Senior Software Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in London is £95,000 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 195 194 259
Rank change year-on-year -1 +65 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 239 378 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.88% 1.60% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 1.70% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 211 328 285
10th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £74,935 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £116,250 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,750 £123,750
England median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 11,491 22,247 33,558
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.13% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,485 16,728 24,644
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,097 £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 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 4 May 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 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
Central London +23 57 £75,000 -16.67% 27
South London +25 10 £107,500 +79.17%
East London - 6 - - 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 239 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 139 (58.16%) Python
3 134 (56.07%) Finance
4 131 (54.81%) Agile
5 119 (49.79%) AWS
6 115 (48.12%) TypeScript
7 97 (40.59%) Java
8 83 (34.73%) JavaScript
8 83 (34.73%) Banking
9 73 (30.54%) Kubernetes
10 71 (29.71%) Derivative
11 67 (28.03%) Fixed Income
12 64 (26.78%) Equities
13 63 (26.36%) Front Office
14 62 (25.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 61 (25.52%) Amazon Athena
16 60 (25.10%) gRPC
16 60 (25.10%) Snowflake
16 60 (25.10%) Investment Banking
16 60 (25.10%) Pandas
17 59 (24.69%) Asset Management
18 58 (24.27%) Apache
18 58 (24.27%) Hedge funds
18 58 (24.27%) SciPy
18 58 (24.27%) NumPy
18 58 (24.27%) Protocol Buffers
18 58 (24.27%) Dremio
18 58 (24.27%) Apache Ignite
18 58 (24.27%) dbt
18 58 (24.27%) Apache Arrow

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 58 (24.27%) Apache
1 58 (24.27%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (8.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.84%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 119 (49.79%) AWS
2 60 (25.10%) Snowflake
3 58 (24.27%) dbt
4 44 (18.41%) Azure
5 29 (12.13%) GCP
6 23 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (7.53%) Dagster
9 10 (4.18%) GitHub
10 9 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.77%) Serverless
11 8 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.26%) SaaS
14 2 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.62%) HTTP
2 11 (4.60%) Multicast
3 6 (2.51%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (25.52%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (24.27%) Apache Arrow
2 58 (24.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 58 (24.27%) Apache Ignite
2 58 (24.27%) Data Lake
2 58 (24.27%) Dremio
3 15 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.51%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.09%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.67%) MySQL
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.84%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.84%) Redis
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (7.11%) Git
2 11 (4.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.26%) Moq
3 3 (1.26%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.84%) JUnit
4 2 (0.84%) Maven
4 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.84%) webpack
5 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 134 (56.07%) Finance
2 83 (34.73%) Banking
3 63 (26.36%) Front Office
4 60 (25.10%) Investment Banking
5 34 (14.23%) Games
5 34 (14.23%) Social Skills
6 27 (11.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (11.30%) Retail
7 23 (9.62%) Advertising
8 13 (5.44%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.18%) Legal
10 4 (1.67%) Law
10 4 (1.67%) Marketing
11 3 (1.26%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.84%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.84%) Back Office
12 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.10%) gRPC
1 60 (25.10%) Pandas
2 58 (24.27%) NumPy
2 58 (24.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 58 (24.27%) SciPy
3 42 (17.57%) React
4 37 (15.48%) Kafka
5 33 (13.81%) .NET
6 25 (10.46%) GraphQL
7 23 (9.62%) Spring
8 21 (8.79%) HTML
9 20 (8.37%) AngularJS
9 20 (8.37%) CSS
10 18 (7.53%) PySpark
10 18 (7.53%) Spring Boot
11 14 (5.86%) REST
12 11 (4.60%) FIX Protocol
12 11 (4.60%) Node.js
13 10 (4.18%) Akka
14 9 (3.77%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 71 (29.71%) Derivative
2 67 (28.03%) Fixed Income
3 64 (26.78%) Equities
4 62 (25.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 58 (24.27%) Hedge funds
6 40 (16.74%) Pricing Data
7 39 (16.32%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (12.13%) Cloud Native
9 25 (10.46%) Algorithms
10 16 (6.69%) Legacy Code
11 9 (3.77%) Management Information System
12 7 (2.93%) Client/Server
12 7 (2.93%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
13 6 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.51%) IoT
13 6 (2.51%) Mobile App
14 5 (2.09%) Reinsurance
14 5 (2.09%) Robotics
15 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.64%) Linux
2 6 (2.51%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.09%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.84%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 131 (54.81%) Agile
3 59 (24.69%) Asset Management
4 57 (23.85%) Computer Science
5 47 (19.67%) Microservices
6 45 (18.83%) Investment Management
7 44 (18.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (14.64%) CI/CD
9 32 (13.39%) Machine Learning
10 27 (11.30%) DevOps
11 26 (10.88%) SDLC
12 24 (10.04%) Fintech
12 24 (10.04%) TDD
13 22 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (8.79%) Performance Metrics
14 21 (8.79%) Programmatic Advertising
15 19 (7.95%) Containerisation
16 18 (7.53%) BDD
16 18 (7.53%) Migration
16 18 (7.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 139 (58.16%) Python
2 115 (48.12%) TypeScript
3 97 (40.59%) Java
4 83 (34.73%) JavaScript
5 40 (16.74%) C++
5 40 (16.74%) Rust
6 32 (13.39%) SQL
7 28 (11.72%) C#
8 26 (10.88%) C
9 23 (9.62%) Go
10 22 (9.21%) Scala
11 6 (2.51%) Ladder Logic
12 5 (2.09%) Bicep
13 3 (1.26%) PHP
14 2 (0.84%) Bash
14 2 (0.84%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.84%) Perl
14 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.84%) VBA
15 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (22.18%) Degree
2 18 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.77%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.84%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.60%) QA
2 2 (0.84%) CDISC
System Software
1 32 (13.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (30.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.44%) Terraform
3 2 (0.84%) Grafana
3 2 (0.84%) Istio
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.62%) Google
3 21 (8.79%) Apple
4 6 (2.51%) Ping Identity
4 6 (2.51%) Siemens
5 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.67%) Remedy
5 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.84%) Databricks
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle
6 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.42%) Splunk