Software Developer Jobs in London

Software Developer
England > London

The median Software Developer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 225 228
Rank change year-on-year -46 +3 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 258 551 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.09% 1.64% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.72% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 221 446 609
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +6.90% +16.00%
75th Percentile £138,750 £98,438 £93,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

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 22,294 31,975 66,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,646 23,616 34,555
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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +47 74 £85,000 +21.43% 17
South London -28 5 £40,750 -25.91% 2
East London - 5 £52,500 - 15
West London -8 1 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 136 (52.71%) Agile
2 135 (52.33%) JavaScript
3 112 (43.41%) C#
4 108 (41.86%) Java
4 108 (41.86%) AWS
5 90 (34.88%) Software Engineering
6 87 (33.72%) Finance
7 81 (31.40%) .NET
8 80 (31.01%) Python
9 68 (26.36%) TypeScript
10 64 (24.81%) Apache
10 64 (24.81%) SQL
11 63 (24.42%) Azure
12 62 (24.03%) Front Office
13 61 (23.64%) GCP
13 61 (23.64%) Banking
14 60 (23.26%) Asset Management
15 59 (22.87%) Apache Arrow
15 59 (22.87%) dbt
15 59 (22.87%) gRPC
15 59 (22.87%) Apache Airflow
15 59 (22.87%) Amazon Athena
15 59 (22.87%) Apache Ignite
15 59 (22.87%) Dremio
15 59 (22.87%) SciPy
15 59 (22.87%) NumPy
15 59 (22.87%) Pandas
15 59 (22.87%) Protocol Buffers
15 59 (22.87%) Investment Banking
16 58 (22.48%) Fixed Income

Software Developer 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 64 (24.81%) Apache
2 59 (22.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.94%) Drupal
4 2 (0.78%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 108 (41.86%) AWS
2 63 (24.42%) Azure
3 61 (23.64%) GCP
4 59 (22.87%) dbt
5 44 (17.05%) Snowflake
6 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.26%) GitHub
8 10 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.49%) Serverless
10 6 (2.33%) Boomi
11 5 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.94%) Pulumi
12 4 (1.55%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.55%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (1.16%) Azure Table
13 3 (1.16%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.16%) SaaS
14 2 (0.78%) npm
14 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.78%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.55%) Multicast
1 4 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.87%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (22.87%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (22.87%) Apache Ignite
1 59 (22.87%) Dremio
2 53 (20.54%) SQL Server
3 44 (17.05%) Data Lake
4 16 (6.20%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.49%) MySQL
6 5 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.16%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (1.16%) DB2
8 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Firebird
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (12.02%) Git
2 11 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.71%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.71%) CMake
4 5 (1.94%) JIRA
5 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.16%) GitLab
5 3 (1.16%) Protractor
6 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) Appium
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Maven
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.39%) TestNG
7 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 87 (33.72%) Finance
2 62 (24.03%) Front Office
3 61 (23.64%) Banking
4 59 (22.87%) Investment Banking
5 49 (18.99%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.49%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.33%) Legal
10 5 (1.94%) Electronics
10 5 (1.94%) Law
11 4 (1.55%) Automotive
12 2 (0.78%) Marketing
13 1 (0.39%) Games
13 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Military
13 1 (0.39%) Police
13 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.40%) .NET
2 59 (22.87%) gRPC
2 59 (22.87%) NumPy
2 59 (22.87%) Pandas
2 59 (22.87%) Protocol Buffers
2 59 (22.87%) SciPy
3 55 (21.32%) HTML
4 52 (20.16%) CSS
5 30 (11.63%) WPF
6 29 (11.24%) RESTful
7 27 (10.47%) HTML5
8 26 (10.08%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.81%) .NET Framework
9 15 (5.81%) ASP.NET
10 12 (4.65%) React
11 9 (3.49%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (3.49%) jQuery
12 8 (3.10%) React Native
13 7 (2.71%) Entity Framework
13 7 (2.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.48%) Fixed Income
2 55 (21.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (20.93%) Hedge funds
4 52 (20.16%) Derivative
4 52 (20.16%) Equities
5 22 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (7.36%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (4.26%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.88%) Blockchain
9 9 (3.49%) Cloud Native
10 8 (3.10%) IoT
11 6 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.94%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.55%) Product Ownership
14 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.78%) NHS
16 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
16 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.57%) Windows
2 12 (4.65%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.10%) Linux
4 7 (2.71%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.94%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (52.71%) Agile
2 90 (34.88%) Software Engineering
3 60 (23.26%) Asset Management
4 47 (18.22%) Computer Science
5 44 (17.05%) Line Management
6 42 (16.28%) Fintech
7 41 (15.89%) Investment Management
8 40 (15.50%) Full Stack Development
9 37 (14.34%) TDD
10 36 (13.95%) CI/CD
10 36 (13.95%) DevOps
11 34 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (12.79%) Collaborative Working
12 33 (12.79%) Multithreading
13 27 (10.47%) Multithreaded Programming
14 22 (8.53%) Analytics
15 21 (8.14%) Mentoring
15 21 (8.14%) Microservices
16 20 (7.75%) Clean Code
17 16 (6.20%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 135 (52.33%) JavaScript
2 112 (43.41%) C#
3 108 (41.86%) Java
4 80 (31.01%) Python
5 68 (26.36%) TypeScript
6 64 (24.81%) SQL
7 24 (9.30%) Kotlin
8 13 (5.04%) Go
9 11 (4.26%) Ruby
10 9 (3.49%) Scala
11 7 (2.71%) C
11 7 (2.71%) PHP
12 6 (2.33%) C++
13 5 (1.94%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.55%) Rust
15 3 (1.16%) Erlang
15 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.39%) Haskell
17 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (21.32%) Degree
2 5 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (1.94%) PhD
3 4 (1.55%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.16%) MCSD
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.94%) QA
2 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (7.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Ceph
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (10.08%) Terraform
2 16 (6.20%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.55%) Grafana
3 4 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Knative
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.10%) Oracle
3 7 (2.71%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.55%) Quadient
5 4 (1.55%) Splunk
6 2 (0.78%) Dell
6 2 (0.78%) F5
6 2 (0.78%) YouTube
7 1 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.39%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.39%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.39%) Sybase
7 1 (0.39%) TIBCO