Software Developer Jobs in South London

Software Developer
London > South London

The median Software Developer salary in South London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 73 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 -32 +94
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 3 3 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 0.58% 0.47% 3.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.49% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £77,500 £100,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -22.50% +37.93% +3.57%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in South London with a recognized job title 479 615 439
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 96.85% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 144 212 317
10th Percentile £26,375 £32,000 £33,650
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £40,151
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.71% -0.70% +3.57%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in South London

Software Developer
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in South London.

Salary distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in South London

Software Developer
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the South London region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bromley +3 1 £57,500 - 3
Sutton - 1 - -
Merton - 1 - -
Software Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 2025, Software Developer 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 South London region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Android Development
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Rust
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) Laravel
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Android Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform