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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 55 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 -27 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,227 1,845 7,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.19% 5.47% 10.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.51% 5.75% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 1,239 1,731
10th Percentile £55,650 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £116,250 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £135,693 £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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 20 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 20 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 +46 185 £80,000 -8.57% 33
South London -8 14 £62,500 +38.89% 9
East London +24 8 £150,000 +160.87% 172
West London -17 8 £58,750 -12.96% 15
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 1,219 (99.35%) Software Engineering
2 742 (60.47%) AWS
3 610 (49.71%) Agile
4 590 (48.08%) Python
5 548 (44.66%) Finance
6 494 (40.26%) TypeScript
7 428 (34.88%) React
8 424 (34.56%) JavaScript
9 416 (33.90%) Java
10 404 (32.93%) Front Office
11 393 (32.03%) Asset Management
11 393 (32.03%) Azure
12 391 (31.87%) Fixed Income
13 377 (30.73%) GCP
14 362 (29.50%) Investment Management
15 323 (26.32%) Hedge funds
16 295 (24.04%) Apache Airflow
17 292 (23.80%) Apache
18 290 (23.63%) gRPC
18 290 (23.63%) Full Stack Development
19 289 (23.55%) Banking
20 282 (22.98%) Equities
21 278 (22.66%) Protocol Buffers
22 266 (21.68%) Apache Ignite
23 250 (20.37%) C#
24 241 (19.64%) Redux
25 237 (19.32%) .NET
26 235 (19.15%) Derivative
27 234 (19.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
28 221 (18.01%) PostgreSQL

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
1 295 (24.04%) Apache Airflow
2 292 (23.80%) Apache
3 34 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.20%) ArcGIS
4 27 (2.20%) GeoServer
5 15 (1.22%) Confluence
6 4 (0.33%) CMS
6 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.24%) Drupal
8 2 (0.16%) Captiva
8 2 (0.16%) FileNet
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.16%) WinCC
9 1 (0.081%) JBoss
9 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.081%) Sketch
2 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.081%) UXPin
2 1 (0.081%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.081%) Endur
2 1 (0.081%) Findur
2 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.081%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 742 (60.47%) AWS
2 393 (32.03%) Azure
3 377 (30.73%) GCP
4 155 (12.63%) dbt
5 124 (10.11%) Snowflake
6 80 (6.52%) Serverless
7 65 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (2.61%) SaaS
9 22 (1.79%) Power Platform
10 21 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.55%) GitHub
13 18 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.73%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (0.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.71%) Internet
2 20 (1.63%) HTTP
3 19 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.41%) Network Security
5 3 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.081%) AMQP
6 1 (0.081%) DHCP
6 1 (0.081%) DNS
6 1 (0.081%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (21.68%) Apache Ignite
2 221 (18.01%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (12.63%) Amazon Athena
4 153 (12.47%) Apache Arrow
4 153 (12.47%) Dremio
5 124 (10.11%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 32 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 31 (2.53%) MongoDB
9 28 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 27 (2.20%) GIS
10 27 (2.20%) QGIS
11 26 (2.12%) MySQL
12 23 (1.87%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (1.47%) Redis
15 11 (0.90%) Flink
15 11 (0.90%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.81%) Apache Hive
16 10 (0.81%) Presto
Development Applications
1 77 (6.28%) Git
2 67 (5.46%) Cypress.io
3 39 (3.18%) GitLab
4 27 (2.20%) JIRA
5 16 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.81%) JUnit
6 10 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.73%) Maven
8 8 (0.65%) Selenium
9 6 (0.49%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.49%) JMeter
9 6 (0.49%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.41%) Gradle
11 3 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.24%) JDeveloper
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.24%) Sourcetree
12 2 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 548 (44.66%) Finance
2 404 (32.93%) Front Office
3 289 (23.55%) Banking
4 158 (12.88%) Investment Banking
5 131 (10.68%) Social Skills
6 61 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.75%) Back Office
8 44 (3.59%) Law
9 30 (2.44%) Health Technology
9 30 (2.44%) Marketing
10 29 (2.36%) Legal
11 28 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
12 23 (1.87%) Public Sector
13 20 (1.63%) Electronics
14 18 (1.47%) Retail
15 16 (1.30%) Games
16 15 (1.22%) Advertising
17 14 (1.14%) Tech for Good
18 13 (1.06%) Financial Institution
19 8 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (34.88%) React
2 290 (23.63%) gRPC
3 278 (22.66%) Protocol Buffers
4 241 (19.64%) Redux
5 237 (19.32%) .NET
6 175 (14.26%) Pandas
7 160 (13.04%) NumPy
8 158 (12.88%) AngularJS
9 153 (12.47%) SciPy
10 130 (10.59%) Material-UI
11 123 (10.02%) Vue
12 114 (9.29%) Node.js
13 107 (8.72%) .NET Core
14 70 (5.70%) Spring
15 69 (5.62%) GraphQL
16 65 (5.30%) RESTful
17 63 (5.13%) ASP.NET
18 61 (4.97%) Spring Boot
19 59 (4.81%) REST
20 58 (4.73%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 391 (31.87%) Fixed Income
2 323 (26.32%) Hedge funds
3 282 (22.98%) Equities
4 235 (19.15%) Derivative
5 234 (19.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 63 (5.13%) Cloud Native
6 63 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.93%) Data Structures
8 35 (2.85%) Client/Server
9 30 (2.44%) Pricing Data
10 27 (2.20%) Algorithms
11 24 (1.96%) Legacy Code
12 23 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.55%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.39%) PKI
15 15 (1.22%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.14%) Product Ownership
17 13 (1.06%) Mobile App
18 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
19 11 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 90 (7.33%) Linux
2 24 (1.96%) Ubuntu
3 22 (1.79%) Android
4 21 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.30%) Debian
6 14 (1.14%) Windows
7 6 (0.49%) Unix
8 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.081%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,219 (99.35%) Software Engineering
2 610 (49.71%) Agile
3 393 (32.03%) Asset Management
4 362 (29.50%) Investment Management
5 290 (23.63%) Full Stack Development
6 183 (14.91%) Fintech
7 160 (13.04%) DevOps
8 155 (12.63%) Machine Learning
9 154 (12.55%) CI/CD
10 147 (11.98%) Microservices
11 133 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
12 128 (10.43%) Computer Science
13 123 (10.02%) TDD
14 112 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
15 103 (8.39%) Test Automation
16 99 (8.07%) Automated Trading
17 89 (7.25%) Mentoring
18 81 (6.60%) Analytics
19 79 (6.44%) Scrum
20 69 (5.62%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 590 (48.08%) Python
2 494 (40.26%) TypeScript
3 424 (34.56%) JavaScript
4 416 (33.90%) Java
5 250 (20.37%) C#
6 217 (17.69%) SQL
7 144 (11.74%) Kotlin
8 83 (6.76%) C++
9 80 (6.52%) C
10 77 (6.28%) Rust
11 76 (6.19%) Go
11 76 (6.19%) Scala
12 35 (2.85%) PHP
13 26 (2.12%) Bash
14 25 (2.04%) Ruby
15 17 (1.39%) Clojure
16 13 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.98%) Haskell
18 11 (0.90%) F#
18 11 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 142 (11.57%) Degree
2 82 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 45 (3.67%) SC Cleared
5 21 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.41%) PhD
10 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.24%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.24%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.16%) HNC
11 2 (0.16%) HND
12 1 (0.081%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.09%) QA
2 53 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.33%) GDPR
3 4 (0.33%) JTAG
4 2 (0.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.16%) EMIR
4 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.16%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.16%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.16%) MiFID
5 1 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (7.42%) Docker
2 21 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.41%) Ceph
4 3 (0.24%) Firmware
4 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.081%) KVM
6 1 (0.081%) LXC
Systems Management
1 173 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 113 (9.21%) Terraform
3 42 (3.42%) Ansible
4 11 (0.90%) Grafana
5 5 (0.41%) Knative
6 4 (0.33%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.24%) Consul
7 3 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.24%) Packer
8 2 (0.16%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.16%) Istio
8 2 (0.16%) Kibana
8 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.16%) Wonderware InTouch
9 1 (0.081%) Argo
9 1 (0.081%) Juju
9 1 (0.081%) Podman
Vendors
1 138 (11.25%) Google
2 85 (6.93%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.20%) ESRI
4 17 (1.39%) Oracle
5 12 (0.98%) Databricks
6 8 (0.65%) Apple
6 8 (0.65%) Xero
7 6 (0.49%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.49%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.41%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.24%) Progress
10 2 (0.16%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.16%) Calypso
10 2 (0.16%) Dell
10 2 (0.16%) GoCardless
10 2 (0.16%) IBM
10 2 (0.16%) Sage
10 2 (0.16%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.16%) SAP
10 2 (0.16%) Siemens