Digital & IT Job Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Senior	2	Up 6 places+6	£90,000	+16.12%	478 15.22%	813
Developer	7	Up 5 places+5	£75,000	-3.22%	358 11.40%	150
Architect	8	Up 34 places+34	£100,000	-1.23%	348 11.08%	310
Lead	9	Up 11 places+11	£97,500	+2.63%	327 10.41%	670
Analyst	10	No change0	£54,500	-16.79%	321 10.22%	252
Business Manager	25	Up 100 places+100	£65,000	+32.11%	197 6.27%	28
Development Manager	26	Up 85 places+85	£60,000	-36.84%	183 5.83%	27
Business Development Manager	29	Up 100 places+100	£60,000	+21.95%	175 5.57%	22
Consultant	30	Up 65 places+65	£85,000	+41.66%	169 5.38%	226
Solutions Architect	34	Up 53 places+53	£100,000	-	140 4.46%	88
Software Engineer	35	Up 58 places+58	£97,500	+8.33%	138 4.39%	108
Senior Manager	53	Up 42 places+42	£90,000	+33.33%	100 3.18%	113
Data Engineer	54	Up 49 places+49	£85,000	+3.03%	98 3.12%	110
Business Analyst	67	Down -13 places-13	£72,500	-9.37%	80 2.55%	91
Full-Stack Engineer	78	Up 36 places+36	£85,000	-19.04%	68 2.16%	37
Support Analyst	85	Down -14 places-14	£42,500	-5.55%	61 1.94%	9
Azure Engineer	91	Up 38 places+38	£92,500	+20.52%	53 1.69%	44
Software Developer	92	Up 38 places+38	£70,000	-12.50%	52 1.66%	16
Data Architect	92	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	-2.70%	52 1.66%	43
Platform Engineer	93	Up 35 places+35	£90,000	+20.00%	51 1.62%	56
Senior Developer	94	Down -18 places-18	£90,000	+16.12%	50 1.59%	47
Python Engineer	94	Up 46 places+46	£100,000	-4.76%	50 1.59%	29
Project Manager	95	Up 10 places+10	£60,000	-20.00%	49 1.56%	83
IT Manager	96	Up 7 places+7	£87,500	+34.61%	48 1.53%	37
Lead Developer	97	Up 32 places+32	£87,500	-27.08%	47 1.50%	5
Senior Architect	99	Up 23 places+23	£100,000	-18.36%	45 1.43%	65
Cloud Engineer	102	Up 32 places+32	£90,000	+12.50%	42 1.34%	58
Senior Consultant	104	Up 31 places+31	£85,000	+33.33%	40 1.27%	60
Infrastructure Engineer	104	Down -2 places-2	£75,000	+23.96%	40 1.27%	24
Data Analyst	104	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	-4.00%	40 1.27%	39
Systems Analyst	105	Up 24 places+24	£50,000	-16.66%	39 1.24%	16
Senior Software Engineer	105	Up 18 places+18	£100,000	+8.10%	39 1.24%	34
IT Analyst	106	Down -8 places-8	£55,000	+22.22%	38 1.21%	12
Principal Engineer	106	Up 24 places+24	£90,000	-20.00%	38 1.21%	29
Senior Analyst	107	Down -19 places-19	£60,000	-17.24%	37 1.18%	67
Quantitative Developer	107	Up 28 places+28	£100,000	-37.50%	37 1.18%	9
Engineering Manager	108	Up 33 places+33	£110,000	-	36 1.15%	27
Artificial Intelligence Engineer	110	Up 32 places+32	£92,500	-11.90%	34 1.08%	66
Security Engineer	110	Up 17 places+17	£72,500	-3.33%	34 1.08%	58
Data Scientist	111	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	+38.46%	33 1.05%	34
Administrator	111	Up 8 places+8	£83,750	+91.42%	33 1.05%	21
Senior Full-Stack Engineer	111	Up 21 places+21	£95,000	-9.52%	33 1.05%	17
Lead Architect	114	Up 19 places+19	£100,000	-23.07%	30 0.96%	50
Team Leader	114	Up 12 places+12	£100,000	+25.00%	30 0.96%	19
DevOps Engineer	115	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	+35.59%	29 0.92%	35
Technical Manager	115	Up 26 places+26	£85,000	+77.08%	29 0.92%	38
Data Manager	115	Up 16 places+16	£95,000	+5.55%	29 0.92%	32
AWS Engineer	116	Up 17 places+17	£90,000	+20.00%	28 0.89%	19
Artificial Intelligence Architect	117	Up 27 places+27	£97,500	-	27 0.86%	47
Java Developer	118	Up 9 places+9	£100,000	+11.11%	26 0.83%	16