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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,514 2,680 3,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.54% 11.10% 11.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.10% 12.43% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 950 2,140 2,549
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £148,750 £141,401
England median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -11.72% +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 12,509 21,569 28,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 95.38% 89.36% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,346 15,602 21,548
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 6 July 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 6 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 -7 204 £87,500 +9.38% 683
South London +30 53 £82,500 +26.92% 17
West London +13 15 £85,000 +54.55% 28
East London -12 9 £92,500 -38.33% 30
North London -11 3 - - 3
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
1 254 (16.78%) Apache Airflow
2 157 (10.37%) Apache
3 78 (5.15%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.73%) Confluence
5 8 (0.53%) IIS
5 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.46%) CMS
7 6 (0.40%) nginx
7 6 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.33%) Liferay
9 4 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.26%) Traefik
10 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) CICS
11 2 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.13%) Kinematics
11 2 (0.13%) Solana
12 1 (0.066%) Camunda
Applications
1 10 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.26%) Sketch
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.26%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.066%) Eikon
4 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.066%) Endur
4 1 (0.066%) Magento
4 1 (0.066%) RMDS
4 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 799 (52.77%) AWS
2 288 (19.02%) Azure
3 276 (18.23%) GCP
4 240 (15.85%) dbt
5 133 (8.78%) Serverless
6 111 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
7 110 (7.27%) Snowflake
8 86 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
9 81 (5.35%) GitHub
10 71 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
11 65 (4.29%) SaaS
12 47 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
13 44 (2.91%) Amazon S3
14 42 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (2.71%) OpenShift
16 37 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
18 31 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (1.98%) Datadog
20 20 (1.32%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.65%) Broadband
2 14 (0.92%) HTTP
3 12 (0.79%) Multicast
4 10 (0.66%) DNS
4 10 (0.66%) Network Security
5 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.33%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.26%) DHCP
7 4 (0.26%) ICMP
7 4 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.26%) VPN
8 3 (0.20%) SSL
9 2 (0.13%) FTP
9 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.066%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.066%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.066%) Internet
10 1 (0.066%) Intranet
10 1 (0.066%) Modbus
10 1 (0.066%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (16.45%) Amazon Athena
2 245 (16.18%) Apache Iceberg
3 233 (15.39%) Dremio
4 225 (14.86%) Apache Arrow
5 171 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
6 114 (7.53%) Apache Ignite
7 92 (6.08%) Data Lake
8 69 (4.56%) NoSQL
9 56 (3.70%) Relational Database
10 49 (3.24%) MySQL
11 45 (2.97%) MongoDB
12 36 (2.38%) DynamoDB
13 33 (2.18%) SQL Server
14 30 (1.98%) Big Data
15 20 (1.32%) KDB
16 17 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.06%) Kdb+
18 14 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
19 12 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 120 (7.93%) Git
2 55 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.04%) Artifactory
4 42 (2.77%) GitLab
5 35 (2.31%) JIRA
6 26 (1.72%) JUnit
7 20 (1.32%) Vite
8 19 (1.25%) Maven
9 17 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.86%) Mockito
11 12 (0.79%) IntelliJ
11 12 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (0.79%) Spinnaker
12 11 (0.73%) Gradle
12 11 (0.73%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.59%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.46%) git-flow
15 6 (0.40%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.40%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 910 (60.11%) Finance
2 441 (29.13%) Banking
3 406 (26.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 377 (24.90%) Front Office
4 377 (24.90%) Law
5 298 (19.68%) Social Skills
6 147 (9.71%) Investment Banking
7 131 (8.65%) Marketing
8 111 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (4.76%) Games
10 55 (3.63%) Financial Institution
10 55 (3.63%) Retail
11 50 (3.30%) Legal
12 25 (1.65%) Advertising
13 24 (1.59%) Public Sector
14 21 (1.39%) Back Office
15 15 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 944 (62.35%) Software Engineer
2 437 (28.86%) Senior
3 342 (22.59%) Lead
4 333 (21.99%) Developer
5 311 (20.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 279 (18.43%) Python Engineer
7 271 (17.90%) AWS Engineer
8 252 (16.64%) Java Engineer
9 246 (16.25%) Lead Software Engineer
10 244 (16.12%) Java Software Engineer
11 223 (14.73%) Python Software Engineer
12 220 (14.53%) AWS Software Engineer
13 203 (13.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 128 (8.45%) AWS Developer
15 112 (7.40%) Senior Java Engineer
16 105 (6.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 98 (6.47%) Python Developer
18 79 (5.22%) Data Engineer
19 77 (5.09%) Software Developer
20 72 (4.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (27.54%) React
2 246 (16.25%) Kafka
3 212 (14.00%) Node.js
4 186 (12.29%) Pandas
5 179 (11.82%) AngularJS
6 164 (10.83%) NumPy
7 162 (10.70%) SciPy
8 133 (8.78%) .NET
8 133 (8.78%) Spring
9 126 (8.32%) Vue
10 103 (6.80%) PySpark
11 99 (6.54%) GraphQL
12 97 (6.41%) RESTful
13 90 (5.94%) gRPC
13 90 (5.94%) Spring Boot
14 84 (5.55%) REST
15 79 (5.22%) Protocol Buffers
16 74 (4.89%) Redux
17 69 (4.56%) CSS
18 63 (4.16%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 275 (18.16%) Fixed Income
2 267 (17.64%) Cloud Native
3 240 (15.85%) Equities
4 226 (14.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 157 (10.37%) Derivative
6 137 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
7 125 (8.26%) Hedge funds
8 110 (7.27%) Algorithms
9 92 (6.08%) Product Ownership
10 83 (5.48%) Management Information System
11 60 (3.96%) Pricing Data
12 52 (3.43%) Public Cloud
13 45 (2.97%) Mobile App
14 43 (2.84%) Data Structures
15 41 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (2.25%) Legacy Code
17 25 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
17 25 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
18 21 (1.39%) Mobile Banking
19 19 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (7.66%) Linux
2 33 (2.18%) Android
3 20 (1.32%) Unix
4 19 (1.25%) Windows
5 18 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.26%) VMS
8 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.13%) zOS
9 1 (0.066%) Debian
9 1 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (56.41%) Agile
2 459 (30.32%) CI/CD
3 315 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
4 308 (20.34%) Fintech
5 294 (19.42%) SDLC
6 283 (18.69%) Asset Management
7 271 (17.90%) DevOps
8 262 (17.31%) Microservices
9 240 (15.85%) Computer Science
10 229 (15.13%) Investment Management
11 217 (14.33%) Artificial Intelligence
12 204 (13.47%) Full-Stack Development
13 186 (12.29%) Machine Learning
14 173 (11.43%) Operational Stability
15 153 (10.11%) Analytics
15 153 (10.11%) TDD
16 149 (9.84%) Test Automation
17 144 (9.51%) Risk Management
18 139 (9.18%) Community of Practice
19 137 (9.05%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 721 (47.62%) Python
2 631 (41.68%) Java
3 467 (30.85%) TypeScript
4 371 (24.50%) JavaScript
5 219 (14.46%) SQL
6 208 (13.74%) Go
7 134 (8.85%) C#
8 126 (8.32%) C++
9 118 (7.79%) Rust
10 74 (4.89%) Kotlin
11 58 (3.83%) C
12 38 (2.51%) Scala
13 25 (1.65%) Bash
14 24 (1.59%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.32%) PHP
15 20 (1.32%) Ruby
16 14 (0.92%) PowerShell
17 9 (0.59%) Lua
17 9 (0.59%) Swift
18 6 (0.40%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 238 (15.72%) Degree
2 122 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (3.43%) Security Cleared
4 44 (2.91%) AWS Certification
5 40 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 33 (2.18%) SC Cleared
7 27 (1.78%) PhD
8 26 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.26%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.26%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.26%) PMP
12 3 (0.20%) ACCA
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.066%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.066%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.70%) QA
2 28 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.19%) GDPR
4 11 (0.73%) HIPAA
5 10 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
7 5 (0.33%) WCAG
8 4 (0.26%) CDISC
8 4 (0.26%) NIST
8 4 (0.26%) SLA
9 3 (0.20%) GAAP
9 3 (0.20%) IFRS
10 2 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.066%) MiFID
11 1 (0.066%) SEPA
System Software
1 246 (16.25%) Docker
2 13 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.26%) zsh
6 1 (0.066%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 407 (26.88%) Kubernetes
2 208 (13.74%) Terraform
3 46 (3.04%) Ansible
4 41 (2.71%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.58%) Grafana
6 13 (0.86%) Argo
7 8 (0.53%) Mesos
8 7 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.26%) Puppet
9 4 (0.26%) Salt
10 3 (0.20%) Packer
11 2 (0.13%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.066%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.066%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.066%) systemd
Vendors
1 89 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.82%) Google
3 34 (2.25%) Databricks
3 34 (2.25%) ServiceNow
4 28 (1.85%) Oracle
5 17 (1.12%) IBM
5 17 (1.12%) Splunk
6 15 (0.99%) Salesforce
7 14 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 12 (0.79%) MuleSoft
9 11 (0.73%) Apple
10 10 (0.66%) Ping Identity
11 9 (0.59%) MKS
12 8 (0.53%) VMware
13 7 (0.46%) Foundry
14 6 (0.40%) Adobe
14 6 (0.40%) New Relic
15 5 (0.33%) SAP
16 4 (0.26%) Atlassian
16 4 (0.26%) Remedy