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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,632 5,735 16,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.17% 17.97% 22.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.29% 18.91% 22.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 4,116 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 £78,800
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +4.70% +5.07%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +5 756 £80,000 -8.57% 160
West London +14 190 £57,500 +4.55% 55
South London +15 119 £65,000 +12.26% 20
East London -1 24 £60,000 -7.69% 28
North London -1 14 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 1,367 (29.51%) Finance
2 1,267 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 1,048 (22.63%) AWS
4 1,042 (22.50%) Agile
5 1,041 (22.47%) Azure
6 1,035 (22.34%) SQL
7 1,015 (21.91%) Python
8 850 (18.35%) Microsoft
9 763 (16.47%) Degree
10 689 (14.87%) Software Engineering
11 668 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
12 643 (13.88%) JavaScript
13 618 (13.34%) Mentoring
14 604 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
15 537 (11.59%) Java
16 523 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 456 (9.84%) DevOps
18 424 (9.15%) C#
19 417 (9.00%) React
19 417 (9.00%) Analytics
20 403 (8.70%) TypeScript
21 401 (8.66%) .NET
22 364 (7.86%) Banking
23 349 (7.53%) Actionable Insight
24 348 (7.51%) Kubernetes
25 344 (7.43%) Decision-Making
26 341 (7.36%) CI/CD
27 335 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
28 327 (7.06%) Full Stack Development
29 316 (6.82%) Git

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
1 163 (3.52%) Apache
2 149 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 99 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 57 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 45 (0.97%) CMS
7 26 (0.56%) 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
11 16 (0.35%) IIS
12 13 (0.28%) nginx
13 9 (0.19%) Mendix
14 7 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 7 (0.15%) JBoss
14 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 230 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 28 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.52%) Photoshop
6 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.19%) Sketch
9 5 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.086%) InDesign
11 3 (0.065%) Revit
11 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.043%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.043%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.043%) SketchUp
12 2 (0.043%) SPSS
12 2 (0.043%) Stata
12 2 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (1.12%) Endur
2 32 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
4 12 (0.26%) SAP SCM
5 10 (0.22%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (0.15%) C-CURE
6 7 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.13%) Shopify
7 6 (0.13%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.11%) SAP Travel Management
9 4 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.086%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.086%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (22.63%) AWS
2 1,041 (22.47%) Azure
3 308 (6.65%) GCP
4 280 (6.04%) SaaS
5 238 (5.14%) Power Platform
6 226 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 165 (3.56%) Entra ID
8 156 (3.37%) Snowflake
9 123 (2.66%) dbt
10 112 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 100 (2.16%) Serverless
12 83 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (1.49%) GitHub
13 69 (1.49%) PaaS
14 68 (1.47%) Amazon S3
15 51 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 51 (1.10%) IaaS
16 47 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 45 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
18 41 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 203 (4.38%) Firewall
2 196 (4.23%) Broadband
3 105 (2.27%) WAN
4 96 (2.07%) 5G
5 84 (1.81%) LAN
6 75 (1.62%) Network Security
7 73 (1.58%) VPN
8 66 (1.42%) DNS
9 62 (1.34%) MPLS
10 56 (1.21%) Internet
10 56 (1.21%) TCP/IP
11 55 (1.19%) Wireless
12 50 (1.08%) BGP
13 46 (0.99%) DHCP
14 43 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 28 (0.60%) SAN
17 27 (0.58%) SNMP
17 27 (0.58%) VLAN
18 24 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 246 (5.31%) Tableau
3 185 (3.99%) Power BI
4 178 (3.84%) Data Lake
5 152 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 136 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 107 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 105 (2.27%) Apache Ignite
9 104 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
10 96 (2.07%) MySQL
11 95 (2.05%) Dremio
12 93 (2.01%) Apache Arrow
13 80 (1.73%) NoSQL
14 78 (1.68%) MongoDB
15 66 (1.42%) Big Data
16 60 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 59 (1.27%) Metadata
18 48 (1.04%) Data Mining
18 48 (1.04%) Hadoop
19 47 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 316 (6.82%) Git
2 115 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 102 (2.20%) JIRA
4 51 (1.10%) GitLab
5 33 (0.71%) Selenium
6 28 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 26 (0.56%) CircleCI
8 25 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 24 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 23 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.50%) Moq
10 23 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
10 23 (0.50%) Sourcetree
10 23 (0.50%) SpecFlow
11 22 (0.47%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.45%) NUnit
13 20 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 20 (0.43%) Postman
14 18 (0.39%) git-flow
15 16 (0.35%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,367 (29.51%) Finance
2 1,267 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 668 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 523 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 364 (7.86%) Banking
6 286 (6.17%) Marketing
7 285 (6.15%) Retail
8 254 (5.48%) Law
9 242 (5.22%) Front Office
10 199 (4.30%) Legal
11 178 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
