Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Portsmouth

Senior Software Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 35 64
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 7 20 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 1.97% 3.96% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 4.23% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 1
10th Percentile - £74,750 -
25th Percentile - £76,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £57,250 £82,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £62,125 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 348 473 403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.75% 93.66% 92.01%
Number of salaries quoted 173 406 300
10th Percentile £33,000 £24,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,000 £40,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -11.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,813
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -3.85% -0.95%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Portsmouth

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Portsmouth

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 Portsmouth region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
3 5 (71.43%) C#
4 4 (57.14%) Ada
4 4 (57.14%) Acoustics
4 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 4 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
6 2 (28.57%) Java
6 2 (28.57%) Python
6 2 (28.57%) Rust
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
6 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 1 (14.29%) SaaS
7 1 (14.29%) DevOps
7 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 1 (14.29%) SOLID
7 1 (14.29%) .NET
7 1 (14.29%) OO
7 1 (14.29%) C++
7 1 (14.29%) OOD
7 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 1 (14.29%) Scrum

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Acoustics
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) OO
6 1 (14.29%) OOD
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) SOLID
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (14.29%) TDD
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) Ada
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Rust
4 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft