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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 296 157
Rank change year-on-year +124 -139 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,443 1,106 3,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.70% 1.18% 2.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 1.29% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 680 922
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,900 £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 £102,500 £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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +77 359 £92,500 +8.82% 150
North of England +119 331 £62,500 -1.57% 43
South West +114 279 £62,500 -7.41% 39
South East +60 245 £66,250 -5.36% 51
North West +102 197 £60,000 -1.23% 29
Midlands +30 143 £60,000 - 24
Yorkshire +73 85 £62,500 -3.85% 8
East of England +47 81 £65,000 -7.14% 42
East Midlands +9 81 £60,000 +14.29% 11
West Midlands +27 62 £60,000 -11.11% 13
North East +43 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 26 April 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 1,437 (99.58%) Software Engineering
2 511 (35.41%) Agile
3 481 (33.33%) AWS
4 471 (32.64%) Python
5 393 (27.23%) JavaScript
6 375 (25.99%) Azure
7 354 (24.53%) React
8 342 (23.70%) .NET
9 335 (23.22%) C#
10 264 (18.30%) Java
11 262 (18.16%) TypeScript
12 259 (17.95%) Security Cleared
13 240 (16.63%) DevOps
14 237 (16.42%) Linux
15 226 (15.66%) C++
16 214 (14.83%) SQL
17 207 (14.35%) Finance
18 193 (13.37%) SC Cleared
19 192 (13.31%) PostgreSQL
19 192 (13.31%) Degree
20 184 (12.75%) C
21 167 (11.57%) AngularJS
22 166 (11.50%) .NET Core
23 161 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
24 160 (11.09%) CSS
25 150 (10.40%) Web Development
26 147 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
27 137 (9.49%) Mentoring
28 136 (9.42%) Computer Science
29 130 (9.01%) 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 (8.73%) ArcGIS
1 126 (8.73%) GeoServer
2 52 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (2.98%) Apache
4 17 (1.18%) JBoss
4 17 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
5 12 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.49%) Confluence
7 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.069%) Drupal
9 1 (0.069%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.069%) nginx
9 1 (0.069%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (1.11%) Simulink
2 15 (1.04%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.49%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.069%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.069%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 481 (33.33%) AWS
2 375 (25.99%) Azure
3 98 (6.79%) GCP
4 53 (3.67%) Serverless
5 42 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (2.91%) SaaS
6 38 (2.63%) dbt
7 34 (2.36%) Snowflake
8 22 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (1.52%) GitHub
9 17 (1.18%) Azure Functions
10 9 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (0.62%) npm
11 8 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (0.49%) Azure API Management
12 7 (0.49%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (0.42%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.42%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.97%) J1939
2 11 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.62%) Wireless
4 8 (0.55%) Internet
4 8 (0.55%) Network Security
4 8 (0.55%) RS-232
5 7 (0.49%) HTTP
6 5 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.35%) MQTT
7 3 (0.21%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.069%) 5G
8 1 (0.069%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.069%) SNMP
8 1 (0.069%) SpaceWire
8 1 (0.069%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (13.31%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (8.73%) GIS
2 126 (8.73%) QGIS
3 65 (4.50%) MySQL
4 56 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 48 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 45 (3.12%) NoSQL
7 38 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
7 38 (2.63%) Apache Arrow
7 38 (2.63%) Apache Ignite
7 38 (2.63%) Dremio
8 34 (2.36%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.18%) Redis
10 10 (0.69%) Big Data
10 10 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.55%) SQLite
13 4 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 102 (7.07%) Git
2 41 (2.84%) JIRA
3 38 (2.63%) Subversion
4 29 (2.01%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.52%) GitLab
5 22 (1.52%) Visual Studio
6 18 (1.25%) CMake
7 17 (1.18%) IntelliJ
8 14 (0.97%) ClearCase
8 14 (0.97%) Plastic SCM
9 13 (0.90%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.83%) Maven
10 12 (0.83%) Selenium
11 9 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.62%) Storybook
12 8 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.55%) JUnit
13 7 (0.49%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 207 (14.35%) Finance
