Software Engineering Jobs in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,251 4,265 12,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.56% 11.89% 18.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.46% 12.46% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,864 2,908 4,359
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,950
25th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £145,000 £138,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,516 34,227 63,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.41% 95.40% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16,047 24,462 34,372
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,487 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,001 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +2 336 £80,000 -5.88% 79
South London -22 25 £70,000 +55.56% 11
West London -50 14 £67,500 +17.39% 21
East London +25 12 £145,000 +276.62% 35
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
1 292 (12.97%) Apache
1 292 (12.97%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.20%) ArcGIS
3 27 (1.20%) Confluence
3 27 (1.20%) GeoServer
4 16 (0.71%) nginx
5 9 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.40%) CMS
5 9 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.22%) Solana
9 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.18%) Drupal
9 4 (0.18%) WordPress
10 3 (0.13%) Captiva
10 3 (0.13%) FileNet
10 3 (0.13%) JBoss
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.089%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.044%) Blender
4 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.044%) Notion
4 1 (0.044%) Sketch
4 1 (0.044%) UXPin
4 1 (0.044%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.089%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.089%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.044%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1,189 (52.82%) AWS
2 694 (30.83%) Azure
3 539 (23.94%) GCP
4 189 (8.40%) Serverless
5 179 (7.95%) dbt
6 145 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
7 133 (5.91%) Snowflake
8 101 (4.49%) SaaS
9 90 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (3.20%) Power Platform
11 68 (3.02%) Amazon S3
12 65 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
12 65 (2.89%) GitHub
13 58 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
16 42 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (1.73%) OpenShift
18 34 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
19 32 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.16%) HTTP
1 26 (1.16%) TCP/IP
2 22 (0.98%) Internet
3 11 (0.49%) Firewall
4 7 (0.31%) AMQP
4 7 (0.31%) DNS
4 7 (0.31%) Network Security
4 7 (0.31%) OpenVPN
5 5 (0.22%) VoIP
6 4 (0.18%) Multicast
7 2 (0.089%) Broadband
8 1 (0.044%) DHCP
8 1 (0.044%) IPFS
8 1 (0.044%) VPN
8 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 247 (10.97%) Apache Ignite
3 178 (7.91%) Amazon Athena
3 178 (7.91%) Dremio
4 177 (7.86%) Apache Arrow
5 146 (6.49%) Data Lake
6 116 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 74 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
7 74 (3.29%) MySQL
8 66 (2.93%) Redis
9 60 (2.67%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 50 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 50 (2.22%) MongoDB
12 32 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 30 (1.33%) Big Data
14 29 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
15 27 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
15 27 (1.20%) GIS
15 27 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 181 (8.04%) Git
2 99 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 93 (4.13%) GitLab
4 64 (2.84%) JIRA
5 61 (2.71%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.91%) Artifactory
7 20 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 20 (0.89%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.80%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.76%) JUnit
10 15 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.62%) Selenium
12 11 (0.49%) Postman
12 11 (0.49%) webpack
13 10 (0.44%) JMeter
13 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.40%) Maven
14 9 (0.40%) Mocha
15 8 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 824 (36.61%) Finance
2 527 (23.41%) Front Office
3 388 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 341 (15.15%) Banking
5 192 (8.53%) Investment Banking
6 90 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (3.15%) Back Office
9 60 (2.67%) Marketing
10 59 (2.62%) Law
11 52 (2.31%) Retail
12 49 (2.18%) Games
12 49 (2.18%) Public Sector
13 41 (1.82%) Health Technology
14 37 (1.64%) Legal
15 31 (1.38%) Tech for Good
16 26 (1.16%) Electronics
17 24 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.76%) Advertising
18 17 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,072 (47.62%) Software Engineer
2 702 (31.19%) Developer
3 590 (26.21%) Senior
4 354 (15.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 276 (12.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 272 (12.08%) Lead
7 234 (10.40%) Python Engineer
8 212 (9.42%) Python Developer
9 190 (8.44%) Python Software Engineer
10 156 (6.93%) .NET Developer
11 150 (6.66%) Java Engineer
12 143 (6.35%) Senior Developer
13 141 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
14 134 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
15 125 (5.55%) .NET Software Engineer
16 119 (5.29%) React Developer
17 116 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
18 103 (4.58%) Full Stack Engineer
19 96 (4.26%) Architect
20 93 (4.13%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 597 (26.52%) React
2 438 (19.46%) .NET
3 287 (12.75%) gRPC
4 270 (11.99%) Protocol Buffers
5 230 (10.22%) Redux
6 205 (9.11%) Node.js
7 203 (9.02%) AngularJS
7 203 (9.02%) Pandas
8 183 (8.13%) NumPy
9 171 (7.60%) .NET Core
9 171 (7.60%) SciPy
10 140 (6.22%) Kafka
11 133 (5.91%) CSS
11 133 (5.91%) Vue
12 110 (4.89%) RESTful
13 104 (4.62%) REST
14 103 (4.58%) Material-UI
15 99 (4.40%) HTML
16 98 (4.35%) GraphQL
17 95 (4.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 445 (19.77%) Fixed Income
2 388 (17.24%) Hedge funds
3 343 (15.24%) Equities
4 315 (13.99%) Derivative
5 293 (13.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 122 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
7 111 (4.93%) Cloud Native
8 109 (4.84%) Client/Server
8 109 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
9 100 (4.44%) Algorithms
10 88 (3.91%) Data Structures
11 49 (2.18%) Product Ownership
12 39 (1.73%) Legacy Code
12 39 (1.73%) Tandem
13 33 (1.47%) Blockchain
14 30 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 29 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
17 25 (1.11%) Mobile App
17 25 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 205 (9.11%) Linux
2 46 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 41 (1.82%) Android
4 39 (1.73%) Windows
5 24 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.71%) Debian
7 14 (0.62%) Unix
8 12 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.36%) VMS
10 7 (0.31%) CentOS
10 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,042 (46.29%) Agile
2 495 (21.99%) Asset Management
3 423 (18.79%) DevOps
4 401 (17.81%) Investment Management
5 396 (17.59%) Full Stack Development
6 374 (16.61%) Computer Science
7 332 (14.75%) CI/CD
8 317 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 273 (12.13%) Fintech
10 272 (12.08%) Microservices
11 233 (10.35%) TDD
12 220 (9.77%) Mentoring
13 212 (9.42%) Machine Learning
14 207 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 181 (8.04%) Analytics
16 160 (7.11%) Test Automation
17 151 (6.71%) Scrum
18 135 (6.00%) Data Science
19 129 (5.73%) Containerisation
20 128 (5.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 989 (43.94%) Python
2 656 (29.14%) Java
3 635 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 635 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 518 (23.01%) C#
5 372 (16.53%) SQL
6 164 (7.29%) Kotlin
7 144 (6.40%) Go
8 129 (5.73%) C++
9 115 (5.11%) C
10 105 (4.66%) Scala
11 89 (3.95%) Rust
12 69 (3.07%) PHP
13 55 (2.44%) R
14 52 (2.31%) Ruby
15 35 (1.55%) Bash
16 32 (1.42%) PowerShell
17 23 (1.02%) T-SQL
18 21 (0.93%) Bicep
19 19 (0.84%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 380 (16.88%) Degree
2 184 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 112 (4.98%) Security Cleared
4 101 (4.49%) Master's Degree
5 89 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 31 (1.38%) DBS Check
7 30 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.20%) PhD
9 19 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.18%) HNC
13 4 (0.18%) HND
13 4 (0.18%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.13%) CISM
14 3 (0.13%) CISSP
14 3 (0.13%) GIAC
14 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.13%) QA
2 63 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 11 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.44%) WCAG
6 9 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.31%) GDPR
8 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.18%) NCSC
10 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.13%) ISO 9000
10 3 (0.13%) JTAG
11 2 (0.089%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.089%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.044%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.044%) NIST
12 1 (0.044%) SEPA
System Software
1 285 (12.66%) Docker
2 19 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.40%) KVM
6 8 (0.36%) HDFS
7 2 (0.089%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.089%) Firmware
7 2 (0.089%) OpenSIPS
8 1 (0.044%) LXC
8 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 362 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 231 (10.26%) Terraform
3 74 (3.29%) Ansible
4 32 (1.42%) Grafana
5 16 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.40%) Kibana
7 8 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.13%) Consul
9 3 (0.13%) logstash
9 3 (0.13%) Packer
10 2 (0.089%) Argo
10 2 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.089%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.089%) Istio
10 2 (0.089%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.089%) Wonderware InTouch
11 1 (0.044%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.044%) Podman
Vendors
1 182 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 154 (6.84%) Google
3 38 (1.69%) Bloomberg
4 31 (1.38%) Oracle
5 27 (1.20%) Databricks
5 27 (1.20%) ESRI
6 20 (0.89%) Adobe
7 12 (0.53%) Apple
7 12 (0.53%) Cloudera
7 12 (0.53%) OpenAI
8 10 (0.44%) VMware
9 9 (0.40%) GoCardless
9 9 (0.40%) Informatica
9 9 (0.40%) PayPal
9 9 (0.40%) Sage
9 9 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.36%) Cisco
10 8 (0.36%) Xero
11 7 (0.31%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.27%) Amplitude