Software Engineering Jobs in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,381 4,043 13,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.06% 12.03% 19.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.06% 12.62% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 2,832 4,298
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £69,395 £66,746 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,500 £89,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +5.29% +9.68%
75th Percentile £117,500 £113,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £146,250 £138,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,647 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.97% +3.78% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,526 32,049 67,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.97% 95.35% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,906 23,132 34,106
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,257 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +3 338 £80,000 -5.88% 62
South London -12 24 £70,000 +21.74% 15
West London -46 17 £58,750 +2.17% 30
East London +23 12 £145,000 +276.62% 308
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 404 (16.97%) Apache
2 399 (16.76%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.13%) ArcGIS
4 27 (1.13%) GeoServer
5 26 (1.09%) Confluence
6 16 (0.67%) nginx
7 11 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.38%) CMS
9 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.21%) Solana
13 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.17%) Drupal
14 3 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.13%) WordPress
15 2 (0.084%) Captiva
15 2 (0.084%) WinCC
Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.084%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.042%) Blender
4 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.042%) Notion
4 1 (0.042%) Sketch
4 1 (0.042%) UXPin
4 1 (0.042%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.13%) Endur
2 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.084%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.084%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.042%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,310 (55.02%) AWS
2 724 (30.41%) Azure
3 588 (24.70%) GCP
4 255 (10.71%) dbt
5 213 (8.95%) Snowflake
6 194 (8.15%) Serverless
7 151 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
8 103 (4.33%) SaaS
9 85 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (2.81%) GitHub
11 66 (2.77%) Power Platform
12 64 (2.69%) Amazon S3
13 62 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
14 54 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
15 52 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 49 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
17 44 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (1.43%) OpenShift
19 32 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
20 31 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.26%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.09%) HTTP
3 21 (0.88%) Internet
4 11 (0.46%) Firewall
5 8 (0.34%) DNS
6 7 (0.29%) AMQP
6 7 (0.29%) Network Security
6 7 (0.29%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.25%) Multicast
8 4 (0.17%) VoIP
9 2 (0.084%) Broadband
10 1 (0.042%) DHCP
10 1 (0.042%) IPFS
10 1 (0.042%) VPN
10 1 (0.042%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (14.78%) Apache Ignite
2 296 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
3 255 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
4 253 (10.63%) Dremio
5 252 (10.58%) Apache Arrow
6 224 (9.41%) Data Lake
7 115 (4.83%) SQL Server
8 81 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
9 79 (3.32%) MySQL
10 70 (2.94%) NoSQL
11 64 (2.69%) Redis
12 57 (2.39%) Relational Database
13 51 (2.14%) MongoDB
14 46 (1.93%) DynamoDB
15 40 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (1.18%) Big Data
17 27 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (1.13%) GIS
17 27 (1.13%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 202 (8.48%) Git
2 103 (4.33%) GitLab
3 89 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 82 (3.44%) Cypress.io
5 59 (2.48%) JIRA
6 35 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.80%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.71%) JUnit
8 17 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 16 (0.67%) Selenium
10 12 (0.50%) Postman
11 10 (0.42%) JMeter
12 9 (0.38%) Maven
12 9 (0.38%) Mocha
12 9 (0.38%) webpack
13 8 (0.34%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.34%) CMake
13 8 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 920 (38.64%) Finance
2 614 (25.79%) Front Office
3 431 (18.10%) Banking
4 403 (16.93%) Social Skills
5 260 (10.92%) Investment Banking
6 120 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
8 89 (3.74%) Law
9 75 (3.15%) Back Office
10 65 (2.73%) Marketing
11 55 (2.31%) Retail
12 53 (2.23%) Public Sector
13 50 (2.10%) Games
14 49 (2.06%) Legal
15 45 (1.89%) Health Technology
16 34 (1.43%) Tech for Good
17 31 (1.30%) Electronics
18 26 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.01%) Financial Institution
20 20 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,203 (50.52%) Software Engineer
2 713 (29.95%) Developer
3 638 (26.80%) Senior
4 412 (17.30%) Senior Software Engineer
5 320 (13.44%) Lead
6 305 (12.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 291 (12.22%) Python Engineer
8 255 (10.71%) Python Software Engineer
9 241 (10.12%) Python Developer
10 185 (7.77%) Java Engineer
