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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,571 3,669 14,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.49% 11.68% 20.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.71% 12.28% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,048 2,699 4,356
10th Percentile £55,000 £54,850 £53,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £111,063
90th Percentile £146,625 £140,000 £133,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +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 21,954 29,884 72,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.57% 95.13% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,939 21,954 34,489
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
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 9 June 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 9 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 +3 347 £80,000 -11.11% 72
South London -10 22 £70,000 +40.00% 11
West London -45 21 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East London +28 13 £140,000 +263.64% 18
North London -1 2 £65,000 -7.14% 3
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
1 514 (19.99%) Apache Airflow
2 508 (19.76%) Apache
3 69 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.01%) ArcGIS
4 26 (1.01%) Confluence
4 26 (1.01%) GeoServer
5 15 (0.58%) nginx
5 15 (0.58%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.31%) CMS
6 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.19%) Solana
9 4 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.16%) Drupal
9 4 (0.16%) WordPress
10 3 (0.12%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.12%) IIS
11 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.039%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.078%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.039%) Blender
4 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) Sketch
4 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.039%) UXPin
4 1 (0.039%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.35%) Ripple
3 3 (0.12%) Endur
4 2 (0.078%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.078%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.039%) Findur
5 1 (0.039%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 1,446 (56.24%) AWS
2 741 (28.82%) Azure
3 667 (25.94%) GCP
4 360 (14.00%) dbt
5 304 (11.82%) Snowflake
6 186 (7.23%) Serverless
7 143 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 94 (3.66%) SaaS
9 87 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (2.76%) GitHub
11 65 (2.53%) Power Platform
12 63 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
13 62 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
14 60 (2.33%) Amazon S3
15 59 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
19 32 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
20 28 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.17%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.01%) HTTP
3 19 (0.74%) Internet
4 11 (0.43%) Firewall
5 8 (0.31%) DNS
6 7 (0.27%) AMQP
7 6 (0.23%) Multicast
7 6 (0.23%) Network Security
7 6 (0.23%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.12%) VoIP
9 2 (0.078%) Broadband
10 1 (0.039%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.039%) DHCP
10 1 (0.039%) IPFS
10 1 (0.039%) VPN
10 1 (0.039%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (17.78%) Apache Ignite
2 359 (13.96%) Amazon Athena
3 357 (13.89%) Dremio
4 347 (13.50%) Apache Arrow
5 321 (12.49%) Data Lake
6 304 (11.82%) PostgreSQL
7 118 (4.59%) SQL Server
8 82 (3.19%) MySQL
9 78 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
10 68 (2.64%) NoSQL
11 56 (2.18%) Relational Database
12 52 (2.02%) MongoDB
13 51 (1.98%) DynamoDB
13 51 (1.98%) Redis
14 31 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.05%) Big Data
17 26 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
17 26 (1.01%) GIS
17 26 (1.01%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 207 (8.05%) Git
2 108 (4.20%) GitLab
3 84 (3.27%) Cypress.io
4 77 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 53 (2.06%) JIRA
6 26 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.74%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.66%) JUnit
10 16 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.54%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.54%) Selenium
12 11 (0.43%) Postman
13 10 (0.39%) JMeter
14 9 (0.35%) Maven
14 9 (0.35%) Mocha
14 9 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.35%) webpack
15 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 1,035 (40.26%) Finance
2 704 (27.38%) Front Office
3 537 (20.89%) Banking
4 408 (15.87%) Social Skills
5 350 (13.61%) Investment Banking
6 128 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (4.24%) Law
8 102 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
9 79 (3.07%) Back Office
10 72 (2.80%) Legal
11 60 (2.33%) Marketing
12 58 (2.26%) Public Sector
12 58 (2.26%) Retail
13 48 (1.87%) Health Technology
14 46 (1.79%) Games
15 39 (1.52%) Electronics
16 38 (1.48%) Tech for Good
17 35 (1.36%) Financial Institution
18 27 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (0.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,368 (53.21%) Software Engineer
2 735 (28.59%) Developer
3 727 (28.28%) Senior
4 492 (19.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 382 (14.86%) Lead
6 361 (14.04%) Python Engineer
7 330 (12.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 314 (12.21%) Python Software Engineer
9 252 (9.80%) Python Developer
10 231 (8.98%) Java Engineer
11 217 (8.44%) AWS Engineer
12 213 (8.28%) Java Software Engineer
13 184 (7.16%) AWS Software Engineer
13 184 (7.16%) Lead Software Engineer
14 154 (5.99%) .NET Developer
15 152 (5.91%) Senior Developer
16 149 (5.80%) React Developer
17 120 (4.67%) Architect
18 115 (4.47%) .NET Software Engineer
19 111 (4.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 637 (24.78%) React
2 494 (19.21%) gRPC
3 478 (18.59%) Protocol Buffers
4 437 (17.00%) .NET
5 384 (14.94%) Pandas
6 361 (14.04%) NumPy
7 350 (13.61%) SciPy
8 268 (10.42%) Redux
9 204 (7.93%) AngularJS
10 197 (7.66%) Node.js
11 169 (6.57%) .NET Core
12 165 (6.42%) Kafka
13 135 (5.25%) Vue
14 128 (4.98%) CSS
15 126 (4.90%) RESTful
16 124 (4.82%) Material-UI
17 114 (4.43%) GraphQL
17 114 (4.43%) REST
18 108 (4.20%) Spring
19 101 (3.93%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 629 (24.47%) Fixed Income
2 572 (22.25%) Hedge funds
3 519 (20.19%) Equities
4 468 (18.20%) Derivative
5 447 (17.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 129 (5.02%) Cloud Native
7 116 (4.51%) Client/Server
7 116 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
8 112 (4.36%) Algorithms
9 89 (3.46%) Data Structures
10 86 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
11 51 (1.98%) Product Ownership
12 48 (1.87%) Pricing Data
13 45 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 36 (1.40%) Legacy Code
15 34 (1.32%) Blockchain
15 34 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 31 (1.21%) Blog
16 31 (1.21%) Management Information System
16 31 (1.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 197 (7.66%) Linux
2 55 (2.14%) Windows
3 47 (1.83%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.79%) Android
5 24 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.62%) Debian
6 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.39%) Unix
8 9 (0.35%) VMS
9 8 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.23%) CentOS
11 4 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.039%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.039%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,285 (49.98%) Agile
2 689 (26.80%) Asset Management
3 555 (21.59%) Investment Management
4 450 (17.50%) Full Stack Development
5 395 (15.36%) Computer Science
6 390 (15.17%) DevOps
7 376 (14.62%) CI/CD
8 337 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 311 (12.10%) Fintech
10 305 (11.86%) Microservices
11 262 (10.19%) Machine Learning
12 249 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
13 238 (9.26%) TDD
14 216 (8.40%) Mentoring
15 183 (7.12%) Test Automation
16 181 (7.04%) Analytics
17 174 (6.77%) Scrum
18 152 (5.91%) Line Management
19 149 (5.80%) OOP
20 144 (5.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,203 (46.79%) Python
2 880 (34.23%) Java
3 849 (33.02%) TypeScript
4 820 (31.89%) JavaScript
5 514 (19.99%) C#
6 401 (15.60%) SQL
7 208 (8.09%) Kotlin
8 142 (5.52%) C++
8 142 (5.52%) Go
9 134 (5.21%) Scala
10 132 (5.13%) C
11 99 (3.85%) Rust
12 74 (2.88%) PHP
13 47 (1.83%) R
14 36 (1.40%) PowerShell
14 36 (1.40%) Ruby
15 32 (1.24%) Bash
16 19 (0.74%) Bicep
17 17 (0.66%) Swift
17 17 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 396 (15.40%) Degree
2 180 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 112 (4.36%) Master's Degree
5 86 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 40 (1.56%) PhD
8 37 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 22 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.16%) CISSP
13 4 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.16%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.12%) CISM
14 3 (0.12%) GIAC
14 3 (0.12%) Sun Certification
15 2 (0.078%) HNC
15 2 (0.078%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.72%) QA
2 138 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 23 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.23%) WCAG
7 4 (0.16%) EMIR
7 4 (0.16%) JTAG
7 4 (0.16%) MiFID
7 4 (0.16%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) GDPR
9 2 (0.078%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.078%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.078%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.078%) ISO 9000
9 2 (0.078%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.039%) GxP
10 1 (0.039%) SEPA
10 1 (0.039%) SLA
System Software
1 279 (10.85%) Docker
2 35 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.35%) KVM
5 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.23%) Ceph
6 6 (0.23%) HDFS
7 4 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) LXC
10 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 370 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 246 (9.57%) Terraform
3 80 (3.11%) Ansible
4 26 (1.01%) Grafana
5 16 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.23%) Kibana
6 6 (0.23%) Knative
7 5 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.12%) Argo
8 3 (0.12%) Consul
8 3 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.12%) logstash
8 3 (0.12%) Packer
8 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.078%) Istio
9 2 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.039%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.039%) Perfmon
10 1 (0.039%) Podman
Vendors
1 194 (7.55%) Google
2 189 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 51 (1.98%) Bloomberg
4 29 (1.13%) Databricks
5 26 (1.01%) ESRI
6 25 (0.97%) Oracle
7 13 (0.51%) OpenAI
8 12 (0.47%) Reuters
9 10 (0.39%) Apple
9 10 (0.39%) Cloudera
10 9 (0.35%) Adobe
10 9 (0.35%) GoCardless
10 9 (0.35%) PayPal
10 9 (0.35%) Sage
11 8 (0.31%) Cisco
11 8 (0.31%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.31%) VMware
11 8 (0.31%) Xero
12 7 (0.27%) Informatica
12 7 (0.27%) NVIDIA