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 29 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
29 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 1,288 1,806 7,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.37% 5.51% 10.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.69% 5.79% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,219 1,742
10th Percentile £55,875 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £66,660 £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 22,635 31,175 69,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.11% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,797 22,984 34,588
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £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 29 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 29 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 +39 188 £80,000 -11.11% 40
South London -3 13 £62,500 +38.89% 6
West London -10 9 £55,000 -29.03% 16
East London +29 8 £150,000 +160.87% 10
North London -3 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 29 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 1,280 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 789 (61.26%) AWS
3 641 (49.77%) Agile
4 625 (48.52%) Python
5 577 (44.80%) Finance
6 522 (40.53%) TypeScript
7 452 (35.09%) JavaScript
8 450 (34.94%) Java
9 436 (33.85%) React
10 426 (33.07%) Front Office
11 416 (32.30%) Asset Management
12 414 (32.14%) Fixed Income
13 396 (30.75%) GCP
13 396 (30.75%) Azure
14 382 (29.66%) Investment Management
15 342 (26.55%) Hedge funds
16 324 (25.16%) Apache Airflow
17 321 (24.92%) Apache
18 315 (24.46%) gRPC
19 305 (23.68%) Protocol Buffers
20 303 (23.52%) Banking
21 301 (23.37%) Equities
22 300 (23.29%) Full Stack Development
23 293 (22.75%) Apache Ignite
24 254 (19.72%) Derivative
25 253 (19.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 249 (19.33%) C#
27 246 (19.10%) Redux
28 232 (18.01%) .NET
29 225 (17.47%) 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
1 324 (25.16%) Apache Airflow
2 321 (24.92%) Apache
3 36 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.10%) ArcGIS
4 27 (2.10%) GeoServer
5 15 (1.16%) 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 (0.93%) 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
1 789 (61.26%) AWS
2 396 (30.75%) Azure
2 396 (30.75%) GCP
3 179 (13.90%) dbt
4 145 (11.26%) Snowflake
5 78 (6.06%) Serverless
6 65 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (2.41%) SaaS
8 22 (1.71%) GitHub
8 22 (1.71%) Power Platform
9 21 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 9 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (0.47%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.55%) 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
1 293 (22.75%) Apache Ignite
2 225 (17.47%) PostgreSQL
3 178 (13.82%) Amazon Athena
4 176 (13.66%) Apache Arrow
4 176 (13.66%) Dremio
5 144 (11.18%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 33 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 31 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 27 (2.10%) GIS
8 27 (2.10%) MySQL
8 27 (2.10%) QGIS
9 26 (2.02%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.86%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.24%) Redis
13 12 (0.93%) Flink
14 11 (0.85%) Apache Hive
14 11 (0.85%) Presto
15 10 (0.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 75 (5.82%) Git
2 67 (5.20%) Cypress.io
3 41 (3.18%) GitLab
4 25 (1.94%) JIRA
5 16 (1.24%) 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
1 577 (44.80%) Finance
2 426 (33.07%) Front Office
3 303 (23.52%) Banking
4 177 (13.74%) Investment Banking
5 133 (10.33%) Social Skills
6 68 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.96%) Law
8 47 (3.65%) Back Office
9 35 (2.72%) Legal
10 31 (2.41%) Health Technology
11 30 (2.33%) Marketing
12 28 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.71%) Electronics
13 22 (1.71%) Public Sector
14 18 (1.40%) Retail
15 16 (1.24%) Games
16 15 (1.16%) Advertising
17 14 (1.09%) Tech for Good
18 13 (1.01%) Financial Institution
19 10 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (33.85%) React
2 315 (24.46%) gRPC
3 305 (23.68%) Protocol Buffers
4 246 (19.10%) Redux
5 232 (18.01%) .NET
6 198 (15.37%) Pandas
7 183 (14.21%) NumPy
8 176 (13.66%) SciPy
9 162 (12.58%) AngularJS
10 126 (9.78%) Material-UI
11 125 (9.70%) Vue
12 120 (9.32%) Node.js
13 104 (8.07%) .NET Core
14 74 (5.75%) Spring
15 72 (5.59%) GraphQL
16 63 (4.89%) RESTful
16 63 (4.89%) Spring Boot
17 62 (4.81%) REST
18 60 (4.66%) ASP.NET
18 60 (4.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 414 (32.14%) Fixed Income
2 342 (26.55%) Hedge funds
3 301 (23.37%) Equities
4 254 (19.72%) Derivative
5 253 (19.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 71 (5.51%) Cloud Native
7 64 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (2.87%) Data Structures
9 36 (2.80%) Pricing Data
10 35 (2.72%) Client/Server
11 27 (2.10%) Algorithms
12 26 (2.02%) Legacy Code
13 22 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.40%) PKI
16 16 (1.24%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (1.09%) Product Ownership
18 13 (1.01%) Mobile App
19 11 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 91 (7.07%) Linux
2 24 (1.86%) Ubuntu
3 21 (1.63%) Android
4 20 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.24%) Debian
5 16 (1.24%) 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 1,280 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 641 (49.77%) Agile
3 416 (32.30%) Asset Management
4 382 (29.66%) Investment Management
5 300 (23.29%) Full Stack Development
6 196 (15.22%) Fintech
7 164 (12.73%) CI/CD
8 161 (12.50%) DevOps
8 161 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 148 (11.49%) Microservices
10 138 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
11 129 (10.02%) Computer Science
12 122 (9.47%) TDD
13 118 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (8.31%) Test Automation
15 99 (7.69%) Automated Trading
16 91 (7.07%) Mentoring
17 84 (6.52%) Scrum
18 77 (5.98%) Analytics
19 75 (5.82%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 625 (48.52%) Python
2 522 (40.53%) TypeScript
3 452 (35.09%) JavaScript
4 450 (34.94%) Java
5 249 (19.33%) C#
6 214 (16.61%) SQL
7 154 (11.96%) Kotlin
8 86 (6.68%) C++
9 84 (6.52%) Scala
10 83 (6.44%) C
11 80 (6.21%) Go
12 78 (6.06%) Rust
13 36 (2.80%) PHP
14 24 (1.86%) Bash
15 22 (1.71%) Ruby
16 15 (1.16%) Clojure
17 12 (0.93%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.85%) Swift
19 10 (0.78%) Haskell
20 9 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 143 (11.10%) Degree
2 81 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (5.12%) Security Cleared
4 47 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.48%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.54%) 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 (6.91%) QA
2 64 (4.97%) 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 (7.38%) Docker
2 23 (1.79%) 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
1 174 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 122 (9.47%) Terraform
3 46 (3.57%) Ansible
4 11 (0.85%) 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
1 145 (11.26%) Google
2 87 (6.75%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.10%) ESRI
4 13 (1.01%) Databricks
5 12 (0.93%) Oracle
6 8 (0.62%) Apple
6 8 (0.62%) Xero
7 6 (0.47%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.47%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.39%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.23%) Progress
10 2 (0.16%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.16%) Calypso
10 2 (0.16%) Dell
10 2 (0.16%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.16%) Finsemble
10 2 (0.16%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.16%) PayPal
10 2 (0.16%) Sage
10 2 (0.16%) Salesforce