Software Engineering Jobs in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 346 474 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 9.15% 9.36% 8.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.96% 9.88% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 253 356 488
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £86,250 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -1.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £101,250 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £125,000 £127,500
London median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,474 4,800 7,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 91.86% 94.82% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,643 3,954 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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
City of London +1 314 £80,000 -11.11% 55
City of Westminster -8 14 £82,500 -23.26% 1
West End of London +6 7 £55,000 -48.84% 3
Camden -11 5 £80,000 +220.00% 2
Southwark +22 1 £85,000 -37.61%
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 27 (7.80%) ArcGIS
1 27 (7.80%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.73%) Apache
2 6 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.16%) Confluence
5 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 183 (52.89%) AWS
2 119 (34.39%) Azure
3 34 (9.83%) Serverless
4 26 (7.51%) SaaS
5 25 (7.23%) GCP
6 22 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.91%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (3.18%) GitHub
11 9 (2.60%) PaaS
11 9 (2.60%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.45%) AWS CodePipeline
13 5 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.45%) IaaS
14 4 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.91%) HTTP
2 13 (3.76%) Internet
3 4 (1.16%) Network Security
3 4 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.87%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (27.46%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.80%) GIS
2 27 (7.80%) QGIS
3 16 (4.62%) MySQL
4 15 (4.34%) Redis
5 13 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.89%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.02%) Power BI
9 6 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.45%) Flink
10 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.16%) Big Data
11 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.16%) Metadata
11 4 (1.16%) Tableau
12 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (14.74%) Git
2 28 (8.09%) GitLab
3 10 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.02%) JIRA
5 5 (1.45%) Maven
5 5 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.16%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.58%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.58%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Mockito
8 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 78 (22.54%) Finance
2 76 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 40 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.91%) Banking
5 16 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (3.76%) Health Technology
7 12 (3.47%) Games
8 11 (3.18%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.02%) Advertising
9 7 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.02%) Retail
10 6 (1.73%) Front Office
11 5 (1.45%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.45%) Marketing
12 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.87%) Back Office
13 3 (0.87%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.58%) Legal
15 1 (0.29%) Electronics
15 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 187 (54.05%) Software Engineer
2 96 (27.75%) Senior
3 62 (17.92%) Senior Software Engineer
4 44 (12.72%) Developer
5 32 (9.25%) Java Engineer
6 29 (8.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (5.78%) Python Engineer
8 18 (5.20%) Lead
9 17 (4.91%) Junior
9 17 (4.91%) Python Software Engineer
10 12 (3.47%) .NET Developer
10 12 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.47%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.18%) C# Developer
12 10 (2.89%) Analyst
12 10 (2.89%) AWS Software Engineer
12 10 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (2.89%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (2.60%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.83%) .NET
2 65 (18.79%) React
3 36 (10.40%) CSS
4 34 (9.83%) Node.js
5 28 (8.09%) REST
6 27 (7.80%) .NET Core
6 27 (7.80%) Leaflet
6 27 (7.80%) OpenLayers
6 27 (7.80%) PostGIS
7 19 (5.49%) Django
7 19 (5.49%) Kafka
7 19 (5.49%) RESTful
8 18 (5.20%) GraphQL
8 18 (5.20%) Spring
9 13 (3.76%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.76%) HTML
9 13 (3.76%) Laravel
9 13 (3.76%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.47%) ASP.NET
11 11 (3.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.67%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.34%) Life Science
3 13 (3.76%) Private Cloud
4 11 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.31%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.02%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.45%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.16%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.16%) FMCG
10 4 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (0.87%) Robotics
11 3 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.65%) Linux
2 10 (2.89%) Windows
3 8 (2.31%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.87%) Debian
4 3 (0.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (35.84%) Agile
2 86 (24.86%) Computer Science
3 85 (24.57%) DevOps
4 65 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (17.63%) CI/CD
6 59 (17.05%) Fintech
7 51 (14.74%) Full Stack Development
8 48 (13.87%) Microservices
9 35 (10.12%) Web Development
10 31 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
11 25 (7.23%) Data Science
11 25 (7.23%) Statistics
12 24 (6.94%) Design Patterns
12 24 (6.94%) SDLC
13 23 (6.65%) Containerisation
13 23 (6.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (6.65%) Scrum
13 23 (6.65%) TDD
14 21 (6.07%) Analytics
15 20 (5.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 123 (35.55%) Python
2 114 (32.95%) Java
3 92 (26.59%) C#
4 62 (17.92%) JavaScript
5 57 (16.47%) Kotlin
6 54 (15.61%) SQL
7 43 (12.43%) Scala
8 26 (7.51%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.91%) C++
10 15 (4.34%) PHP
10 15 (4.34%) PowerShell
11 14 (4.05%) Go
12 10 (2.89%) Rust
13 9 (2.60%) F#
14 8 (2.31%) Clojure
14 8 (2.31%) Haskell
14 8 (2.31%) Ruby
15 5 (1.45%) Bash
16 4 (1.16%) Apex Code
16 4 (1.16%) C
Qualifications
1 91 (26.30%) Degree
2 51 (14.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (10.98%) Master's Degree
4 30 (8.67%) Security Cleared
5 27 (7.80%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.91%) PhD
7 12 (3.47%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.73%) QA
2 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (8.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) KVM
2 1 (0.29%) LXC
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (27.46%) Terraform
2 55 (15.90%) Kubernetes
3 51 (14.74%) Ansible
4 2 (0.58%) Consul
4 2 (0.58%) Packer
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Juju
5 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.80%) ESRI
3 10 (2.89%) Oracle
4 9 (2.60%) Google
5 4 (1.16%) Apple
5 4 (1.16%) Apttus
5 4 (1.16%) DocuSign
5 4 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.58%) Sybase
7 1 (0.29%) BEA
7 1 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.29%) Monzo
7 1 (0.29%) Splunk
7 1 (0.29%) Spotify