Software Engineering Jobs in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,345 4,141 12,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.93% 12.07% 19.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.89% 12.66% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,930 2,866 4,325
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,500 £87,500 £86,550
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +1.10% +11.68%
75th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £146,250 £138,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,533 32,716 65,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.15% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15,983 23,548 34,024
10th Percentile £37,719 £43,411 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,858 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,555 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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 +3 338 £80,000 -5.88% 61
South London -24 24 £70,000 +40.00% 13
West London -49 15 £62,500 +8.70% 33
East London +21 12 £145,000 +276.62% 37
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 368 (15.69%) Apache
2 363 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.15%) ArcGIS
4 27 (1.15%) Confluence
4 27 (1.15%) GeoServer
5 16 (0.68%) nginx
6 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.38%) CMS
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.21%) Solana
11 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.17%) Drupal
12 3 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.13%) Captiva
12 3 (0.13%) FileNet
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.085%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.043%) Blender
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.043%) Notion
4 1 (0.043%) Sketch
4 1 (0.043%) UXPin
4 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.13%) Endur
2 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.085%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.085%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.043%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,267 (54.03%) AWS
2 718 (30.62%) Azure
3 572 (24.39%) GCP
4 227 (9.68%) dbt
5 187 (7.97%) Serverless
5 187 (7.97%) Snowflake
6 144 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
7 104 (4.43%) SaaS
8 86 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (2.90%) Amazon S3
9 68 (2.90%) GitHub
9 68 (2.90%) Power Platform
10 64 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
11 55 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 51 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
14 44 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (1.54%) OpenShift
16 33 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
17 30 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.11%) HTTP
3 21 (0.90%) Internet
4 11 (0.47%) Firewall
5 8 (0.34%) DNS
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) Network Security
6 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.26%) Multicast
8 4 (0.17%) VoIP
9 2 (0.085%) Broadband
10 1 (0.043%) DHCP
10 1 (0.043%) IPFS
10 1 (0.043%) VPN
10 1 (0.043%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (13.56%) Apache Ignite
2 291 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
3 227 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
4 225 (9.59%) Dremio
5 224 (9.55%) Apache Arrow
6 198 (8.44%) Data Lake
7 118 (5.03%) SQL Server
8 78 (3.33%) MySQL
9 73 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
10 65 (2.77%) NoSQL
11 64 (2.73%) Redis
12 58 (2.47%) Relational Database
13 51 (2.17%) MongoDB
14 45 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (1.54%) DynamoDB
16 29 (1.24%) Big Data
17 28 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
18 27 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
18 27 (1.15%) GIS
18 27 (1.15%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 188 (8.02%) Git
2 94 (4.01%) GitLab
3 92 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 78 (3.33%) Cypress.io
5 63 (2.69%) JIRA
6 38 (1.62%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.72%) JUnit
8 17 (0.72%) Selenium
8 17 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.68%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.51%) Postman
11 10 (0.43%) JMeter
11 10 (0.43%) webpack
12 9 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.38%) Maven
12 9 (0.38%) Mocha
13 8 (0.34%) Mockito
13 8 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 900 (38.38%) Finance
2 590 (25.16%) Front Office
3 406 (17.31%) Banking
4 390 (16.63%) Social Skills
5 237 (10.11%) Investment Banking
6 116 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 98 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
8 86 (3.67%) Law
9 75 (3.20%) Back Office
10 64 (2.73%) Marketing
11 52 (2.22%) Public Sector
11 52 (2.22%) Retail
12 50 (2.13%) Games
13 48 (2.05%) Legal
14 45 (1.92%) Health Technology
15 34 (1.45%) Tech for Good
16 29 (1.24%) Electronics
17 24 (1.02%) Financial Institution
18 21 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,161 (49.51%) Software Engineer
2 717 (30.58%) Developer
3 628 (26.78%) Senior
4 396 (16.89%) Senior Software Engineer
5 308 (13.13%) Lead
6 296 (12.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 273 (11.64%) Python Engineer
8 235 (10.02%) Python Software Engineer
9 234 (9.98%) Python Developer
10 172 (7.33%) Java Engineer
11 156 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
12 155 (6.61%) Java Software Engineer
13 152 (6.48%) .NET Developer
14 145 (6.18%) Senior Developer
15 141 (6.01%) React Developer
16 138 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
17 119 (5.07%) .NET Software Engineer
18 113 (4.82%) AWS Software Engineer
19 110 (4.69%) Full Stack Engineer
20 101 (4.31%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 624 (26.61%) React
2 445 (18.98%) .NET
3 358 (15.27%) gRPC
4 339 (14.46%) Protocol Buffers
5 255 (10.87%) Redux
6 251 (10.70%) Pandas
7 232 (9.89%) NumPy
8 218 (9.30%) SciPy
9 201 (8.57%) Node.js
10 194 (8.27%) AngularJS
11 177 (7.55%) .NET Core
12 150 (6.40%) Kafka
13 132 (5.63%) CSS
14 131 (5.59%) Vue
15 124 (5.29%) Material-UI
16 113 (4.82%) RESTful
17 103 (4.39%) REST
18 102 (4.35%) HTML
19 97 (4.14%) GraphQL
20 95 (4.05%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 511 (21.79%) Fixed Income
2 462 (19.70%) Hedge funds
3 406 (17.31%) Equities
4 364 (15.52%) Derivative
5 337 (14.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 122 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
7 121 (5.16%) Cloud Native
8 114 (4.86%) Client/Server
9 104 (4.43%) Algorithms
10 101 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
11 93 (3.97%) Data Structures
12 49 (2.09%) Product Ownership
13 39 (1.66%) Legacy Code
14 35 (1.49%) Tandem
15 32 (1.36%) Blockchain
16 31 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.32%) Virtual Team
17 29 (1.24%) Blog
18 28 (1.19%) Private Cloud
18 28 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 207 (8.83%) Linux
2 47 (2.00%) Windows
3 45 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 41 (1.75%) Android
5 25 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.68%) Debian
7 13 (0.55%) Unix
7 13 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.38%) VMS
9 7 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,112 (47.42%) Agile
2 564 (24.05%) Asset Management
3 470 (20.04%) Investment Management
4 417 (17.78%) Full Stack Development
5 407 (17.36%) DevOps
6 373 (15.91%) Computer Science
7 343 (14.63%) CI/CD
8 312 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
9 281 (11.98%) Microservices
10 279 (11.90%) Fintech
11 243 (10.36%) Machine Learning
12 235 (10.02%) TDD
13 231 (9.85%) Artificial Intelligence
14 211 (9.00%) Mentoring
15 177 (7.55%) Analytics
16 173 (7.38%) Test Automation
17 152 (6.48%) Scrum
18 143 (6.10%) Data Science
19 132 (5.63%) SDLC
20 130 (5.54%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (45.37%) Python
2 723 (30.83%) Java
3 715 (30.49%) TypeScript
4 685 (29.21%) JavaScript
5 523 (22.30%) C#
6 390 (16.63%) SQL
7 179 (7.63%) Kotlin
8 148 (6.31%) Go
9 134 (5.71%) C++
10 122 (5.20%) C
11 106 (4.52%) Scala
12 95 (4.05%) Rust
13 71 (3.03%) PHP
14 56 (2.39%) R
15 47 (2.00%) Ruby
16 35 (1.49%) Bash
16 35 (1.49%) PowerShell
17 22 (0.94%) T-SQL
18 21 (0.90%) Bicep
19 20 (0.85%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 380 (16.20%) Degree
2 179 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 108 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 102 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 83 (3.54%) SC Cleared
6 31 (1.32%) DBS Check
6 31 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.28%) PhD
8 22 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.17%) CISSP
12 4 (0.17%) HNC
12 4 (0.17%) HND
12 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.13%) CISM
13 3 (0.13%) GIAC
13 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.01%) QA
2 90 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 23 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
5 9 (0.38%) WCAG
6 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.26%) GDPR
7 4 (0.17%) JTAG
7 4 (0.17%) NCSC
8 2 (0.085%) EMIR
8 2 (0.085%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.085%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.085%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.085%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.085%) MiFID
9 1 (0.043%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.043%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.043%) NIST
9 1 (0.043%) SEPA
System Software
1 281 (11.98%) Docker
2 22 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.38%) KVM
6 8 (0.34%) HDFS
7 4 (0.17%) Ceph
8 3 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.043%) LXC
10 1 (0.043%) OpenSIPS
10 1 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 369 (15.74%) Kubernetes
2 239 (10.19%) Terraform
3 80 (3.41%) Ansible
4 32 (1.36%) Grafana
5 18 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.34%) Kibana
7 7 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.17%) Knative
10 3 (0.13%) Argo
10 3 (0.13%) Consul
10 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.13%) logstash
10 3 (0.13%) Packer
11 2 (0.085%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.085%) Istio
11 2 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.085%) Wonderware InTouch
12 1 (0.043%) Podman
Vendors
1 182 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.46%) Google
3 43 (1.83%) Bloomberg
4 31 (1.32%) Oracle
5 27 (1.15%) Databricks
5 27 (1.15%) ESRI
6 18 (0.77%) Adobe
7 12 (0.51%) Cloudera
7 12 (0.51%) OpenAI
8 11 (0.47%) Apple
9 10 (0.43%) VMware
10 9 (0.38%) GoCardless
10 9 (0.38%) PayPal
10 9 (0.38%) Sage
11 8 (0.34%) Cisco
11 8 (0.34%) Informatica
11 8 (0.34%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.34%) Xero
12 7 (0.30%) NVIDIA
12 7 (0.30%) Splunk