Senior Jobs in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 8 8 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,004 8,648 9,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.06% 18.06% 19.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.91% 18.97% 19.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,384 5,367 5,991
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £54,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%

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 17,763 45,587 49,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 95.20% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 14,283 31,698 33,935
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 +1 579 £82,500 -2.94% 210
South London +26 56 £55,000 -21.43% 26
West London +8 49 £60,000 -10.45% 66
East London -26 18 £65,000 -13.33% 246
North London -8 1 £90,000 +44.00% 4
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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.

1 853 (28.40%) Finance
2 752 (25.03%) Agile
3 748 (24.90%) Azure
4 695 (23.14%) AWS
5 656 (21.84%) Social Skills
6 642 (21.37%) SQL
7 587 (19.54%) Python
8 527 (17.54%) Degree
9 516 (17.18%) DevOps
10 488 (16.25%) Microsoft
11 472 (15.71%) JavaScript
12 445 (14.81%) C#
13 428 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
14 423 (14.08%) Java
15 418 (13.91%) Kubernetes
16 406 (13.52%) CI/CD
17 376 (12.52%) Docker
18 373 (12.42%) .NET
19 341 (11.35%) Software Engineering
20 318 (10.59%) Mentoring
21 315 (10.49%) Analytics
22 306 (10.19%) React
23 276 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
24 275 (9.15%) Microservices
24 275 (9.15%) GCP
25 268 (8.92%) Terraform
26 251 (8.36%) Windows
27 228 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
28 223 (7.42%) Roadmaps
29 221 (7.36%) Computer Science

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 51 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.17%) Confluence
4 34 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.93%) Apache
6 27 (0.90%) SAS
7 17 (0.57%) MS Exchange
8 15 (0.50%) nginx
9 13 (0.43%) IIS
9 13 (0.43%) JBoss
9 13 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (0.33%) Drupal
11 9 (0.30%) CMS
12 7 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.20%) WordPress
14 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.13%) NServiceBus
14 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
15 3 (0.100%) Ethereum
16 2 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 98 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) Sketch
6 9 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.100%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.100%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.067%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.067%) InDesign
11 2 (0.067%) InVision
11 2 (0.067%) Marvel
11 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.033%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 38 (1.26%) Endur
2 24 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.17%) SAP CRM
6 5 (0.17%) SAP CX
6 5 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
6 5 (0.17%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.17%) SAP SCM
6 5 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 5 (0.17%) SAP WM
7 4 (0.13%) Cerner Millennium
7 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 748 (24.90%) Azure
2 695 (23.14%) AWS
3 275 (9.15%) GCP
4 203 (6.76%) SaaS
5 178 (5.93%) Power Platform
6 156 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 128 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 105 (3.50%) Serverless
9 88 (2.93%) GitHub
10 86 (2.86%) Entra ID
11 66 (2.20%) PaaS
12 57 (1.90%) IaaS
13 47 (1.56%) Datadog
14 44 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (1.33%) PowerApps
16 39 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
16 39 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
16 39 (1.30%) Snowflake
17 38 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.33%) Firewall
2 96 (3.20%) VPN
3 76 (2.53%) WAN
4 70 (2.33%) Network Security
5 63 (2.10%) DNS
6 55 (1.83%) SD-WAN
7 54 (1.80%) DHCP
8 52 (1.73%) LAN
9 49 (1.63%) TCP/IP
10 37 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (1.13%) SSL
11 34 (1.13%) VLAN
12 28 (0.93%) Internet
12 28 (0.93%) SAN
13 25 (0.83%) Wireless
14 24 (0.80%) BGP
15 22 (0.73%) MPLS
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (0.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 151 (5.03%) Power BI
3 105 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (2.70%) Tableau
5 78 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 76 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 65 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 50 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 48 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 47 (1.56%) Redis
11 46 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 42 (1.40%) Big Data
14 41 (1.36%) Data Mining
15 39 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 39 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 36 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
17 35 (1.17%) MySQL
18 34 (1.13%) Metadata
19 32 (1.07%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 182 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 126 (4.19%) Git
3 85 (2.83%) JIRA
4 80 (2.66%) Selenium
5 78 (2.60%) Postman
6 74 (2.46%) Cucumber
7 51 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 49 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 44 (1.46%) GitLab
10 32 (1.07%) CircleCI
11 31 (1.03%) TeamCity
12 26 (0.87%) Maven
12 26 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
13 25 (0.83%) webpack
14 24 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
15 23 (0.77%) SpecFlow
16 22 (0.73%) Mocha
17 20 (0.67%) JUnit
17 20 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
18 17 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 853 (28.40%) Finance
2 656 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 276 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (5.13%) Banking
6 150 (4.99%) Retail
7 139 (4.63%) Marketing
8 98 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 88 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 83 (2.76%) Games
11 82 (2.73%) Legal
12 76 (2.53%) Front Office
13 70 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 62 (2.06%) Law
15 49 (1.63%) Financial Institution
16 45 (1.50%) Advertising
17 43 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
18 39 (1.30%) Manufacturing
19 37 (1.23%) Back Office
19 37 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (12.42%) .NET
2 306 (10.19%) React
3 219 (7.29%) AngularJS
3 219 (7.29%) HTML
4 198 (6.59%) CSS
5 191 (6.36%) REST
6 132 (4.39%) Kafka
7 124 (4.13%) Node.js
8 101 (3.36%) ASP.NET
9 99 (3.30%) Spring
10 95 (3.16%) Web Services
11 86 (2.86%) .NET Core
12 84 (2.80%) .NET Framework
13 82 (2.73%) JSON
14 81 (2.70%) RESTful
15 74 (2.46%) Spring Boot
16 68 (2.26%) SOAP
17 60 (2.00%) XML
18 54 (1.80%) HTML5
19 51 (1.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 116 (3.86%) Product Ownership
2 97 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 89 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
3 89 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 82 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 82 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 70 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 68 (2.26%) Public Cloud
8 63 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 54 (1.80%) Data Centre
10 49 (1.63%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 47 (1.56%) Derivative
12 46 (1.53%) Equities
13 43 (1.43%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 26 (0.87%) PKI
16 25 (0.83%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 251 (8.36%) Windows
2 214 (7.12%) Linux
3 103 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.80%) Unix
5 52 (1.73%) Android
5 52 (1.73%) Apple iOS
6 47 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 29 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.47%) Mac OS X
10 13 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.27%) CentOS
11 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.20%) Debian
13 5 (0.17%) VMS
14 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.033%) AIX
16 1 (0.033%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (25.03%) Agile
2 516 (17.18%) DevOps
3 428 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
4 406 (13.52%) CI/CD
5 341 (11.35%) Software Engineering
6 318 (10.59%) Mentoring
7 315 (10.49%) Analytics
8 275 (9.15%) Microservices
9 228 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
10 223 (7.42%) Roadmaps
11 221 (7.36%) Computer Science
12 209 (6.96%) Project Management
13 206 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 188 (6.26%) Data Science
14 188 (6.26%) Fintech
15 186 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 185 (6.16%) Full Stack Development
17 179 (5.96%) Machine Learning
18 174 (5.79%) User Experience
19 170 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 642 (21.37%) SQL
2 587 (19.54%) Python
3 472 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 445 (14.81%) C#
5 423 (14.08%) Java
6 219 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 180 (5.99%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.63%) Bash
9 82 (2.73%) C++
10 71 (2.36%) Go
11 56 (1.86%) T-SQL
12 54 (1.80%) R
13 44 (1.46%) VB
14 43 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 42 (1.40%) PHP
15 42 (1.40%) PL/SQL
16 41 (1.36%) Ruby
17 38 (1.26%) Rust
18 28 (0.93%) Shell Script
19 27 (0.90%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 527 (17.54%) Degree
2 141 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 134 (4.46%) Security Cleared
4 119 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 96 (3.20%) SC Cleared
6 77 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 67 (2.23%) CISSP
8 53 (1.76%) CCNP
9 44 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 31 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 30 (1.00%) CISM
12 30 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 29 (0.97%) MBA
14 25 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 24 (0.80%) PMP
16 21 (0.70%) CCIE
17 19 (0.63%) CEH
18 16 (0.53%) DBS Check
18 16 (0.53%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (7.02%) QA
2 57 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 42 (1.40%) PMO
4 36 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (0.90%) SLA
7 23 (0.77%) GDPR
7 23 (0.77%) NIST
8 17 (0.57%) GRC
9 14 (0.47%) WCAG
10 11 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.27%) GAAP
12 7 (0.23%) IFRS
12 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.17%) COBIT
13 5 (0.17%) NCSC
14 4 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.13%) HL7
14 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 376 (12.52%) Docker
2 169 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 84 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.60%) vSphere
7 16 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.33%) XenApp
9 9 (0.30%) OpenSIPS
10 7 (0.23%) Firmware
11 5 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.13%) Ceph
13 3 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.100%) Squid
13 3 (0.100%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.033%) GPFS
14 1 (0.033%) HDFS
14 1 (0.033%) KVM
14 1 (0.033%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 418 (13.91%) Kubernetes
2 268 (8.92%) Terraform
3 139 (4.63%) Ansible
4 68 (2.26%) Grafana
5 57 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 53 (1.76%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.30%) SCCM
8 36 (1.20%) Puppet
9 33 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 24 (0.80%) HP UCMDB
11 17 (0.57%) Kibana
12 10 (0.33%) Istio
12 10 (0.33%) Packer
13 9 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.23%) Argo
14 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.23%) SCOM
14 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.23%) Stealthwatch
15 6 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 488 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.83%) Google
3 129 (4.29%) VMware
4 112 (3.73%) Cisco
5 103 (3.43%) Oracle
6 75 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 64 (2.13%) SAP
8 58 (1.93%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.90%) Citrix
10 50 (1.66%) HP
11 48 (1.60%) Salesforce
12 43 (1.43%) Splunk
13 37 (1.23%) Juniper
14 36 (1.20%) Databricks
15 35 (1.17%) Meraki
16 28 (0.93%) Dell
17 25 (0.83%) Apple
17 25 (0.83%) F5
17 25 (0.83%) Remedy
18 24 (0.80%) SolarWinds