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 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,476 6,184 14,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.98% 18.19% 21.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.16% 19.12% 22.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,101 4,294 6,079
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,469
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 £112,700
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

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 22,206 32,343 66,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 95.12% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 23,852 34,726
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +5 758 £77,500 -8.82% 204
West London +18 189 £57,500 +4.55% 66
South London +22 117 £65,000 +6.82% 25
East London -5 23 £57,500 -11.54% 37
North London -6 13 £70,000 +27.27% 10
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 1,323 (29.56%) Finance
2 1,234 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 1,042 (23.28%) Azure
4 989 (22.10%) SQL
4 989 (22.10%) Agile
5 986 (22.03%) AWS
6 948 (21.18%) Python
7 857 (19.15%) Microsoft
8 744 (16.62%) Degree
9 663 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
10 629 (14.05%) Software Engineering
11 608 (13.58%) Mentoring
12 602 (13.45%) JavaScript
13 565 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
14 517 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 492 (10.99%) Java
16 446 (9.96%) DevOps
17 432 (9.65%) C#
18 414 (9.25%) React
19 407 (9.09%) .NET
20 406 (9.07%) Analytics
21 369 (8.24%) TypeScript
22 336 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
23 331 (7.39%) Kubernetes
23 331 (7.39%) Decision-Making
24 330 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
25 328 (7.33%) CI/CD
26 316 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
27 313 (6.99%) Banking
28 312 (6.97%) Windows

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
1 131 (2.93%) Apache
2 120 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 101 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 58 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 41 (0.92%) CMS
7 22 (0.49%) SAS
8 19 (0.42%) Confluence
8 19 (0.42%) WordPress
9 18 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 17 (0.38%) GeoServer
11 16 (0.36%) Drupal
12 15 (0.34%) IIS
13 12 (0.27%) nginx
14 9 (0.20%) JBoss
14 9 (0.20%) Mendix
15 8 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
16 7 (0.16%) Ethereum
16 7 (0.16%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 233 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.20%) Sketch
9 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.089%) InDesign
12 3 (0.067%) Revit
12 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.045%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.045%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.045%) SketchUp
13 2 (0.045%) SPSS
13 2 (0.045%) Stata
13 2 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (1.21%) Endur
2 35 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.29%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.27%) SAP SCM
6 10 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 8 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
8 7 (0.16%) C-CURE
9 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
10 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.089%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.089%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.089%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.089%) Shopify
11 4 (0.089%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (23.28%) Azure
2 986 (22.03%) AWS
3 301 (6.72%) GCP
4 284 (6.34%) SaaS
5 243 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
6 223 (4.98%) Power Platform
7 161 (3.60%) Entra ID
8 124 (2.77%) Snowflake
9 108 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (2.14%) Serverless
11 90 (2.01%) dbt
12 83 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (1.54%) PaaS
14 67 (1.50%) Amazon S3
15 65 (1.45%) GitHub
16 51 (1.14%) IaaS
17 47 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
18 46 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 42 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
20 37 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.40%) Broadband
2 194 (4.33%) Firewall
3 99 (2.21%) WAN
4 98 (2.19%) 5G
5 78 (1.74%) VPN
6 76 (1.70%) LAN
7 71 (1.59%) Network Security
8 70 (1.56%) DNS
9 60 (1.34%) MPLS
10 55 (1.23%) TCP/IP
11 54 (1.21%) Wireless
12 51 (1.14%) Internet
13 47 (1.05%) DHCP
14 44 (0.98%) BGP
15 43 (0.96%) SD-WAN
16 41 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
17 32 (0.71%) VLAN
18 30 (0.67%) SAN
19 26 (0.58%) SNMP
20 24 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 233 (5.21%) Tableau
3 175 (3.91%) Power BI
4 150 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
5 142 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 130 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 102 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 97 (2.17%) MySQL
9 83 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 79 (1.76%) Apache Ignite
10 79 (1.76%) MongoDB
11 74 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
12 68 (1.52%) Big Data
13 65 (1.45%) Dremio
14 63 (1.41%) Apache Arrow
15 62 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 55 (1.23%) Metadata
17 53 (1.18%) Data Mining
18 51 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
18 51 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 296 (6.61%) Git
2 128 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 96 (2.14%) JIRA
4 43 (0.96%) GitLab
5 35 (0.78%) Selenium
6 28 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 27 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 24 (0.54%) Postman
8 24 (0.54%) Visual Studio
9 23 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
10 22 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 21 (0.47%) Bitbucket
11 21 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (0.40%) Sourcetree
12 18 (0.40%) SpecFlow
13 17 (0.38%) JUnit
13 17 (0.38%) NUnit
14 16 (0.36%) Burp Suite
14 16 (0.36%) Moq
General
1 1,323 (29.56%) Finance
2 1,234 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 663 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 517 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 313 (6.99%) Banking
6 279 (6.23%) Marketing
7 268 (5.99%) Retail
8 247 (5.52%) Law
9 213 (4.76%) Front Office
