Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Central London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 204 257
Rank change year-on-year +85 +53 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 69 55 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.84% 1.00% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.04% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 41 45 30
10th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,375
25th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +7.94%
75th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,500 £100,500
London median annual salary £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% -5.56% +16.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,567 5,281 7,635
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 96.19% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,826 4,427 6,487
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
City of London +67 65 £90,000 - 12
City of Westminster +7 10 £82,500 - 1
Camden -5 1 - - 1
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Senior Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Central London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (97.10%) Software Engineering
2 39 (56.52%) Python
2 39 (56.52%) AWS
3 37 (53.62%) Agile
4 33 (47.83%) Azure
4 33 (47.83%) DevOps
5 25 (36.23%) JavaScript
5 25 (36.23%) .NET
6 24 (34.78%) React
7 22 (31.88%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (30.43%) Finance
8 21 (30.43%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (28.99%) Web Development
10 19 (27.54%) SC Cleared
10 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
11 18 (26.09%) Full Stack Development
12 17 (24.64%) QGIS
12 17 (24.64%) GeoServer
12 17 (24.64%) OpenLayers
12 17 (24.64%) Degree
12 17 (24.64%) PostGIS
12 17 (24.64%) Leaflet
12 17 (24.64%) C#
12 17 (24.64%) GIS
12 17 (24.64%) ESRI
12 17 (24.64%) ArcGIS
13 16 (23.19%) CSS
13 16 (23.19%) Computer Science
14 13 (18.84%) Git
14 13 (18.84%) .NET Core

Senior Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (24.64%) ArcGIS
1 17 (24.64%) GeoServer
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.90%) JBoss
3 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 39 (56.52%) AWS
2 33 (47.83%) Azure
3 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.25%) Serverless
5 4 (5.80%) GCP
5 4 (5.80%) SaaS
6 3 (4.35%) Azure App Service
6 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.45%) Dropbox
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) HTTP
2 5 (7.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.88%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (24.64%) GIS
2 17 (24.64%) QGIS
3 4 (5.80%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.35%) Big Data
4 3 (4.35%) MySQL
4 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.35%) Redis
5 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.90%) Metadata
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Git
2 2 (2.90%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 21 (30.43%) Finance
2 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.04%) Banking
4 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Advertising
5 5 (7.25%) Health Technology
5 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.25%) Retail
6 4 (5.80%) Games
6 4 (5.80%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) .NET
2 24 (34.78%) React
3 17 (24.64%) Leaflet
3 17 (24.64%) OpenLayers
3 17 (24.64%) PostGIS
4 16 (23.19%) CSS
5 13 (18.84%) .NET Core
6 10 (14.49%) REST
7 8 (11.59%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.59%) Node.js
8 7 (10.14%) Django
9 6 (8.70%) .NET Framework
9 6 (8.70%) Flask
10 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET
10 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (7.25%) Blazor
10 5 (7.25%) Entity Framework
10 5 (7.25%) Hibernate
10 5 (7.25%) Laravel
10 5 (7.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.25%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.25%) Reinsurance
3 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.45%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) Derivative
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Linux
1 4 (5.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (97.10%) Software Engineering
2 37 (53.62%) Agile
3 33 (47.83%) DevOps
4 21 (30.43%) Actionable Insight
5 20 (28.99%) Web Development
6 18 (26.09%) Full Stack Development
7 16 (23.19%) Computer Science
8 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
8 11 (15.94%) User Experience
8 11 (15.94%) UX Design
9 9 (13.04%) Functional Programming
9 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
10 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (10.14%) Scrum
12 5 (7.25%) Front End Development
12 5 (7.25%) Mentoring
12 5 (7.25%) Microservices
12 5 (7.25%) OO
13 4 (5.80%) Programmatic Advertising
Programming Languages
1 39 (56.52%) Python
2 25 (36.23%) JavaScript
3 17 (24.64%) C#
4 12 (17.39%) Java
5 11 (15.94%) SQL
6 9 (13.04%) Clojure
6 9 (13.04%) F#
6 9 (13.04%) Haskell
6 9 (13.04%) Rust
7 5 (7.25%) PHP
8 4 (5.80%) C++
8 4 (5.80%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.35%) Go
9 3 (4.35%) Scala
10 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) SC Cleared
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (24.64%) Degree
3 11 (15.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) ESRI
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Google
4 4 (5.80%) Apple
5 1 (1.45%) BEA
5 1 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.45%) Spotify