Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Senior Software Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Cardiff is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 57 80
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 10 9 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.52% 1.57% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.73% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile - £48,200 £50,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £86,250 £64,250
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +29.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 616 519 822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 90.73% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 534 393 615
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,850 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,838 £40,000 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,575 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,604 £45,476 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.48% -7.19% +8.89%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Cardiff

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Cardiff region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) User Stories
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks