Software Engineer Jobs in West London

Software Engineer
London > West London

The median Software Engineer salary in West London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 73 70
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6 23 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 0.61% 2.31% 5.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 2.50% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 31
10th Percentile £50,000 - £40,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £95,000
London median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 951 921 1,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.06% 92.38% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 402 595 889
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,350 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,093 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,125 £82,500 £87,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in West London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in West London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in West London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in West London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in West London

Software Engineer
Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Hounslow -36 3 £62,500 - 2
Harrow -11 1 £62,500 +8.70%
Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 West London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Apache
4 1 (16.67%) Flash
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) VBA
4 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Aviation
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Flash
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (16.67%) Epics
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft