Senior Jobs in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,412 6,470 13,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.79% 18.06% 21.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.98% 19.01% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,087 4,452 6,091
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior in London

Senior
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 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
Central London +5 761 £77,500 -8.82% 163
West London +25 194 £57,500 +4.55% 51
South London +25 124 £65,000 +1.96% 27
East London -4 23 £46,750 -28.08% 44
North London -5 12 £70,000 +27.27% 10
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 1,293 (29.31%) Finance
2 1,186 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 1,033 (23.41%) Azure
4 968 (21.94%) Agile
5 944 (21.40%) SQL
6 925 (20.97%) AWS
7 876 (19.85%) Python
8 854 (19.36%) Microsoft
9 703 (15.93%) Degree
10 641 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
11 620 (14.05%) Mentoring
12 587 (13.30%) Software Engineering
13 571 (12.94%) JavaScript
14 535 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
15 490 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 467 (10.58%) Java
17 463 (10.49%) DevOps
18 427 (9.68%) C#
19 405 (9.18%) React
20 396 (8.98%) .NET
21 384 (8.70%) Analytics
22 335 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
22 335 (7.59%) Kubernetes
23 333 (7.55%) CI/CD
24 331 (7.50%) TypeScript
25 322 (7.30%) Windows
26 313 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
27 310 (7.03%) Decision-Making
28 304 (6.89%) GCP
29 300 (6.80%) Full Stack Development

Senior 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
1 117 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (2.38%) Apache
3 100 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 94 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 66 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 42 (0.95%) CMS
7 26 (0.59%) SAS
8 20 (0.45%) Confluence
9 19 (0.43%) WordPress
10 18 (0.41%) ArcGIS
11 17 (0.39%) Drupal
11 17 (0.39%) GeoServer
12 15 (0.34%) IIS
13 11 (0.25%) JBoss
13 11 (0.25%) nginx
13 11 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
14 9 (0.20%) Mendix
15 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 231 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 17 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.25%) Sketch
9 7 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.091%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.091%) InDesign
12 3 (0.068%) InVision
12 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.045%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.045%) Revit
13 2 (0.045%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.045%) SPSS
13 2 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (1.18%) Endur
2 35 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.29%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.27%) SAP SCM
6 10 (0.23%) SAP HR
7 8 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
8 7 (0.16%) C-CURE
8 7 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.14%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.14%) SAP Travel Management
10 5 (0.11%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.11%) SAP CRM
10 5 (0.11%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.11%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (23.41%) Azure
2 925 (20.97%) AWS
3 304 (6.89%) GCP
4 290 (6.57%) SaaS
5 260 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
6 221 (5.01%) Power Platform
7 164 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 116 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 98 (2.22%) Snowflake
10 93 (2.11%) Serverless
11 80 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
12 68 (1.54%) PaaS
13 65 (1.47%) dbt
14 64 (1.45%) GitHub
15 58 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 54 (1.22%) IaaS
17 50 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 40 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
20 39 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 204 (4.62%) Firewall
2 198 (4.49%) Broadband
3 101 (2.29%) 5G
4 98 (2.22%) WAN
5 89 (2.02%) VPN
6 75 (1.70%) LAN
7 70 (1.59%) DNS
8 69 (1.56%) Network Security
9 62 (1.41%) MPLS
10 52 (1.18%) Wireless
11 51 (1.16%) TCP/IP
12 49 (1.11%) Internet
13 48 (1.09%) BGP
14 46 (1.04%) DHCP
15 45 (1.02%) SD-WAN
16 42 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
17 35 (0.79%) VLAN
18 30 (0.68%) SAN
19 26 (0.59%) SNMP
20 24 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 187 (4.24%) Tableau
3 175 (3.97%) Power BI
4 151 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 128 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 117 (2.65%) Data Lake
7 98 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 97 (2.20%) MySQL
9 75 (1.70%) MongoDB
9 75 (1.70%) NoSQL
10 69 (1.56%) Big Data
11 61 (1.38%) Data Mining
11 61 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 56 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
14 53 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
15 50 (1.13%) Metadata
16 48 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
17 43 (0.97%) RDBMS
18 40 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 246 (5.58%) Git
2 137 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 96 (2.18%) JIRA
4 44 (1.00%) GitLab
5 38 (0.86%) Selenium
6 35 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 31 (0.70%) Postman
8 28 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 25 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
11 22 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.48%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
12 21 (0.48%) TeamCity
13 19 (0.43%) JUnit
14 18 (0.41%) Sourcetree
14 18 (0.41%) SpecFlow
15 17 (0.39%) NUnit
16 15 (0.34%) Moq
17 14 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 1,293 (29.31%) Finance
2 1,186 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 641 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 490 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 283 (6.41%) Marketing
6 281 (6.37%) Banking
7 237 (5.37%) Law
8 231 (5.24%) Retail
9 187 (4.24%) Front Office
10 181 (4.10%) Legal
11 149 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
12 126 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 117 (2.65%) Public Sector
14 107 (2.43%) Back Office
15 84 (1.90%) Games
