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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 15 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,452 3,968 14,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.27% 12.07% 19.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.36% 12.66% 20.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,978 2,777 4,348
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £110,000
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 21,583 31,348 70,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.41% 95.32% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15,843 22,594 34,368
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £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 28 May 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 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 +2 346 £80,000 -7.25% 68
South London -9 23 £70,000 +21.74% 13
West London -42 18 £55,000 -4.35% 28
East London +29 12 £145,000 +276.62% 19
North London 0 1 £65,000 -7.14% 4
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
1 461 (18.80%) Apache Airflow
2 460 (18.76%) Apache
3 69 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.10%) ArcGIS
4 27 (1.10%) GeoServer
5 26 (1.06%) Confluence
6 15 (0.61%) nginx
7 13 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.37%) CMS
9 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
11 5 (0.20%) Solana
12 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.16%) Drupal
12 4 (0.16%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Hyperledger
14 1 (0.041%) OpenZeppelin
14 1 (0.041%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.082%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.041%) Blender
4 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.041%) Notion
4 1 (0.041%) Sketch
4 1 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.041%) UXPin
4 1 (0.041%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.12%) Endur
2 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.082%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.082%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.041%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,380 (56.28%) AWS
2 740 (30.18%) Azure
3 629 (25.65%) GCP
4 308 (12.56%) dbt
5 256 (10.44%) Snowflake
6 189 (7.71%) Serverless
7 146 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (4.00%) SaaS
9 86 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (2.85%) GitHub
11 68 (2.77%) Power Platform
12 64 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
13 61 (2.49%) Amazon S3
14 52 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
15 48 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
18 30 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.22%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.06%) HTTP
3 19 (0.77%) Internet
4 11 (0.45%) Firewall
5 8 (0.33%) DNS
6 7 (0.29%) AMQP
7 6 (0.24%) Multicast
7 6 (0.24%) Network Security
7 6 (0.24%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.12%) VoIP
9 2 (0.082%) Broadband
10 1 (0.041%) DHCP
10 1 (0.041%) IPFS
10 1 (0.041%) VPN
10 1 (0.041%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (16.56%) Apache Ignite
2 307 (12.52%) Amazon Athena
3 305 (12.44%) Dremio
4 303 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
5 298 (12.15%) Apache Arrow
6 271 (11.05%) Data Lake
7 115 (4.69%) SQL Server
8 79 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
8 79 (3.22%) MySQL
9 69 (2.81%) NoSQL
10 59 (2.41%) Redis
11 57 (2.32%) Relational Database
12 53 (2.16%) MongoDB
13 46 (1.88%) DynamoDB
14 34 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (1.18%) Big Data
16 27 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
16 27 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.10%) GIS
16 27 (1.10%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 203 (8.28%) Git
2 106 (4.32%) GitLab
3 86 (3.51%) Cypress.io
4 82 (3.34%) Jenkins
5 55 (2.24%) JIRA
6 29 (1.18%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.77%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.73%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.69%) JUnit
10 16 (0.65%) Selenium
11 15 (0.61%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.49%) Postman
13 10 (0.41%) JMeter
14 9 (0.37%) Maven
14 9 (0.37%) Mocha
14 9 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.33%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.33%) CMake
15 8 (0.33%) Mockito
General
1 970 (39.56%) Finance
2 659 (26.88%) Front Office
3 483 (19.70%) Banking
4 402 (16.39%) Social Skills
5 304 (12.40%) Investment Banking
6 128 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
8 98 (4.00%) Law
9 77 (3.14%) Back Office
10 65 (2.65%) Marketing
11 57 (2.32%) Retail
12 53 (2.16%) Legal
12 53 (2.16%) Public Sector
13 48 (1.96%) Games
14 45 (1.84%) Health Technology
15 35 (1.43%) Electronics
16 34 (1.39%) Tech for Good
17 25 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (0.94%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,273 (51.92%) Software Engineer
2 722 (29.45%) Developer
3 664 (27.08%) Senior
4 440 (17.94%) Senior Software Engineer
5 351 (14.31%) Lead
6 321 (13.09%) Python Engineer
7 320 (13.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 280 (11.42%) Python Software Engineer
9 248 (10.11%) Python Developer
10 208 (8.48%) Java Engineer
11 190 (7.75%) Java Software Engineer
12 189 (7.71%) AWS Engineer
13 162 (6.61%) Lead Software Engineer
14 153 (6.24%) AWS Software Engineer
15 151 (6.16%) .NET Developer
16 149 (6.08%) React Developer
17 143 (5.83%) Senior Developer
18 116 (4.73%) .NET Software Engineer
19 112 (4.57%) Architect
20 102 (4.16%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 619 (25.24%) React
2 444 (18.11%) gRPC
3 436 (17.78%) .NET
4 427 (17.41%) Protocol Buffers
5 332 (13.54%) Pandas
6 311 (12.68%) NumPy
7 298 (12.15%) SciPy
8 266 (10.85%) Redux
9 201 (8.20%) AngularJS
10 198 (8.08%) Node.js
11 168 (6.85%) .NET Core
12 161 (6.57%) Kafka
13 135 (5.51%) Vue
14 130 (5.30%) CSS
15 126 (5.14%) Material-UI
16 122 (4.98%) RESTful
17 110 (4.49%) GraphQL
18 109 (4.45%) REST
19 103 (4.20%) Spring
20 101 (4.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 583 (23.78%) Fixed Income
2 527 (21.49%) Hedge funds
3 475 (19.37%) Equities
4 422 (17.21%) Derivative
5 401 (16.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 123 (5.02%) Cloud Native
7 116 (4.73%) Client/Server
8 111 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
9 107 (4.36%) Algorithms
10 92 (3.75%) Data Structures
11 91 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
12 50 (2.04%) Product Ownership
13 41 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 36 (1.47%) Pricing Data
15 34 (1.39%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.35%) Legacy Code
17 31 (1.26%) Blog
17 31 (1.26%) Management Information System
18 29 (1.18%) IoT
18 29 (1.18%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 195 (7.95%) Linux
2 50 (2.04%) Windows
3 46 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 42 (1.71%) Android
5 25 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.65%) Debian
7 14 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.37%) Unix
8 9 (0.37%) VMS
9 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.24%) CentOS
11 4 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.041%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,219 (49.71%) Agile
2 637 (25.98%) Asset Management
3 527 (21.49%) Investment Management
4 432 (17.62%) Full Stack Development
5 401 (16.35%) DevOps
6 381 (15.54%) Computer Science
7 372 (15.17%) CI/CD
8 333 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
9 302 (12.32%) Microservices
10 292 (11.91%) Fintech
11 258 (10.52%) Machine Learning
12 243 (9.91%) Artificial Intelligence
12 243 (9.91%) TDD
13 205 (8.36%) Mentoring
14 180 (7.34%) Analytics
15 179 (7.30%) Test Automation
16 163 (6.65%) Scrum
17 141 (5.75%) Data Science
18 140 (5.71%) OOP
19 139 (5.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (46.82%) Python
2 819 (33.40%) Java
3 786 (32.06%) TypeScript
4 757 (30.87%) JavaScript
5 512 (20.88%) C#
6 384 (15.66%) SQL
7 200 (8.16%) Kotlin
8 139 (5.67%) Go
9 137 (5.59%) C++
10 125 (5.10%) C
11 124 (5.06%) Scala
12 89 (3.63%) Rust
13 73 (2.98%) PHP
14 49 (2.00%) R
15 43 (1.75%) Ruby
16 35 (1.43%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.39%) Bash
18 20 (0.82%) Bicep
19 18 (0.73%) T-SQL
20 17 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 390 (15.91%) Degree
2 180 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 102 (4.16%) Master's Degree
5 84 (3.43%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 38 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.47%) PhD
9 22 (0.90%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.16%) CISSP
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%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.12%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.04%) QA
2 122 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 23 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.29%) WCAG
7 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.16%) JTAG
8 4 (0.16%) NCSC
9 3 (0.12%) GDPR
10 2 (0.082%) EMIR
10 2 (0.082%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.082%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.082%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.082%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.082%) MiFID
11 1 (0.041%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.041%) NIST
11 1 (0.041%) SEPA
11 1 (0.041%) SLA
System Software
1 274 (11.17%) Docker
2 32 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.37%) KVM
5 8 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.29%) HDFS
7 6 (0.24%) Ceph
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.041%) LXC
10 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 356 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 245 (9.99%) Terraform
3 79 (3.22%) Ansible
4 28 (1.14%) Grafana
5 16 (0.65%) 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 (0.082%) Istio
10 2 (0.082%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.041%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.041%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.041%) Podman
Vendors
1 191 (7.79%) Google
2 186 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 41 (1.67%) Bloomberg
4 30 (1.22%) Databricks
5 28 (1.14%) Oracle
6 27 (1.10%) ESRI
7 13 (0.53%) Adobe
8 12 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 11 (0.45%) Cloudera
10 10 (0.41%) Apple
11 9 (0.37%) GoCardless
11 9 (0.37%) PayPal
11 9 (0.37%) Sage
12 8 (0.33%) Cisco
12 8 (0.33%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.33%) VMware
12 8 (0.33%) Xero
13 7 (0.29%) Informatica
13 7 (0.29%) NVIDIA
14 6 (0.24%) Amplitude