Software Engineering Job Trends in West End of London

Software Engineering
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 5 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West End of London 10.64% 15.58% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 16.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £90,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +22.58% -6.06% -2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West End of 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 West End of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 75 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West End of London 95.74% 97.40% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35 31 56
10th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £47,869 £50,125 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £89,625
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in West End of London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in West End of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Holborn - 2 £85,000 -
Software Engineering
Central London

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
General
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (40.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) OOP
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SnowPro
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform