Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the City of Westminster

Senior Software Engineer
Central London > City of Westminster

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the City of Westminster is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 8 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 4.47% 0.96% 4.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.65% 1.01% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £56,250 - -
25th Percentile £61,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £141,563 - -
90th Percentile £160,000 - -
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of Westminster

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster. 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 the City of Westminster with a recognized job title 172 99 149
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 95.19% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 112 69 76
10th Percentile £28,425 £46,050 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £55,000 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +20.83% +13.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £110,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £86,250
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £73,210 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.97% +0.98% +3.57%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the City of Westminster

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the City of Westminster.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the City of Westminster

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the City of Westminster

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Senior Software Engineer 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 City of Westminster region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Retail
3 4 (50.00%) Advertising
3 4 (50.00%) Games
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Apple
3 4 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (50.00%) Google
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (50.00%) Programmatic Advertising
3 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Defects
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) DeFi
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Advertising
2 4 (50.00%) Games
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Retail
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (50.00%) Programmatic Advertising
3 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) DeFi
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Logistics
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (25.00%) Statistics
3 2 (25.00%) Zero Defects
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Apple
1 4 (50.00%) Google
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft