Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer
England > London

The median Software Engineer salary in London is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 33 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 938 1,460 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.23% 6.00% 4.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.90% 6.35% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 579 1,198 1,129
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £141,401
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +3.70%

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 11,874 22,993 28,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 94.43% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,215 16,891 21,759
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in London

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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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 -25 90 £86,750 +8.44% 446
South London +19 30 £82,500 +10.00% 13
West London +9 3 £90,000 +63.64% 55
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 934 (99.57%) Software Engineering
2 684 (72.92%) Finance
3 606 (64.61%) Agile
4 515 (54.90%) AWS
5 478 (50.96%) Python
6 444 (47.33%) Java
7 384 (40.94%) TypeScript
8 377 (40.19%) Banking
9 326 (34.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 310 (33.05%) React
11 304 (32.41%) Law
12 291 (31.02%) Front Office
13 284 (30.28%) JavaScript
14 279 (29.74%) Fintech
15 269 (28.68%) Kubernetes
16 255 (27.19%) Fixed Income
17 236 (25.16%) CI/CD
18 234 (24.95%) SDLC
19 227 (24.20%) Asset Management
20 214 (22.81%) GCP
21 211 (22.49%) Investment Management
21 211 (22.49%) Equities
22 207 (22.07%) Cloud Native
23 204 (21.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
24 191 (20.36%) Amazon Athena
25 189 (20.15%) Apache Iceberg
26 185 (19.72%) Apache Arrow
26 185 (19.72%) dbt
26 185 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
26 185 (19.72%) Dremio

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
1 185 (19.72%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (11.83%) Apache
3 26 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.85%) Confluence
5 4 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.43%) nginx
5 4 (0.43%) Traefik
6 2 (0.21%) CICS
6 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.11%) Camunda
7 1 (0.11%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.43%) Sketch
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.21%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Eikon
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 515 (54.90%) AWS
2 214 (22.81%) GCP
3 185 (19.72%) dbt
4 130 (13.86%) Azure
5 106 (11.30%) Snowflake
6 42 (4.48%) Serverless
7 38 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (3.73%) GitHub
9 33 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.39%) Figma
13 13 (1.39%) SaaS
14 12 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (1.17%) Amazon Bedrock
15 11 (1.17%) Apigee
15 11 (1.17%) Dagster
16 10 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.81%) HTTP
2 12 (1.28%) Multicast
3 10 (1.07%) DNS
4 5 (0.53%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.43%) DHCP
5 4 (0.43%) ICMP
5 4 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.43%) VPN
6 3 (0.32%) SSL
7 2 (0.21%) FTP
8 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (20.36%) Amazon Athena
2 189 (20.15%) Apache Iceberg
3 185 (19.72%) Apache Arrow
3 185 (19.72%) Dremio
4 125 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (8.96%) Data Lake
6 77 (8.21%) Apache Ignite
7 54 (5.76%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.69%) Relational Database
9 32 (3.41%) MongoDB
10 29 (3.09%) MySQL
11 21 (2.24%) Big Data
12 20 (2.13%) DynamoDB
13 16 (1.71%) KDB
14 12 (1.28%) Kdb+
15 9 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.85%) Redis
17 7 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (6.50%) Git
2 31 (3.30%) JIRA
3 27 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.13%) Vite
5 12 (1.28%) JUnit
6 10 (1.07%) GitLab
7 8 (0.85%) Spinnaker
8 7 (0.75%) git-flow
9 6 (0.64%) Maven
9 6 (0.64%) webpack
10 5 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.53%) Moq
10 5 (0.53%) Selenium
10 5 (0.53%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.43%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.43%) Babel
11 4 (0.43%) rollup.js
11 4 (0.43%) YouTrack
12 3 (0.32%) Locust
General
1 684 (72.92%) Finance
2 377 (40.19%) Banking
3 326 (34.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 304 (32.41%) Law
5 291 (31.02%) Front Office
6 146 (15.57%) Investment Banking
7 141 (15.03%) Social Skills
8 87 (9.28%) Marketing
9 59 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
10 46 (4.90%) Financial Institution
11 42 (4.48%) Legal
12 22 (2.35%) Retail
13 20 (2.13%) Games
14 18 (1.92%) Advertising
15 13 (1.39%) Back Office
16 8 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.64%) Agriculture
18 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (33.05%) React
2 156 (16.63%) Pandas
3 155 (16.52%) AngularJS
4 153 (16.31%) Node.js
4 153 (16.31%) NumPy
4 153 (16.31%) SciPy
5 145 (15.46%) Kafka
6 113 (12.05%) Vue
7 104 (11.09%) Spring
8 89 (9.49%) gRPC
9 81 (8.64%) Protocol Buffers
10 71 (7.57%) GraphQL
10 71 (7.57%) RESTful
11 66 (7.04%) Redux
12 65 (6.93%) Spring Boot
13 57 (6.08%) .NET
14 47 (5.01%) REST
15 46 (4.90%) PySpark
16 40 (4.26%) CSS
17 34 (3.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 255 (27.19%) Fixed Income
2 211 (22.49%) Equities
3 207 (22.07%) Cloud Native
4 204 (21.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 143 (15.25%) Derivative
6 122 (13.01%) Hedge funds
7 111 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
8 74 (7.89%) Algorithms
9 60 (6.40%) Pricing Data
10 50 (5.33%) Public Cloud
11 33 (3.52%) Data Structures
11 33 (3.52%) Legacy Code
12 30 (3.20%) Product Ownership
13 28 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
14 27 (2.88%) Management Information System
14 27 (2.88%) Mobile App
15 17 (1.81%) Mobile Banking
16 16 (1.71%) Client/Server
16 16 (1.71%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.61%) Linux
2 14 (1.49%) Unix
3 6 (0.64%) Android
3 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.32%) Windows
5 2 (0.21%) zOS
6 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (99.57%) Software Engineering
2 606 (64.61%) Agile
3 279 (29.74%) Fintech
4 236 (25.16%) CI/CD
5 234 (24.95%) SDLC
6 227 (24.20%) Asset Management
7 211 (22.49%) Investment Management
8 185 (19.72%) Microservices
8 185 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (16.95%) Operational Stability
10 139 (14.82%) Computer Science
11 136 (14.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 129 (13.75%) Machine Learning
13 124 (13.22%) Community of Practice
13 124 (13.22%) Risk Management
14 122 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
15 102 (10.87%) DevOps
16 101 (10.77%) TDD
17 96 (10.23%) Order Management
18 85 (9.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 478 (50.96%) Python
2 444 (47.33%) Java
3 384 (40.94%) TypeScript
4 284 (30.28%) JavaScript
5 139 (14.82%) SQL
6 130 (13.86%) Go
7 97 (10.34%) Rust
8 90 (9.59%) C++
9 64 (6.82%) C#
10 57 (6.08%) Kotlin
11 48 (5.12%) C
12 29 (3.09%) Scala
13 16 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.28%) Bash
15 9 (0.96%) Lua
16 6 (0.64%) PHP
16 6 (0.64%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.43%) Groovy
17 4 (0.43%) Swift
18 2 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 104 (11.09%) Degree
2 47 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (2.35%) AWS Certification
4 15 (1.60%) Master's Degree
5 9 (0.96%) PhD
6 8 (0.85%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.43%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.21%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.30%) QA
2 19 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.53%) NIST
3 5 (0.53%) WCAG
4 3 (0.32%) CDISC
4 3 (0.32%) GDPR
5 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.11%) MiFID
6 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.11%) SEPA
6 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 119 (12.69%) Docker
2 5 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 269 (28.68%) Kubernetes
2 85 (9.06%) Terraform
3 17 (1.81%) Ansible
3 17 (1.81%) Grafana
4 15 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.17%) Argo
6 8 (0.85%) Mesos
7 7 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.43%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.43%) Puppet
8 4 (0.43%) Salt
9 2 (0.21%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.21%) Istio
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (4.48%) Google
2 35 (3.73%) Microsoft
3 24 (2.56%) Oracle
4 14 (1.49%) Databricks
5 12 (1.28%) Apple
6 10 (1.07%) OpenAI
7 9 (0.96%) MKS
7 9 (0.96%) MuleSoft
7 9 (0.96%) Ping Identity
8 5 (0.53%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.53%) Splunk
9 4 (0.43%) Adobe
9 4 (0.43%) IBM
9 4 (0.43%) Remedy
9 4 (0.43%) Vertica
10 2 (0.21%) ESRI
10 2 (0.21%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.21%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.21%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.21%) SAP