Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Central London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 130 190
Rank change year-on-year +23 +60 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 58 67 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.28% 1.77% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 1.86% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 54 40 46
10th Percentile - £69,625 £62,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £73,750 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £81,438 £101,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,750 £115,625
London median annual salary £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.70% +8.82% -5.56%

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 2,309 3,597 5,096
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 95.08% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,832 4,257
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
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 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +32 58 £75,000 -16.67% 12
City of Westminster +2 22 £62,500 -24.24%
Senior Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, 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 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (75.86%) Python
3 38 (65.52%) Agile
4 33 (56.90%) Finance
5 29 (50.00%) Degree
5 29 (50.00%) Computer Science
6 27 (46.55%) Retail
7 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
8 25 (43.10%) Games
8 25 (43.10%) Machine Learning
9 24 (41.38%) Kafka
9 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
10 22 (37.93%) HTTP
10 22 (37.93%) Advertising
10 22 (37.93%) Apple
10 22 (37.93%) Google
10 22 (37.93%) Scala
10 22 (37.93%) Apache Spark
10 22 (37.93%) Performance Metrics
10 22 (37.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (37.93%) Programmatic Advertising
10 22 (37.93%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (29.31%) AWS
12 15 (25.86%) Azure
13 13 (22.41%) SQL
14 12 (20.69%) C#
15 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
16 10 (17.24%) TypeScript
17 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
18 8 (13.79%) Docker

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 22 (37.93%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) Azure
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) PaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (37.93%) HTTP
2 3 (5.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (5.17%) Neo4j
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Git
General
1 33 (56.90%) Finance
2 27 (46.55%) Retail
3 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
4 25 (43.10%) Games
5 22 (37.93%) Advertising
5 22 (37.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.17%) Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Agriculture
7 2 (3.45%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (41.38%) Kafka
2 8 (13.79%) .NET
3 6 (10.34%) Node.js
3 6 (10.34%) REST
3 6 (10.34%) Web Services
4 5 (8.62%) CSS
4 5 (8.62%) FastAPI
4 5 (8.62%) HTML
4 5 (8.62%) React
5 4 (6.90%) .NET Framework
5 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.90%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (5.17%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (5.17%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.17%) LangChain
6 3 (5.17%) pytest
7 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.45%) Flask
7 2 (3.45%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.93%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (12.07%) Algorithms
3 6 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (8.62%) Reinsurance
5 3 (5.17%) Derivative
5 3 (5.17%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.17%) Robotics
6 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
1 3 (5.17%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 38 (65.52%) Agile
3 29 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 25 (43.10%) Machine Learning
5 22 (37.93%) Performance Metrics
5 22 (37.93%) Programmatic Advertising
6 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
7 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.07%) Analytics
8 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.34%) Cloud Security
9 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (10.34%) Mathematics
9 6 (10.34%) OOP
10 5 (8.62%) Domain-Driven Design
10 5 (8.62%) Fintech
10 5 (8.62%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (8.62%) Investment Management
10 5 (8.62%) OO
10 5 (8.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 44 (75.86%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) Scala
3 13 (22.41%) SQL
4 12 (20.69%) C#
5 10 (17.24%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.90%) Java
7 3 (5.17%) C++
8 2 (3.45%) Bicep
8 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.45%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
1 7 (12.07%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (37.93%) Apple
2 22 (37.93%) Google
3 6 (10.34%) Ping Identity