Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Senior Software Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Hampshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 113 111
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 27 80 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.34% 2.00% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 2.11% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25 69 50
10th Percentile - £52,000 £56,250
25th Percentile - £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £80,000 - £81,375
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +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 1,925 3,784 2,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 94.53% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 2,960 2,001
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,975 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
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 9 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 9 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 9 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Portsmouth -9 7 £55,000 -31.25% 8
Farnborough +4 2 £58,000 -
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 9 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 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (77.78%) Degree
3 17 (62.96%) Software Testing
3 17 (62.96%) Computer Science
4 15 (55.56%) C#
5 12 (44.44%) Ada
5 12 (44.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (44.44%) SDLC
5 12 (44.44%) Acoustics
6 10 (37.04%) Mathematics
7 9 (33.33%) C++
8 7 (25.93%) Agile
9 5 (18.52%) Java
9 5 (18.52%) Python
9 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
10 4 (14.81%) Statistical Modelling
10 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
10 4 (14.81%) Rust
10 4 (14.81%) Physics
10 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
10 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
10 4 (14.81%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (7.41%) .NET
11 2 (7.41%) Unit Testing
11 2 (7.41%) Git
12 1 (3.70%) WCF
12 1 (3.70%) RESTful
12 1 (3.70%) Azure
12 1 (3.70%) Open Source

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 1 (3.70%) Azure
1 1 (3.70%) Datadog
1 1 (3.70%) SaaS
1 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
General
1 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
1 1 (3.70%) Banking
1 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (3.70%) Law
1 1 (3.70%) Military
1 1 (3.70%) Retail
1 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) WCF
2 1 (3.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Acoustics
2 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (62.96%) Computer Science
2 17 (62.96%) Software Testing
3 12 (44.44%) SDLC
4 10 (37.04%) Mathematics
5 7 (25.93%) Agile
6 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.81%) Physics
7 4 (14.81%) Statistical Modelling
8 2 (7.41%) Unit Testing
9 1 (3.70%) API Development
9 1 (3.70%) API Integration
9 1 (3.70%) Data Engineering
9 1 (3.70%) DevOps
9 1 (3.70%) Mentoring
9 1 (3.70%) Microservices
9 1 (3.70%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) C#
2 12 (44.44%) Ada
3 9 (33.33%) C++
4 5 (18.52%) Java
4 5 (18.52%) Python
5 4 (14.81%) Rust
6 1 (3.70%) C
6 1 (3.70%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.70%) Embedded C++
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Degree
2 12 (44.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (14.81%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Databricks
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle