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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 266 112
Rank change year-on-year +83 -154 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 416 459 2,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.76% 1.37% 3.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.44% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 361 275 428
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
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 £148,750 £127,000 £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 22,283 31,984 66,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,636 23,610 34,531
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 17 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 17 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 +68 64 £85,000 -2.86% 17
West London -7 2 £72,500 -19.44% 7
South London -3 1 £60,000 - 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 412 (99.04%) Software Engineering
2 251 (60.34%) AWS
3 215 (51.68%) Python
4 198 (47.60%) TypeScript
5 196 (47.12%) Agile
6 189 (45.43%) JavaScript
7 185 (44.47%) Finance
8 160 (38.46%) React
9 147 (35.34%) Java
10 134 (32.21%) Asset Management
11 131 (31.49%) Derivative
12 130 (31.25%) Azure
13 129 (31.01%) Equities
14 128 (30.77%) Fixed Income
14 128 (30.77%) Front Office
14 128 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 120 (28.85%) Investment Management
16 116 (27.88%) Hedge funds
17 104 (25.00%) .NET
18 98 (23.56%) SQL
19 97 (23.32%) C#
20 89 (21.39%) Pandas
21 85 (20.43%) gRPC
22 83 (19.95%) Apache Airflow
22 83 (19.95%) Protocol Buffers
23 80 (19.23%) Kubernetes
23 80 (19.23%) Banking
24 77 (18.51%) NumPy
25 76 (18.27%) Apache
26 72 (17.31%) Investment Banking

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 83 (19.95%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (18.27%) Apache
3 17 (4.09%) ArcGIS
3 17 (4.09%) GeoServer
4 15 (3.61%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Endur
1 1 (0.24%) Findur
1 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 251 (60.34%) AWS
2 130 (31.25%) Azure
3 71 (17.07%) dbt
3 71 (17.07%) GCP
4 67 (16.11%) Snowflake
5 22 (5.29%) Serverless
6 15 (3.61%) SaaS
7 13 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (2.40%) GitHub
9 8 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.72%) IaaS
12 3 (0.72%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.68%) HTTP
2 5 (1.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (17.07%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (17.07%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (17.07%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (17.07%) Dremio
2 67 (16.11%) Data Lake
3 39 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.09%) GIS
4 17 (4.09%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.09%) QGIS
5 11 (2.64%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.40%) MySQL
7 9 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.92%) Redis
9 6 (1.44%) Big Data
10 5 (1.20%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.20%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (6.97%) Git
2 11 (2.64%) GitLab
3 8 (1.92%) Selenium
4 7 (1.68%) JUnit
5 6 (1.44%) JMeter
5 6 (1.44%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.20%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.96%) Gradle
7 4 (0.96%) JIRA
7 4 (0.96%) Maven
8 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.72%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.48%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.48%) Postman
10 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 185 (44.47%) Finance
2 128 (30.77%) Front Office
3 80 (19.23%) Banking
4 72 (17.31%) Investment Banking
5 44 (10.58%) Back Office
6 32 (7.69%) Social Skills
7 17 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.61%) Advertising
9 14 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.13%) Marketing
11 11 (2.64%) Law
12 10 (2.40%) Health Technology
13 9 (2.16%) Tech for Good
14 8 (1.92%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.92%) Retail
15 7 (1.68%) Legal
16 5 (1.20%) Games
17 4 (0.96%) Wearables
18 3 (0.72%) Electronics
18 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (38.46%) React
2 104 (25.00%) .NET
3 89 (21.39%) Pandas
4 85 (20.43%) gRPC
5 83 (19.95%) Protocol Buffers
6 77 (18.51%) NumPy
7 71 (17.07%) SciPy
8 65 (15.63%) AngularJS
9 60 (14.42%) Vue
10 48 (11.54%) Redux
11 41 (9.86%) ASP.NET
12 36 (8.65%) .NET Core
13 33 (7.93%) ASP.NET Core
14 28 (6.73%) REST
15 27 (6.49%) CSS
16 26 (6.25%) GraphQL
16 26 (6.25%) Kafka
17 25 (6.01%) Node.js
18 18 (4.33%) RESTful
19 17 (4.09%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 131 (31.49%) Derivative
2 129 (31.01%) Equities
3 128 (30.77%) Fixed Income
3 128 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 116 (27.88%) Hedge funds
5 30 (7.21%) Pricing Data
6 28 (6.73%) Cloud Native
7 27 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.88%) Legacy Code
9 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.40%) Social Media
11 7 (1.68%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.44%) Hackathon
12 6 (1.44%) IoT
13 5 (1.20%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.20%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.65%) Linux
2 5 (1.20%) Windows
3 4 (0.96%) Android
3 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (99.04%) Software Engineering
2 196 (47.12%) Agile
3 134 (32.21%) Asset Management
4 120 (28.85%) Investment Management
5 59 (14.18%) Full Stack Development
6 52 (12.50%) DevOps
7 46 (11.06%) CI/CD
8 44 (10.58%) TDD
9 42 (10.10%) Computer Science
10 41 (9.86%) Microservices
11 37 (8.89%) Greeks
12 35 (8.41%) Analytics
13 32 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 31 (7.45%) Test Automation
15 27 (6.49%) Web Development
16 25 (6.01%) Machine Learning
17 24 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
18 23 (5.53%) Fintech
18 23 (5.53%) Infrastructure as Code
19 22 (5.29%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 215 (51.68%) Python
2 198 (47.60%) TypeScript
3 189 (45.43%) JavaScript
4 147 (35.34%) Java
5 98 (23.56%) SQL
6 97 (23.32%) C#
7 43 (10.34%) Rust
8 32 (7.69%) Kotlin
9 29 (6.97%) C++
10 24 (5.77%) Go
11 19 (4.57%) C
12 18 (4.33%) Scala
13 11 (2.64%) Clojure
14 10 (2.40%) Ruby
15 8 (1.92%) PHP
16 7 (1.68%) Haskell
17 5 (1.20%) F#
18 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
19 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
19 2 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (11.30%) Degree
2 28 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.53%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.29%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.48%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.86%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.92%) QA
3 2 (0.48%) EMIR
3 2 (0.48%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.48%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.48%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.48%) MiFID
4 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (8.65%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) Ceph
2 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.48%) Firmware
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.97%) Terraform
3 3 (0.72%) Ansible
3 3 (0.72%) Knative
4 2 (0.48%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Istio
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (6.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.09%) ESRI
3 9 (2.16%) Google
4 5 (1.20%) Oracle
5 4 (0.96%) Apple
6 2 (0.48%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.48%) Databricks
6 2 (0.48%) Finsemble
6 2 (0.48%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.24%) BEA
7 1 (0.24%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.24%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.24%) Splunk
7 1 (0.24%) Spotify
7 1 (0.24%) Xamarin