Senior Software Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in London is £92,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 262 112
Rank change year-on-year +76 -150 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 400 471 2,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.69% 1.37% 3.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 1.44% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 348 283 438
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £59,625
25th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £144,375 £127,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,236 32,601 64,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.01% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,671 24,034 34,497
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +55 66 £90,000 +2.86% 14
West London -2 2 £72,500 -19.44% 6
South London -2 1 £60,000 - 3
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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.

1 396 (99.00%) Software Engineering
2 237 (59.25%) AWS
3 203 (50.75%) Python
4 185 (46.25%) TypeScript
5 183 (45.75%) Agile
6 177 (44.25%) JavaScript
7 176 (44.00%) Finance
8 159 (39.75%) React
9 133 (33.25%) Java
10 129 (32.25%) Azure
11 123 (30.75%) Asset Management
12 120 (30.00%) Derivative
13 118 (29.50%) Equities
14 117 (29.25%) Fixed Income
14 117 (29.25%) Front Office
14 117 (29.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 109 (27.25%) Investment Management
16 105 (26.25%) Hedge funds
17 104 (26.00%) .NET
18 98 (24.50%) SQL
19 97 (24.25%) C#
20 78 (19.50%) Pandas
21 76 (19.00%) Kubernetes
22 74 (18.50%) gRPC
23 72 (18.00%) Apache Airflow
23 72 (18.00%) Protocol Buffers
24 71 (17.75%) Banking
25 69 (17.25%) GCP
26 66 (16.50%) NumPy
27 65 (16.25%) Apache

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 72 (18.00%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (16.25%) Apache
3 17 (4.25%) ArcGIS
3 17 (4.25%) GeoServer
4 14 (3.50%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Endur
1 1 (0.25%) Findur
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 237 (59.25%) AWS
2 129 (32.25%) Azure
3 69 (17.25%) GCP
4 60 (15.00%) dbt
5 56 (14.00%) Snowflake
6 22 (5.50%) Serverless
7 15 (3.75%) SaaS
8 13 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.00%) GitHub
10 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.00%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.75%) Azure App Service
12 3 (0.75%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.75%) IaaS
12 3 (0.75%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.75%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) Internet
3 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
1 60 (15.00%) Apache Arrow
1 60 (15.00%) Apache Ignite
1 60 (15.00%) Dremio
2 56 (14.00%) Data Lake
3 39 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.25%) GIS
4 17 (4.25%) QGIS
5 16 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.50%) MySQL
8 9 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.00%) Redis
10 6 (1.50%) Big Data
11 5 (1.25%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.25%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (7.25%) Git
2 10 (2.50%) GitLab
3 8 (2.00%) Selenium
4 7 (1.75%) JUnit
5 6 (1.50%) JMeter
5 6 (1.50%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.25%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.00%) Gradle
7 4 (1.00%) JIRA
7 4 (1.00%) Maven
8 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.75%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.50%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.50%) Postman
10 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 176 (44.00%) Finance
2 117 (29.25%) Front Office
3 71 (17.75%) Banking
4 61 (15.25%) Investment Banking
5 44 (11.00%) Back Office
6 32 (8.00%) Social Skills
7 17 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.75%) Advertising
9 14 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.25%) Marketing
11 11 (2.75%) Law
12 10 (2.50%) Health Technology
13 9 (2.25%) Tech for Good
14 8 (2.00%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.75%) Retail
16 6 (1.50%) Legal
17 5 (1.25%) Games
18 4 (1.00%) Wearables
19 3 (0.75%) Electronics
19 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (39.75%) React
2 104 (26.00%) .NET
3 78 (19.50%) Pandas
4 74 (18.50%) gRPC
5 72 (18.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 66 (16.50%) NumPy
7 65 (16.25%) AngularJS
8 60 (15.00%) SciPy
8 60 (15.00%) Vue
9 48 (12.00%) Redux
10 41 (10.25%) ASP.NET
11 36 (9.00%) .NET Core
12 33 (8.25%) ASP.NET Core
13 27 (6.75%) CSS
14 26 (6.50%) REST
15 25 (6.25%) Node.js
16 24 (6.00%) GraphQL
16 24 (6.00%) Kafka
17 17 (4.25%) Leaflet
17 17 (4.25%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 120 (30.00%) Derivative
2 118 (29.50%) Equities
3 117 (29.25%) Fixed Income
3 117 (29.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 105 (26.25%) Hedge funds
5 29 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (7.00%) Cloud Native
7 24 (6.00%) Pricing Data
8 12 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.00%) Legacy Code
9 10 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.50%) Social Media
10 7 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.50%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.25%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.25%) IoT
12 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.25%) Reinsurance
13 4 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.00%) Linux
2 5 (1.25%) Windows
3 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.75%) Android
4 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (99.00%) Software Engineering
2 183 (45.75%) Agile
3 123 (30.75%) Asset Management
4 109 (27.25%) Investment Management
5 59 (14.75%) Full Stack Development
6 51 (12.75%) DevOps
7 45 (11.25%) TDD
8 44 (11.00%) CI/CD
9 41 (10.25%) Computer Science
10 40 (10.00%) Microservices
11 34 (8.50%) Analytics
12 32 (8.00%) Greeks
13 30 (7.50%) Mentoring
13 30 (7.50%) Test Automation
14 27 (6.75%) Web Development
15 24 (6.00%) Machine Learning
16 23 (5.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 22 (5.50%) Actionable Insight
17 22 (5.50%) Fintech
18 21 (5.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 203 (50.75%) Python
2 185 (46.25%) TypeScript
3 177 (44.25%) JavaScript
4 133 (33.25%) Java
5 98 (24.50%) SQL
6 97 (24.25%) C#
7 45 (11.25%) Rust
8 29 (7.25%) C++
8 29 (7.25%) Kotlin
9 23 (5.75%) Go
10 19 (4.75%) C
11 15 (3.75%) Scala
12 12 (3.00%) Clojure
13 9 (2.25%) Haskell
13 9 (2.25%) Ruby
14 8 (2.00%) PHP
15 7 (1.75%) F#
16 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (11.50%) Degree
2 28 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.50%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.75%) QA
3 2 (0.50%) EMIR
3 2 (0.50%) GDPR
3 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.50%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.50%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.50%) MiFID
4 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (8.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Ceph
2 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.50%) Firmware
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.50%) Terraform
3 3 (0.75%) Ansible
3 3 (0.75%) Knative
4 2 (0.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Istio
5 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.25%) ESRI
3 9 (2.25%) Google
4 5 (1.25%) Oracle
5 4 (1.00%) Apple
6 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.50%) Databricks
6 2 (0.50%) Finsemble
6 2 (0.50%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.25%) BEA
7 1 (0.25%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.25%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.25%) Splunk
7 1 (0.25%) Spotify
7 1 (0.25%) Xamarin