Software Engineer Jobs in South London

Software Engineer
London > South London

The median Software Engineer salary in South London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 74 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 -37 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 14 18 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 1.57% 2.35% 11.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 2.56% 12.07%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 50
10th Percentile £48,275 £36,600 £46,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £95,625 £49,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £104,500 - £82,500
London median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 848 703 1,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 91.78% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 416 392 675
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £35,229
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.42%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,150 £63,781
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in South London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in South London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in South London

Software Engineer
Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Merton +4 7 £95,000 +111.11% 8
Kingston Upon Thames -17 6 £62,500 +38.89% 6
Bromley +1 3 £57,500 +35.29%
Croydon - 1 £60,000 -
Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 South London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 5 (35.71%) Fintech
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Spring
4 4 (28.57%) Java
5 3 (21.43%) C++
5 3 (21.43%) .NET
5 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) MVC
5 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
5 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
5 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
5 3 (21.43%) RESTful
6 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
1 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Akka
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) ATL
4 1 (7.14%) COM
4 1 (7.14%) WinForms
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 2 (14.29%) SCADA
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Fintech
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
4 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
4 3 (21.43%) MVC
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Change Control
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) Kanban
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Service Design
5 2 (14.29%) SOA
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) C
4 2 (14.29%) Rust
4 2 (14.29%) VB
5 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) HNC
3 2 (14.29%) HND
3 2 (14.29%) Sun Certification
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Functional Safety
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) AVEVA
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Progress
1 2 (14.29%) Rockwell
1 2 (14.29%) Siemens
1 2 (14.29%) Wonderware
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
517 Software Engineer jobs in London