Senior Software Developer Jobs in London

Senior Software Developer
England > London

The median Senior Software Developer salary in London is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 484 525
Rank change year-on-year +107 +41 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 123 144 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.44% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 105 108 252
10th Percentile - £58,375 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £82,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £110,000 £98,125 £127,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +21.74%

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 22,274 32,686 65,100
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.09% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,684 24,117 34,486
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 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 12 May 2024.

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 12 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 +60 28 £100,000 +25.00% 9
East London - 2 - -
Senior Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 98 (79.67%) JavaScript
2 91 (73.98%) C#
3 82 (66.67%) .NET
4 80 (65.04%) Azure
5 76 (61.79%) SQL
6 73 (59.35%) Software Engineering
7 68 (55.28%) Python
8 65 (52.85%) AWS
9 63 (51.22%) Agile
10 62 (50.41%) TypeScript
11 61 (49.59%) AngularJS
11 61 (49.59%) Finance
12 60 (48.78%) Derivative
12 60 (48.78%) React
13 59 (47.97%) Front Office
13 59 (47.97%) Fixed Income
14 58 (47.15%) Equities
14 58 (47.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 58 (47.15%) Asset Management
14 58 (47.15%) GCP
15 54 (43.90%) Vue
16 46 (37.40%) Investment Management
16 46 (37.40%) Hedge funds
17 44 (35.77%) Back Office
18 42 (34.15%) Redux
19 35 (28.46%) Degree
19 35 (28.46%) HTML
20 34 (27.64%) ASP.NET
21 32 (26.02%) CSS
22 29 (23.58%) Windows

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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (13.01%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.07%) Drupal
3 4 (3.25%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Endur
2 1 (0.81%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 80 (65.04%) Azure
2 65 (52.85%) AWS
3 58 (47.15%) GCP
4 8 (6.50%) GitHub
5 7 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.25%) dbt
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.63%) Serverless
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Table
9 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.81%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.88%) MySQL
2 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Arrow
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Ignite
3 4 (3.25%) Dremio
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.81%) KDB
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) CircleCI
2 7 (5.69%) CMake
3 3 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (49.59%) Finance
2 59 (47.97%) Front Office
3 44 (35.77%) Back Office
4 23 (18.70%) Social Skills
5 10 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.69%) Banking
7 5 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.63%) Advertising
8 2 (1.63%) Electronics
8 2 (1.63%) Games
8 2 (1.63%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.63%) Wearables
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (66.67%) .NET
2 61 (49.59%) AngularJS
3 60 (48.78%) React
4 54 (43.90%) Vue
5 42 (34.15%) Redux
6 35 (28.46%) HTML
7 34 (27.64%) ASP.NET
8 32 (26.02%) CSS
9 28 (22.76%) ASP.NET Core
10 20 (16.26%) HTML5
11 19 (15.45%) WPF
12 17 (13.82%) .NET Core
13 16 (13.01%) gRPC
13 16 (13.01%) Pandas
13 16 (13.01%) Protocol Buffers
14 12 (9.76%) Material-UI
15 10 (8.13%) .NET Framework
15 10 (8.13%) RESTful
16 6 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
16 6 (4.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (48.78%) Derivative
2 59 (47.97%) Fixed Income
3 58 (47.15%) Equities
3 58 (47.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 46 (37.40%) Hedge funds
5 12 (9.76%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.63%) IoT
9 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.63%) Swaptions
9 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.81%) NHS
10 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.58%) Windows
2 10 (8.13%) Apple iOS
3 7 (5.69%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.44%) Android
4 3 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (59.35%) Software Engineering
2 63 (51.22%) Agile
3 58 (47.15%) Asset Management
4 46 (37.40%) Investment Management
5 29 (23.58%) Computer Science
6 20 (16.26%) Collaborative Working
6 20 (16.26%) Multithreaded Programming
6 20 (16.26%) Multithreading
7 19 (15.45%) Analytics
8 10 (8.13%) Clean Code
9 9 (7.32%) Microservices
10 8 (6.50%) DevOps
10 8 (6.50%) Pair Programming
11 7 (5.69%) CI/CD
11 7 (5.69%) Community of Practice
11 7 (5.69%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (5.69%) Full Stack Development
12 6 (4.88%) Fintech
13 5 (4.07%) Mentoring
13 5 (4.07%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 98 (79.67%) JavaScript
2 91 (73.98%) C#
3 76 (61.79%) SQL
4 68 (55.28%) Python
5 62 (50.41%) TypeScript
6 12 (9.76%) Java
7 5 (4.07%) C++
7 5 (4.07%) PHP
8 4 (3.25%) Ruby
8 4 (3.25%) Scala
9 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.63%) VB
11 1 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (28.46%) Degree
2 2 (1.63%) Postgraduate
3 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.44%) QA
2 2 (1.63%) EMIR
2 2 (1.63%) GDPR
2 2 (1.63%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.63%) IEC 62304
2 2 (1.63%) ISO 13485
2 2 (1.63%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.63%) Firmware
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle
3 2 (1.63%) OpenLink
3 2 (1.63%) Sybase
3 2 (1.63%) TIBCO