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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 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 3,759 2,161 3,905
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.66% 17.89% 20.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.86% 19.52% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,388 1,282 2,460
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £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 £100,001 £97,500
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 22,299 11,068 18,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.64% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15,263 7,179 12,605
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £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 22 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 22 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 +7 557 £90,000 +18.03% 198
West London +29 108 £60,000 +5.26% 103
South London +18 54 £80,000 -25.58% 25
East London -4 14 £120,000 +50.00% 15
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 661 (17.58%) AI
2 658 (17.50%) AWS
3 639 (17.00%) Software Engineering
4 619 (16.47%) Python
5 590 (15.70%) Azure
6 507 (13.49%) Agile
7 480 (12.77%) Analytics
8 454 (12.08%) Mentoring
9 444 (11.81%) CI/CD
10 366 (9.74%) Microsoft
11 361 (9.60%) SQL
12 345 (9.18%) DevOps
13 341 (9.07%) Degree
14 328 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
14 328 (8.73%) Roadmaps
15 319 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 291 (7.74%) Java
17 285 (7.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 278 (7.40%) Security Cleared
19 270 (7.18%) Machine Learning
20 249 (6.62%) Decision-Making
21 248 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
22 241 (6.41%) GCP
23 239 (6.36%) Business Development
24 227 (6.04%) Microservices
25 222 (5.91%) Kubernetes
26 218 (5.80%) Terraform
27 217 (5.77%) Data Science
28 215 (5.72%) SaaS
28 215 (5.72%) 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 74 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 57 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.77%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) Confluence
7 20 (0.53%) SAS
8 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 7 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
11 5 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 31 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
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%) SPSS
9 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.080%) Blender
9 3 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.080%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 41 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
2 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.29%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.19%) Maximo
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.11%) Shopify
9 3 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.080%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.080%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 658 (17.50%) AWS
2 590 (15.70%) Azure
3 241 (6.41%) GCP
4 215 (5.72%) SaaS
5 144 (3.83%) Serverless
6 138 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 129 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.22%) GitHub
9 120 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
10 103 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 66 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (1.68%) Entra ID
14 62 (1.65%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
18 44 (1.17%) dbt
19 42 (1.12%) Figma
20 41 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.14%) Firewall
2 104 (2.77%) Network Security
3 73 (1.94%) DNS
4 66 (1.76%) VPN
5 52 (1.38%) VLAN
6 46 (1.22%) DHCP
6 46 (1.22%) WAN
7 44 (1.17%) Broadband
8 41 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (1.04%) BGP
10 38 (1.01%) Internet
11 36 (0.96%) OSPF
12 34 (0.90%) TCP/IP
13 30 (0.80%) LAN
14 24 (0.64%) Wireless
15 23 (0.61%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.53%) SAN
17 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.01%) Power BI
2 108 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.52%) Tableau
7 55 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 53 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 45 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 41 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 39 (1.04%) MySQL
12 38 (1.01%) Big Data
13 37 (0.98%) DynamoDB
14 36 (0.96%) Metadata
15 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 29 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.56%) Looker
17 21 (0.56%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 115 (3.06%) Git
2 56 (1.49%) JIRA
3 47 (1.25%) GitLab
4 44 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.72%) MLflow
7 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.35%) Selenium
10 10 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.19%) NUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Appium
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.13%) JUnit
12 5 (0.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.13%) Vite
13 4 (0.11%) Spock
13 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 966 (25.70%) Finance
2 651 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 297 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (7.53%) Banking
5 276 (7.34%) Law
6 232 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 229 (6.09%) Marketing
8 162 (4.31%) Public Sector
9 143 (3.80%) Retail
10 136 (3.62%) Legal
