Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 82 131
Rank change year-on-year +38 +49 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 175 167 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.25% 3.61% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.47% 3.75% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 131 146 118
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +24.14% -3.33%
75th Percentile £101,875 £107,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +20.69% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,202 4,453 6,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.01% 96.22% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,539 3,732 5,656
10th Percentile £41,200 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,441 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the City of London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the City of London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the City of London

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 14 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
London Bridge - 1 £85,000 -
Software Engineer
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 City of London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 173 (98.86%) Software Engineering
2 112 (64.00%) AWS
3 70 (40.00%) Agile
4 68 (38.86%) Python
5 66 (37.71%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (36.57%) Java
7 58 (33.14%) Azure
8 53 (30.29%) DevOps
9 50 (28.57%) Terraform
10 49 (28.00%) .NET
11 47 (26.86%) JavaScript
12 44 (25.14%) React
13 43 (24.57%) C#
14 37 (21.14%) Finance
15 35 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
16 34 (19.43%) Degree
17 33 (18.86%) Computer Science
17 33 (18.86%) Kotlin
17 33 (18.86%) Actionable Insight
18 32 (18.29%) Ansible
18 32 (18.29%) Web Development
19 31 (17.71%) Git
20 30 (17.14%) CSS
21 29 (16.57%) SQL
22 28 (16.00%) SC Cleared
22 28 (16.00%) Security Cleared
23 27 (15.43%) GIS
23 27 (15.43%) ESRI
23 27 (15.43%) ArcGIS
23 27 (15.43%) PostGIS

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (15.43%) ArcGIS
1 27 (15.43%) GeoServer
2 4 (2.29%) Apache
2 4 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.71%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (64.00%) AWS
2 58 (33.14%) Azure
3 20 (11.43%) Serverless
4 14 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (7.43%) GCP
6 7 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.00%) SaaS
7 6 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.43%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.29%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.71%) Azure App Service
9 3 (1.71%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.71%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.14%) HTTP
2 13 (7.43%) Internet
3 4 (2.29%) Network Security
4 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.57%) DHCP
5 1 (0.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (37.71%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.43%) GIS
2 27 (15.43%) QGIS
3 7 (4.00%) Power BI
3 7 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.86%) Redis
6 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.29%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.29%) Flink
6 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.29%) Tableau
7 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.71%) MySQL
7 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.71%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.71%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.14%) Big Data
8 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (17.71%) Git
2 9 (5.14%) GitLab
3 5 (2.86%) Maven
4 3 (1.71%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.71%) JIRA
5 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
General
1 37 (21.14%) Finance
2 24 (13.71%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.43%) Banking
4 11 (6.29%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.14%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.86%) Advertising
8 5 (2.86%) Front Office
8 5 (2.86%) Games
8 5 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.86%) Retail
9 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (28.00%) .NET
2 44 (25.14%) React
3 30 (17.14%) CSS
4 27 (15.43%) Leaflet
4 27 (15.43%) OpenLayers
4 27 (15.43%) PostGIS
5 23 (13.14%) .NET Core
6 22 (12.57%) Node.js
7 17 (9.71%) REST
8 15 (8.57%) Spring
9 13 (7.43%) Laravel
10 12 (6.86%) Django
11 10 (5.71%) RESTful
11 10 (5.71%) Spring Boot
12 9 (5.14%) .NET Framework
12 9 (5.14%) AngularJS
12 9 (5.14%) Kafka
13 8 (4.57%) ASP.NET
14 7 (4.00%) HTML
15 6 (3.43%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.86%) Fixed Income
2 5 (2.86%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.86%) Reinsurance
3 4 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.14%) PKI
5 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.57%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.57%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.57%) IoT
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.57%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.57%) Linux
1 8 (4.57%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.71%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (98.86%) Software Engineering
2 70 (40.00%) Agile
3 53 (30.29%) DevOps
4 35 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 33 (18.86%) Actionable Insight
5 33 (18.86%) Computer Science
6 32 (18.29%) Web Development
7 25 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 24 (13.71%) Fintech
9 23 (13.14%) Microservices
10 22 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (9.14%) Design Patterns
12 15 (8.57%) Scrum
13 14 (8.00%) TDD
14 13 (7.43%) Containerisation
14 13 (7.43%) User Experience
14 13 (7.43%) UX Design
15 12 (6.86%) Functional Programming
15 12 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (6.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 68 (38.86%) Python
2 64 (36.57%) Java
3 47 (26.86%) JavaScript
4 43 (24.57%) C#
5 33 (18.86%) Kotlin
6 29 (16.57%) SQL
7 22 (12.57%) Scala
8 13 (7.43%) PHP
9 12 (6.86%) Clojure
9 12 (6.86%) F#
9 12 (6.86%) Haskell
9 12 (6.86%) Rust
10 10 (5.71%) Go
11 8 (4.57%) TypeScript
12 7 (4.00%) C++
13 5 (2.86%) Bash
13 5 (2.86%) Ruby
14 4 (2.29%) C
14 4 (2.29%) VBA
15 3 (1.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (19.43%) Degree
2 28 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 28 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 24 (13.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.71%) QA
2 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (4.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) KVM
2 1 (0.57%) LXC
Systems Management
1 50 (28.57%) Terraform
2 32 (18.29%) Ansible
3 19 (10.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.57%) Consul
4 1 (0.57%) Juju
4 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (15.43%) ESRI
2 18 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.86%) Google
4 4 (2.29%) Apple
5 3 (1.71%) Oracle