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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 282 107
Rank change year-on-year +118 -175 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 464 411 2,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.92% 1.29% 3.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.36% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 393 265 430
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £129,000 £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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +58 65 £85,000 -5.56% 12
West London -1 2 £72,500 -19.44% 7
North London -1 1 £65,000 -7.14%
South London -1 1 £60,000 - 1
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 460 (99.14%) Software Engineering
2 288 (62.07%) AWS
3 241 (51.94%) Python
4 229 (49.35%) Agile
5 225 (48.49%) TypeScript
6 214 (46.12%) JavaScript
7 211 (45.47%) Finance
8 182 (39.22%) Java
9 163 (35.13%) React
10 157 (33.84%) Asset Management
11 153 (32.97%) Derivative
12 151 (32.54%) Equities
13 150 (32.33%) Fixed Income
13 150 (32.33%) Front Office
13 150 (32.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 142 (30.60%) Investment Management
15 138 (29.74%) Hedge funds
16 130 (28.02%) Azure
17 111 (23.92%) Pandas
18 107 (23.06%) gRPC
19 105 (22.63%) Apache Airflow
19 105 (22.63%) Protocol Buffers
20 102 (21.98%) .NET
20 102 (21.98%) Banking
21 99 (21.34%) SQL
21 99 (21.34%) NumPy
22 98 (21.12%) Apache
23 96 (20.69%) C#
24 94 (20.26%) Investment Banking
25 93 (20.04%) SciPy

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
1 105 (22.63%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (21.12%) Apache
3 17 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.66%) ArcGIS
3 17 (3.66%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Drupal
5 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Ripple
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
2 1 (0.22%) Findur
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Ripple XRP
2 1 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 288 (62.07%) AWS
2 130 (28.02%) Azure
3 93 (20.04%) dbt
4 89 (19.18%) Snowflake
5 83 (17.89%) GCP
6 22 (4.74%) Serverless
7 19 (4.09%) GitHub
8 16 (3.45%) SaaS
9 13 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.51%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.65%) Azure App Service
14 3 (0.65%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.65%) IaaS
14 3 (0.65%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.51%) HTTP
2 6 (1.29%) Internet
3 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (20.04%) Amazon Athena
1 93 (20.04%) Apache Arrow
1 93 (20.04%) Apache Ignite
1 93 (20.04%) Dremio
2 89 (19.18%) Data Lake
3 42 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.66%) GIS
4 17 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 17 (3.66%) QGIS
5 11 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.37%) MySQL
6 9 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.72%) Redis
8 6 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.29%) Big Data
8 6 (1.29%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (6.25%) Git
2 19 (4.09%) GitLab
3 8 (1.72%) Selenium
4 7 (1.51%) JUnit
5 6 (1.29%) JMeter
5 6 (1.29%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.08%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.86%) Gradle
7 4 (0.86%) JIRA
7 4 (0.86%) Maven
8 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.65%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.43%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.43%) Postman
10 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.22%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 211 (45.47%) Finance
2 150 (32.33%) Front Office
3 102 (21.98%) Banking
4 94 (20.26%) Investment Banking
5 44 (9.48%) Back Office
6 33 (7.11%) Social Skills
7 18 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.23%) Advertising
8 15 (3.23%) Law
9 14 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (2.59%) Marketing
11 10 (2.16%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.94%) Legal
12 9 (1.94%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.72%) Retail
14 7 (1.51%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.08%) Games
16 4 (0.86%) Electronics
16 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (35.13%) React
2 111 (23.92%) Pandas
3 107 (23.06%) gRPC
4 105 (22.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 102 (21.98%) .NET
6 99 (21.34%) NumPy
7 93 (20.04%) SciPy
8 64 (13.79%) AngularJS
9 60 (12.93%) Vue
10 49 (10.56%) Redux
11 40 (8.62%) ASP.NET
12 37 (7.97%) GraphQL
13 36 (7.76%) .NET Core
13 36 (7.76%) REST
14 33 (7.11%) ASP.NET Core
15 30 (6.47%) Kafka
16 26 (5.60%) CSS
16 26 (5.60%) Node.js
17 17 (3.66%) PostGIS
17 17 (3.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 153 (32.97%) Derivative
2 151 (32.54%) Equities
3 150 (32.33%) Fixed Income
3 150 (32.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 138 (29.74%) Hedge funds
5 42 (9.05%) Pricing Data
6 30 (6.47%) Cloud Native
6 30 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.80%) Legacy Code
9 11 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.16%) Social Media
11 7 (1.51%) IoT
11 7 (1.51%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.29%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.08%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.19%) Linux
2 5 (1.08%) Android
2 5 (1.08%) Windows
3 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (99.14%) Software Engineering
2 229 (49.35%) Agile
3 157 (33.84%) Asset Management
4 142 (30.60%) Investment Management
5 69 (14.87%) Full Stack Development
6 56 (12.07%) CI/CD
7 55 (11.85%) DevOps
8 47 (10.13%) Greeks
9 45 (9.70%) Computer Science
10 44 (9.48%) Microservices
11 43 (9.27%) TDD
12 39 (8.41%) Test Automation
13 35 (7.54%) Analytics
13 35 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (6.68%) Mentoring
15 29 (6.25%) Machine Learning
16 27 (5.82%) Fintech
16 27 (5.82%) Web Development
17 24 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 21 (4.53%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 241 (51.94%) Python
2 225 (48.49%) TypeScript
3 214 (46.12%) JavaScript
4 182 (39.22%) Java
5 99 (21.34%) SQL
6 96 (20.69%) C#
7 45 (9.70%) Rust
8 42 (9.05%) Kotlin
9 34 (7.33%) C++
10 29 (6.25%) Go
10 29 (6.25%) Scala
11 22 (4.74%) C
12 11 (2.37%) Clojure
13 10 (2.16%) Ruby
14 9 (1.94%) PHP
15 6 (1.29%) Haskell
16 4 (0.86%) F#
17 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
18 2 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (9.91%) Degree
2 27 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.43%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.72%) QA
3 2 (0.43%) EMIR
3 2 (0.43%) GDPR
3 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.43%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.43%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.43%) MiFID
4 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (10.13%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Ceph
2 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.25%) Terraform
3 4 (0.86%) Ansible
3 4 (0.86%) Knative
4 2 (0.43%) Grafana
4 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.22%) Istio
5 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (5.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.66%) ESRI
3 10 (2.16%) Google
4 5 (1.08%) Oracle
5 4 (0.86%) Apple
6 2 (0.43%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.43%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.43%) Databricks
6 2 (0.43%) Finsemble
6 2 (0.43%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.22%) BEA
7 1 (0.22%) Becrypt
7 1 (0.22%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.22%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.22%) Splunk
7 1 (0.22%) Spotify
7 1 (0.22%) Xamarin