Software Engineering Job Trends in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,924 1,462 2,584
As % of all permanent jobs in London 9.03% 11.97% 10.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.10% 12.49% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,343 891 2,085
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +20.00% -16.67%

All Process & 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 17,339 11,707 21,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.38% 95.83% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,856 6,973 16,061
10th Percentile £40,808 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,300 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

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 13 June 2026. 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 +10 402 £92,500 +5.71% 116
West London +9 33 £65,000 -27.78% 17
South London -1 19 £52,075 -36.88% 2
East London +7 17 £24,000 -74.05% 16
North London - 1 £45,000 - 6
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 34 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (0.78%) Apache
4 13 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.62%) Confluence
6 8 (0.42%) WordPress
7 7 (0.36%) CMS
8 6 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.16%) SAS
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.052%) Drupal
13 1 (0.052%) Moodle
13 1 (0.052%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.052%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) Blender
4 3 (0.16%) Maya
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.052%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 640 (33.26%) AWS
2 280 (14.55%) Azure
3 278 (14.45%) GCP
4 130 (6.76%) SaaS
5 85 (4.42%) GitHub
6 65 (3.38%) Serverless
7 56 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (2.75%) Anthropic Claude
9 41 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
12 31 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 29 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (1.46%) Datadog
15 21 (1.09%) Power Platform
16 20 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (1.04%) Figma
16 20 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
18 16 (0.83%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 101 (5.25%) Broadband
2 33 (1.72%) HTTP
3 23 (1.20%) Network Security
4 18 (0.94%) Multicast
5 9 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.42%) VoIP
7 6 (0.31%) Internet
8 3 (0.16%) DNS
9 2 (0.10%) AMQP
9 2 (0.10%) ATM
9 2 (0.10%) Frame Relay
9 2 (0.10%) LAN
9 2 (0.10%) MPLS
9 2 (0.10%) SNMP
9 2 (0.10%) WAN
10 1 (0.052%) BGP
10 1 (0.052%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.052%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.052%) PSTN
10 1 (0.052%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (2.81%) MongoDB
3 50 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 38 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
5 36 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 34 (1.77%) MySQL
7 29 (1.51%) Big Data
8 25 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 24 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 23 (1.20%) DynamoDB
11 21 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.83%) Power BI
13 14 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.52%) Redis
15 8 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.36%) Pinecone
17 6 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
18 5 (0.26%) Hadoop
19 4 (0.21%) GIS
Development Applications
1 77 (4.00%) Git
2 63 (3.27%) TeamCity
3 46 (2.39%) Claude Code
3 46 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.18%) GitLab
5 33 (1.72%) JIRA
6 25 (1.30%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.47%) Storybook
8 6 (0.31%) Vite
9 5 (0.26%) MLflow
9 5 (0.26%) Selenium
10 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.16%) Maven
12 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.10%) ESLint
12 2 (0.10%) IDA Disassembler
12 2 (0.10%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.052%) Deequ
General
1 605 (31.44%) Finance
2 259 (13.46%) Banking
3 253 (13.15%) Social Skills
4 105 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (5.15%) Retail
6 86 (4.47%) Front Office
7 77 (4.00%) Law
8 75 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (2.60%) Financial Institution
9 50 (2.60%) Games
10 42 (2.18%) Public Sector
11 40 (2.08%) Back Office
12 21 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.09%) Marketing
12 21 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (0.94%) Advertising
14 17 (0.88%) Legal
15 15 (0.78%) Tech for Good
16 14 (0.73%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,007 (52.34%) Software Engineer
2 534 (27.75%) Senior
3 354 (18.40%) Developer
4 315 (16.37%) Senior Software Engineer
5 238 (12.37%) Lead
6 161 (8.37%) Python Engineer
7 140 (7.28%) Lead Software Engineer
8 117 (6.08%) Python Software Engineer
9 116 (6.03%) Java Engineer
10 110 (5.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 99 (5.15%) Engineering Manager
12 95 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 95 (4.94%) Senior Developer
13 94 (4.89%) Java Software Engineer
14 90 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
