SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / SALARY
LONDON

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AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR		MOST TYPICAL SALARY / YEAR		Gross income Net (after tax) 0.79 GBP = 1 USD
£59,279 GBP $75,475 USD		£44,769 GBP $57,000 USD		Gross income Net (after tax) 0.79 GBP = 1 USD

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Average Salary / Software Developer / London

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Average salary for Software Developer / London is £59,279 GBP per year. The most typical earning is £44,769 GBP. All data are based on 47 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of £58,121 GBP. Women receive a salary of £58,042 GBP.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Masters Degree with salary of £67,467 GBP. The second most paid education level is Doctorate Degree with salary of £65,504 GBP.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 16-20 Years of experience receive salary of £79,877 GBP. Employees with 12-16 Years of experience receive £77,599 GBP.

Levels / Software Developer / London (Gross GBP)

Salary Levels (GBP) per Year	Surveys	[%]
£7,900 GBP - £11,799 GBP	0	n/a
£11,800 GBP - £15,699 GBP	0	n/a
£15,700 GBP - £19,599 GBP	2	100% 4.26%
£19,600 GBP - £23,599 GBP	0	n/a
£23,600 GBP - £27,499 GBP	2	95.74% 4.26%
£27,500 GBP - £31,399 GBP	2	91.49% 4.26%
£31,400 GBP - £35,299 GBP	1	87.23% 2.13%
£35,300 GBP - £39,299 GBP	3	85.11% 6.38%
£39,300 GBP - £43,199 GBP	0	n/a
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
£43,200 GBP - £47,099 GBP	6	78.72% 12.77%
£47,100 GBP - £51,099 GBP	6	65.96% 12.77%
£51,100 GBP - £54,999 GBP	2	53.19% 4.26%
£55,000 GBP - £58,899 GBP	4	48.94% 8.51%
£58,900 GBP - £62,799 GBP	4	40.43% 8.51%
£62,800 GBP - £66,799 GBP	2	31.91% 4.26%
£66,800 GBP - £70,699 GBP	2	27.66% 4.26%
£70,700 GBP - £74,599 GBP	0	n/a
£74,600 GBP - £78,499 GBP	2	23.4% 4.26%
£78,500 GBP - £82,499 GBP	0	n/a
£82,500 GBP - £86,399 GBP	2	19.15% 4.26%
£86,400 GBP - £90,299 GBP	0	n/a
£90,300 GBP - £94,199 GBP	1	14.89% 2.13%
£94,300 GBP - £98,199 GBP	1	12.77% 2.13%
£98,200 GBP - £102,099 GBP	1	10.64% 2.13%
£102,100 GBP - £105,999 GBP	1	8.51% 2.13%
£106,000 GBP - £109,999 GBP	0	n/a
£110,000 GBP - £113,899 GBP	1	6.38% 2.13%
£113,900 GBP - £117,799 GBP	0	n/a
HIGH SALARIES
£117,800 GBP - £125,699 GBP	0	n/a
£125,700 GBP - £133,499 GBP	1	4.26% 2.13%
£133,500 GBP - £141,399 GBP	1	2.13% 2.13%
£141,400 GBP - £149,199 GBP	0	n/a
£149,200 GBP - £157,099 GBP	0	n/a
£157,100 GBP - £164,899 GBP	0	n/a
£164,900 GBP - £172,799 GBP	0	n/a
£172,800 GBP - £180,599 GBP	0	n/a
£180,600 GBP - £188,499 GBP	0	n/a
£188,500 GBP - £196,399 GBP	0	n/a
£196,400 GBP - £274,899 GBP	0	n/a

Gender / Software Developer / London (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	42	£58,121 GBP
2	Women	2	£58,042 GBP

Education / Software Developer / London (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	Masters Degree	13	£67,467 GBP
2	Doctorate Degree	5	£65,504 GBP
3	Some College	3	£63,305 GBP
4	Bachelors Degree	23	£54,743 GBP
5	High School	3	£44,062 GBP

