Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer
England > London

The median Software Engineer salary in London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 52 28
Rank change year-on-year +10 -24 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,281 1,812 7,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.37% 5.51% 10.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.68% 5.79% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,218 1,752
10th Percentile £56,175 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £117,500 £113,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £135,693 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,535 31,280 69,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 95.12% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,745 23,071 34,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,108 £55,000 £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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in London

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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +38 189 £80,000 -11.11% 40
South London -2 13 £62,500 +38.89% 8
West London -13 9 £55,000 -29.03% 16
East London +30 8 £150,000 +160.87% 10
North London +1 1 £65,000 -7.14% 1
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,273 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 786 (61.36%) AWS
3 641 (50.04%) Agile
4 624 (48.71%) Python
5 578 (45.12%) Finance
6 519 (40.52%) TypeScript
7 451 (35.21%) Java
7 451 (35.21%) JavaScript
8 433 (33.80%) React
9 427 (33.33%) Front Office
10 417 (32.55%) Asset Management
11 414 (32.32%) Fixed Income
12 397 (30.99%) Azure
13 396 (30.91%) GCP
14 382 (29.82%) Investment Management
15 342 (26.70%) Hedge funds
16 325 (25.37%) Apache Airflow
17 322 (25.14%) Apache
18 316 (24.67%) gRPC
19 306 (23.89%) Protocol Buffers
20 305 (23.81%) Banking
21 301 (23.50%) Equities
22 296 (23.11%) Full Stack Development
23 294 (22.95%) Apache Ignite
24 254 (19.83%) Derivative
25 253 (19.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 250 (19.52%) C#
27 244 (19.05%) Redux
28 233 (18.19%) .NET
29 224 (17.49%) PostgreSQL

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
1 325 (25.37%) Apache Airflow
2 322 (25.14%) Apache
3 36 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.11%) ArcGIS
4 27 (2.11%) GeoServer
5 15 (1.17%) Confluence
6 4 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.31%) CMS
6 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.23%) Drupal
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.078%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.078%) Sketch
2 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.078%) UXPin
2 1 (0.078%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.078%) Endur
2 1 (0.078%) Findur
2 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.078%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 786 (61.36%) AWS
2 397 (30.99%) Azure
3 396 (30.91%) GCP
4 180 (14.05%) dbt
5 145 (11.32%) Snowflake
6 79 (6.17%) Serverless
7 65 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (2.42%) SaaS
9 22 (1.72%) GitHub
9 22 (1.72%) Power Platform
10 21 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (0.94%) Amazon S3
14 9 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (0.47%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.56%) HTTP
2 19 (1.48%) Internet
2 19 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.39%) Network Security
4 3 (0.23%) VoIP
5 1 (0.078%) AMQP
5 1 (0.078%) DHCP
5 1 (0.078%) DNS
5 1 (0.078%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (22.95%) Apache Ignite
2 224 (17.49%) PostgreSQL
3 179 (13.97%) Amazon Athena
4 177 (13.82%) Apache Arrow
4 177 (13.82%) Dremio
5 144 (11.24%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 33 (2.58%) SQL Server
7 31 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 27 (2.11%) GIS
8 27 (2.11%) MySQL
8 27 (2.11%) QGIS
8 27 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.80%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.25%) Redis
12 12 (0.94%) Flink
13 11 (0.86%) Apache Hive
13 11 (0.86%) Presto
14 10 (0.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 76 (5.93%) Git
2 67 (5.23%) Cypress.io
3 41 (3.20%) GitLab
4 25 (1.95%) JIRA
5 16 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.78%) JUnit
6 10 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.70%) Maven
8 8 (0.62%) Selenium
9 6 (0.47%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.47%) JMeter
9 6 (0.47%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.39%) Gradle
11 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.23%) Sourcetree
13 2 (0.16%) Postman
13 2 (0.16%) Storybook
13 2 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 578 (45.12%) Finance
2 427 (33.33%) Front Office
3 305 (23.81%) Banking
4 178 (13.90%) Investment Banking
5 132 (10.30%) Social Skills
6 68 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.98%) Law
8 47 (3.67%) Back Office
9 34 (2.65%) Legal
10 31 (2.42%) Marketing
11 30 (2.34%) Health Technology
12 28 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.72%) Electronics
13 22 (1.72%) Public Sector
14 18 (1.41%) Retail
15 16 (1.25%) Games
16 15 (1.17%) Advertising
17 14 (1.09%) Tech for Good
18 13 (1.01%) Financial Institution
19 8 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (33.80%) React
2 316 (24.67%) gRPC
3 306 (23.89%) Protocol Buffers
4 244 (19.05%) Redux
5 233 (18.19%) .NET
6 199 (15.53%) Pandas
7 184 (14.36%) NumPy
8 177 (13.82%) SciPy
9 162 (12.65%) AngularJS
10 126 (9.84%) Material-UI
11 125 (9.76%) Vue
12 121 (9.45%) Node.js
13 104 (8.12%) .NET Core
14 74 (5.78%) Spring
15 70 (5.46%) GraphQL
16 63 (4.92%) RESTful
16 63 (4.92%) Spring Boot
17 62 (4.84%) REST
18 60 (4.68%) ASP.NET
18 60 (4.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 414 (32.32%) Fixed Income
2 342 (26.70%) Hedge funds
3 301 (23.50%) Equities
4 254 (19.83%) Derivative
5 253 (19.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 69 (5.39%) Cloud Native
7 62 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (2.89%) Data Structures
9 36 (2.81%) Pricing Data
10 35 (2.73%) Client/Server
11 27 (2.11%) Algorithms
12 24 (1.87%) Legacy Code
13 23 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.41%) PKI
16 16 (1.25%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (1.09%) Product Ownership
18 13 (1.01%) Mobile App
19 11 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.95%) Linux
2 24 (1.87%) Ubuntu
3 21 (1.64%) Android
4 20 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.25%) Debian
5 16 (1.25%) Windows
6 4 (0.31%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.078%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.078%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,273 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 641 (50.04%) Agile
3 417 (32.55%) Asset Management
4 382 (29.82%) Investment Management
5 296 (23.11%) Full Stack Development
6 195 (15.22%) Fintech
7 164 (12.80%) CI/CD
8 161 (12.57%) DevOps
8 161 (12.57%) Machine Learning
9 150 (11.71%) Microservices
10 138 (10.77%) Artificial Intelligence
11 129 (10.07%) Computer Science
12 122 (9.52%) TDD
13 119 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (8.35%) Test Automation
15 99 (7.73%) Automated Trading
16 89 (6.95%) Mentoring
17 83 (6.48%) Scrum
18 77 (6.01%) Analytics
19 75 (5.85%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 624 (48.71%) Python
2 519 (40.52%) TypeScript
3 451 (35.21%) Java
3 451 (35.21%) JavaScript
4 250 (19.52%) C#
5 215 (16.78%) SQL
6 153 (11.94%) Kotlin
7 84 (6.56%) C++
7 84 (6.56%) Scala
8 81 (6.32%) C
9 79 (6.17%) Go
10 75 (5.85%) Rust
11 36 (2.81%) PHP
12 25 (1.95%) Bash
13 24 (1.87%) Ruby
14 15 (1.17%) Clojure
15 12 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.86%) Swift
17 10 (0.78%) Haskell
18 9 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 142 (11.09%) Degree
2 81 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 47 (3.67%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.48%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.39%) PhD
11 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.23%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.23%) Sun Certification
12 1 (0.078%) HNC
12 1 (0.078%) HND
12 1 (0.078%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.95%) QA
2 64 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.31%) JTAG
4 2 (0.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.16%) EMIR
4 2 (0.16%) GDPR
4 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.16%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.16%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.16%) MiFID
5 1 (0.078%) SEPA
System Software
1 95 (7.42%) Docker
2 23 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.39%) Ceph
4 3 (0.23%) Firmware
4 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.078%) KVM
6 1 (0.078%) LXC
Systems Management
1 171 (13.35%) Kubernetes
2 121 (9.45%) Terraform
3 45 (3.51%) Ansible
4 11 (0.86%) Grafana
5 5 (0.39%) Knative
6 4 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.23%) Consul
7 3 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.23%) Packer
8 2 (0.16%) Istio
8 2 (0.16%) Kibana
8 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.078%) Argo
9 1 (0.078%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.078%) Juju
9 1 (0.078%) Podman
9 1 (0.078%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 144 (11.24%) Google
2 87 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.11%) ESRI
4 13 (1.01%) Databricks
4 13 (1.01%) Oracle
5 8 (0.62%) Apple
5 8 (0.62%) Xero
6 6 (0.47%) Amplitude
6 6 (0.47%) NVIDIA
7 5 (0.39%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.23%) Progress
9 2 (0.16%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.16%) Calypso
9 2 (0.16%) Confluent
9 2 (0.16%) Dell
9 2 (0.16%) Finsemble
9 2 (0.16%) GoCardless
9 2 (0.16%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.16%) Sage
9 2 (0.16%) Salesforce