Senior Software Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in London is £92,500 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 194 259 112
Rank change year-on-year +65 -147 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 378 474 2,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.60% 1.34% 3.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.41% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 328 285 444
10th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £59,125
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £140,750 £123,750 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +60 66 £90,000 +2.86% 13
West London -6 2 £72,500 -19.44% 6
South London -2 1 £60,000 - 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 373 (98.68%) Software Engineering
2 219 (57.94%) AWS
3 185 (48.94%) Python
4 172 (45.50%) Agile
5 164 (43.39%) TypeScript
6 161 (42.59%) Finance
7 159 (42.06%) JavaScript
8 150 (39.68%) React
9 124 (32.80%) Azure
10 123 (32.54%) Java
11 108 (28.57%) Derivative
12 107 (28.31%) Asset Management
13 106 (28.04%) Fixed Income
13 106 (28.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 105 (27.78%) Equities
14 105 (27.78%) Front Office
15 99 (26.19%) .NET
16 93 (24.60%) C#
16 93 (24.60%) Investment Management
16 93 (24.60%) Hedge funds
17 91 (24.07%) SQL
18 72 (19.05%) Kubernetes
19 68 (17.99%) GCP
20 66 (17.46%) AngularJS
21 64 (16.93%) Pandas
22 62 (16.40%) gRPC
23 61 (16.14%) Apache Airflow
23 61 (16.14%) Protocol Buffers
24 60 (15.87%) Banking
25 59 (15.61%) Vue

Senior Software Engineer 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 61 (16.14%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (14.29%) Apache
3 17 (4.50%) ArcGIS
3 17 (4.50%) GeoServer
4 12 (3.17%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
5 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Endur
1 1 (0.26%) Findur
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 219 (57.94%) AWS
2 124 (32.80%) Azure
3 68 (17.99%) GCP
4 49 (12.96%) dbt
5 45 (11.90%) Snowflake
6 20 (5.29%) Serverless
7 13 (3.44%) SaaS
8 12 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.85%) GitHub
11 6 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.79%) Azure App Service
14 3 (0.79%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.79%) IaaS
15 2 (0.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) HTTP
2 5 (1.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.96%) Amazon Athena
1 49 (12.96%) Apache Arrow
1 49 (12.96%) Apache Ignite
1 49 (12.96%) Dremio
2 45 (11.90%) Data Lake
3 38 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.50%) GIS
4 17 (4.50%) QGIS
5 14 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.91%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.65%) MySQL
8 8 (2.12%) Redis
9 7 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.59%) Big Data
11 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.79%) Metadata
14 2 (0.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (7.14%) Git
2 10 (2.65%) GitLab
3 7 (1.85%) JUnit
3 7 (1.85%) Selenium
4 6 (1.59%) JMeter
4 6 (1.59%) WebDriver
5 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.06%) JIRA
6 4 (1.06%) Maven
7 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.79%) Gradle
7 3 (0.79%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.79%) Sourcetree
8 2 (0.53%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.26%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.26%) Postman
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 161 (42.59%) Finance
2 105 (27.78%) Front Office
3 60 (15.87%) Banking
4 50 (13.23%) Investment Banking
5 43 (11.38%) Back Office
6 32 (8.47%) Social Skills
7 14 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.44%) Advertising
8 13 (3.44%) Marketing
9 12 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.38%) Health Technology
12 8 (2.12%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.85%) Retail
14 6 (1.59%) Law
14 6 (1.59%) Legal
15 5 (1.32%) Games
16 4 (1.06%) Wearables
17 3 (0.79%) Electronics
17 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (39.68%) React
2 99 (26.19%) .NET
3 66 (17.46%) AngularJS
4 64 (16.93%) Pandas
5 62 (16.40%) gRPC
6 61 (16.14%) Protocol Buffers
7 59 (15.61%) Vue
8 52 (13.76%) NumPy
9 49 (12.96%) SciPy
10 45 (11.90%) Redux
11 39 (10.32%) ASP.NET
12 35 (9.26%) .NET Core
13 33 (8.73%) ASP.NET Core
14 26 (6.88%) CSS
14 26 (6.88%) REST
15 23 (6.08%) Kafka
16 22 (5.82%) GraphQL
17 21 (5.56%) Node.js
18 18 (4.76%) Spring
19 17 (4.50%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 108 (28.57%) Derivative
2 106 (28.04%) Fixed Income
2 106 (28.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 105 (27.78%) Equities
4 93 (24.60%) Hedge funds
5 29 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (7.14%) Cloud Native
7 18 (4.76%) Pricing Data
8 12 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.17%) Legacy Code
9 11 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.65%) Social Media
11 7 (1.85%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.59%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.32%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.32%) IoT
13 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.32%) Reinsurance
14 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.26%) Linux
2 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.79%) Android
3 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (98.68%) Software Engineering
2 172 (45.50%) Agile
3 107 (28.31%) Asset Management
4 93 (24.60%) Investment Management
5 55 (14.55%) Full Stack Development
6 48 (12.70%) DevOps
7 42 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 42 (11.11%) TDD
8 40 (10.58%) CI/CD
9 38 (10.05%) Microservices
10 33 (8.73%) Mentoring
11 32 (8.47%) Analytics
12 27 (7.14%) Greeks
12 27 (7.14%) Web Development
13 26 (6.88%) Test Automation
14 24 (6.35%) Actionable Insight
15 23 (6.08%) Machine Learning
16 21 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (5.29%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 185 (48.94%) Python
2 164 (43.39%) TypeScript
3 159 (42.06%) JavaScript
4 123 (32.54%) Java
5 93 (24.60%) C#
6 91 (24.07%) SQL
7 43 (11.38%) Rust
8 28 (7.41%) C++
9 27 (7.14%) Kotlin
10 22 (5.82%) Go
11 18 (4.76%) C
12 14 (3.70%) Scala
13 11 (2.91%) Clojure
14 9 (2.38%) Haskell
14 9 (2.38%) Ruby
15 8 (2.12%) PHP
16 7 (1.85%) F#
17 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.53%) Swift
19 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (12.17%) Degree
2 29 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (6.08%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.82%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.53%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.32%) QA
3 2 (0.53%) GDPR
3 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.53%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.53%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.26%) EMIR
4 1 (0.26%) MiFID
4 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (8.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Ceph
2 2 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.53%) Firmware
2 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.67%) Terraform
3 2 (0.53%) Ansible
3 2 (0.53%) Grafana
3 2 (0.53%) Knative
3 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Istio
4 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.50%) ESRI
3 8 (2.12%) Google
4 5 (1.32%) Oracle
5 4 (1.06%) Apple
6 2 (0.53%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.53%) Databricks
6 2 (0.53%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.26%) BEA
7 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.26%) Finsemble
7 1 (0.26%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.26%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) Spotify
7 1 (0.26%) Xamarin