Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer/Developer
England > London

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in London is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 353 383
Rank change year-on-year +114 +30 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 305 304 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.29% 0.90% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.95% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 304 293 646
10th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £88,438 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £142,500 £125,000 £128,750
90th Percentile £153,750 £151,250 £136,250
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +11.76%

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 22,283 31,984 66,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,636 23,610 34,531
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
East London - 6 £150,000 -
Developer/Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 305 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 299 (98.03%) Front Office
3 294 (96.39%) AWS
4 292 (95.74%) GCP
4 292 (95.74%) Finance
4 292 (95.74%) Fixed Income
4 292 (95.74%) Asset Management
5 286 (93.77%) TypeScript
6 284 (93.11%) Agile
7 261 (85.57%) Investment Management
8 256 (83.93%) Python
9 238 (78.03%) React
10 229 (75.08%) Hedge funds
11 221 (72.46%) Redux
12 197 (64.59%) Azure
13 196 (64.26%) JavaScript
14 194 (63.61%) Equities
14 194 (63.61%) Protocol Buffers
14 194 (63.61%) gRPC
14 194 (63.61%) Apache Airflow
15 182 (59.67%) Apache Ignite
15 182 (59.67%) Apache
16 168 (55.08%) Full Stack Development
17 161 (52.79%) Banking
18 148 (48.52%) Derivative
19 146 (47.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 123 (40.33%) Material-UI
21 108 (35.41%) Vue
21 108 (35.41%) AngularJS
22 95 (31.15%) Machine Learning

Developer/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
1 194 (63.61%) Apache Airflow
2 182 (59.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 294 (96.39%) AWS
2 292 (95.74%) GCP
3 197 (64.59%) Azure
4 73 (23.93%) dbt
5 44 (14.43%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (59.67%) Apache Ignite
2 95 (31.15%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (23.93%) Amazon Athena
3 73 (23.93%) Apache Arrow
3 73 (23.93%) Dremio
4 44 (14.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.33%) KDB
Development Applications
1 59 (19.34%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.33%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 299 (98.03%) Front Office
2 292 (95.74%) Finance
3 161 (52.79%) Banking
4 66 (21.64%) Investment Banking
5 44 (14.43%) Back Office
6 2 (0.66%) Advertising
6 2 (0.66%) Electronics
6 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
6 2 (0.66%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (78.03%) React
2 221 (72.46%) Redux
3 194 (63.61%) gRPC
3 194 (63.61%) Protocol Buffers
4 123 (40.33%) Material-UI
5 108 (35.41%) AngularJS
5 108 (35.41%) Vue
6 86 (28.20%) .NET
7 85 (27.87%) Pandas
8 73 (23.93%) NumPy
8 73 (23.93%) SciPy
9 45 (14.75%) .NET Core
10 44 (14.43%) Node.js
11 39 (12.79%) ASP.NET
12 37 (12.13%) ASP.NET Core
13 17 (5.57%) GraphQL
14 6 (1.97%) Kafka
14 6 (1.97%) Spring
14 6 (1.97%) Spring Boot
15 2 (0.66%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 292 (95.74%) Fixed Income
2 229 (75.08%) Hedge funds
3 194 (63.61%) Equities
4 148 (48.52%) Derivative
5 146 (47.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.66%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.66%) IoT
6 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 292 (95.74%) Asset Management
3 284 (93.11%) Agile
4 261 (85.57%) Investment Management
5 168 (55.08%) Full Stack Development
6 95 (31.15%) Artificial Intelligence
6 95 (31.15%) Automated Trading
6 95 (31.15%) Machine Learning
7 86 (28.20%) Fintech
8 44 (14.43%) Line Management
8 44 (14.43%) Performance Attribution
9 43 (14.10%) Analytics
10 42 (13.77%) DevOps
11 41 (13.44%) TDD
12 16 (5.25%) Mentoring
12 16 (5.25%) Risk Analytics
12 16 (5.25%) User Experience
13 14 (4.59%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 14 (4.59%) Front End Development
14 9 (2.95%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 286 (93.77%) TypeScript
2 256 (83.93%) Python
3 196 (64.26%) JavaScript
4 86 (28.20%) C#
5 83 (27.21%) SQL
6 78 (25.57%) Java
7 16 (5.25%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.95%) Ruby
8 9 (2.95%) Scala
9 2 (0.66%) C++
9 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (0.66%) Degree
1 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.11%) QA
2 2 (0.66%) EMIR
2 2 (0.66%) GDPR
2 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.66%) IEC 62304
2 2 (0.66%) ISO 13485
2 2 (0.66%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 95 (31.15%) Google
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft