Senior Developer Jobs in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 73 65
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 911 1,379 4,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.77% 4.32% 6.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.99% 4.55% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 768 1,117 1,993
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £125,800
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -14 144 £85,000 -5.56% 20
South London +17 33 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West London +4 9 £85,000 - 4
East London +14 4 £72,500 -27.50% 2
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 371 (40.72%) JavaScript
2 297 (32.60%) SQL
3 287 (31.50%) C#
4 280 (30.74%) AWS
5 279 (30.63%) .NET
6 254 (27.88%) Agile
7 243 (26.67%) Finance
8 242 (26.56%) Azure
9 236 (25.91%) React
10 215 (23.60%) Full Stack Development
11 198 (21.73%) Java
12 183 (20.09%) TypeScript
13 180 (19.76%) AngularJS
14 178 (19.54%) HTML
15 175 (19.21%) Python
16 173 (18.99%) CSS
17 158 (17.34%) Social Skills
18 147 (16.14%) Software Engineering
19 132 (14.49%) Degree
20 127 (13.94%) Microservices
21 122 (13.39%) SQL Server
22 119 (13.06%) DevOps
23 115 (12.62%) Computer Science
23 115 (12.62%) Mentoring
24 99 (10.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
25 97 (10.65%) Git
25 97 (10.65%) Vue
26 95 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
26 95 (10.43%) ASP.NET
27 89 (9.77%) Front Office

Senior Developer Skill Set
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 26 (2.85%) CMS
2 18 (1.98%) Apache
3 16 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.10%) WordPress
5 9 (0.99%) Mendix
6 8 (0.88%) Confluence
7 7 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.77%) Drupal
7 7 (0.77%) nginx
8 6 (0.66%) JBoss
8 6 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.55%) K2 blackpearl
10 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.22%) IIS
11 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (1.98%) Photoshop
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.98%) SDL Web 8
2 9 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 280 (30.74%) AWS
2 242 (26.56%) Azure
3 81 (8.89%) GCP
4 54 (5.93%) Power Platform
5 43 (4.72%) Serverless
6 35 (3.84%) SaaS
7 30 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
8 27 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (2.96%) GitHub
9 21 (2.31%) PowerApps
10 18 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 18 (1.98%) NuGet
11 17 (1.87%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.76%) Azure Functions
13 13 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.66%) AMQP
2 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.22%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
3 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 59 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (5.60%) MySQL
4 42 (4.61%) Relational Database
5 32 (3.51%) Oracle Database
5 32 (3.51%) Power BI
6 26 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (2.52%) MongoDB
8 18 (1.98%) Redis
9 17 (1.87%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.55%) Flink
13 5 (0.55%) Power Query
14 4 (0.44%) Apache Arrow
14 4 (0.44%) Apache Ignite
14 4 (0.44%) Dremio
14 4 (0.44%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 97 (10.65%) Git
2 51 (5.60%) JIRA
3 23 (2.52%) Moq
3 23 (2.52%) Oracle APEX
4 22 (2.41%) Visual Studio
5 21 (2.31%) NUnit
6 20 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 20 (2.20%) Sourcetree
6 20 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 18 (1.98%) git-flow
7 18 (1.98%) SpecFlow
8 16 (1.76%) Jenkins
9 14 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.32%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.88%) JUnit
11 8 (0.88%) MSTest
12 7 (0.77%) CMake
12 7 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 7 (0.77%) Storybook
13 6 (0.66%) fastlane
General
1 243 (26.67%) Finance
2 158 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 89 (9.77%) Front Office
4 57 (6.26%) Banking
5 52 (5.71%) Marketing
6 50 (5.49%) Back Office
7 36 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (3.51%) Investment Banking
9 23 (2.52%) Games
10 22 (2.41%) Legal
11 18 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.98%) Tech for Good
12 17 (1.87%) Retail
13 16 (1.76%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.10%) Law
15 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.88%) Advertising
17 7 (0.77%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.55%) Health Technology
19 2 (0.22%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (30.63%) .NET
2 236 (25.91%) React
3 180 (19.76%) AngularJS
4 178 (19.54%) HTML
5 173 (18.99%) CSS
6 97 (10.65%) Vue
7 95 (10.43%) ASP.NET
8 78 (8.56%) Node.js
9 69 (7.57%) Spring
10 68 (7.46%) REST
11 66 (7.24%) RESTful
12 64 (7.03%) jQuery
13 62 (6.81%) Redux
14 56 (6.15%) .NET Core
14 56 (6.15%) Spring Boot
15 55 (6.04%) Kafka
16 51 (5.60%) Web Services
17 48 (5.27%) .NET Framework
17 48 (5.27%) JSON
18 42 (4.61%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 72 (7.90%) Equities
3 68 (7.46%) Derivative
3 68 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
4 62 (6.81%) Fixed Income
5 61 (6.70%) Hedge funds
6 41 (4.50%) IoT
7 30 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.96%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (2.63%) Cloud Native
11 19 (2.09%) Legacy Code
12 17 (1.87%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.43%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.10%) Client/Server
14 10 (1.10%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.77%) NHS
16 6 (0.66%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.66%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.39%) Windows
2 26 (2.85%) Apple iOS
3 25 (2.74%) Linux
4 22 (2.41%) Android
5 7 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (27.88%) Agile
2 215 (23.60%) Full Stack Development
3 147 (16.14%) Software Engineering
4 127 (13.94%) Microservices
5 119 (13.06%) DevOps
6 115 (12.62%) Computer Science
6 115 (12.62%) Mentoring
7 95 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (9.66%) Fintech
9 87 (9.55%) Asset Management
10 81 (8.89%) CI/CD
11 73 (8.01%) Investment Management
12 63 (6.92%) Front End Development
13 59 (6.48%) Multithreading
13 59 (6.48%) Scrum
14 56 (6.15%) MVC
15 54 (5.93%) Unit Testing
16 52 (5.71%) Clean Code
16 52 (5.71%) E-Commerce
17 51 (5.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 371 (40.72%) JavaScript
2 297 (32.60%) SQL
3 287 (31.50%) C#
4 198 (21.73%) Java
5 183 (20.09%) TypeScript
6 175 (19.21%) Python
7 47 (5.16%) PHP
8 43 (4.72%) PL/SQL
9 42 (4.61%) T-SQL
10 32 (3.51%) Ruby
11 27 (2.96%) Kotlin
12 19 (2.09%) XPath
13 17 (1.87%) C++
14 16 (1.76%) Apex Code
15 12 (1.32%) Go
16 10 (1.10%) PowerShell
17 8 (0.88%) Scala
18 7 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.77%) Swift
19 6 (0.66%) Dart
Qualifications
1 132 (14.49%) Degree
2 35 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (2.31%) Master's Degree
4 20 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 18 (1.98%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.33%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.85%) QA
2 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.33%) EMIR
3 3 (0.33%) MiFID
3 3 (0.33%) PMO
4 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.22%) GDPR
4 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.22%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.22%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (9.66%) Docker
2 6 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Ceph
5 1 (0.11%) GridGain
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.43%) Ansible
3 8 (0.88%) Grafana
4 6 (0.66%) Data Guard
4 6 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.55%) Terraform
6 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) cPanel
8 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.11%) Knative
Vendors
1 82 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.49%) Oracle
3 22 (2.41%) Google
4 21 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.09%) Adobe
6 18 (1.98%) Cognizant
7 11 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.10%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.66%) F5
9 6 (0.66%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.66%) WSO2
10 5 (0.55%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.55%) Blue Prism
10 5 (0.55%) Databricks
10 5 (0.55%) Sybase
11 4 (0.44%) Murex
11 4 (0.44%) Vertica
12 3 (0.33%) Apple
12 3 (0.33%) Cadence
12 3 (0.33%) Progress