2 130 (9.01%) Social Skills
3 95 (6.58%) Front Office
4 59 (4.09%) Automotive
5 57 (3.95%) Banking
6 56 (3.88%) Electronics
6 56 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 50 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 48 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (2.91%) Back Office
10 41 (2.84%) Military
11 39 (2.70%) Investment Banking
12 32 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (2.08%) Aviation
14 27 (1.87%) Marketing
15 24 (1.66%) Retail
16 23 (1.59%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.59%) Tech for Good
17 22 (1.52%) Games
17 22 (1.52%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (24.53%) React
2 342 (23.70%) .NET
3 167 (11.57%) AngularJS
4 166 (11.50%) .NET Core
5 160 (11.09%) CSS
6 126 (8.73%) Leaflet
6 126 (8.73%) OpenLayers
6 126 (8.73%) PostGIS
7 113 (7.83%) Vue
8 112 (7.76%) ASP.NET
9 91 (6.31%) RESTful
10 78 (5.41%) Node.js
11 67 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
12 61 (4.23%) HTML
13 55 (3.81%) gRPC
13 55 (3.81%) Pandas
14 53 (3.67%) .NET Framework
15 52 (3.60%) Protocol Buffers
16 50 (3.47%) Redux
17 47 (3.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 98 (6.79%) Derivative
2 97 (6.72%) Fixed Income
2 97 (6.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 96 (6.65%) Equities
4 82 (5.68%) Hedge funds
5 57 (3.95%) Algorithms
6 44 (3.05%) IoT
7 40 (2.77%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
12 21 (1.46%) Device Driver
13 20 (1.39%) Product Ownership
14 14 (0.97%) Client/Server
14 14 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.97%) Hackathon
15 12 (0.83%) Pricing Data
16 11 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 237 (16.42%) Linux
2 81 (5.61%) Embedded Linux
3 65 (4.50%) Windows
4 30 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 23 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.52%) Unix
7 15 (1.04%) Android
8 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.069%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,437 (99.58%) Software Engineering
2 511 (35.41%) Agile
3 240 (16.63%) DevOps
4 161 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
5 150 (10.40%) Web Development
6 147 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (9.49%) Mentoring
8 136 (9.42%) Computer Science
9 120 (8.32%) Microservices
10 117 (8.11%) Full Stack Development
11 113 (7.83%) CI/CD
12 101 (7.00%) TDD
13 96 (6.65%) Asset Management
14 90 (6.24%) Test Automation
15 81 (5.61%) SDLC
16 80 (5.54%) Investment Management
17 57 (3.95%) OO
18 56 (3.88%) Cybersecurity
19 55 (3.81%) Software Testing
20 54 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 471 (32.64%) Python
2 393 (27.23%) JavaScript
3 335 (23.22%) C#
4 264 (18.30%) Java
5 262 (18.16%) TypeScript
6 226 (15.66%) C++
7 214 (14.83%) SQL
8 184 (12.75%) C
9 71 (4.92%) Rust
10 55 (3.81%) Embedded C
11 53 (3.67%) Bash
12 31 (2.15%) Go
12 31 (2.15%) Kotlin
13 25 (1.73%) Perl
14 24 (1.66%) T-SQL
15 17 (1.18%) Haskell
16 16 (1.11%) MATLAB
16 16 (1.11%) Scala
17 14 (0.97%) PHP
17 14 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 259 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 193 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 192 (13.31%) Degree
4 60 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.25%) HND
7 13 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.83%) PhD
9 10 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.069%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.069%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (1.80%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.04%) ISO 26262
2 15 (1.04%) MISRA
3 14 (0.97%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (0.97%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (0.97%) PMO
4 10 (0.69%) QA
5 7 (0.49%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.14%) GDPR
6 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.14%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.14%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.14%) SEPA
6 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.069%) Accessibility
System Software
1 94 (6.51%) Docker
2 32 (2.22%) Firmware
3 15 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.069%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.16%) Terraform
3 5 (0.35%) Ansible
3 5 (0.35%) SELinux
4 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.14%) linkerd
5 2 (0.14%) MIIS
5 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.069%) Grafana
6 1 (0.069%) Istio
6 1 (0.069%) Kibana
6 1 (0.069%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 126 (8.73%) ESRI
2 45 (3.12%) Microsoft
3 14 (0.97%) Google
3 14 (0.97%) IBM
3 14 (0.97%) Lauterbach
4 12 (0.83%) DevExpress
4 12 (0.83%) Xamarin
5 7 (0.49%) F5
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle
6 4 (0.28%) Apple
6 4 (0.28%) Facebook
6 4 (0.28%) Instagram
7 3 (0.21%) Autodesk
7 3 (0.21%) SAP
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