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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 83 135
Rank change year-on-year +41 +52 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 180 169 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.34% 3.65% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.57% 3.79% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 134 150 114
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £50,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +22.41% -3.33%
75th Percentile £102,188 £107,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,625 £120,000 £103,725
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 3,232 4,457 6,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 96.28% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,557 3,741 5,601
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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.

1 178 (98.89%) Software Engineering
2 114 (63.33%) AWS
3 71 (39.44%) Agile
4 69 (38.33%) Python
5 66 (36.67%) Java
5 66 (36.67%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (32.22%) Azure
7 54 (30.00%) DevOps
8 50 (27.78%) Terraform
8 50 (27.78%) .NET
9 48 (26.67%) JavaScript
10 45 (25.00%) C#
10 45 (25.00%) React
11 39 (21.67%) Finance
12 36 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
13 35 (19.44%) Degree
13 35 (19.44%) Actionable Insight
14 34 (18.89%) Computer Science
15 33 (18.33%) Kotlin
16 32 (17.78%) Ansible
16 32 (17.78%) Git
16 32 (17.78%) Web Development
17 31 (17.22%) CSS
18 29 (16.11%) SC Cleared
18 29 (16.11%) Security Cleared
19 28 (15.56%) SQL
20 27 (15.00%) GIS
20 27 (15.00%) ESRI
20 27 (15.00%) ArcGIS
20 27 (15.00%) 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 (15.00%) ArcGIS
1 27 (15.00%) GeoServer
2 4 (2.22%) Apache
2 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.67%) Confluence
4 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.11%) JBoss
4 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (63.33%) AWS
2 58 (32.22%) Azure
3 21 (11.67%) Serverless
4 14 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (7.22%) GCP
6 7 (3.89%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.89%) SaaS
7 6 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (1.67%) Azure App Service
10 3 (1.67%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.67%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.89%) HTTP
2 13 (7.22%) Internet
3 4 (2.22%) Network Security
4 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (36.67%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.00%) GIS
2 27 (15.00%) QGIS
3 7 (3.89%) Power BI
3 7 (3.89%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.78%) Redis
5 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.22%) Flink
5 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.22%) MySQL
5 4 (2.22%) Tableau
6 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.11%) Big Data
7 2 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (17.78%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) GitLab
3 5 (2.78%) Maven
4 3 (1.67%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.67%) JIRA
5 2 (1.11%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (21.67%) Finance
2 26 (14.44%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.22%) Banking
4 11 (6.11%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.00%) Tech for Good
6 7 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.78%) Advertising
8 5 (2.78%) Front Office
8 5 (2.78%) Games
8 5 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.78%) Retail
9 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.67%) Marketing
10 2 (1.11%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (27.78%) .NET
2 45 (25.00%) React
3 31 (17.22%) CSS
4 27 (15.00%) Leaflet
4 27 (15.00%) OpenLayers
4 27 (15.00%) PostGIS
5 23 (12.78%) .NET Core
6 22 (12.22%) Node.js
7 18 (10.00%) REST
8 17 (9.44%) Spring
9 13 (7.22%) Laravel
10 12 (6.67%) Django
11 10 (5.56%) .NET Framework
11 10 (5.56%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.56%) RESTful
11 10 (5.56%) Spring Boot
12 9 (5.00%) ASP.NET
12 9 (5.00%) Kafka
13 8 (4.44%) HTML
14 6 (3.33%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.78%) Fixed Income
2 5 (2.78%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.78%) Reinsurance
3 4 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.11%) PKI
6 1 (0.56%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.56%) Derivative
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.56%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.44%) Linux
1 8 (4.44%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (98.89%) Software Engineering
2 71 (39.44%) Agile
3 54 (30.00%) DevOps
4 36 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 35 (19.44%) Actionable Insight
6 34 (18.89%) Computer Science
7 32 (17.78%) Web Development
8 25 (13.89%) CI/CD
8 25 (13.89%) Microservices
9 24 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (12.78%) Fintech
11 17 (9.44%) Design Patterns
12 16 (8.89%) Scrum
12 16 (8.89%) User Experience
12 16 (8.89%) UX Design
13 15 (8.33%) TDD
14 14 (7.78%) Containerisation
14 14 (7.78%) Functional Programming
15 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (6.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.33%) Python
2 66 (36.67%) Java
3 48 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 45 (25.00%) C#
5 33 (18.33%) Kotlin
6 28 (15.56%) SQL
7 22 (12.22%) Scala
8 14 (7.78%) Clojure
8 14 (7.78%) F#
8 14 (7.78%) Haskell
8 14 (7.78%) Rust
9 13 (7.22%) PHP
10 10 (5.56%) Go
11 7 (3.89%) C++
11 7 (3.89%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.33%) Ruby
13 5 (2.78%) Bash
14 4 (2.22%) C
14 4 (2.22%) VBA
15 3 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (19.44%) Degree
2 29 (16.11%) SC Cleared
2 29 (16.11%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.67%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (4.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) KVM
2 1 (0.56%) LXC
Systems Management
1 50 (27.78%) Terraform
2 32 (17.78%) Ansible
3 19 (10.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.56%) Consul
4 1 (0.56%) Juju
4 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (15.00%) ESRI
2 18 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.78%) Google
4 4 (2.22%) Apple
5 3 (1.67%) Oracle