10 185 (4.13%) Legal
11 166 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
12 149 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
13 120 (2.68%) Public Sector
14 113 (2.52%) Back Office
15 96 (2.14%) Investment Banking
16 83 (1.85%) Games
17 66 (1.47%) Telecoms
18 51 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
19 49 (1.09%) Retail Banking
20 44 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (9.25%) React
2 407 (9.09%) .NET
3 261 (5.83%) HTML
4 236 (5.27%) CSS
5 222 (4.96%) AngularJS
6 155 (3.46%) REST
7 150 (3.35%) Kafka
8 143 (3.19%) Pandas
9 140 (3.13%) Node.js
10 111 (2.48%) Spring
11 108 (2.41%) ASP.NET
12 104 (2.32%) Vue
13 97 (2.17%) .NET Core
13 97 (2.17%) RESTful
14 93 (2.08%) PySpark
15 91 (2.03%) gRPC
16 75 (1.68%) NumPy
16 75 (1.68%) Protocol Buffers
17 74 (1.65%) Spring Boot
18 69 (1.54%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 171 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 168 (3.75%) Hedge funds
3 166 (3.71%) Derivative
4 145 (3.24%) Equities
5 136 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 134 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 130 (2.90%) Fixed Income
8 127 (2.84%) Social Media
9 117 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
10 100 (2.23%) Algorithms
11 96 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
12 95 (2.12%) Management Information System
13 80 (1.79%) Cloud Native
14 79 (1.76%) Data Centre
15 70 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
16 57 (1.27%) Reinsurance
17 54 (1.21%) Data Structures
18 53 (1.18%) Mobile App
19 51 (1.14%) IoT
20 44 (0.98%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 312 (6.97%) Windows
2 289 (6.46%) Linux
3 113 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.44%) Ubuntu
5 59 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 45 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 44 (0.98%) Android
8 33 (0.74%) Unix
9 27 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 21 (0.47%) VMS
12 19 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.34%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.089%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.067%) CentOS
16 3 (0.067%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.022%) AIX
17 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (22.10%) Agile
2 629 (14.05%) Software Engineering
3 608 (13.58%) Mentoring
4 565 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
5 446 (9.96%) DevOps
6 406 (9.07%) Analytics
7 336 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
8 331 (7.39%) Decision-Making
9 330 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
10 328 (7.33%) CI/CD
11 316 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 309 (6.90%) Full Stack Development
13 289 (6.46%) Visualisation
14 284 (6.34%) Project Management
15 275 (6.14%) Computer Science
16 263 (5.88%) Asset Management
17 255 (5.70%) Roadmaps
18 241 (5.38%) Data Science
18 241 (5.38%) Microservices
19 239 (5.34%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 989 (22.10%) SQL
2 948 (21.18%) Python
3 602 (13.45%) JavaScript
4 492 (10.99%) Java
5 432 (9.65%) C#
6 369 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 145 (3.24%) Bash
8 139 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 85 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 68 (1.52%) C++
11 66 (1.47%) PHP
12 62 (1.39%) Ruby
13 61 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 57 (1.27%) R
15 56 (1.25%) PL/SQL
16 55 (1.23%) Go
17 51 (1.14%) Rust
18 41 (0.92%) C
19 38 (0.85%) Scala
20 37 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 744 (16.62%) Degree
2 197 (4.40%) Security Cleared
3 152 (3.40%) DBS Check
4 136 (3.04%) ACCA
5 127 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 120 (2.68%) SC Cleared
7 114 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.46%) CIMA
9 74 (1.65%) CISSP
10 65 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 65 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (1.09%) Azure Certification
12 45 (1.01%) PMI Certification
13 38 (0.85%) CCNP
14 37 (0.83%) DV Cleared
15 32 (0.71%) AWS Certification
16 29 (0.65%) CISM
17 26 (0.58%) PhD
18 25 (0.56%) CEH
19 24 (0.54%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (3.44%) QA
2 127 (2.84%) SLA
3 119 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 50 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (0.98%) NIST
6 42 (0.94%) IFRS
7 41 (0.92%) GDPR
8 30 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 27 (0.60%) PMO
10 21 (0.47%) GRC
11 20 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 19 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.34%) COBIT
15 10 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.22%) WCAG
16 9 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.20%) NCSC
16 9 (0.20%) Solvency II
17 8 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 289 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 253 (5.65%) Docker
3 73 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.29%) vSphere
9 12 (0.27%) KVM
10 9 (0.20%) XenApp
11 8 (0.18%) HDFS
12 6 (0.13%) Firmware
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.067%) Ceph
15 3 (0.067%) Forefront TMG
15 3 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.067%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 331 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 227 (5.07%) Terraform
3 145 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 96 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
5 91 (2.03%) Ansible
6 53 (1.18%) SCCM
7 42 (0.94%) Grafana
8 34 (0.76%) Puppet
9 29 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 23 (0.51%) vCenter Server
11 20 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.42%) Nmap
13 17 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (0.29%) Nagios
16 10 (0.22%) Graphite
16 10 (0.22%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.20%) QRadar
18 8 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 857 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 218 (4.87%) Databricks
3 149 (3.33%) Google
4 146 (3.26%) Cisco
5 142 (3.17%) Oracle
6 136 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 131 (2.93%) VMware
8 103 (2.30%) Dell
9 102 (2.28%) CyberArk
10 90 (2.01%) SAP
10 90 (2.01%) Tanium
11 61 (1.36%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.23%) Citrix
13 47 (1.05%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.98%) Juniper
15 42 (0.94%) Adobe
16 40 (0.89%) SolarWinds
17 39 (0.87%) HP
18 35 (0.78%) Sybase
19 33 (0.74%) Meraki