Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer
England > London

The median Software Engineer salary in London is £93,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 54 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 -26 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,173 1,863 6,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.96% 5.42% 10.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.27% 5.70% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 986 1,249 1,689
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,882 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £143,125 £135,000 £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 22,274 32,686 65,100
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.09% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,684 24,117 34,486
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 12 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 12 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 +40 185 £80,000 -8.57% 31
South London -7 14 £62,500 +38.89% 6
East London +22 8 £150,000 +160.87% 18
West London -14 7 £62,500 -7.41% 16
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 1,165 (99.32%) Software Engineering
2 693 (59.08%) AWS
3 562 (47.91%) Agile
4 550 (46.89%) Python
5 520 (44.33%) Finance
6 462 (39.39%) TypeScript
7 416 (35.46%) React
8 401 (34.19%) JavaScript
9 383 (32.65%) Java
10 375 (31.97%) Front Office
10 375 (31.97%) Azure
11 364 (31.03%) Asset Management
12 362 (30.86%) Fixed Income
13 348 (29.67%) GCP
14 339 (28.90%) Investment Management
15 296 (25.23%) Hedge funds
16 274 (23.36%) Full Stack Development
17 264 (22.51%) Banking
18 260 (22.17%) Apache Airflow
19 258 (21.99%) gRPC
20 257 (21.91%) Apache
21 255 (21.74%) Equities
22 251 (21.40%) C#
23 246 (20.97%) Protocol Buffers
24 237 (20.20%) .NET
25 234 (19.95%) Apache Ignite
26 232 (19.78%) Redux
27 216 (18.41%) Derivative
28 215 (18.33%) SQL
28 215 (18.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

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
1 260 (22.17%) Apache Airflow
2 257 (21.91%) Apache
3 28 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.30%) ArcGIS
4 27 (2.30%) GeoServer
5 15 (1.28%) Confluence
6 4 (0.34%) CMS
6 4 (0.34%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.26%) Captiva
7 3 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.26%) Drupal
7 3 (0.26%) FileNet
7 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) WinCC
9 1 (0.085%) JBoss
9 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.085%) Sketch
2 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.085%) UXPin
2 1 (0.085%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.085%) Endur
2 1 (0.085%) Findur
2 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.085%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 693 (59.08%) AWS
2 375 (31.97%) Azure
3 348 (29.67%) GCP
4 133 (11.34%) dbt
5 104 (8.87%) Snowflake
6 76 (6.48%) Serverless
7 61 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (2.73%) SaaS
9 22 (1.88%) Power Platform
10 21 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (1.28%) GitHub
15 12 (1.02%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.77%) Amazon Kinesis
17 8 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
18 7 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 6 (0.51%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.79%) Internet
2 20 (1.71%) HTTP
3 19 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.43%) Network Security
5 3 (0.26%) VoIP
6 1 (0.085%) AMQP
6 1 (0.085%) DHCP
6 1 (0.085%) DNS
6 1 (0.085%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (19.95%) Apache Ignite
2 211 (17.99%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (11.34%) Amazon Athena
4 131 (11.17%) Apache Arrow
4 131 (11.17%) Dremio
5 104 (8.87%) Data Lake
6 31 (2.64%) SQL Server
7 30 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 28 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.30%) GIS
9 27 (2.30%) QGIS
10 25 (2.13%) MySQL
11 20 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.53%) Redis
13 16 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.94%) Flink
14 11 (0.94%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.85%) Big Data
16 8 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 73 (6.22%) Git
2 59 (5.03%) Cypress.io
3 33 (2.81%) GitLab
4 28 (2.39%) JIRA
5 16 (1.36%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.85%) JUnit
6 10 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.77%) Maven
8 8 (0.68%) Selenium
9 6 (0.51%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.51%) JMeter
9 6 (0.51%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.43%) Gradle
11 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.26%) JDeveloper
12 3 (0.26%) Sourcetree
13 2 (0.17%) NUnit
13 2 (0.17%) Postman
General
1 520 (44.33%) Finance
2 375 (31.97%) Front Office
3 264 (22.51%) Banking
4 138 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 127 (10.83%) Social Skills
6 60 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.92%) Back Office
8 43 (3.67%) Law
9 30 (2.56%) Health Technology
10 29 (2.47%) Marketing
11 28 (2.39%) Legal
12 27 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
13 23 (1.96%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.45%) Retail
15 16 (1.36%) Electronics
15 16 (1.36%) Games
16 15 (1.28%) Advertising
17 14 (1.19%) Tech for Good
18 13 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 8 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (35.46%) React
2 258 (21.99%) gRPC
3 246 (20.97%) Protocol Buffers
4 237 (20.20%) .NET
5 232 (19.78%) Redux
6 154 (13.13%) AngularJS
7 152 (12.96%) Pandas
8 138 (11.76%) NumPy
9 131 (11.17%) SciPy
10 124 (10.57%) Material-UI
11 121 (10.32%) Vue
12 110 (9.38%) Node.js
13 108 (9.21%) .NET Core
14 68 (5.80%) Spring
15 64 (5.46%) ASP.NET
16 62 (5.29%) GraphQL
17 61 (5.20%) RESTful
17 61 (5.20%) Spring Boot
18 58 (4.94%) CSS
19 55 (4.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 362 (30.86%) Fixed Income
2 296 (25.23%) Hedge funds
3 255 (21.74%) Equities
4 216 (18.41%) Derivative
5 215 (18.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 64 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
7 62 (5.29%) Cloud Native
8 37 (3.15%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.98%) Client/Server
10 28 (2.39%) Algorithms
11 24 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (2.05%) Legacy Code
11 24 (2.05%) Pricing Data
12 19 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.45%) PKI
14 14 (1.19%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.11%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.02%) Management Information System
17 11 (0.94%) Onboarding
18 10 (0.85%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 89 (7.59%) Linux
2 24 (2.05%) Ubuntu
3 23 (1.96%) Android
4 22 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.36%) Debian
6 13 (1.11%) Windows
7 7 (0.60%) Unix
8 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.085%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,165 (99.32%) Software Engineering
2 562 (47.91%) Agile
3 364 (31.03%) Asset Management
4 339 (28.90%) Investment Management
5 274 (23.36%) Full Stack Development
6 181 (15.43%) Fintech
7 157 (13.38%) DevOps
8 142 (12.11%) Machine Learning
9 138 (11.76%) Microservices
10 135 (11.51%) CI/CD
11 125 (10.66%) Computer Science
12 123 (10.49%) Artificial Intelligence
13 121 (10.32%) TDD
14 100 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
14 100 (8.53%) Test Automation
15 91 (7.76%) Automated Trading
16 88 (7.50%) Mentoring
17 82 (6.99%) Analytics
18 72 (6.14%) Scrum
19 61 (5.20%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 550 (46.89%) Python
2 462 (39.39%) TypeScript
3 401 (34.19%) JavaScript
4 383 (32.65%) Java
5 251 (21.40%) C#
6 215 (18.33%) SQL
7 133 (11.34%) Kotlin
8 79 (6.73%) C
8 79 (6.73%) C++
9 78 (6.65%) Rust
10 75 (6.39%) Go
11 66 (5.63%) Scala
12 34 (2.90%) PHP
13 26 (2.22%) Bash
14 24 (2.05%) Ruby
15 18 (1.53%) Clojure
16 14 (1.19%) Haskell
16 14 (1.19%) T-SQL
17 13 (1.11%) F#
18 11 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 137 (11.68%) Degree
2 78 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 43 (3.67%) SC Cleared
5 20 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.36%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.43%) PhD
9 4 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.26%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.26%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.17%) HNC
11 2 (0.17%) HND
12 1 (0.085%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.91%) QA
2 47 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.43%) GDPR
4 4 (0.34%) JTAG
5 2 (0.17%) EMIR
5 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.17%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.17%) MiFID
6 1 (0.085%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.085%) SEPA
System Software
1 86 (7.33%) Docker
2 14 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.34%) Ceph
4 3 (0.26%) Firmware
5 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.085%) KVM
6 1 (0.085%) LXC
Systems Management
1 169 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 107 (9.12%) Terraform
3 42 (3.58%) Ansible
4 11 (0.94%) Grafana
5 4 (0.34%) Knative
5 4 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.26%) Consul
6 3 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.26%) Packer
7 2 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.17%) Istio
7 2 (0.17%) Kibana
7 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.17%) Wonderware InTouch
8 1 (0.085%) Argo
8 1 (0.085%) Juju
8 1 (0.085%) Podman
Vendors
1 123 (10.49%) Google
2 78 (6.65%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.30%) ESRI
4 18 (1.53%) Oracle
5 9 (0.77%) Databricks
6 8 (0.68%) Apple
6 8 (0.68%) Xero
7 6 (0.51%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.51%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.43%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.26%) IBM
9 3 (0.26%) Kofax
9 3 (0.26%) Pega
9 3 (0.26%) Progress
9 3 (0.26%) SAP
9 3 (0.26%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.17%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.17%) Calypso
10 2 (0.17%) Sage
10 2 (0.17%) Salesforce