Experience / Software Developer / London (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	16-20 Years	3	£79,877 GBP
2	12-16 Years	4	£77,599 GBP
3	8-12 Years	13	£64,090 GBP
4	20+ Years	1	£64,090 GBP
5	4-8 Years	12	£63,226 GBP
6	2-4 Years	6	£45,397 GBP
7	0-1 Year	7	£39,271 GBP
8	1-2 Years	1	£32,909 GBP

Age / Software Developer / London (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	46-50	1	£91,658 GBP
2	36-40	5	£76,421 GBP
3	n/a	4	£72,808 GBP
4	66-70	1	£64,090 GBP
5	31-35	12	£59,299 GBP
6	41-45	4	£59,299 GBP
7	26-30	11	£55,686 GBP
8	21-25	9	£43,983 GBP

Work Type / Software Developer / London (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	Contract	10	£64,483 GBP
2	Permanent	33	£60,399 GBP
3	Part Time	4	£37,071 GBP

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Software Engineer

Posted 02 September 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Javascript. React, Nodejs, AWS, Typescript. Agile, Mentoring."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Intermediate	£44,400 GBP

Placement Software Engineer

Posted 26 May 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Innovation and Development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Some College	0-1 Year	Basic	£24,500 GBP

Devops

Posted 06 April 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Dev op stuff."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Masters Degree	0-1 Year	Basic	£37,400 GBP

Bioinformatician

Posted 10 March 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Programming."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	£50,200 GBP

Analyst Developer

Posted 14 February 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Coding, Front Office it support."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Doctorate Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	£91,700 GBP

Software Engineer

Posted 15 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Coding."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Masters Degree	0-1 Year	Intermediate	£56,900 GBP

Senior Developer

Posted 08 July 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Java, c++, python, backen."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	16-20 Years	Advanced	£104,000 GBP

Computer Engineer

Posted 19 June 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"GPU engineering."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Doctorate Degree	16-20 Years	n/a	£84,300 GBP

Senior Software Engineer

Posted 02 February 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Java and python enterprise software experience. 
Experience managing agile teams. 
Cloud platform experience AWS and AKS. 
Database relational, key value and graph. 
Data pipeline experience with queues (Kafka, SQS) and REST api."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£84,300 GBP

Software Engineer

Posted 02 October 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software Development and Maintenance."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£127,000 GBP

Ios Engineer

Posted 08 September 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Developing iOS applications."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£61,000 GBP

Software Engineer

Posted 10 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Working as part of a cross-functional agile team providing B2C and B2B solution for international money transfer. 

The solution is based on Java 8 microservices, exposing a number of REST APIs. 

Technologies used: Java 8, Spring Boot, JMS, Hibernate, JUnit, Lombok, Cucumber, Docker, Maven, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Flyway, Jenkins 2, AWS, Kibana, Logz. io See less."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£55,900 GBP

Services Engineer

Posted 10 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software developer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	£61,000 GBP

Devops

Posted 24 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Infrastructure as a code, cloud native applications."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	£30,500 GBP

Frontend Developer

Posted 01 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Work on building user interfaces and build backend services as well."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£59,200 GBP

Qa Automation Engineer

Posted 08 October 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"QA Automation Engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£46,000 GBP

Software Developer

Posted 06 April 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"We make stuff."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	£32,900 GBP

Web Developer

Posted 10 January 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Web developer building websites and Web services."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£38,400 GBP

Devops Engineer

Posted 10 November 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"I have worked in IT for 5 years."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£69,500 GBP

Posted 06 October 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Fixing computers, and sometimes i eat a donut when i feel like it."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	High School	0-1 Year	n/a	£63,700 GBP

Software Developer

Posted 18 September 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software developer, developing software for the company."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	£19,600 GBP

Programmer

Posted 11 September 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Coding coding coding coding coding coding."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	High School	8-12 Years	n/a	£19,600 GBP

Big Data Engineer

Posted 31 July 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Scripting etl processes for big data."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
London	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£24,500 GBP

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / SALARY LONDON

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£59,279 GBP

£44,769 GBP

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