37 (1.07%) Derivative
15 35 (1.01%) Hedge funds
16 33 (0.95%) Reinsurance
17 32 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.16%) Linux
2 133 (3.84%) Windows
3 49 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 39 (1.13%) Android
5 32 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.72%) Unix
7 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.20%) AIX
10 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.058%) CentOS
11 2 (0.058%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.058%) tvOS
12 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (14.99%) Software Engineering
2 472 (13.63%) Agile
3 458 (13.23%) AI
4 374 (10.80%) Analytics
5 367 (10.60%) Mentoring
6 355 (10.25%) CI/CD
7 311 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (8.17%) DevOps
9 258 (7.45%) Roadmaps
10 250 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 228 (6.58%) Microservices
12 219 (6.32%) Decision-Making
13 217 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 210 (6.06%) Test Automation
15 203 (5.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 191 (5.52%) Business Development
17 190 (5.49%) Full-Stack Development
18 181 (5.23%) Machine Learning
19 176 (5.08%) Fintech
20 169 (4.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 522 (15.07%) Python
2 275 (7.94%) SQL
3 261 (7.54%) Java
4 146 (4.22%) C#
5 145 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 143 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 129 (3.73%) C++
8 79 (2.28%) Go
9 75 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 53 (1.53%) Bash
11 33 (0.95%) Bicep
12 27 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.78%) SOQL
13 25 (0.72%) Scala
14 23 (0.66%) PHP
15 22 (0.64%) Rust
16 20 (0.58%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.55%) R
18 17 (0.49%) Kotlin
19 16 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 297 (8.58%) Degree
2 220 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 165 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 91 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 65 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 62 (1.79%) CISSP
8 49 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 48 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.18%) PhD
11 39 (1.13%) CISM
12 35 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 33 (0.95%) CCNP
14 27 (0.78%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.75%) CRISC
16 25 (0.72%) ACCA
16 25 (0.72%) OSCP
17 22 (0.64%) CREST Certified
18 20 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.58%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.03%) QA
2 82 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 76 (2.19%) NIST
5 61 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.30%) GDPR
7 38 (1.10%) GRC
8 21 (0.61%) 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
11 15 (0.43%) SLA
12 13 (0.38%) NCSC
13 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.32%) IFRS
14 11 (0.32%) MiFID
15 9 (0.26%) COBIT
16 8 (0.23%) WCAG
17 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.70%) Docker
2 99 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) Firmware
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.087%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) IAG
Systems Management
1 237 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 194 (5.60%) Terraform
3 47 (1.36%) Ansible
3 47 (1.36%) Grafana
4 42 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.66%) FortiGate
7 22 (0.64%) SCCM
8 12 (0.35%) Nagios
9 9 (0.26%) Nessus
10 8 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.20%) Istio
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.17%) Cilium
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.12%) Argo
14 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.087%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 372 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 97 (2.80%) Salesforce
3 92 (2.66%) SAP
4 80 (2.31%) Databricks
5 75 (2.17%) VMware
6 73 (2.11%) Cisco
7 65 (1.88%) Oracle
8 56 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.56%) Google
10 47 (1.36%) Dell
11 42 (1.21%) Adobe
12 41 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 32 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.87%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.81%) IBM
16 24 (0.69%) SolarWinds
17 23 (0.66%) Apple
17 23 (0.66%) Foundry
17 23 (0.66%) Splunk
18 21 (0.61%) Intapp