Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Senior Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 186 250
Rank change year-on-year +73 +64 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 65 49 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.93% 1.02% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.06% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 40 42 22
10th Percentile £69,625 £62,500 £64,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £72,188 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% +1.59%
75th Percentile £101,250 £105,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,750 £119,125 £104,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,229 4,614 6,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.47% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,582 3,888 5,640
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £44,950
25th Percentile £53,136 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the City of London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the City of London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the City of London

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 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 City of London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (96.92%) Software Engineering
2 39 (60.00%) Python
3 38 (58.46%) AWS
4 37 (56.92%) Agile
5 33 (50.77%) Azure
6 31 (47.69%) DevOps
7 25 (38.46%) .NET
8 24 (36.92%) React
9 23 (35.38%) JavaScript
10 22 (33.85%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (32.31%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (30.77%) Web Development
13 19 (29.23%) Finance
13 19 (29.23%) SC Cleared
13 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
14 17 (26.15%) PostGIS
14 17 (26.15%) Leaflet
14 17 (26.15%) GIS
14 17 (26.15%) ESRI
14 17 (26.15%) ArcGIS
14 17 (26.15%) C#
14 17 (26.15%) QGIS
14 17 (26.15%) GeoServer
14 17 (26.15%) OpenLayers
15 16 (24.62%) Full Stack Development
15 16 (24.62%) CSS
16 15 (23.08%) Degree
16 15 (23.08%) Computer Science
17 13 (20.00%) .NET Core
18 12 (18.46%) Git

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (26.15%) ArcGIS
1 17 (26.15%) GeoServer
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) JBoss
2 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 38 (58.46%) AWS
2 33 (50.77%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.69%) Serverless
4 4 (6.15%) GCP
5 3 (4.62%) Azure App Service
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.62%) SaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) HTTP
2 5 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.15%) GIS
2 17 (26.15%) QGIS
3 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.62%) MySQL
4 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.62%) Redis
5 2 (3.08%) Big Data
5 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.54%) Metadata
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) IntelliJ
General
1 19 (29.23%) Finance
2 8 (12.31%) Banking
2 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Advertising
3 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Health Technology
3 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (7.69%) Retail
4 4 (6.15%) Games
4 4 (6.15%) Tech for Good
5 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (38.46%) .NET
2 24 (36.92%) React
3 17 (26.15%) Leaflet
3 17 (26.15%) OpenLayers
3 17 (26.15%) PostGIS
4 16 (24.62%) CSS
5 13 (20.00%) .NET Core
6 9 (13.85%) REST
7 7 (10.77%) Django
7 7 (10.77%) Node.js
8 6 (9.23%) .NET Framework
8 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
8 6 (9.23%) Flask
9 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET
9 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (7.69%) Blazor
9 5 (7.69%) Entity Framework
9 5 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 5 (7.69%) Laravel
9 5 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.69%) Reinsurance
3 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Derivative
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
1 4 (6.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (96.92%) Software Engineering
2 37 (56.92%) Agile
3 31 (47.69%) DevOps
4 21 (32.31%) Actionable Insight
5 20 (30.77%) Web Development
6 16 (24.62%) Full Stack Development
7 15 (23.08%) Computer Science
8 10 (15.38%) User Experience
8 10 (15.38%) UX Design
9 9 (13.85%) CI/CD
10 8 (12.31%) Functional Programming
10 8 (12.31%) Machine Learning
11 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (10.77%) Scrum
12 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (7.69%) Front End Development
14 4 (6.15%) Design Patterns
14 4 (6.15%) Design Thinking
14 4 (6.15%) Programmatic Advertising
14 4 (6.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) Python
2 23 (35.38%) JavaScript
3 17 (26.15%) C#
4 11 (16.92%) Java
4 11 (16.92%) SQL
5 8 (12.31%) Clojure
5 8 (12.31%) F#
5 8 (12.31%) Haskell
5 8 (12.31%) Rust
6 5 (7.69%) PHP
7 4 (6.15%) C++
7 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.62%) Go
8 3 (4.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) SC Cleared
1 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) Degree
3 10 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Terraform
2 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (26.15%) ESRI
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Google
4 4 (6.15%) Apple