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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 339 513 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 9.02% 9.57% 8.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.74% 10.08% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 255 386 512
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,650 £125,000 £127,500
London median annual salary £92,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.14% +2.94% +13.33%

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 3,481 5,087 7,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.58% 94.92% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,736 4,222 6,373
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +2 317 £80,000 -8.57% 57
City of Westminster -2 15 £82,500 -23.26% 1
West End of London +11 5 - - 2
Camden -12 5 £80,000 +220.00% 3
Southwark +18 1 £85,000 +1.49%
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 (7.96%) ArcGIS
1 27 (7.96%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.47%) Apache
3 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.47%) Confluence
4 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.59%) JBoss
5 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 182 (53.69%) AWS
2 110 (32.45%) Azure
3 33 (9.73%) Serverless
4 25 (7.37%) SaaS
5 24 (7.08%) GCP
6 23 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.01%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (3.24%) GitHub
10 11 (3.24%) PaaS
11 10 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.95%) WhatsApp
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.47%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.01%) HTTP
2 13 (3.83%) Internet
3 4 (1.18%) Network Security
3 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.88%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (26.25%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.96%) GIS
2 27 (7.96%) QGIS
3 17 (5.01%) Redis
4 16 (4.72%) MySQL
5 14 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.13%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.36%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.06%) Power BI
9 6 (1.77%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.47%) Flink
10 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.18%) Big Data
11 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.18%) Tableau
12 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.88%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 47 (13.86%) Git
2 27 (7.96%) GitLab
3 13 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.06%) JIRA
5 6 (1.77%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.47%) Maven
6 5 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.88%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.88%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.59%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.29%) Mockito
10 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (25.66%) Finance
2 75 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.96%) Banking
5 12 (3.54%) Health Technology
6 11 (3.24%) Games
7 10 (2.95%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.36%) Front Office
9 7 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.06%) Retail
10 6 (1.77%) Advertising
10 6 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.18%) Legal
11 4 (1.18%) Marketing
11 4 (1.18%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (56.64%) Software Engineer
2 94 (27.73%) Senior
3 66 (19.47%) Senior Software Engineer
4 47 (13.86%) Developer
5 31 (9.14%) Java Engineer
6 28 (8.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 19 (5.60%) Lead
8 18 (5.31%) Python Engineer
9 17 (5.01%) Junior
10 14 (4.13%) Python Software Engineer
11 13 (3.83%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.54%) C# Developer
13 10 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (2.95%) Junior Developer
14 9 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) Engineering Manager
15 8 (2.36%) Architect
15 8 (2.36%) AWS Software Engineer
16 7 (2.06%) Cloud Engineer
16 7 (2.06%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.71%) .NET
2 65 (19.17%) React
3 36 (10.62%) CSS
4 32 (9.44%) Node.js
5 28 (8.26%) REST
6 27 (7.96%) Leaflet
6 27 (7.96%) OpenLayers
6 27 (7.96%) PostGIS
7 26 (7.67%) .NET Core
8 22 (6.49%) Spring
9 20 (5.90%) RESTful
10 18 (5.31%) AngularJS
10 18 (5.31%) Kafka
11 17 (5.01%) Django
12 15 (4.42%) GraphQL
13 14 (4.13%) ASP.NET
13 14 (4.13%) Laravel
14 13 (3.83%) HTML
15 12 (3.54%) FastAPI
16 11 (3.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.78%) Algorithms
2 20 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.65%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.06%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.77%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.77%) Life Science
8 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.18%) FMCG
9 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.18%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.88%) Robotics
10 3 (0.88%) Tandem
11 2 (0.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.67%) Linux
2 11 (3.24%) Windows
3 8 (2.36%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.88%) Debian
4 3 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (34.51%) Agile
2 89 (26.25%) DevOps
3 76 (22.42%) Computer Science
4 69 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (17.99%) CI/CD
6 56 (16.52%) Full Stack Development
7 54 (15.93%) Fintech
8 53 (15.63%) Microservices
9 38 (11.21%) Actionable Insight
10 35 (10.32%) Web Development
11 28 (8.26%) Containerisation
12 25 (7.37%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (6.78%) Design Patterns
13 23 (6.78%) SDLC
14 22 (6.49%) Mentoring
15 21 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (6.19%) Scrum
16 20 (5.90%) TDD
16 20 (5.90%) User Experience
16 20 (5.90%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 121 (35.69%) Python
2 115 (33.92%) Java
3 92 (27.14%) C#
4 67 (19.76%) JavaScript
5 56 (16.52%) Kotlin
6 52 (15.34%) SQL
7 42 (12.39%) Scala
8 23 (6.78%) TypeScript
9 17 (5.01%) C++
9 17 (5.01%) F#
10 16 (4.72%) Clojure
10 16 (4.72%) Haskell
10 16 (4.72%) Rust
11 15 (4.42%) Go
12 13 (3.83%) PHP
12 13 (3.83%) PowerShell
13 10 (2.95%) Ruby
14 7 (2.06%) Bash
15 4 (1.18%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 82 (24.19%) Degree
2 52 (15.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (9.14%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.55%) SC Cleared
5 28 (8.26%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.95%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.36%) PhD
8 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.47%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (8.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) KVM
2 1 (0.29%) LXC
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (25.66%) Terraform
2 57 (16.81%) Kubernetes
3 49 (14.45%) Ansible
4 2 (0.59%) Consul
4 2 (0.59%) Grafana
4 2 (0.59%) Packer
5 1 (0.29%) Juju
5 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.96%) ESRI
3 12 (3.54%) Google
4 11 (3.24%) Oracle
5 5 (1.47%) Apple
6 4 (1.18%) Apttus
6 4 (1.18%) DocuSign
6 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.29%) BEA
7 1 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.29%) Monzo
7 1 (0.29%) Splunk
7 1 (0.29%) Spotify