Software Developer Jobs in London

Software Developer
England > London

The median Software Developer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 222 219
Rank change year-on-year -43 -3 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 254 589 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.08% 1.66% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.74% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 216 476 611
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £128,438 £96,563 £93,125
90th Percentile £150,000 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,098 33,809 63,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.04% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,640 24,774 34,933
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,284
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,625 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +29 71 £85,000 +17.24% 10
South London -24 5 £40,750 -25.91%
East London - 5 £52,500 - 2
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 125 (49.21%) Agile
2 122 (48.03%) JavaScript
3 109 (42.91%) C#
4 104 (40.94%) Java
5 98 (38.58%) AWS
6 81 (31.89%) .NET
7 80 (31.50%) Software Engineering
8 79 (31.10%) Python
9 78 (30.71%) Finance
10 68 (26.77%) SQL
11 65 (25.59%) Azure
12 57 (22.44%) Front Office
12 57 (22.44%) TypeScript
13 55 (21.65%) Degree
14 54 (21.26%) HTML
15 53 (20.87%) Apache
15 53 (20.87%) Banking
16 52 (20.47%) CSS
17 51 (20.08%) SQL Server
17 51 (20.08%) GCP
18 50 (19.69%) Asset Management
18 50 (19.69%) Investment Banking
19 49 (19.29%) Protocol Buffers
19 49 (19.29%) Pandas
19 49 (19.29%) SciPy
19 49 (19.29%) NumPy
19 49 (19.29%) gRPC
19 49 (19.29%) Apache Airflow
19 49 (19.29%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (19.29%) Apache Ignite

Software Developer 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 53 (20.87%) Apache
2 49 (19.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.97%) Drupal
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 98 (38.58%) AWS
2 65 (25.59%) Azure
3 51 (20.08%) GCP
4 49 (19.29%) dbt
5 32 (12.60%) Snowflake
6 15 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.33%) GitHub
8 10 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.15%) Serverless
10 6 (2.36%) Boomi
11 5 (1.97%) Pulumi
12 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.57%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.57%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (1.18%) Azure Table
14 2 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.79%) npm
14 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.79%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.79%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) Multicast
1 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.08%) SQL Server
2 49 (19.29%) Amazon Athena
2 49 (19.29%) Apache Arrow
2 49 (19.29%) Apache Ignite
2 49 (19.29%) Dremio
3 32 (12.60%) Data Lake
4 18 (7.09%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.54%) MySQL
6 5 (1.97%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (1.18%) DB2
7 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.79%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (12.20%) Git
2 12 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.76%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.76%) CMake
4 5 (1.97%) JIRA
5 3 (1.18%) Protractor
6 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.79%) GitLab
6 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) Appium
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Maven
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) TestNG
7 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (30.71%) Finance
2 57 (22.44%) Front Office
3 53 (20.87%) Banking
4 50 (19.69%) Investment Banking
5 46 (18.11%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.36%) Legal
9 5 (1.97%) Automotive
9 5 (1.97%) Law
10 4 (1.57%) Electronics
11 3 (1.18%) Games
12 2 (0.79%) Marketing
13 1 (0.39%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.39%) Military
13 1 (0.39%) Police
13 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.89%) .NET
2 54 (21.26%) HTML
3 52 (20.47%) CSS
4 49 (19.29%) gRPC
4 49 (19.29%) NumPy
4 49 (19.29%) Pandas
4 49 (19.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 49 (19.29%) SciPy
5 30 (11.81%) WPF
6 29 (11.42%) RESTful
7 28 (11.02%) AngularJS
8 24 (9.45%) HTML5
9 17 (6.69%) .NET Framework
10 16 (6.30%) ASP.NET
11 14 (5.51%) React
12 11 (4.33%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (3.54%) Entity Framework
13 9 (3.54%) jQuery
14 8 (3.15%) JSON
14 8 (3.15%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.50%) Fixed Income
2 44 (17.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 43 (16.93%) Hedge funds
4 41 (16.14%) Derivative
4 41 (16.14%) Equities
5 21 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (8.27%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (4.72%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.94%) Blockchain
8 9 (3.54%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.15%) IoT
10 6 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (2.36%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.97%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.18%) Swaptions
13 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.20%) Windows
2 14 (5.51%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.76%) Android
3 7 (2.76%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (49.21%) Agile
2 80 (31.50%) Software Engineering
3 50 (19.69%) Asset Management
4 48 (18.90%) Computer Science
5 40 (15.75%) Fintech
5 40 (15.75%) Full Stack Development
6 38 (14.96%) DevOps
7 37 (14.57%) Investment Management
8 36 (14.17%) TDD
9 34 (13.39%) CI/CD
9 34 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (12.60%) Line Management
11 31 (12.20%) Collaborative Working
11 31 (12.20%) Multithreading
12 24 (9.45%) Mentoring
12 24 (9.45%) Microservices
12 24 (9.45%) Multithreaded Programming
13 21 (8.27%) Analytics
13 21 (8.27%) Clean Code
14 16 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 122 (48.03%) JavaScript
2 109 (42.91%) C#
3 104 (40.94%) Java
4 79 (31.10%) Python
5 68 (26.77%) SQL
6 57 (22.44%) TypeScript
7 22 (8.66%) Kotlin
8 12 (4.72%) Go
8 12 (4.72%) Ruby
9 11 (4.33%) C++
9 11 (4.33%) Scala
10 7 (2.76%) PHP
11 5 (1.97%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.97%) C
11 5 (1.97%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.18%) Erlang
12 3 (1.18%) Rust
12 3 (1.18%) VB
13 1 (0.39%) FoxPro (VFP)
13 1 (0.39%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 55 (21.65%) Degree
2 9 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.97%) PhD
4 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.18%) MCSD
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.76%) QA
2 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (9.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (9.06%) Terraform
2 17 (6.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.57%) Grafana
3 4 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.76%) Oracle
2 7 (2.76%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.36%) MuleSoft
4 4 (1.57%) Quadient
4 4 (1.57%) Splunk
5 3 (1.18%) OpenLink
5 3 (1.18%) Sybase
5 3 (1.18%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.79%) Dell
6 2 (0.79%) F5
6 2 (0.79%) Google
6 2 (0.79%) YouTube
7 1 (0.39%) Peregrine