Senior Jobs in the City of London

Senior
Central London > City of London

The median Senior salary in the City of London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 677 870 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 20.15% 18.22% 15.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.04% 18.89% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 507 803 989
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,218 4,605 6,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.44% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 3,879 5,627
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the City of London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 195 (28.80%) Azure
2 186 (27.47%) AWS
3 175 (25.85%) SQL
4 173 (25.55%) Social Skills
5 152 (22.45%) Python
6 147 (21.71%) Finance
7 143 (21.12%) Agile
8 138 (20.38%) DevOps
9 136 (20.09%) Degree
10 106 (15.66%) Microsoft
11 101 (14.92%) JavaScript
12 94 (13.88%) CI/CD
13 89 (13.15%) .NET
14 87 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
14 87 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
15 86 (12.70%) Software Engineering
16 82 (12.11%) Windows
17 80 (11.82%) Java
18 79 (11.67%) C#
19 76 (11.23%) Kubernetes
20 72 (10.64%) Git
21 71 (10.49%) SQL Server
22 66 (9.75%) Computer Science
22 66 (9.75%) Terraform
23 63 (9.31%) CSS
24 62 (9.16%) SaaS
25 61 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
26 59 (8.71%) React
27 54 (7.98%) HTML

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.51%) ArcGIS
2 17 (2.51%) GeoServer
3 16 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.07%) CMS
5 8 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.18%) Drupal
5 8 (1.18%) IIS
6 7 (1.03%) Apache
6 7 (1.03%) WordPress
7 5 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.59%) Confluence
9 2 (0.30%) JBoss
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
9 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.30%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) Tornado
Applications
1 22 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.92%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.18%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.59%) Sketch
7 2 (0.30%) Stata
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.18%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.30%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 2 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Relativity
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.15%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 195 (28.80%) Azure
2 186 (27.47%) AWS
3 62 (9.16%) SaaS
4 61 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (5.02%) GCP
6 33 (4.87%) Power Platform
7 30 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.84%) Entra ID
9 19 (2.81%) Snowflake
10 18 (2.66%) Datadog
10 18 (2.66%) Serverless
11 14 (2.07%) PaaS
12 13 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.77%) Rubrik
14 11 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.48%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 8 (1.18%) IaaS
17 8 (1.18%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.87%) Firewall
2 17 (2.51%) Network Security
3 16 (2.36%) LAN
3 16 (2.36%) WAN
4 13 (1.92%) Wireless
5 12 (1.77%) SAN
6 11 (1.62%) Internet
7 10 (1.48%) Structured Cabling
8 8 (1.18%) HTTP
9 7 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.89%) NAS
10 6 (0.89%) VPN
11 5 (0.74%) NetScaler
11 5 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.59%) PBX
12 4 (0.59%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.44%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.30%) Broadband
14 2 (0.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.35%) Tableau
3 33 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.43%) MySQL
4 30 (4.43%) Power BI
5 19 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.81%) QGIS
6 17 (2.51%) GIS
7 11 (1.62%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.48%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.18%) Redis
11 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.89%) Big Data
12 6 (0.89%) Metadata
12 6 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 72 (10.64%) Git
2 53 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 29 (4.28%) Cucumber
3 29 (4.28%) Postman
4 24 (3.55%) Selenium
5 17 (2.51%) GitLab
6 15 (2.22%) JIRA
7 13 (1.92%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (1.62%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.33%) Moq
11 8 (1.18%) git-flow
11 8 (1.18%) NUnit
11 8 (1.18%) Sourcetree
11 8 (1.18%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.89%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.89%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.89%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.74%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 173 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 147 (21.71%) Finance
3 87 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.61%) Banking
5 29 (4.28%) Marketing
6 27 (3.99%) Retail
7 22 (3.25%) Law
7 22 (3.25%) Legal
8 18 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.36%) Tech for Good
11 15 (2.22%) Front Office
12 13 (1.92%) Advertising
13 11 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.33%) Games
14 9 (1.33%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.18%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.18%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.03%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (13.15%) .NET
2 63 (9.31%) CSS
3 59 (8.71%) React
4 54 (7.98%) HTML
5 50 (7.39%) REST
6 28 (4.14%) Node.js
7 21 (3.10%) Pandas
7 21 (3.10%) RESTful
8 20 (2.95%) .NET Framework
9 19 (2.81%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.81%) Kafka
9 19 (2.81%) WPF
10 18 (2.66%) ASP.NET
10 18 (2.66%) HTML5
11 17 (2.51%) Leaflet
11 17 (2.51%) OpenLayers
11 17 (2.51%) PostGIS
11 17 (2.51%) PySpark
11 17 (2.51%) Web Services
12 16 (2.36%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.40%) Algorithms
1 23 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.07%) Equities
4 14 (2.07%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.92%) Reinsurance
6 11 (1.62%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.18%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.03%) FPGA
10 7 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.89%) Life Science
11 6 (0.89%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.74%) Derivative
13 4 (0.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.11%) Windows
2 46 (6.79%) Windows Server
3 33 (4.87%) Linux
4 17 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.59%) Android
7 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Unix
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) AIX
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (21.12%) Agile
2 138 (20.38%) DevOps
3 94 (13.88%) CI/CD
4 87 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
5 86 (12.70%) Software Engineering
6 66 (9.75%) Computer Science
7 53 (7.83%) Visualisation
8 51 (7.53%) Mentoring
9 49 (7.24%) Full Stack Development
10 48 (7.09%) Decision-Making
11 45 (6.65%) Change Management
12 44 (6.50%) Analytics
12 44 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (6.06%) Fintech
14 39 (5.76%) Project Management
14 39 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 38 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (5.61%) Clean Code
16 37 (5.47%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 175 (25.85%) SQL
2 152 (22.45%) Python
3 101 (14.92%) JavaScript
4 80 (11.82%) Java
5 79 (11.67%) C#
6 46 (6.79%) PowerShell
7 26 (3.84%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.69%) T-SQL
9 21 (3.10%) Bash
10 20 (2.95%) PHP
11 15 (2.22%) C++
12 10 (1.48%) XPath
13 8 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.18%) R
14 7 (1.03%) Clojure
14 7 (1.03%) F#
14 7 (1.03%) Haskell
14 7 (1.03%) Rust
15 6 (0.89%) Go
16 5 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 136 (20.09%) Degree
2 48 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 44 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.17%) DBS Check
5 29 (4.28%) Master's Degree
6 28 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.95%) CISSP
8 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.18%) CEH
9 8 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (0.89%) CCSP
10 6 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.89%) SSCP
11 5 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.74%) MBA
11 5 (0.74%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.79%) QA
2 17 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.48%) NIST
4 9 (1.33%) SLA
5 8 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.59%) GRC
7 4 (0.59%) PMO
7 4 (0.59%) WCAG
8 3 (0.44%) COBIT
9 2 (0.30%) GDPR
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) GAAP
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 46 (6.79%) Docker
2 45 (6.65%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.33%) vSphere
6 7 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.15%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 76 (11.23%) Kubernetes
2 66 (9.75%) Terraform
3 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.77%) Ansible
4 12 (1.77%) SCCM
5 10 (1.48%) Nmap
5 10 (1.48%) vCenter Server
6 8 (1.18%) Puppet
7 6 (0.89%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.74%) Grafana
9 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.30%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.30%) Istio
11 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.15%) cPanel
12 1 (0.15%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.15%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Podman
12 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.20%) VMware
3 36 (5.32%) Databricks
4 34 (5.02%) Cisco
5 18 (2.66%) HP
5 18 (2.66%) Oracle
5 18 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.51%) ESRI
6 17 (2.51%) SolarWinds
7 15 (2.22%) NetApp
8 14 (2.07%) Citrix
8 14 (2.07%) Google
8 14 (2.07%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.77%) Meraki
10 10 (1.48%) SAP
11 9 (1.33%) Adobe
12 8 (1.18%) Aruba
12 8 (1.18%) Cognizant
12 8 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.18%) Veeam