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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 289 159
Rank change year-on-year +120 -130 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,480 1,071 3,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.74% 1.18% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.29% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,110 655 922
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £82,500 £87,891 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,000 £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 80,478 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,133 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 £71,725 £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 7 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 7 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 +68 384 £92,500 +8.82% 172
North of England +127 331 £60,000 -5.51% 46
South West +118 285 £62,500 -3.85% 44
South East +66 250 £65,000 -7.14% 56
North West +109 195 £60,000 -2.44% 26
Midlands +32 143 £60,000 -2.04% 29
Yorkshire +67 87 £62,500 -3.85% 17
East Midlands +16 82 £60,000 +14.29% 13
East of England +45 81 £65,000 -7.14% 42
West Midlands +20 61 £60,000 -11.11% 16
North East +39 49 £60,000 -15.37% 5
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 1,475 (99.66%) Software Engineering
2 528 (35.68%) Agile
3 499 (33.72%) AWS
4 487 (32.91%) Python
5 408 (27.57%) JavaScript
6 377 (25.47%) Azure
7 363 (24.53%) React
8 351 (23.72%) .NET
9 344 (23.24%) C#
10 284 (19.19%) TypeScript
11 282 (19.05%) Java
12 261 (17.64%) Security Cleared
13 242 (16.35%) DevOps
14 239 (16.15%) Linux
15 227 (15.34%) C++
16 221 (14.93%) SQL
17 220 (14.86%) Finance
18 195 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
18 195 (13.18%) SC Cleared
19 193 (13.04%) Degree
20 187 (12.64%) C
21 168 (11.35%) .NET Core
22 165 (11.15%) AngularJS
23 161 (10.88%) Actionable Insight
24 160 (10.81%) CSS
25 151 (10.20%) Web Development
26 147 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
27 136 (9.19%) Computer Science
28 134 (9.05%) Mentoring
29 130 (8.78%) Social Skills

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 (8.51%) ArcGIS
1 126 (8.51%) GeoServer
2 64 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.85%) Apache
4 17 (1.15%) JBoss
4 17 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
5 16 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.47%) Confluence
7 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.068%) Drupal
9 1 (0.068%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.068%) nginx
9 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (1.08%) Simulink
2 15 (1.01%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.47%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.068%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.068%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.068%) Endur
2 1 (0.068%) Findur
2 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.068%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 499 (33.72%) AWS
2 377 (25.47%) Azure
3 97 (6.55%) GCP
4 55 (3.72%) Serverless
5 52 (3.51%) dbt
6 48 (3.24%) Snowflake
7 42 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (2.70%) SaaS
9 23 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (1.42%) GitHub
11 18 (1.22%) Azure Functions
12 9 (0.61%) npm
13 8 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (0.47%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.47%) Azure API Management
14 7 (0.47%) Azure Event Grid
15 6 (0.41%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.95%) J1939
2 12 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.74%) Wireless
4 9 (0.61%) RS-232
5 8 (0.54%) Internet
5 8 (0.54%) Network Security
6 7 (0.47%) HTTP
7 6 (0.41%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.41%) MQTT
8 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.068%) 4G
10 1 (0.068%) 5G
10 1 (0.068%) LoRaWAN
10 1 (0.068%) Modbus
10 1 (0.068%) RS-485
10 1 (0.068%) SNMP
10 1 (0.068%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (8.51%) GIS
2 126 (8.51%) QGIS
3 65 (4.39%) MySQL
4 56 (3.78%) SQL Server
5 52 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 52 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
5 52 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
5 52 (3.51%) Dremio
6 48 (3.24%) Data Lake
7 47 (3.18%) MongoDB
8 45 (3.04%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.22%) Redis
10 11 (0.74%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.68%) Big Data
11 10 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.54%) SQLite
13 4 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 105 (7.09%) Git
2 41 (2.77%) JIRA
3 37 (2.50%) Subversion
4 28 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.55%) Visual Studio
6 22 (1.49%) GitLab
7 17 (1.15%) CMake
7 17 (1.15%) IntelliJ
8 14 (0.95%) ClearCase
8 14 (0.95%) Plastic SCM
9 13 (0.88%) Selenium
10 12 (0.81%) Maven
10 12 (0.81%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.61%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.61%) Storybook
12 8 (0.54%) JUnit
13 7 (0.47%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 220 (14.86%) Finance
2 130 (8.78%) Social Skills
3 108 (7.30%) Front Office
4 68 (4.59%) Banking
5 59 (3.99%) Automotive
6 57 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 56 (3.78%) Electronics
8 53 (3.58%) Investment Banking
9 50 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 47 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (2.91%) Back Office
12 40 (2.70%) Military
13 37 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (2.03%) Aviation
15 28 (1.89%) Marketing
16 25 (1.69%) Retail
16 25 (1.69%) Tech for Good
17 24 (1.62%) Aerospace
17 24 (1.62%) Health Technology
18 21 (1.42%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (24.53%) React
2 351 (23.72%) .NET
3 168 (11.35%) .NET Core
4 165 (11.15%) AngularJS
5 160 (10.81%) CSS
6 126 (8.51%) Leaflet
6 126 (8.51%) OpenLayers
6 126 (8.51%) PostGIS
7 117 (7.91%) ASP.NET
8 116 (7.84%) Vue
9 92 (6.22%) RESTful
10 82 (5.54%) Node.js
11 68 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
11 68 (4.59%) gRPC
11 68 (4.59%) Pandas
12 64 (4.32%) Protocol Buffers
13 63 (4.26%) HTML
14 59 (3.99%) NumPy
15 55 (3.72%) .NET Framework
16 52 (3.51%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.50%) Derivative
2 109 (7.36%) Equities
2 109 (7.36%) Fixed Income
2 109 (7.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 96 (6.49%) Hedge funds
4 56 (3.78%) Algorithms
5 46 (3.11%) IoT
6 43 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (1.55%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
12 20 (1.35%) Device Driver
12 20 (1.35%) Product Ownership
13 18 (1.22%) Pricing Data
14 14 (0.95%) Client/Server
14 14 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.95%) Hackathon
15 12 (0.81%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 239 (16.15%) Linux
2 83 (5.61%) Embedded Linux
3 69 (4.66%) Windows
4 30 (2.03%) Ubuntu
5 23 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.42%) Unix
7 15 (1.01%) Android
8 8 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.068%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.068%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,475 (99.66%) Software Engineering
2 528 (35.68%) Agile
3 242 (16.35%) DevOps
4 161 (10.88%) Actionable Insight
5 151 (10.20%) Web Development
6 147 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (9.19%) Computer Science
8 134 (9.05%) Mentoring
9 121 (8.18%) Full Stack Development
10 119 (8.04%) Microservices
11 115 (7.77%) CI/CD
12 111 (7.50%) Asset Management
13 102 (6.89%) TDD
14 97 (6.55%) Investment Management
15 91 (6.15%) Test Automation
16 82 (5.54%) SDLC
17 57 (3.85%) OO
18 56 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence
18 56 (3.78%) Coaching
18 56 (3.78%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 487 (32.91%) Python
2 408 (27.57%) JavaScript
3 344 (23.24%) C#
4 284 (19.19%) TypeScript
5 282 (19.05%) Java
6 227 (15.34%) C++
7 221 (14.93%) SQL
8 187 (12.64%) C
9 72 (4.86%) Rust
10 55 (3.72%) Embedded C
11 54 (3.65%) Bash
12 34 (2.30%) Kotlin
13 33 (2.23%) Go
14 25 (1.69%) Perl
14 25 (1.69%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.22%) Scala
16 16 (1.08%) Haskell
16 16 (1.08%) MATLAB
17 14 (0.95%) PHP
17 14 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 261 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 195 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 193 (13.04%) Degree
4 59 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.22%) HND
7 13 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.81%) PhD
9 10 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.068%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.068%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.30%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.01%) ISO 26262
2 15 (1.01%) MISRA
3 14 (0.95%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (0.95%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (0.95%) PMO
4 13 (0.88%) QA
5 7 (0.47%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.14%) GDPR
6 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.14%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.14%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.14%) SEPA
6 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.068%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.068%) EMIR
7 1 (0.068%) MiFID
System Software
1 94 (6.35%) Docker
2 33 (2.23%) Firmware
3 16 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Ceph
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 100 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.26%) Terraform
3 8 (0.54%) Ansible
4 5 (0.34%) SELinux
5 3 (0.20%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.14%) Grafana
6 2 (0.14%) Knative
6 2 (0.14%) linkerd
6 2 (0.14%) MIIS
6 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.068%) Istio
7 1 (0.068%) Kibana
Vendors
1 126 (8.51%) ESRI
2 47 (3.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (1.01%) Google
4 14 (0.95%) IBM
4 14 (0.95%) Lauterbach
5 12 (0.81%) DevExpress
5 12 (0.81%) 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 (0.14%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.14%) Cadence
9 2 (0.14%) Databricks
9 2 (0.14%) NVIDIA
9 2 (0.14%) RedGate
9 2 (0.14%) VMware