Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in London

Software Engineer/Developer
England > London

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 310 417
Rank change year-on-year +93 +107 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 340 328 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.37% 1.05% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.11% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 340 320 650
10th Percentile £71,250 £67,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £142,500 £133,125 £128,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £135,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +13.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in London

Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
East London - 5 £150,000 -
Developer/Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 340 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 333 (97.94%) Front Office
3 330 (97.06%) AWS
4 328 (96.47%) Finance
4 328 (96.47%) Asset Management
4 328 (96.47%) Fixed Income
4 328 (96.47%) GCP
5 322 (94.71%) TypeScript
6 320 (94.12%) Agile
7 294 (86.47%) Python
8 274 (80.59%) Investment Management
9 258 (75.88%) Hedge funds
10 248 (72.94%) React
11 239 (70.29%) gRPC
11 239 (70.29%) Apache Airflow
11 239 (70.29%) Protocol Buffers
12 230 (67.65%) Redux
13 229 (67.35%) JavaScript
14 227 (66.76%) Apache
14 227 (66.76%) Apache Ignite
15 223 (65.59%) Equities
16 199 (58.53%) Azure
17 190 (55.88%) Banking
18 174 (51.18%) Derivative
19 171 (50.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 171 (50.29%) Full Stack Development
20 121 (35.59%) Material-UI
21 118 (34.71%) Pandas
22 111 (32.65%) AngularJS
22 111 (32.65%) Vue

Developer/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
1 239 (70.29%) Apache Airflow
2 227 (66.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 330 (97.06%) AWS
2 328 (96.47%) GCP
3 199 (58.53%) Azure
4 106 (31.18%) dbt
5 72 (21.18%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (66.76%) Apache Ignite
2 106 (31.18%) Amazon Athena
2 106 (31.18%) Apache Arrow
2 106 (31.18%) Dremio
3 99 (29.12%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (21.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (18.53%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 333 (97.94%) Front Office
2 328 (96.47%) Finance
3 190 (55.88%) Banking
4 91 (26.76%) Investment Banking
5 45 (13.24%) Back Office
6 3 (0.88%) Advertising
7 2 (0.59%) Electronics
7 2 (0.59%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.59%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (72.94%) React
2 239 (70.29%) gRPC
2 239 (70.29%) Protocol Buffers
3 230 (67.65%) Redux
4 121 (35.59%) Material-UI
5 118 (34.71%) Pandas
6 111 (32.65%) AngularJS
6 111 (32.65%) Vue
7 106 (31.18%) NumPy
7 106 (31.18%) SciPy
8 84 (24.71%) .NET
9 52 (15.29%) Node.js
10 45 (13.24%) .NET Core
11 37 (10.88%) ASP.NET
12 34 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (3.53%) PySpark
14 11 (3.24%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.47%) Kafka
15 5 (1.47%) Spring
15 5 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 328 (96.47%) Fixed Income
2 258 (75.88%) Hedge funds
3 223 (65.59%) Equities
4 174 (51.18%) Derivative
5 171 (50.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.59%) IoT
7 2 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 328 (96.47%) Asset Management
3 320 (94.12%) Agile
4 274 (80.59%) Investment Management
5 171 (50.29%) Full Stack Development
6 99 (29.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 99 (29.12%) Automated Trading
6 99 (29.12%) Machine Learning
7 91 (26.76%) Fintech
8 72 (21.18%) Line Management
9 52 (15.29%) Performance Attribution
10 40 (11.76%) DevOps
11 38 (11.18%) TDD
12 36 (10.59%) Analytics
13 24 (7.06%) User Experience
14 22 (6.47%) Front End Development
15 20 (5.88%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 13 (3.82%) Mentoring
17 12 (3.53%) Migration
18 10 (2.94%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 322 (94.71%) TypeScript
2 294 (86.47%) Python
3 229 (67.35%) JavaScript
4 98 (28.82%) Java
5 95 (27.94%) SQL
6 84 (24.71%) C#
7 10 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.35%) Ruby
8 8 (2.35%) Scala
9 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (0.59%) Degree
1 2 (0.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.88%) QA
2 3 (0.88%) EMIR
2 3 (0.88%) MiFID
3 2 (0.59%) GDPR
3 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.59%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.59%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 5 (1.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 99 (29.12%) Google
2 12 (3.53%) Bloomberg
2 12 (3.53%) Reuters
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft