Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer/Developer
England > London

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 262 399
Rank change year-on-year +69 +137 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 349 353 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.68% 1.30% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.37% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 349 349 681
10th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £128,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £135,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% +7.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Central London +24 1 £75,000 -7.69%
Developer/Software Engineer
England

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Developer/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 London region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 349 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 343 (98.28%) AWS
3 342 (97.99%) Finance
4 341 (97.71%) Front Office
4 341 (97.71%) Asset Management
4 341 (97.71%) Fixed Income
5 337 (96.56%) Agile
5 337 (96.56%) GCP
6 335 (95.99%) TypeScript
7 318 (91.12%) Python
8 277 (79.37%) Protocol Buffers
8 277 (79.37%) gRPC
8 277 (79.37%) Apache Airflow
9 269 (77.08%) Apache Ignite
9 269 (77.08%) Apache
10 265 (75.93%) Hedge funds
11 260 (74.50%) Investment Management
12 242 (69.34%) JavaScript
13 227 (65.04%) Equities
13 227 (65.04%) React
14 219 (62.75%) Banking
15 213 (61.03%) Redux
16 177 (50.72%) Derivative
17 175 (50.14%) Full Stack Development
18 174 (49.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 168 (48.14%) Azure
20 144 (41.26%) Pandas
21 136 (38.97%) Apache Arrow
21 136 (38.97%) dbt
21 136 (38.97%) Amazon Athena

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 277 (79.37%) Apache Airflow
2 269 (77.08%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 343 (98.28%) AWS
2 337 (96.56%) GCP
3 168 (48.14%) Azure
4 136 (38.97%) dbt
5 102 (29.23%) Snowflake
6 34 (9.74%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.43%) Serverless
9 4 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (77.08%) Apache Ignite
2 136 (38.97%) Amazon Athena
2 136 (38.97%) Apache Arrow
2 136 (38.97%) Dremio
3 102 (29.23%) Data Lake
4 99 (28.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (18.05%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 342 (97.99%) Finance
2 341 (97.71%) Front Office
3 219 (62.75%) Banking
4 120 (34.38%) Investment Banking
5 29 (8.31%) Back Office
6 3 (0.86%) Advertising
7 2 (0.57%) Electronics
7 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.57%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (79.37%) gRPC
1 277 (79.37%) Protocol Buffers
2 227 (65.04%) React
3 213 (61.03%) Redux
4 144 (41.26%) Pandas
5 136 (38.97%) NumPy
5 136 (38.97%) SciPy
6 115 (32.95%) Material-UI
7 84 (24.07%) AngularJS
8 80 (22.92%) Vue
9 62 (17.77%) Node.js
10 57 (16.33%) .NET
11 39 (11.17%) .NET Core
12 30 (8.60%) PySpark
13 16 (4.58%) ASP.NET
14 13 (3.72%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.58%) GraphQL
16 4 (1.15%) Lambda Expressions
17 3 (0.86%) KnockoutJS
17 3 (0.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 341 (97.71%) Fixed Income
2 265 (75.93%) Hedge funds
3 227 (65.04%) Equities
4 177 (50.72%) Derivative
5 174 (49.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (0.86%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.57%) IoT
7 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 341 (97.71%) Asset Management
3 337 (96.56%) Agile
4 260 (74.50%) Investment Management
5 175 (50.14%) Full Stack Development
6 102 (29.23%) Line Management
7 100 (28.65%) Automated Trading
8 99 (28.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 99 (28.37%) Machine Learning
9 90 (25.79%) Fintech
10 62 (17.77%) Performance Attribution
11 36 (10.32%) User Experience
12 34 (9.74%) Front End Development
13 33 (9.46%) DevOps
14 30 (8.60%) Analytics
14 30 (8.60%) Migration
15 27 (7.74%) TDD
16 20 (5.73%) Credit Risk Analysis
17 9 (2.58%) Mentoring
18 8 (2.29%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 335 (95.99%) TypeScript
2 318 (91.12%) Python
3 242 (69.34%) JavaScript
4 125 (35.82%) Java
5 101 (28.94%) SQL
6 57 (16.33%) C#
7 8 (2.29%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.29%) Ruby
7 8 (2.29%) Scala
8 3 (0.86%) C++
8 3 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (0.86%) Degree
2 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
3 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.45%) QA
2 3 (0.86%) EMIR
2 3 (0.86%) MiFID
3 2 (0.57%) GDPR
3 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.57%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.57%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (0.57%) Firmware
Vendors
1 99 (28.37%) Google
2 30 (8.60%) Bloomberg
2 30 (8.60%) Reuters
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft