Senior Software Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in England is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 294 156
Rank change year-on-year +126 -138 +102
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,468 1,088 3,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.72% 1.18% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.29% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,101 665 928
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £127,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +67 378 £92,500 +8.82% 162
North of England +119 331 £62,500 -1.57% 46
South West +121 281 £62,500 -5.66% 47
South East +60 249 £65,000 -7.14% 57
North West +98 196 £60,000 -2.44% 26
Midlands +37 142 £60,000 - 30
Yorkshire +74 86 £62,500 -3.85% 15
East of England +39 81 £65,000 -7.14% 41
East Midlands +13 81 £60,000 +14.29% 15
West Midlands +27 61 £60,000 -11.11% 15
North East +36 49 £60,000 -15.37% 6
Senior Software Engineer
UK

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 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 England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,462 (99.59%) Software Engineering
2 527 (35.90%) Agile
3 495 (33.72%) AWS
4 483 (32.90%) Python
5 405 (27.59%) JavaScript
6 377 (25.68%) Azure
7 361 (24.59%) React
8 346 (23.57%) .NET
9 340 (23.16%) C#
10 280 (19.07%) Java
11 278 (18.94%) TypeScript
12 260 (17.71%) Security Cleared
13 241 (16.42%) DevOps
14 240 (16.35%) Linux
15 229 (15.60%) C++
16 219 (14.92%) Finance
17 218 (14.85%) SQL
18 194 (13.22%) PostgreSQL
18 194 (13.22%) Degree
18 194 (13.22%) SC Cleared
19 188 (12.81%) C
20 168 (11.44%) .NET Core
21 166 (11.31%) AngularJS
22 161 (10.97%) Actionable Insight
23 160 (10.90%) CSS
24 152 (10.35%) Web Development
25 148 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
26 138 (9.40%) Computer Science
27 137 (9.33%) Mentoring
28 130 (8.86%) Social Skills

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 126 (8.58%) ArcGIS
1 126 (8.58%) GeoServer
2 63 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.68%) Apache
4 17 (1.16%) JBoss
4 17 (1.16%) Red Hat Fuse
5 15 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.48%) Confluence
7 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.068%) Drupal
9 1 (0.068%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.068%) nginx
9 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (1.09%) Simulink
2 15 (1.02%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.48%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.068%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.068%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.068%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 495 (33.72%) AWS
2 377 (25.68%) Azure
3 98 (6.68%) GCP
4 55 (3.75%) Serverless
5 49 (3.34%) dbt
6 45 (3.07%) Snowflake
7 43 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (2.79%) SaaS
9 23 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (1.50%) GitHub
11 18 (1.23%) Azure Functions
12 9 (0.61%) npm
13 8 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (0.48%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.48%) Azure API Management
14 7 (0.48%) Azure Event Grid
15 6 (0.41%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.95%) J1939
2 12 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.75%) Wireless
4 9 (0.61%) RS-232
5 8 (0.54%) Internet
5 8 (0.54%) Network Security
6 7 (0.48%) HTTP
7 6 (0.41%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.41%) MQTT
8 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.068%) 4G
10 1 (0.068%) 5G
10 1 (0.068%) LoRaWAN
10 1 (0.068%) Modbus
10 1 (0.068%) RS-485
10 1 (0.068%) SNMP
10 1 (0.068%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (13.22%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (8.58%) GIS
2 126 (8.58%) QGIS
3 65 (4.43%) MySQL
4 57 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 49 (3.34%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (3.34%) Apache Arrow
5 49 (3.34%) Apache Ignite
5 49 (3.34%) Dremio
6 47 (3.20%) MongoDB
7 45 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 45 (3.07%) NoSQL
8 18 (1.23%) Redis
9 10 (0.68%) Big Data
9 10 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.68%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.54%) SQLite
11 4 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 104 (7.08%) Git
2 42 (2.86%) JIRA
3 38 (2.59%) Subversion
4 30 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.50%) GitLab
6 21 (1.43%) Visual Studio
7 18 (1.23%) CMake
8 17 (1.16%) IntelliJ
9 14 (0.95%) ClearCase
9 14 (0.95%) Plastic SCM
10 13 (0.89%) Selenium
10 13 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.82%) Maven
12 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.61%) Storybook
13 8 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.54%) JUnit
14 7 (0.48%) ClearQuest
14 7 (0.48%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 219 (14.92%) Finance
2 130 (8.86%) Social Skills
3 107 (7.29%) Front Office
4 67 (4.56%) Banking
5 59 (4.02%) Automotive
6 57 (3.88%) Electronics
