Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 43 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 83 176 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.35% 5.26% 3.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.66% 5.48% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 76 130 145
10th Percentile - £52,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £103,750 £104,375 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £113,875 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £78,750 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -1.56% -11.11% +24.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,781 3,214 4,384
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 96.14% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 2,532 3,665
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,444
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the City of London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the City of London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the City of London

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (97.59%) Software Engineering
2 47 (56.63%) Python
3 44 (53.01%) Agile
4 35 (42.17%) Finance
5 31 (37.35%) Degree
6 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
7 28 (33.73%) Computer Science
8 25 (30.12%) Retail
9 24 (28.92%) AWS
10 22 (26.51%) Azure
11 21 (25.30%) Kafka
12 20 (24.10%) Machine Learning
12 20 (24.10%) SQL
12 20 (24.10%) Microsoft
13 19 (22.89%) Games
14 18 (21.69%) HTTP
14 18 (21.69%) Google
14 18 (21.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (21.69%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (20.48%) TypeScript
15 17 (20.48%) C#
16 16 (19.28%) Apple
16 16 (19.28%) Advertising
16 16 (19.28%) Scala
16 16 (19.28%) Apache Spark
16 16 (19.28%) Performance Metrics
16 16 (19.28%) Programmatic Advertising
17 15 (18.07%) Microservices
17 15 (18.07%) Kubernetes
17 15 (18.07%) Node.js

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 16 (19.28%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) CMS
3 1 (1.20%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.92%) AWS
2 22 (26.51%) Azure
3 6 (7.23%) Serverless
4 5 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.82%) SaaS
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.61%) GitHub
7 2 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.41%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.41%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.41%) Google Gemini
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.20%) GCP
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.69%) HTTP
2 3 (3.61%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.61%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.41%) Redis
4 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Git
2 7 (8.43%) JIRA
3 2 (2.41%) Appium
3 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) JUnit
3 2 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.41%) Xcode
3 2 (2.41%) XCUITest
4 1 (1.20%) Babel
4 1 (1.20%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (1.20%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 35 (42.17%) Finance
2 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
3 25 (30.12%) Retail
4 19 (22.89%) Games
5 18 (21.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (19.28%) Advertising
7 10 (12.05%) Banking
8 6 (7.23%) Front Office
9 3 (3.61%) Back Office
10 2 (2.41%) Agriculture
10 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.20%) Automotive
11 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) Kafka
2 15 (18.07%) Node.js
3 14 (16.87%) REST
4 12 (14.46%) React
5 10 (12.05%) Web Services
6 8 (9.64%) .NET
7 7 (8.43%) CSS
7 7 (8.43%) HTML
8 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.02%) .NET Framework
9 5 (6.02%) Entity Framework
10 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
10 4 (4.82%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (4.82%) RESTful
11 3 (3.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 3 (3.61%) Jest
11 3 (3.61%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (3.61%) LangChain
11 3 (3.61%) pytest
12 2 (2.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (13.25%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.82%) Reinsurance
5 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.61%) Derivative
5 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.61%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.61%) Robotics
6 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.20%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.20%) Life Science
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (97.59%) Software Engineering
2 44 (53.01%) Agile
3 28 (33.73%) Computer Science
4 20 (24.10%) Machine Learning
5 16 (19.28%) Performance Metrics
5 16 (19.28%) Programmatic Advertising
6 15 (18.07%) Microservices
7 14 (16.87%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
7 14 (16.87%) DevOps
8 12 (14.46%) TDD
9 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (10.84%) Analytics
10 9 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (9.64%) Cloud Security
11 8 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (9.64%) Integration Testing
11 8 (9.64%) Low Latency
11 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (56.63%) Python
2 20 (24.10%) SQL
3 17 (20.48%) C#
3 17 (20.48%) TypeScript
4 16 (19.28%) Scala
5 15 (18.07%) Java
6 7 (8.43%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.02%) C++
7 5 (6.02%) Go
8 3 (3.61%) Rust
9 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.41%) MATLAB
9 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.41%) Swift
10 1 (1.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (37.35%) Degree
2 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.61%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (14.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.69%) Google
3 16 (19.28%) Apple
4 8 (9.64%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle