Senior Job Trends in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,624 2,519 3,686
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 17.30% 17.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.93% 18.97% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 1,524 2,821
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -8.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 14,633 13,278 19,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 91.21% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,723 7,810 16,070
10th Percentile £36,550 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,906 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior job vacancy trend in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in London

Senior
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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 +1 531 £90,000 +12.50% 167
West London -2 55 £75,000 +17.65% 34
South London +38 49 £60,000 +1.69% 1
East London -13 14 £54,600 -31.75% 27
North London +8 8 £75,000 - 5
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 February 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 492 (18.75%) Azure
2 417 (15.89%) Agile
3 406 (15.47%) AI
4 397 (15.13%) AWS
5 372 (14.18%) Python
6 359 (13.68%) Software Engineering
7 333 (12.69%) Degree
8 332 (12.65%) Mentoring
9 329 (12.54%) Microsoft
10 314 (11.97%) Analytics
11 305 (11.62%) CI/CD
12 281 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
13 260 (9.91%) DevOps
14 240 (9.15%) Java
15 235 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 225 (8.57%) SQL
17 209 (7.96%) Decision-Making
18 203 (7.74%) Kubernetes
19 201 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
19 201 (7.66%) Roadmaps
20 199 (7.58%) SaaS
21 184 (7.01%) Microservices
22 182 (6.94%) Computer Science
23 179 (6.82%) GCP
24 175 (6.67%) Test Automation
25 164 (6.25%) Coaching
26 161 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
27 154 (5.87%) Business Strategy
28 151 (5.75%) Full-Stack Development
28 151 (5.75%) Microsoft 365

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 61 (2.32%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.61%) Apache
5 16 (0.61%) Confluence
6 12 (0.46%) JBoss
7 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.34%) CMS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.19%) WordPress
11 4 (0.15%) nginx
12 3 (0.11%) Drupal
12 3 (0.11%) SAS
13 2 (0.076%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.038%) Appian
14 1 (0.038%) IIS
14 1 (0.038%) Mendix
14 1 (0.038%) Tomcat
Applications
1 56 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.03%) Maya
4 13 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.27%) Sketch
7 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.15%) InDesign
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.11%) InVision
9 3 (0.11%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.076%) Blender
10 2 (0.076%) Weka
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.038%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.30%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.19%) Maximo
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.19%) Relativity
9 4 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.15%) SAP FSCM
9 4 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (0.15%) Shopify
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.076%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 492 (18.75%) Azure
2 397 (15.13%) AWS
3 199 (7.58%) SaaS
4 179 (6.82%) GCP
5 151 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 130 (4.95%) Power Platform
7 83 (3.16%) GitHub
8 82 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.78%) Serverless
10 58 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (1.83%) Snowflake
12 37 (1.41%) dbt
12 37 (1.41%) Figma
13 36 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (1.33%) PaaS
15 33 (1.26%) Amazon S3
16 32 (1.22%) Datadog
17 31 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
18 29 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
19 28 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.93%) Firewall
2 59 (2.25%) WAN
3 57 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
4 55 (2.10%) VPN
5 52 (1.98%) Broadband
6 50 (1.91%) DNS
7 47 (1.79%) DHCP
8 40 (1.52%) LAN
9 35 (1.33%) Wireless
10 32 (1.22%) VLAN
11 27 (1.03%) TCP/IP
12 25 (0.95%) SD-WAN
13 23 (0.88%) Multicast
13 23 (0.88%) SAN
14 21 (0.80%) Network Security
15 17 (0.65%) WebEx
16 14 (0.53%) HTTP
17 12 (0.46%) BGP
18 11 (0.42%) OSPF
19 9 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.04%) Power BI
2 100 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 65 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 41 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 39 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 38 (1.45%) Tableau
8 35 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.95%) Metadata
10 24 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.91%) BigQuery
11 21 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 19 (0.72%) Big Data
13 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.65%) MySQL
15 16 (0.61%) Redis
16 15 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 79 (3.01%) Git
2 64 (2.44%) JIRA
3 49 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.18%) TeamCity
5 22 (0.84%) GitLab
6 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
7 11 (0.42%) Burp Suite
7 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.34%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.34%) MLflow
8 9 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.30%) Chocolatey
9 8 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.30%) Selenium
9 8 (0.30%) Vite
10 7 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.23%) JMeter
11 6 (0.23%) Storybook
11 6 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.19%) LoadRunner
General
1 814 (31.02%) Finance
2 534 (20.35%) Social Skills
3 235 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (8.19%) Banking
5 205 (7.81%) Marketing
6 191 (7.28%) Law
7 188 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 152 (5.79%) Retail
9 145 (5.53%) Legal
10 107 (4.08%) Public Sector
11 84 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 70 (2.67%) Telecoms
13 60 (2.29%) Games
14 59 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (2.02%) Financial Institution
16 52 (1.98%) Front Office
17 42 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (1.56%) Advertising
19 29 (1.11%) Automotive
20 23 (0.88%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (4.88%) React
2 112 (4.27%) .NET
3 96 (3.66%) REST
4 80 (3.05%) Node.js
5 76 (2.90%) Kafka
6 69 (2.63%) RESTful
7 68 (2.59%) Spring
8 55 (2.10%) Spring Boot
9 53 (2.02%) CSS
10 46 (1.75%) HTML
11 42 (1.60%) SOAP
12 40 (1.52%) GraphQL
13 33 (1.26%) gRPC
14 31 (1.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 31 (1.18%) Django
14 31 (1.18%) OAuth
15 25 (0.95%) Middleware
16 24 (0.91%) AngularJS
17 23 (0.88%) .NET Core
17 23 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 199 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 85 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 62 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 58 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.17%) Mobile App
8 55 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 50 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 49 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.87%) Security Posture
11 44 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.52%) Equities
13 36 (1.37%) Hedge funds
14 35 (1.33%) Social Media
15 33 (1.26%) Public Cloud
16 26 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
16 26 (0.99%) Fixed Income
17 24 (0.91%) Reinsurance
18 23 (0.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 134 (5.11%) Linux
2 125 (4.76%) Windows
3 57 (2.17%) Android
4 52 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 40 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.18%) Unix
7 23 (0.88%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.34%) VMS
10 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 2 (0.076%) CentOS
13 2 (0.076%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.038%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (15.89%) Agile
2 406 (15.47%) AI
3 359 (13.68%) Software Engineering
4 332 (12.65%) Mentoring
5 314 (11.97%) Analytics
6 305 (11.62%) CI/CD
7 281 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 260 (9.91%) DevOps
9 235 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 209 (7.96%) Decision-Making
11 201 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 201 (7.66%) Roadmaps
12 184 (7.01%) Microservices
13 182 (6.94%) Computer Science
14 175 (6.67%) Test Automation
15 164 (6.25%) Coaching
16 161 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
17 154 (5.87%) Business Strategy
18 151 (5.75%) Full-Stack Development
19 146 (5.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 372 (14.18%) Python
2 240 (9.15%) Java
3 225 (8.57%) SQL
4 133 (5.07%) JavaScript
5 131 (4.99%) C#
6 127 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 102 (3.89%) C++
8 71 (2.71%) Go
9 63 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 37 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 34 (1.30%) Bash
11 34 (1.30%) Rust
12 28 (1.07%) Scala
13 22 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 20 (0.76%) Bicep
15 16 (0.61%) PHP
16 12 (0.46%) SOQL
17 11 (0.42%) C
18 10 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 333 (12.69%) Degree
2 117 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 113 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 92 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 52 (1.98%) ACCA
6 50 (1.91%) CISSP
7 44 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 35 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 34 (1.30%) CISM
10 34 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 33 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 32 (1.22%) CIMA
13 29 (1.11%) PhD
14 27 (1.03%) AWS Certification
15 23 (0.88%) CRISC
15 23 (0.88%) OSCP
16 20 (0.76%) CCNP
16 20 (0.76%) CISA
17 18 (0.69%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.20%) QA
2 72 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 68 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (1.87%) NIST
5 48 (1.83%) GDPR
6 43 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.95%) GRC
8 24 (0.91%) IFRS
8 24 (0.91%) SLA
9 17 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.57%) NCSC
11 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.27%) PERC
15 6 (0.23%) IFRS 17
15 6 (0.23%) PMO
15 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 111 (4.23%) Active Directory
1 111 (4.23%) Docker
2 50 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.34%) Firmware
5 9 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.23%) HDFS
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.076%) NFS
10 2 (0.076%) XenApp
11 1 (0.038%) Postfix
11 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 203 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 124 (4.73%) Terraform
3 61 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (1.79%) Grafana
5 45 (1.71%) Ansible
6 32 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.95%) SCCM
8 9 (0.34%) Nessus
9 7 (0.27%) Nagios
9 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.23%) Argo
11 5 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.19%) CASB
12 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.15%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.11%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 329 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 88 (3.35%) Salesforce
3 85 (3.24%) VMware
4 83 (3.16%) SAP
5 73 (2.78%) Cisco
6 54 (2.06%) Databricks
7 45 (1.71%) Oracle
8 43 (1.64%) Google
9 39 (1.49%) Adobe
10 34 (1.30%) Dell
11 32 (1.22%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 29 (1.11%) Fortinet
14 24 (0.91%) Meraki
15 23 (0.88%) Workday
16 22 (0.84%) Apple
17 21 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (0.72%) Guidewire
18 19 (0.72%) IBM
19 14 (0.53%) AppDynamics