Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer
England > London

The median Software Engineer salary in London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 59 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 -29 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,076 1,899 6,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.58% 5.30% 9.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.87% 5.58% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,255 1,708
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £133,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £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 £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +37 189 £80,000 -8.57% 34
South London -2 14 £62,500 +38.89% 5
East London +27 8 £150,000 +160.87% 17
West London -14 6 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,067 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 625 (58.09%) AWS
3 504 (46.84%) Agile
4 485 (45.07%) Python
5 458 (42.57%) Finance
6 400 (37.17%) TypeScript
7 379 (35.22%) React
8 365 (33.92%) JavaScript
9 347 (32.25%) Azure
10 336 (31.23%) Java
11 329 (30.58%) Front Office
12 320 (29.74%) GCP
13 312 (29.00%) Fixed Income
13 312 (29.00%) Asset Management
14 284 (26.39%) Investment Management
15 252 (23.42%) Full Stack Development
16 249 (23.14%) C#
17 245 (22.77%) Hedge funds
18 229 (21.28%) .NET
19 219 (20.35%) Banking
20 211 (19.61%) Equities
21 209 (19.42%) Apache Airflow
22 207 (19.24%) Redux
22 207 (19.24%) gRPC
23 201 (18.68%) Apache
24 198 (18.40%) SQL
25 197 (18.31%) Protocol Buffers
26 189 (17.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
27 188 (17.47%) Derivative
28 183 (17.01%) Apache Ignite

Software Engineer 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
1 209 (19.42%) Apache Airflow
2 201 (18.68%) Apache
3 27 (2.51%) ArcGIS
3 27 (2.51%) GeoServer
4 17 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.39%) Confluence
6 4 (0.37%) CMS
6 4 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.28%) Captiva
7 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) Drupal
7 3 (0.28%) FileNet
7 3 (0.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
7 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 2 (0.19%) WinCC
9 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.093%) Sketch
2 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.093%) UXPin
2 1 (0.093%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.093%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 625 (58.09%) AWS
2 347 (32.25%) Azure
3 320 (29.74%) GCP
4 104 (9.67%) dbt
5 74 (6.88%) Serverless
6 72 (6.69%) Snowflake
7 59 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (2.60%) SaaS
9 22 (2.04%) Power Platform
10 21 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (0.93%) GitHub
15 9 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (0.84%) Amazon S3
16 8 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
17 6 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (0.56%) Firebase
17 6 (0.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.95%) Internet
2 20 (1.86%) HTTP
3 18 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.46%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) VoIP
6 1 (0.093%) AMQP
6 1 (0.093%) DHCP
6 1 (0.093%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (17.01%) Apache Ignite
2 180 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (9.67%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (9.67%) Apache Arrow
3 104 (9.67%) Dremio
4 72 (6.69%) Data Lake
5 33 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 27 (2.51%) GIS
7 27 (2.51%) QGIS
8 25 (2.32%) MySQL
8 25 (2.32%) NoSQL
9 23 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.58%) Redis
11 16 (1.49%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.93%) Big Data
14 9 (0.84%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.74%) Flink
16 7 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (6.69%) Git
2 42 (3.90%) Cypress.io
3 32 (2.97%) GitLab
4 26 (2.42%) JIRA
5 15 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.93%) JUnit
6 10 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.84%) Maven
8 6 (0.56%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.56%) JMeter
8 6 (0.56%) Selenium
8 6 (0.56%) WebDriver
9 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.28%) Gradle
11 3 (0.28%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.28%) JDeveloper
11 3 (0.28%) Sourcetree
12 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 458 (42.57%) Finance
2 329 (30.58%) Front Office
3 219 (20.35%) Banking
4 126 (11.71%) Social Skills
5 113 (10.50%) Investment Banking
6 44 (4.09%) Back Office
7 38 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (2.60%) Marketing
9 26 (2.42%) Health Technology
10 24 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
11 23 (2.14%) Public Sector
12 21 (1.95%) Law
13 17 (1.58%) Legal
13 17 (1.58%) Retail
14 15 (1.39%) Games
15 14 (1.30%) Electronics
15 14 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.12%) Advertising
17 11 (1.02%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (35.22%) React
2 229 (21.28%) .NET
3 207 (19.24%) gRPC
3 207 (19.24%) Redux
4 197 (18.31%) Protocol Buffers
5 159 (14.78%) AngularJS
6 124 (11.52%) Pandas
7 122 (11.34%) Vue
8 108 (10.04%) NumPy
9 104 (9.67%) .NET Core
9 104 (9.67%) Node.js
9 104 (9.67%) SciPy
10 103 (9.57%) Material-UI
11 67 (6.23%) Spring
12 65 (6.04%) ASP.NET
13 62 (5.76%) GraphQL
14 57 (5.30%) RESTful
14 57 (5.30%) Spring Boot
15 55 (5.11%) CSS
16 53 (4.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 312 (29.00%) Fixed Income
2 245 (22.77%) Hedge funds
3 211 (19.61%) Equities
4 189 (17.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 188 (17.47%) Derivative
6 59 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.55%) Cloud Native
8 33 (3.07%) Client/Server
8 33 (3.07%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 27 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (2.04%) Legacy Code
12 18 (1.67%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.49%) PKI
14 13 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.21%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.12%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.12%) Pricing Data
16 10 (0.93%) 3D Graphics
16 10 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.62%) Linux
2 24 (2.23%) Ubuntu
3 20 (1.86%) Android
3 20 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.49%) Debian
5 7 (0.65%) Unix
5 7 (0.65%) Windows
6 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,067 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 504 (46.84%) Agile
3 312 (29.00%) Asset Management
4 284 (26.39%) Investment Management
5 252 (23.42%) Full Stack Development
6 173 (16.08%) Fintech
7 154 (14.31%) DevOps
8 130 (12.08%) Microservices
9 128 (11.90%) Computer Science
10 119 (11.06%) CI/CD
11 117 (10.87%) TDD
12 114 (10.59%) Machine Learning
13 97 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
14 94 (8.74%) Artificial Intelligence
15 91 (8.46%) Mentoring
15 91 (8.46%) Test Automation
16 85 (7.90%) Analytics
17 69 (6.41%) Automated Trading
18 66 (6.13%) Scrum
19 57 (5.30%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 485 (45.07%) Python
2 400 (37.17%) TypeScript
3 365 (33.92%) JavaScript
4 336 (31.23%) Java
5 249 (23.14%) C#
6 198 (18.40%) SQL
7 117 (10.87%) Kotlin
8 73 (6.78%) Rust
9 71 (6.60%) C
10 69 (6.41%) C++
11 65 (6.04%) Go
12 64 (5.95%) Scala
13 34 (3.16%) PHP
14 27 (2.51%) Ruby
15 23 (2.14%) Bash
16 17 (1.58%) Clojure
17 16 (1.49%) Haskell
18 15 (1.39%) F#
18 15 (1.39%) T-SQL
19 10 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 138 (12.83%) Degree
2 81 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (5.30%) Security Cleared
4 44 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 15 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.46%) PhD
9 3 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.28%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.28%) Sun Certification
10 2 (0.19%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.19%) HNC
10 2 (0.19%) HND
11 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.093%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.06%) QA
2 33 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.46%) GDPR
4 3 (0.28%) JTAG
5 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.093%) SEPA
System Software
1 79 (7.34%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.093%) KVM
4 1 (0.093%) LXC
Systems Management
1 146 (13.57%) Kubernetes
2 96 (8.92%) Terraform
3 35 (3.25%) Ansible
4 9 (0.84%) Grafana
5 3 (0.28%) Consul
5 3 (0.28%) Packer
6 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.19%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.19%) Istio
6 2 (0.19%) Kibana
6 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.19%) Wonderware InTouch
7 1 (0.093%) Juju
7 1 (0.093%) Podman
Vendors
1 96 (8.92%) Google
2 70 (6.51%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.51%) ESRI
4 18 (1.67%) Oracle
5 9 (0.84%) Databricks
6 8 (0.74%) Apple
6 8 (0.74%) Xero
7 6 (0.56%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.56%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.46%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.28%) IBM
9 3 (0.28%) Kofax
9 3 (0.28%) Pega
9 3 (0.28%) Progress
9 3 (0.28%) SAP
9 3 (0.28%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.19%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.19%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.19%) PayPal
10 2 (0.19%) Siemens