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 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 263 232 224
Rank change year-on-year -31 -8 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 268 510 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.11% 1.60% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.68% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 233 416 621
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £142,500 £96,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £121,250 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 22,824 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%

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 1 June 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 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
Central London +43 73 £85,000 +23.64% 9
South London -24 5 £40,750 -25.91% 2
East London - 5 £52,500 - 3
West London -5 1 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 143 (53.36%) Agile
2 139 (51.87%) JavaScript
3 118 (44.03%) Java
4 114 (42.54%) AWS
5 109 (40.67%) C#
6 100 (37.31%) Software Engineering
7 92 (34.33%) Finance
8 85 (31.72%) Python
9 79 (29.48%) .NET
10 75 (27.99%) TypeScript
11 71 (26.49%) Apache
12 68 (25.37%) GCP
12 68 (25.37%) Front Office
12 68 (25.37%) Banking
13 67 (25.00%) Asset Management
14 66 (24.63%) gRPC
14 66 (24.63%) Apache Airflow
14 66 (24.63%) Amazon Athena
14 66 (24.63%) Apache Ignite
14 66 (24.63%) Dremio
14 66 (24.63%) dbt
14 66 (24.63%) Apache Arrow
14 66 (24.63%) Investment Banking
14 66 (24.63%) Fixed Income
14 66 (24.63%) SciPy
14 66 (24.63%) NumPy
14 66 (24.63%) Protocol Buffers
14 66 (24.63%) Pandas
15 63 (23.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 62 (23.13%) Hedge funds

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 71 (26.49%) Apache
2 66 (24.63%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.87%) Drupal
4 2 (0.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 114 (42.54%) AWS
2 68 (25.37%) GCP
3 66 (24.63%) dbt
4 61 (22.76%) Azure
5 52 (19.40%) Snowflake
6 13 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.10%) GitHub
8 10 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.36%) Serverless
10 6 (2.24%) Boomi
11 5 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.87%) Pulumi
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Table
13 3 (1.12%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.75%) npm
14 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.75%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.49%) Multicast
1 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (24.63%) Amazon Athena
1 66 (24.63%) Apache Arrow
1 66 (24.63%) Apache Ignite
1 66 (24.63%) Dremio
2 53 (19.78%) SQL Server
3 52 (19.40%) Data Lake
4 15 (5.60%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.99%) MySQL
6 5 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.12%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (1.12%) DB2
8 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.37%) Firebird
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (11.19%) Git
2 11 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.61%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.61%) CMake
4 5 (1.87%) JIRA
5 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.12%) GitLab
5 3 (1.12%) Protractor
6 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Appium
7 1 (0.37%) Gradle
7 1 (0.37%) JUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Maven
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.37%) TestNG
7 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (34.33%) Finance
2 68 (25.37%) Banking
2 68 (25.37%) Front Office
3 66 (24.63%) Investment Banking
4 49 (18.28%) Social Skills
5 17 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.87%) Electronics
8 5 (1.87%) Legal
9 4 (1.49%) Automotive
9 4 (1.49%) Law
10 3 (1.12%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (29.48%) .NET
2 66 (24.63%) gRPC
2 66 (24.63%) NumPy
2 66 (24.63%) Pandas
2 66 (24.63%) Protocol Buffers
2 66 (24.63%) SciPy
3 52 (19.40%) HTML
4 50 (18.66%) CSS
5 30 (11.19%) WPF
6 28 (10.45%) HTML5
6 28 (10.45%) RESTful
7 25 (9.33%) AngularJS
8 13 (4.85%) .NET Framework
9 12 (4.48%) ASP.NET
10 10 (3.73%) React
11 9 (3.36%) jQuery
12 7 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (2.61%) React Native
13 6 (2.24%) Entity Framework
13 6 (2.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.63%) Fixed Income
2 63 (23.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 62 (23.13%) Hedge funds
4 60 (22.39%) Derivative
4 60 (22.39%) Equities
5 21 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.73%) Blockchain
7 10 (3.73%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.36%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.99%) IoT
10 6 (2.24%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.87%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.12%) NHS
13 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
15 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.43%) Windows
2 11 (4.10%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.99%) Linux
4 7 (2.61%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.49%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (53.36%) Agile
2 100 (37.31%) Software Engineering
3 67 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 52 (19.40%) Line Management
5 47 (17.54%) Computer Science
6 43 (16.04%) Investment Management
7 42 (15.67%) Fintech
8 38 (14.18%) Full Stack Development
8 38 (14.18%) TDD
9 37 (13.81%) CI/CD
10 36 (13.43%) DevOps
11 34 (12.69%) Multithreading
12 33 (12.31%) Collaborative Working
13 32 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (10.45%) Multithreaded Programming
15 22 (8.21%) Analytics
16 20 (7.46%) Clean Code
16 20 (7.46%) Mentoring
16 20 (7.46%) Microservices
17 15 (5.60%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 139 (51.87%) JavaScript
2 118 (44.03%) Java
3 109 (40.67%) C#
4 85 (31.72%) Python
5 75 (27.99%) TypeScript
6 60 (22.39%) SQL
7 26 (9.70%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.85%) Go
9 10 (3.73%) Ruby
10 8 (2.99%) Scala
11 7 (2.61%) C
11 7 (2.61%) PHP
12 5 (1.87%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.87%) C++
13 4 (1.49%) Rust
14 3 (1.12%) Erlang
15 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.37%) FoxPro (VFP)
16 1 (0.37%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 55 (20.52%) Degree
2 6 (2.24%) PhD
3 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.12%) MCSD
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.75%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.49%) QA
2 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (6.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Ceph
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (10.07%) Terraform
2 15 (5.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.49%) Grafana
3 4 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.37%) Knative
4 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.99%) Oracle
3 7 (2.61%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.24%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.49%) Quadient
5 4 (1.49%) Splunk
6 2 (0.75%) Dell
6 2 (0.75%) F5
6 2 (0.75%) YouTube
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) Peregrine