Software Development Manager Jobs in London

Software Development Manager
England > London

The median Software Development Manager salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 617 716
Rank change year-on-year +180 +99 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 59 35 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.095% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.10% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35 35 115
10th Percentile - £65,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £68,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -7.89% +7.04%
75th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £133,000 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

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 22,027 34,996 62,096
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.06% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,644 25,517 35,134
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £93,375 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in London

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in London

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in London

Software Development Manager
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 Development Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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 +47 6 £50,000 -47.37% 2
South London +13 2 £130,000 +48.57%
Software Development Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Software Development Manager 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 Development Manager in the job title.

1 36 (61.02%) Agile
2 33 (55.93%) Java
3 26 (44.07%) SQL Server
3 26 (44.07%) SDLC
4 25 (42.37%) Games
4 25 (42.37%) Roadmaps
5 24 (40.68%) Swaptions
5 24 (40.68%) Sybase
5 24 (40.68%) VB
5 24 (40.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (40.68%) Data Modelling
5 24 (40.68%) TIBCO
5 24 (40.68%) OpenLink
5 24 (40.68%) Endur
5 24 (40.68%) RDBMS
5 24 (40.68%) Oracle
5 24 (40.68%) Creative Thinking
5 24 (40.68%) Business Transformation
5 24 (40.68%) Relational Database
6 21 (35.59%) IT Strategy
7 19 (32.20%) Mentoring
7 19 (32.20%) Technology Strategy
8 17 (28.81%) Strategic Roadmap
8 17 (28.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 17 (28.81%) Marketing
9 16 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
11 13 (22.03%) Software Engineering
12 11 (18.64%) Scrum

Software Development Manager 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 24 (40.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.69%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.69%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (40.68%) Endur
2 7 (11.86%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.47%) Azure
2 1 (1.69%) AWS
2 1 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.69%) IaaS
2 1 (1.69%) PaaS
2 1 (1.69%) SaaS
2 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (44.07%) SQL Server
2 24 (40.68%) RDBMS
2 24 (40.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 25 (42.37%) Games
2 17 (28.81%) Marketing
3 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Finance
5 7 (11.86%) Back Office
6 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) Lucene
2 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.69%) Spring
2 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.69%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 24 (40.68%) Swaptions
2 8 (13.56%) Virtual Team
3 7 (11.86%) Client/Server
4 6 (10.17%) Onboarding
4 6 (10.17%) PropTech
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (61.02%) Agile
2 26 (44.07%) SDLC
3 25 (42.37%) Roadmaps
4 24 (40.68%) Business Transformation
4 24 (40.68%) Creative Thinking
4 24 (40.68%) Data Modelling
5 21 (35.59%) IT Strategy
6 19 (32.20%) Mentoring
6 19 (32.20%) Technology Strategy
7 17 (28.81%) Strategic Roadmap
7 17 (28.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (22.03%) Software Engineering
10 11 (18.64%) Scrum
11 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
12 8 (13.56%) Line Management
12 8 (13.56%) People Management
12 8 (13.56%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) Java
2 24 (40.68%) VB
3 4 (6.78%) C
3 4 (6.78%) Python
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) PHP
5 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.69%) Degree
1 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) NCSC
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) QA
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) OpenLink
1 24 (40.68%) Oracle
1 24 (40.68%) Sybase
1 24 (40.68%) TIBCO
2 2 (3.39%) Google
3 1 (1.69%) Adobe
3 1 (1.69%) Marketo
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) Sitecore