Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Software Engineer salary in Central London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 93 125
Rank change year-on-year +44 +32 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 188 178 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 4.97% 3.47% 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.22% 3.61% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 136 152 127
10th Percentile £54,375 £58,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +20.69% -3.33%
75th Percentile £101,563 £107,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £102,450
London median annual salary £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - +13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,604 4,925 7,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 95.99% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,795 4,101 6,369
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,993
25th Percentile £51,625 £54,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,210 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +0.98% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 16 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
City of London +42 177 £80,000 -11.11% 30
City of Westminster -7 11 £82,500 -23.26%
West End of London +12 7 £55,000 -48.84% 1
Camden -8 3 £80,000 - 1
Southwark - 1 £85,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Central London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 186 (98.94%) Software Engineering
2 122 (64.89%) AWS
3 79 (42.02%) Agile
4 77 (40.96%) Python
5 70 (37.23%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (36.17%) Java
7 60 (31.91%) Azure
8 56 (29.79%) DevOps
9 52 (27.66%) Terraform
10 49 (26.06%) .NET
11 47 (25.00%) JavaScript
12 45 (23.94%) React
13 44 (23.40%) C#
14 42 (22.34%) Full Stack Development
15 39 (20.74%) Finance
15 39 (20.74%) Git
16 37 (19.68%) Degree
17 36 (19.15%) Kotlin
18 35 (18.62%) Computer Science
19 34 (18.09%) CI/CD
20 33 (17.55%) Actionable Insight
20 33 (17.55%) Ansible
21 32 (17.02%) Web Development
21 32 (17.02%) Social Skills
22 31 (16.49%) SQL
23 30 (15.96%) CSS
24 29 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
25 28 (14.89%) Serverless
25 28 (14.89%) SC Cleared
25 28 (14.89%) Security Cleared

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 27 (14.36%) ArcGIS
1 27 (14.36%) GeoServer
2 4 (2.13%) Apache
2 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.13%) Confluence
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (64.89%) AWS
2 60 (31.91%) Azure
3 28 (14.89%) Serverless
4 22 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (7.98%) GCP
6 8 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.26%) SaaS
7 6 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.19%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.60%) Azure App Service
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.04%) HTTP
2 13 (6.91%) Internet
3 4 (2.13%) Network Security
4 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (37.23%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (14.36%) GIS
2 27 (14.36%) QGIS
3 10 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.32%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.72%) Power BI
6 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.66%) Redis
8 4 (2.13%) Flink
8 4 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.13%) MySQL
8 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.13%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.13%) Tableau
9 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.60%) Big Data
9 3 (1.60%) Metadata
9 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 39 (20.74%) Git
2 17 (9.04%) GitLab
3 5 (2.66%) Maven
4 4 (2.13%) JIRA
5 3 (1.60%) JDeveloper
5 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
General
1 39 (20.74%) Finance
2 32 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.64%) Banking
4 11 (5.85%) Health Technology
5 9 (4.79%) Tech for Good
6 7 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.66%) Advertising
8 5 (2.66%) Front Office
8 5 (2.66%) Games
8 5 (2.66%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.66%) Marketing
8 5 (2.66%) Retail
9 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.53%) Electronics
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (26.06%) .NET
2 45 (23.94%) React
3 30 (15.96%) CSS
4 27 (14.36%) Leaflet
4 27 (14.36%) OpenLayers
4 27 (14.36%) PostGIS
5 23 (12.23%) .NET Core
5 23 (12.23%) Node.js
6 19 (10.11%) Django
6 19 (10.11%) REST
7 16 (8.51%) RESTful
8 15 (7.98%) Spring
9 13 (6.91%) GraphQL
9 13 (6.91%) Laravel
10 10 (5.32%) Kafka
10 10 (5.32%) Spring Boot
11 9 (4.79%) .NET Framework
11 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.26%) ASP.NET
13 7 (3.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.66%) Fixed Income
3 5 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.66%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.06%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.06%) PKI
5 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.53%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) IoT
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.53%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.26%) Linux
1 8 (4.26%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.60%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (98.94%) Software Engineering
2 79 (42.02%) Agile
3 56 (29.79%) DevOps
4 42 (22.34%) Full Stack Development
5 35 (18.62%) Computer Science
6 34 (18.09%) CI/CD
7 33 (17.55%) Actionable Insight
8 32 (17.02%) Web Development
9 29 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (13.30%) Fintech
11 24 (12.77%) Microservices
12 20 (10.64%) TDD
13 16 (8.51%) Design Patterns
14 15 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (7.98%) Scrum
15 14 (7.45%) Pair Programming
16 13 (6.91%) Containerisation
16 13 (6.91%) Machine Learning
16 13 (6.91%) User Experience
16 13 (6.91%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 77 (40.96%) Python
2 68 (36.17%) Java
3 47 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 44 (23.40%) C#
5 36 (19.15%) Kotlin
6 31 (16.49%) SQL
7 24 (12.77%) Scala
8 13 (6.91%) F#
8 13 (6.91%) PHP
9 12 (6.38%) Clojure
9 12 (6.38%) Haskell
9 12 (6.38%) Rust
10 10 (5.32%) Go
11 9 (4.79%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.72%) C++
13 5 (2.66%) Bash
13 5 (2.66%) Ruby
14 4 (2.13%) C
14 4 (2.13%) VBA
15 3 (1.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (19.68%) Degree
2 28 (14.89%) SC Cleared
2 28 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 26 (13.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.38%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.60%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) KVM
2 1 (0.53%) LXC
Systems Management
1 52 (27.66%) Terraform
2 33 (17.55%) Ansible
3 21 (11.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.06%) Consul
4 2 (1.06%) Packer
5 1 (0.53%) Juju
Vendors
1 27 (14.36%) ESRI
2 20 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.72%) Google
4 4 (2.13%) Apple
5 3 (1.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.53%) BEA
6 1 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.53%) Spotify