Senior IT Engineer Jobs in London

Senior IT Engineer
England > London

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in London is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 469 566
Rank change year-on-year +101 +97 +287
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 18 35 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10 32 40
10th Percentile £48,575 £36,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,063 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +26.09% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £81,125 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 11,479 22,260 31,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.24% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,949 16,595 23,518
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,419
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in London

Senior IT Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 22 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 +42 5 £75,000 - 2
Senior IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Senior IT Engineer 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 Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) Degree
3 12 (66.67%) AWS
4 11 (61.11%) Finance
4 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
5 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (50.00%) Windows
6 9 (50.00%) Marketing
7 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
7 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
7 8 (44.44%) Law
7 8 (44.44%) Legal
7 8 (44.44%) Information Security
8 7 (38.89%) Service Management
8 7 (38.89%) VPN
8 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
9 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
9 6 (33.33%) ITIL
9 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
9 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
9 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
9 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
10 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
10 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
10 5 (27.78%) Entra ID

Senior IT Engineer 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 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (11.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (5.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) VPN
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) NetScaler
3 2 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Marketing
3 8 (44.44%) Law
3 8 (44.44%) Legal
4 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) LangChain
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (16.67%) PKI
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (5.56%) Media Streaming
5 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 8 (44.44%) Information Security
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Service Management
4 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (33.33%) ITIL
4 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 5 (27.78%) API Development
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
5 5 (27.78%) Generative AI
5 5 (27.78%) ITSM
5 5 (27.78%) LLM
5 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
5 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Conversational UI
6 4 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) C
3 4 (22.22%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 4 (22.22%) CISSP
4 3 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (16.67%) CCSK
4 3 (16.67%) CCSP
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CEH
5 1 (5.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (27.78%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (16.67%) CASB
4 2 (11.11%) SCCM
4 2 (11.11%) SCOM
4 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Plesk
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) OpenAI
3 4 (22.22%) Remedy
3 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 4 (22.22%) Zscaler
4 3 (16.67%) Bloomberg
4 3 (16.67%) Refinitiv
4 3 (16.67%) Symantec
4 3 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) Citrix
5 2 (11.11%) FactSet
5 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
5 2 (11.11%) Mitel
5 2 (11.11%) NetApp
5 2 (11.11%) Veeam
6 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.56%) Rackspace
6 1 (5.56%) Salesforce