Senior Software Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in England is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 307 154
Rank change year-on-year +161 -153 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,783 914 3,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.89% 1.11% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.21% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 600 919
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,486
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,188 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,375 £125,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +104 496 £90,000 +2.88% 161
North of England +129 359 £60,000 -7.69% 53
South West +141 335 £62,500 -3.85% 55
South East +82 307 £65,000 -3.70% 46
North West +96 203 £60,000 -4.00% 39
Midlands +44 173 £65,000 +1.96% 26
East of England +51 110 £65,000 - 24
Yorkshire +79 108 £62,500 -7.45% 11
East Midlands +16 90 £65,000 +33.33% 6
West Midlands +27 83 £65,000 -3.70% 20
North East +30 48 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,778 (99.72%) Software Engineering
2 591 (33.15%) Agile
3 586 (32.87%) Python
4 579 (32.47%) AWS
5 494 (27.71%) JavaScript
6 384 (21.54%) C#
7 383 (21.48%) TypeScript
8 382 (21.42%) .NET
9 375 (21.03%) React
9 375 (21.03%) Azure
10 350 (19.63%) Java
11 285 (15.98%) Security Cleared
12 279 (15.65%) Finance
13 268 (15.03%) C++
13 268 (15.03%) Linux
14 265 (14.86%) DevOps
15 239 (13.40%) SQL
16 216 (12.11%) C
17 204 (11.44%) SC Cleared
18 203 (11.39%) Degree
19 193 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
20 171 (9.59%) Asset Management
21 170 (9.53%) .NET Core
22 165 (9.25%) Derivative
22 165 (9.25%) CSS
23 162 (9.09%) Equities
24 161 (9.03%) Fixed Income
24 161 (9.03%) Front Office
24 161 (9.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
25 157 (8.81%) Computer Science

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 119 (6.67%) ArcGIS
1 119 (6.67%) GeoServer
2 116 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
3 109 (6.11%) Apache
4 22 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.39%) Confluence
6 3 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.17%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Drupal
7 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.056%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.056%) nginx
8 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (0.90%) Simulink
2 15 (0.84%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.39%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.11%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.056%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.056%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.34%) Magento
2 5 (0.28%) Ripple
3 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.056%) Endur
4 1 (0.056%) Findur
4 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.056%) Ripple XRP
4 1 (0.056%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 579 (32.47%) AWS
2 375 (21.03%) Azure
3 113 (6.34%) GCP
4 104 (5.83%) dbt
5 100 (5.61%) Snowflake
6 54 (3.03%) Serverless
7 47 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.13%) SaaS
9 35 (1.96%) GitHub
10 24 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (1.01%) Azure Functions
12 9 (0.50%) Amazon S3
12 9 (0.50%) npm
13 8 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (0.45%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (0.39%) Azure API Management
14 7 (0.39%) Azure Event Grid
14 7 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.79%) J1939
2 12 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 12 (0.67%) Wireless
3 10 (0.56%) Network Security
4 9 (0.50%) Internet
4 9 (0.50%) RS-232
5 8 (0.45%) HTTP
6 6 (0.34%) Ethernet
6 6 (0.34%) MQTT
7 5 (0.28%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.056%) 4G
9 1 (0.056%) 5G
9 1 (0.056%) DECT
9 1 (0.056%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (0.056%) Modbus
9 1 (0.056%) NFC
9 1 (0.056%) RS-485
9 1 (0.056%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (6.67%) GIS
2 119 (6.67%) QGIS
3 104 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (5.83%) Apache Arrow
3 104 (5.83%) Apache Ignite
3 104 (5.83%) Dremio
4 100 (5.61%) Data Lake
5 68 (3.81%) MySQL
6 55 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 45 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 43 (2.41%) MongoDB
9 18 (1.01%) Redis
10 12 (0.67%) Relational Database
11 11 (0.62%) Big Data
11 11 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.45%) SQLite
13 6 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 110 (6.17%) Git
2 40 (2.24%) JIRA
3 38 (2.13%) GitLab
4 34 (1.91%) Subversion
5 28 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.57%) Visual Studio
6 14 (0.79%) ClearCase
6 14 (0.79%) CMake
6 14 (0.79%) Plastic SCM
7 13 (0.73%) Maven
7 13 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.67%) Selenium
9 10 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.50%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.50%) Storybook
11 8 (0.45%) JUnit
12 7 (0.39%) ClearQuest
13 6 (0.34%) JMeter
13 6 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 279 (15.65%) Finance
2 161 (9.03%) Front Office
3 139 (7.80%) Social Skills
4 117 (6.56%) Banking
5 105 (5.89%) Investment Banking
6 66 (3.70%) Automotive
7 63 (3.53%) Electronics
8 62 (3.48%) Manufacturing
9 46 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (2.52%) Back Office
11 43 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (2.24%) Military
13 38 (2.13%) Public Sector
14 31 (1.74%) Legal
15 28 (1.57%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.57%) Aviation
15 28 (1.57%) Marketing
15 28 (1.57%) Retail
16 26 (1.46%) Tech for Good
17 24 (1.35%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (21.42%) .NET
2 375 (21.03%) React
3 170 (9.53%) .NET Core
4 165 (9.25%) CSS
5 153 (8.58%) AngularJS
6 123 (6.90%) ASP.NET
7 121 (6.79%) gRPC
8 120 (6.73%) Pandas
9 119 (6.67%) Leaflet
9 119 (6.67%) OpenLayers
9 119 (6.67%) PostGIS
10 118 (6.62%) Vue
11 116 (6.51%) Protocol Buffers
12 111 (6.23%) NumPy
13 104 (5.83%) SciPy
14 88 (4.94%) RESTful
15 87 (4.88%) Node.js
16 73 (4.09%) ASP.NET Core
17 70 (3.93%) HTML
18 63 (3.53%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.25%) Derivative
2 162 (9.09%) Equities
3 161 (9.03%) Fixed Income
3 161 (9.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 150 (8.41%) Hedge funds
5 64 (3.59%) Algorithms
6 50 (2.80%) IoT
6 50 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.75%) Cloud Native
8 48 (2.69%) Pricing Data
9 36 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 27 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
12 22 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 21 (1.18%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.07%) Device Driver
15 15 (0.84%) Legacy Code
16 14 (0.79%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.79%) Hackathon
16 14 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 268 (15.03%) Linux
2 91 (5.10%) Embedded Linux
3 74 (4.15%) Windows
4 26 (1.46%) Unix
5 25 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.18%) Android
8 8 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Debian
10 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,778 (99.72%) Software Engineering
2 591 (33.15%) Agile
3 265 (14.86%) DevOps
4 171 (9.59%) Asset Management
5 157 (8.81%) Computer Science
6 154 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (8.58%) Investment Management
8 151 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
9 141 (7.91%) Web Development
10 138 (7.74%) CI/CD
11 136 (7.63%) Actionable Insight
12 126 (7.07%) Microservices
13 125 (7.01%) Mentoring
14 109 (6.11%) Test Automation
15 103 (5.78%) SDLC
15 103 (5.78%) TDD
16 94 (5.27%) Artificial Intelligence
17 76 (4.26%) Machine Learning
18 68 (3.81%) Software Testing
19 67 (3.76%) OO
Programming Languages
1 586 (32.87%) Python
2 494 (27.71%) JavaScript
3 384 (21.54%) C#
4 383 (21.48%) TypeScript
5 350 (19.63%) Java
6 268 (15.03%) C++
7 239 (13.40%) SQL
8 216 (12.11%) C
9 79 (4.43%) Rust
10 63 (3.53%) Bash
11 61 (3.42%) Embedded C
12 52 (2.92%) Kotlin
13 47 (2.64%) Go
14 38 (2.13%) Scala
15 27 (1.51%) Perl
16 26 (1.46%) T-SQL
17 19 (1.07%) PowerShell
18 18 (1.01%) PHP
19 16 (0.90%) MATLAB
20 13 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 285 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 204 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 203 (11.39%) Degree
4 58 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.07%) HND
8 17 (0.95%) PhD
9 10 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.11%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.056%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.056%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.056%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.056%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.14%) Data Quality
2 17 (0.95%) QA
3 16 (0.90%) PMO
4 15 (0.84%) ISO 26262
5 14 (0.79%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (0.79%) AUTOSAR
5 14 (0.79%) MISRA
6 7 (0.39%) ISO 9000
7 3 (0.17%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.17%) EMIR
7 3 (0.17%) IEC 61508
7 3 (0.17%) MiFID
8 2 (0.11%) GDPR
8 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.11%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.11%) SEPA
8 2 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.056%) Accessibility
System Software
1 117 (6.56%) Docker
2 39 (2.19%) Firmware
3 20 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.22%) Ceph
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 152 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.81%) Terraform
3 23 (1.29%) Ansible
4 5 (0.28%) SELinux
5 4 (0.22%) Grafana
5 4 (0.22%) Knative
6 3 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.11%) linkerd
7 2 (0.11%) MIIS
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.056%) Istio
8 1 (0.056%) Kibana
Vendors
1 119 (6.67%) ESRI
2 59 (3.31%) Microsoft
3 15 (0.84%) Google
4 14 (0.79%) IBM
4 14 (0.79%) Lauterbach
5 12 (0.67%) DevExpress
5 12 (0.67%) Xamarin
6 7 (0.39%) F5
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle
8 4 (0.22%) Apple
8 4 (0.22%) Facebook
8 4 (0.22%) Instagram
8 4 (0.22%) SAP
9 3 (0.17%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.17%) Becrypt
10 2 (0.11%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.11%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.11%) Cadence
10 2 (0.11%) RedGate
10 2 (0.11%) VMware