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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 198 263
Rank change year-on-year -4 +65 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 233 400 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.80% 1.70% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.80% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 208 347 279
10th Percentile £56,250 £64,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £74,870 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £145,000 £128,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -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 11,673 22,210 32,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.15% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,263 16,626 24,091
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 14 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 14 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 56 £75,000 -14.29% 34
South London +12 11 £107,500 +79.17% 3
East London - 5 - - 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 233 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 135 (57.94%) Python
3 128 (54.94%) Finance
4 123 (52.79%) Agile
5 114 (48.93%) AWS
6 111 (47.64%) TypeScript
7 91 (39.06%) Java
8 78 (33.48%) JavaScript
9 75 (32.19%) Banking
10 71 (30.47%) Kubernetes
11 68 (29.18%) Derivative
12 64 (27.47%) Fixed Income
13 61 (26.18%) Equities
14 60 (25.75%) Front Office
15 59 (25.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 58 (24.89%) Amazon Athena
17 57 (24.46%) gRPC
17 57 (24.46%) Snowflake
17 57 (24.46%) Pandas
17 57 (24.46%) Investment Banking
18 56 (24.03%) Asset Management
19 55 (23.61%) Apache
19 55 (23.61%) Protocol Buffers
19 55 (23.61%) Hedge funds
19 55 (23.61%) SciPy
19 55 (23.61%) NumPy
19 55 (23.61%) dbt
19 55 (23.61%) Dremio
19 55 (23.61%) Apache Ignite
19 55 (23.61%) 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 55 (23.61%) Apache
1 55 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (8.58%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.86%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.86%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 114 (48.93%) AWS
2 57 (24.46%) Snowflake
3 55 (23.61%) dbt
4 40 (17.17%) Azure
5 20 (8.58%) GCP
6 18 (7.73%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (6.01%) Dagster
9 9 (3.86%) GitHub
10 8 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.43%) Serverless
11 7 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.29%) Azure Event Grid
14 3 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.44%) HTTP
2 11 (4.72%) Multicast
3 5 (2.15%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (24.89%) Amazon Athena
2 55 (23.61%) Apache Arrow
2 55 (23.61%) Apache Iceberg
2 55 (23.61%) Apache Ignite
2 55 (23.61%) Data Lake
2 55 (23.61%) Dremio
3 13 (5.58%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.15%) Neo4j
6 5 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.72%) MySQL
8 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.86%) Redis
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (6.44%) Git
2 11 (4.72%) JIRA
3 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) Moq
3 3 (1.29%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.86%) JUnit
4 2 (0.86%) Maven
4 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 128 (54.94%) Finance
2 75 (32.19%) Banking
3 60 (25.75%) Front Office
4 57 (24.46%) Investment Banking
5 32 (13.73%) Games
5 32 (13.73%) Social Skills
6 27 (11.59%) Retail
7 26 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (9.87%) Advertising
9 14 (6.01%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.86%) Legal
11 4 (1.72%) Law
11 4 (1.72%) Marketing
12 3 (1.29%) Back Office
12 3 (1.29%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.86%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (24.46%) gRPC
1 57 (24.46%) Pandas
2 55 (23.61%) NumPy
2 55 (23.61%) Protocol Buffers
2 55 (23.61%) SciPy
3 40 (17.17%) React
4 37 (15.88%) Kafka
5 34 (14.59%) .NET
6 26 (11.16%) GraphQL
7 22 (9.44%) AngularJS
8 19 (8.15%) Spring
9 17 (7.30%) HTML
9 17 (7.30%) REST
10 15 (6.44%) CSS
11 14 (6.01%) PySpark
11 14 (6.01%) Spring Boot
12 13 (5.58%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (5.15%) Web Services
14 11 (4.72%) Akka
15 10 (4.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 68 (29.18%) Derivative
2 64 (27.47%) Fixed Income
3 61 (26.18%) Equities
4 59 (25.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 55 (23.61%) Hedge funds
6 41 (17.60%) Pricing Data
7 38 (16.31%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (12.88%) Cloud Native
9 24 (10.30%) Algorithms
10 15 (6.44%) Legacy Code
11 9 (3.86%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.58%) Client/Server
12 6 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (2.58%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (2.15%) IoT
13 5 (2.15%) Mobile App
13 5 (2.15%) Reinsurance
13 5 (2.15%) Robotics
14 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.16%) Linux
2 5 (2.15%) Robot Operating System
2 5 (2.15%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.29%) Windows
4 2 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 123 (52.79%) Agile
3 56 (24.03%) Asset Management
4 53 (22.75%) Computer Science
5 47 (20.17%) Investment Management
6 44 (18.88%) Microservices
7 42 (18.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (13.73%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.73%) Machine Learning
9 26 (11.16%) Fintech
10 25 (10.73%) DevOps
11 21 (9.01%) TDD
12 20 (8.58%) Performance Metrics
12 20 (8.58%) Programmatic Advertising
12 20 (8.58%) SDLC
13 19 (8.15%) Containerisation
14 16 (6.87%) BDD
14 16 (6.87%) Mathematics
14 16 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (6.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 135 (57.94%) Python
2 111 (47.64%) TypeScript
3 91 (39.06%) Java
4 78 (33.48%) JavaScript
5 39 (16.74%) Rust
6 38 (16.31%) C++
7 31 (13.30%) SQL
8 27 (11.59%) C#
9 24 (10.30%) C
10 21 (9.01%) Scala
11 18 (7.73%) Go
12 5 (2.15%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (1.72%) Bicep
14 3 (1.29%) PHP
14 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.86%) Bash
15 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.86%) Perl
15 2 (0.86%) VBA
16 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (21.03%) Degree
2 16 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.86%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.86%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.72%) QA
2 2 (0.86%) CDISC
System Software
1 32 (13.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (30.47%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.01%) Terraform
3 2 (0.86%) Grafana
3 2 (0.86%) Istio
4 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.44%) Google
3 20 (8.58%) Apple
4 8 (3.43%) Ping Identity
5 5 (2.15%) Siemens
6 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.72%) Remedy
6 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.86%) Databricks
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle
7 2 (0.86%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.43%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.43%) Splunk