Senior Software Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in England is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 294 155
Rank change year-on-year +128 -139 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,501 1,069 3,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.75% 1.18% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 1.29% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 654 913
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,283 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,125 £127,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
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 £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 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 +72 398 £92,500 +8.82% 159
North of England +129 329 £60,000 -5.51% 43
South West +124 288 £62,500 -5.66% 41
South East +50 257 £65,000 -7.14% 47
North West +107 192 £60,000 -2.44% 28
Midlands +23 142 £60,000 -2.04% 21
Yorkshire +80 88 £62,500 -3.85% 13
East of England +48 82 £65,000 -7.14% 40
East Midlands +14 80 £60,000 +14.29% 8
West Midlands +16 62 £60,000 -11.11% 13
North East +38 49 £60,000 -15.37% 4
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,496 (99.67%) Software Engineering
2 528 (35.18%) Agile
3 511 (34.04%) AWS
4 502 (33.44%) Python
5 425 (28.31%) JavaScript
6 378 (25.18%) Azure
7 368 (24.52%) React
8 355 (23.65%) .NET
9 348 (23.18%) C#
10 301 (20.05%) TypeScript
11 282 (18.79%) Java
12 258 (17.19%) Security Cleared
13 248 (16.52%) DevOps
14 241 (16.06%) Linux
15 230 (15.32%) Finance
16 229 (15.26%) C++
17 227 (15.12%) SQL
18 195 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
19 193 (12.86%) Degree
20 192 (12.79%) SC Cleared
21 189 (12.59%) C
22 169 (11.26%) .NET Core
23 161 (10.73%) CSS
24 156 (10.39%) AngularJS
25 151 (10.06%) Web Development
25 151 (10.06%) Actionable Insight
26 139 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
27 136 (9.06%) Computer Science
28 132 (8.79%) Social Skills
29 126 (8.39%) GeoServer

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
1 126 (8.39%) ArcGIS
1 126 (8.39%) GeoServer
2 72 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (4.33%) Apache
4 17 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.47%) Confluence
5 7 (0.47%) JBoss
5 7 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
6 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.067%) Drupal
8 1 (0.067%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.067%) nginx
8 1 (0.067%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Simulink
2 15 (1.00%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.47%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.067%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.067%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Magento
2 1 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.067%) Endur
2 1 (0.067%) Findur
2 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.067%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 511 (34.04%) AWS
2 378 (25.18%) Azure
3 97 (6.46%) GCP
4 60 (4.00%) dbt
5 56 (3.73%) Serverless
5 56 (3.73%) Snowflake
6 42 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (2.66%) SaaS
8 24 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (1.40%) GitHub
10 18 (1.20%) Azure Functions
11 9 (0.60%) npm
12 8 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (0.53%) Amazon S3
12 8 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (0.47%) Azure API Management
13 7 (0.47%) Azure Event Grid
13 7 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.93%) J1939
2 12 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.73%) Wireless
4 9 (0.60%) RS-232
5 8 (0.53%) Internet
5 8 (0.53%) Network Security
6 7 (0.47%) HTTP
7 6 (0.40%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.40%) MQTT
8 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.067%) 4G
10 1 (0.067%) 5G
10 1 (0.067%) LoRaWAN
10 1 (0.067%) Modbus
10 1 (0.067%) RS-485
10 1 (0.067%) SNMP
10 1 (0.067%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (8.39%) GIS
2 126 (8.39%) QGIS
3 66 (4.40%) MySQL
4 60 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
4 60 (4.00%) Apache Arrow
4 60 (4.00%) Apache Ignite
4 60 (4.00%) Dremio
5 56 (3.73%) Data Lake
5 56 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 47 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 47 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.20%) Redis
8 12 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.67%) Big Data
9 10 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.53%) SQLite
11 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 107 (7.13%) Git
2 41 (2.73%) JIRA
3 37 (2.47%) Subversion
4 29 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 24 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 22 (1.47%) GitLab
7 16 (1.07%) CMake
8 14 (0.93%) ClearCase
8 14 (0.93%) Plastic SCM
8 14 (0.93%) Selenium
9 12 (0.80%) Maven
9 12 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.60%) Storybook
12 8 (0.53%) JUnit
13 7 (0.47%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 230 (15.32%) Finance
2 132 (8.79%) Social Skills
3 117 (7.79%) Front Office
4 76 (5.06%) Banking
5 61 (4.06%) Automotive
5 61 (4.06%) Investment Banking
6 56 (3.73%) Electronics
7 51 (3.40%) Manufacturing
8 47 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 43 (2.86%) Back Office
10 41 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 40 (2.66%) Military
12 30 (2.00%) Aviation
13 28 (1.87%) Marketing
14 25 (1.67%) Aerospace
14 25 (1.67%) Retail
14 25 (1.67%) Tech for Good
15 24 (1.60%) Health Technology
16 20 (1.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (24.52%) React
2 355 (23.65%) .NET
3 169 (11.26%) .NET Core
4 161 (10.73%) CSS
5 156 (10.39%) AngularJS
6 126 (8.39%) Leaflet
6 126 (8.39%) OpenLayers
6 126 (8.39%) PostGIS
7 118 (7.86%) ASP.NET
8 116 (7.73%) Vue
9 84 (5.60%) Node.js
9 84 (5.60%) RESTful
10 78 (5.20%) Pandas
11 77 (5.13%) gRPC
12 72 (4.80%) Protocol Buffers
13 69 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
13 69 (4.60%) NumPy
14 64 (4.26%) HTML
15 60 (4.00%) SciPy
16 57 (3.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.99%) Derivative
2 118 (7.86%) Equities
3 117 (7.79%) Fixed Income
3 117 (7.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 105 (7.00%) Hedge funds
5 55 (3.66%) Algorithms
6 46 (3.06%) IoT
7 44 (2.93%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.60%) Pricing Data
12 23 (1.53%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
14 20 (1.33%) Device Driver
14 20 (1.33%) Product Ownership
15 14 (0.93%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.93%) Hackathon
16 13 (0.87%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 241 (16.06%) Linux
2 83 (5.53%) Embedded Linux
3 71 (4.73%) Windows
4 30 (2.00%) Ubuntu
5 23 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.33%) Unix
7 15 (1.00%) Android
8 8 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.067%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.067%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,496 (99.67%) Software Engineering
2 528 (35.18%) Agile
3 248 (16.52%) DevOps
4 151 (10.06%) Actionable Insight
4 151 (10.06%) Web Development
5 139 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (9.06%) Computer Science
7 125 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 123 (8.19%) Asset Management
8 123 (8.19%) Full Stack Development
9 120 (7.99%) Microservices
10 118 (7.86%) CI/CD
11 109 (7.26%) Investment Management
12 104 (6.93%) TDD
13 95 (6.33%) Test Automation
14 83 (5.53%) SDLC
15 61 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence
16 59 (3.93%) OO
17 58 (3.86%) Coaching
17 58 (3.86%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 502 (33.44%) Python
2 425 (28.31%) JavaScript
3 348 (23.18%) C#
4 301 (20.05%) TypeScript
5 282 (18.79%) Java
6 229 (15.26%) C++
7 227 (15.12%) SQL
8 189 (12.59%) C
9 75 (5.00%) Rust
10 55 (3.66%) Embedded C
11 54 (3.60%) Bash
12 35 (2.33%) Go
13 34 (2.27%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.67%) Perl
14 25 (1.67%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.20%) Scala
16 16 (1.07%) Haskell
16 16 (1.07%) MATLAB
17 15 (1.00%) PowerShell
18 14 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 258 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 193 (12.86%) Degree
3 192 (12.79%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.20%) HND
7 11 (0.73%) PhD
8 10 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.067%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.067%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.067%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.067%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.00%) ISO 26262
2 15 (1.00%) MISRA
3 14 (0.93%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (0.93%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (0.93%) PMO
3 14 (0.93%) QA
4 7 (0.47%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.13%) GDPR
5 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.13%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.13%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.13%) SEPA
5 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.067%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.067%) EMIR
6 1 (0.067%) MiFID
System Software
1 93 (6.20%) Docker
2 33 (2.20%) Firmware
3 16 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.20%) Ceph
4 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 64 (4.26%) Terraform
3 10 (0.67%) Ansible
4 5 (0.33%) SELinux
5 3 (0.20%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.20%) Knative
6 2 (0.13%) Grafana
6 2 (0.13%) linkerd
6 2 (0.13%) MIIS
6 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.067%) Istio
7 1 (0.067%) Kibana
Vendors
1 126 (8.39%) ESRI
2 49 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 15 (1.00%) Google
4 14 (0.93%) IBM
4 14 (0.93%) Lauterbach
5 12 (0.80%) DevExpress
5 12 (0.80%) Xamarin
6 7 (0.47%) F5
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle
7 4 (0.27%) Apple
7 4 (0.27%) Facebook
7 4 (0.27%) Instagram
7 4 (0.27%) SAP
8 3 (0.20%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.13%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.13%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.13%) Cadence
9 2 (0.13%) Databricks
9 2 (0.13%) RedGate
9 2 (0.13%) VMware