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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 319 153
Rank change year-on-year +170 -166 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,704 933 3,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.87% 1.11% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 1.21% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 604 913
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,443
25th Percentile £55,938 £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 £86,250 £89,852 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,875 £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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 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 2 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 +109 469 £92,500 +8.82% 176
North of England +134 353 £60,000 -7.69% 51
South West +143 320 £62,500 -3.85% 41
South East +78 295 £62,500 -8.42% 26
North West +92 201 £60,000 -4.00% 36
Midlands +60 164 £65,000 +4.00% 32
Yorkshire +70 104 £62,500 -7.41% 12
East of England +50 100 £65,000 -3.70% 34
East Midlands +33 87 £65,000 +33.33% 11
West Midlands +21 77 £62,500 -7.41% 21
North East +34 48 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 1,699 (99.71%) Software Engineering
2 575 (33.74%) Agile
3 570 (33.45%) Python
4 568 (33.33%) AWS
5 478 (28.05%) JavaScript
6 382 (22.42%) Azure
7 374 (21.95%) React
8 372 (21.83%) .NET
9 369 (21.65%) C#
10 360 (21.13%) TypeScript
11 326 (19.13%) Java
12 280 (16.43%) Security Cleared
13 270 (15.85%) DevOps
14 265 (15.55%) Linux
15 264 (15.49%) Finance
16 247 (14.50%) C++
17 232 (13.62%) SQL
18 206 (12.09%) SC Cleared
19 203 (11.91%) C
20 201 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
21 200 (11.74%) Degree
22 170 (9.98%) .NET Core
23 164 (9.62%) CSS
24 158 (9.27%) Asset Management
25 153 (8.98%) Derivative
26 152 (8.92%) Computer Science
27 151 (8.86%) Equities
27 151 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
28 150 (8.80%) Web Development
28 150 (8.80%) Fixed Income

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
1 126 (7.39%) ArcGIS
1 126 (7.39%) GeoServer
2 105 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (5.75%) Apache
4 20 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.41%) Confluence
6 3 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Drupal
7 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.059%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.059%) nginx
8 1 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (0.94%) Simulink
2 15 (0.88%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.41%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.059%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.059%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Magento
2 3 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.18%) Ripple
3 1 (0.059%) Endur
3 1 (0.059%) Findur
3 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.059%) Ripple XRP
3 1 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 568 (33.33%) AWS
2 382 (22.42%) Azure
3 110 (6.46%) GCP
4 93 (5.46%) dbt
5 89 (5.22%) Snowflake
6 55 (3.23%) Serverless
7 44 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.29%) SaaS
9 34 (2.00%) GitHub
10 24 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (1.06%) Azure Functions
12 9 (0.53%) Amazon S3
12 9 (0.53%) npm
13 8 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (0.41%) Azure API Management
14 7 (0.41%) Azure Event Grid
14 7 (0.41%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.82%) J1939
2 12 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 12 (0.70%) Wireless
3 10 (0.59%) Network Security
4 9 (0.53%) Internet
4 9 (0.53%) RS-232
5 8 (0.47%) HTTP
6 6 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 6 (0.35%) MQTT
7 4 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.059%) 4G
8 1 (0.059%) 5G
8 1 (0.059%) DECT
8 1 (0.059%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.059%) Modbus
8 1 (0.059%) NFC
8 1 (0.059%) RS-485
8 1 (0.059%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (7.39%) GIS
2 126 (7.39%) QGIS
3 93 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
3 93 (5.46%) Apache Arrow
3 93 (5.46%) Apache Ignite
3 93 (5.46%) Dremio
4 89 (5.22%) Data Lake
5 69 (4.05%) MySQL
6 54 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 48 (2.82%) NoSQL
8 45 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.17%) Redis
10 14 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 11 (0.65%) Big Data
12 9 (0.53%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.47%) SQLite
14 7 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 111 (6.51%) Git
2 40 (2.35%) JIRA
3 34 (2.00%) GitLab
3 34 (2.00%) Subversion
4 28 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.64%) Visual Studio
5 14 (0.82%) ClearCase
5 14 (0.82%) CMake
5 14 (0.82%) Plastic SCM
6 12 (0.70%) Maven
6 12 (0.70%) Selenium
6 12 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.53%) Storybook
8 8 (0.47%) JUnit
8 8 (0.47%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.41%) ClearQuest
10 6 (0.35%) JMeter
10 6 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 264 (15.49%) Finance
2 150 (8.80%) Front Office
3 134 (7.86%) Social Skills
4 106 (6.22%) Banking
5 94 (5.52%) Investment Banking
