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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 20 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 246 346 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 10.42% 9.15% 9.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.78% 9.96% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 184 253 356
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -7.25% -1.43%
75th Percentile £112,500 £101,250 £111,250
90th Percentile £145,000 £113,500 £125,000
London median annual salary £100,000 £92,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% +5.88%

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 2,281 3,474 4,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.65% 91.86% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,643 3,954
10th Percentile £42,500 £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 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.27% -5.90% +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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -3 189 £85,000 +6.25% 104
City of Westminster +2 23 £62,500 -24.24% 2
Camden +5 21 - - 1
West End of London +3 5 £102,500 +86.36% 35
Southwark -8 2 £75,000 -11.76% 1
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 20 (8.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.63%) IIS
3 3 (1.22%) Apache
3 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.22%) Confluence
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.81%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.81%) Liferay
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.41%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Solana
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.41%) Blender
2 1 (0.41%) Maya
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 95 (38.62%) AWS
2 61 (24.80%) Azure
3 44 (17.89%) SaaS
4 24 (9.76%) GitHub
5 21 (8.54%) GCP
6 14 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.47%) Serverless
8 7 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.03%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.22%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.50%) HTTP
2 3 (1.22%) Multicast
3 2 (0.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.94%) MongoDB
3 19 (7.72%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.47%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.25%) MySQL
6 6 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.22%) Data Hub
7 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.22%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.22%) Power BI
7 3 (1.22%) SQL CLR
7 3 (1.22%) Tableau
8 2 (0.81%) OLAP
8 2 (0.81%) OLTP
8 2 (0.81%) Redis
8 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (10.16%) Git
2 12 (4.88%) Gradle
3 9 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.25%) JIRA
5 7 (2.85%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.03%) Maven
7 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.81%) JUnit
7 2 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.41%) Babel
8 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.41%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.41%) Moq
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 94 (38.21%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.42%) Finance
3 41 (16.67%) Games
4 30 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (11.79%) Retail
6 22 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (8.13%) Banking
8 18 (7.32%) Advertising
9 17 (6.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.66%) Back Office
11 8 (3.25%) Front Office
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Marketing
12 3 (1.22%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.81%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Automotive
14 1 (0.41%) Law
14 1 (0.41%) Legal
14 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (38.62%) Software Engineer
2 89 (36.18%) Senior
3 51 (20.73%) Senior Software Engineer
4 46 (18.70%) Developer
5 36 (14.63%) Lead
6 20 (8.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (8.13%) Senior Developer
7 15 (6.10%) Software Developer
8 13 (5.28%) Lead Developer
8 13 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Data Scientist
9 11 (4.47%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Senior Data Scientist
10 10 (4.07%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Analyst
11 9 (3.66%) Architect
11 9 (3.66%) Java Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.98%) React
2 42 (17.07%) Node.js
3 35 (14.23%) Kafka
4 33 (13.41%) REST
5 26 (10.57%) .NET
6 23 (9.35%) Django
7 16 (6.50%) RESTful
8 15 (6.10%) Next.js
9 14 (5.69%) HTML
10 13 (5.28%) CSS
10 13 (5.28%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.88%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.07%) Spring
12 10 (4.07%) Web Services
13 9 (3.66%) .NET Framework
13 9 (3.66%) Entity Framework
14 7 (2.85%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 6 (2.44%) OpenAPI
15 6 (2.44%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.20%) Algorithms
2 26 (10.57%) Cloud Native
3 24 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (7.72%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (6.91%) Life Science
5 17 (6.91%) Mobile Games
6 12 (4.88%) Mobile App
7 11 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (4.47%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.44%) Reinsurance
9 5 (2.03%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.03%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.03%) Robotics
10 4 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.22%) Derivative
11 3 (1.22%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.88%) Linux
2 11 (4.47%) Android
3 7 (2.85%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.03%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (1.63%) Windows
5 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.99%) Agile
2 89 (36.18%) Computer Science
3 65 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (19.92%) DevOps
5 44 (17.89%) CI/CD
6 43 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (17.48%) Roadmaps
7 40 (16.26%) Mentoring
7 40 (16.26%) Microservices
8 36 (14.63%) Analytics
9 31 (12.60%) Containerisation
10 28 (11.38%) Machine Learning
10 28 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (10.57%) Data Science
12 25 (10.16%) Migration
13 24 (9.76%) Data Modelling
14 23 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence
14 23 (9.35%) B2B
14 23 (9.35%) TDD
15 20 (8.13%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 117 (47.56%) Python
2 65 (26.42%) TypeScript
3 62 (25.20%) Java
4 49 (19.92%) JavaScript
5 43 (17.48%) SQL
6 37 (15.04%) C#
7 19 (7.72%) Scala
8 15 (6.10%) C++
9 12 (4.88%) Rust
10 11 (4.47%) Go
11 10 (4.07%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.85%) Objective-C
12 7 (2.85%) PHP
12 7 (2.85%) Swift
13 2 (0.81%) Bicep
13 2 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.41%) SOQL
14 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 91 (36.99%) Degree
2 40 (16.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (9.76%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.91%) PhD
5 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.03%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.16%) QA
2 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.81%) GDPR
3 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.81%) SLA
3 2 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.41%) CDISC
4 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (12.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.13%) Terraform
3 6 (2.44%) Ansible
4 5 (2.03%) Argo
4 5 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 37 (15.04%) Google
2 31 (12.60%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.50%) Apple
4 12 (4.88%) New Relic
5 9 (3.66%) Ping Identity
6 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle
7 3 (1.22%) VMware
8 2 (0.81%) Databricks
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) Aderant
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) IBM
9 1 (0.41%) Intapp