12 147 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
13 125 (2.70%) Investment Banking
14 120 (2.59%) Public Sector
15 115 (2.48%) Back Office
16 81 (1.75%) Games
17 58 (1.25%) Telecoms
18 56 (1.21%) Retail Banking
19 54 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
20 45 (0.97%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (9.00%) React
2 401 (8.66%) .NET
3 272 (5.87%) HTML
4 250 (5.40%) CSS
5 212 (4.58%) AngularJS
6 177 (3.82%) Pandas
7 160 (3.45%) REST
8 151 (3.26%) Kafka
9 137 (2.96%) Node.js
10 122 (2.63%) gRPC
11 115 (2.48%) ASP.NET
12 107 (2.31%) Vue
13 105 (2.27%) NumPy
13 105 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
13 105 (2.27%) Spring
14 98 (2.12%) RESTful
15 97 (2.09%) PySpark
16 95 (2.05%) .NET Core
17 94 (2.03%) SciPy
18 81 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 200 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 197 (4.25%) Derivative
3 193 (4.17%) Hedge funds
4 173 (3.73%) Equities
5 156 (3.37%) Fixed Income
6 139 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 132 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 127 (2.74%) Social Media
9 123 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
10 110 (2.37%) Algorithms
11 104 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
12 103 (2.22%) Management Information System
13 90 (1.94%) Cloud Native
14 79 (1.71%) Data Centre
15 71 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
16 59 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 55 (1.19%) Data Structures
18 53 (1.14%) IoT
18 53 (1.14%) Reinsurance
19 47 (1.01%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 304 (6.56%) Windows
2 288 (6.22%) Linux
3 114 (2.46%) Ubuntu
4 99 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 44 (0.95%) Android
6 44 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 35 (0.76%) Unix
8 25 (0.54%) VMS
9 22 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.13%) CentOS
15 4 (0.086%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.022%) AIX
16 1 (0.022%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,042 (22.50%) Agile
2 689 (14.87%) Software Engineering
3 618 (13.34%) Mentoring
4 604 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 456 (9.84%) DevOps
6 417 (9.00%) Analytics
7 349 (7.53%) Actionable Insight
8 344 (7.43%) Decision-Making
9 341 (7.36%) CI/CD
10 335 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
11 327 (7.06%) Full Stack Development
12 316 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
13 309 (6.67%) Visualisation
14 299 (6.46%) Asset Management
15 290 (6.26%) Computer Science
16 272 (5.87%) Project Management
17 263 (5.68%) Mathematics
18 261 (5.63%) Data Science
19 258 (5.57%) Roadmaps
20 243 (5.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,035 (22.34%) SQL
2 1,015 (21.91%) Python
3 643 (13.88%) JavaScript
4 537 (11.59%) Java
5 424 (9.15%) C#
6 403 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 147 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 145 (3.13%) Bash
9 89 (1.92%) T-SQL
10 73 (1.58%) Kotlin
11 72 (1.55%) C++
12 65 (1.40%) PHP
13 57 (1.23%) Go
14 56 (1.21%) R
14 56 (1.21%) Ruby
15 54 (1.17%) PL/SQL
16 52 (1.12%) Rust
17 51 (1.10%) Scala
18 45 (0.97%) C
19 33 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 763 (16.47%) Degree
2 213 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 170 (3.67%) DBS Check
4 138 (2.98%) Master's Degree
5 136 (2.94%) ACCA
6 128 (2.76%) SC Cleared
7 114 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.37%) CIMA
9 82 (1.77%) CISSP
10 63 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 60 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 52 (1.12%) Azure Certification
13 46 (0.99%) DV Cleared
14 44 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.80%) AWS Certification
15 37 (0.80%) CCNP
16 33 (0.71%) CISM
17 29 (0.63%) CISA
18 28 (0.60%) PhD
19 25 (0.54%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (3.15%) QA
2 145 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 127 (2.74%) SLA
4 48 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (0.99%) NIST
6 42 (0.91%) GDPR
6 42 (0.91%) IFRS
7 32 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.58%) PMO
9 20 (0.43%) IFRS 9
10 18 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.37%) GRC
12 16 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.30%) COBIT
14 10 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (0.19%) NCSC
15 9 (0.19%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 287 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 258 (5.57%) Docker
3 62 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.28%) KVM
9 11 (0.24%) vSphere
10 9 (0.19%) XenApp
11 7 (0.15%) Firmware
11 7 (0.15%) HDFS
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) Ceph
13 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.065%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 348 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 235 (5.07%) Terraform
3 141 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 106 (2.29%) Ansible
5 97 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
6 48 (1.04%) SCCM
7 39 (0.84%) Grafana
8 35 (0.76%) Puppet
9 30 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 22 (0.47%) vCenter Server
11 21 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.41%) Nmap
13 17 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.22%) Nagios
16 9 (0.19%) QRadar
17 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.17%) Graphite
17 8 (0.17%) HAProxy
17 8 (0.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 850 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 238 (5.14%) Databricks
3 152 (3.28%) Oracle
4 141 (3.04%) Google
5 139 (3.00%) Cisco
6 133 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 115 (2.48%) VMware
8 110 (2.37%) CyberArk
9 100 (2.16%) Dell
10 90 (1.94%) Tanium
11 88 (1.90%) SAP
12 66 (1.42%) Salesforce
13 48 (1.04%) Adobe
14 47 (1.01%) Citrix
15 42 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 41 (0.89%) Juniper
17 37 (0.80%) SolarWinds
18 35 (0.76%) Meraki
18 35 (0.76%) Sybase
19 33 (0.71%) HP