Software Developer Jobs in London

Software Developer
England > London

The median Software Developer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 222 234
Rank change year-on-year -51 +12 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 255 581 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.08% 1.64% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.73% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 217 470 603
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £137,500 £97,188 £93,750
90th Percentile £163,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

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 22,214 33,631 64,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 95.05% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,714 24,683 34,818
10th Percentile £38,110 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +33 71 £85,000 +17.24% 9
South London -33 5 £40,750 -25.91%
East London - 5 £52,500 - 2
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 129 (50.59%) Agile
2 127 (49.80%) JavaScript
3 110 (43.14%) C#
4 105 (41.18%) Java
5 101 (39.61%) AWS
6 83 (32.55%) Software Engineering
7 81 (31.76%) Finance
7 81 (31.76%) .NET
8 79 (30.98%) Python
9 68 (26.67%) SQL
10 64 (25.10%) Azure
11 61 (23.92%) TypeScript
12 60 (23.53%) Front Office
13 57 (22.35%) Apache
14 56 (21.96%) Banking
15 55 (21.57%) Degree
15 55 (21.57%) HTML
15 55 (21.57%) GCP
16 54 (21.18%) Investment Banking
16 54 (21.18%) Asset Management
17 53 (20.78%) CSS
17 53 (20.78%) Protocol Buffers
17 53 (20.78%) Pandas
17 53 (20.78%) SciPy
17 53 (20.78%) NumPy
17 53 (20.78%) gRPC
17 53 (20.78%) Apache Airflow
17 53 (20.78%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (20.78%) Apache Ignite
17 53 (20.78%) Dremio

Software Developer 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 57 (22.35%) Apache
2 53 (20.78%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.96%) Drupal
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 101 (39.61%) AWS
2 64 (25.10%) Azure
3 55 (21.57%) GCP
4 53 (20.78%) dbt
5 36 (14.12%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.31%) GitHub
8 10 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.14%) Serverless
10 6 (2.35%) Boomi
11 5 (1.96%) Pulumi
12 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.57%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.57%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (1.18%) Azure Table
14 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.78%) npm
14 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.78%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) Multicast
1 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (20.78%) Amazon Athena
1 53 (20.78%) Apache Arrow
1 53 (20.78%) Apache Ignite
1 53 (20.78%) Dremio
2 52 (20.39%) SQL Server
3 36 (14.12%) Data Lake
4 18 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.53%) MySQL
6 5 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (1.18%) DB2
7 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (12.16%) Git
2 12 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.75%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.75%) CMake
4 5 (1.96%) JIRA
5 3 (1.18%) Protractor
6 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.78%) GitLab
6 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) Appium
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Maven
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) TestNG
7 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 81 (31.76%) Finance
2 60 (23.53%) Front Office
3 56 (21.96%) Banking
4 54 (21.18%) Investment Banking
5 46 (18.04%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.35%) Legal
10 5 (1.96%) Automotive
10 5 (1.96%) Law
11 4 (1.57%) Electronics
12 3 (1.18%) Games
13 2 (0.78%) Marketing
14 1 (0.39%) Brand Awareness
14 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.39%) Military
14 1 (0.39%) Police
14 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.76%) .NET
2 55 (21.57%) HTML
3 53 (20.78%) CSS
3 53 (20.78%) gRPC
3 53 (20.78%) NumPy
3 53 (20.78%) Pandas
3 53 (20.78%) Protocol Buffers
3 53 (20.78%) SciPy
4 30 (11.76%) RESTful
4 30 (11.76%) WPF
5 27 (10.59%) AngularJS
6 25 (9.80%) HTML5
7 17 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 17 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.49%) React
9 11 (4.31%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (3.53%) Entity Framework
10 9 (3.53%) jQuery
11 8 (3.14%) JSON
11 8 (3.14%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 48 (18.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 47 (18.43%) Hedge funds
4 45 (17.65%) Equities
5 44 (17.25%) Derivative
6 21 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (4.71%) Data Structures
9 10 (3.92%) Blockchain
10 9 (3.53%) Cloud Native
11 8 (3.14%) IoT
12 6 (2.35%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.96%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
15 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (1.18%) Swaptions
15 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 2 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.55%) Windows
2 14 (5.49%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.75%) Android
3 7 (2.75%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (50.59%) Agile
2 83 (32.55%) Software Engineering
3 54 (21.18%) Asset Management
4 48 (18.82%) Computer Science
5 40 (15.69%) Fintech
6 39 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
7 38 (14.90%) Investment Management
8 36 (14.12%) DevOps
8 36 (14.12%) Line Management
9 35 (13.73%) TDD
10 34 (13.33%) CI/CD
10 34 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (12.55%) Collaborative Working
11 32 (12.55%) Multithreading
12 25 (9.80%) Multithreaded Programming
13 23 (9.02%) Microservices
14 22 (8.63%) Analytics
14 22 (8.63%) Mentoring
15 21 (8.24%) Clean Code
16 16 (6.27%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 127 (49.80%) JavaScript
2 110 (43.14%) C#
3 105 (41.18%) Java
4 79 (30.98%) Python
5 68 (26.67%) SQL
6 61 (23.92%) TypeScript
7 22 (8.63%) Kotlin
8 12 (4.71%) Go
8 12 (4.71%) Ruby
9 11 (4.31%) Scala
10 9 (3.53%) C++
11 7 (2.75%) PHP
12 5 (1.96%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.96%) C
12 5 (1.96%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.18%) Erlang
13 3 (1.18%) Rust
13 3 (1.18%) VB
14 1 (0.39%) FoxPro (VFP)
14 1 (0.39%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 55 (21.57%) Degree
2 8 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.96%) PhD
4 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.18%) MCSD
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.75%) QA
2 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (9.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (9.02%) Terraform
2 16 (6.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.57%) Grafana
3 4 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.14%) Oracle
3 7 (2.75%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.35%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.57%) Quadient
5 4 (1.57%) Splunk
6 3 (1.18%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.18%) Sybase
6 3 (1.18%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.78%) Dell
7 2 (0.78%) F5
7 2 (0.78%) Google
7 2 (0.78%) YouTube
8 1 (0.39%) Peregrine