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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,589 5,956 15,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.14% 18.17% 22.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.27% 19.11% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,154 4,156 6,121
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £112,500
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 22,635 31,175 69,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.11% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,797 22,984 34,588
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £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 £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +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 29 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 29 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 +5 753 £77,500 -8.82% 186
West London +14 189 £57,500 +4.55% 51
South London +13 119 £65,000 +12.26% 21
East London -2 23 £57,500 -11.54% 35
North London -3 14 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 1,349 (29.40%) Finance
2 1,263 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 1,041 (22.68%) Azure
4 1,034 (22.53%) SQL
5 1,030 (22.44%) AWS
6 1,024 (22.31%) Agile
7 1,001 (21.81%) Python
8 848 (18.48%) Microsoft
9 758 (16.52%) Degree
10 670 (14.60%) Software Engineering
11 666 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
12 628 (13.68%) JavaScript
13 617 (13.45%) Mentoring
14 598 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
15 523 (11.40%) Java
16 520 (11.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 451 (9.83%) DevOps
18 424 (9.24%) C#
19 418 (9.11%) Analytics
20 411 (8.96%) React
21 398 (8.67%) .NET
22 393 (8.56%) TypeScript
23 351 (7.65%) Banking
23 351 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
24 343 (7.47%) Decision-Making
25 342 (7.45%) Kubernetes
26 339 (7.39%) CI/CD
27 335 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
28 318 (6.93%) Full Stack Development
29 316 (6.89%) Artificial Intelligence

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
1 155 (3.38%) Apache
2 141 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 100 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 56 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 44 (0.96%) CMS
7 24 (0.52%) SAS
8 19 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 19 (0.41%) WordPress
9 18 (0.39%) Confluence
10 17 (0.37%) GeoServer
11 16 (0.35%) Drupal
12 15 (0.33%) IIS
13 13 (0.28%) nginx
14 9 (0.20%) Mendix
15 7 (0.15%) Ethereum
15 7 (0.15%) JBoss
15 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
16 6 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 232 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 29 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.20%) Sketch
9 5 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.087%) InDesign
11 3 (0.065%) Revit
11 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.044%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.044%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.044%) SketchUp
12 2 (0.044%) SPSS
12 2 (0.044%) Stata
12 2 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (1.13%) Endur
2 32 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.37%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.26%) SAP SCM
6 10 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.15%) C-CURE
7 7 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.15%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
8 6 (0.13%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.11%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.087%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.087%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (22.68%) Azure
2 1,030 (22.44%) AWS
3 305 (6.65%) GCP
4 279 (6.08%) SaaS
5 236 (5.14%) Power Platform
6 226 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
7 163 (3.55%) Entra ID
8 147 (3.20%) Snowflake
9 114 (2.48%) dbt
10 110 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (2.16%) Serverless
12 83 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (1.50%) Amazon S3
14 68 (1.48%) PaaS
15 67 (1.46%) GitHub
16 51 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 50 (1.09%) IaaS
18 47 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
19 44 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
20 40 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.40%) Firewall
2 196 (4.27%) Broadband
3 107 (2.33%) WAN
4 96 (2.09%) 5G
5 85 (1.85%) LAN
6 77 (1.68%) Network Security
7 74 (1.61%) VPN
8 68 (1.48%) DNS
9 62 (1.35%) MPLS
10 57 (1.24%) TCP/IP
10 57 (1.24%) Wireless
11 55 (1.20%) Internet
12 48 (1.05%) BGP
13 46 (1.00%) DHCP
14 44 (0.96%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
16 30 (0.65%) SAN
17 28 (0.61%) SNMP
18 27 (0.59%) VLAN
19 24 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 246 (5.36%) Tableau
3 183 (3.99%) Power BI
4 168 (3.66%) Data Lake
5 151 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 135 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 106 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 97 (2.11%) Apache Ignite
9 96 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
10 95 (2.07%) MySQL
11 87 (1.90%) Dremio
12 85 (1.85%) Apache Arrow
13 79 (1.72%) MongoDB
13 79 (1.72%) NoSQL
14 66 (1.44%) Big Data
15 60 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 57 (1.24%) Metadata
17 48 (1.05%) Data Mining
17 48 (1.05%) Hadoop
18 47 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 311 (6.78%) Git
2 116 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 99 (2.16%) JIRA
4 49 (1.07%) GitLab
5 33 (0.72%) Selenium
6 27 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 26 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 25 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 24 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 23 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
11 22 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.48%) Moq
11 22 (0.48%) Sourcetree
11 22 (0.48%) SpecFlow
12 20 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.44%) Postman
13 19 (0.41%) NUnit
14 17 (0.37%) git-flow
15 16 (0.35%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,349 (29.40%) Finance
2 1,263 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 666 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 520 (11.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 351 (7.65%) Banking
