Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Software Engineer salary in Central London is £80,000 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 46 84 142
Rank change year-on-year +38 +58 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 189 183 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.00% 3.49% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.25% 3.63% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 137 158 122
10th Percentile £54,750 £58,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,563 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +20.69% -3.33%
75th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,250 £120,000 £100,750
London median annual salary £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,598 5,042 7,714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 96.06% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 4,204 6,465
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +41 180 £80,000 -8.57% 27
City of Westminster -3 10 £82,500 -23.26% 1
West End of London +12 5 - - 2
Camden -8 3 £80,000 - 1
Southwark - 1 £85,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Software Engineer
London

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 Central London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 187 (98.94%) Software Engineering
2 120 (63.49%) AWS
3 77 (40.74%) Agile
4 74 (39.15%) Python
5 69 (36.51%) Java
6 68 (35.98%) PostgreSQL
7 60 (31.75%) Azure
8 57 (30.16%) DevOps
9 51 (26.98%) Terraform
10 50 (26.46%) .NET
11 48 (25.40%) JavaScript
12 46 (24.34%) C#
12 46 (24.34%) React
13 41 (21.69%) Full Stack Development
14 40 (21.16%) Finance
15 39 (20.63%) Degree
16 37 (19.58%) Git
17 36 (19.05%) Computer Science
18 35 (18.52%) Kotlin
18 35 (18.52%) Actionable Insight
19 33 (17.46%) Social Skills
20 32 (16.93%) CI/CD
20 32 (16.93%) Ansible
20 32 (16.93%) Web Development
21 31 (16.40%) CSS
22 30 (15.87%) SQL
23 29 (15.34%) SC Cleared
23 29 (15.34%) Security Cleared
23 29 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
24 27 (14.29%) GIS

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 27 (14.29%) ArcGIS
1 27 (14.29%) GeoServer
2 4 (2.12%) Apache
2 4 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.12%) Confluence
3 3 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.06%) JBoss
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (63.49%) AWS
2 60 (31.75%) Azure
3 26 (13.76%) Serverless
4 19 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (7.94%) GCP
6 8 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.23%) SaaS
7 6 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.12%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.12%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.59%) Azure App Service
9 3 (1.59%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.99%) HTTP
2 13 (6.88%) Internet
3 4 (2.12%) Network Security
4 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (35.98%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (14.29%) GIS
2 27 (14.29%) QGIS
3 8 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.23%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.70%) Power BI
5 5 (2.65%) MySQL
5 5 (2.65%) Redis
6 4 (2.12%) Flink
6 4 (2.12%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.12%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.12%) Tableau
7 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.59%) Big Data
7 3 (1.59%) Metadata
7 3 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.59%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (19.58%) Git
2 15 (7.94%) GitLab
3 5 (2.65%) Maven
4 4 (2.12%) JIRA
5 3 (1.59%) JDeveloper
5 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.06%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (21.16%) Finance
2 33 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.64%) Banking
4 10 (5.29%) Health Technology
5 8 (4.23%) Tech for Good
6 7 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.65%) Advertising
8 5 (2.65%) Front Office
8 5 (2.65%) Games
8 5 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.65%) Retail
9 4 (2.12%) Marketing
10 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.53%) Electronics
12 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.46%) .NET
2 46 (24.34%) React
3 31 (16.40%) CSS
4 27 (14.29%) Leaflet
4 27 (14.29%) OpenLayers
4 27 (14.29%) PostGIS
5 23 (12.17%) .NET Core
6 22 (11.64%) Node.js
7 20 (10.58%) REST
8 17 (8.99%) Django
8 17 (8.99%) Spring
9 14 (7.41%) RESTful
10 13 (6.88%) Laravel
11 11 (5.82%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.29%) .NET Framework
12 10 (5.29%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.29%) Kafka
12 10 (5.29%) Spring Boot
13 9 (4.76%) ASP.NET
14 8 (4.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.65%) Fixed Income
3 5 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.65%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.65%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.06%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.06%) PKI
6 1 (0.53%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.53%) Derivative
6 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.53%) IoT
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.53%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.23%) Linux
1 8 (4.23%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.59%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (98.94%) Software Engineering
2 77 (40.74%) Agile
3 57 (30.16%) DevOps
4 41 (21.69%) Full Stack Development
5 36 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 35 (18.52%) Actionable Insight
7 32 (16.93%) CI/CD
7 32 (16.93%) Web Development
8 29 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (13.76%) Microservices
10 24 (12.70%) Fintech
11 19 (10.05%) TDD
12 17 (8.99%) Design Patterns
13 16 (8.47%) Scrum
13 16 (8.47%) User Experience
13 16 (8.47%) UX Design
14 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (7.41%) Containerisation
15 14 (7.41%) Functional Programming
16 13 (6.88%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 74 (39.15%) Python
2 69 (36.51%) Java
3 48 (25.40%) JavaScript
4 46 (24.34%) C#
5 35 (18.52%) Kotlin
6 30 (15.87%) SQL
7 25 (13.23%) Scala
8 15 (7.94%) F#
9 14 (7.41%) Clojure
9 14 (7.41%) Haskell
9 14 (7.41%) Rust
10 13 (6.88%) PHP
11 10 (5.29%) Go
12 7 (3.70%) C++
12 7 (3.70%) TypeScript
13 6 (3.17%) Ruby
14 5 (2.65%) Bash
15 4 (2.12%) C
15 4 (2.12%) VBA
16 3 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (20.63%) Degree
2 29 (15.34%) SC Cleared
2 29 (15.34%) Security Cleared
3 27 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.29%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.59%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (4.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) KVM
2 1 (0.53%) LXC
Systems Management
1 51 (26.98%) Terraform
2 32 (16.93%) Ansible
3 21 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.06%) Consul
4 2 (1.06%) Packer
5 1 (0.53%) Juju
Vendors
1 27 (14.29%) ESRI
2 20 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.70%) Google
4 4 (2.12%) Apple
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle
6 1 (0.53%) BEA
6 1 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.53%) Spotify