Software Engineering Jobs in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 21 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 283 335 505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 11.14% 8.86% 9.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.57% 9.57% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 215 251 384
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £111,875 £101,250 £111,250
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £125,000
London median annual salary £98,562 £91,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +7.72% +4.57% +1.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,445 3,501 5,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.26% 92.55% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 2,741 4,162
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,313
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +1 224 £80,000 - 79
City of Westminster +2 28 £62,500 -24.24% 3
Camden +3 18 - -
West End of London +2 9 £102,500 - 14
Southwark -5 2 £75,000 -11.76%
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
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 25 (8.83%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.71%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.71%) Liferay
3 2 (0.71%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Mule
4 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Solana
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) Blender
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (39.22%) AWS
2 73 (25.80%) Azure
3 44 (15.55%) SaaS
4 23 (8.13%) GitHub
5 21 (7.42%) GCP
6 16 (5.65%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.24%) Serverless
9 10 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.77%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.77%) PaaS
14 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.06%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.71%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.77%) HTTP
2 3 (1.06%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.83%) MongoDB
3 22 (7.77%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.18%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.83%) MySQL
6 6 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.77%) Big Data
8 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.41%) Power BI
9 3 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.06%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.06%) Tableau
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.71%) Redis
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 27 (9.54%) Git
2 12 (4.24%) Gradle
3 10 (3.53%) JIRA
4 8 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.77%) Maven
7 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.71%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.71%) JUnit
7 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.35%) Babel
8 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.35%) Moq
8 1 (0.35%) Postman
8 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 111 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 78 (27.56%) Finance
3 46 (16.25%) Games
4 38 (13.43%) Retail
5 30 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (9.89%) Advertising
6 28 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (7.07%) Banking
8 18 (6.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (4.95%) Front Office
10 7 (2.47%) Back Office
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.71%) Automotive
12 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Law
13 1 (0.35%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 108 (38.16%) Software Engineer
2 94 (33.22%) Senior
3 58 (20.49%) Senior Software Engineer
4 52 (18.37%) Developer
5 40 (14.13%) Lead
6 25 (8.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (6.71%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.30%) Lead Developer
8 15 (5.30%) Software Developer
9 13 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (3.89%) Analyst
10 11 (3.89%) Java Engineer
10 11 (3.89%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (3.89%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Architect
11 10 (3.53%) Data Scientist
11 10 (3.53%) Senior Data Scientist
12 9 (3.18%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.18%) Python Software Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (25.09%) React
2 43 (15.19%) Node.js
3 39 (13.78%) Kafka
4 36 (12.72%) REST
5 34 (12.01%) .NET
6 26 (9.19%) Django
7 19 (6.71%) Next.js
7 19 (6.71%) RESTful
8 18 (6.36%) HTML
9 17 (6.01%) CSS
10 13 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.53%) Spring
13 9 (3.18%) .NET Framework
13 9 (3.18%) Entity Framework
14 8 (2.83%) Web Services
15 7 (2.47%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 6 (2.12%) .NET Core
16 6 (2.12%) OpenAPI
16 6 (2.12%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.01%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (10.95%) Algorithms
3 29 (10.25%) Cloud Native
4 19 (6.71%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (6.01%) Life Science
5 17 (6.01%) Mobile Games
6 13 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (4.59%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.47%) Reinsurance
8 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.77%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.77%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.77%) Robotics
10 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.41%) Derivative
10 4 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.89%) Android
1 11 (3.89%) Linux
2 7 (2.47%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.77%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (38.87%) Agile
2 103 (36.40%) Computer Science
3 73 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (21.20%) DevOps
5 59 (20.85%) Roadmaps
6 56 (19.79%) Mentoring
7 49 (17.31%) Microservices
8 46 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (15.90%) CI/CD
10 42 (14.84%) Analytics
11 37 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
12 34 (12.01%) Machine Learning
13 30 (10.60%) Containerisation
14 27 (9.54%) Data Science
15 26 (9.19%) Data Modelling
16 23 (8.13%) Performance Metrics
17 22 (7.77%) Migration
17 22 (7.77%) Product Roadmap
17 22 (7.77%) Programmatic Advertising
18 21 (7.42%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 142 (50.18%) Python
2 70 (24.73%) TypeScript
3 68 (24.03%) Java
4 65 (22.97%) JavaScript
5 47 (16.61%) SQL
6 41 (14.49%) C#
7 25 (8.83%) Scala
8 16 (5.65%) C++
9 13 (4.59%) Rust
10 11 (3.89%) Kotlin
11 10 (3.53%) Go
12 7 (2.47%) Objective-C
12 7 (2.47%) PHP
12 7 (2.47%) Swift
13 5 (1.77%) Bicep
14 2 (0.71%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.35%) F#
15 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (37.10%) Degree
2 48 (16.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (8.83%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.01%) PhD
5 10 (3.53%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.77%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.42%) QA
2 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.71%) GDPR
3 2 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.35%) CDISC
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (10.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.36%) Terraform
3 5 (1.77%) Argo
3 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.49%) Google
3 22 (7.77%) Apple
4 12 (4.24%) New Relic
5 7 (2.47%) Ping Identity
6 3 (1.06%) Databricks
6 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle
7 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.35%) Aderant
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) Intapp
8 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.35%) VMware