16 74 (1.68%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.61%) Investment Banking
18 45 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
19 44 (1.00%) Retail Banking
19 44 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (9.18%) React
2 396 (8.98%) .NET
3 262 (5.94%) HTML
4 236 (5.35%) CSS
5 232 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 164 (3.72%) REST
7 156 (3.54%) Kafka
8 142 (3.22%) Node.js
9 119 (2.70%) Spring
10 110 (2.49%) ASP.NET
11 109 (2.47%) Pandas
12 103 (2.33%) Vue
13 95 (2.15%) .NET Core
13 95 (2.15%) RESTful
14 81 (1.84%) PySpark
15 77 (1.75%) JSON
16 74 (1.68%) Spring Boot
17 71 (1.61%) XML
18 69 (1.56%) Web Services
19 66 (1.50%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 150 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 143 (3.24%) Hedge funds
3 140 (3.17%) Derivative
4 135 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 134 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 125 (2.83%) Social Media
7 120 (2.72%) Equities
8 117 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
9 109 (2.47%) Fixed Income
10 99 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 96 (2.18%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.90%) Algorithms
13 81 (1.84%) Cloud Native
14 80 (1.81%) Data Centre
15 71 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
16 61 (1.38%) Reinsurance
17 51 (1.16%) Data Structures
18 50 (1.13%) Mobile App
19 48 (1.09%) IoT
20 42 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 322 (7.30%) Windows
2 292 (6.62%) Linux
3 130 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 105 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 61 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 44 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 43 (0.97%) Android
8 32 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (0.70%) Unix
10 27 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 22 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 20 (0.45%) VMS
13 17 (0.39%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.068%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.023%) CentOS
17 1 (0.023%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 968 (21.94%) Agile
2 620 (14.05%) Mentoring
3 587 (13.30%) Software Engineering
4 535 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
5 463 (10.49%) DevOps
6 384 (8.70%) Analytics
7 335 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
8 333 (7.55%) CI/CD
9 313 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 310 (7.03%) Decision-Making
11 300 (6.80%) Full Stack Development
12 299 (6.78%) Project Management
13 292 (6.62%) Actionable Insight
14 268 (6.07%) Computer Science
15 251 (5.69%) Roadmaps
16 245 (5.55%) Visualisation
17 242 (5.49%) Microservices
18 230 (5.21%) Business Intelligence
19 226 (5.12%) Data Science
20 225 (5.10%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 944 (21.40%) SQL
2 876 (19.85%) Python
3 571 (12.94%) JavaScript
4 467 (10.58%) Java
5 427 (9.68%) C#
6 331 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 154 (3.49%) Bash
8 147 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 83 (1.88%) T-SQL
10 69 (1.56%) C++
11 64 (1.45%) PHP
12 62 (1.41%) Ruby
13 59 (1.34%) R
14 56 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 56 (1.27%) PL/SQL
15 54 (1.22%) Go
16 49 (1.11%) Rust
17 39 (0.88%) VB
18 38 (0.86%) C
19 34 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 703 (15.93%) Degree
2 195 (4.42%) Security Cleared
3 136 (3.08%) ACCA
4 120 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 118 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 117 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (2.49%) CIMA
8 107 (2.43%) DBS Check
9 75 (1.70%) CISSP
10 67 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 66 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (1.02%) PMI Certification
13 42 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 38 (0.86%) CCNP
15 36 (0.82%) DV Cleared
16 32 (0.73%) CISM
17 29 (0.66%) AWS Certification
18 28 (0.63%) CISA
19 27 (0.61%) CEH
20 22 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (3.65%) QA
2 128 (2.90%) SLA
3 108 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 52 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (1.02%) NIST
6 41 (0.93%) IFRS
7 40 (0.91%) GDPR
8 31 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 31 (0.70%) PMO
9 23 (0.52%) GRC
10 20 (0.45%) IFRS 9
11 17 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.36%) COBIT
12 16 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.27%) WCAG
14 9 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.20%) NCSC
14 9 (0.20%) Solvency II
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 296 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 266 (6.03%) Docker
3 83 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.27%) vSphere
9 10 (0.23%) KVM
10 9 (0.20%) XenApp
11 8 (0.18%) HDFS
12 6 (0.14%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.091%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.068%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.068%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.068%) Xen
15 2 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 335 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 227 (5.15%) Terraform
3 151 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 97 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
5 92 (2.09%) Ansible
6 50 (1.13%) SCCM
7 43 (0.97%) Grafana
8 31 (0.70%) Puppet
9 30 (0.68%) Prometheus
10 23 (0.52%) vCenter Server
11 19 (0.43%) FortiGate
12 18 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 16 (0.36%) Nmap
14 13 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.27%) Nagios
16 10 (0.23%) Graphite
16 10 (0.23%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.20%) WSUS
18 8 (0.18%) Cisco CUCM
18 8 (0.18%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 854 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 171 (3.88%) Databricks
3 157 (3.56%) Cisco
4 153 (3.47%) Google
5 146 (3.31%) VMware
6 141 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 139 (3.15%) Oracle
8 111 (2.52%) Dell
9 100 (2.27%) CyberArk
10 92 (2.09%) SAP
11 90 (2.04%) Tanium
12 60 (1.36%) Citrix
13 52 (1.18%) Salesforce
14 50 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 48 (1.09%) Juniper
16 47 (1.07%) SolarWinds
17 43 (0.97%) HP
18 42 (0.95%) Adobe
19 39 (0.88%) Meraki
20 36 (0.82%) Sybase