Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Central London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 196 253
Rank change year-on-year +74 +57 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 64 55 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.70% 1.06% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 1.11% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 39 44 27
10th Percentile £69,250 £62,500 £67,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £98,125 £103,438 £95,625
90th Percentile £111,000 £117,375 £108,000
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 3,581 4,957 7,951
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.95% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,771 4,126 6,464
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,210 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +0.98% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £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 20 May 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 20 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
City of London +75 62 £87,500 -2.78% 10
City of Westminster -4 8 £82,500 -
Camden -10 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 20 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 Central London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (96.88%) Software Engineering
2 41 (64.06%) Python
3 37 (57.81%) Agile
4 36 (56.25%) AWS
5 35 (54.69%) Azure
6 32 (50.00%) DevOps
7 26 (40.63%) .NET
8 24 (37.50%) React
9 23 (35.94%) JavaScript
10 22 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (31.25%) Web Development
11 20 (31.25%) Actionable Insight
12 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
12 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
12 18 (28.13%) C#
13 17 (26.56%) GIS
13 17 (26.56%) ESRI
13 17 (26.56%) ArcGIS
13 17 (26.56%) Finance
13 17 (26.56%) Degree
13 17 (26.56%) PostGIS
13 17 (26.56%) Leaflet
13 17 (26.56%) QGIS
13 17 (26.56%) GeoServer
13 17 (26.56%) OpenLayers
14 16 (25.00%) Computer Science
14 16 (25.00%) CSS
15 15 (23.44%) Full Stack Development
16 13 (20.31%) .NET Core
16 13 (20.31%) Git

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 (26.56%) ArcGIS
1 17 (26.56%) GeoServer
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) JBoss
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) AWS
2 35 (54.69%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.81%) GCP
3 5 (7.81%) Serverless
4 4 (6.25%) SaaS
5 3 (4.69%) Azure App Service
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) Dropbox
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) HTTP
2 5 (7.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.56%) GIS
2 17 (26.56%) QGIS
3 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.69%) Big Data
4 3 (4.69%) Metadata
4 3 (4.69%) MySQL
4 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.69%) Redis
5 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
2 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Health Technology
4 5 (7.81%) Advertising
4 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.81%) Retail
4 5 (7.81%) Tech for Good
5 4 (6.25%) Games
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.63%) .NET
2 24 (37.50%) React
3 17 (26.56%) Leaflet
3 17 (26.56%) OpenLayers
3 17 (26.56%) PostGIS
4 16 (25.00%) CSS
5 13 (20.31%) .NET Core
6 9 (14.06%) Node.js
6 9 (14.06%) REST
7 7 (10.94%) Django
8 6 (9.38%) .NET Framework
8 6 (9.38%) Flask
9 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
9 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET
9 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (7.81%) Blazor
9 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
9 5 (7.81%) Laravel
10 4 (6.25%) Hibernate
10 4 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.81%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.81%) Reinsurance
3 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
1 4 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (96.88%) Software Engineering
2 37 (57.81%) Agile
3 32 (50.00%) DevOps
4 20 (31.25%) Actionable Insight
4 20 (31.25%) Web Development
5 16 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 15 (23.44%) Full Stack Development
7 11 (17.19%) Machine Learning
8 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (9.38%) Scrum
10 6 (9.38%) User Experience
10 6 (9.38%) UX Design
11 5 (7.81%) Functional Programming
11 5 (7.81%) OO
11 5 (7.81%) SDLC
12 4 (6.25%) Front End Development
12 4 (6.25%) Microservices
12 4 (6.25%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 41 (64.06%) Python
2 23 (35.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (28.13%) C#
4 12 (18.75%) Java
4 12 (18.75%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.81%) Clojure
6 5 (7.81%) F#
6 5 (7.81%) Haskell
6 5 (7.81%) PHP
6 5 (7.81%) Rust
7 4 (6.25%) C++
7 4 (6.25%) Scala
8 3 (4.69%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
1 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) Degree
3 11 (17.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) ESRI
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) Google
4 4 (6.25%) Apple
5 1 (1.56%) BEA
5 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.56%) Spotify