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 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 273 109
Rank change year-on-year +116 -164 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 502 396 2,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.03% 1.27% 3.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 1.34% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 424 262 436
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,625
25th Percentile £77,188 £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 £129,750 £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

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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 13 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 13 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 +53 60 £85,000 -5.56% 12
North London -3 2 £65,000 -7.14%
West London -10 2 £72,500 -19.44% 4
South London -10 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 13 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.

1 498 (99.20%) Software Engineering
2 307 (61.16%) AWS
3 253 (50.40%) Python
4 246 (49.00%) Agile
5 244 (48.61%) TypeScript
6 234 (46.61%) Finance
7 230 (45.82%) JavaScript
8 206 (41.04%) Java
9 174 (34.66%) Asset Management
10 168 (33.47%) Derivative
11 167 (33.27%) React
12 165 (32.87%) Equities
13 164 (32.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 163 (32.47%) Fixed Income
14 163 (32.47%) Front Office
15 156 (31.08%) Investment Management
16 153 (30.48%) Hedge funds
17 127 (25.30%) Azure
18 123 (24.50%) Pandas
19 121 (24.10%) gRPC
20 119 (23.71%) Apache Airflow
20 119 (23.71%) Protocol Buffers
21 117 (23.31%) Banking
22 112 (22.31%) Apache
23 111 (22.11%) NumPy
24 107 (21.31%) Amazon Athena
24 107 (21.31%) Apache Ignite
24 107 (21.31%) Dremio
24 107 (21.31%) dbt
24 107 (21.31%) 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
1 119 (23.71%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (22.31%) Apache
3 19 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.99%) ArcGIS
4 15 (2.99%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Ripple
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Findur
2 1 (0.20%) Ripple XRP
2 1 (0.20%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 307 (61.16%) AWS
2 127 (25.30%) Azure
3 107 (21.31%) dbt
4 103 (20.52%) Snowflake
5 89 (17.73%) GCP
6 22 (4.38%) Serverless
7 20 (3.98%) GitHub
8 16 (3.19%) SaaS
9 13 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.60%) Azure App Service
14 3 (0.60%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.60%) IaaS
14 3 (0.60%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.39%) HTTP
2 6 (1.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (21.31%) Amazon Athena
1 107 (21.31%) Apache Arrow
1 107 (21.31%) Apache Ignite
1 107 (21.31%) Dremio
2 103 (20.52%) Data Lake
3 40 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.99%) GIS
4 15 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.99%) QGIS
5 9 (1.79%) DynamoDB
5 9 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.79%) MySQL
6 7 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (1.20%) Big Data
7 6 (1.20%) Redis
8 5 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (5.18%) Git
2 20 (3.98%) GitLab
3 8 (1.59%) Selenium
4 7 (1.39%) JUnit
5 6 (1.20%) JMeter
5 6 (1.20%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.00%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.80%) Gradle
7 4 (0.80%) JIRA
7 4 (0.80%) Maven
8 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.60%) 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
1 234 (46.61%) Finance
2 163 (32.47%) Front Office
3 117 (23.31%) Banking
4 107 (21.31%) Investment Banking
5 45 (8.96%) Back Office
6 36 (7.17%) Social Skills
7 21 (4.18%) Law
8 18 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.19%) Advertising
10 15 (2.99%) Legal
11 12 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (2.19%) Marketing
13 10 (1.99%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.99%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.79%) Retail
14 9 (1.79%) Tech for Good
15 7 (1.39%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.20%) Electronics
17 4 (0.80%) Games
17 4 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (33.27%) React
2 123 (24.50%) Pandas
3 121 (24.10%) gRPC
4 119 (23.71%) Protocol Buffers
5 111 (22.11%) NumPy
6 107 (21.31%) SciPy
7 104 (20.72%) .NET
8 63 (12.55%) AngularJS
9 60 (11.95%) Vue
10 49 (9.76%) Redux
11 41 (8.17%) GraphQL
12 40 (7.97%) ASP.NET
13 38 (7.57%) REST
14 36 (7.17%) .NET Core
15 35 (6.97%) Kafka
16 32 (6.37%) ASP.NET Core
17 28 (5.58%) Node.js
18 23 (4.58%) CSS
19 20 (3.98%) RESTful
20 19 (3.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 168 (33.47%) Derivative
2 165 (32.87%) Equities
3 164 (32.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 163 (32.47%) Fixed Income
5 153 (30.48%) Hedge funds
6 48 (9.56%) Pricing Data
7 35 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
8 33 (6.57%) Cloud Native
9 16 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.79%) Legacy Code
11 11 (2.19%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.99%) Social Media
13 9 (1.79%) IoT
14 6 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.20%) Blockchain
14 6 (1.20%) Hackathon
14 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
15 5 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.57%) Linux
2 7 (1.39%) Android
2 7 (1.39%) Windows
3 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (99.20%) Software Engineering
2 246 (49.00%) Agile
3 174 (34.66%) Asset Management
4 156 (31.08%) Investment Management
5 73 (14.54%) Full Stack Development
6 57 (11.35%) CI/CD
7 55 (10.96%) Greeks
8 50 (9.96%) Computer Science
8 50 (9.96%) DevOps
8 50 (9.96%) Microservices
9 42 (8.37%) Test Automation
10 41 (8.17%) TDD
11 39 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (7.17%) Analytics
13 35 (6.97%) Fintech
14 31 (6.18%) Machine Learning
14 31 (6.18%) Mentoring
15 24 (4.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (4.78%) SDLC
16 23 (4.58%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 253 (50.40%) Python
2 244 (48.61%) TypeScript
3 230 (45.82%) JavaScript
4 206 (41.04%) Java
5 104 (20.72%) SQL
6 100 (19.92%) C#
7 51 (10.16%) Rust
8 45 (8.96%) Kotlin
9 41 (8.17%) C++
10 36 (7.17%) Go
11 35 (6.97%) Scala
12 27 (5.38%) C
13 12 (2.39%) Clojure
14 11 (2.19%) PHP
14 11 (2.19%) Ruby
15 5 (1.00%) Haskell
16 4 (0.80%) Solidity
17 3 (0.60%) F#
17 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (8.96%) Degree
2 26 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.58%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.00%) 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 59 (11.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.99%) QA
3 3 (0.60%) EMIR
3 3 (0.60%) 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 55 (10.96%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Ceph
2 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.60%) Firmware
3 3 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 103 (20.52%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.58%) Terraform
3 4 (0.80%) Ansible
3 4 (0.80%) Knative
4 3 (0.60%) Grafana
4 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (4.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.99%) ESRI
3 12 (2.39%) Google
4 5 (1.00%) Oracle
5 4 (0.80%) Apple
6 3 (0.60%) 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