Senior Software Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in London is £102,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 141 281
Rank change year-on-year -9 +140 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 311 554 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.37% 2.30% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 2.43% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 211 465 253
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £83,125 £78,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £90,000 £87,483
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +2.88% -0.02%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £130,000
England median annual salary £78,810 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +16.76% -6.90% +3.57%

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 12,022 22,793 28,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 94.43% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,327 16,720 21,972
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,653 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,249 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.07% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +16 42 £75,000 -11.76% 130
South London +10 11 £107,500 +79.17% 2
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 311 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 220 (70.74%) Finance
3 200 (64.31%) Agile
4 177 (56.91%) Python
5 165 (53.05%) AWS
6 152 (48.87%) Banking
7 148 (47.59%) Java
8 139 (44.69%) TypeScript
9 99 (31.83%) Derivative
10 96 (30.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 93 (29.90%) JavaScript
12 87 (27.97%) Kubernetes
12 87 (27.97%) Front Office
13 83 (26.69%) Law
14 81 (26.05%) Equities
15 77 (24.76%) SDLC
16 75 (24.12%) Fixed Income
17 74 (23.79%) Investment Banking
18 71 (22.83%) gRPC
19 70 (22.51%) Data Lake
19 70 (22.51%) React
19 70 (22.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 69 (22.19%) Protocol Buffers
20 69 (22.19%) Amazon Athena
21 68 (21.86%) Snowflake
22 67 (21.54%) Pandas
22 67 (21.54%) Asset Management
23 66 (21.22%) Apache
23 66 (21.22%) Hedge funds
23 66 (21.22%) SciPy

Senior Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 66 (21.22%) Apache
1 66 (21.22%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) JBoss
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.64%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 165 (53.05%) AWS
2 68 (21.86%) Snowflake
3 66 (21.22%) dbt
4 51 (16.40%) Azure
5 20 (6.43%) GCP
6 18 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.22%) Serverless
9 8 (2.57%) Amazon Bedrock
9 8 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.93%) Apigee
10 6 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.93%) Azure Event Grid
10 6 (1.93%) Dagster
11 5 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.18%) HTTP
2 11 (3.54%) Multicast
3 3 (0.96%) SSL
4 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (22.51%) Data Lake
2 69 (22.19%) Amazon Athena
3 66 (21.22%) Apache Arrow
3 66 (21.22%) Apache Iceberg
3 66 (21.22%) Apache Ignite
3 66 (21.22%) Dremio
4 16 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.86%) KDB
6 12 (3.86%) MySQL
7 9 (2.89%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.57%) Kdb+
9 7 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.25%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.61%) Big Data
10 5 (1.61%) Redis
11 4 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 17 (5.47%) Git
2 13 (4.18%) JIRA
3 8 (2.57%) Vite
4 5 (1.61%) JUnit
5 4 (1.29%) rollup.js
6 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.96%) Mockito
6 3 (0.96%) Moq
6 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.96%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.64%) Maven
7 2 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.32%) Ant
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 220 (70.74%) Finance
2 152 (48.87%) Banking
3 96 (30.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (27.97%) Front Office
5 83 (26.69%) Law
6 74 (23.79%) Investment Banking
7 39 (12.54%) Social Skills
8 20 (6.43%) Marketing
9 18 (5.79%) Games
9 18 (5.79%) Retail
10 17 (5.47%) Financial Institution
11 14 (4.50%) Advertising
12 12 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (2.57%) Legal
14 6 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.61%) Back Office
16 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.96%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.96%) Wholesale Banking
18 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.83%) gRPC
2 70 (22.51%) React
3 69 (22.19%) Protocol Buffers
4 67 (21.54%) Pandas
5 66 (21.22%) NumPy
5 66 (21.22%) SciPy
6 38 (12.22%) .NET
7 37 (11.90%) Kafka
8 33 (10.61%) Spring
9 27 (8.68%) GraphQL
10 23 (7.40%) AngularJS
11 21 (6.75%) REST
12 20 (6.43%) CSS
13 19 (6.11%) RESTful
13 19 (6.11%) Spring Boot
14 18 (5.79%) FIX Protocol
15 17 (5.47%) Web Services
16 16 (5.14%) HTML
16 16 (5.14%) Node.js
17 15 (4.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 99 (31.83%) Derivative
2 81 (26.05%) Equities
3 75 (24.12%) Fixed Income
4 70 (22.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 66 (21.22%) Hedge funds
6 60 (19.29%) Pricing Data
7 55 (17.68%) Cloud Native
8 45 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
9 33 (10.61%) Algorithms
10 15 (4.82%) Public Cloud
11 14 (4.50%) Legacy Code
12 12 (3.86%) Management Information System
13 11 (3.54%) Data Structures
13 11 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (2.89%) Product Ownership
15 7 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (1.93%) Market Risk
17 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
18 4 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
18 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.97%) Linux
2 10 (3.22%) Unix
3 3 (0.96%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) Android
4 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 200 (64.31%) Agile
3 77 (24.76%) SDLC
4 67 (21.54%) Asset Management
5 66 (21.22%) Investment Management
5 66 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (20.58%) CI/CD
7 57 (18.33%) Computer Science
8 56 (18.01%) Microservices
9 52 (16.72%) Operational Stability
10 48 (15.43%) Machine Learning
11 42 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 37 (11.90%) Mathematics
13 35 (11.25%) Community of Practice
13 35 (11.25%) Fintech
14 32 (10.29%) DevOps
14 32 (10.29%) TDD
15 31 (9.97%) Decision-Making
16 25 (8.04%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 177 (56.91%) Python
2 148 (47.59%) Java
3 139 (44.69%) TypeScript
4 93 (29.90%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.15%) C++
6 43 (13.83%) Rust
7 37 (11.90%) SQL
8 27 (8.68%) C#
9 25 (8.04%) Go
10 22 (7.07%) C
11 16 (5.14%) Scala
12 8 (2.57%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.29%) Lua
13 4 (1.29%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.64%) Bash
15 2 (0.64%) Perl
15 2 (0.64%) PHP
15 2 (0.64%) Ruby
15 2 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (11.90%) Degree
2 10 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.61%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.96%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.64%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.32%) PhD
6 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.82%) QA
2 8 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.29%) WCAG
4 2 (0.64%) CDISC
System Software
1 43 (13.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 87 (27.97%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.68%) Terraform
3 6 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.29%) Ansible
5 3 (0.96%) Grafana
6 2 (0.64%) Istio
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.43%) Google
3 11 (3.54%) Apple
4 8 (2.57%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.25%) Oracle
5 7 (2.25%) Ping Identity
6 6 (1.93%) Databricks
7 4 (1.29%) MKS
7 4 (1.29%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.29%) Remedy
7 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.29%) Vertica
8 2 (0.64%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.64%) Splunk
9 1 (0.32%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.32%) ForgeRock