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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 318 470 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.46% 9.98% 8.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.25% 10.49% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 247 355 464
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,400 £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 £116,000 £125,000 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £84,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year -5.60% -3.14% +16.67%

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 3,103 4,481 6,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.35% 95.18% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 3,750 5,655
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £46,250
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 £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 4 May 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 4 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
London Bridge +30 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 (8.49%) ArcGIS
1 27 (8.49%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.57%) Apache
3 5 (1.57%) 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
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 175 (55.03%) AWS
2 111 (34.91%) Azure
3 28 (8.81%) Serverless
4 24 (7.55%) SaaS
5 23 (7.23%) GCP
6 22 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.03%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.14%) GitHub
10 10 (3.14%) PaaS
11 9 (2.83%) WhatsApp
12 8 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.57%) AWS CodePipeline
13 5 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.57%) IaaS
14 4 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.03%) HTTP
2 13 (4.09%) Internet
3 4 (1.26%) Network Security
3 4 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.94%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (27.04%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.49%) GIS
2 27 (8.49%) QGIS
3 16 (5.03%) Redis
4 14 (4.40%) MySQL
5 13 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.20%) Power BI
8 6 (1.89%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.57%) Flink
9 5 (1.57%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.26%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.26%) Tableau
11 3 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.94%) Big Data
11 3 (0.94%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.94%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (12.58%) Git
2 21 (6.60%) GitLab
3 11 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.89%) JIRA
4 6 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.57%) Maven
5 5 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.94%) JDeveloper
7 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.31%) JMeter
9 1 (0.31%) JUnit
9 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 82 (25.79%) Finance
2 58 (18.24%) Social Skills
3 24 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (7.55%) Banking
4 12 (3.77%) Health Technology
5 11 (3.46%) Games
6 10 (3.14%) Tech for Good
7 7 (2.20%) Advertising
7 7 (2.20%) Front Office
7 7 (2.20%) Retail
8 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.26%) Legal
9 4 (1.26%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.94%) Marketing
11 1 (0.31%) Back Office
11 1 (0.31%) Electronics
11 1 (0.31%) Law
11 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 178 (55.97%) Software Engineer
2 85 (26.73%) Senior
3 62 (19.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 42 (13.21%) Developer
5 29 (9.12%) Java Engineer
6 27 (8.49%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (4.72%) Junior
7 15 (4.72%) Lead
8 13 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.09%) Python Engineer
9 11 (3.46%) .NET Developer
10 10 (3.14%) C# Developer
10 10 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.14%) Engineering Manager
10 10 (3.14%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (2.83%) Architect
12 8 (2.52%) Junior Developer
13 7 (2.20%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.20%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (23.27%) .NET
2 63 (19.81%) React
3 33 (10.38%) CSS
4 32 (10.06%) Node.js
5 27 (8.49%) Leaflet
5 27 (8.49%) OpenLayers
5 27 (8.49%) PostGIS
6 26 (8.18%) .NET Core
6 26 (8.18%) REST
7 22 (6.92%) Spring
8 17 (5.35%) Kafka
9 14 (4.40%) RESTful
10 13 (4.09%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.09%) Laravel
11 12 (3.77%) ASP.NET
11 12 (3.77%) Django
11 12 (3.77%) FastAPI
12 11 (3.46%) Spring Boot
13 10 (3.14%) .NET Framework
13 10 (3.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (4.09%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.77%) Private Cloud
4 9 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.89%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.57%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.57%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.26%) FMCG
8 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.26%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.94%) Robotics
9 3 (0.94%) Tandem
10 2 (0.63%) Derivative
10 2 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.86%) Linux
2 11 (3.46%) Windows
3 8 (2.52%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.94%) Debian
4 3 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (33.02%) Agile
2 84 (26.42%) DevOps
3 65 (20.44%) Computer Science
4 59 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (17.61%) Fintech
6 52 (16.35%) CI/CD
6 52 (16.35%) Microservices
7 47 (14.78%) Full Stack Development
8 38 (11.95%) Actionable Insight
9 34 (10.69%) Web Development
10 27 (8.49%) Containerisation
11 23 (7.23%) SDLC
12 22 (6.92%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (6.92%) Design Patterns
13 19 (5.97%) Scrum
14 18 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (5.66%) Mentoring
14 18 (5.66%) User Experience
14 18 (5.66%) UX Design
15 16 (5.03%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 112 (35.22%) Python
2 111 (34.91%) Java
3 88 (27.67%) C#
4 60 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 54 (16.98%) Kotlin
6 47 (14.78%) SQL
7 40 (12.58%) Scala
8 21 (6.60%) TypeScript
9 16 (5.03%) C++
9 16 (5.03%) PowerShell
10 15 (4.72%) Rust
11 14 (4.40%) Clojure
11 14 (4.40%) F#
11 14 (4.40%) Go
11 14 (4.40%) Haskell
11 14 (4.40%) PHP
12 10 (3.14%) Ruby
13 7 (2.20%) Bash
14 4 (1.26%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.26%) C
Qualifications
1 71 (22.33%) Degree
2 48 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (9.75%) Security Cleared
4 29 (9.12%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.60%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.26%) QA
3 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (9.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) KVM
2 1 (0.31%) LXC
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (28.62%) Terraform
2 53 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 49 (15.41%) Ansible
4 2 (0.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.31%) Consul
5 1 (0.31%) Juju
5 1 (0.31%) Packer
5 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.49%) ESRI
3 11 (3.46%) Oracle
4 10 (3.14%) Google
5 5 (1.57%) Apple
6 4 (1.26%) Apttus
6 4 (1.26%) DocuSign
6 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.31%) Monzo
7 1 (0.31%) Splunk