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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,690 2,179 3,971
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.91% 17.76% 19.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.12% 19.38% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,344 1,327 2,574
10th Percentile £57,500 £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% - -0.37%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £122,200
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 21,551 11,245 19,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.67% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,787 7,343 13,537
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 31 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 31 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 +7 609 £90,000 +16.13% 218
West London +23 116 £65,000 +6.12% 70
South London +14 56 £80,000 -25.58% 19
East London -5 14 £110,000 +37.50% 12
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 651 (17.64%) AWS
2 623 (16.88%) AI
3 611 (16.56%) Python
4 604 (16.37%) Software Engineering
5 585 (15.85%) Azure
6 503 (13.63%) Agile
7 474 (12.85%) Analytics
8 452 (12.25%) Mentoring
9 430 (11.65%) CI/CD
10 371 (10.05%) Microsoft
11 343 (9.30%) DevOps
12 339 (9.19%) SQL
13 324 (8.78%) Degree
14 319 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
15 315 (8.54%) Roadmaps
16 303 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 282 (7.64%) Java
18 275 (7.45%) Security Cleared
19 263 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
20 250 (6.78%) Machine Learning
21 244 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
22 243 (6.59%) Business Development
23 240 (6.50%) Decision-Making
24 234 (6.34%) Kubernetes
25 232 (6.29%) GCP
26 226 (6.12%) Microservices
26 226 (6.12%) Terraform
27 209 (5.66%) Test Automation
28 206 (5.58%) SaaS
29 191 (5.18%) 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 76 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 61 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.73%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) SAS
7 19 (0.51%) CMS
8 16 (0.43%) Confluence
9 8 (0.22%) WordPress
10 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.14%) 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 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.054%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.027%) Moodle
15 1 (0.027%) nginx
15 1 (0.027%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.16%) PlantUML
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.14%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.11%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.11%) SPSS
11 3 (0.081%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.081%) Blender
11 3 (0.081%) Maya
12 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.054%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 14 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 9 (0.24%) Maximo
6 8 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.11%) Shopify
10 3 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.081%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.081%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.081%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.081%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.081%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.081%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.081%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 651 (17.64%) AWS
2 585 (15.85%) Azure
3 232 (6.29%) GCP
4 206 (5.58%) SaaS
5 152 (4.12%) Serverless
6 145 (3.93%) Power Platform
7 141 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
8 121 (3.28%) GitHub
9 92 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 68 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 61 (1.65%) Amazon S3
14 53 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (1.22%) dbt
17 44 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 40 (1.08%) Figma
19 39 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.12%) Firewall
2 109 (2.95%) Network Security
3 71 (1.92%) DNS
4 62 (1.68%) VPN
5 54 (1.46%) Broadband
6 51 (1.38%) VLAN
7 48 (1.30%) DHCP
7 48 (1.30%) WAN
8 43 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (1.03%) BGP
10 36 (0.98%) Internet
10 36 (0.98%) OSPF
11 29 (0.79%) TCP/IP
11 29 (0.79%) Wireless
12 27 (0.73%) LAN
13 25 (0.68%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.57%) SAN
15 18 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
16 17 (0.46%) Multicast
17 16 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.25%) Power BI
2 107 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 70 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.60%) Tableau
6 56 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 51 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 50 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 44 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (1.17%) MongoDB
12 39 (1.06%) DynamoDB
13 38 (1.03%) Metadata
14 35 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 34 (0.92%) Big Data
15 34 (0.92%) MySQL
16 29 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.54%) Looker
17 20 (0.54%) SAP HANA
18 19 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 124 (3.36%) Git
2 58 (1.57%) JIRA
3 49 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.27%) GitLab
5 24 (0.65%) MLflow
6 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.35%) CircleCI
8 13 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.30%) Selenium
10 6 (0.16%) JMeter
10 6 (0.16%) Vite
11 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.14%) JUnit
11 5 (0.14%) NUnit
12 4 (0.11%) Appium
12 4 (0.11%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.11%) Mocha
12 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 949 (25.72%) Finance
2 630 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 280 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (7.29%) Banking
5 256 (6.94%) Law
6 215 (5.83%) Marketing
7 214 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 160 (4.34%) Public Sector
9 151 (4.09%) Legal
10 144 (3.90%) Retail
11 69 (1.87%) Front Office
11 69 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 63 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 49 (1.33%) Advertising
13 49 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.11%) Games
15 35 (0.95%) Legal Technology
15 35 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
16 34 (0.92%) Billing
17 31 (0.84%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.04%) .NET
2 146 (3.96%) React
3 116 (3.14%) REST
4 110 (2.98%) Kafka
5 88 (2.38%) Node.js
6 81 (2.20%) Spring
7 69 (1.87%) RESTful
8 64 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 44 (1.19%) CSS
10 39 (1.06%) HTML
11 38 (1.03%) Next.js
12 36 (0.98%) Django
13 34 (0.92%) LangChain
13 34 (0.92%) PySpark
14 29 (0.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 29 (0.79%) OAuth
14 29 (0.79%) SOAP
15 28 (0.76%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.73%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 270 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 147 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 129 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 68 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 65 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 58 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
12 52 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 44 (1.19%) Derivative
13 44 (1.19%) Equities
14 43 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 42 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.08%) Blog
18 37 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.44%) Linux
2 105 (2.85%) Windows
3 36 (0.98%) Android
4 33 (0.89%) Unix
5 31 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.33%) AIX
8 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.054%) CentOS
12 2 (0.054%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.054%) tvOS
12 2 (0.054%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.027%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (16.88%) AI
2 604 (16.37%) Software Engineering
3 503 (13.63%) Agile
4 474 (12.85%) Analytics
5 452 (12.25%) Mentoring
6 430 (11.65%) CI/CD
7 343 (9.30%) DevOps
8 319 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
9 315 (8.54%) Roadmaps
10 303 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 263 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 250 (6.78%) Machine Learning
13 244 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 243 (6.59%) Business Development
15 240 (6.50%) Decision-Making
16 226 (6.12%) Microservices
17 209 (5.66%) Test Automation
18 191 (5.18%) Full-Stack Development
19 186 (5.04%) Data Science
20 175 (4.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 611 (16.56%) Python
2 339 (9.19%) SQL
3 282 (7.64%) Java
4 157 (4.25%) C#
5 155 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 149 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 107 (2.90%) C++
8 66 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.65%) Bash
9 61 (1.65%) Go
10 29 (0.79%) Bicep
10 29 (0.79%) PHP
11 28 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 21 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 21 (0.57%) Scala
12 21 (0.57%) SOQL
13 20 (0.54%) R
14 19 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 19 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 324 (8.78%) Degree
2 275 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 176 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 110 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 70 (1.90%) CISSP
7 59 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 49 (1.33%) CISM
11 46 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.03%) PhD
13 35 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (0.95%) CCNP
14 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.79%) CISA
16 25 (0.68%) CRISC
17 22 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.54%) ACCA
19 18 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.41%) QA
2 108 (2.93%) Data Quality
3 93 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.33%) NIST
5 78 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 77 (2.09%) GDPR
7 47 (1.27%) GRC
8 23 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 19 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.33%) COBIT
13 12 (0.33%) WCAG
14 11 (0.30%) SLA
15 9 (0.24%) NCSC
16 8 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (3.52%) Docker
2 65 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.14%) vSphere
6 3 (0.081%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.054%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.027%) Firmware
8 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.027%) IAG
8 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 234 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 226 (6.12%) Terraform
3 47 (1.27%) Ansible
4 39 (1.06%) Grafana
5 30 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 23 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.43%) Puppet
9 15 (0.41%) Nagios
9 15 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
10 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.30%) SCCM
12 7 (0.19%) Cilium
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.081%) Argo
Vendors
1 371 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.25%) Salesforce
3 112 (3.04%) SAP
4 95 (2.57%) Databricks
5 92 (2.49%) Oracle
6 77 (2.09%) Google
7 69 (1.87%) Cisco
8 63 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.60%) VMware
10 40 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 37 (1.00%) Adobe
12 36 (0.98%) Dell
12 36 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 32 (0.87%) IBM
14 31 (0.84%) Zscaler
15 26 (0.70%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.70%) Splunk
16 23 (0.62%) Foundry
16 23 (0.62%) Intapp
17 21 (0.57%) SolarWinds