The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Developer
Rank 462 536 544
Rank change year-on-year
+74 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 122 100 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.279% 0.186% 0.183%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.299% 0.198% 0.195%
Number of salaries quoted 114 78 84
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,250 £38,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £70,000 £71,750
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+9.87% +1.25%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40860 50394 54260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.96% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 34360 43737 45781
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Developer
England

Senior Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Senior Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer across the London region.

London Senior Software Developer Salary Trend

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Senior Software Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +20 37 £52,500 -12.50%
Westminster - 3 £48,000 -
Ealing - 2 - -
Surbiton - 2 £42,500 -
Hammersmith - 1 £55,000 -
Senior Software Developer
England

Senior Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior Software Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Software Developer in their job title.

1 94 (49.47%) JavaScript
2 93 (48.95%) Java
3 76 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 74 (38.95%) C#
4 74 (38.95%) CSS
5 68 (35.79%) OO
6 65 (34.21%) .NET
7 54 (28.42%) ASP.NET
7 54 (28.42%) Degree
8 48 (25.26%) SQL Server
8 48 (25.26%) HTML
9 43 (22.63%) WCF
10 42 (22.11%) Spring
11 41 (21.58%) SQL
11 41 (21.58%) Windows
12 36 (18.95%) XML
13 35 (18.42%) Web Services
14 32 (16.84%) MVC
15 29 (15.26%) Microsoft
15 29 (15.26%) E-Commerce
15 29 (15.26%) jQuery
15 29 (15.26%) Software Engineering
16 27 (14.21%) Oracle
17 26 (13.68%) Python
17 26 (13.68%) Ruby
18 25 (13.16%) Apache
19 24 (12.63%) UML
19 24 (12.63%) Finance
19 24 (12.63%) WPF
19 24 (12.63%) SQL Server 2008

Senior Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior Software Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 74 (38.95%) CSS
2 65 (34.21%) .NET
3 54 (28.42%) ASP.NET
4 48 (25.26%) HTML
5 43 (22.63%) WCF
6 42 (22.11%) Spring
7 36 (18.95%) XML
8 35 (18.42%) Web Services
9 29 (15.26%) jQuery
10 24 (12.63%) WPF
10 24 (12.63%) ASP.NET MVC
11 23 (12.11%) XHTML
11 23 (12.11%) SOAP
12 22 (11.58%) Ajax
12 22 (11.58%) RESTful
13 20 (10.53%) Java EE
14 19 (10.00%) JSP
15 18 (9.474%) Ruby on Rails
15 18 (9.474%) Node.js
16 15 (7.895%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 25 (13.16%) Apache
2 17 (8.947%) SharePoint
3 13 (6.842%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (2.632%) WebLogic
4 5 (2.632%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.105%) IIS
5 4 (2.105%) Windows Azure
6 2 (1.053%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.053%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.526%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.526%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.526%) EPiServer CMS
7 1 (0.526%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.526%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (0.526%) Drupal
7 1 (0.526%) Rendezvous
7 1 (0.526%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.632%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.579%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 14 (7.368%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.053%) TIBCO iProcess
2 2 (1.053%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (0.526%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.526%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.00%) HTTP
2 6 (3.158%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.632%) Internet
4 2 (1.053%) NFC
5 1 (0.526%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.526%) DVB
5 1 (0.526%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.526%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.26%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (11.58%) MySQL
4 11 (5.789%) Redis
4 11 (5.789%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.211%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.158%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (2.632%) OLAP
8 4 (2.105%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.579%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.053%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.053%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.526%) Big Data
11 1 (0.526%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (0.526%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.526%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (0.526%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (0.526%) OLTP
11 1 (0.526%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (8.421%) Visual Studio
2 10 (5.263%) Git (software)
3 7 (3.684%) Subversion
4 6 (3.158%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.158%) MSBuild
5 4 (2.105%) Ant
6 3 (1.579%) JUnit
7 2 (1.053%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (1.053%) NUnit
7 2 (1.053%) Maven
8 1 (0.526%) NMock
8 1 (0.526%) Selenium
8 1 (0.526%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.526%) JIRA
8 1 (0.526%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.526%) Eclipse
General
1 24 (12.63%) Finance
2 10 (5.263%) Retail
3 6 (3.158%) Games
3 6 (3.158%) Financial Institution
4 3 (1.579%) Marketing
5 2 (1.053%) Front Office
5 2 (1.053%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.526%) Banking
6 1 (0.526%) Advertising
6 1 (0.526%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.05%) Open Source
2 12 (6.316%) Computer Science
3 6 (3.158%) Inversion of Control
4 4 (2.105%) Mathematics
4 4 (2.105%) SaaS
5 3 (1.579%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.579%) Smart Meter
5 3 (1.579%) Online Games
6 2 (1.053%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.053%) Data Integration
6 2 (1.053%) iPhone
6 2 (1.053%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.526%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.526%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.526%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.526%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.526%) IPTV
7 1 (0.526%) Equities
7 1 (0.526%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.526%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.58%) Windows
2 13 (6.842%) Linux
2 13 (6.842%) UNIX
3 6 (3.158%) Android
4 5 (2.632%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.526%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 68 (35.79%) OO
3 32 (16.84%) MVC
4 29 (15.26%) E-Commerce
4 29 (15.26%) Software Engineering
5 24 (12.63%) UML
6 19 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 19 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (8.947%) TDD
8 15 (7.895%) Workflow
9 14 (7.368%) CRM
9 14 (7.368%) Unit Testing
9 14 (7.368%) Use Case
10 11 (5.789%) OOD
10 11 (5.789%) Scrum
11 10 (5.263%) BDD
11 10 (5.263%) Project Management
12 6 (3.158%) SOA
13 5 (2.632%) Automated Testing
13 5 (2.632%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 94 (49.47%) JavaScript
2 93 (48.95%) Java
3 74 (38.95%) C#
4 41 (21.58%) SQL
5 26 (13.68%) Python
5 26 (13.68%) Ruby
6 23 (12.11%) C++
7 20 (10.53%) PHP
8 13 (6.842%) XPath
9 12 (6.316%) T-SQL
10 11 (5.789%) Objective-C
11 10 (5.263%) Clojure
12 8 (4.211%) Perl
13 7 (3.684%) Scala
13 7 (3.684%) VB.NET
14 5 (2.632%) Erlang
14 5 (2.632%) C
15 4 (2.105%) PowerShell
15 4 (2.105%) F#
16 2 (1.053%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 54 (28.42%) Degree
2 13 (6.842%) MCP
2 13 (6.842%) MCAD
2 13 (6.842%) MCSD
2 13 (6.842%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.526%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.526%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.474%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.632%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.105%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 4 (2.105%) SCCM
1 4 (2.105%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.21%) Oracle
3 5 (2.632%) Hyperion
4 4 (2.105%) JBoss
5 3 (1.579%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.579%) Dell
5 3 (1.579%) BEA
6 2 (1.053%) Facebook
7 1 (0.526%) Twitter
7 1 (0.526%) Google
7 1 (0.526%) Telerik
7 1 (0.526%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.526%) Zend
7 1 (0.526%) Epicor
7 1 (0.526%) Perforce
7 1 (0.526%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.526%) Sybase
7 1 (0.526%) SAP
Surbiton, Surrey
C#/ASP.Net Developer sought by telecoms sector Software service provider in Surbiton... My client are looking for someone with strong experience of ASP.Net MVC (Version3/4)...
Gregory James
Salary: 40K-45K
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
They're well established in London, highly successful, and maintain a "small company" feel whilst having the backing of an international organisation with offices around the UK and...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £city-level salary plus top benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
The successful .NET3.5/4/4.5, ASP.net, C#, WPF / WCF Senior Software Developer will be responsible for the line management and career development of a one...
bridgenoble
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
The successful .NET3.5/4/4.5, ASP.net, C#, WPF / WCF Senior Software Developer will be responsible for the line management and career development of a one...
Bridge Noble
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Senior Software Developer (.Net, C#, WCF, LINQ, ASP.NET, SSRS, JQUERY) Central London - £40,000- £50,000 Senior Software Developer (.Net, C#, WCF, LINQ, ASP.NET, SSRS, JQUERY)...
E-synergy Solutions
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
North London
You will be experienced in working with PHP5 although you will also be expected to work with MVC (ideally Zend), Microsoft SQL server, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery and...
Accord
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
Skills required: Java; including Spring, JEE Web services experience; SOAP, Restful MySQL, Oracle This is a rare opportunity to join a successful, well known company with big expansion...
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
At least 3 years’ experience with Microsoft .Net technologies, including ASP.NET and C#... - Knowledge of technologies: .NET 4 (ASP.NET, C#), XML/XSL, SOAP, SQL Server 2005/...
O'Connell Resourcing
Salary: From £55,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
If you have experience with open source technologies such as Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Clojure, HTML, CSS, etc and want to be part of a highly skilled...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
Development/Enhancement of new services/products *Architectural and design input*Mentoring of junior developersTo be successfully considered for this position candidates will need to have commercial experience as...
Volt
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
All Developers are expected to work on multiple technologies such as Java, PHP, Python, Flash ActionScript, JavaScript and HTML... Currently, the technology stack is 50% PHP, 40% Java...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: HIGHLY COMPETITIVE
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Do you have proven experience of Java and XML?... Technical Knowledge Required Multi-threaded Java programming on a Unix/Linux platform. Search technologies such as MarkLogic, Microsoft FAST...
DOW JONES & COMPANY
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Implement functionality using C++ and Python... Software testing tools experience: (LDRA TBrun, IBM Rational Test Real, Time Parasoft C++test, Parasoft Concerto, IPL Cantata++, Razorcat Development Tessy) Other...
JPS Selection
Salary: From £50,000 to £75,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013