Senior Software Developer Jobs in London

Senior Software Developer
England > London

The median Senior Software Developer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 377 486
Rank change year-on-year +13 +109 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 28 126 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.53% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.57% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 19 108 107
10th Percentile - - £58,750
25th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,875 £130,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +17 17 £110,000 +10.00% 5
Senior Software Developer
England

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Software Developer 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 London region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 18 (64.29%) Computer Science
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 15 (53.57%) TypeScript
4 15 (53.57%) Degree
4 15 (53.57%) QA
5 14 (50.00%) AWS
6 12 (42.86%) RESTful
6 12 (42.86%) Software Testing
7 11 (39.29%) Mathematics
7 11 (39.29%) C#
7 11 (39.29%) React
8 10 (35.71%) .NET
8 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
9 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
9 9 (32.14%) SQL
9 9 (32.14%) CSS
9 9 (32.14%) Python
10 8 (28.57%) Windows
10 8 (28.57%) Oracle
10 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
10 8 (28.57%) HTML
10 8 (28.57%) Multithreading
10 8 (28.57%) WPF
10 8 (28.57%) Azure
10 8 (28.57%) Multithreaded Programming
10 8 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (28.57%) AngularJS
10 8 (28.57%) HTML5
10 8 (28.57%) Microservices

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (21.43%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.00%) MySQL
2 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (21.43%) DynamoDB
3 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
4 5 (17.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
1 6 (21.43%) Gradle
1 6 (21.43%) Maven
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Games
2 6 (21.43%) Health Technology
2 6 (21.43%) Publishing
2 6 (21.43%) Tech for Good
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) RESTful
2 11 (39.29%) React
3 10 (35.71%) .NET
4 9 (32.14%) CSS
5 8 (28.57%) AngularJS
5 8 (28.57%) HTML
5 8 (28.57%) HTML5
5 8 (28.57%) WPF
6 6 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (21.43%) Kafka
6 6 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (21.43%) Spring
7 5 (17.86%) Swagger
8 3 (10.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (10.71%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (10.71%) pytest
9 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Mobile Games
2 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.71%) Derivative
2 3 (10.71%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Computer Science
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 12 (42.86%) Software Testing
4 11 (39.29%) Mathematics
5 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 8 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (28.57%) Microservices
6 8 (28.57%) Multithreaded Programming
6 8 (28.57%) Multithreading
7 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.00%) TDD
7 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 6 (21.43%) B2B
8 6 (21.43%) Domain-Driven Design
8 6 (21.43%) Integration Testing
8 6 (21.43%) Pair Programming
8 6 (21.43%) Refactoring
8 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 6 (21.43%) UML
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) TypeScript
2 11 (39.29%) C#
3 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) Python
3 9 (32.14%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 7 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 6 (21.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (53.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Argo
2 6 (21.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle
2 6 (21.43%) Google
2 6 (21.43%) New Relic