Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer
England > London

The median Software Engineer salary in London is £95,000 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 37 55 28
Rank change year-on-year +18 -27 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,369 1,673 7,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.61% 5.28% 10.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.93% 5.56% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 1,198 1,767
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% +9.68%
75th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £136,250 £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 23,075 30,104 71,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 95.02% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,017 22,576 35,100
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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 £60,255 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +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 6 June 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 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
Central London +37 189 £81,250 -9.72% 41
South London -3 12 £75,000 +66.67% 5
West London -11 11 £55,000 -31.25% 16
East London +25 8 £150,000 +160.87% 5
North London +2 2 £65,000 -7.14%
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,361 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 840 (61.36%) AWS
3 688 (50.26%) Agile
4 663 (48.43%) Python
5 628 (45.87%) Finance
6 561 (40.98%) TypeScript
7 498 (36.38%) Java
8 492 (35.94%) JavaScript
9 457 (33.38%) Front Office
10 455 (33.24%) Asset Management
11 451 (32.94%) React
12 445 (32.51%) Fixed Income
13 423 (30.90%) GCP
14 404 (29.51%) Investment Management
15 401 (29.29%) Azure
16 373 (27.25%) Hedge funds
17 358 (26.15%) Apache Airflow
18 355 (25.93%) Apache
19 348 (25.42%) gRPC
20 342 (24.98%) Banking
21 339 (24.76%) Protocol Buffers
22 330 (24.11%) Equities
23 327 (23.89%) Apache Ignite
24 305 (22.28%) Full Stack Development
25 284 (20.75%) Derivative
26 282 (20.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
27 253 (18.48%) C#
28 247 (18.04%) Redux
29 234 (17.09%) .NET
30 228 (16.65%) Pandas

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
1 358 (26.15%) Apache Airflow
2 355 (25.93%) Apache
3 37 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.97%) ArcGIS
4 27 (1.97%) GeoServer
5 15 (1.10%) Confluence
6 4 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.29%) CMS
6 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.22%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.073%) Sketch
2 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.073%) UXPin
2 1 (0.073%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.66%) Ripple
3 1 (0.073%) Endur
3 1 (0.073%) Findur
3 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.073%) Ripple XRP
3 1 (0.073%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 840 (61.36%) AWS
2 423 (30.90%) GCP
3 401 (29.29%) Azure
4 211 (15.41%) dbt
5 175 (12.78%) Snowflake
6 79 (5.77%) Serverless
7 65 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (2.34%) SaaS
9 27 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (1.75%) GitHub
11 22 (1.61%) Power Platform
12 20 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (0.95%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (0.66%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.46%) HTTP
2 19 (1.39%) Internet
2 19 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.37%) Network Security
4 3 (0.22%) VoIP
5 1 (0.073%) AMQP
5 1 (0.073%) DHCP
5 1 (0.073%) DNS
5 1 (0.073%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (23.89%) Apache Ignite
2 226 (16.51%) PostgreSQL
3 210 (15.34%) Amazon Athena
4 208 (15.19%) Apache Arrow
4 208 (15.19%) Dremio
5 174 (12.71%) Data Lake
6 35 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 33 (2.41%) SQL Server
8 30 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 28 (2.05%) DynamoDB
10 27 (1.97%) GIS
10 27 (1.97%) QGIS
11 26 (1.90%) MySQL
12 24 (1.75%) Relational Database
13 19 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (1.02%) Redis
15 12 (0.88%) Flink
16 11 (0.80%) Apache Hive
16 11 (0.80%) Presto
17 10 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 74 (5.41%) Git
2 67 (4.89%) Cypress.io
3 43 (3.14%) GitLab
4 25 (1.83%) JIRA
5 16 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.73%) JUnit
6 10 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.66%) Maven
8 8 (0.58%) Selenium
9 6 (0.44%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.44%) JMeter
9 6 (0.44%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.37%) Gradle
11 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.22%) Sourcetree
13 2 (0.15%) Postman
13 2 (0.15%) Storybook
13 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 628 (45.87%) Finance
2 457 (33.38%) Front Office
3 342 (24.98%) Banking
4 207 (15.12%) Investment Banking
5 135 (9.86%) Social Skills
6 68 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (4.60%) Law
8 48 (3.51%) Back Office
9 47 (3.43%) Legal
10 33 (2.41%) Health Technology
11 29 (2.12%) Marketing
12 27 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
13 26 (1.90%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.68%) Electronics
15 22 (1.61%) Public Sector
16 19 (1.39%) Retail
17 17 (1.24%) Tech for Good
18 16 (1.17%) Advertising
19 15 (1.10%) Games
20 10 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 451 (32.94%) React
2 348 (25.42%) gRPC
3 339 (24.76%) Protocol Buffers
4 247 (18.04%) Redux
5 234 (17.09%) .NET
6 228 (16.65%) Pandas
7 213 (15.56%) NumPy
8 208 (15.19%) SciPy
9 164 (11.98%) AngularJS
10 126 (9.20%) Vue
11 124 (9.06%) Material-UI
12 122 (8.91%) Node.js
13 104 (7.60%) .NET Core
14 82 (5.99%) Spring
15 74 (5.41%) GraphQL
16 65 (4.75%) RESTful
17 64 (4.67%) REST
17 64 (4.67%) Spring Boot
18 63 (4.60%) Kafka
19 61 (4.46%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 445 (32.51%) Fixed Income
2 373 (27.25%) Hedge funds
3 330 (24.11%) Equities
4 284 (20.75%) Derivative
5 282 (20.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 74 (5.41%) Cloud Native
7 71 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
8 48 (3.51%) Pricing Data
9 36 (2.63%) Data Structures
10 35 (2.56%) Client/Server
11 28 (2.05%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.97%) Legacy Code
13 20 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.39%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.31%) PKI
16 16 (1.17%) Blockchain
16 16 (1.17%) Management Information System
17 14 (1.02%) Product Ownership
18 13 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 93 (6.79%) Linux
2 24 (1.75%) Ubuntu
3 23 (1.68%) Android
4 20 (1.46%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.31%) Windows
6 16 (1.17%) Debian
7 5 (0.37%) Unix
8 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,361 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 688 (50.26%) Agile
3 455 (33.24%) Asset Management
4 404 (29.51%) Investment Management
5 305 (22.28%) Full Stack Development
6 212 (15.49%) Fintech
7 171 (12.49%) CI/CD
8 163 (11.91%) DevOps
8 163 (11.91%) Machine Learning
9 154 (11.25%) Microservices
10 143 (10.45%) Computer Science
11 142 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence
12 121 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (8.77%) TDD
14 111 (8.11%) Test Automation
15 99 (7.23%) Automated Trading
16 97 (7.09%) Mentoring
17 88 (6.43%) Scrum
18 77 (5.62%) OOP
19 75 (5.48%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 663 (48.43%) Python
2 561 (40.98%) TypeScript
3 498 (36.38%) Java
4 492 (35.94%) JavaScript
5 253 (18.48%) C#
6 224 (16.36%) SQL
7 160 (11.69%) Kotlin
8 93 (6.79%) Scala
9 90 (6.57%) Rust
10 89 (6.50%) C++
11 86 (6.28%) C
11 86 (6.28%) Go
12 36 (2.63%) PHP
13 23 (1.68%) Bash
14 20 (1.46%) Ruby
15 16 (1.17%) Clojure
16 12 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.80%) Swift
18 10 (0.73%) Haskell
18 10 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 143 (10.45%) Degree
2 81 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (5.04%) Security Cleared
4 51 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.37%) PhD
11 3 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.22%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.22%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.57%) QA
2 72 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.29%) JTAG
4 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.22%) EMIR
4 3 (0.22%) MiFID
5 2 (0.15%) GDPR
5 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.15%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.15%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 107 (7.82%) Docker
2 25 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.37%) Ceph
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
4 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.073%) KVM
6 1 (0.073%) LXC
Systems Management
1 192 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 125 (9.13%) Terraform
3 47 (3.43%) Ansible
4 11 (0.80%) Grafana
5 5 (0.37%) Knative
6 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.22%) Consul
7 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.22%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Istio
8 2 (0.15%) Kibana
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.073%) Argo
9 1 (0.073%) Juju
9 1 (0.073%) Podman
Vendors
1 149 (10.88%) Google
2 91 (6.65%) Microsoft
3 27 (1.97%) ESRI
4 13 (0.95%) Databricks
5 10 (0.73%) Oracle
6 8 (0.58%) Apple
6 8 (0.58%) Bloomberg
6 8 (0.58%) Xero
7 6 (0.44%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.44%) NVIDIA
7 6 (0.44%) Reuters
8 4 (0.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.22%) Progress
10 2 (0.15%) Becrypt
10 2 (0.15%) Calypso
10 2 (0.15%) Dell
10 2 (0.15%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.15%) PayPal
10 2 (0.15%) Sage
10 2 (0.15%) Salesforce