The top paying tech jobs in London: Jane Street, Citadel, Meta and More
There are good paying technology jobs in London and there are great paying ones. Above all that, there are Citadel, Jane Street and Meta. A compensation heatmap provided by benchmarking platform Levels.fyi says that these three companies are the top paying employers for software engineering jobs in London, but how much more do they pay than the rest?
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We've broken down average total compensation for those three companies based on available Levels.fyi data and compared it Levels' UK benchmarks as well as several notable employers across both banking and fintech. Those other firms pay more than the average, but much less than the 90th percentile for London engineers, and (with the exception of Stripe), £100k less on average than the three highest paying companies.
London software engineers working for electronic trading firm Jane Street appear to be the most well-off. They reported average total compensation (TC) of £252k on average, whereas Meta and Citadel each reported closer to £225k. It had the smallest sample size of the three firms, however. These engineers may also feel underpaid compared to Jane Street's traders; the firm reported average compensation of ~£1.4m in 2025 according to accounts filed with Companies House.
The way that compensation is distributed also varies across each firm. The tech/fintech firms all pay hefty amounts of stock as part of their TC; at Meta, stock comprises just under half of the total package. London-based fintech bank Revolut pays the least amount of stock among them, and the smallest amount in bonuses whereas Stripe pays the highest proportion of cash bonuses among them.
It's a different story in banks and trading firms. There, stock pay is largely non-existent, and bonuses are larger. At Citadel and Jane Street, bonuses are just over a third of total compensation, whereas banking tech bonuses comprise ~15% of total pay.
There are other firms out there which might pay you more. OpenAI is a relatively new entrant to the UK, and paid its total headcount an average of £2.3m last year according to Companies House; the AI lab has just four datapoints on Levels.fyi for London software engineers, with total compensation averaging £432.6k
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