Senior Software Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 164 296
Rank change year-on-year -41 +132 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 787 1,515 1,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.60% 1.76% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.87% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 501 1,139 643
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,625 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £88,516
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,000 £107,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North of England +11 304 £65,000 +8.33% 99
North West +12 258 £65,000 +8.33% 54
London -3 228 £95,000 +2.70% 421
South East -22 105 £55,000 -15.38% 173
Midlands -17 58 £70,000 +16.67% 34
East of England +6 44 £61,250 -5.77% 62
West Midlands +34 40 £72,500 +20.83% 16
South West -61 38 £60,000 -4.00% 38
Yorkshire +7 28 £78,810 +26.10% 24
North East +15 18 £55,000 -8.33% 21
East Midlands -27 18 £58,000 -3.33% 14
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 751 (95.43%) Software Engineering
2 511 (64.93%) Agile
3 425 (54.00%) Python
4 377 (47.90%) Java
5 347 (44.09%) AWS
6 313 (39.77%) JavaScript
7 288 (36.59%) C++
8 281 (35.71%) Azure
9 279 (35.45%) .NET
10 262 (33.29%) Linux
11 256 (32.53%) Microservices
12 252 (32.02%) Rust
13 250 (31.77%) Mentoring
14 228 (28.97%) GCP
15 227 (28.84%) Machine Learning
16 215 (27.32%) Node.js
17 211 (26.81%) Go
18 209 (26.56%) Scrum
19 204 (25.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 201 (25.54%) Cloud Security
21 198 (25.16%) Security Cleared
22 191 (24.27%) User Experience
23 186 (23.63%) Data Engineering
24 185 (23.51%) DV Cleared
25 180 (22.87%) Cyberattack
26 179 (22.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
27 178 (22.62%) Self-Motivation
27 178 (22.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
27 178 (22.62%) AWS Certified Developer
27 178 (22.62%) Linux Command Line

Senior Software Engineer 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 55 (6.99%) Apache
2 52 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.65%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 39 (4.96%) Simulink
2 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.25%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 347 (44.09%) AWS
2 281 (35.71%) Azure
3 228 (28.97%) GCP
4 59 (7.50%) Snowflake
5 52 (6.61%) dbt
6 22 (2.80%) GitHub
7 19 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (2.03%) Serverless
9 14 (1.78%) Dagster
10 12 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
11 10 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.27%) SaaS
12 9 (1.14%) Apigee
12 9 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.92%) HTTP
2 18 (2.29%) Wireless
3 16 (2.03%) Bluetooth
4 11 (1.40%) Multicast
5 7 (0.89%) Modbus
5 7 (0.89%) Profibus
5 7 (0.89%) RS-232
5 7 (0.89%) RS-485
5 7 (0.89%) ZigBee
6 5 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.25%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.25%) Internet
7 2 (0.25%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.13%) GSM
8 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.99%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (6.73%) Data Lake
3 52 (6.61%) Apache Arrow
3 52 (6.61%) Apache Iceberg
3 52 (6.61%) Apache Ignite
3 52 (6.61%) Dremio
4 32 (4.07%) MySQL
5 26 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.78%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.27%) Cloud Spanner
11 8 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.64%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.64%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.64%) Redis
12 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 75 (9.53%) Git
2 48 (6.10%) JIRA
3 27 (3.43%) Bitbucket
4 19 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (1.91%) Rational DOORS
6 13 (1.65%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.14%) JUnit
7 9 (1.14%) Maven
7 9 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.89%) GitLab
9 6 (0.76%) Moq
9 6 (0.76%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.64%) Selenium
10 5 (0.64%) Subversion
11 3 (0.38%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.38%) Eclipse RCP
11 3 (0.38%) LabVIEW
General
1 204 (25.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 169 (21.47%) Finance
3 105 (13.34%) Banking
4 65 (8.26%) Social Skills
5 57 (7.24%) Front Office
6 54 (6.86%) Investment Banking
7 52 (6.61%) Aerospace
7 52 (6.61%) Automotive
8 42 (5.34%) Games
9 41 (5.21%) Retail
10 30 (3.81%) Electronics
11 27 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
12 23 (2.92%) Advertising
12 23 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.14%) Legal
14 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.02%) Military
15 8 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.89%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (35.45%) .NET
2 215 (27.32%) Node.js
3 97 (12.33%) React
4 54 (6.86%) gRPC
4 54 (6.86%) Pandas
5 52 (6.61%) NumPy
5 52 (6.61%) Protocol Buffers
5 52 (6.61%) SciPy
6 47 (5.97%) Kafka
7 41 (5.21%) AngularJS
8 39 (4.96%) Spring Boot
9 38 (4.83%) HTML
10 36 (4.57%) CSS
10 36 (4.57%) REST
11 35 (4.45%) Spring
12 33 (4.19%) RESTful
13 30 (3.81%) GraphQL
14 26 (3.30%) .NET Framework
15 23 (2.92%) Web Services
16 17 (2.16%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 180 (22.87%) Cyberattack
2 178 (22.62%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (22.62%) Self-Motivation
3 65 (8.26%) Derivative
4 61 (7.75%) Fixed Income
5 58 (7.37%) Equities
6 57 (7.24%) Algorithms
6 57 (7.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 52 (6.61%) Hedge funds
8 40 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
9 38 (4.83%) Cloud Native
9 38 (4.83%) Pricing Data
10 23 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
11 19 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.91%) Legacy Code
13 14 (1.78%) Acoustics
14 12 (1.52%) IoT
14 12 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.27%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 262 (33.29%) Linux
2 25 (3.18%) Windows
3 13 (1.65%) Unix
4 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (0.76%) Android
7 5 (0.64%) Robot Operating System
7 5 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (95.43%) Software Engineering
2 511 (64.93%) Agile
3 256 (32.53%) Microservices
4 250 (31.77%) Mentoring
5 227 (28.84%) Machine Learning
6 209 (26.56%) Scrum
7 201 (25.54%) Cloud Security
8 191 (24.27%) User Experience
9 186 (23.63%) Data Engineering
10 179 (22.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 141 (17.92%) Computer Science
12 135 (17.15%) CI/CD
13 95 (12.07%) Software Testing
14 77 (9.78%) Test Automation
15 68 (8.64%) DevOps
16 65 (8.26%) TDD
17 64 (8.13%) Mathematics
18 62 (7.88%) Full-Stack Development
19 61 (7.75%) Continuous Integration
20 57 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 425 (54.00%) Python
2 377 (47.90%) Java
3 313 (39.77%) JavaScript
4 288 (36.59%) C++
5 252 (32.02%) Rust
6 211 (26.81%) Go
7 170 (21.60%) TypeScript
8 131 (16.65%) C#
9 90 (11.44%) C
10 62 (7.88%) Ada
11 61 (7.75%) SQL
12 43 (5.46%) MATLAB
13 21 (2.67%) Scala
14 19 (2.41%) PHP
15 15 (1.91%) VB
16 12 (1.52%) Embedded C
17 8 (1.02%) Ruby
18 7 (0.89%) Bash
19 6 (0.76%) Perl
20 5 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 198 (25.16%) Security Cleared
2 185 (23.51%) DV Cleared
3 178 (22.62%) AWS Certification
3 178 (22.62%) AWS Certified Developer
3 178 (22.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 166 (21.09%) Degree
5 82 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (0.89%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.51%) PhD
11 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 24 (3.05%) QA
3 7 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.51%) CDISC
5 1 (0.13%) GDPR
5 1 (0.13%) NIST
5 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (9.78%) Docker
2 18 (2.29%) Firmware
3 13 (1.65%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 115 (14.61%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.94%) Terraform
3 12 (1.52%) Ansible
4 9 (1.14%) Istio
5 3 (0.38%) Grafana
5 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.07%) Google
3 19 (2.41%) Apple
4 18 (2.29%) Ping Identity
5 12 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.02%) Databricks
7 5 (0.64%) Siemens
7 5 (0.64%) Xilinx
8 4 (0.51%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle
8 4 (0.51%) Remedy
8 4 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.38%) ForgeRock
9 3 (0.38%) Graphcore
10 2 (0.25%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.13%) CyberSource
11 1 (0.13%) F5
11 1 (0.13%) New Relic
11 1 (0.13%) Roku
11 1 (0.13%) Splunk