11 172 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
12 168 (7.06%) Java Software Engineer
13 150 (6.30%) .NET Developer
14 144 (6.05%) Lead Software Engineer
14 144 (6.05%) React Developer
15 143 (6.01%) Senior Developer
16 130 (5.46%) AWS Software Engineer
17 119 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
18 108 (4.54%) Full Stack Engineer
19 105 (4.41%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 624 (26.21%) React
2 441 (18.52%) .NET
3 392 (16.46%) gRPC
4 373 (15.67%) Protocol Buffers
5 279 (11.72%) Pandas
6 260 (10.92%) Redux
7 259 (10.88%) NumPy
8 246 (10.33%) SciPy
9 198 (8.32%) Node.js
10 197 (8.27%) AngularJS
11 174 (7.31%) .NET Core
12 155 (6.51%) Kafka
13 132 (5.54%) Vue
14 130 (5.46%) CSS
15 126 (5.29%) Material-UI
16 124 (5.21%) RESTful
17 106 (4.45%) GraphQL
18 103 (4.33%) REST
19 101 (4.24%) HTML
20 100 (4.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 540 (22.68%) Fixed Income
2 489 (20.54%) Hedge funds
3 434 (18.23%) Equities
4 387 (16.25%) Derivative
5 361 (15.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 120 (5.04%) Cloud Native
7 118 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
8 114 (4.79%) Client/Server
9 107 (4.49%) Algorithms
10 94 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
11 91 (3.82%) Data Structures
12 49 (2.06%) Product Ownership
13 37 (1.55%) Legacy Code
14 34 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (1.39%) Tandem
15 33 (1.39%) Virtual Team
16 31 (1.30%) Blockchain
17 30 (1.26%) Blog
17 30 (1.26%) Management Information System
17 30 (1.26%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 202 (8.48%) Linux
2 48 (2.02%) Windows
3 46 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 42 (1.76%) Android
5 25 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.67%) Debian
7 13 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.50%) Unix
9 9 (0.38%) VMS
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.29%) CentOS
12 4 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,153 (48.43%) Agile
2 592 (24.86%) Asset Management
3 492 (20.66%) Investment Management
4 424 (17.81%) Full Stack Development
5 409 (17.18%) DevOps
6 380 (15.96%) Computer Science
7 359 (15.08%) CI/CD
8 321 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
9 289 (12.14%) Microservices
10 278 (11.68%) Fintech
11 249 (10.46%) Machine Learning
12 246 (10.33%) TDD
13 237 (9.95%) Artificial Intelligence
14 208 (8.74%) Mentoring
15 182 (7.64%) Analytics
16 174 (7.31%) Test Automation
17 158 (6.64%) Scrum
18 143 (6.01%) Data Science
19 133 (5.59%) SDLC
20 131 (5.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,093 (45.91%) Python
2 758 (31.84%) Java
3 742 (31.16%) TypeScript
4 712 (29.90%) JavaScript
5 519 (21.80%) C#
6 386 (16.21%) SQL
7 187 (7.85%) Kotlin
8 146 (6.13%) Go
9 138 (5.80%) C++
10 123 (5.17%) C
11 112 (4.70%) Scala
12 91 (3.82%) Rust
13 71 (2.98%) PHP
14 54 (2.27%) R
15 46 (1.93%) Ruby
16 35 (1.47%) Bash
17 34 (1.43%) PowerShell
18 20 (0.84%) Bicep
18 20 (0.84%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 390 (16.38%) Degree
2 181 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 106 (4.45%) Master's Degree
5 82 (3.44%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.72%) DBS Check
7 35 (1.47%) PhD
8 34 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.17%) CISSP
13 4 (0.17%) HNC
13 4 (0.17%) HND
13 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.13%) CISM
14 3 (0.13%) GIAC
14 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (6.05%) QA
2 101 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.34%) WCAG
7 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.21%) GDPR
9 4 (0.17%) JTAG
9 4 (0.17%) NCSC
10 2 (0.084%) EMIR
10 2 (0.084%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.084%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.084%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.084%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.084%) MiFID
11 1 (0.042%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.042%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.042%) NIST
11 1 (0.042%) SEPA
System Software
1 279 (11.72%) Docker
2 27 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.38%) KVM
6 8 (0.34%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) Ceph
8 3 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.042%) LXC
10 1 (0.042%) OpenSIPS
10 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 366 (15.37%) Kubernetes
2 241 (10.12%) Terraform
3 78 (3.28%) Ansible
4 32 (1.34%) Grafana
5 18 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.34%) Kibana
7 6 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.21%) Knative
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.13%) Argo
9 3 (0.13%) Consul
9 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.13%) logstash
9 3 (0.13%) Packer
10 2 (0.084%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.084%) Istio
10 2 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.084%) Wonderware InTouch
11 1 (0.042%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 185 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 182 (7.64%) Google
3 44 (1.85%) Bloomberg
4 32 (1.34%) Oracle
5 29 (1.22%) Databricks
6 27 (1.13%) ESRI
7 17 (0.71%) Adobe
8 12 (0.50%) Cloudera
8 12 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.42%) Apple
9 10 (0.42%) VMware
10 9 (0.38%) GoCardless
10 9 (0.38%) PayPal
10 9 (0.38%) Sage
11 8 (0.34%) Cisco
11 8 (0.34%) Informatica
11 8 (0.34%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.34%) Xero
12 7 (0.29%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.25%) Splunk