Software Engineering Jobs in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,309 4,214 12,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.76% 11.99% 19.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.69% 12.57% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,909 2,893 4,375
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,500 £87,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £145,250 £138,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,594 33,512 65,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.31% 95.35% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16,091 24,053 34,441
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,555 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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 +3 339 £80,000 -5.88% 62
South London -30 25 £70,000 +27.27% 13
West London -56 15 £65,000 +13.04% 31
East London +21 12 £145,000 +276.62% 37
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 336 (14.55%) Apache
2 332 (14.38%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.17%) ArcGIS
4 27 (1.17%) Confluence
4 27 (1.17%) GeoServer
5 16 (0.69%) nginx
6 9 (0.39%) CMS
6 9 (0.39%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.22%) Solana
10 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.17%) Drupal
11 3 (0.13%) Captiva
11 3 (0.13%) FileNet
11 3 (0.13%) JBoss
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.087%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.043%) Blender
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.043%) Notion
4 1 (0.043%) Sketch
4 1 (0.043%) UXPin
4 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.13%) Endur
2 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.087%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.087%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.043%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (53.40%) AWS
2 711 (30.79%) Azure
3 561 (24.30%) GCP
4 206 (8.92%) dbt
5 188 (8.14%) Serverless
6 167 (7.23%) Snowflake
7 144 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
8 103 (4.46%) SaaS
9 88 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (2.94%) Power Platform
11 67 (2.90%) Amazon S3
11 67 (2.90%) GitHub
12 64 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
13 56 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 53 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
16 42 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
17 38 (1.65%) OpenShift
18 34 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.17%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.13%) HTTP
3 21 (0.91%) Internet
4 11 (0.48%) Firewall
5 8 (0.35%) DNS
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) Network Security
6 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.17%) Multicast
7 4 (0.17%) VoIP
8 2 (0.087%) Broadband
9 1 (0.043%) DHCP
9 1 (0.043%) IPFS
9 1 (0.043%) VPN
9 1 (0.043%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (12.52%) Apache Ignite
2 279 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
3 205 (8.88%) Amazon Athena
3 205 (8.88%) Dremio
4 204 (8.83%) Apache Arrow
5 180 (7.80%) Data Lake
6 120 (5.20%) SQL Server
7 75 (3.25%) MySQL
8 72 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
9 67 (2.90%) Redis
10 62 (2.69%) NoSQL
11 55 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 51 (2.21%) MongoDB
13 48 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 33 (1.43%) DynamoDB
15 31 (1.34%) Big Data
16 28 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
16 28 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (1.17%) GIS
17 27 (1.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 183 (7.93%) Git
2 97 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 95 (4.11%) GitLab
4 72 (3.12%) Cypress.io
5 65 (2.82%) JIRA
6 41 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.78%) CircleCI
8 18 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.74%) JUnit
10 15 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.65%) Selenium
11 11 (0.48%) Postman
12 10 (0.43%) JMeter
12 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.39%) Maven
13 9 (0.39%) Mocha
13 9 (0.39%) webpack
14 8 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 867 (37.55%) Finance
2 560 (24.25%) Front Office
3 387 (16.76%) Social Skills
4 380 (16.46%) Banking
5 218 (9.44%) Investment Banking
6 102 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
8 74 (3.20%) Back Office
8 74 (3.20%) Law
9 62 (2.69%) Marketing
10 52 (2.25%) Retail
11 51 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 50 (2.17%) Games
13 46 (1.99%) Legal
14 44 (1.91%) Health Technology
15 34 (1.47%) Tech for Good
16 27 (1.17%) Electronics
17 25 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.78%) Advertising
19 17 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,122 (48.59%) Software Engineer
2 705 (30.53%) Developer
3 609 (26.38%) Senior
4 376 (16.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 300 (12.99%) Lead
6 286 (12.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 261 (11.30%) Python Engineer
8 226 (9.79%) Python Developer
9 217 (9.40%) Python Software Engineer
10 165 (7.15%) Java Engineer
11 153 (6.63%) .NET Developer
12 148 (6.41%) Java Software Engineer
13 144 (6.24%) AWS Engineer
14 142 (6.15%) Senior Developer
15 135 (5.85%) Lead Software Engineer
16 132 (5.72%) React Developer
17 121 (5.24%) .NET Software Engineer
18 109 (4.72%) Full Stack Engineer
19 102 (4.42%) Architect
20 98 (4.24%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 610 (26.42%) React
2 442 (19.14%) .NET
3 328 (14.21%) gRPC
4 310 (13.43%) Protocol Buffers
5 242 (10.48%) Redux
6 229 (9.92%) Pandas
7 210 (9.09%) NumPy
8 202 (8.75%) Node.js
9 198 (8.58%) SciPy
10 189 (8.19%) AngularJS
11 174 (7.54%) .NET Core
12 147 (6.37%) Kafka
13 129 (5.59%) CSS
14 128 (5.54%) Vue
15 114 (4.94%) Material-UI
16 113 (4.89%) RESTful
17 103 (4.46%) REST
18 97 (4.20%) HTML
18 97 (4.20%) Spring
19 96 (4.16%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 484 (20.96%) Fixed Income
2 435 (18.84%) Hedge funds
3 382 (16.54%) Equities
4 344 (14.90%) Derivative
5 320 (13.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 124 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
7 122 (5.28%) Cloud Native
8 110 (4.76%) Client/Server
9 103 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
10 100 (4.33%) Algorithms
11 91 (3.94%) Data Structures
12 48 (2.08%) Product Ownership
13 41 (1.78%) Legacy Code
14 37 (1.60%) Tandem
15 33 (1.43%) Blockchain
16 30 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
16 30 (1.30%) Virtual Team
17 28 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
18 26 (1.13%) Blog
19 25 (1.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 210 (9.09%) Linux
2 45 (1.95%) Apple iOS
3 43 (1.86%) Windows
4 41 (1.78%) Android
5 25 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.69%) Debian
7 13 (0.56%) Unix
7 13 (0.56%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.39%) VMS
9 7 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,076 (46.60%) Agile
2 529 (22.91%) Asset Management
3 434 (18.80%) Investment Management
4 411 (17.80%) DevOps
5 407 (17.63%) Full Stack Development
6 375 (16.24%) Computer Science
7 341 (14.77%) CI/CD
8 322 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
9 279 (12.08%) Microservices
10 277 (12.00%) Fintech
11 232 (10.05%) Machine Learning
12 229 (9.92%) TDD
13 225 (9.74%) Artificial Intelligence
14 216 (9.35%) Mentoring
15 171 (7.41%) Analytics
16 167 (7.23%) Test Automation
17 148 (6.41%) Scrum
18 139 (6.02%) Data Science
19 134 (5.80%) Containerisation
20 131 (5.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,040 (45.04%) Python
2 702 (30.40%) Java
3 676 (29.28%) TypeScript
4 652 (28.24%) JavaScript
5 523 (22.65%) C#
6 379 (16.41%) SQL
7 173 (7.49%) Kotlin
8 149 (6.45%) Go
9 131 (5.67%) C++
10 118 (5.11%) C
11 106 (4.59%) Scala
12 92 (3.98%) Rust
13 68 (2.94%) PHP
14 55 (2.38%) R
15 51 (2.21%) Ruby
16 36 (1.56%) PowerShell
17 35 (1.52%) Bash
18 23 (1.00%) T-SQL
19 21 (0.91%) Bicep
20 20 (0.87%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 381 (16.50%) Degree
2 184 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 110 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 100 (4.33%) Master's Degree
5 86 (3.72%) SC Cleared
6 31 (1.34%) DBS Check
7 30 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.13%) PhD
9 21 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.17%) CISSP
13 4 (0.17%) HNC
13 4 (0.17%) HND
13 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.13%) CISM
14 3 (0.13%) GIAC
14 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (6.02%) QA
2 76 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 23 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 11 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.39%) WCAG
7 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.26%) GDPR
8 4 (0.17%) JTAG
8 4 (0.17%) NCSC
9 3 (0.13%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.087%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.087%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.087%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.043%) EMIR
11 1 (0.043%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.043%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.043%) MiFID
11 1 (0.043%) NIST
11 1 (0.043%) SEPA
System Software
1 290 (12.56%) Docker
2 20 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.39%) KVM
6 8 (0.35%) HDFS
7 3 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.087%) Ceph
8 2 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.043%) LXC
9 1 (0.043%) OpenSIPS
9 1 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 376 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 239 (10.35%) Terraform
3 78 (3.38%) Ansible
4 34 (1.47%) Grafana
5 18 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.35%) Kibana
6 8 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.13%) Argo
8 3 (0.13%) Consul
8 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.13%) logstash
8 3 (0.13%) Packer
9 2 (0.087%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.087%) Istio
9 2 (0.087%) Knative
9 2 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.087%) Wonderware InTouch
10 1 (0.043%) Podman
Vendors
1 183 (7.93%) Microsoft
2 170 (7.36%) Google
3 40 (1.73%) Bloomberg
4 31 (1.34%) Oracle
5 27 (1.17%) Databricks
5 27 (1.17%) ESRI
6 19 (0.82%) Adobe
7 12 (0.52%) Cloudera
7 12 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 11 (0.48%) Apple
9 10 (0.43%) VMware
10 9 (0.39%) GoCardless
10 9 (0.39%) PayPal
10 9 (0.39%) Sage
11 8 (0.35%) Cisco
11 8 (0.35%) Informatica
11 8 (0.35%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.35%) Xero
12 7 (0.30%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.26%) Amplitude