Software Engineering Jobs in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 347 458 760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 9.14% 9.25% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.97% 9.77% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 248 341 487
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £101,250 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,500 £127,500
London median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,479 4,689 8,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 91.60% 94.67% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,598 3,843 6,380
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
City of London +2 312 £80,000 -11.11% 61
City of Westminster -13 15 £82,500 -23.26% 1
West End of London +1 7 £55,000 -48.84%
Camden -7 5 £80,000 -
Southwark +20 1 £85,000 -37.61%
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 26 (7.49%) ArcGIS
1 26 (7.49%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.73%) Apache
2 6 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.15%) Confluence
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 174 (50.14%) AWS
2 116 (33.43%) Azure
3 32 (9.22%) Serverless
4 26 (7.49%) SaaS
5 24 (6.92%) GCP
6 22 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.90%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (3.17%) GitHub
11 9 (2.59%) WhatsApp
12 8 (2.31%) PaaS
13 6 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.44%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.44%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.44%) IaaS
15 4 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.90%) HTTP
2 13 (3.75%) Internet
3 4 (1.15%) Network Security
3 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.86%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (26.80%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.49%) GIS
2 26 (7.49%) QGIS
3 16 (4.61%) MySQL
4 15 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (3.17%) Redis
5 11 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.88%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.02%) Power BI
8 5 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.44%) Flink
9 4 (1.15%) Big Data
9 4 (1.15%) Metadata
9 4 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.15%) Tableau
10 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.86%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.58%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 49 (14.12%) Git
2 28 (8.07%) GitLab
3 10 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.02%) JIRA
5 5 (1.44%) Maven
5 5 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (1.44%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.58%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Mockito
8 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 80 (23.05%) Finance
2 77 (22.19%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
5 15 (4.32%) Banking
6 13 (3.75%) Health Technology
7 12 (3.46%) Games
8 11 (3.17%) Tech for Good
9 9 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.02%) Advertising
10 7 (2.02%) Retail
11 6 (1.73%) Front Office
12 5 (1.44%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.44%) Marketing
12 5 (1.44%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.86%) Back Office
15 2 (0.58%) Legal
16 1 (0.29%) Electronics
16 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 182 (52.45%) Software Engineer
2 96 (27.67%) Senior
3 58 (16.71%) Senior Software Engineer
4 45 (12.97%) Developer
5 34 (9.80%) Java Engineer
6 31 (8.93%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (5.76%) Python Engineer
8 17 (4.90%) Junior
8 17 (4.90%) Python Software Engineer
9 16 (4.61%) Lead
10 15 (4.32%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.75%) Analyst
11 13 (3.75%) C# Developer
12 12 (3.46%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) AWS Software Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) Engineering Manager
15 9 (2.59%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (23.63%) .NET
2 63 (18.16%) React
3 36 (10.37%) CSS
4 32 (9.22%) Node.js
5 29 (8.36%) .NET Core
6 28 (8.07%) REST
7 26 (7.49%) Leaflet
7 26 (7.49%) OpenLayers
7 26 (7.49%) PostGIS
8 20 (5.76%) RESTful
9 19 (5.48%) Kafka
10 18 (5.19%) GraphQL
11 16 (4.61%) Django
12 14 (4.03%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.03%) Spring
13 13 (3.75%) .NET Framework
13 13 (3.75%) HTML
13 13 (3.75%) Laravel
14 12 (3.46%) ASP.NET
14 12 (3.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.80%) Algorithms
2 18 (5.19%) Life Science
3 13 (3.75%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.02%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.44%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.15%) FMCG
9 4 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.86%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.86%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.86%) Robotics
10 3 (0.86%) Tandem
11 2 (0.58%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.34%) Linux
2 10 (2.88%) Windows
3 8 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.86%) Debian
5 3 (0.86%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (35.16%) Agile
2 86 (24.78%) Computer Science
3 77 (22.19%) DevOps
4 63 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (17.58%) Fintech
6 59 (17.00%) CI/CD
7 52 (14.99%) Full Stack Development
8 41 (11.82%) Microservices
9 34 (9.80%) Web Development
10 29 (8.36%) Data Science
11 28 (8.07%) Actionable Insight
11 28 (8.07%) Statistics
12 25 (7.20%) Data Modelling
12 25 (7.20%) Scrum
13 24 (6.92%) Analytics
13 24 (6.92%) Design Patterns
14 22 (6.34%) Data Visualisation
14 22 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (6.34%) SDLC
14 22 (6.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 117 (33.72%) Python
2 109 (31.41%) Java
3 95 (27.38%) C#
4 59 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 57 (16.43%) SQL
6 55 (15.85%) Kotlin
7 42 (12.10%) Scala
8 28 (8.07%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.90%) C++
10 15 (4.32%) PHP
10 15 (4.32%) PowerShell
11 12 (3.46%) Go
12 8 (2.31%) Rust
13 7 (2.02%) F#
14 6 (1.73%) Clojure
14 6 (1.73%) Haskell
14 6 (1.73%) Ruby
15 4 (1.15%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.15%) SOQL
15 4 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (26.80%) Degree
2 47 (13.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (12.39%) Master's Degree
4 29 (8.36%) Security Cleared
5 26 (7.49%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.76%) PhD
7 12 (3.46%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.15%) QA
3 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (7.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) KVM
2 1 (0.29%) LXC
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (27.09%) Terraform
2 52 (14.99%) Kubernetes
3 51 (14.70%) Ansible
4 2 (0.58%) Consul
4 2 (0.58%) Packer
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Juju
5 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.49%) ESRI
3 9 (2.59%) Google
4 8 (2.31%) Oracle
5 4 (1.15%) Apple
5 4 (1.15%) Apttus
5 4 (1.15%) DocuSign
5 4 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.58%) Sybase
7 1 (0.29%) BEA
7 1 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.29%) Monzo
7 1 (0.29%) Splunk
7 1 (0.29%) Spotify