Software Developer Jobs in London

Software Developer
England > London

The median Software Developer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2024.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 253 262
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 240 239 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.23% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.29% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 213 209 507
10th Percentile £49,506 £48,750 £37,200
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -
75th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £143,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 17,879 18,527 49,892
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 95.17% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,143 14,892 32,409
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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 -13 63 £80,000 +3.23% 17
North London - 3 £60,000 -
South London -43 1 - - 4
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 149 (62.08%) JavaScript
2 106 (44.17%) AWS
2 106 (44.17%) TypeScript
3 99 (41.25%) C#
4 97 (40.42%) Software Engineering
5 96 (40.00%) Python
6 92 (38.33%) Agile
7 91 (37.92%) Java
8 80 (33.33%) Finance
9 70 (29.17%) Social Skills
10 68 (28.33%) .NET
11 65 (27.08%) Hedge funds
12 64 (26.67%) GCP
12 64 (26.67%) Derivative
13 63 (26.25%) Equities
13 63 (26.25%) Fixed Income
14 62 (25.83%) Banking
14 62 (25.83%) Pandas
14 62 (25.83%) SciPy
14 62 (25.83%) NumPy
15 61 (25.42%) Front Office
16 60 (25.00%) SQL
16 60 (25.00%) Apache
16 60 (25.00%) Asset Management
17 59 (24.58%) Investment Banking
17 59 (24.58%) Data Lake
17 59 (24.58%) gRPC
17 59 (24.58%) Apache Airflow
17 59 (24.58%) Snowflake
18 58 (24.17%) dbt

Software Developer 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 60 (25.00%) Apache
2 59 (24.58%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.83%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) Drupal
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
4 1 (0.42%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 106 (44.17%) AWS
2 64 (26.67%) GCP
3 59 (24.58%) Snowflake
4 58 (24.17%) dbt
5 31 (12.92%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (11.67%) Azure
8 18 (7.50%) Serverless
9 15 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.33%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.25%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (0.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (24.58%) Data Lake
2 58 (24.17%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (24.17%) Apache Arrow
2 58 (24.17%) Apache Ignite
2 58 (24.17%) Dremio
3 48 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.67%) MySQL
7 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.25%) Big Data
8 3 (1.25%) Power BI
8 3 (1.25%) Tableau
9 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Git
2 4 (1.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.25%) GitLab
3 3 (1.25%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.42%) Gradle
5 1 (0.42%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) JUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Maven
5 1 (0.42%) Mocha
5 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.42%) Selenium
5 1 (0.42%) TestNG
5 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (33.33%) Finance
2 70 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 62 (25.83%) Banking
4 61 (25.42%) Front Office
5 59 (24.58%) Investment Banking
6 21 (8.75%) Tech for Good
7 16 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.00%) Publishing
9 11 (4.58%) Health Technology
10 8 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.50%) Advertising
11 6 (2.50%) Back Office
12 3 (1.25%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.42%) Games
14 1 (0.42%) Military
14 1 (0.42%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (28.33%) .NET
2 62 (25.83%) NumPy
2 62 (25.83%) Pandas
2 62 (25.83%) SciPy
3 59 (24.58%) gRPC
4 58 (24.17%) Protocol Buffers
5 45 (18.75%) React
6 35 (14.58%) CSS
6 35 (14.58%) HTML
7 34 (14.17%) AngularJS
8 30 (12.50%) PySpark
9 29 (12.08%) WPF
10 23 (9.58%) RESTful
11 21 (8.75%) HTML5
12 17 (7.08%) .NET Core
13 14 (5.83%) WebSockets
14 12 (5.00%) .NET Framework
15 10 (4.17%) ASP.NET
15 10 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.17%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 65 (27.08%) Hedge funds
2 64 (26.67%) Derivative
3 63 (26.25%) Equities
3 63 (26.25%) Fixed Income
4 58 (24.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (7.50%) Algorithms
5 18 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (5.83%) Blockchain
8 12 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (3.75%) Cloud Native
10 8 (3.33%) Legacy Code
11 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
12 5 (2.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 4 (1.67%) NHS
14 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
15 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
15 2 (0.83%) IoT
15 2 (0.83%) Sports Betting
15 2 (0.83%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.58%) Windows
2 21 (8.75%) Linux
3 2 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (40.42%) Software Engineering
2 92 (38.33%) Agile
3 60 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 58 (24.17%) Line Management
5 49 (20.42%) Computer Science
6 32 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 31 (12.92%) Migration
8 30 (12.50%) Multithreading
9 28 (11.67%) Analytics
10 27 (11.25%) Multithreaded Programming
11 26 (10.83%) Mathematics
12 25 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (10.00%) TDD
14 22 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
15 21 (8.75%) Design Patterns
16 19 (7.92%) DevOps
16 19 (7.92%) Scrum
16 19 (7.92%) Software Testing
17 18 (7.50%) Microservices
18 17 (7.08%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 149 (62.08%) JavaScript
2 106 (44.17%) TypeScript
3 99 (41.25%) C#
4 96 (40.00%) Python
5 91 (37.92%) Java
6 60 (25.00%) SQL
7 27 (11.25%) C++
8 18 (7.50%) Rust
9 14 (5.83%) Haskell
10 12 (5.00%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.33%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.25%) Go
12 3 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (22.92%) Degree
2 8 (3.33%) Master's Degree
2 8 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.67%) PhD
5 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.25%) QA
2 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.42%) EMIR
3 1 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (2.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Ceph
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.92%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.92%) Terraform
2 2 (0.83%) Argo
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Knative
3 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (12.50%) Bloomberg
1 30 (12.50%) Reuters
2 21 (8.75%) Oracle
3 17 (7.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.25%) Google
5 2 (0.83%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.42%) IBM
6 1 (0.42%) New Relic
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat