Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Software Engineer salary in Central London is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 84 113
Rank change year-on-year +37 +29 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 189 174 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 4.98% 3.52% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.21% 3.66% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 138 148 137
10th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £108,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £105,000
London median annual salary £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,625 4,750 8,122
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.50% 96.02% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 3,929 6,485
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Central London

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 6 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
City of London +44 178 £81,250 -9.72% 32
City of Westminster -5 11 £82,500 -23.26%
West End of London +7 7 £55,000 -48.84%
Camden -10 3 £80,000 -
Southwark - 1 £85,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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 Central London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 187 (98.94%) Software Engineering
2 120 (63.49%) AWS
3 78 (41.27%) Agile
4 72 (38.10%) Python
5 71 (37.57%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (35.98%) Java
7 61 (32.28%) Azure
8 55 (29.10%) Terraform
9 52 (27.51%) .NET
10 51 (26.98%) DevOps
11 47 (24.87%) C#
12 44 (23.28%) JavaScript
13 43 (22.75%) React
14 39 (20.63%) Finance
14 39 (20.63%) Full Stack Development
15 38 (20.11%) Kotlin
16 36 (19.05%) Degree
17 35 (18.52%) Git
17 35 (18.52%) Ansible
18 34 (17.99%) Computer Science
19 33 (17.46%) SQL
19 33 (17.46%) CI/CD
20 32 (16.93%) Social Skills
21 31 (16.40%) Web Development
22 29 (15.34%) Actionable Insight
22 29 (15.34%) CSS
23 28 (14.81%) Fintech
24 27 (14.29%) GeoServer
24 27 (14.29%) OpenLayers
24 27 (14.29%) QGIS

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 27 (14.29%) ArcGIS
1 27 (14.29%) GeoServer
2 4 (2.12%) Apache
2 4 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.12%) Confluence
3 3 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (63.49%) AWS
2 61 (32.28%) Azure
3 25 (13.23%) Serverless
4 22 (11.64%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (8.47%) GCP
6 9 (4.76%) SaaS
7 8 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.12%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.59%) Azure App Service
11 3 (1.59%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.99%) HTTP
2 13 (6.88%) Internet
3 4 (2.12%) Network Security
4 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (37.57%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (14.29%) GIS
2 27 (14.29%) QGIS
3 10 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.29%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.70%) Power BI
4 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.12%) Flink
5 4 (2.12%) Metadata
5 4 (2.12%) Redis
5 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.12%) Tableau
6 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.59%) Big Data
6 3 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.59%) MySQL
6 3 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (18.52%) Git
2 17 (8.99%) GitLab
3 5 (2.65%) Maven
4 4 (2.12%) JIRA
5 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 39 (20.63%) Finance
2 32 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.47%) Banking
4 11 (5.82%) Health Technology
5 9 (4.76%) Tech for Good
6 6 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.65%) Advertising
7 5 (2.65%) Front Office
7 5 (2.65%) Games
7 5 (2.65%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.65%) Marketing
7 5 (2.65%) Retail
8 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Back Office
9 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (27.51%) .NET
2 43 (22.75%) React
3 29 (15.34%) CSS
4 27 (14.29%) Leaflet
4 27 (14.29%) OpenLayers
4 27 (14.29%) PostGIS
5 23 (12.17%) .NET Core
6 21 (11.11%) Node.js
7 18 (9.52%) Django
7 18 (9.52%) REST
8 16 (8.47%) RESTful
9 13 (6.88%) GraphQL
9 13 (6.88%) Laravel
9 13 (6.88%) Spring
10 11 (5.82%) Kafka
11 10 (5.29%) .NET Framework
11 10 (5.29%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.23%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.23%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.17%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.65%) Fixed Income
3 5 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.65%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.65%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.59%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.06%) PKI
5 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.53%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) IoT
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.53%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.23%) Linux
1 8 (4.23%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.59%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (98.94%) Software Engineering
2 78 (41.27%) Agile
3 51 (26.98%) DevOps
4 39 (20.63%) Full Stack Development
5 34 (17.99%) Computer Science
6 33 (17.46%) CI/CD
7 31 (16.40%) Web Development
8 29 (15.34%) Actionable Insight
9 28 (14.81%) Fintech
10 25 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (10.05%) Microservices
11 19 (10.05%) TDD
12 16 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (7.94%) Machine Learning
13 15 (7.94%) Scrum
14 14 (7.41%) Design Patterns
14 14 (7.41%) Pair Programming
15 13 (6.88%) OO
16 10 (5.29%) Test Automation
17 9 (4.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.10%) Python
2 68 (35.98%) Java
3 47 (24.87%) C#
4 44 (23.28%) JavaScript
5 38 (20.11%) Kotlin
6 33 (17.46%) SQL
7 25 (13.23%) Scala
8 13 (6.88%) PHP
9 11 (5.82%) TypeScript
10 9 (4.76%) F#
11 8 (4.23%) Clojure
11 8 (4.23%) Go
11 8 (4.23%) Haskell
11 8 (4.23%) Rust
12 7 (3.70%) C++
13 4 (2.12%) C
13 4 (2.12%) VBA
14 2 (1.06%) Bash
14 2 (1.06%) Ruby
15 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (19.05%) Degree
2 27 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 27 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.35%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (4.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) KVM
2 1 (0.53%) LXC
Systems Management
1 55 (29.10%) Terraform
2 35 (18.52%) Ansible
3 22 (11.64%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.06%) Consul
4 2 (1.06%) Packer
5 1 (0.53%) Juju
Vendors
1 27 (14.29%) ESRI
2 21 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.70%) Google
4 4 (2.12%) Apple
5 1 (0.53%) BEA
5 1 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.53%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.53%) Spotify