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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,234 2,353 4,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.56% 9.98% 12.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 10.95% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 992 1,934 2,848
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,790 £66,746
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £91,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +4.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £146,250 £138,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,647
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.97% +3.78%

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 12,416 21,495 32,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.21% 91.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,234 15,924 23,365
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,428
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,500 £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 £122,500 £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 15 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 15 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 0 264 £85,000 +6.25% 199
South London +25 57 £82,500 +17.86% 18
East London -14 9 £92,500 -36.21% 31
West London +24 8 £90,000 +44.00% 62
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
1 262 (21.23%) Apache Airflow
2 189 (15.32%) Apache
3 104 (8.43%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.13%) Confluence
5 7 (0.57%) CMS
6 5 (0.41%) IIS
6 5 (0.41%) Liferay
6 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.32%) Kinematics
7 4 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.24%) CICS
9 2 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) Solana
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.081%) Camunda
10 1 (0.081%) Kentico
10 1 (0.081%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.16%) Blender
3 2 (0.16%) Maya
3 2 (0.16%) Trello
4 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.081%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.32%) Shopify
3 2 (0.16%) Endur
3 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.081%) Eikon
4 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.081%) RMDS
4 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.081%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 681 (55.19%) AWS
2 253 (20.50%) dbt
3 248 (20.10%) Azure
4 226 (18.31%) GCP
5 162 (13.13%) Serverless
6 146 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
7 124 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
8 102 (8.27%) Snowflake
9 72 (5.83%) OpenShift
10 68 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
11 66 (5.35%) SaaS
12 63 (5.11%) GitHub
13 57 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
14 56 (4.54%) Amazon S3
15 51 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 44 (3.57%) Dagster
17 34 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
18 32 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
19 26 (2.11%) Power Platform
20 24 (1.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.78%) HTTP
2 13 (1.05%) Network Security
3 12 (0.97%) Multicast
4 5 (0.41%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.24%) Modbus
5 3 (0.24%) MQTT
6 2 (0.16%) FTP
6 2 (0.16%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.081%) Firewall
7 1 (0.081%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.081%) Internet
7 1 (0.081%) J1939
7 1 (0.081%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (20.34%) Amazon Athena
2 245 (19.85%) Dremio
3 243 (19.69%) Apache Iceberg
4 224 (18.15%) Apache Arrow
5 149 (12.07%) Apache Ignite
6 148 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
7 82 (6.65%) Data Lake
8 54 (4.38%) NoSQL
9 51 (4.13%) MySQL
10 48 (3.89%) MongoDB
11 38 (3.08%) SQL Server
12 28 (2.27%) DynamoDB
13 25 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (1.54%) Relational Database
15 17 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
17 9 (0.73%) Big Data
17 9 (0.73%) Power BI
18 8 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 116 (9.40%) Git
2 78 (6.32%) Artifactory
3 57 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.24%) GitLab
5 33 (2.67%) JIRA
6 24 (1.94%) Maven
7 20 (1.62%) JUnit
8 19 (1.54%) Gradle
9 16 (1.30%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.30%) IntelliJ
10 14 (1.13%) Mockito
11 13 (1.05%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.73%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.49%) Moq
13 6 (0.49%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.32%) NUnit
15 4 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 588 (47.65%) Finance
2 343 (27.80%) Front Office
3 244 (19.77%) Social Skills
4 224 (18.15%) Banking
5 102 (8.27%) Investment Banking
6 74 (6.00%) Games
7 70 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
8 68 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.70%) Retail
10 42 (3.40%) Financial Institution
11 38 (3.08%) Advertising
12 31 (2.51%) Law
13 25 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 25 (2.03%) Public Sector
14 19 (1.54%) Legal
14 19 (1.54%) Marketing
15 18 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.13%) Back Office
17 7 (0.57%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 629 (50.97%) Software Engineer
2 338 (27.39%) Senior
3 285 (23.10%) Developer
4 267 (21.64%) AWS Engineer
5 237 (19.21%) Python Engineer
6 228 (18.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 176 (14.26%) AWS Software Engineer
8 152 (12.32%) Lead
9 143 (11.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 142 (11.51%) Java Engineer
11 140 (11.35%) Java Software Engineer
12 134 (10.86%) Python Software Engineer
13 110 (8.91%) AWS Developer
14 101 (8.18%) AWS DevOps
14 101 (8.18%) Data Engineer
15 93 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
16 87 (7.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 73 (5.92%) Python Developer
18 69 (5.59%) Senior Java Engineer
18 69 (5.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (26.90%) React
2 184 (14.91%) Kafka
3 176 (14.26%) Node.js
4 163 (13.21%) Pandas
5 151 (12.24%) PySpark
6 147 (11.91%) AngularJS
7 146 (11.83%) NumPy
8 142 (11.51%) SciPy
9 126 (10.21%) .NET
10 93 (7.54%) gRPC
11 82 (6.65%) Protocol Buffers
11 82 (6.65%) Vue
12 81 (6.56%) Spring
13 73 (5.92%) Redux
14 72 (5.83%) J2EE
15 69 (5.59%) REST
16 62 (5.02%) GraphQL
17 61 (4.94%) Spring Boot
18 60 (4.86%) HTML
19 58 (4.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 225 (18.23%) Fixed Income
2 175 (14.18%) Equities
3 164 (13.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 119 (9.64%) Cloud Native
5 116 (9.40%) Derivative
6 113 (9.16%) Hedge funds
7 95 (7.70%) Distributed Systems
8 85 (6.89%) Algorithms
9 49 (3.97%) Management Information System
10 48 (3.89%) Product Ownership
11 38 (3.08%) Pricing Data
12 37 (3.00%) Mobile App
13 36 (2.92%) Legacy Code
14 29 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (1.78%) Life Science
16 20 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
16 20 (1.62%) NHS
17 17 (1.38%) Data Structures
17 17 (1.38%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 109 (8.83%) Linux
2 27 (2.19%) Android
3 15 (1.22%) Windows
4 13 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
6 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.32%) VMS
8 3 (0.24%) zOS
9 2 (0.16%) Unix
10 1 (0.081%) Debian
10 1 (0.081%) Fedora
10 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.081%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (51.78%) Agile
2 309 (25.04%) CI/CD
3 307 (24.88%) Asset Management
4 286 (23.18%) DevOps
5 203 (16.45%) Fintech
6 193 (15.64%) Computer Science
7 185 (14.99%) Microservices
8 180 (14.59%) Investment Management
9 176 (14.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 174 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (11.91%) Roadmaps
12 135 (10.94%) Mentoring
13 133 (10.78%) Analytics
14 119 (9.64%) TDD
15 114 (9.24%) Containerisation
16 111 (9.00%) Data Engineering
17 96 (7.78%) SDLC
18 90 (7.29%) Open Source
19 89 (7.21%) Artificial Intelligence
19 89 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 610 (49.43%) Python
2 451 (36.55%) Java
3 358 (29.01%) TypeScript
4 345 (27.96%) JavaScript
5 175 (14.18%) SQL
6 159 (12.88%) Go
7 141 (11.43%) C#
8 116 (9.40%) Rust
9 115 (9.32%) C++
10 53 (4.29%) C
11 27 (2.19%) Ruby
11 27 (2.19%) Scala
12 25 (2.03%) PHP
13 22 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.13%) Bash
14 14 (1.13%) PowerShell
15 12 (0.97%) Bicep
16 11 (0.89%) Swift
17 10 (0.81%) Objective-C
18 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (18.23%) Degree
2 97 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (4.86%) Master's Degree
4 53 (4.29%) Security Cleared
5 35 (2.84%) PhD
5 35 (2.84%) SC Cleared
6 18 (1.46%) AWS Certification
6 18 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.081%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.081%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.81%) QA
2 19 (1.54%) GDPR
3 14 (1.13%) HIPAA
4 12 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.57%) NIST
6 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.41%) SLA
7 5 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.32%) CDISC
8 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.16%) MiFID
10 1 (0.081%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 258 (20.91%) Docker
2 8 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 340 (27.55%) Kubernetes
2 182 (14.75%) Terraform
3 33 (2.67%) Ansible
4 32 (2.59%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.27%) Grafana
6 7 (0.57%) Argo
7 5 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.32%) Packer
9 3 (0.24%) Istio
9 3 (0.24%) Puppet
10 2 (0.16%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.081%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.081%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.081%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 90 (7.29%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.46%) Google
3 25 (2.03%) IBM
4 20 (1.62%) Apple
5 16 (1.30%) Oracle
6 15 (1.22%) Databricks
7 13 (1.05%) New Relic
7 13 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 11 (0.89%) Ping Identity
9 9 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.73%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.41%) Siemens
10 5 (0.41%) Splunk
10 5 (0.41%) VMware
11 4 (0.32%) Remedy
12 3 (0.24%) Foundry
12 3 (0.24%) SAP
13 2 (0.16%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.16%) OpenLink