Software Engineering Jobs in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,504 3,745 14,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.34% 11.68% 20.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.49% 12.27% 20.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,004 2,740 4,321
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,975 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £146,250 £140,000 £133,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,784 30,521 71,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.99% 95.21% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15,935 22,372 34,275
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in London.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the London 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
Central London +4 348 £80,000 -11.11% 62
South London -6 23 £70,000 +21.74% 12
West London -37 19 £55,000 -4.35% 20
East London +27 12 £145,000 +276.62% 19
North London -1 2 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 470 (18.77%) Apache Airflow
2 469 (18.73%) Apache
3 69 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.08%) ArcGIS
4 27 (1.08%) GeoServer
5 26 (1.04%) Confluence
6 15 (0.60%) nginx
7 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
11 5 (0.20%) Solana
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.16%) Drupal
12 4 (0.16%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.080%) IIS
15 1 (0.040%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.080%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.040%) Blender
4 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.040%) Notion
4 1 (0.040%) Sketch
4 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.040%) UXPin
4 1 (0.040%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.20%) Ripple
3 3 (0.12%) Endur
4 2 (0.080%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.080%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.040%) Findur
5 1 (0.040%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 1,407 (56.19%) AWS
2 741 (29.59%) Azure
3 636 (25.40%) GCP
4 317 (12.66%) dbt
5 266 (10.62%) Snowflake
6 189 (7.55%) Serverless
7 146 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (3.91%) SaaS
9 87 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (2.88%) GitHub
11 67 (2.68%) Power Platform
12 63 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
13 62 (2.48%) Amazon S3
14 52 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
15 48 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
18 30 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.04%) HTTP
3 20 (0.80%) Internet
4 11 (0.44%) Firewall
5 8 (0.32%) DNS
6 7 (0.28%) AMQP
7 6 (0.24%) Multicast
7 6 (0.24%) Network Security
7 6 (0.24%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.12%) VoIP
9 2 (0.080%) Broadband
10 1 (0.040%) DHCP
10 1 (0.040%) IPFS
10 1 (0.040%) VPN
10 1 (0.040%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (16.57%) Apache Ignite
2 316 (12.62%) Amazon Athena
3 314 (12.54%) Dremio
4 309 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
5 307 (12.26%) Apache Arrow
6 281 (11.22%) Data Lake
7 114 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 84 (3.35%) MySQL
9 79 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.84%) NoSQL
11 58 (2.32%) Redis
12 57 (2.28%) Relational Database
13 54 (2.16%) MongoDB
14 49 (1.96%) DynamoDB
15 34 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (1.16%) Big Data
17 28 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
18 27 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
18 27 (1.08%) GIS
18 27 (1.08%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 205 (8.19%) Git
2 108 (4.31%) GitLab
3 86 (3.43%) Cypress.io
4 81 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 55 (2.20%) JIRA
6 29 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.76%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.68%) JUnit
10 16 (0.64%) Selenium
11 15 (0.60%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.48%) Postman
13 10 (0.40%) JMeter
14 9 (0.36%) Maven
14 9 (0.36%) Mocha
14 9 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.32%) CMake
15 8 (0.32%) Mockito
15 8 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 991 (39.58%) Finance
2 666 (26.60%) Front Office
3 496 (19.81%) Banking
4 406 (16.21%) Social Skills
5 313 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 128 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
8 104 (4.15%) Law
9 78 (3.12%) Back Office
10 64 (2.56%) Marketing
11 62 (2.48%) Legal
12 57 (2.28%) Retail
13 55 (2.20%) Public Sector
14 47 (1.88%) Games
14 47 (1.88%) Health Technology
15 37 (1.48%) Electronics
16 36 (1.44%) Tech for Good
17 30 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,317 (52.60%) Software Engineer
2 723 (28.87%) Developer
3 694 (27.72%) Senior
4 465 (18.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 360 (14.38%) Lead
6 338 (13.50%) Python Engineer
7 318 (12.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 294 (11.74%) Python Software Engineer
9 247 (9.86%) Python Developer
10 215 (8.59%) Java Engineer
11 199 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
12 197 (7.87%) Java Software Engineer
13 170 (6.79%) Lead Software Engineer
14 163 (6.51%) AWS Software Engineer
15 152 (6.07%) .NET Developer
16 149 (5.95%) React Developer
17 147 (5.87%) Senior Developer
18 114 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
19 111 (4.43%) Architect
20 107 (4.27%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 633 (25.28%) React
2 453 (18.09%) gRPC
3 436 (17.41%) Protocol Buffers
4 434 (17.33%) .NET
5 343 (13.70%) Pandas
6 320 (12.78%) NumPy
7 307 (12.26%) SciPy
8 267 (10.66%) Redux
9 203 (8.11%) AngularJS
10 196 (7.83%) Node.js
11 169 (6.75%) .NET Core
12 162 (6.47%) Kafka
13 134 (5.35%) Vue
14 132 (5.27%) CSS
15 126 (5.03%) Material-UI
16 124 (4.95%) RESTful
17 114 (4.55%) GraphQL
18 112 (4.47%) REST
19 106 (4.23%) Spring
20 104 (4.15%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 592 (23.64%) Fixed Income
2 537 (21.45%) Hedge funds
3 484 (19.33%) Equities
4 432 (17.25%) Derivative
5 410 (16.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 126 (5.03%) Cloud Native
7 116 (4.63%) Client/Server
7 116 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
8 108 (4.31%) Algorithms
9 92 (3.67%) Data Structures
10 88 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
11 50 (2.00%) Product Ownership
12 44 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.68%) Pricing Data
14 35 (1.40%) Legacy Code
15 34 (1.36%) Virtual Team
16 32 (1.28%) Blockchain
17 31 (1.24%) Blog
17 31 (1.24%) Management Information System
18 30 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 198 (7.91%) Linux
2 52 (2.08%) Windows
3 47 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.76%) Android
5 25 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.64%) Debian
7 15 (0.60%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.40%) Unix
9 9 (0.36%) VMS
10 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.24%) CentOS
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.040%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,238 (49.44%) Agile
2 649 (25.92%) Asset Management
3 535 (21.37%) Investment Management
4 445 (17.77%) Full Stack Development
5 403 (16.09%) DevOps
6 390 (15.58%) Computer Science
7 377 (15.06%) CI/CD
8 334 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
9 302 (12.06%) Microservices
10 300 (11.98%) Fintech
11 260 (10.38%) Machine Learning
12 247 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
13 242 (9.66%) TDD
14 210 (8.39%) Mentoring
15 182 (7.27%) Test Automation
16 180 (7.19%) Analytics
17 168 (6.71%) Scrum
18 145 (5.79%) OOP
19 143 (5.71%) SDLC
20 138 (5.51%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,170 (46.73%) Python
2 839 (33.51%) Java
3 806 (32.19%) TypeScript
4 778 (31.07%) JavaScript
5 512 (20.45%) C#
6 388 (15.50%) SQL
7 205 (8.19%) Kotlin
8 143 (5.71%) Go
9 141 (5.63%) C++
10 130 (5.19%) Scala
11 127 (5.07%) C
12 97 (3.87%) Rust
13 74 (2.96%) PHP
14 49 (1.96%) R
15 39 (1.56%) Ruby
16 36 (1.44%) PowerShell
17 32 (1.28%) Bash
18 20 (0.80%) Bicep
19 18 (0.72%) T-SQL
20 17 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 393 (15.69%) Degree
2 182 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 105 (4.19%) Master's Degree
5 85 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 38 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.48%) PhD
9 22 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.16%) CISSP
13 4 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.16%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.12%) CISM
14 3 (0.12%) GIAC
14 3 (0.12%) HNC
14 3 (0.12%) HND
14 3 (0.12%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.87%) QA
2 126 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 22 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 11 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.24%) WCAG
7 4 (0.16%) JTAG
7 4 (0.16%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) EMIR
8 3 (0.12%) GDPR
8 3 (0.12%) MiFID
9 2 (0.080%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.080%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.080%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.080%) ISO 9000
9 2 (0.080%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.040%) GxP
10 1 (0.040%) NIST
10 1 (0.040%) SEPA
System Software
1 279 (11.14%) Docker
2 33 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.36%) KVM
5 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.28%) HDFS
7 6 (0.24%) Ceph
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.040%) LXC
10 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 366 (14.62%) Kubernetes
2 248 (9.90%) Terraform
3 81 (3.23%) Ansible
4 28 (1.12%) Grafana
5 16 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.24%) Kibana
6 6 (0.24%) Knative
7 5 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Argo
9 3 (0.12%) Consul
9 3 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.12%) logstash
9 3 (0.12%) Packer
10 2 (0.080%) Istio
10 2 (0.080%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.040%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.040%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.040%) Podman
Vendors
1 192 (7.67%) Google
2 187 (7.47%) Microsoft
3 41 (1.64%) Bloomberg
4 30 (1.20%) Databricks
5 27 (1.08%) ESRI
6 26 (1.04%) Oracle
7 12 (0.48%) Adobe
7 12 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 11 (0.44%) Cloudera
9 10 (0.40%) Apple
10 9 (0.36%) GoCardless
10 9 (0.36%) PayPal
10 9 (0.36%) Sage
11 8 (0.32%) Cisco
11 8 (0.32%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.32%) VMware
11 8 (0.32%) Xero
12 7 (0.28%) Informatica
12 7 (0.28%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.24%) Amplitude