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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 220 228
Rank change year-on-year -52 +8 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 252 576 1,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.07% 1.63% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.72% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 215 466 606
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £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 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £164,000 £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 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £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 3 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 3 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 +30 70 £85,000 +17.24% 15
South London -28 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 3 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.

1 126 (50.00%) Agile
2 124 (49.21%) JavaScript
3 110 (43.65%) C#
4 102 (40.48%) Java
5 98 (38.89%) AWS
6 81 (32.14%) .NET
7 80 (31.75%) Software Engineering
8 79 (31.35%) Finance
9 76 (30.16%) Python
10 65 (25.79%) SQL
11 63 (25.00%) Azure
12 59 (23.41%) TypeScript
13 58 (23.02%) Front Office
14 55 (21.83%) Apache
15 54 (21.43%) HTML
15 54 (21.43%) Banking
15 54 (21.43%) Degree
16 52 (20.63%) Investment Banking
16 52 (20.63%) Asset Management
16 52 (20.63%) SQL Server
16 52 (20.63%) CSS
16 52 (20.63%) GCP
17 51 (20.24%) gRPC
17 51 (20.24%) Apache Airflow
17 51 (20.24%) Amazon Athena
17 51 (20.24%) Apache Ignite
17 51 (20.24%) Dremio
17 51 (20.24%) dbt
17 51 (20.24%) Apache Arrow
17 51 (20.24%) SciPy

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 55 (21.83%) Apache
2 51 (20.24%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.98%) Drupal
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 98 (38.89%) AWS
2 63 (25.00%) Azure
3 52 (20.63%) GCP
4 51 (20.24%) dbt
5 36 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.37%) GitHub
8 10 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.17%) Serverless
10 6 (2.38%) Boomi
11 5 (1.98%) Pulumi
12 4 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.59%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.59%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Table
14 2 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.79%) npm
14 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.79%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.79%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.59%) Multicast
1 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (20.63%) SQL Server
2 51 (20.24%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (20.24%) Apache Arrow
2 51 (20.24%) Apache Ignite
2 51 (20.24%) Dremio
3 36 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 18 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.57%) MySQL
6 5 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.19%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (1.19%) DB2
7 3 (1.19%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.79%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (11.90%) Git
2 12 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.78%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.78%) CMake
4 5 (1.98%) JIRA
5 3 (1.19%) Protractor
6 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.79%) GitLab
6 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.40%) Appium
7 1 (0.40%) Gradle
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) TestNG
7 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 79 (31.35%) Finance
2 58 (23.02%) Front Office
3 54 (21.43%) Banking
4 52 (20.63%) Investment Banking
5 45 (17.86%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.38%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Automotive
9 5 (1.98%) Law
10 4 (1.59%) Electronics
11 3 (1.19%) Games
12 2 (0.79%) Marketing
13 1 (0.40%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.40%) Military
13 1 (0.40%) Police
13 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (32.14%) .NET
2 54 (21.43%) HTML
3 52 (20.63%) CSS
4 51 (20.24%) gRPC
4 51 (20.24%) NumPy
4 51 (20.24%) Pandas
4 51 (20.24%) Protocol Buffers
4 51 (20.24%) SciPy
5 30 (11.90%) WPF
6 29 (11.51%) RESTful
7 26 (10.32%) AngularJS
8 25 (9.92%) HTML5
9 17 (6.75%) .NET Framework
9 17 (6.75%) ASP.NET
10 13 (5.16%) React
11 11 (4.37%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (3.57%) Entity Framework
12 9 (3.57%) jQuery
13 8 (3.17%) JSON
13 8 (3.17%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.24%) Fixed Income
2 48 (19.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 47 (18.65%) Hedge funds
4 45 (17.86%) Equities
5 44 (17.46%) Derivative
6 21 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (7.94%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (4.76%) Data Structures
9 10 (3.97%) Blockchain
10 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
11 8 (3.17%) IoT
12 6 (2.38%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.98%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
14 3 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.19%) Swaptions
14 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 2 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.70%) Windows
2 13 (5.16%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.38%) Android
4 6 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (50.00%) Agile
2 80 (31.75%) Software Engineering
3 52 (20.63%) Asset Management
4 47 (18.65%) Computer Science
5 40 (15.87%) Fintech
6 39 (15.48%) Full Stack Development
7 38 (15.08%) Investment Management
8 36 (14.29%) DevOps
8 36 (14.29%) Line Management
9 35 (13.89%) TDD
10 34 (13.49%) CI/CD
11 33 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (12.70%) Multithreading
13 31 (12.30%) Collaborative Working
14 25 (9.92%) Multithreaded Programming
15 23 (9.13%) Microservices
16 21 (8.33%) Mentoring
17 20 (7.94%) Analytics
17 20 (7.94%) Clean Code
18 16 (6.35%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 124 (49.21%) JavaScript
2 110 (43.65%) C#
3 102 (40.48%) Java
4 76 (30.16%) Python
5 65 (25.79%) SQL
6 59 (23.41%) TypeScript
7 22 (8.73%) Kotlin
8 12 (4.76%) Go
9 10 (3.97%) Ruby
10 9 (3.57%) Scala
11 8 (3.17%) C++
12 7 (2.78%) PHP
13 5 (1.98%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.98%) C
13 5 (1.98%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.19%) Erlang
14 3 (1.19%) Rust
14 3 (1.19%) VB
15 1 (0.40%) FoxPro (VFP)
15 1 (0.40%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 54 (21.43%) Degree
2 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.98%) PhD
4 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.19%) MCSD
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.38%) QA
2 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (8.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (9.13%) Terraform
2 15 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.59%) Grafana
3 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.17%) Oracle
3 7 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.59%) Quadient
5 4 (1.59%) Splunk
6 3 (1.19%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.19%) Sybase
6 3 (1.19%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.79%) Dell
7 2 (0.79%) F5
7 2 (0.79%) YouTube
8 1 (0.40%) Google
8 1 (0.40%) Peregrine