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 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,777 2,191 3,897
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.78% 17.98% 20.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.99% 19.62% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 1,311 2,471
10th Percentile £57,305 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £98,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 22,228 11,165 18,517
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 91.64% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15,202 7,263 12,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.11% -2.07%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +7 571 £90,000 +20.00% 386
West London +25 112 £60,000 - 97
South London +17 54 £80,000 -25.58% 29
East London -4 15 £120,000 +50.00% 10
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 August 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.

1 662 (17.53%) AWS
2 658 (17.42%) AI
3 637 (16.87%) Software Engineering
4 630 (16.68%) Python
5 601 (15.91%) Azure
6 517 (13.69%) Agile
7 491 (13.00%) Analytics
8 457 (12.10%) Mentoring
9 445 (11.78%) CI/CD
10 375 (9.93%) Microsoft
11 360 (9.53%) SQL
12 350 (9.27%) DevOps
13 343 (9.08%) Degree
14 328 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
15 326 (8.63%) Roadmaps
16 316 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 296 (7.84%) Java
18 286 (7.57%) Security Cleared
19 278 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
20 269 (7.12%) Machine Learning
21 251 (6.65%) Decision-Making
22 250 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
23 245 (6.49%) Business Development
24 240 (6.35%) GCP
25 230 (6.09%) Microservices
26 223 (5.90%) Kubernetes
26 223 (5.90%) Terraform
27 220 (5.82%) SaaS
28 217 (5.75%) Data Science
29 210 (5.56%) 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 76 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.74%) Apache
6 20 (0.53%) SAS
7 18 (0.48%) CMS
7 18 (0.48%) Confluence
8 8 (0.21%) WordPress
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.13%) Drupal
11 4 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.053%) WinCC
14 1 (0.026%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 33 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.16%) InDesign
6 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.11%) PlantUML
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.079%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.079%) Blender
9 3 (0.079%) Maya
10 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
3 10 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.21%) Maximo
4 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.11%) Shopify
7 3 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.079%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.079%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.079%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.079%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.079%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 662 (17.53%) AWS
2 601 (15.91%) Azure
3 240 (6.35%) GCP
4 220 (5.82%) SaaS
5 150 (3.97%) Serverless
6 140 (3.71%) Power Platform
7 134 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (3.28%) GitHub
9 121 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
10 101 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (1.77%) Entra ID
14 62 (1.64%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 48 (1.27%) dbt
17 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (1.16%) Figma
18 44 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
19 43 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 122 (3.23%) Firewall
2 106 (2.81%) Network Security
3 76 (2.01%) DNS
4 67 (1.77%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 50 (1.32%) Broadband
7 49 (1.30%) DHCP
8 48 (1.27%) WAN
9 43 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.06%) BGP
11 37 (0.98%) Internet
11 37 (0.98%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 30 (0.79%) LAN
14 25 (0.66%) Wireless
15 24 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.56%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (3.02%) Power BI
2 111 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.51%) Tableau
7 55 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 54 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 53 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 43 (1.14%) MongoDB
11 42 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (1.06%) Metadata
12 40 (1.06%) MySQL
13 37 (0.98%) DynamoDB
14 36 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 35 (0.93%) Big Data
16 30 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.56%) Looker
18 20 (0.53%) SAP HANA
19 18 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (3.23%) Git
2 56 (1.48%) JIRA
3 47 (1.24%) GitLab
4 46 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.71%) MLflow
6 26 (0.69%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.34%) Selenium
10 12 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 6 (0.16%) Vite
13 5 (0.13%) Appium
13 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.13%) JUnit
13 5 (0.13%) Mocha
13 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.11%) JMeter
14 4 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 976 (25.84%) Finance
2 653 (17.29%) Social Skills
3 300 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (7.49%) Banking
5 281 (7.44%) Law
6 232 (6.14%) Marketing
7 231 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 164 (4.34%) Public Sector
9 147 (3.89%) Legal
10 143 (3.79%) Retail
11 73 (1.93%) Front Office
12 66 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 64 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 59 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 46 (1.22%) Advertising
16 43 (1.14%) Games
17 37 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (0.90%) Billing
18 34 (0.90%) Legal Technology
19 31 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (3.97%) React
2 148 (3.92%) .NET
3 117 (3.10%) REST
4 116 (3.07%) Kafka
5 90 (2.38%) Spring
6 89 (2.36%) Node.js
7 77 (2.04%) RESTful
8 67 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.19%) CSS
10 44 (1.16%) HTML
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 39 (1.03%) LangChain
13 36 (0.95%) Django
14 33 (0.87%) PySpark
15 31 (0.82%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.79%) JSON
17 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
18 27 (0.71%) OAuth
19 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
20 25 (0.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 276 (7.31%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.05%) Onboarding
3 140 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 80 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 77 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 61 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 61 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 58 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 50 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.24%) Blog
13 45 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.16%) Derivative
15 43 (1.14%) Security Posture
16 41 (1.09%) Equities
17 37 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 120 (3.18%) Linux
2 99 (2.62%) Windows
3 40 (1.06%) Android
4 33 (0.87%) Unix
5 30 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.29%) AIX
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.079%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.079%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
12 1 (0.026%) Rocky
12 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (17.42%) AI
2 637 (16.87%) Software Engineering
3 517 (13.69%) Agile
4 491 (13.00%) Analytics
5 457 (12.10%) Mentoring
6 445 (11.78%) CI/CD
7 350 (9.27%) DevOps
8 328 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
9 326 (8.63%) Roadmaps
10 316 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 278 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 269 (7.12%) Machine Learning
13 251 (6.65%) Decision-Making
14 250 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
15 245 (6.49%) Business Development
16 230 (6.09%) Microservices
17 217 (5.75%) Data Science
18 210 (5.56%) Test Automation
19 191 (5.06%) Full-Stack Development
20 190 (5.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 630 (16.68%) Python
2 360 (9.53%) SQL
3 296 (7.84%) Java
4 155 (4.10%) C#
5 152 (4.02%) TypeScript
6 146 (3.87%) JavaScript
7 99 (2.62%) C++
8 66 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.64%) Go
10 56 (1.48%) Bash
11 30 (0.79%) PHP
12 29 (0.77%) Bicep
12 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.58%) R
14 22 (0.58%) Ruby
15 21 (0.56%) Scala
15 21 (0.56%) SOQL
16 19 (0.50%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 343 (9.08%) Degree
2 286 (7.57%) Security Cleared
3 185 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 65 (1.72%) CISSP
7 58 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 55 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.19%) CISM
11 44 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.06%) PhD
13 37 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (0.90%) CCNP
15 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.77%) CISA
17 22 (0.58%) CRISC
18 21 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
19 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
19 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.28%) QA
2 120 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 92 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.36%) GDPR
5 86 (2.28%) NIST
6 85 (2.25%) Accessibility
7 46 (1.22%) GRC
8 25 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.37%) PMO
13 13 (0.34%) COBIT
14 12 (0.32%) WCAG
15 9 (0.24%) MiFID
15 9 (0.24%) SLA
16 8 (0.21%) NCSC
17 7 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 129 (3.42%) Docker
2 67 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.079%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.053%) Firmware
8 2 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.026%) IAG
9 1 (0.026%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.026%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 223 (5.90%) Kubernetes
1 223 (5.90%) Terraform
2 43 (1.14%) Ansible
3 35 (0.93%) Grafana
4 26 (0.69%) FortiGate
4 26 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.45%) Puppet
7 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.37%) Nagios
9 11 (0.29%) Data Guard
9 11 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.24%) SCCM
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
11 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.13%) Cilium
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.13%) Kibana
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 375 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 117 (3.10%) Salesforce
3 107 (2.83%) SAP
4 104 (2.75%) Databricks
5 98 (2.59%) Oracle
6 88 (2.33%) Google
7 76 (2.01%) Cisco
8 63 (1.67%) VMware
9 62 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.98%) Adobe
13 33 (0.87%) Dell
14 29 (0.77%) HP
14 29 (0.77%) IBM
15 25 (0.66%) Fortinet
15 25 (0.66%) Foundry
15 25 (0.66%) Splunk
16 24 (0.64%) Intapp