Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer
England > London

The median Software Engineer salary in London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 57 28
Rank change year-on-year +18 -29 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,312 1,685 7,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.45% 5.25% 10.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.77% 5.52% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 1,200 1,751
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £117,500 £113,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £135,693 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 22,750 30,501 70,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 95.05% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16,855 22,813 34,730
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £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 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in London

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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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 +38 189 £80,000 -11.11% 40
South London -1 13 £62,500 +38.89% 6
West London -6 10 £55,000 -31.25% 14
East London +28 8 £150,000 +160.87% 5
North London -3 1 £65,000 -7.14%
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,304 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 805 (61.36%) AWS
3 655 (49.92%) Agile
4 639 (48.70%) Python
5 593 (45.20%) Finance
6 533 (40.63%) TypeScript
7 465 (35.44%) Java
8 461 (35.14%) JavaScript
9 441 (33.61%) React
10 433 (33.00%) Front Office
11 425 (32.39%) Asset Management
12 421 (32.09%) Fixed Income
13 402 (30.64%) GCP
14 399 (30.41%) Azure
15 389 (29.65%) Investment Management
16 350 (26.68%) Hedge funds
17 332 (25.30%) Apache Airflow
18 329 (25.08%) Apache
19 323 (24.62%) gRPC
20 314 (23.93%) Banking
21 313 (23.86%) Protocol Buffers
22 308 (23.48%) Equities
23 304 (23.17%) Full Stack Development
24 301 (22.94%) Apache Ignite
25 261 (19.89%) Derivative
26 260 (19.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
27 248 (18.90%) C#
28 245 (18.67%) Redux
29 230 (17.53%) .NET
30 227 (17.30%) PostgreSQL

