Software Engineering Jobs in South London

Software Engineering
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 65 56
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 -42
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 57 23 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 7.97% 2.64% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 2.79% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 46 23 16
10th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £82,500
London median annual salary £100,000 £92,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 690 824 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 96.50% 94.60% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 147 376 361
10th Percentile £34,950 £27,733 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,250 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,650 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +3.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in South London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in South London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in South London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in South London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the South London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Merton +18 46 £82,500 - 8
Kingston Upon Thames +32 22 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Bromley -11 2 - - 5
Sutton +11 1 - -
Croydon +2 1 £55,000 -24.14%
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (56.14%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) Azure
3 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.26%) AWS KMS
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.26%) Serverless
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) Broadband
2 3 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (1.75%) Modbus
3 1 (1.75%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) MSI
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
1 25 (43.86%) Financial Institution
2 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Games
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) Software Engineer
2 25 (43.86%) Java Engineer
2 25 (43.86%) Java Software Engineer
3 22 (38.60%) Senior
4 11 (19.30%) Senior Java Engineer
4 11 (19.30%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 11 (19.30%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Engineering Manager
5 8 (14.04%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Senior Manager
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Service Manager
6 6 (10.53%) ServiceNow Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Architect
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Development Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Software Development Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (49.12%) Kafka
2 25 (43.86%) Akka
2 25 (43.86%) AngularJS
2 25 (43.86%) Spring
2 25 (43.86%) Spring Boot
3 15 (26.32%) RxJava
3 15 (26.32%) Spring WebFlux
4 4 (7.02%) .NET
5 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.26%) WPF
6 2 (3.51%) Node.js
6 2 (3.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.53%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Windows
2 2 (3.51%) Android
2 2 (3.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) Agile
2 28 (49.12%) Microservices
3 25 (43.86%) BDD
3 25 (43.86%) Fintech
3 25 (43.86%) Pair Programming
3 25 (43.86%) TDD
4 17 (29.82%) CI/CD
5 16 (28.07%) DevOps
6 15 (26.32%) Computer Science
6 15 (26.32%) Concurrent Programming
6 15 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 15 (26.32%) Multithreading
7 14 (24.56%) High Availability
8 9 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (15.79%) Line Management
9 8 (14.04%) Mathematics
10 7 (12.28%) Design Patterns
11 6 (10.53%) Incident Management
11 6 (10.53%) Problem Management
11 6 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Java
2 8 (14.04%) Python
2 8 (14.04%) Rust
3 5 (8.77%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) C
5 2 (3.51%) C++
5 2 (3.51%) Go
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (31.58%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) GDPR
1 3 (5.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Grafana
3 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Atlassian
1 6 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) VMware