Senior Software Development Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Software Development Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Development Engineer salary in England is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 823 912 1056
Rank change year-on-year +89 +144 -215
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Development Engineer 8 17 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.009% 0.019% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.021% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 4
10th Percentile £53,250 £60,000 £61,625
25th Percentile £58,125 £67,500 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £88,750 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +8.23% +5.81%
75th Percentile £76,250 £100,000 £89,688
90th Percentile £80,750 £102,500 £96,325
UK median annual salary £50,000 £88,750 £82,000
% change year-on-year -43.66% +8.23% +5.81%

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 81,130 82,270 127,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,549 52,263 74,733
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 £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,857 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Software Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Development Engineer in England

Senior Software Development Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Development Engineer in England

Senior Software Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Development Engineer in England

Senior Software Development 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 Development Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 +110 6 £72,500 -19.44%
North of England +49 2 £72,500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £72,500 -
South East +8 1 - -
South West - 1 £50,000 -
Senior Software Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Software Development 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Logistics
2 4 (50.00%) Statistics
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Go
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 4 (50.00%) Zero Defects
2 4 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Onboarding

Senior Software Development 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Logistics
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (50.00%) Statistics
2 4 (50.00%) Zero Defects
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) SDET
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Cross-Platform Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Go
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft