Senior Software Developer Jobs in Central London

Senior Software Developer
London > Central London

The median Senior Software Developer salary in Central London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 162 223
Rank change year-on-year +16 +61 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 16 27 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.63% 0.72% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.75% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11 25 25
10th Percentile £92,500 £73,750 -
25th Percentile £105,000 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £130,000
London median annual salary £102,500 £100,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% +21.21% -17.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,297 3,591 5,081
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 95.15% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,644 2,822 4,251
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Central London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in Central London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in Central London

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
City of London +25 11 £110,000 +10.00% 3
Camden - 5 - -
Senior Software Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (81.25%) Degree
3 10 (62.50%) Mathematics
4 9 (56.25%) Agile
5 8 (50.00%) .NET
5 8 (50.00%) QA
5 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (43.75%) WPF
6 7 (43.75%) Multithreading
6 7 (43.75%) HTML5
6 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
6 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
6 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
6 7 (43.75%) C#
6 7 (43.75%) HTML
6 7 (43.75%) Oracle
6 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
6 7 (43.75%) CSS
6 7 (43.75%) Windows
6 7 (43.75%) Multithreaded Programming
6 7 (43.75%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (37.50%) Microservices
7 6 (37.50%) GCP
7 6 (37.50%) SQL
7 6 (37.50%) Azure
7 6 (37.50%) AWS
7 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) GCP
2 5 (31.25%) GitHub
2 5 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
2 5 (31.25%) MySQL
2 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
2 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Gradle
1 5 (31.25%) Maven
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Games
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) .NET
2 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
2 7 (43.75%) CSS
2 7 (43.75%) HTML
2 7 (43.75%) HTML5
2 7 (43.75%) WPF
3 5 (31.25%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (31.25%) Kafka
3 5 (31.25%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (31.25%) React
3 5 (31.25%) RESTful
3 5 (31.25%) Spring
4 3 (18.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (18.75%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (18.75%) pytest
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
1 5 (31.25%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Mobile Games
2 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Derivative
2 3 (18.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 10 (62.50%) Mathematics
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
4 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (43.75%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (43.75%) Multithreaded Programming
5 7 (43.75%) Multithreading
6 6 (37.50%) Microservices
6 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
7 5 (31.25%) B2B
7 5 (31.25%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Migration
7 5 (31.25%) Refactoring
7 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
7 5 (31.25%) UML
7 5 (31.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C#
1 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
1 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Argo
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
1 5 (31.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) Google
2 5 (31.25%) New Relic