11 72 (1.92%) Front Office
12 67 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 65 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 62 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.17%) Advertising
16 42 (1.12%) Games
17 38 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (0.85%) Billing
18 32 (0.85%) Manufacturing
19 31 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.80%) Terraform
2 144 (3.83%) .NET
3 142 (3.78%) React
4 119 (3.17%) REST
5 114 (3.03%) Kafka
6 87 (2.31%) Node.js
6 87 (2.31%) Spring
7 75 (2.00%) RESTful
8 64 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.20%) HTML
10 42 (1.12%) CSS
11 41 (1.09%) Next.js
12 38 (1.01%) LangChain
13 35 (0.93%) Django
14 33 (0.88%) PySpark
15 30 (0.80%) JSON
16 29 (0.77%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.69%) FastAPI
17 26 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 270 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 142 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 100 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 84 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 81 (2.15%) AI Agents
8 74 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 59 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 54 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.20%) Derivative
12 45 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 44 (1.17%) Blog
14 43 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 40 (1.06%) Equities
16 40 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 37 (0.98%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 113 (3.01%) Linux
2 95 (2.53%) Windows
3 45 (1.20%) Android
4 34 (0.90%) Unix
5 30 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.27%) AIX
7 10 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) VMS
10 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.053%) CentOS
11 2 (0.053%) tvOS
11 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Rocky
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (17.58%) AI
2 639 (17.00%) Software Engineering
3 507 (13.49%) Agile
4 480 (12.77%) Analytics
5 454 (12.08%) Mentoring
6 444 (11.81%) CI/CD
7 345 (9.18%) DevOps
8 328 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
8 328 (8.73%) Roadmaps
9 319 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 285 (7.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 270 (7.18%) Machine Learning
12 249 (6.62%) Decision-Making
13 248 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 239 (6.36%) Business Development
15 227 (6.04%) Microservices
16 217 (5.77%) Data Science
17 215 (5.72%) Test Automation
18 189 (5.03%) Migration
19 184 (4.89%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 619 (16.47%) Python
2 361 (9.60%) SQL
3 291 (7.74%) Java
4 150 (3.99%) TypeScript
5 148 (3.94%) C#
6 135 (3.59%) JavaScript
7 92 (2.45%) C++
8 65 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 62 (1.65%) Go
10 55 (1.46%) Bash
11 29 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 29 (0.77%) PHP
12 28 (0.74%) Bicep
13 24 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 23 (0.61%) Ruby
15 22 (0.59%) R
16 20 (0.53%) SOQL
17 19 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.51%) Scala
18 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 341 (9.07%) Degree
2 278 (7.40%) Security Cleared
3 183 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 61 (1.62%) CISSP
7 60 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 56 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.14%) CISM
11 39 (1.04%) PhD
12 38 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (0.88%) CCNP
14 31 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.77%) CISA
16 20 (0.53%) CRISC
17 19 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.48%) PMI Certification
19 17 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.35%) QA
2 123 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 89 (2.37%) GDPR
3 89 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 81 (2.15%) NIST
6 46 (1.22%) GRC
7 25 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 22 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.37%) PMO
12 13 (0.35%) COBIT
12 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.32%) WCAG
14 9 (0.24%) MiFID
14 9 (0.24%) SLA
15 8 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 128 (3.41%) Docker
2 64 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.080%) 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 (0.027%) IAG
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 222 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.09%) Ansible
3 35 (0.93%) Grafana
4 25 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.48%) Puppet
7 16 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.32%) Nagios
9 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.19%) Istio
10 7 (0.19%) SCCM
10 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.13%) Cilium
11 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) Argo
12 4 (0.11%) Kibana
12 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 366 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 106 (2.82%) SAP
4 104 (2.77%) Databricks
5 96 (2.55%) Oracle
6 86 (2.29%) Google
7 74 (1.97%) Cisco
8 61 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 58 (1.54%) VMware
10 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 38 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 37 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 34 (0.90%) Adobe
14 33 (0.88%) Dell
15 29 (0.77%) HP
16 25 (0.67%) Foundry
16 25 (0.67%) IBM
16 25 (0.67%) Splunk
17 24 (0.64%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.61%) Intapp