15 87 (4.52%) C++ Software Engineer
15 87 (4.52%) Software Manager
16 77 (4.00%) Software Engineering Manager
17 72 (3.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 69 (3.59%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (11.95%) React
2 170 (8.84%) .NET
3 139 (7.22%) Node.js
4 127 (6.60%) Kafka
5 98 (5.09%) RESTful
6 89 (4.63%) Spring
7 85 (4.42%) REST
8 63 (3.27%) Spring Boot
9 55 (2.86%) gRPC
9 55 (2.86%) Redux
10 50 (2.60%) GraphQL
10 50 (2.60%) Next.js
11 49 (2.55%) LangChain
12 43 (2.23%) Django
13 41 (2.13%) FastAPI
14 40 (2.08%) LangGraph
15 33 (1.72%) AngularJS
15 33 (1.72%) Vue
16 32 (1.66%) Boost C++ Libraries
17 30 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 232 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 175 (9.10%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 119 (6.19%) Algorithms
5 79 (4.11%) Fixed Income
6 71 (3.69%) AI Agents
7 70 (3.64%) Public Cloud
8 65 (3.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 58 (3.01%) Data Structures
10 51 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 43 (2.23%) Equities
12 42 (2.18%) Derivative
12 42 (2.18%) Over-the-Top Content
13 38 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.66%) Low-Code
14 32 (1.66%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.51%) Blockchain
16 28 (1.46%) Robotics
17 27 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
18 24 (1.25%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.16%) Linux
2 15 (0.78%) Windows
3 11 (0.57%) Android
4 5 (0.26%) CentOS
5 4 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.052%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (21.36%) CI/CD
2 383 (19.91%) AI
3 298 (15.49%) Microservices
4 294 (15.28%) Agile
5 291 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 250 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
7 231 (12.01%) Fintech
8 210 (10.91%) DevOps
9 206 (10.71%) Test Automation
10 202 (10.50%) Roadmaps
11 201 (10.45%) Computer Science
11 201 (10.45%) Mentoring
12 182 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
13 174 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 174 (9.04%) Machine Learning
14 162 (8.42%) Containerisation
15 156 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
16 141 (7.33%) Clean Code
17 134 (6.96%) Observability
18 126 (6.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 666 (34.62%) Python
2 393 (20.43%) Java
3 238 (12.37%) TypeScript
4 195 (10.14%) Go
5 185 (9.62%) C#
6 174 (9.04%) C++
7 158 (8.21%) SQL
8 151 (7.85%) JavaScript
9 81 (4.21%) Rust
10 51 (2.65%) Scala
11 23 (1.20%) Bash
12 21 (1.09%) PHP
13 19 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.94%) C
15 12 (0.62%) Julia
16 11 (0.57%) MATLAB
16 11 (0.57%) R
17 7 (0.36%) Ruby
18 4 (0.21%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 165 (8.58%) Degree
2 125 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 90 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 80 (4.16%) SC Cleared
5 61 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 30 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.09%) PhD
8 9 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.16%) CEH
13 2 (0.10%) CCIE
13 2 (0.10%) CCNP
13 2 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.10%) MBA
13 2 (0.10%) OSCP
13 2 (0.10%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.07%) QA
2 21 (1.09%) SOC 2
3 19 (0.99%) GDPR
4 16 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 16 (0.83%) GRC
4 16 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.16%) MiFID
7 3 (0.16%) NIST
8 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.10%) ITGC
9 1 (0.052%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.052%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.052%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.052%) WCAG
System Software
1 186 (9.67%) Docker
2 3 (0.16%) Firmware
2 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.052%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 221 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 173 (8.99%) Terraform
3 86 (4.47%) Grafana
4 52 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.99%) Ansible
6 14 (0.73%) Cilium
7 5 (0.26%) Nagios
8 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.21%) Kibana
8 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.10%) Argo
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.10%) OpenView
9 2 (0.10%) Podman
9 2 (0.10%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.052%) Istio
10 1 (0.052%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.052%) logstash
10 1 (0.052%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 75 (3.90%) Microsoft
2 52 (2.70%) Google
3 36 (1.87%) Typelevel
4 24 (1.25%) OpenAI
5 14 (0.73%) Oracle
6 13 (0.68%) Adobe
7 12 (0.62%) Palantir
8 11 (0.57%) Databricks
8 11 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.52%) Splunk
10 7 (0.36%) Foundry
10 7 (0.36%) SAP
11 6 (0.31%) Siemens
11 6 (0.31%) Talend
12 5 (0.26%) Allen-Bradley
12 5 (0.26%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.26%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.26%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.26%) Rockwell
12 5 (0.26%) Software AG