Software Engineering Jobs in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 337 497 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 8.91% 9.53% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 10.05% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 252 373 495
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £100,313 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £113,625 £125,000 £127,500
London median annual salary £91,500 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% +2.94% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,487 4,946 7,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.22% 94.84% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,698 4,078 6,342
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.57% +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 12 May 2024.

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 12 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 +2 311 £80,000 -11.11% 50
City of Westminster -9 13 £82,500 -23.26%
West End of London +4 5 - - 1
Camden -13 5 £80,000 +220.00% 2
Southwark +16 1 £85,000 +3.03%
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
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 27 (8.01%) ArcGIS
1 27 (8.01%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.78%) Apache
2 6 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.48%) Confluence
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 182 (54.01%) AWS
2 115 (34.12%) Azure
3 32 (9.50%) Serverless
4 25 (7.42%) GCP
4 25 (7.42%) SaaS
5 21 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (5.04%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (3.26%) GitHub
10 10 (2.97%) PaaS
10 10 (2.97%) WhatsApp
11 7 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.48%) IaaS
13 4 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.04%) HTTP
2 13 (3.86%) Internet
3 4 (1.19%) Network Security
3 4 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.89%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (27.30%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.01%) GIS
2 27 (8.01%) QGIS
3 16 (4.75%) MySQL
3 16 (4.75%) Redis
4 15 (4.45%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.08%) Power BI
9 6 (1.78%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.78%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.48%) Flink
11 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.19%) Tableau
12 3 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.89%) Big Data
12 3 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.89%) Metadata
12 3 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (13.95%) Git
2 26 (7.72%) GitLab
3 10 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.37%) JIRA
5 5 (1.48%) Maven
5 5 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (1.48%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.89%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.59%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.30%) Mockito
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (23.74%) Finance
2 73 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.53%) Banking
5 13 (3.86%) Health Technology
5 13 (3.86%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (3.56%) Games
7 11 (3.26%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.08%) Advertising
8 7 (2.08%) Front Office
8 7 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.08%) Retail
9 6 (1.78%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.19%) Legal
10 4 (1.19%) Marketing
10 4 (1.19%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (54.30%) Software Engineer
2 93 (27.60%) Senior
3 63 (18.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 45 (13.35%) Developer
5 30 (8.90%) Java Engineer
6 27 (8.01%) Java Software Engineer
7 17 (5.04%) Python Engineer
8 16 (4.75%) Junior
9 14 (4.15%) Lead
9 14 (4.15%) Python Software Engineer
10 12 (3.56%) .NET Developer
10 12 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.56%) C# Developer
11 10 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (2.97%) Engineering Manager
11 10 (2.97%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.67%) Architect
12 9 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.67%) Junior Developer
13 8 (2.37%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.85%) .NET
2 66 (19.58%) React
3 35 (10.39%) CSS
3 35 (10.39%) Node.js
4 28 (8.31%) REST
5 27 (8.01%) .NET Core
5 27 (8.01%) Leaflet
5 27 (8.01%) OpenLayers
5 27 (8.01%) PostGIS
6 20 (5.93%) Spring
7 19 (5.64%) Kafka
8 18 (5.34%) RESTful
9 17 (5.04%) Django
10 16 (4.75%) GraphQL
11 14 (4.15%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.86%) Laravel
13 12 (3.56%) ASP.NET
13 12 (3.56%) HTML
13 12 (3.56%) Spring Boot
14 11 (3.26%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.72%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.56%) Life Science
3 12 (3.56%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.48%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.48%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.48%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.19%) FMCG
9 4 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Robotics
10 3 (0.89%) Tandem
11 2 (0.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.82%) Linux
2 10 (2.97%) Windows
3 8 (2.37%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.89%) Debian
4 3 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (34.12%) Agile
2 84 (24.93%) DevOps
3 81 (24.04%) Computer Science
4 64 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.21%) Fintech
6 57 (16.91%) CI/CD
7 53 (15.73%) Full Stack Development
8 49 (14.54%) Microservices
9 35 (10.39%) Web Development
10 33 (9.79%) Actionable Insight
11 24 (7.12%) Containerisation
12 23 (6.82%) Design Patterns
13 22 (6.53%) SDLC
13 22 (6.53%) Statistics
14 21 (6.23%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (5.93%) Data Science
15 20 (5.93%) Scrum
16 19 (5.64%) TDD
17 18 (5.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (34.72%) Python
2 113 (33.53%) Java
3 90 (26.71%) C#
4 61 (18.10%) JavaScript
5 57 (16.91%) Kotlin
6 50 (14.84%) SQL
7 43 (12.76%) Scala
8 25 (7.42%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.75%) C++
10 15 (4.45%) Go
10 15 (4.45%) PHP
10 15 (4.45%) PowerShell
11 14 (4.15%) Rust
12 13 (3.86%) F#
13 12 (3.56%) Clojure
13 12 (3.56%) Haskell
14 9 (2.67%) Ruby
15 6 (1.78%) Bash
16 4 (1.19%) Apex Code
16 4 (1.19%) C
Qualifications
1 87 (25.82%) Degree
2 50 (14.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (10.68%) Master's Degree
4 30 (8.90%) Security Cleared
5 28 (8.31%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.15%) PhD
7 10 (2.97%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.48%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.48%) QA
2 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (8.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) KVM
2 1 (0.30%) LXC
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (27.60%) Terraform
2 53 (15.73%) Kubernetes
3 50 (14.84%) Ansible
4 2 (0.59%) Consul
4 2 (0.59%) Packer
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) Juju
5 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.01%) ESRI
3 11 (3.26%) Google
3 11 (3.26%) Oracle
4 5 (1.48%) Apple
5 4 (1.19%) Apttus
5 4 (1.19%) DocuSign
5 4 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.30%) BEA
6 1 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.30%) Monzo
6 1 (0.30%) Splunk
6 1 (0.30%) Spotify
6 1 (0.30%) Sybase