Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Central London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 185 250
Rank change year-on-year +53 +65 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 60 51 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.58% 1.03% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.08% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 36 42 35
10th Percentile £66,875 £62,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £72,188 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,313 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £103,500
London median annual salary £90,000 £86,242 £90,000
% change year-on-year +4.36% -4.18% +16.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,630 4,740 8,150
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 96.03% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 3,920 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £53,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £92,625
90th Percentile £110,250 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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
City of London +55 58 £85,000 -5.56% 11
City of Westminster -8 8 £82,500 - 1
Camden -7 1 - - 1
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 - 1
Senior Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Central London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (96.67%) Software Engineering
2 35 (58.33%) Python
3 32 (53.33%) AWS
4 31 (51.67%) Azure
4 31 (51.67%) Agile
5 27 (45.00%) .NET
6 26 (43.33%) DevOps
7 21 (35.00%) React
8 19 (31.67%) C#
8 19 (31.67%) JavaScript
8 19 (31.67%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (28.33%) Finance
9 17 (28.33%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (26.67%) Web Development
10 16 (26.67%) Degree
11 15 (25.00%) Computer Science
11 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
11 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
11 15 (25.00%) PostGIS
11 15 (25.00%) Leaflet
11 15 (25.00%) GIS
11 15 (25.00%) ESRI
11 15 (25.00%) ArcGIS
11 15 (25.00%) QGIS
11 15 (25.00%) GeoServer
11 15 (25.00%) OpenLayers
12 14 (23.33%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (23.33%) CSS
13 13 (21.67%) SQL
13 13 (21.67%) .NET Core

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 15 (25.00%) ArcGIS
1 15 (25.00%) GeoServer
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) AWS
2 31 (51.67%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) GCP
3 5 (8.33%) SaaS
3 5 (8.33%) Serverless
4 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.00%) Azure App Service
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.67%) Dropbox
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.67%) Slack
7 1 (1.67%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) HTTP
2 5 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (31.67%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (25.00%) GIS
2 15 (25.00%) QGIS
3 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.00%) Big Data
3 3 (5.00%) Metadata
4 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.67%) MySQL
5 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) Redis
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 17 (28.33%) Finance
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Health Technology
4 5 (8.33%) Advertising
4 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.33%) Retail
4 5 (8.33%) Tech for Good
5 4 (6.67%) Games
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (45.00%) .NET
2 21 (35.00%) React
3 15 (25.00%) Leaflet
3 15 (25.00%) OpenLayers
3 15 (25.00%) PostGIS
4 14 (23.33%) CSS
5 13 (21.67%) .NET Core
6 9 (15.00%) Node.js
7 8 (13.33%) REST
8 6 (10.00%) Kafka
8 6 (10.00%) Laravel
9 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET
10 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (6.67%) Blazor
10 4 (6.67%) Django
10 4 (6.67%) Entity Framework
11 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
12 2 (3.33%) Flask
12 2 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.67%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.33%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (96.67%) Software Engineering
2 31 (51.67%) Agile
3 26 (43.33%) DevOps
4 17 (28.33%) Actionable Insight
5 16 (26.67%) Web Development
6 15 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 14 (23.33%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (8.33%) OOP
10 5 (8.33%) Scrum
11 4 (6.67%) Analytics
11 4 (6.67%) Data Analysis
11 4 (6.67%) Decision-Making
11 4 (6.67%) Integration Testing
11 4 (6.67%) OO
11 4 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (58.33%) Python
2 19 (31.67%) C#
2 19 (31.67%) JavaScript
3 13 (21.67%) SQL
4 9 (15.00%) Java
5 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.33%) PHP
7 4 (6.67%) C++
7 4 (6.67%) Go
7 4 (6.67%) Scala
8 3 (5.00%) Clojure
8 3 (5.00%) F#
8 3 (5.00%) Haskell
8 3 (5.00%) Rust
9 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Degree
2 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Kibana
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) ESRI
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) Google
4 4 (6.67%) Apple
5 1 (1.67%) BEA
5 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.67%) Spotify