Developer/Software Engineer Job Trends in London

Software Engineer/Developer
England > London

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in London is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 253 206
Rank change year-on-year -21 -47 +137
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 102 217 306
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 1.25% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.32% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 87 211 299
10th Percentile £100,000 £71,250 £77,500
25th Percentile £117,500 £81,250 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £105,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £165,000 £145,000
England median annual salary £130,000 £105,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +10.00%

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 11,589 16,401 18,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 94.80% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,438 9,992 14,834
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Developer/Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Developer/Software Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Developer/Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Developer/Software Engineer job vacancies in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, Developer/Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 102 (100.00%) Agile
1 102 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 98 (96.08%) React
2 98 (96.08%) TypeScript
3 91 (89.22%) JavaScript
4 90 (88.24%) AWS
4 90 (88.24%) Node.js
5 87 (85.29%) Investment Management
6 79 (77.45%) Order Management
7 77 (75.49%) Python
8 69 (67.65%) GCP
9 65 (63.73%) AngularJS
9 65 (63.73%) Vue
10 63 (61.76%) Asset Management
10 63 (61.76%) Fintech
11 59 (57.84%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (53.92%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (53.92%) Apache Airflow
12 55 (53.92%) Apache Arrow
12 55 (53.92%) Apache Iceberg
12 55 (53.92%) dbt
12 55 (53.92%) Dremio
12 55 (53.92%) NumPy
12 55 (53.92%) Pandas
12 55 (53.92%) Performance Attribution
12 55 (53.92%) Risk Management
12 55 (53.92%) SciPy
13 39 (38.24%) Java
14 32 (31.37%) Redux
15 28 (27.45%) Kafka

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 55 (53.92%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 90 (88.24%) AWS
2 69 (67.65%) GCP
3 55 (53.92%) dbt
4 4 (3.92%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (57.84%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (53.92%) Amazon Athena
2 55 (53.92%) Apache Arrow
2 55 (53.92%) Apache Iceberg
2 55 (53.92%) Dremio
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Git
1 4 (3.92%) Vite
2 3 (2.94%) Spinnaker
General
1 102 (100.00%) Finance
2 87 (85.29%) Front Office
3 15 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (14.71%) Law
4 12 (11.76%) Banking
5 7 (6.86%) Marketing
6 4 (3.92%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (96.08%) React
2 90 (88.24%) Node.js
3 65 (63.73%) AngularJS
3 65 (63.73%) Vue
4 55 (53.92%) NumPy
4 55 (53.92%) Pandas
4 55 (53.92%) SciPy
5 32 (31.37%) Redux
6 28 (27.45%) Kafka
7 24 (23.53%) GraphQL
8 7 (6.86%) Spring
9 4 (3.92%) CSS
9 4 (3.92%) D3.js
9 4 (3.92%) Highcharts JS
9 4 (3.92%) Jest
9 4 (3.92%) JMS
9 4 (3.92%) REST
10 3 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (85.29%) Fixed Income
2 67 (65.69%) Equities
2 67 (65.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (6.86%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.92%) Derivative
4 4 (3.92%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.92%) Market Risk
4 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) Agile
1 102 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 87 (85.29%) Investment Management
3 79 (77.45%) Order Management
4 63 (61.76%) Asset Management
4 63 (61.76%) Fintech
5 55 (53.92%) Performance Attribution
5 55 (53.92%) Risk Management
6 24 (23.53%) Portfolio Management
7 22 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (14.71%) Operational Stability
8 15 (14.71%) SDLC
9 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
9 11 (10.78%) Community of Practice
10 8 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (7.84%) User Experience
10 8 (7.84%) Visualisation
11 7 (6.86%) AI
11 7 (6.86%) Information Architecture
11 7 (6.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 98 (96.08%) TypeScript
2 91 (89.22%) JavaScript
3 77 (75.49%) Python
4 39 (38.24%) Java
5 24 (23.53%) Go
6 4 (3.92%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.92%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.94%) Argo
1 3 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (3.92%) Oracle