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 leading to 10 February 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 259 284
Rank change year-on-year +56 +25 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 263 244 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.63% 1.14% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.20% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 202 194 333
10th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,813 £73,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £116,250 £105,000 £96,752
90th Percentile £146,750 £130,000 £109,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 14,764 20,336 38,474
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 94.63% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 16,225 28,383
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.36% +5.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £94,504
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +3.33%

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 10 February 2025.

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 10 February 2025. 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 +5 71 £68,750 -25.68% 7
East London - 6 - - 1
South London -17 3 £105,000 +75.00%
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 2025, 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.

1 263 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 147 (55.89%) Agile
2 147 (55.89%) Python
3 137 (52.09%) AWS
4 132 (50.19%) Finance
5 123 (46.77%) TypeScript
6 99 (37.64%) Java
7 93 (35.36%) JavaScript
8 83 (31.56%) Banking
9 74 (28.14%) React
10 73 (27.76%) Derivative
11 68 (25.86%) Kubernetes
11 68 (25.86%) Fixed Income
12 67 (25.48%) Investment Banking
13 66 (25.10%) Equities
14 64 (24.33%) Asset Management
14 64 (24.33%) Front Office
14 64 (24.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 64 (24.33%) Hedge funds
15 62 (23.57%) Pandas
16 59 (22.43%) Social Skills
16 59 (22.43%) CI/CD
17 58 (22.05%) Amazon Athena
17 58 (22.05%) SQL
17 58 (22.05%) NumPy
18 57 (21.67%) Azure
18 57 (21.67%) SciPy
19 56 (21.29%) Protocol Buffers
19 56 (21.29%) DevOps
19 56 (21.29%) Apache

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 56 (21.29%) Apache
1 56 (21.29%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (11.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.14%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.14%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.38%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 137 (52.09%) AWS
2 57 (21.67%) Azure
3 56 (21.29%) dbt
3 56 (21.29%) Snowflake
4 32 (12.17%) GCP
5 30 (11.41%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (11.41%) Serverless
6 25 (9.51%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.32%) Dagster
9 13 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (4.56%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.80%) GitHub
12 8 (3.04%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.14%) PaaS
14 3 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.45%) HTTP
2 6 (2.28%) Bluetooth
2 6 (2.28%) Multicast
3 1 (0.38%) MQTT
3 1 (0.38%) RS-232
3 1 (0.38%) RS-485
3 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (22.05%) Amazon Athena
2 56 (21.29%) Apache Arrow
2 56 (21.29%) Apache Iceberg
2 56 (21.29%) Apache Ignite
2 56 (21.29%) Data Lake
2 56 (21.29%) Dremio
3 25 (9.51%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.90%) Neo4j
6 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.14%) Big Data
7 3 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.14%) MySQL
8 2 (0.76%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.76%) Redis
9 1 (0.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (7.22%) Git
2 11 (4.18%) GitLab
3 7 (2.66%) JIRA
4 2 (0.76%) webpack
5 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 132 (50.19%) Finance
2 83 (31.56%) Banking
3 67 (25.48%) Investment Banking
4 64 (24.33%) Front Office
5 59 (22.43%) Social Skills
6 35 (13.31%) Games
7 32 (12.17%) Advertising
8 31 (11.79%) Retail
9 29 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.04%) Tech for Good
11 6 (2.28%) Legal
12 5 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (1.90%) Back Office
12 5 (1.90%) Publishing
13 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.76%) Automotive
14 2 (0.76%) Marketing
15 1 (0.38%) Law
15 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (28.14%) React
2 62 (23.57%) Pandas
3 58 (22.05%) NumPy
4 57 (21.67%) SciPy
5 56 (21.29%) gRPC
5 56 (21.29%) Protocol Buffers
6 39 (14.83%) Kafka
7 30 (11.41%) GraphQL
8 28 (10.65%) .NET
9 26 (9.89%) AngularJS
10 20 (7.60%) REST
11 19 (7.22%) HTML
12 18 (6.84%) Django
13 16 (6.08%) Flask
13 16 (6.08%) Next.js
14 15 (5.70%) CSS
14 15 (5.70%) Jest
14 15 (5.70%) Playwright
15 14 (5.32%) PySpark
16 13 (4.94%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 73 (27.76%) Derivative
2 68 (25.86%) Fixed Income
3 66 (25.10%) Equities
4 64 (24.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 64 (24.33%) Hedge funds
5 48 (18.25%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (15.97%) Pricing Data
7 25 (9.51%) Cloud Native
8 17 (6.46%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (5.70%) Legacy Code
10 12 (4.56%) Algorithms
10 12 (4.56%) Reinsurance
11 8 (3.04%) Client/Server
12 7 (2.66%) IoT
13 6 (2.28%) Embedded Systems
13 6 (2.28%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.90%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
15 4 (1.52%) Blockchain
15 4 (1.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.17%) Linux
2 6 (2.28%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.90%) Robot Operating System
3 5 (1.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 147 (55.89%) Agile
3 64 (24.33%) Asset Management
4 59 (22.43%) CI/CD
5 56 (21.29%) DevOps
6 54 (20.53%) Computer Science
7 52 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (17.87%) Microservices
9 43 (16.35%) Investment Management
10 38 (14.45%) Machine Learning
11 37 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (12.17%) Containerisation
13 27 (10.27%) Performance Metrics
13 27 (10.27%) Programmatic Advertising
14 24 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (9.13%) TDD
15 22 (8.37%) OO
15 22 (8.37%) Pair Programming
16 19 (7.22%) OOP
17 17 (6.46%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 147 (55.89%) Python
2 123 (46.77%) TypeScript
3 99 (37.64%) Java
4 93 (35.36%) JavaScript
5 58 (22.05%) SQL
6 40 (15.21%) Rust
7 31 (11.79%) C#
8 30 (11.41%) C++
8 30 (11.41%) Scala
9 24 (9.13%) C
9 24 (9.13%) Go
10 11 (4.18%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.28%) Ladder Logic
12 5 (1.90%) Bicep
12 5 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.52%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.76%) Clojure
14 2 (0.76%) Delphi
14 2 (0.76%) Perl
14 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (20.15%) Degree
2 13 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.18%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.28%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.52%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.90%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.90%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 29 (11.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.17%) Terraform
3 11 (4.18%) Consul
3 11 (4.18%) Packer
4 2 (0.76%) Grafana
4 2 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.76%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 37 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.17%) Google
3 27 (10.27%) Apple
4 6 (2.28%) Siemens
5 5 (1.90%) Oracle
6 3 (1.14%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.76%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.76%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.76%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.38%) Okta
8 1 (0.38%) Splunk