Senior Jobs in East London

Senior
London > East London

The median Senior salary in East London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 45 23 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 12.86% 10.60% 15.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.18% 13.37% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 49
10th Percentile - £33,425 £38,050
25th Percentile £80,000 £46,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.22% -11.54% -5.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £80,875 £107,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 223 172 382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 63.71% 79.26% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 59 137 269
10th Percentile £36,900 £28,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,375 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% +9.52% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £114,000 £150,000 £93,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Salary Trend in East London

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

Salary trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Salary Histogram in East London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in East London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in East London

Senior
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the East London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Tower Hamlets +11 13 £100,000 +25.00%
Bexley +2 11 - - 4
Havering +2 3 - -
Barking -3 3 - - 2
Waltham Forest - 3 - -
Dagenham - 3 - -
Docklands, London -2 2 £105,000 +40.00%
Redbridge -6 2 - -
Lewisham - 1 - -
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 East London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 29 (64.44%) Broadband
2 24 (53.33%) AWS
3 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (42.22%) Python
4 19 (42.22%) Games
4 19 (42.22%) Degree
5 18 (40.00%) TypeScript
6 17 (37.78%) Mentoring
7 16 (35.56%) Azure
7 16 (35.56%) Serverless
7 16 (35.56%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
8 13 (28.89%) Clean Code
8 13 (28.89%) GraphQL
8 13 (28.89%) Agile
8 13 (28.89%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
10 11 (24.44%) Validation
10 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
11 10 (22.22%) PhD
11 10 (22.22%) Animation
11 10 (22.22%) 3D Animation
11 10 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
11 10 (22.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 10 (22.22%) Rapid Prototyping
11 10 (22.22%) WebGL
11 10 (22.22%) Machine Learning
11 10 (22.22%) HLSL
11 10 (22.22%) Storytelling

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) AWS Lambda
2 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) Serverless
3 10 (22.22%) GCP
4 6 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.11%) GitHub
6 4 (8.89%) Figma
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (6.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 29 (64.44%) Broadband
2 3 (6.67%) Bluetooth
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (4.44%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Cypress.io
2 3 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 19 (42.22%) Games
2 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Local Government
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) GraphQL
2 10 (22.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 10 (22.22%) WebGL
3 7 (15.56%) CSS
3 7 (15.56%) HTML
4 4 (8.89%) Django
4 4 (8.89%) React
4 4 (8.89%) Sass
4 4 (8.89%) Vue
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless Framework
5 3 (6.67%) WebSockets
6 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.44%) YAML
7 1 (2.22%) DOM
7 1 (2.22%) Flask
7 1 (2.22%) Pyramid
7 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Animation
1 10 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (6.67%) IoT
3 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (37.78%) Mentoring
3 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
4 13 (28.89%) Agile
4 13 (28.89%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (28.89%) Clean Code
5 11 (24.44%) Validation
6 10 (22.22%) 3D Animation
6 10 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
6 10 (22.22%) Data Science
6 10 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 10 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
6 10 (22.22%) Personalization
6 10 (22.22%) Prototyping
6 10 (22.22%) Rapid Prototyping
6 10 (22.22%) Storytelling
6 10 (22.22%) Visual Effects
7 9 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) Python
2 18 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.22%) HLSL
5 3 (6.67%) C
5 3 (6.67%) C++
5 3 (6.67%) Ladder Logic
5 3 (6.67%) SQL
6 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Degree
2 10 (22.22%) PhD
3 9 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Avamar
1 3 (6.67%) NetBackup
1 3 (6.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.89%) Adobe
3 3 (6.67%) Siemens
4 2 (4.44%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) Snow
4 2 (4.44%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) Veeam
4 2 (4.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Facebook
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Instagram