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
1 332 (25.30%) Apache Airflow
2 329 (25.08%) Apache
3 36 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.06%) ArcGIS
4 27 (2.06%) GeoServer
5 15 (1.14%) Confluence
6 4 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.30%) CMS
6 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.23%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.076%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.076%) Sketch
2 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.076%) UXPin
2 1 (0.076%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.23%) Ripple
3 1 (0.076%) Endur
3 1 (0.076%) Findur
3 1 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.076%) Ripple XRP
3 1 (0.076%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 805 (61.36%) AWS
2 402 (30.64%) GCP
3 399 (30.41%) Azure
4 187 (14.25%) dbt
5 153 (11.66%) Snowflake
6 80 (6.10%) Serverless
7 65 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (2.36%) SaaS
9 24 (1.83%) GitHub
10 22 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.68%) Power Platform
11 21 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (0.99%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.69%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (0.46%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.52%) HTTP
1 20 (1.52%) Internet
2 19 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.38%) Network Security
4 3 (0.23%) VoIP
5 1 (0.076%) AMQP
5 1 (0.076%) DHCP
5 1 (0.076%) DNS
5 1 (0.076%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (22.94%) Apache Ignite
2 227 (17.30%) PostgreSQL
3 186 (14.18%) Amazon Athena
4 184 (14.02%) Apache Arrow
4 184 (14.02%) Dremio
5 152 (11.59%) Data Lake
6 35 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 32 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 31 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 28 (2.13%) MySQL
10 27 (2.06%) GIS
10 27 (2.06%) QGIS
11 26 (1.98%) Relational Database
12 25 (1.91%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (1.22%) Redis
15 12 (0.91%) Flink
16 11 (0.84%) Apache Hive
16 11 (0.84%) Presto
17 10 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 75 (5.72%) Git
2 67 (5.11%) Cypress.io
3 43 (3.28%) GitLab
4 25 (1.91%) JIRA
5 16 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.76%) JUnit
6 10 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.69%) Maven
8 8 (0.61%) Selenium
9 6 (0.46%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.46%) JMeter
9 6 (0.46%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.38%) Gradle
11 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.23%) Sourcetree
13 2 (0.15%) Postman
13 2 (0.15%) Storybook
13 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 593 (45.20%) Finance
2 433 (33.00%) Front Office
3 314 (23.93%) Banking
4 185 (14.10%) Investment Banking
5 134 (10.21%) Social Skills
6 68 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (4.12%) Law
8 47 (3.58%) Back Office
9 38 (2.90%) Legal
10 30 (2.29%) Health Technology
10 30 (2.29%) Marketing
11 28 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
12 22 (1.68%) Electronics
12 22 (1.68%) Public Sector
13 18 (1.37%) Retail
14 17 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.22%) Games
16 15 (1.14%) Advertising
17 14 (1.07%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (33.61%) React
2 323 (24.62%) gRPC
3 313 (23.86%) Protocol Buffers
4 245 (18.67%) Redux
5 230 (17.53%) .NET
6 206 (15.70%) Pandas
7 191 (14.56%) NumPy
8 184 (14.02%) SciPy
9 162 (12.35%) AngularJS
10 126 (9.60%) Material-UI
11 124 (9.45%) Vue
12 121 (9.22%) Node.js
13 104 (7.93%) .NET Core
14 76 (5.79%) Spring
15 75 (5.72%) GraphQL
16 64 (4.88%) REST
17 63 (4.80%) RESTful
17 63 (4.80%) Spring Boot
18 60 (4.57%) Kafka
19 59 (4.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 421 (32.09%) Fixed Income
2 350 (26.68%) Hedge funds
3 308 (23.48%) Equities
4 261 (19.89%) Derivative
5 260 (19.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 71 (5.41%) Cloud Native
7 66 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
8 42 (3.20%) Pricing Data
9 37 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 35 (2.67%) Client/Server
11 28 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.98%) Legacy Code
13 21 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.45%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.37%) PKI
16 16 (1.22%) Management Information System
17 14 (1.07%) Product Ownership
18 13 (0.99%) Mobile App
19 11 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 92 (7.01%) Linux
2 24 (1.83%) Ubuntu
3 21 (1.60%) Android
4 20 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.22%) Debian
5 16 (1.22%) Windows
6 5 (0.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.076%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.076%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,304 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 655 (49.92%) Agile
3 425 (32.39%) Asset Management
4 389 (29.65%) Investment Management
5 304 (23.17%) Full Stack Development
6 200 (15.24%) Fintech
7 168 (12.80%) CI/CD
8 163 (12.42%) DevOps
9 161 (12.27%) Machine Learning
10 150 (11.43%) Microservices
11 139 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
12 134 (10.21%) Computer Science
13 121 (9.22%) TDD
14 120 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
15 109 (8.31%) Test Automation
16 99 (7.55%) Automated Trading
17 93 (7.09%) Mentoring
18 85 (6.48%) Scrum
19 77 (5.87%) Analytics
20 76 (5.79%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 639 (48.70%) Python
2 533 (40.63%) TypeScript
3 465 (35.44%) Java
4 461 (35.14%) JavaScript
5 248 (18.90%) C#
6 215 (16.39%) SQL
7 156 (11.89%) Kotlin
8 88 (6.71%) Scala
9 87 (6.63%) C++
10 83 (6.33%) C
11 81 (6.17%) Go
11 81 (6.17%) Rust
12 36 (2.74%) PHP
13 24 (1.83%) Bash
14 21 (1.60%) Ruby
15 15 (1.14%) Clojure
16 12 (0.91%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.84%) Swift
18 10 (0.76%) Haskell
19 9 (0.69%) F#
Qualifications
1 144 (10.98%) Degree
2 81 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (5.11%) Security Cleared
4 48 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.45%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.38%) PhD
11 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.23%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.23%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.076%) HNC
13 1 (0.076%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.78%) QA
2 66 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.30%) JTAG
4 2 (0.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.15%) EMIR
4 2 (0.15%) GDPR
4 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.15%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.15%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.15%) MiFID
5 1 (0.076%) SEPA
System Software
1 99 (7.55%) Docker
2 24 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.38%) Ceph
4 3 (0.23%) Firmware
4 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.076%) KVM
6 1 (0.076%) LXC
Systems Management
1 177 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 123 (9.38%) Terraform
3 46 (3.51%) Ansible
4 11 (0.84%) Grafana
5 5 (0.38%) Knative
6 4 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.23%) Consul
7 3 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.23%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Istio
8 2 (0.15%) Kibana
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.076%) Argo
9 1 (0.076%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.076%) Juju
9 1 (0.076%) Podman
9 1 (0.076%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 146 (11.13%) Google
2 88 (6.71%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.06%) ESRI
4 13 (0.99%) Databricks
5 12 (0.91%) Oracle
6 8 (0.61%) Apple
6 8 (0.61%) Xero
7 6 (0.46%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.46%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.38%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.23%) Progress
10 2 (0.15%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.15%) Calypso
10 2 (0.15%) Confluent
10 2 (0.15%) Dell
10 2 (0.15%) Finsemble
10 2 (0.15%) GoCardless
10 2 (0.15%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.15%) Sage
10 2 (0.15%) Salesforce