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 leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 391 552
Rank change year-on-year +18 +161 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 84 89 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 73 75 168
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,822
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £128,750 £90,625 £114,375
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £123,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +1.85% +10.20%

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 17,827 19,032 53,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 95.16% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,168 15,353 32,867
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 -7 24 £120,000 +50.00% 7
Senior Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 61 (72.62%) JavaScript
2 49 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 44 (52.38%) C#
4 42 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 40 (47.62%) SQL
6 38 (45.24%) AngularJS
7 33 (39.29%) .NET
8 31 (36.90%) DevOps
8 31 (36.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (35.71%) CSS
10 29 (34.52%) HTML
10 29 (34.52%) AWS
11 28 (33.33%) Windows
12 27 (32.14%) Agile
12 27 (32.14%) Derivative
12 27 (32.14%) Python
13 24 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (28.57%) Serverless
14 23 (27.38%) Java
14 23 (27.38%) Degree
15 22 (26.19%) Computer Science
15 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
16 21 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
16 21 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
16 21 (25.00%) Mathematics
16 21 (25.00%) Multithreading
16 21 (25.00%) HTML5
16 21 (25.00%) Investment Banking
16 21 (25.00%) Banking

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 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.19%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.52%) AWS
2 24 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 24 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 24 (28.57%) Serverless
3 20 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
3 20 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
4 15 (17.86%) Azure
5 10 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.19%) GCP
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub
8 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.19%) KDB
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Git
1 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.00%) Banking
2 21 (25.00%) Front Office
2 21 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 20 (23.81%) Finance
4 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.90%) Tech for Good
6 7 (8.33%) Advertising
6 7 (8.33%) Back Office
7 4 (4.76%) Publishing
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (45.24%) AngularJS
2 33 (39.29%) .NET
3 30 (35.71%) CSS
4 29 (34.52%) HTML
5 21 (25.00%) HTML5
6 20 (23.81%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (21.43%) React
8 16 (19.05%) WPF
9 8 (9.52%) Tailwind CSS
10 7 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 7 (8.33%) ASP.NET
10 7 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (8.33%) jQuery
10 7 (8.33%) KnockoutJS
10 7 (8.33%) QuickFIX
10 7 (8.33%) REST
10 7 (8.33%) WCF
10 7 (8.33%) Web Services
10 7 (8.33%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.14%) Derivative
2 21 (25.00%) Fixed Income
3 20 (23.81%) Equities
3 20 (23.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (23.81%) Hedge funds
4 9 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (9.52%) Legacy Code
6 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
7 6 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.19%) NHS
8 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 31 (36.90%) DevOps
2 31 (36.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 27 (32.14%) Agile
4 22 (26.19%) Computer Science
5 21 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 21 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 21 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
5 21 (25.00%) Multithreading
6 20 (23.81%) Asset Management
7 19 (22.62%) Analytics
8 12 (14.29%) Microservices
9 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
9 11 (13.10%) Software Testing
10 8 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
11 7 (8.33%) MVC
11 7 (8.33%) OO
11 7 (8.33%) Software Architecture
12 6 (7.14%) Scrum
13 5 (5.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 61 (72.62%) JavaScript
2 49 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 44 (52.38%) C#
4 40 (47.62%) SQL
5 27 (32.14%) Python
6 23 (27.38%) Java
7 7 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.57%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.38%) C
10 1 (1.19%) C++
10 1 (1.19%) Go
10 1 (1.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (27.38%) Degree
2 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) EMIR
2 2 (2.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Ceph
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
1 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Ansible
2 1 (1.19%) Knative
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) Oracle
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.19%) Google