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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,392 4,066 13,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.11% 12.06% 19.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.12% 12.65% 20.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,943 2,852 4,344
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,911 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £119,375 £113,750 £111,250
90th Percentile £146,250 £138,750 £133,375
England median annual salary £62,500 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.97% +5.00% +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 21,516 32,155 68,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.97% 95.34% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,872 23,232 34,355
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,171 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 20 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 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 +4 336 £80,000 -5.88% 57
South London -14 24 £70,000 +21.74% 18
West London -45 17 £58,750 +2.17% 28
East London +23 12 £145,000 +276.62% 322
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
1 417 (17.43%) Apache
2 412 (17.22%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.13%) ArcGIS
4 27 (1.13%) GeoServer
5 26 (1.09%) Confluence
6 16 (0.67%) nginx
7 11 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.38%) CMS
9 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.21%) Solana
12 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.13%) WordPress
14 2 (0.084%) Captiva
14 2 (0.084%) WinCC
Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.084%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.042%) Blender
4 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.042%) Notion
4 1 (0.042%) Sketch
4 1 (0.042%) UXPin
4 1 (0.042%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.13%) Endur
2 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.084%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.084%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.042%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,324 (55.35%) AWS
2 727 (30.39%) Azure
3 602 (25.17%) GCP
4 263 (10.99%) dbt
5 221 (9.24%) Snowflake
6 193 (8.07%) Serverless
7 150 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
8 103 (4.31%) SaaS
9 85 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (2.93%) GitHub
11 66 (2.76%) Power Platform
12 64 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 62 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
14 55 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
15 52 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
17 44 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (1.42%) OpenShift
19 32 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
20 31 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.09%) HTTP
3 21 (0.88%) Internet
4 11 (0.46%) Firewall
5 8 (0.33%) DNS
6 7 (0.29%) AMQP
6 7 (0.29%) Network Security
6 7 (0.29%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.25%) Multicast
8 4 (0.17%) VoIP
9 2 (0.084%) Broadband
10 1 (0.042%) DHCP
10 1 (0.042%) IPFS
10 1 (0.042%) VPN
10 1 (0.042%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (15.22%) Apache Ignite
2 301 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
3 263 (10.99%) Amazon Athena
4 261 (10.91%) Dremio
5 260 (10.87%) Apache Arrow
6 232 (9.70%) Data Lake
7 115 (4.81%) SQL Server
8 82 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
9 79 (3.30%) MySQL
10 70 (2.93%) NoSQL
11 63 (2.63%) Redis
12 57 (2.38%) Relational Database
13 52 (2.17%) MongoDB
14 46 (1.92%) DynamoDB
15 39 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (1.17%) Big Data
17 27 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (1.13%) GIS
17 27 (1.13%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 201 (8.40%) Git
2 106 (4.43%) GitLab
3 89 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 86 (3.60%) Cypress.io
5 59 (2.47%) JIRA
6 35 (1.46%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.79%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.71%) JUnit
8 17 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 16 (0.67%) Selenium
10 12 (0.50%) Postman
11 10 (0.42%) JMeter
12 9 (0.38%) Maven
12 9 (0.38%) Mocha
12 9 (0.38%) webpack
13 8 (0.33%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.33%) CMake
13 8 (0.33%) Mockito
General
1 929 (38.84%) Finance
2 624 (26.09%) Front Office
3 444 (18.56%) Banking
4 400 (16.72%) Social Skills
5 269 (11.25%) Investment Banking
6 120 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 89 (3.72%) Law
9 75 (3.14%) Back Office
10 65 (2.72%) Marketing
11 55 (2.30%) Retail
12 53 (2.22%) Public Sector
13 49 (2.05%) Games
13 49 (2.05%) Legal
14 45 (1.88%) Health Technology
15 34 (1.42%) Tech for Good
16 33 (1.38%) Electronics
17 26 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,219 (50.96%) Software Engineer
2 716 (29.93%) Developer
3 643 (26.88%) Senior
4 417 (17.43%) Senior Software Engineer
5 328 (13.71%) Lead
6 313 (13.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 297 (12.42%) Python Engineer
8 261 (10.91%) Python Software Engineer
9 245 (10.24%) Python Developer
10 187 (7.82%) Java Engineer
11 172 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
12 170 (7.11%) Java Software Engineer
13 150 (6.27%) .NET Developer
13 150 (6.27%) Lead Software Engineer
14 148 (6.19%) React Developer
15 143 (5.98%) Senior Developer
16 130 (5.43%) AWS Software Engineer
17 119 (4.97%) .NET Software Engineer
18 111 (4.64%) Full Stack Engineer
19 107 (4.47%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (26.13%) React
2 441 (18.44%) .NET
3 404 (16.89%) gRPC
4 385 (16.10%) Protocol Buffers
5 287 (12.00%) Pandas
6 267 (11.16%) NumPy
7 264 (11.04%) Redux
8 254 (10.62%) SciPy
9 198 (8.28%) AngularJS
9 198 (8.28%) Node.js
10 174 (7.27%) .NET Core
11 158 (6.61%) Kafka
12 133 (5.56%) Vue
13 130 (5.43%) CSS
13 130 (5.43%) Material-UI
14 125 (5.23%) RESTful
15 109 (4.56%) GraphQL
16 106 (4.43%) REST
17 101 (4.22%) HTML
18 99 (4.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 550 (22.99%) Fixed Income
2 499 (20.86%) Hedge funds
3 446 (18.65%) Equities
4 393 (16.43%) Derivative
5 369 (15.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 120 (5.02%) Cloud Native
7 119 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
8 114 (4.77%) Client/Server
9 106 (4.43%) Algorithms
10 92 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
11 90 (3.76%) Data Structures
12 48 (2.01%) Product Ownership
13 37 (1.55%) Legacy Code
13 37 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (1.38%) Tandem
14 33 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 31 (1.30%) Management Information System
16 30 (1.25%) Blockchain
16 30 (1.25%) Blog
16 30 (1.25%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 203 (8.49%) Linux
2 48 (2.01%) Windows
3 45 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 41 (1.71%) Android
5 25 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 16 (0.67%) Debian
7 13 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.50%) Unix
9 9 (0.38%) VMS
10 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.29%) CentOS
12 4 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (48.83%) Agile
2 602 (25.17%) Asset Management
3 494 (20.65%) Investment Management
4 429 (17.93%) Full Stack Development
5 409 (17.10%) DevOps
6 378 (15.80%) Computer Science
7 366 (15.30%) CI/CD
8 322 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 292 (12.21%) Microservices
10 279 (11.66%) Fintech
11 254 (10.62%) Machine Learning
12 245 (10.24%) TDD
13 241 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
14 206 (8.61%) Mentoring
15 182 (7.61%) Analytics
16 176 (7.36%) Test Automation
17 158 (6.61%) Scrum
18 142 (5.94%) Data Science
19 133 (5.56%) OOP
20 132 (5.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,102 (46.07%) Python
2 771 (32.23%) Java
3 752 (31.44%) TypeScript
4 718 (30.02%) JavaScript
5 516 (21.57%) C#
6 386 (16.14%) SQL
7 192 (8.03%) Kotlin
8 146 (6.10%) Go
9 140 (5.85%) C++
10 124 (5.18%) C
11 118 (4.93%) Scala
12 92 (3.85%) Rust
13 72 (3.01%) PHP
14 52 (2.17%) R
15 47 (1.96%) Ruby
16 35 (1.46%) Bash
17 34 (1.42%) PowerShell
18 20 (0.84%) Bicep
18 20 (0.84%) T-SQL
19 18 (0.75%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 388 (16.22%) Degree
2 179 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 105 (4.39%) Master's Degree
5 82 (3.43%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.71%) DBS Check
7 35 (1.46%) PhD
8 34 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 20 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.17%) CISSP
13 4 (0.17%) HNC
13 4 (0.17%) HND
13 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.13%) CISM
14 3 (0.13%) GIAC
14 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.06%) QA
2 101 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.33%) WCAG
7 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.21%) GDPR
9 4 (0.17%) JTAG
9 4 (0.17%) NCSC
10 2 (0.084%) EMIR
10 2 (0.084%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.084%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.084%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.084%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.084%) MiFID
11 1 (0.042%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.042%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.042%) NIST
11 1 (0.042%) SEPA
System Software
1 280 (11.71%) Docker
2 30 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.38%) KVM
6 8 (0.33%) HDFS
7 6 (0.25%) Ceph
8 3 (0.13%) Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.042%) LXC
10 1 (0.042%) OpenSIPS
10 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 367 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 243 (10.16%) Terraform
3 79 (3.30%) Ansible
4 32 (1.34%) Grafana
5 18 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.33%) Kibana
7 6 (0.25%) Knative
7 6 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.13%) Argo
9 3 (0.13%) Consul
9 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.13%) logstash
9 3 (0.13%) Packer
10 2 (0.084%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.084%) Istio
10 2 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.084%) Wonderware InTouch
11 1 (0.042%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 188 (7.86%) Google
2 187 (7.82%) Microsoft
3 44 (1.84%) Bloomberg
4 32 (1.34%) Oracle
5 30 (1.25%) Databricks
6 27 (1.13%) ESRI
7 16 (0.67%) Adobe
8 12 (0.50%) Cloudera
8 12 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.42%) Apple
9 10 (0.42%) VMware
10 9 (0.38%) GoCardless
10 9 (0.38%) PayPal
10 9 (0.38%) Sage
11 8 (0.33%) Cisco
11 8 (0.33%) Informatica
11 8 (0.33%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.33%) Xero
12 7 (0.29%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.25%) Splunk