Senior Jobs in Central London

Senior
London > Central London

The median Senior salary in Central London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 761 941 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 20.19% 17.77% 15.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.24% 18.48% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 554 861 1,114
10th Percentile £51,175 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,375 £115,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% +3.13% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,583 5,092 7,641
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 96.18% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 4,256 6,431
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in Central London.

Salary trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Central London

Senior
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
City of London +4 677 £80,000 -5.88% 142
City of Westminster +1 48 £62,500 -32.43%
Camden 0 15 £80,000 +18.52% 6
Southwark +2 14 £40,952 -43.51% 2
West End of London +6 13 £88,250 +3.82% 7
Lambeth +8 9 £82,500 -25.00%
Kensington and Chelsea -1 6 £63,750 -20.31% 1
Senior
London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 28 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 Central London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 216 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 210 (27.60%) Azure
3 193 (25.36%) AWS
4 187 (24.57%) SQL
5 171 (22.47%) Finance
6 164 (21.55%) Python
7 160 (21.02%) Degree
8 154 (20.24%) Agile
9 143 (18.79%) DevOps
10 133 (17.48%) Microsoft
11 108 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
12 104 (13.67%) JavaScript
13 100 (13.14%) Actionable Insight
14 99 (13.01%) CI/CD
15 95 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
16 93 (12.22%) Software Engineering
17 90 (11.83%) .NET
18 86 (11.30%) Windows
19 85 (11.17%) Git
20 84 (11.04%) Java
21 80 (10.51%) C#
22 78 (10.25%) Kubernetes
23 76 (9.99%) SQL Server
24 74 (9.72%) SaaS
25 72 (9.46%) Mentoring
26 71 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
27 70 (9.20%) CSS
27 70 (9.20%) Computer Science
28 69 (9.07%) Visualisation
29 67 (8.80%) Terraform

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 39 (5.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.23%) ArcGIS
3 17 (2.23%) GeoServer
4 14 (1.84%) CMS
5 9 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.05%) Drupal
6 8 (1.05%) IIS
7 7 (0.92%) Apache
7 7 (0.92%) WordPress
8 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.66%) Confluence
8 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.66%) K2 blackpearl
8 5 (0.66%) Mendix
9 2 (0.26%) JBoss
9 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.26%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 30 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.05%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.53%) Sketch
8 2 (0.26%) Stata
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.05%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.26%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 2 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.13%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Relativity
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 210 (27.60%) Azure
2 193 (25.36%) AWS
3 74 (9.72%) SaaS
4 71 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (4.60%) GCP
5 35 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 31 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.68%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.50%) Snowflake
9 18 (2.37%) Datadog
9 18 (2.37%) Serverless
10 16 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.97%) PaaS
12 12 (1.58%) Rubrik
13 11 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.31%) IaaS
14 10 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.18%) Figma
16 8 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.60%) Firewall
2 18 (2.37%) Network Security
3 17 (2.23%) LAN
3 17 (2.23%) WAN
4 13 (1.71%) SAN
4 13 (1.71%) Wireless
5 11 (1.45%) Internet
6 10 (1.31%) Structured Cabling
7 8 (1.05%) HTTP
8 7 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.79%) Broadband
9 6 (0.79%) NAS
9 6 (0.79%) VPN
9 6 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.66%) NetScaler
11 4 (0.53%) DNS
11 4 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.53%) PBX
11 4 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (9.99%) SQL Server
2 53 (6.96%) Tableau
3 34 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.94%) MySQL
4 30 (3.94%) Power BI
5 19 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.50%) QGIS
6 17 (2.23%) GIS
7 11 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.05%) Metadata
10 8 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.05%) Redis
11 7 (0.92%) Big Data
11 7 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 85 (11.17%) Git
2 55 (7.23%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.81%) Cucumber
3 29 (3.81%) Postman
4 24 (3.15%) Selenium
5 18 (2.37%) GitLab
5 18 (2.37%) JIRA
6 13 (1.71%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 11 (1.45%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.18%) Moq
9 9 (1.18%) NUnit
10 8 (1.05%) git-flow
10 8 (1.05%) Sourcetree
10 8 (1.05%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.79%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 216 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 171 (22.47%) Finance
3 108 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (5.26%) Law
5 38 (4.99%) Banking
6 35 (4.60%) Marketing
7 32 (4.20%) Retail
8 29 (3.81%) Legal
9 27 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (2.10%) Front Office
13 16 (2.10%) Tech for Good
14 13 (1.71%) Advertising
15 11 (1.45%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.31%) Games
17 8 (1.05%) Health Technology
17 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (11.83%) .NET
2 70 (9.20%) CSS
3 61 (8.02%) HTML
3 61 (8.02%) React
4 52 (6.83%) REST
5 30 (3.94%) Node.js
6 26 (3.42%) Pandas
7 22 (2.89%) PySpark
7 22 (2.89%) RESTful
8 21 (2.76%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.63%) .NET Framework
9 20 (2.63%) Kafka
10 19 (2.50%) HTML5
10 19 (2.50%) scikit-learn
10 19 (2.50%) TensorFlow
10 19 (2.50%) WPF
11 18 (2.37%) ASP.NET
11 18 (2.37%) Web Services
12 17 (2.23%) OpenLayers
12 17 (2.23%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.20%) Algorithms
2 24 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.10%) Life Science
5 15 (1.97%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.84%) Equities
6 14 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.71%) Reinsurance
8 11 (1.45%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.45%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.05%) Legacy Code
11 8 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.92%) FPGA
12 7 (0.92%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.79%) NHS
14 5 (0.66%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 86 (11.30%) Windows
2 48 (6.31%) Windows Server
3 37 (4.86%) Linux
4 18 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.53%) Android
8 4 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.39%) Unix
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (20.24%) Agile
2 143 (18.79%) DevOps
3 100 (13.14%) Actionable Insight
4 99 (13.01%) CI/CD
5 95 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (12.22%) Software Engineering
7 72 (9.46%) Mentoring
8 70 (9.20%) Computer Science
9 69 (9.07%) Visualisation
10 61 (8.02%) Decision-Making
11 56 (7.36%) Analytics
12 52 (6.83%) Full Stack Development
13 51 (6.70%) Change Management
14 48 (6.31%) Statistics
15 47 (6.18%) Data Science
16 45 (5.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 45 (5.91%) Mathematics
17 43 (5.65%) Project Management
17 43 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 42 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 187 (24.57%) SQL
2 164 (21.55%) Python
3 104 (13.67%) JavaScript
4 84 (11.04%) Java
5 80 (10.51%) C#
6 46 (6.04%) PowerShell
7 26 (3.42%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.29%) T-SQL
9 22 (2.89%) Bash
10 20 (2.63%) PHP
11 15 (1.97%) C++
12 10 (1.31%) XPath
13 8 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.05%) R
14 7 (0.92%) Clojure
14 7 (0.92%) F#
14 7 (0.92%) Go
14 7 (0.92%) Haskell
14 7 (0.92%) Rust
15 5 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 160 (21.02%) Degree
2 49 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.91%) DBS Check
4 44 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 38 (4.99%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.63%) CISSP
8 15 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.05%) CEH
9 8 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.79%) ACCA
11 6 (0.79%) CCSP
11 6 (0.79%) CIMA
11 6 (0.79%) SSCP
12 5 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.66%) MBA
12 5 (0.66%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.18%) QA
2 19 (2.50%) SLA
3 17 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.31%) NIST
5 8 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.66%) PMO
7 4 (0.53%) GRC
7 4 (0.53%) WCAG
8 3 (0.39%) COBIT
9 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) GAAP
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 49 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 47 (6.18%) Docker
3 31 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (1.31%) vSphere
5 7 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.39%) XenApp
9 2 (0.26%) Xen
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 78 (10.25%) Kubernetes
2 67 (8.80%) Terraform
3 20 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (2.50%) SCCM
5 12 (1.58%) Ansible
6 10 (1.31%) Nmap
6 10 (1.31%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.18%) Puppet
8 6 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.66%) Grafana
10 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.26%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.26%) Istio
11 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.13%) cPanel
12 1 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.13%) WSUS
12 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 133 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.70%) VMware
3 46 (6.04%) Databricks
4 35 (4.60%) Cisco
5 18 (2.37%) HP
5 18 (2.37%) Oracle
5 18 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.23%) ESRI
6 17 (2.23%) SolarWinds
7 16 (2.10%) Citrix
7 16 (2.10%) Dell
8 15 (1.97%) Google
8 15 (1.97%) NetApp
9 14 (1.84%) Adobe
9 14 (1.84%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.71%) Meraki
11 12 (1.58%) Aderant
12 11 (1.45%) SAP
13 9 (1.18%) Veeam