Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Senior Software Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Hampshire is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 109 106
Rank change year-on-year +17 -3 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 28 82 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.42% 2.08% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 2.20% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 26 71 49
10th Percentile - £52,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - £81,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.98% -5.36% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,870 3,728 2,762
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 94.43% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 2,912 2,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £66,250 £64,847 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,400
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Hampshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Hampshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Hampshire

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Southampton +17 10 £65,000 -3.70%
Portsmouth -9 7 £55,000 -31.25% 5
Farnborough +2 2 £58,000 -14.07%
Southsea - 2 £55,000 -
Waterlooville - 2 £55,000 -
Gosport - 2 £55,000 -
Petersfield - 2 £55,000 -
Fareham - 1 £77,500 -
Senior Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Hampshire region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (75.00%) Degree
3 17 (60.71%) Software Testing
3 17 (60.71%) Computer Science
4 16 (57.14%) C#
5 12 (42.86%) Ada
5 12 (42.86%) SDLC
5 12 (42.86%) Acoustics
5 12 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (35.71%) Mathematics
7 9 (32.14%) C++
8 7 (25.00%) Agile
9 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
10 5 (17.86%) Python
10 5 (17.86%) Java
11 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (14.29%) Algorithms
11 4 (14.29%) Rust
11 4 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
11 4 (14.29%) Physics
11 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 4 (14.29%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (10.71%) .NET
13 2 (7.14%) TDD
13 2 (7.14%) Unit Testing
13 2 (7.14%) Git
13 2 (7.14%) Azure
13 2 (7.14%) Design Patterns
13 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Datadog
2 1 (3.57%) SaaS
2 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
General
1 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
1 1 (3.57%) Banking
1 1 (3.57%) Finance
1 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (3.57%) Law
1 1 (3.57%) Military
1 1 (3.57%) Retail
1 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.57%) Blazor
2 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) WCF
2 1 (3.57%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Acoustics
2 4 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (60.71%) Computer Science
2 17 (60.71%) Software Testing
3 12 (42.86%) SDLC
4 10 (35.71%) Mathematics
5 7 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.29%) Physics
7 4 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
8 2 (7.14%) Design Patterns
8 2 (7.14%) TDD
8 2 (7.14%) Unit Testing
9 1 (3.57%) Analytics
9 1 (3.57%) DevOps
9 1 (3.57%) Mentoring
9 1 (3.57%) Open Source
9 1 (3.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) C#
2 12 (42.86%) Ada
3 9 (32.14%) C++
4 5 (17.86%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) Python
5 4 (14.29%) Rust
6 1 (3.57%) C
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded C++
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Degree
2 12 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (14.29%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Databricks
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle