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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,955 1,483 2,603
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.79% 11.82% 11.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 12.46% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 942 2,081
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +9.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £101,250 £125,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £148,750
England median annual salary £73,250 £75,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% +17.19% -11.72%

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 18,314 11,902 20,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.37% 94.85% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,537 7,392 15,118
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +11 372 £91,250 +4.29% 102
West London +10 32 £65,000 -23.53% 25
South London -3 20 £52,075 -36.88% 7
East London +11 16 £24,000 -74.05% 13
North London - 1 £45,000 - 3
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 33 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 19 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (0.82%) Apache
3 16 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.66%) Confluence
5 8 (0.41%) WordPress
6 7 (0.36%) CMS
7 6 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.20%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.15%) Camunda
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.051%) Drupal
12 1 (0.051%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.051%) Moodle
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.051%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.15%) Blender
3 3 (0.15%) Maya
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 694 (35.50%) AWS
2 297 (15.19%) Azure
3 281 (14.37%) GCP
4 133 (6.80%) SaaS
5 90 (4.60%) GitHub
6 77 (3.94%) Serverless
7 61 (3.12%) Anthropic Claude
8 60 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
12 31 (1.59%) Amazon S3
13 29 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (1.38%) Datadog
15 25 (1.28%) Power Platform
16 22 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
17 18 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 90 (4.60%) Broadband
2 31 (1.59%) HTTP
3 21 (1.07%) Network Security
4 17 (0.87%) Multicast
5 8 (0.41%) VoIP
6 7 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.31%) Internet
8 4 (0.20%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.15%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.15%) DNS
9 3 (0.15%) GSM
9 3 (0.15%) LTE
9 3 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
9 3 (0.15%) RANAP
9 3 (0.15%) SS7
9 3 (0.15%) UMTS
10 2 (0.10%) ATM
10 2 (0.10%) LAN
10 2 (0.10%) SNMP
10 2 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (2.81%) NoSQL
3 53 (2.71%) MongoDB
4 51 (2.61%) MySQL
5 43 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 42 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (1.48%) Big Data
9 26 (1.33%) DynamoDB
10 21 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 19 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (0.82%) Power BI
14 15 (0.77%) Redis
15 9 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.36%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.36%) Pinecone
17 6 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.31%) GIS
18 5 (0.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 84 (4.30%) Git
2 69 (3.53%) Claude Code
3 62 (3.17%) TeamCity
4 47 (2.40%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.20%) GitLab
6 33 (1.69%) JIRA
7 24 (1.23%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.36%) Storybook
9 6 (0.31%) Vite
10 4 (0.20%) MLflow
10 4 (0.20%) Selenium
11 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.15%) GCC
11 3 (0.15%) GDB
11 3 (0.15%) Maven
12 2 (0.10%) ESLint
12 2 (0.10%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.051%) Deequ
General
1 611 (31.25%) Finance
2 283 (14.48%) Social Skills
3 256 (13.09%) Banking
4 109 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (5.32%) Retail
6 90 (4.60%) Law
7 84 (4.30%) Front Office
8 69 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
9 51 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 41 (2.10%) Back Office
10 41 (2.10%) Games
10 41 (2.10%) Public Sector
11 24 (1.23%) Marketing
12 23 (1.18%) Legal
13 21 (1.07%) Advertising
14 20 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.72%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 995 (50.90%) Software Engineer
2 567 (29.00%) Senior
3 337 (17.24%) Developer
4 324 (16.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 235 (12.02%) Lead
6 186 (9.51%) Python Engineer
7 133 (6.80%) Python Software Engineer
8 131 (6.70%) Lead Software Engineer
9 114 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 114 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 110 (5.63%) Java Engineer
11 107 (5.47%) Engineering Manager
12 96 (4.91%) Senior Developer
13 95 (4.86%) Software Manager
14 86 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
14 86 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
15 83 (4.25%) Software Engineering Manager