6 57 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 50 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 50 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 47 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (2.93%) Back Office
10 41 (2.79%) Military
11 36 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (2.04%) Aviation
13 27 (1.84%) Marketing
14 23 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 23 (1.57%) Retail
14 23 (1.57%) Tech for Good
15 22 (1.50%) Health Technology
16 21 (1.43%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (24.59%) React
2 346 (23.57%) .NET
3 168 (11.44%) .NET Core
4 166 (11.31%) AngularJS
5 160 (10.90%) CSS
6 126 (8.58%) Leaflet
6 126 (8.58%) OpenLayers
6 126 (8.58%) PostGIS
7 116 (7.90%) Vue
8 115 (7.83%) ASP.NET
9 91 (6.20%) RESTful
10 79 (5.38%) Node.js
11 68 (4.63%) ASP.NET Core
12 67 (4.56%) gRPC
13 66 (4.50%) Pandas
14 63 (4.29%) Protocol Buffers
15 62 (4.22%) HTML
16 56 (3.81%) .NET Framework
17 55 (3.75%) NumPy
18 50 (3.41%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.49%) Derivative
2 108 (7.36%) Fixed Income
2 108 (7.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 107 (7.29%) Equities
4 93 (6.34%) Hedge funds
5 57 (3.88%) Algorithms
6 45 (3.07%) IoT
7 44 (3.00%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
11 23 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.43%) Device Driver
13 20 (1.36%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.23%) Pricing Data
15 14 (0.95%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.95%) Hackathon
16 13 (0.89%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 240 (16.35%) Linux
2 83 (5.65%) Embedded Linux
3 68 (4.63%) Windows
4 30 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 23 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.43%) Unix
7 15 (1.02%) Android
8 8 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.068%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,462 (99.59%) Software Engineering
2 527 (35.90%) Agile
3 241 (16.42%) DevOps
4 161 (10.97%) Actionable Insight
5 152 (10.35%) Web Development
6 148 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (9.40%) Computer Science
8 137 (9.33%) Mentoring
9 121 (8.24%) Microservices
10 119 (8.11%) Full Stack Development
11 117 (7.97%) CI/CD
12 109 (7.43%) Asset Management
13 102 (6.95%) TDD
14 93 (6.34%) Investment Management
15 92 (6.27%) Test Automation
16 83 (5.65%) SDLC
17 58 (3.95%) OO
18 56 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence
18 56 (3.81%) Software Testing
19 55 (3.75%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 483 (32.90%) Python
2 405 (27.59%) JavaScript
3 340 (23.16%) C#
4 280 (19.07%) Java
5 278 (18.94%) TypeScript
6 229 (15.60%) C++
7 218 (14.85%) SQL
8 188 (12.81%) C
9 74 (5.04%) Rust
10 55 (3.75%) Embedded C
11 52 (3.54%) Bash
12 34 (2.32%) Go
13 32 (2.18%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.70%) T-SQL
15 24 (1.63%) Perl
16 17 (1.16%) Scala
17 16 (1.09%) Haskell
17 16 (1.09%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.95%) PHP
18 14 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 260 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 194 (13.22%) Degree
2 194 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 18 (1.23%) HND
6 13 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 12 (0.82%) PhD
8 10 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.068%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.068%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.02%) ISO 26262
2 15 (1.02%) MISRA
3 14 (0.95%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (0.95%) AUTOSAR
4 13 (0.89%) PMO
5 12 (0.82%) QA
6 7 (0.48%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.14%) GDPR
7 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.14%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.14%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.14%) SEPA
7 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.068%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.068%) EMIR
8 1 (0.068%) MiFID
System Software
1 96 (6.54%) Docker
2 33 (2.25%) Firmware
3 16 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Ceph
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 103 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.29%) Terraform
3 7 (0.48%) Ansible
4 5 (0.34%) SELinux
5 3 (0.20%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.14%) Grafana
6 2 (0.14%) Knative
6 2 (0.14%) linkerd
6 2 (0.14%) MIIS
6 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.068%) Istio
7 1 (0.068%) Kibana
Vendors
1 126 (8.58%) ESRI
2 47 (3.20%) Microsoft
3 14 (0.95%) Google
3 14 (0.95%) IBM
3 14 (0.95%) Lauterbach
4 12 (0.82%) DevExpress
4 12 (0.82%) Xamarin
5 7 (0.48%) F5
5 7 (0.48%) Oracle
6 4 (0.27%) Apple
6 4 (0.27%) Facebook
6 4 (0.27%) Instagram
6 4 (0.27%) SAP
7 3 (0.20%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.14%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.14%) Cadence
8 2 (0.14%) Databricks
8 2 (0.14%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.14%) RedGate
8 2 (0.14%) VMware