Senior Software Developer Jobs in London

Senior Software Developer
England > London

The median Senior Software Developer salary in London is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 478 506
Rank change year-on-year +99 +28 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 123 145 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.41% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.43% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 105 108 258
10th Percentile - £58,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £82,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +21.74%

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 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
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 Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +54 27 £100,000 +25.00% 7
East London - 2 - - 1
Senior Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 96 (78.05%) JavaScript
2 90 (73.17%) C#
3 81 (65.85%) .NET
4 79 (64.23%) Azure
5 76 (61.79%) SQL
6 72 (58.54%) Software Engineering
7 69 (56.10%) Python
8 66 (53.66%) AWS
9 63 (51.22%) Agile
10 61 (49.59%) AngularJS
10 61 (49.59%) TypeScript
10 61 (49.59%) Finance
11 59 (47.97%) Fixed Income
11 59 (47.97%) Front Office
11 59 (47.97%) Derivative
11 59 (47.97%) React
12 58 (47.15%) GCP
12 58 (47.15%) Asset Management
12 58 (47.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 58 (47.15%) Equities
13 54 (43.90%) Vue
14 46 (37.40%) Investment Management
14 46 (37.40%) Hedge funds
15 43 (34.96%) Back Office
16 42 (34.15%) Redux
17 34 (27.64%) Degree
17 34 (27.64%) HTML
17 34 (27.64%) ASP.NET
18 32 (26.02%) CSS
19 28 (22.76%) Computer Science

Senior Software Developer 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 16 (13.01%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.07%) Drupal
3 4 (3.25%) Apache
4 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Endur
2 1 (0.81%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 79 (64.23%) Azure
2 66 (53.66%) AWS
3 58 (47.15%) GCP
4 8 (6.50%) GitHub
5 7 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.25%) dbt
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.63%) Serverless
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Table
9 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.81%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.88%) MySQL
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.25%) Apache Arrow
4 4 (3.25%) Apache Ignite
4 4 (3.25%) Dremio
5 3 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) KDB
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) CircleCI
2 7 (5.69%) CMake
3 3 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (49.59%) Finance
2 59 (47.97%) Front Office
3 43 (34.96%) Back Office
4 22 (17.89%) Social Skills
5 10 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.69%) Banking
7 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Games
9 2 (1.63%) Electronics
9 2 (1.63%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.63%) Wearables
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (65.85%) .NET
2 61 (49.59%) AngularJS
3 59 (47.97%) React
4 54 (43.90%) Vue
5 42 (34.15%) Redux
6 34 (27.64%) ASP.NET
6 34 (27.64%) HTML
7 32 (26.02%) CSS
8 28 (22.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 19 (15.45%) HTML5
9 19 (15.45%) WPF
10 17 (13.82%) .NET Core
11 16 (13.01%) gRPC
11 16 (13.01%) Pandas
11 16 (13.01%) Protocol Buffers
12 12 (9.76%) Material-UI
13 11 (8.94%) RESTful
14 10 (8.13%) .NET Framework
15 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET Web API
16 6 (4.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (47.97%) Derivative
1 59 (47.97%) Fixed Income
2 58 (47.15%) Equities
2 58 (47.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 46 (37.40%) Hedge funds
4 12 (9.76%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.44%) Swaptions
7 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.63%) IoT
8 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.95%) Windows
2 11 (8.94%) Apple iOS
3 7 (5.69%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.25%) Android
5 3 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (58.54%) Software Engineering
2 63 (51.22%) Agile
3 58 (47.15%) Asset Management
4 46 (37.40%) Investment Management
5 28 (22.76%) Computer Science
6 20 (16.26%) Multithreading
7 19 (15.45%) Collaborative Working
7 19 (15.45%) Multithreaded Programming
8 18 (14.63%) Analytics
9 10 (8.13%) Clean Code
10 9 (7.32%) Microservices
11 8 (6.50%) Pair Programming
12 7 (5.69%) Community of Practice
12 7 (5.69%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (5.69%) DevOps
12 7 (5.69%) Full Stack Development
13 6 (4.88%) CI/CD
13 6 (4.88%) Fintech
14 5 (4.07%) Mentoring
14 5 (4.07%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 96 (78.05%) JavaScript
2 90 (73.17%) C#
3 76 (61.79%) SQL
4 69 (56.10%) Python
5 61 (49.59%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.57%) Java
7 5 (4.07%) C++
7 5 (4.07%) PHP
8 4 (3.25%) Ruby
8 4 (3.25%) Scala
8 4 (3.25%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.44%) VB
10 2 (1.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (27.64%) Degree
2 2 (1.63%) Postgraduate
3 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) QA
2 2 (1.63%) GDPR
2 2 (1.63%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.63%) IEC 62304
2 2 (1.63%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.81%) EMIR
3 1 (0.81%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (4.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.63%) Firmware
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle
3 3 (2.44%) OpenLink
3 3 (2.44%) Sybase
3 3 (2.44%) TIBCO