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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 330 418
Rank change year-on-year +101 +88 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 318 327 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.32% 1.02% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.08% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 317 319 638
10th Percentile £74,250 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,500
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 £127,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £153,750 £151,250 £135,375
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +8.33%

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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 - 1
Developer/Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 318 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 312 (98.11%) Front Office
3 307 (96.54%) AWS
4 306 (96.23%) Fixed Income
5 305 (95.91%) Finance
5 305 (95.91%) Asset Management
5 305 (95.91%) GCP
6 299 (94.03%) TypeScript
7 297 (93.40%) Agile
8 271 (85.22%) Python
9 269 (84.59%) Investment Management
10 244 (76.73%) React
11 239 (75.16%) Hedge funds
12 227 (71.38%) Redux
13 213 (66.98%) gRPC
13 213 (66.98%) Apache Airflow
13 213 (66.98%) Protocol Buffers
14 205 (64.47%) JavaScript
15 204 (64.15%) Equities
16 201 (63.21%) Apache
16 201 (63.21%) Apache Ignite
17 199 (62.58%) Azure
18 172 (54.09%) Banking
19 170 (53.46%) Full Stack Development
20 154 (48.43%) Derivative
21 152 (47.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 123 (38.68%) Material-UI
23 110 (34.59%) Vue
23 110 (34.59%) AngularJS
24 99 (31.13%) 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
1 213 (66.98%) Apache Airflow
2 201 (63.21%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 307 (96.54%) AWS
2 305 (95.91%) GCP
3 199 (62.58%) Azure
4 84 (26.42%) dbt
5 52 (16.35%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (63.21%) Apache Ignite
2 99 (31.13%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (26.42%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (26.42%) Apache Arrow
3 84 (26.42%) Dremio
4 52 (16.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.31%) KDB
Development Applications
1 63 (19.81%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.31%) Git
2 1 (0.31%) GitLab
General
1 312 (98.11%) Front Office
2 305 (95.91%) Finance
3 172 (54.09%) Banking
4 73 (22.96%) Investment Banking
5 44 (13.84%) Back Office
6 2 (0.63%) Advertising
6 2 (0.63%) Electronics
6 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
6 2 (0.63%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (76.73%) React
2 227 (71.38%) Redux
3 213 (66.98%) gRPC
3 213 (66.98%) Protocol Buffers
4 123 (38.68%) Material-UI
5 110 (34.59%) AngularJS
5 110 (34.59%) Vue
6 96 (30.19%) Pandas
7 84 (26.42%) .NET
7 84 (26.42%) NumPy
7 84 (26.42%) SciPy
8 48 (15.09%) Node.js
9 45 (14.15%) .NET Core
10 37 (11.64%) ASP.NET
11 35 (11.01%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.09%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.89%) Kafka
13 6 (1.89%) Spring
13 6 (1.89%) Spring Boot
14 2 (0.63%) QuickFIX
Miscellaneous
1 306 (96.23%) Fixed Income
2 239 (75.16%) Hedge funds
3 204 (64.15%) Equities
4 154 (48.43%) Derivative
5 152 (47.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.63%) IoT
6 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 305 (95.91%) Asset Management
3 297 (93.40%) Agile
4 269 (84.59%) Investment Management
5 170 (53.46%) Full Stack Development
6 99 (31.13%) Artificial Intelligence
6 99 (31.13%) Automated Trading
6 99 (31.13%) Machine Learning
7 88 (27.67%) Fintech
8 52 (16.35%) Line Management
9 48 (15.09%) Performance Attribution
10 40 (12.58%) DevOps
11 39 (12.26%) TDD
12 38 (11.95%) Analytics
13 20 (6.29%) User Experience
14 18 (5.66%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 18 (5.66%) Front End Development
15 14 (4.40%) Mentoring
16 12 (3.77%) Risk Analytics
17 8 (2.52%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 299 (94.03%) TypeScript
2 271 (85.22%) Python
3 205 (64.47%) JavaScript
4 84 (26.42%) C#
5 82 (25.79%) SQL
6 81 (25.47%) Java
7 12 (3.77%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.52%) Ruby
8 8 (2.52%) Scala
9 2 (0.63%) C++
9 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (0.63%) Degree
1 2 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.95%) QA
2 2 (0.63%) EMIR
2 2 (0.63%) GDPR
2 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.63%) IEC 62304
2 2 (0.63%) ISO 13485
2 2 (0.63%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 99 (31.13%) Google
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft