Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer
England > London

The median Software Engineer salary in London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 55 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 -27 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,147 1,876 6,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.89% 5.44% 9.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.19% 5.73% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,253 1,709
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,882 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,079 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,593 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +46 188 £80,000 -8.57% 33
South London -6 14 £62,500 +38.89% 7
East London +21 8 £150,000 +160.87% 17
West London -15 7 £62,500 -7.41% 19
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,139 (99.30%) Software Engineering
2 676 (58.94%) AWS
3 551 (48.04%) Agile
4 538 (46.90%) Python
5 509 (44.38%) Finance
6 448 (39.06%) TypeScript
7 412 (35.92%) React
8 390 (34.00%) JavaScript
9 373 (32.52%) Azure
10 368 (32.08%) Java
11 367 (32.00%) Front Office
12 355 (30.95%) Fixed Income
13 352 (30.69%) Asset Management
14 346 (30.17%) GCP
15 327 (28.51%) Investment Management
16 288 (25.11%) Hedge funds
17 275 (23.98%) Full Stack Development
18 258 (22.49%) Banking
19 252 (21.97%) C#
20 251 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
21 249 (21.71%) gRPC
22 247 (21.53%) Apache
22 247 (21.53%) Equities
23 238 (20.75%) Protocol Buffers
24 236 (20.58%) .NET
25 231 (20.14%) Redux
26 226 (19.70%) Apache Ignite
27 208 (18.13%) SQL
27 208 (18.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
27 208 (18.13%) Derivative

Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 251 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 247 (21.53%) Apache
3 27 (2.35%) ArcGIS
3 27 (2.35%) GeoServer
4 23 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.31%) Confluence
6 4 (0.35%) CMS
6 4 (0.35%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.26%) Captiva
7 3 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.26%) Drupal
7 3 (0.26%) FileNet
7 3 (0.26%) JBoss
7 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
7 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) WinCC
9 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.087%) Sketch
2 1 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.087%) UXPin
2 1 (0.087%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.087%) Endur
2 1 (0.087%) Findur
2 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.087%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 676 (58.94%) AWS
2 373 (32.52%) Azure
3 346 (30.17%) GCP
4 124 (10.81%) dbt
5 96 (8.37%) Snowflake
6 76 (6.63%) Serverless
7 60 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (2.70%) SaaS
9 22 (1.92%) Power Platform
10 21 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.31%) GitHub
14 14 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (0.87%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
17 8 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
18 6 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
18 6 (0.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.83%) Internet
2 20 (1.74%) HTTP
3 18 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.44%) Network Security
5 3 (0.26%) VoIP
6 1 (0.087%) AMQP
6 1 (0.087%) DHCP
6 1 (0.087%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (19.70%) Apache Ignite
2 206 (17.96%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
4 123 (10.72%) Apache Arrow
4 123 (10.72%) Dremio
5 96 (8.37%) Data Lake
6 32 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 30 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 27 (2.35%) GIS
8 27 (2.35%) QGIS
9 26 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 26 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 25 (2.18%) MySQL
11 18 (1.57%) DynamoDB
11 18 (1.57%) Redis
12 14 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.87%) Big Data
13 10 (0.87%) Flink
13 10 (0.87%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.61%) Presto
Development Applications
1 73 (6.36%) Git
2 57 (4.97%) Cypress.io
3 33 (2.88%) GitLab
4 28 (2.44%) JIRA
5 16 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.87%) JUnit
6 10 (0.87%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.78%) Maven
8 7 (0.61%) Selenium
9 6 (0.52%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.52%) JMeter
9 6 (0.52%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.44%) Gradle
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.26%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.26%) JDeveloper
12 3 (0.26%) Sourcetree
13 2 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 509 (44.38%) Finance
2 367 (32.00%) Front Office
3 258 (22.49%) Banking
4 130 (11.33%) Investment Banking
5 127 (11.07%) Social Skills
6 53 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (3.92%) Back Office
8 36 (3.14%) Law
9 30 (2.62%) Health Technology
10 29 (2.53%) Marketing
11 25 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
11 25 (2.18%) Legal
11 25 (2.18%) Public Sector
12 17 (1.48%) Retail
13 16 (1.39%) Electronics
14 15 (1.31%) Games
15 14 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.22%) Tech for Good
16 13 (1.13%) Advertising
17 8 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (35.92%) React
2 249 (21.71%) gRPC
3 238 (20.75%) Protocol Buffers
4 236 (20.58%) .NET
5 231 (20.14%) Redux
6 157 (13.69%) AngularJS
7 142 (12.38%) Pandas
8 128 (11.16%) NumPy
9 123 (10.72%) SciPy
10 122 (10.64%) Material-UI
10 122 (10.64%) Vue
11 109 (9.50%) Node.js
12 107 (9.33%) .NET Core
13 69 (6.02%) Spring
14 65 (5.67%) ASP.NET
15 61 (5.32%) GraphQL
16 60 (5.23%) RESTful
17 59 (5.14%) CSS
18 58 (5.06%) Spring Boot
19 54 (4.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 355 (30.95%) Fixed Income
2 288 (25.11%) Hedge funds
3 247 (21.53%) Equities
4 208 (18.13%) Derivative
4 208 (18.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 61 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (4.97%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.05%) Data Structures
8 33 (2.88%) Client/Server
9 28 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 24 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.92%) Legacy Code
12 18 (1.57%) Pricing Data
12 18 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.48%) PKI
14 13 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.13%) Product Ownership
15 11 (0.96%) Management Information System
15 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.87%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.41%) Linux
2 24 (2.09%) Ubuntu
3 21 (1.83%) Android
4 20 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.39%) Debian
6 11 (0.96%) Windows
7 7 (0.61%) Unix
8 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.087%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,139 (99.30%) Software Engineering
2 551 (48.04%) Agile
3 352 (30.69%) Asset Management
4 327 (28.51%) Investment Management
5 275 (23.98%) Full Stack Development
6 177 (15.43%) Fintech
7 155 (13.51%) DevOps
8 139 (12.12%) Machine Learning
9 136 (11.86%) Microservices
10 128 (11.16%) CI/CD
11 126 (10.99%) Computer Science
12 120 (10.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 117 (10.20%) TDD
14 101 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (8.37%) Test Automation
16 91 (7.93%) Automated Trading
16 91 (7.93%) Mentoring
17 78 (6.80%) Analytics
18 69 (6.02%) Scrum
19 60 (5.23%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 538 (46.90%) Python
2 448 (39.06%) TypeScript
3 390 (34.00%) JavaScript
4 368 (32.08%) Java
5 252 (21.97%) C#
6 208 (18.13%) SQL
7 126 (10.99%) Kotlin
8 75 (6.54%) Rust
9 74 (6.45%) C
10 73 (6.36%) C++
11 69 (6.02%) Go
12 64 (5.58%) Scala
13 34 (2.96%) PHP
14 26 (2.27%) Bash
15 25 (2.18%) Ruby
16 19 (1.66%) Clojure
17 16 (1.39%) Haskell
18 15 (1.31%) F#
19 14 (1.22%) T-SQL
20 10 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 139 (12.12%) Degree
2 81 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (5.14%) Security Cleared
4 44 (3.84%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.44%) PhD
9 4 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.26%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.26%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.17%) HNC
11 2 (0.17%) HND
12 1 (0.087%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.89%) QA
2 44 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.44%) GDPR
4 4 (0.35%) JTAG
5 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.17%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.087%) EMIR
6 1 (0.087%) MiFID
6 1 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 83 (7.24%) Docker
2 12 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Ceph
4 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.087%) KVM
5 1 (0.087%) LXC
5 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 157 (13.69%) Kubernetes
2 103 (8.98%) Terraform
3 38 (3.31%) Ansible
4 10 (0.87%) Grafana
5 3 (0.26%) Consul
5 3 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.26%) Packer
5 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.17%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.17%) Istio
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.17%) Knative
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.17%) Wonderware InTouch
7 1 (0.087%) Argo
7 1 (0.087%) Juju
7 1 (0.087%) Podman
Vendors
1 122 (10.64%) Google
2 75 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.35%) ESRI
4 18 (1.57%) Oracle
5 9 (0.78%) Databricks
6 8 (0.70%) Apple
6 8 (0.70%) Xero
7 6 (0.52%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.52%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.44%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.26%) IBM
9 3 (0.26%) Kofax
9 3 (0.26%) Pega
9 3 (0.26%) Progress
9 3 (0.26%) SAP
9 3 (0.26%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.17%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.17%) Calypso
10 2 (0.17%) Sage
10 2 (0.17%) Salesforce