6 65 (3.81%) Automotive
7 61 (3.58%) Electronics
8 60 (3.52%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
10 44 (2.58%) Back Office
11 42 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 39 (2.29%) Military
12 39 (2.29%) Public Sector
13 29 (1.70%) Marketing
14 28 (1.64%) Aviation
15 27 (1.58%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.58%) Retail
16 25 (1.47%) Health Technology
16 25 (1.47%) Tech for Good
17 23 (1.35%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (21.95%) React
2 372 (21.83%) .NET
3 170 (9.98%) .NET Core
4 164 (9.62%) CSS
5 150 (8.80%) AngularJS
6 126 (7.39%) Leaflet
6 126 (7.39%) OpenLayers
6 126 (7.39%) PostGIS
7 121 (7.10%) ASP.NET
8 116 (6.81%) Vue
9 111 (6.51%) Pandas
10 110 (6.46%) gRPC
11 105 (6.16%) Protocol Buffers
12 102 (5.99%) NumPy
13 93 (5.46%) SciPy
14 86 (5.05%) Node.js
15 83 (4.87%) RESTful
16 72 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
17 68 (3.99%) HTML
18 60 (3.52%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 153 (8.98%) Derivative
2 151 (8.86%) Equities
3 150 (8.80%) Fixed Income
3 150 (8.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 139 (8.16%) Hedge funds
5 61 (3.58%) Algorithms
6 49 (2.88%) IoT
7 47 (2.76%) Cloud Native
7 47 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (2.46%) Pricing Data
9 34 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
9 34 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
11 22 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.23%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.12%) Device Driver
14 15 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.82%) Hackathon
15 14 (0.82%) Legacy Code
15 14 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 265 (15.55%) Linux
2 89 (5.22%) Embedded Linux
3 73 (4.28%) Windows
4 30 (1.76%) Ubuntu
5 25 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.47%) Unix
6 19 (1.12%) Android
7 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.12%) CentOS
9 2 (0.12%) Debian
9 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,699 (99.71%) Software Engineering
2 575 (33.74%) Agile
3 270 (15.85%) DevOps
4 158 (9.27%) Asset Management
5 152 (8.92%) Computer Science
6 151 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
7 150 (8.80%) Web Development
8 143 (8.39%) Actionable Insight
9 142 (8.33%) Investment Management
10 141 (8.27%) Full Stack Development
11 135 (7.92%) CI/CD
12 123 (7.22%) Mentoring
12 123 (7.22%) Microservices
13 105 (6.16%) Test Automation
14 104 (6.10%) TDD
15 98 (5.75%) SDLC
16 83 (4.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 68 (3.99%) Machine Learning
18 65 (3.81%) OO
19 63 (3.70%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 570 (33.45%) Python
2 478 (28.05%) JavaScript
3 369 (21.65%) C#
4 360 (21.13%) TypeScript
5 326 (19.13%) Java
6 247 (14.50%) C++
7 232 (13.62%) SQL
8 203 (11.91%) C
9 76 (4.46%) Rust
10 61 (3.58%) Bash
11 57 (3.35%) Embedded C
12 48 (2.82%) Kotlin
13 43 (2.52%) Go
14 33 (1.94%) Scala
15 26 (1.53%) Perl
15 26 (1.53%) T-SQL
16 18 (1.06%) PowerShell
17 17 (1.00%) PHP
18 16 (0.94%) MATLAB
19 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 280 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 206 (12.09%) SC Cleared
3 200 (11.74%) Degree
4 58 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 34 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.06%) HND
8 16 (0.94%) PhD
9 10 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.059%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.059%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.059%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.059%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 16 (0.94%) PMO
3 15 (0.88%) ISO 26262
3 15 (0.88%) QA
4 14 (0.82%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (0.82%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (0.82%) MISRA
5 7 (0.41%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.12%) EMIR
6 2 (0.12%) GDPR
6 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.12%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.12%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.12%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.12%) MiFID
6 2 (0.12%) SEPA
6 2 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.059%) Accessibility
System Software
1 107 (6.28%) Docker
2 37 (2.17%) Firmware
3 19 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.23%) Ceph
4 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 136 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.87%) Terraform
3 18 (1.06%) Ansible
4 5 (0.29%) SELinux
5 4 (0.23%) Grafana
5 4 (0.23%) Knative
6 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.12%) linkerd
7 2 (0.12%) MIIS
7 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.059%) Istio
8 1 (0.059%) Kibana
Vendors
1 126 (7.39%) ESRI
2 57 (3.35%) Microsoft
3 14 (0.82%) Google
3 14 (0.82%) IBM
3 14 (0.82%) Lauterbach
4 12 (0.70%) DevExpress
4 12 (0.70%) Xamarin
5 7 (0.41%) F5
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle
7 4 (0.23%) Apple
7 4 (0.23%) Facebook
7 4 (0.23%) Instagram
7 4 (0.23%) SAP
8 3 (0.18%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.12%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.12%) Cadence
9 2 (0.12%) Databricks
9 2 (0.12%) IFS
9 2 (0.12%) RedGate
9 2 (0.12%) VMware