16 81 (4.14%) C++ Software Engineer
17 70 (3.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 65 (3.32%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (13.50%) React
2 174 (8.90%) .NET
3 150 (7.67%) Node.js
4 132 (6.75%) Kafka
5 101 (5.17%) RESTful
6 96 (4.91%) REST
7 86 (4.40%) Spring
8 60 (3.07%) GraphQL
8 60 (3.07%) Redux
8 60 (3.07%) Spring Boot
9 55 (2.81%) gRPC
10 54 (2.76%) FastAPI
11 53 (2.71%) Next.js
12 52 (2.66%) LangChain
13 47 (2.40%) LangGraph
14 43 (2.20%) Django
15 39 (1.99%) Flask
16 32 (1.64%) AngularJS
16 32 (1.64%) Vue
17 27 (1.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 265 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 196 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
3 128 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 115 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 83 (4.25%) AI Agents
6 80 (4.09%) Fixed Income
7 73 (3.73%) Public Cloud
8 61 (3.12%) Video\Live Streaming
9 59 (3.02%) Data Structures
10 50 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 42 (2.15%) Equities
12 40 (2.05%) Derivative
13 38 (1.94%) Low-Code
13 38 (1.94%) Over-the-Top Content
14 35 (1.79%) Robotics
15 28 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (1.38%) Blockchain
17 26 (1.33%) Blog
17 26 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (1.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 82 (4.19%) Linux
2 16 (0.82%) Windows
3 9 (0.46%) Android
4 6 (0.31%) CentOS
5 4 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.10%) Unix
6 2 (0.10%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 448 (22.92%) AI
3 307 (15.70%) Agile
4 306 (15.65%) Microservices
5 305 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 258 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
7 232 (11.87%) Fintech
8 229 (11.71%) DevOps
9 225 (11.51%) Test Automation
10 220 (11.25%) Mentoring
11 212 (10.84%) Roadmaps
12 207 (10.59%) Computer Science
13 199 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
14 187 (9.57%) Machine Learning
15 180 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 175 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
17 165 (8.44%) Containerisation
18 162 (8.29%) Clean Code
19 150 (7.67%) Observability
20 146 (7.47%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 717 (36.68%) Python
2 393 (20.10%) Java
3 261 (13.35%) TypeScript
4 194 (9.92%) C#
5 189 (9.67%) Go
6 176 (9.00%) C++
7 168 (8.59%) SQL
8 161 (8.24%) JavaScript
9 86 (4.40%) Rust
10 47 (2.40%) Scala
11 26 (1.33%) Bash
12 21 (1.07%) PHP
13 20 (1.02%) C
13 20 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.61%) Julia
14 12 (0.61%) R
15 11 (0.56%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.36%) Ruby
17 6 (0.31%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 173 (8.85%) Degree
2 129 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 93 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 84 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 66 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 16 (0.82%) PhD
9 9 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.20%) CEH
12 3 (0.15%) OSCP
13 2 (0.10%) CCIE
13 2 (0.10%) CCNA
13 2 (0.10%) CCNP
13 2 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.10%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.43%) QA
2 23 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 22 (1.13%) GDPR
4 21 (1.07%) SOC 2
5 16 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.82%) GRC
5 16 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.15%) MiFID
7 3 (0.15%) NIST
8 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.10%) ITGC
9 1 (0.051%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.051%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.051%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.051%) WCAG
System Software
1 202 (10.33%) Docker
2 5 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.10%) Firmware
4 1 (0.051%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.051%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 229 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 188 (9.62%) Terraform
3 88 (4.50%) Grafana
4 50 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.28%) Ansible
6 14 (0.72%) Cilium
7 6 (0.31%) Nagios
8 4 (0.20%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.20%) Kibana
8 4 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.15%) Argo
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.10%) OpenView
10 2 (0.10%) Podman
10 2 (0.10%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.051%) Istio
11 1 (0.051%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.051%) logstash
11 1 (0.051%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 90 (4.60%) Microsoft
2 45 (2.30%) Google
3 36 (1.84%) Typelevel
4 28 (1.43%) OpenAI
5 16 (0.82%) Palantir
6 15 (0.77%) Databricks
7 14 (0.72%) Oracle
8 13 (0.66%) Splunk
9 11 (0.56%) Foundry
9 11 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.46%) Adobe
11 8 (0.41%) SAP
11 8 (0.41%) Talend
12 6 (0.31%) Rapid7
12 6 (0.31%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.31%) Siemens
13 5 (0.26%) Allen-Bradley
13 5 (0.26%) AVEVA
13 5 (0.26%) Rockwell
13 5 (0.26%) Wonderware