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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 52 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 -24 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,199 1,848 6,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.07% 5.48% 10.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.39% 5.76% 10.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 1,240 1,702
10th Percentile £55,650 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £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 £112,500 £112,188
90th Percentile £143,500 £135,000 £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 22,263 32,085 66,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.11% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,627 23,659 34,490
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £91,250
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 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 15 May 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 15 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 +45 187 £80,000 -8.57% 31
South London -4 14 £62,500 +38.89% 7
East London +25 8 £150,000 +160.87% 17
West London -20 8 £58,750 -12.96% 14
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,191 (99.33%) Software Engineering
2 717 (59.80%) AWS
3 586 (48.87%) Agile
4 569 (47.46%) Python
5 537 (44.79%) Finance
6 476 (39.70%) TypeScript
7 423 (35.28%) React
8 412 (34.36%) JavaScript
9 393 (32.78%) Java
10 389 (32.44%) Front Office
11 385 (32.11%) Azure
12 378 (31.53%) Asset Management
13 376 (31.36%) Fixed Income
14 363 (30.28%) GCP
15 350 (29.19%) Investment Management
16 308 (25.69%) Hedge funds
17 283 (23.60%) Full Stack Development
18 277 (23.10%) Apache Airflow
19 276 (23.02%) Banking
20 274 (22.85%) Apache
20 274 (22.85%) gRPC
21 267 (22.27%) Equities
22 262 (21.85%) Protocol Buffers
23 252 (21.02%) C#
24 250 (20.85%) Apache Ignite
25 239 (19.93%) .NET
26 238 (19.85%) Redux
27 224 (18.68%) Derivative
28 223 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
29 216 (18.02%) SQL

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
1 277 (23.10%) Apache Airflow
2 274 (22.85%) Apache
3 30 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.25%) ArcGIS
4 27 (2.25%) GeoServer
5 15 (1.25%) Confluence
6 4 (0.33%) CMS
6 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.25%) Captiva
7 3 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.25%) Drupal
7 3 (0.25%) FileNet
7 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) WinCC
9 1 (0.083%) JBoss
9 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.083%) Sketch
2 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.083%) UXPin
2 1 (0.083%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.083%) Endur
2 1 (0.083%) Findur
2 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.083%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 717 (59.80%) AWS
2 385 (32.11%) Azure
3 363 (30.28%) GCP
4 143 (11.93%) dbt
5 112 (9.34%) Snowflake
6 80 (6.67%) Serverless
7 65 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (2.67%) SaaS
9 22 (1.83%) Power Platform
10 21 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (1.33%) GitHub
14 12 (1.00%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (0.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.75%) Internet
2 20 (1.67%) HTTP
3 19 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.42%) Network Security
5 3 (0.25%) VoIP
6 1 (0.083%) AMQP
6 1 (0.083%) DHCP
6 1 (0.083%) DNS
6 1 (0.083%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (20.85%) Apache Ignite
2 216 (18.02%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (11.93%) Amazon Athena
4 141 (11.76%) Apache Arrow
4 141 (11.76%) Dremio
5 112 (9.34%) Data Lake
6 32 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 32 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 30 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.25%) GIS
9 27 (2.25%) QGIS
10 25 (2.09%) MySQL
11 23 (1.92%) DynamoDB
12 19 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (1.50%) Redis
14 11 (0.92%) Flink
14 11 (0.92%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.83%) Big Data
16 8 (0.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 78 (6.51%) Git
2 63 (5.25%) Cypress.io
3 36 (3.00%) GitLab
4 28 (2.34%) JIRA
5 16 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.83%) JUnit
6 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.75%) Maven
8 8 (0.67%) Selenium
9 6 (0.50%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.50%) JMeter
9 6 (0.50%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.42%) Gradle
11 4 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.25%) JDeveloper
12 3 (0.25%) Sourcetree
13 2 (0.17%) NUnit
13 2 (0.17%) Postman
General
1 537 (44.79%) Finance
2 389 (32.44%) Front Office
3 276 (23.02%) Banking
4 146 (12.18%) Investment Banking
5 130 (10.84%) Social Skills
6 61 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.84%) Back Office
8 44 (3.67%) Law
9 30 (2.50%) Health Technology
9 30 (2.50%) Marketing
10 29 (2.42%) Legal
11 28 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
12 23 (1.92%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.42%) Electronics
13 17 (1.42%) Retail
14 16 (1.33%) Games
15 15 (1.25%) Advertising
16 14 (1.17%) Tech for Good
17 13 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (35.28%) React
2 274 (22.85%) gRPC
3 262 (21.85%) Protocol Buffers
4 239 (19.93%) .NET
5 238 (19.85%) Redux
6 163 (13.59%) Pandas
7 157 (13.09%) AngularJS
8 148 (12.34%) NumPy
9 141 (11.76%) SciPy
10 126 (10.51%) Material-UI
11 123 (10.26%) Vue
12 113 (9.42%) Node.js
13 108 (9.01%) .NET Core
14 68 (5.67%) Spring
15 65 (5.42%) ASP.NET
15 65 (5.42%) GraphQL
15 65 (5.42%) RESTful
16 60 (5.00%) Spring Boot
17 58 (4.84%) CSS
18 56 (4.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 376 (31.36%) Fixed Income
2 308 (25.69%) Hedge funds
3 267 (22.27%) Equities
4 224 (18.68%) Derivative
5 223 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 64 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
7 63 (5.25%) Cloud Native
8 37 (3.09%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.92%) Client/Server
10 28 (2.34%) Algorithms
11 24 (2.00%) Legacy Code
11 24 (2.00%) Pricing Data
12 23 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.42%) PKI
15 14 (1.17%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.08%) Management Information System
16 13 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 11 (0.92%) Onboarding
18 10 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 90 (7.51%) Linux
2 24 (2.00%) Ubuntu
3 23 (1.92%) Android
4 22 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.33%) Debian
6 14 (1.17%) Windows
7 7 (0.58%) Unix
8 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.083%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,191 (99.33%) Software Engineering
2 586 (48.87%) Agile
3 378 (31.53%) Asset Management
4 350 (29.19%) Investment Management
5 283 (23.60%) Full Stack Development
6 184 (15.35%) Fintech
7 160 (13.34%) DevOps
8 148 (12.34%) Machine Learning
9 143 (11.93%) CI/CD
10 141 (11.76%) Microservices
11 128 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence
12 125 (10.43%) Computer Science
13 124 (10.34%) TDD
14 105 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
15 100 (8.34%) Test Automation
16 95 (7.92%) Automated Trading
17 89 (7.42%) Mentoring
18 81 (6.76%) Analytics
19 75 (6.26%) Scrum
20 64 (5.34%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 569 (47.46%) Python
2 476 (39.70%) TypeScript
3 412 (34.36%) JavaScript
4 393 (32.78%) Java
5 252 (21.02%) C#
6 216 (18.02%) SQL
7 135 (11.26%) Kotlin
8 81 (6.76%) C++
9 79 (6.59%) C
10 78 (6.51%) Rust
11 76 (6.34%) Go
12 68 (5.67%) Scala
13 34 (2.84%) PHP
14 26 (2.17%) Bash
15 24 (2.00%) Ruby
16 18 (1.50%) Clojure
17 14 (1.17%) Haskell
17 14 (1.17%) T-SQL
18 13 (1.08%) F#
19 11 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 139 (11.59%) Degree
2 79 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 43 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 20 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.58%) DBS Check
6 19 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.42%) PhD
9 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.25%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.25%) Sun Certification
10 2 (0.17%) HNC
10 2 (0.17%) HND
11 1 (0.083%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.01%) QA
2 51 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.42%) GDPR
4 4 (0.33%) JTAG
5 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.17%) EMIR
5 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.17%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.17%) MiFID
6 1 (0.083%) SEPA
System Software
1 88 (7.34%) Docker
2 16 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.33%) Ceph
4 3 (0.25%) Firmware
5 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.083%) KVM
6 1 (0.083%) LXC
Systems Management
1 170 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 108 (9.01%) Terraform
3 41 (3.42%) Ansible
4 11 (0.92%) Grafana
5 4 (0.33%) Knative
5 4 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.25%) Consul
6 3 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.25%) Packer
7 2 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.17%) Istio
7 2 (0.17%) Kibana
7 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.17%) Wonderware InTouch
8 1 (0.083%) Argo
8 1 (0.083%) Juju
8 1 (0.083%) Podman
Vendors
1 130 (10.84%) Google
2 82 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.25%) ESRI
4 18 (1.50%) Oracle
5 10 (0.83%) Databricks
6 8 (0.67%) Apple
6 8 (0.67%) Xero
7 6 (0.50%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.50%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.42%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.25%) IBM
9 3 (0.25%) Kofax
9 3 (0.25%) Pega
9 3 (0.25%) Progress
9 3 (0.25%) SAP
9 3 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.17%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.17%) Calypso
10 2 (0.17%) Sage
10 2 (0.17%) Salesforce