Senior Software Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 267 107
Rank change year-on-year +104 -160 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 494 401 2,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.02% 1.27% 3.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 1.34% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 416 264 435
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £86,242 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.36% -4.18% +16.13%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £129,250 £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 23,146 30,010 71,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,034 22,517 35,164
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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 8 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 8 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 +48 60 £85,000 -5.56% 14
North London +1 2 £65,000 -7.14%
West London -10 2 £72,500 -19.44% 7
South London -11 1 £60,000 - 2
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 490 (99.19%) Software Engineering
2 301 (60.93%) AWS
3 250 (50.61%) Python
4 244 (49.39%) Agile
5 238 (48.18%) TypeScript
6 229 (46.36%) Finance
7 227 (45.95%) JavaScript
8 201 (40.69%) Java
9 171 (34.62%) Asset Management
10 165 (33.40%) Derivative
10 165 (33.40%) React
11 162 (32.79%) Equities
12 161 (32.59%) Fixed Income
12 161 (32.59%) Front Office
12 161 (32.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 153 (30.97%) Investment Management
14 150 (30.36%) Hedge funds
15 129 (26.11%) Azure
16 120 (24.29%) Pandas
17 118 (23.89%) gRPC
18 116 (23.48%) Apache Airflow
18 116 (23.48%) Protocol Buffers
19 115 (23.28%) Banking
20 109 (22.06%) Apache
21 108 (21.86%) NumPy
22 105 (21.26%) .NET
22 105 (21.26%) Investment Banking
23 104 (21.05%) SciPy
23 104 (21.05%) Apache Ignite
23 104 (21.05%) Dremio

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
1 116 (23.48%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (22.06%) Apache
3 18 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.24%) ArcGIS
4 16 (3.24%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Ripple
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Findur
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Ripple XRP
2 1 (0.20%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 301 (60.93%) AWS
2 129 (26.11%) Azure
3 104 (21.05%) dbt
4 100 (20.24%) Snowflake
5 88 (17.81%) GCP
6 22 (4.45%) Serverless
7 20 (4.05%) GitHub
8 16 (3.24%) SaaS
9 13 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.42%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.61%) Azure App Service
14 3 (0.61%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.61%) IaaS
14 3 (0.61%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.42%) HTTP
2 6 (1.21%) Internet
3 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
1 104 (21.05%) Apache Arrow
1 104 (21.05%) Apache Ignite
1 104 (21.05%) Dremio
2 100 (20.24%) Data Lake
3 39 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.24%) GIS
4 16 (3.24%) QGIS
5 15 (3.04%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.82%) MySQL
7 7 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.21%) Big Data
8 6 (1.21%) Redis
9 5 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.01%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (5.47%) Git
2 20 (4.05%) GitLab
3 8 (1.62%) Selenium
4 7 (1.42%) JUnit
5 6 (1.21%) JMeter
5 6 (1.21%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.81%) Gradle
7 4 (0.81%) JIRA
7 4 (0.81%) Maven
8 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.61%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.40%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.40%) Postman
10 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.20%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.20%) webpack
General
1 229 (46.36%) Finance
2 161 (32.59%) Front Office
3 115 (23.28%) Banking
4 105 (21.26%) Investment Banking
5 45 (9.11%) Back Office
6 35 (7.09%) Social Skills
7 21 (4.25%) Law
8 18 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.24%) Advertising
10 15 (3.04%) Legal
11 12 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (2.23%) Marketing
13 10 (2.02%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.02%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.82%) Retail
14 9 (1.82%) Tech for Good
15 7 (1.42%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.21%) Electronics
17 4 (0.81%) Games
17 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (33.40%) React
2 120 (24.29%) Pandas
3 118 (23.89%) gRPC
4 116 (23.48%) Protocol Buffers
5 108 (21.86%) NumPy
6 105 (21.26%) .NET
7 104 (21.05%) SciPy
8 63 (12.75%) AngularJS
9 60 (12.15%) Vue
10 49 (9.92%) Redux
11 41 (8.30%) ASP.NET
12 39 (7.89%) GraphQL
13 38 (7.69%) REST
14 36 (7.29%) .NET Core
15 33 (6.68%) ASP.NET Core
16 32 (6.48%) Kafka
17 26 (5.26%) Node.js
18 23 (4.66%) CSS
19 19 (3.85%) RESTful
20 18 (3.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 165 (33.40%) Derivative
2 162 (32.79%) Equities
3 161 (32.59%) Fixed Income
3 161 (32.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 150 (30.36%) Hedge funds
5 48 (9.72%) Pricing Data
6 33 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (6.48%) Cloud Native
8 16 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.63%) Legacy Code
10 11 (2.23%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.02%) Social Media
12 8 (1.62%) IoT
13 7 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.21%) Blockchain
14 6 (1.21%) Hackathon
15 5 (1.01%) Management Information System
15 5 (1.01%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.69%) Linux
2 7 (1.42%) Android
3 6 (1.21%) Windows
4 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (99.19%) Software Engineering
2 244 (49.39%) Agile
3 171 (34.62%) Asset Management
4 153 (30.97%) Investment Management
5 71 (14.37%) Full Stack Development
6 57 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 52 (10.53%) DevOps
7 52 (10.53%) Greeks
8 50 (10.12%) Computer Science
9 48 (9.72%) Microservices
10 41 (8.30%) TDD
10 41 (8.30%) Test Automation
11 37 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (7.09%) Analytics
13 33 (6.68%) Fintech
14 31 (6.28%) Machine Learning
14 31 (6.28%) Mentoring
15 24 (4.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (4.86%) Web Development
16 23 (4.66%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 250 (50.61%) Python
2 238 (48.18%) TypeScript
3 227 (45.95%) JavaScript
4 201 (40.69%) Java
5 103 (20.85%) SQL
6 101 (20.45%) C#
7 49 (9.92%) Rust
8 44 (8.91%) Kotlin
9 39 (7.89%) C++
10 34 (6.88%) Go
10 34 (6.88%) Scala
11 25 (5.06%) C
12 11 (2.23%) Clojure
13 10 (2.02%) PHP
13 10 (2.02%) Ruby
14 5 (1.01%) Haskell
15 4 (0.81%) Solidity
16 3 (0.61%) F#
16 3 (0.61%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (9.11%) Degree
2 26 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.86%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.34%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.82%) QA
3 3 (0.61%) EMIR
3 3 (0.61%) MiFID
4 2 (0.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.40%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.40%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (10.73%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Ceph
2 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.61%) Firmware
3 3 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 98 (19.84%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.87%) Terraform
3 4 (0.81%) Ansible
3 4 (0.81%) Knative
4 2 (0.40%) Grafana
4 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Istio
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (5.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.24%) ESRI
3 11 (2.23%) Google
4 5 (1.01%) Oracle
5 4 (0.81%) Apple
6 3 (0.61%) Becrypt
7 2 (0.40%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.40%) Databricks
7 2 (0.40%) Finsemble
7 2 (0.40%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.20%) BEA
8 1 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.20%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.20%) Splunk
8 1 (0.20%) Spotify
8 1 (0.20%) Xamarin