Senior Software Developer Jobs in England

Senior Software Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 543 489
Rank change year-on-year +75 -54 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 413 424 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.51% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 362 349 613
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +21.74%
75th Percentile £91,875 £82,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £128,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in England

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in England

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in England

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London +104 122 £100,000 +21.21% 18
South East -72 91 £70,000 - 13
South West +49 79 £58,000 +20.92% 6
North of England +50 50 £60,000 -2.04% 9
Midlands +18 36 £55,000 -4.35% 7
East of England +19 28 £60,000 -7.16% 3
Yorkshire +91 25 £60,000 -22.58% 3
West Midlands +22 24 £55,000 -4.35% 4
North West +1 17 £70,000 +27.27% 5
East Midlands -10 11 £55,000 -12.00% 3
North East +1 8 £65,000 - 3
Senior Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 267 (64.65%) C#
2 215 (52.06%) .NET
3 198 (47.94%) JavaScript
4 164 (39.71%) Agile
5 144 (34.87%) SQL
6 136 (32.93%) Azure
7 118 (28.57%) TypeScript
8 112 (27.12%) React
9 108 (26.15%) AWS
9 108 (26.15%) Software Engineering
10 106 (25.67%) Python
11 98 (23.73%) Degree
12 94 (22.76%) AngularJS
13 90 (21.79%) Finance
14 87 (21.07%) SQL Server
15 85 (20.58%) Computer Science
16 74 (17.92%) HTML
17 72 (17.43%) Social Skills
18 70 (16.95%) CSS
19 67 (16.22%) ASP.NET
20 66 (15.98%) Vue
21 60 (14.53%) Docker
21 60 (14.53%) Asset Management
21 60 (14.53%) Front Office
22 59 (14.29%) Fixed Income
22 59 (14.29%) Derivative
22 59 (14.29%) GCP
23 58 (14.04%) Equities
23 58 (14.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
24 57 (13.80%) .NET Framework

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.21%) Drupal
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.97%) Apache
4 3 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.73%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 136 (32.93%) Azure
2 108 (26.15%) AWS
3 59 (14.29%) GCP
4 38 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.87%) GitHub
6 15 (3.63%) SaaS
7 9 (2.18%) Serverless
8 7 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.21%) NuGet
11 4 (0.97%) dbt
11 4 (0.97%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.48%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.48%) PaaS
13 2 (0.48%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.24%) Amazon EKS
14 1 (0.24%) Amazon Kinesis
14 1 (0.24%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) Internet
2 3 (0.73%) Network Security
3 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (21.07%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.05%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.84%) MySQL
4 11 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.21%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.21%) Redis
7 4 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.97%) Apache Arrow
7 4 (0.97%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (0.97%) Dremio
7 4 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.97%) SQLite
8 3 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.73%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.48%) Power BI
10 1 (0.24%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 39 (9.44%) Git
2 13 (3.15%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.69%) CircleCI
3 7 (1.69%) CMake
3 7 (1.69%) NUnit
4 6 (1.45%) JIRA
4 6 (1.45%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.21%) Eclipse
5 5 (1.21%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (0.97%) Moq
7 3 (0.73%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.73%) Selenium
7 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.24%) GitLab
9 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 90 (21.79%) Finance
2 72 (17.43%) Social Skills
3 60 (14.53%) Front Office
4 47 (11.38%) Back Office
5 15 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.91%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.42%) Games
8 8 (1.94%) Marketing
9 7 (1.69%) Banking
9 7 (1.69%) Law
10 6 (1.45%) Legal
10 6 (1.45%) Publishing
10 6 (1.45%) Retail
11 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.97%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.73%) German Language
13 3 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.73%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (52.06%) .NET
2 112 (27.12%) React
3 94 (22.76%) AngularJS
4 74 (17.92%) HTML
5 70 (16.95%) CSS
6 67 (16.22%) ASP.NET
7 66 (15.98%) Vue
8 57 (13.80%) .NET Framework
9 43 (10.41%) .NET Core
10 42 (10.17%) Redux
11 34 (8.23%) ASP.NET Core
11 34 (8.23%) Entity Framework
12 32 (7.75%) HTML5
13 28 (6.78%) WPF
14 27 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
15 26 (6.30%) RESTful
16 16 (3.87%) gRPC
16 16 (3.87%) Pandas
16 16 (3.87%) Protocol Buffers
17 15 (3.63%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 59 (14.29%) Derivative
1 59 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 58 (14.04%) Equities
2 58 (14.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 46 (11.14%) Hedge funds
4 18 (4.36%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.18%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.18%) CUDA
8 9 (2.18%) IoT
9 8 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.44%) Windows
2 24 (5.81%) Linux
3 16 (3.87%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (39.71%) Agile
2 108 (26.15%) Software Engineering
3 85 (20.58%) Computer Science
4 60 (14.53%) Asset Management
5 52 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
6 50 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (11.14%) Investment Management
7 46 (11.14%) MVC
8 44 (10.65%) DevOps
9 42 (10.17%) CI/CD
10 41 (9.93%) Microservices
11 34 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
12 33 (7.99%) Collaborative Working
12 33 (7.99%) Scrum
13 32 (7.75%) Mentoring
14 28 (6.78%) TDD
15 26 (6.30%) Design Patterns
15 26 (6.30%) Propensity Modelling
16 25 (6.05%) Test Automation
16 25 (6.05%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 267 (64.65%) C#
2 198 (47.94%) JavaScript
3 144 (34.87%) SQL
4 118 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 106 (25.67%) Python
6 41 (9.93%) Java
7 25 (6.05%) PHP
8 22 (5.33%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.42%) C++
10 8 (1.94%) C
11 5 (1.21%) COBOL
11 5 (1.21%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.21%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 5 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.97%) Ruby
12 4 (0.97%) Scala
12 4 (0.97%) Swift
12 4 (0.97%) XAML
13 3 (0.73%) Bicep
13 3 (0.73%) Go
Qualifications
1 98 (23.73%) Degree
2 47 (11.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.18%) PhD
4 8 (1.94%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.97%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.63%) QA
2 7 (1.69%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.48%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.48%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) EMIR
4 1 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 60 (14.53%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (0.73%) Firmware
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.18%) NVIDIA
3 6 (1.45%) F5
3 6 (1.45%) Google
3 6 (1.45%) Xamarin
4 5 (1.21%) Micro Focus
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle
5 3 (0.73%) OpenLink
5 3 (0.73%) Quadient
5 3 (0.73%) Sybase
5 3 (0.73%) TIBCO
5 3 (0.73%) Twitter
6 2 (0.48%) New Relic
6 2 (0.48%) VMware
7 1 (0.24%) DevExpress