Software Engineering Jobs in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,322 2,309 4,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.21% 9.76% 11.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.62% 10.69% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,054 1,909 2,893
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £91,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +4.57% +1.27%
75th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £145,250 £138,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,449 21,594 33,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.10% 91.31% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,453 16,091 24,053
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +1 277 £85,000 +6.25% 173
South London +35 63 £82,500 +17.86% 8
East London -1 12 £92,500 -36.21% 23
West London +35 11 £90,000 +38.46% 51
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 281 (21.26%) Apache Airflow
2 208 (15.73%) Apache
3 111 (8.40%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.98%) Confluence
5 7 (0.53%) CMS
6 5 (0.38%) Liferay
6 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.30%) Kinematics
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.23%) CICS
8 3 (0.23%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) Solana
10 1 (0.076%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.076%) Camunda
10 1 (0.076%) Kentico
10 1 (0.076%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.15%) Blender
3 2 (0.15%) Maya
3 2 (0.15%) Trello
4 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.076%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.15%) Endur
3 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.076%) Eikon
4 1 (0.076%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.076%) RMDS
4 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.076%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 743 (56.20%) AWS
2 272 (20.57%) dbt
3 266 (20.12%) Azure
4 245 (18.53%) GCP
5 185 (13.99%) Serverless
6 170 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
7 152 (11.50%) Amazon ECS
8 113 (8.55%) Snowflake
9 91 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
10 80 (6.05%) OpenShift
11 76 (5.75%) Amazon S3
12 70 (5.30%) SaaS
13 65 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (4.84%) GitHub
15 63 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
16 55 (4.16%) Dagster
17 40 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (2.65%) Power Platform
19 34 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
19 34 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.82%) HTTP
2 13 (0.98%) Network Security
3 12 (0.91%) Multicast
4 6 (0.45%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.23%) Modbus
5 3 (0.23%) MQTT
6 2 (0.15%) FTP
6 2 (0.15%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.076%) Firewall
7 1 (0.076%) Internet
7 1 (0.076%) J1939
7 1 (0.076%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (20.27%) Amazon Athena
2 262 (19.82%) Dremio
3 259 (19.59%) Apache Iceberg
4 237 (17.93%) Apache Arrow
5 169 (12.78%) Apache Ignite
6 152 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
7 96 (7.26%) Data Lake
8 60 (4.54%) NoSQL
9 54 (4.08%) MySQL
10 51 (3.86%) MongoDB
11 42 (3.18%) DynamoDB
12 40 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (2.87%) SQL Server
14 37 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
16 22 (1.66%) Relational Database
17 18 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (0.83%) Big Data
18 11 (0.83%) Power BI
19 10 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 122 (9.23%) Git
2 86 (6.51%) Artifactory
3 60 (4.54%) Jenkins
4 39 (2.95%) GitLab
5 31 (2.34%) JIRA
6 25 (1.89%) Maven
7 21 (1.59%) Gradle
8 20 (1.51%) JUnit
9 16 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.21%) IntelliJ
10 14 (1.06%) Mockito
10 14 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.45%) Moq
12 6 (0.45%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.45%) webpack
13 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 655 (49.55%) Finance
2 382 (28.90%) Front Office
3 275 (20.80%) Banking
4 258 (19.52%) Social Skills
5 113 (8.55%) Investment Banking
6 78 (5.90%) Games
7 69 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (4.61%) Retail
9 54 (4.08%) Financial Institution
10 42 (3.18%) Law
11 40 (3.03%) Advertising
12 26 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
13 25 (1.89%) Public Sector
14 20 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.51%) Legal
14 20 (1.51%) Marketing
15 14 (1.06%) Back Office
16 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 674 (50.98%) Software Engineer
2 359 (27.16%) Senior
3 296 (22.39%) AWS Engineer
4 292 (22.09%) Developer
5 266 (20.12%) Python Engineer
6 240 (18.15%) Senior Software Engineer
7 186 (14.07%) AWS Software Engineer
8 164 (12.41%) Lead
9 145 (10.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 144 (10.89%) Java Engineer
11 142 (10.74%) Java Software Engineer
11 142 (10.74%) Python Software Engineer
12 119 (9.00%) AWS DevOps
13 113 (8.55%) Data Engineer
14 111 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
15 109 (8.25%) AWS Developer
16 105 (7.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 75 (5.67%) Python Developer
18 72 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
18 72 (5.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (27.38%) React
2 200 (15.13%) Node.js
3 190 (14.37%) Kafka
4 175 (13.24%) Pandas
5 166 (12.56%) PySpark
6 159 (12.03%) AngularJS
7 158 (11.95%) NumPy
8 154 (11.65%) SciPy
9 128 (9.68%) .NET
10 109 (8.25%) gRPC
11 98 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
11 98 (7.41%) Spring
12 84 (6.35%) Redux
13 80 (6.05%) J2EE
14 78 (5.90%) Vue
15 75 (5.67%) Spring Boot
16 71 (5.37%) REST
17 67 (5.07%) GraphQL
17 67 (5.07%) HTML
18 65 (4.92%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 239 (18.08%) Fixed Income
2 181 (13.69%) Equities
3 169 (12.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 127 (9.61%) Derivative
5 124 (9.38%) Cloud Native
6 122 (9.23%) Hedge funds
7 101 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
8 85 (6.43%) Algorithms
9 51 (3.86%) Management Information System
10 49 (3.71%) Product Ownership
11 40 (3.03%) Mobile App
11 40 (3.03%) Pricing Data
12 38 (2.87%) Legacy Code
13 31 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
14 25 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (1.66%) Life Science
16 21 (1.59%) NHS
17 20 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
17 20 (1.51%) Mobile Games
18 18 (1.36%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 112 (8.47%) Linux
2 30 (2.27%) Android
3 14 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.91%) Windows
5 9 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
6 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.23%) VMS
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.23%) zOS
8 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 1 (0.076%) Debian
9 1 (0.076%) Fedora
9 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.076%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (53.25%) Agile
2 341 (25.79%) Asset Management
3 333 (25.19%) CI/CD
4 317 (23.98%) DevOps
5 219 (16.57%) Computer Science
6 216 (16.34%) Fintech
7 194 (14.67%) Microservices
8 188 (14.22%) Investment Management
9 185 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 184 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
11 166 (12.56%) Mentoring
12 160 (12.10%) Roadmaps
13 138 (10.44%) Analytics
14 124 (9.38%) TDD
15 121 (9.15%) Data Engineering
16 115 (8.70%) SDLC
17 114 (8.62%) Containerisation
18 111 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
19 106 (8.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 97 (7.34%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 659 (49.85%) Python
2 491 (37.14%) Java
3 384 (29.05%) JavaScript
4 379 (28.67%) TypeScript
5 184 (13.92%) SQL
6 174 (13.16%) Go
7 147 (11.12%) C#
8 122 (9.23%) Rust
9 119 (9.00%) C++
10 57 (4.31%) C
11 30 (2.27%) Ruby
12 29 (2.19%) Scala
13 26 (1.97%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.89%) PHP
15 13 (0.98%) Bicep
16 12 (0.91%) Bash
16 12 (0.91%) PowerShell
16 12 (0.91%) Swift
17 11 (0.83%) Objective-C
18 7 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 238 (18.00%) Degree
2 107 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (4.31%) Master's Degree
4 53 (4.01%) Security Cleared
5 36 (2.72%) SC Cleared
6 32 (2.42%) PhD
7 19 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 12 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.076%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.076%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.86%) QA
2 19 (1.44%) GDPR
3 14 (1.06%) HIPAA
4 13 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.53%) NIST
7 5 (0.38%) SLA
7 5 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.30%) CDISC
8 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.076%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.076%) SEPA
System Software
1 288 (21.79%) Docker
2 7 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 380 (28.74%) Kubernetes
2 197 (14.90%) Terraform
3 32 (2.42%) Ansible
4 31 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.97%) Grafana
6 8 (0.61%) Argo
7 4 (0.30%) Packer
7 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.23%) Istio
8 3 (0.23%) Puppet
9 2 (0.15%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.076%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.076%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.076%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.46%) Google
3 25 (1.89%) IBM
4 22 (1.66%) Apple
5 18 (1.36%) Oracle
6 16 (1.21%) Databricks
7 15 (1.13%) New Relic
8 13 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.83%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.68%) Ping Identity
10 9 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.45%) Siemens
12 5 (0.38%) Splunk
13 4 (0.30%) Remedy
13 4 (0.30%) VMware
14 3 (0.23%) Foundry
14 3 (0.23%) SAP
15 2 (0.15%) Bloomberg
15 2 (0.15%) OpenLink