Senior Jobs in Merton

Senior
South London > Merton

The median Senior salary in Merton is £107,500 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 11 10 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 32 23 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 25.20% 17.69% 5.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 26.45% 18.25% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 6
10th Percentile £58,000 £50,350 £38,750
25th Percentile £91,250 £59,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £73,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% +9.26% +12.50%
75th Percentile £111,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £88,000 -
South London median annual salary £106,250 £65,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +63.46% +6.91% +1.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merton. 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 Merton with a recognized job title 121 126 132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.28% 96.92% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 59 49 43
10th Percentile £46,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £32,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £86,250 £75,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £111,250 £89,000 £82,500
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Merton

Senior
Salary Trend in Merton

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

Salary trend for Senior in Merton

Senior
Salary Histogram in Merton

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

Salary histogram for Senior in Merton

Senior
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Merton 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
Wimbledon -5 18 £107,500 +62.26% 1
New Malden +8 8 £59,000 +16.83% 10
Mitcham -3 3 - -
Morden -5 3 - -
Senior
South London

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, 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 Merton region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 23 (71.88%) Agile
2 18 (56.25%) Software Engineering
2 18 (56.25%) AWS
3 15 (46.88%) Broadband
4 12 (37.50%) High Availability
4 12 (37.50%) Docker
4 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 11 (34.38%) Microservices
5 11 (34.38%) Spring Boot
5 11 (34.38%) Akka
5 11 (34.38%) Kafka
5 11 (34.38%) AngularJS
5 11 (34.38%) Fintech
5 11 (34.38%) BDD
5 11 (34.38%) TDD
5 11 (34.38%) Pair Programming
5 11 (34.38%) Finance
5 11 (34.38%) Spring
5 11 (34.38%) Java
5 11 (34.38%) Financial Institution
6 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (28.13%) Python
7 9 (28.13%) Degree
8 7 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (21.88%) Multithreading
8 7 (21.88%) Games
8 7 (21.88%) Clean Code
8 7 (21.88%) GraphQL
8 7 (21.88%) Serverless

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (21.88%) Serverless
3 6 (18.75%) Azure
4 5 (15.63%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Akamai
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) Broadband
2 1 (3.13%) BGP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) IOS XR
2 1 (3.13%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
1 11 (34.38%) Financial Institution
2 7 (21.88%) Games
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) Akka
1 11 (34.38%) AngularJS
1 11 (34.38%) Kafka
1 11 (34.38%) Spring
1 11 (34.38%) Spring Boot
2 7 (21.88%) GraphQL
2 7 (21.88%) RxJava
2 7 (21.88%) Spring WebFlux
3 5 (15.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 5 (15.63%) WebGL
4 3 (9.38%) WPF
5 2 (6.25%) React
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (3.13%) Jinja
6 1 (3.13%) YAML
6 1 (3.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Animation
1 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (3.13%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Agile
2 18 (56.25%) Software Engineering
3 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) High Availability
4 11 (34.38%) BDD
4 11 (34.38%) Fintech
4 11 (34.38%) Microservices
4 11 (34.38%) Pair Programming
4 11 (34.38%) TDD
5 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (21.88%) Clean Code
6 7 (21.88%) Concurrent Programming
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Multithreading
7 5 (15.63%) 3D Animation
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
7 5 (15.63%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (15.63%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Java
2 9 (28.13%) Python
3 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 5 (15.63%) HLSL
5 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.38%) C#
7 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) PhD
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Nokia