6 285 (6.21%) Marketing
6 285 (6.21%) Retail
7 250 (5.45%) Law
8 237 (5.16%) Front Office
9 198 (4.31%) Legal
10 178 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
11 147 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
12 119 (2.59%) Public Sector
13 117 (2.55%) Back Office
13 117 (2.55%) Investment Banking
14 81 (1.77%) Games
15 60 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 53 (1.15%) Retail Banking
18 45 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (8.96%) React
2 398 (8.67%) .NET
3 268 (5.84%) HTML
4 245 (5.34%) CSS
5 211 (4.60%) AngularJS
6 169 (3.68%) Pandas
7 160 (3.49%) REST
8 149 (3.25%) Kafka
9 137 (2.99%) Node.js
10 114 (2.48%) gRPC
11 113 (2.46%) ASP.NET
12 105 (2.29%) Vue
13 104 (2.27%) Spring
14 97 (2.11%) NumPy
14 97 (2.11%) Protocol Buffers
14 97 (2.11%) PySpark
14 97 (2.11%) RESTful
15 94 (2.05%) .NET Core
16 86 (1.87%) SciPy
17 79 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 192 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 190 (4.14%) Derivative
3 188 (4.10%) Hedge funds
4 165 (3.60%) Equities
5 148 (3.23%) Fixed Income
6 138 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 131 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 127 (2.77%) Social Media
9 121 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
10 109 (2.38%) Algorithms
11 102 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
12 100 (2.18%) Management Information System
13 89 (1.94%) Cloud Native
14 79 (1.72%) Data Centre
15 69 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
16 59 (1.29%) Mobile App
17 55 (1.20%) Data Structures
18 54 (1.18%) Reinsurance
19 53 (1.15%) IoT
20 46 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 303 (6.60%) Windows
2 290 (6.32%) Linux
3 114 (2.48%) Ubuntu
4 100 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 56 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 44 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 43 (0.94%) Android
8 35 (0.76%) Unix
9 25 (0.54%) VMS
10 22 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.13%) CentOS
16 4 (0.087%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.022%) Oracle Linux
17 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (22.31%) Agile
2 670 (14.60%) Software Engineering
3 617 (13.45%) Mentoring
4 598 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
5 451 (9.83%) DevOps
6 418 (9.11%) Analytics
7 351 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
8 343 (7.47%) Decision-Making
9 339 (7.39%) CI/CD
10 335 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
11 318 (6.93%) Full Stack Development
12 316 (6.89%) Artificial Intelligence
13 307 (6.69%) Visualisation
14 290 (6.32%) Asset Management
15 282 (6.15%) Computer Science
16 273 (5.95%) Project Management
17 260 (5.67%) Mathematics
17 260 (5.67%) Roadmaps
18 258 (5.62%) Data Science
19 241 (5.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (22.53%) SQL
2 1,001 (21.81%) Python
3 628 (13.68%) JavaScript
4 523 (11.40%) Java
5 424 (9.24%) C#
6 393 (8.56%) TypeScript
7 145 (3.16%) Bash
7 145 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 88 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 73 (1.59%) C++
10 71 (1.55%) Kotlin
11 65 (1.42%) PHP
12 56 (1.22%) R
13 55 (1.20%) Go
13 55 (1.20%) Ruby
14 54 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 51 (1.11%) Rust
16 48 (1.05%) Scala
17 46 (1.00%) C
18 33 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 758 (16.52%) Degree
2 210 (4.58%) Security Cleared
3 170 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 136 (2.96%) ACCA
5 135 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 125 (2.72%) SC Cleared
7 112 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.40%) CIMA
9 79 (1.72%) CISSP
10 62 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 60 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 51 (1.11%) Azure Certification
13 45 (0.98%) DV Cleared
14 44 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 35 (0.76%) CCNP
16 31 (0.68%) CISM
17 28 (0.61%) PhD
18 26 (0.57%) CISA
18 26 (0.57%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (3.23%) QA
2 138 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 128 (2.79%) SLA
4 48 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (0.98%) NIST
6 42 (0.92%) GDPR
6 42 (0.92%) IFRS
7 33 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.59%) PMO
9 20 (0.44%) IFRS 9
10 18 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.37%) GRC
12 16 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.31%) COBIT
14 10 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (0.20%) NCSC
15 9 (0.20%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.20%) WCAG
16 8 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 286 (6.23%) Active Directory
2 255 (5.56%) Docker
3 64 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.28%) KVM
8 13 (0.28%) vSphere
9 9 (0.20%) XenApp
10 7 (0.15%) Firmware
10 7 (0.15%) HDFS
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.13%) RACF
12 5 (0.11%) Ceph
12 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.065%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 342 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 237 (5.16%) Terraform
3 140 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 106 (2.31%) Ansible
5 96 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
6 48 (1.05%) SCCM
7 41 (0.89%) Grafana
8 36 (0.78%) Puppet
9 30 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 23 (0.50%) vCenter Server
11 21 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.41%) Nmap
13 17 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.24%) Nagios
16 9 (0.20%) Graphite
16 9 (0.20%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.20%) QRadar
17 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 848 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 238 (5.19%) Databricks
3 151 (3.29%) Oracle
4 144 (3.14%) Cisco
5 143 (3.12%) Google
6 133 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 117 (2.55%) VMware
8 109 (2.38%) CyberArk
9 101 (2.20%) Dell
10 90 (1.96%) SAP
10 90 (1.96%) Tanium
11 66 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 49 (1.07%) Citrix
13 47 (1.02%) Adobe
14 45 (0.98%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.94%) Juniper
16 39 (0.85%) SolarWinds
17 36 (0.78%) Meraki
18 35 (0.76%) HP
18 35 (0.76%) Sybase