Junior Jobs in London

Junior
England > London

The median Junior salary in London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 283 255
Rank change year-on-year 0 -28 +129
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 114 242 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.89% 1.01% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.07% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 87 209 369
10th Percentile £27,000 £23,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £59,375 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £36,000 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,537 22,689 30,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,970 16,827 22,863
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in London

Junior
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Junior in London

Junior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior in London

Junior
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Central London -8 23 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Junior
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Junior 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 London region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 39 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 37 (32.46%) Finance
3 36 (31.58%) Python
4 30 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.81%) Windows
6 25 (21.93%) Degree
7 23 (20.18%) SQL
8 20 (17.54%) Firewall
9 19 (16.67%) Kubernetes
10 18 (15.79%) Microsoft
11 16 (14.04%) Fintech
12 15 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (13.16%) Docker
12 15 (13.16%) CI/CD
12 15 (13.16%) Linux
13 14 (12.28%) Azure
13 14 (12.28%) AWS
14 13 (11.40%) PowerShell
14 13 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (11.40%) Analytics
15 12 (10.53%) Go
15 12 (10.53%) Hedge funds
16 11 (9.65%) LAN
16 11 (9.65%) WAN
16 11 (9.65%) TCP/IP
16 11 (9.65%) CCNA
16 11 (9.65%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (9.65%) Cisco
16 11 (9.65%) Incident Response
17 10 (8.77%) Decision-Making

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.51%) CMS
3 4 (3.51%) Confluence
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.88%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.88%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.26%) InDesign
3 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.28%) AWS
1 14 (12.28%) Azure
2 10 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.14%) Pulumi
4 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
4 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (4.39%) Serverless
5 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.51%) OneDrive
5 4 (3.51%) SaaS
6 3 (2.63%) Asana
6 3 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.63%) GCP
6 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.88%) Figma
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.54%) Firewall
2 11 (9.65%) LAN
2 11 (9.65%) TCP/IP
2 11 (9.65%) WAN
3 9 (7.89%) BGP
3 9 (7.89%) OSPF
3 9 (7.89%) SAN
4 8 (7.02%) MPLS
5 5 (4.39%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.51%) VPN
7 3 (2.63%) DHCP
7 3 (2.63%) DNS
7 3 (2.63%) VLAN
8 2 (1.75%) Internet
8 2 (1.75%) Network Security
9 1 (0.88%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.88%) IPsec
9 1 (0.88%) SNMP
9 1 (0.88%) Telnet
9 1 (0.88%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.63%) Power BI
3 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.75%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.88%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Git
1 8 (7.02%) JIRA
2 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) Gradle
3 2 (1.75%) Maven
3 2 (1.75%) Subversion
4 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.88%) Postman
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
4 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 37 (32.46%) Finance
3 9 (7.89%) Law
4 8 (7.02%) Advertising
4 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.02%) Marketing
5 7 (6.14%) Legal
6 6 (5.26%) Banking
7 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.51%) Publishing
8 4 (3.51%) Retail
9 3 (2.63%) Aviation
9 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) Pandas
2 6 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 6 (5.26%) NumPy
2 6 (5.26%) React
3 4 (3.51%) HTML
4 3 (2.63%) CSS
4 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.63%) RESTful
4 3 (2.63%) Spring
5 2 (1.75%) .NET
5 2 (1.75%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.75%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.75%) HTML5
5 2 (1.75%) Kafka
5 2 (1.75%) pytest
5 2 (1.75%) Web Services
6 1 (0.88%) CSS3
6 1 (0.88%) Django
6 1 (0.88%) SOAP
6 1 (0.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Hedge funds
2 9 (7.89%) Podcast
3 7 (6.14%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.51%) Social Media
5 3 (2.63%) CMDB
5 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Derivative
7 1 (0.88%) Equities
7 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.88%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.81%) Windows
2 15 (13.16%) Linux
3 6 (5.26%) Mac OS X
4 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.88%) CentOS
7 1 (0.88%) Debian
7 1 (0.88%) Rocky
7 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (14.04%) Fintech
3 15 (13.16%) CI/CD
3 15 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (11.40%) Analytics
5 11 (9.65%) Incident Response
6 10 (8.77%) Agile
6 10 (8.77%) Decision-Making
7 9 (7.89%) Content Management
7 9 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.89%) SIEM
8 8 (7.02%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (7.02%) CRM
8 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (7.02%) Low Latency
8 8 (7.02%) Network Monitoring
8 8 (7.02%) Project Management
9 7 (6.14%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (6.14%) DevOps
9 7 (6.14%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.58%) Python
2 23 (20.18%) SQL
3 13 (11.40%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.53%) Go
5 8 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.14%) Bicep
6 7 (6.14%) Java
6 7 (6.14%) Ruby
7 5 (4.39%) Bash
8 4 (3.51%) C#
9 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (21.93%) Degree
2 13 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.65%) CCNA
3 11 (9.65%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (7.89%) CEH
4 9 (7.89%) CISSP
4 9 (7.89%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (7.89%) GCIA
4 9 (7.89%) GCIH
4 9 (7.89%) OSCP
4 9 (7.89%) SANS
5 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.26%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) SLA
3 2 (1.75%) PMO
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (13.16%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.02%) Terraform
3 7 (6.14%) Ansible
3 7 (6.14%) Podman
3 7 (6.14%) Progress Chef
3 7 (6.14%) Puppet
4 6 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (3.51%) Kibana
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.75%) logstash
7 2 (1.75%) Nagios
8 1 (0.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) Cisco
3 10 (8.77%) Juniper
4 9 (7.89%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (6.14%) Adobe
6 3 (2.63%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.75%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.75%) Commvault
7 2 (1.75%) HP
7 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.75%) Splunk
7 2 (1.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Apple
8 1 (0.88%) Arista
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.88%) Google
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds