Digital & IT Job Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 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%	507 15.07%	528
Architect	6	Up 33 places+33	£100,000	-	382 11.35%	182
Developer	6	Up 7 places+7	£72,500	-9.37%	382 11.35%	91
Lead	8	Up 10 places+10	£97,500	+2.63%	352 10.46%	399
Analyst	9	Up 1 place+1	£55,000	-15.38%	339 10.07%	152
Business Manager	20	Up 107 places+107	£62,500	+27.03%	218 6.48%	30
Development Manager	22	Up 90 places+90	£60,000	-36.84%	206 6.12%	32
Business Development Manager	24	Up 107 places+107	£60,000	+21.95%	197 5.85%	26
Consultant	29	Up 60 places+60	£85,000	+30.76%	165 4.90%	160
Software Engineer	31	Up 55 places+55	£100,000	+11.11%	154 4.58%	76
Solutions Architect	31	Up 45 places+45	£100,000	-	154 4.58%	53
Data Engineer	44	Up 52 places+52	£85,000	+3.03%	114 3.39%	52
Senior Manager	55	Up 43 places+43	£87,500	+29.62%	94 2.79%	105
Business Analyst	62	Down -5 places-5	£70,000	-12.50%	83 2.47%	38
Full-Stack Engineer	72	Up 37 places+37	£85,000	-19.04%	71 2.11%	18
Support Analyst	80	Down -10 places-10	£42,500	-5.55%	63 1.87%	8
Azure Engineer	82	Up 44 places+44	£92,500	+16.71%	60 1.78%	7
Data Architect	85	Up 25 places+25	£90,000	-12.19%	57 1.69%	28
Senior Developer	88	Down -14 places-14	£97,500	+25.80%	54 1.60%	32
Python Engineer	88	Up 50 places+50	£100,000	-4.76%	54 1.60%	19
Lead Developer	89	Up 33 places+33	£87,500	-27.08%	53 1.58%	4
Software Developer	90	Up 39 places+39	£70,000	-12.50%	52 1.55%	5
Platform Engineer	92	Up 27 places+27	£97,480	+29.97%	50 1.49%	31
Project Manager	94	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	-12.72%	48 1.43%	65
IT Manager	96	No change0	£90,000	+40.07%	46 1.37%	17
Senior Architect	96	Up 17 places+17	£100,000	-18.36%	46 1.37%	31
Cloud Engineer	97	Up 31 places+31	£92,500	+8.82%	45 1.34%	31
Data Analyst	98	No change0	£57,500	+4.54%	44 1.31%	17
Systems Analyst	99	Up 25 places+25	£50,000	-16.66%	43 1.28%	11
Infrastructure Engineer	99	Up 2 places+2	£75,000	+23.96%	43 1.28%	7
Senior Software Engineer	99	Up 21 places+21	£100,000	+11.11%	43 1.28%	23
IT Analyst	99	Down -1 place-1	£55,000	+22.22%	43 1.28%	4
Engineering Manager	101	Up 37 places+37	£110,000	-	41 1.22%	17
Senior Analyst	102	Down -22 places-22	£68,750	-5.17%	40 1.19%	38
Principal Engineer	102	Up 28 places+28	£90,000	-20.00%	40 1.19%	19
Quantitative Developer	103	Up 30 places+30	£100,000	-37.50%	39 1.16%	1
Data Scientist	106	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	+16.12%	36 1.07%	33
Administrator	107	Up 10 places+10	£83,750	+97.05%	35 1.04%	17
Security Engineer	107	Up 18 places+18	£72,500	-6.45%	35 1.04%	33
Senior Consultant	108	Up 24 places+24	£85,000	+33.33%	34 1.01%	43
Senior Full-Stack Engineer	108	Up 21 places+21	£95,000	-9.52%	34 1.01%	10
Lead Architect	109	Up 20 places+20	£100,000	-23.07%	33 0.98%	30
AWS Engineer	110	Up 22 places+22	£95,000	+26.66%	32 0.95%	11
Lead Data Engineer	110	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	-5.26%	32 0.95%	8
Data Manager	111	Up 17 places+17	£95,000	+50.79%	31 0.92%	25
Artificial Intelligence Engineer	111	Up 28 places+28	£95,000	-9.52%	31 0.92%	49
Technical Manager	112	Up 24 places+24	£85,000	+77.08%	30 0.89%	30
Security Architect	112	Up 27 places+27	£100,000	-3.61%	30 0.89%	9
Artificial Intelligence Architect	112	Up 26 places+26	£97,500	-	30 0.89%	25
DevOps Engineer	113	Down -13 places-13	£100,000	+29.03%	29 0.86%	9