Software Engineering Jobs in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 23 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 338 501 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 8.94% 9.53% 8.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.67% 10.05% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 254 378 501
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,563 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £84,750 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -3.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £127,500
London median annual salary £91,500 £87,500 £86,400
% change year-on-year +4.57% +1.27% +11.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,494 4,985 7,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.46% 94.79% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 4,127 6,411
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +2 318 £80,000 -8.57% 48
City of Westminster -5 13 £82,500 -23.26% 1
West End of London +5 5 - - 2
Camden -13 5 £80,000 +220.00% 2
Southwark +16 1 £85,000 +3.03%
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
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 (7.99%) ArcGIS
1 27 (7.99%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.48%) Apache
3 5 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.48%) Confluence
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.59%) JBoss
5 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 182 (53.85%) AWS
2 115 (34.02%) Azure
3 33 (9.76%) Serverless
4 25 (7.40%) GCP
4 25 (7.40%) SaaS
5 23 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (5.03%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (3.25%) GitHub
10 10 (2.96%) PaaS
10 10 (2.96%) WhatsApp
11 8 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.03%) HTTP
2 13 (3.85%) Internet
3 4 (1.18%) Network Security
3 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.89%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (26.63%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.99%) GIS
2 27 (7.99%) QGIS
3 16 (4.73%) Redis
4 15 (4.44%) MySQL
5 14 (4.14%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.37%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.07%) Power BI
10 6 (1.78%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.78%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.48%) Flink
12 4 (1.18%) Big Data
12 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.18%) Tableau
13 3 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.89%) Metadata
13 3 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (13.61%) Git
2 27 (7.99%) GitLab
3 12 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.37%) JIRA
5 6 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.48%) Maven
6 5 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.89%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.89%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.59%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.30%) JMeter
10 1 (0.30%) JUnit
10 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.30%) Travis CI
General
1 85 (25.15%) Finance
2 72 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.10%) Banking
5 12 (3.55%) Health Technology
6 11 (3.25%) Games
7 10 (2.96%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.07%) Advertising
8 7 (2.07%) Front Office
8 7 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (2.07%) Retail
9 6 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.78%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.18%) Legal
10 4 (1.18%) Marketing
10 4 (1.18%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.30%) Back Office
11 1 (0.30%) Law
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 187 (55.33%) Software Engineer
2 91 (26.92%) Senior
3 64 (18.93%) Senior Software Engineer
4 46 (13.61%) Developer
5 31 (9.17%) Java Engineer
6 28 (8.28%) Java Software Engineer
7 18 (5.33%) Python Engineer
8 16 (4.73%) Junior
8 16 (4.73%) Lead
9 14 (4.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 13 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) .NET Developer
11 12 (3.55%) C# Developer
12 10 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (2.96%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (2.66%) Architect
13 9 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.66%) Junior Developer
14 8 (2.37%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.37%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (22.49%) .NET
2 65 (19.23%) React
3 35 (10.36%) CSS
4 33 (9.76%) Node.js
5 29 (8.58%) REST
6 27 (7.99%) Leaflet
6 27 (7.99%) OpenLayers
6 27 (7.99%) PostGIS
7 26 (7.69%) .NET Core
8 23 (6.80%) Spring
9 18 (5.33%) Kafka
9 18 (5.33%) RESTful
10 17 (5.03%) Django
11 16 (4.73%) GraphQL
12 14 (4.14%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.85%) ASP.NET
13 13 (3.85%) Laravel
14 12 (3.55%) FastAPI
14 12 (3.55%) HTML
14 12 (3.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.92%) Algorithms
2 18 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.55%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.78%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.78%) Life Science
7 6 (1.78%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.48%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.48%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.18%) FMCG
9 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.89%) Robotics
10 3 (0.89%) Tandem
11 2 (0.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.40%) Linux
2 11 (3.25%) Windows
3 8 (2.37%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.89%) Debian
4 3 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (34.02%) Agile
2 87 (25.74%) DevOps
3 75 (22.19%) Computer Science
4 66 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (17.46%) CI/CD
6 56 (16.57%) Fintech
7 53 (15.68%) Full Stack Development
7 53 (15.68%) Microservices
8 38 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
9 34 (10.06%) Web Development
10 27 (7.99%) Containerisation
11 24 (7.10%) Design Patterns
11 24 (7.10%) SDLC
12 23 (6.80%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (6.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (6.21%) Scrum
15 20 (5.92%) Mentoring
15 20 (5.92%) TDD
16 18 (5.33%) User Experience
16 18 (5.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 120 (35.50%) Python
2 116 (34.32%) Java
3 91 (26.92%) C#
4 61 (18.05%) JavaScript
5 56 (16.57%) Kotlin
6 50 (14.79%) SQL
7 42 (12.43%) Scala
8 22 (6.51%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.73%) C++
9 16 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 15 (4.44%) F#
10 15 (4.44%) Rust
11 14 (4.14%) Clojure
11 14 (4.14%) Go
11 14 (4.14%) Haskell
11 14 (4.14%) PHP
12 10 (2.96%) Ruby
13 7 (2.07%) Bash
14 4 (1.18%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 82 (24.26%) Degree
2 51 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.58%) SC Cleared
5 28 (8.28%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.96%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.37%) PhD
8 5 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.48%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.48%) QA
2 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (8.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) KVM
2 1 (0.30%) LXC
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (27.22%) Terraform
2 56 (16.57%) Kubernetes
3 49 (14.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.59%) Consul
4 2 (0.59%) Grafana
4 2 (0.59%) Packer
5 1 (0.30%) Juju
5 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.99%) ESRI
3 12 (3.55%) Google
4 11 (3.25%) Oracle
5 5 (1.48%) Apple
6 4 (1.18%) Apttus
6 4 (1.18%) DocuSign
6 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.30%) BEA
7 1 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.30%) Monzo
7 1 (0.30%) Splunk
7 1 (0.30%) Spotify
7 1 (0.30%) Sybase