Software Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Software Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 317 475 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.45% 9.90% 8.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.22% 10.39% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 248 361 468
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £101,250 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,575 £125,000 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,102 4,573 6,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.43% 95.29% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,480 3,842 5,601
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,025 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% +3.57%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of 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
London Bridge +27 1 £85,000 -34.62%
Software Engineering
Central London

Software Engineering
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 27 (8.52%) ArcGIS
1 27 (8.52%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.58%) Apache
3 5 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.63%) JBoss
5 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 174 (54.89%) AWS
2 106 (33.44%) Azure
3 28 (8.83%) Serverless
4 24 (7.57%) SaaS
5 22 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (6.94%) GCP
6 16 (5.05%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (3.47%) PaaS
10 10 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (3.15%) GitHub
11 9 (2.84%) WhatsApp
12 5 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.58%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.58%) IaaS
13 4 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.26%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.05%) HTTP
2 13 (4.10%) Internet
3 4 (1.26%) Network Security
3 4 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.95%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (27.13%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.52%) GIS
2 27 (8.52%) QGIS
3 17 (5.36%) Redis
4 15 (4.73%) MySQL
5 13 (4.10%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.21%) Power BI
7 5 (1.58%) Flink
7 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.58%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.26%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.26%) Tableau
9 3 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.95%) Big Data
9 3 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.95%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (13.25%) Git
2 21 (6.62%) GitLab
3 12 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.89%) JIRA
4 6 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.58%) Maven
5 5 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.95%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.95%) JDeveloper
7 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.63%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.32%) JMeter
9 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.32%) Mockito
General
1 84 (26.50%) Finance
2 58 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.52%) Banking
4 25 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.79%) Health Technology
6 11 (3.47%) Games
7 10 (3.15%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.52%) Front Office
9 7 (2.21%) Retail
10 6 (1.89%) Advertising
10 6 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.26%) Legal
11 4 (1.26%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.95%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Law
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 181 (57.10%) Software Engineer
2 86 (27.13%) Senior
3 62 (19.56%) Senior Software Engineer
4 44 (13.88%) Developer
5 29 (9.15%) Java Engineer
6 27 (8.52%) Java Software Engineer
7 18 (5.68%) Lead
8 16 (5.05%) Junior
9 13 (4.10%) Python Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.15%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.15%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (2.84%) Junior Developer
13 8 (2.52%) Architect
13 8 (2.52%) Engineering Manager
14 7 (2.21%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 7 (2.21%) Principal Engineer
14 7 (2.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (23.66%) .NET
2 62 (19.56%) React
3 35 (11.04%) CSS
4 31 (9.78%) Node.js
5 27 (8.52%) Leaflet
5 27 (8.52%) OpenLayers
5 27 (8.52%) PostGIS
6 26 (8.20%) .NET Core
6 26 (8.20%) REST
7 22 (6.94%) Spring
8 17 (5.36%) Kafka
9 16 (5.05%) RESTful
10 14 (4.42%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.42%) Laravel
11 13 (4.10%) ASP.NET
12 12 (3.79%) Django
12 12 (3.79%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.79%) HTML
13 11 (3.47%) Spring Boot
14 10 (3.15%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.05%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.84%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.84%) Private Cloud
3 9 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.89%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.58%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.26%) FMCG
8 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.26%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.95%) Robotics
9 3 (0.95%) Tandem
10 2 (0.63%) Derivative
10 2 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.20%) Linux
2 11 (3.47%) Windows
3 8 (2.52%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.95%) Debian
4 3 (0.95%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Android
5 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (33.75%) Agile
2 85 (26.81%) DevOps
3 65 (20.50%) Computer Science
4 60 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (17.03%) Fintech
6 52 (16.40%) CI/CD
6 52 (16.40%) Microservices
7 50 (15.77%) Full Stack Development
8 38 (11.99%) Actionable Insight
9 35 (11.04%) Web Development
10 28 (8.83%) Containerisation
11 24 (7.57%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (6.94%) Design Patterns
12 22 (6.94%) SDLC
13 20 (6.31%) Mentoring
13 20 (6.31%) Scrum
13 20 (6.31%) User Experience
13 20 (6.31%) UX Design
14 18 (5.68%) Functional Programming
15 17 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 113 (35.65%) Python
2 111 (35.02%) Java
3 89 (28.08%) C#
4 64 (20.19%) JavaScript
5 54 (17.03%) Kotlin
6 49 (15.46%) SQL
7 40 (12.62%) Scala
8 21 (6.62%) TypeScript
9 17 (5.36%) C++
10 16 (5.05%) Clojure
10 16 (5.05%) F#
10 16 (5.05%) Haskell
10 16 (5.05%) Rust
11 15 (4.73%) Go
12 13 (4.10%) PHP
12 13 (4.10%) PowerShell
13 10 (3.15%) Ruby
14 7 (2.21%) Bash
15 4 (1.26%) SOQL
15 4 (1.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (22.40%) Degree
2 48 (15.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (9.78%) Security Cleared
4 29 (9.15%) SC Cleared
5 20 (6.31%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.58%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.58%) QA
2 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (9.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) KVM
2 1 (0.32%) LXC
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (27.13%) Terraform
2 54 (17.03%) Kubernetes
3 49 (15.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) Consul
5 1 (0.32%) Juju
5 1 (0.32%) Packer
5 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.52%) ESRI
3 11 (3.47%) Oracle
4 10 (3.15%) Google
5 5 (1.58%) Apple
6 4 (1.26%) Apttus
6 4 (1.26%) DocuSign
6 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.32%) Monzo
7 1 (0.32%) Splunk