Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,653 6,185 15,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.44% 18.40% 22.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.39% 19.34% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,090 5,144 8,093
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% +10.91%

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 22,294 31,975 66,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,646 23,616 34,555
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in London

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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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 -6 541 £76,250 -4.69% 122
South London +3 100 £67,500 +3.85% 15
North London +21 38 £55,000 -15.38% 7
East London +16 33 £150,000 +81.82% 236
West London -57 24 £72,500 +30.83% 20
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 1,252 (34.27%) Agile
2 1,172 (32.08%) JavaScript
3 1,100 (30.11%) AWS
4 1,095 (29.98%) Finance
5 1,039 (28.44%) Azure
6 987 (27.02%) C#
7 960 (26.28%) Full Stack Development
8 915 (25.05%) SQL
9 903 (24.72%) .NET
10 837 (22.91%) Python
11 818 (22.39%) Java
12 773 (21.16%) React
13 713 (19.52%) Software Engineering
14 699 (19.13%) TypeScript
15 591 (16.18%) AngularJS
16 588 (16.10%) Social Skills
17 532 (14.56%) DevOps
18 531 (14.54%) Front Office
19 524 (14.34%) HTML
20 482 (13.19%) SQL Server
21 479 (13.11%) CSS
22 474 (12.98%) Microsoft
23 452 (12.37%) Microservices
24 447 (12.24%) Degree
25 446 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
26 423 (11.58%) GCP
27 418 (11.44%) TDD
28 414 (11.33%) Fintech
29 406 (11.11%) Fixed Income
30 397 (10.87%) Computer Science

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
1 213 (5.83%) Apache
2 197 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 74 (2.03%) CMS
5 44 (1.20%) WordPress
6 38 (1.04%) Confluence
7 37 (1.01%) Drupal
8 31 (0.85%) IIS
9 25 (0.68%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.55%) nginx
11 19 (0.52%) OpenEdge
12 17 (0.47%) Apache Spark
12 17 (0.47%) Mendix
13 15 (0.41%) Tomcat
14 13 (0.36%) Appian
15 12 (0.33%) Ethereum
15 12 (0.33%) JBoss
16 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
16 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
17 8 (0.22%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 31 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.49%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.082%) Trello
6 2 (0.055%) Blender
6 2 (0.055%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.055%) Houdini
6 2 (0.055%) InDesign
6 2 (0.055%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.055%) Notion
7 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.027%) Revit
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 60 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.68%) SDL Web 8
3 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.25%) Magento
6 9 (0.25%) Shopify
7 7 (0.19%) Visualfiles
8 6 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.11%) CiviCRM
11 3 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.055%) Endur
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle FAH
12 2 (0.055%) R3 Corda
12 2 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,100 (30.11%) AWS
2 1,039 (28.44%) Azure
3 423 (11.58%) GCP
4 306 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 190 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (4.93%) Serverless
7 159 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
8 119 (3.26%) PowerApps
9 115 (3.15%) GitHub
10 100 (2.74%) SaaS
11 94 (2.57%) Power Automate
12 75 (2.05%) dbt
13 66 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
14 58 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 56 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
16 51 (1.40%) Snowflake
17 46 (1.26%) Azure Functions
18 44 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
19 43 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
20 40 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 21 (0.57%) Internet
3 12 (0.33%) VPN
4 11 (0.30%) BGP
4 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (0.30%) MPLS
5 10 (0.27%) HTTP
6 8 (0.22%) Multicast
7 7 (0.19%) Broadband
7 7 (0.19%) Mobile Broadband
7 7 (0.19%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.16%) AMQP
8 6 (0.16%) Network Security
9 5 (0.14%) FTP
10 2 (0.055%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.055%) Intranet
10 2 (0.055%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.055%) SSH
11 1 (0.027%) MQTT
11 1 (0.027%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 482 (13.19%) SQL Server
2 279 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
3 187 (5.12%) Power BI
4 183 (5.01%) Apache Ignite
5 164 (4.49%) Relational Database
6 146 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 143 (3.91%) MySQL
8 124 (3.39%) NoSQL
9 111 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 86 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
11 83 (2.27%) Redis
12 80 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 78 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
14 74 (2.03%) Dremio
15 73 (2.00%) Apache Arrow
16 58 (1.59%) Data Lake
17 56 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
18 49 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.96%) Oracle Database
19 35 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 374 (10.24%) Git
2 126 (3.45%) JIRA
3 89 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 83 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 66 (1.81%) Visual Studio
6 49 (1.34%) GitLab
7 39 (1.07%) NUnit
8 38 (1.04%) JUnit
9 36 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 34 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
11 32 (0.88%) Selenium
12 30 (0.82%) Moq
13 24 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
14 17 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.47%) SpecFlow
15 16 (0.44%) Maven
15 16 (0.44%) Sourcetree
15 16 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 16 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
16 15 (0.41%) CircleCI
General
1 1,095 (29.98%) Finance
2 588 (16.10%) Social Skills
3 531 (14.54%) Front Office
4 378 (10.35%) Banking
5 176 (4.82%) Investment Banking
6 168 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 113 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 110 (3.01%) Marketing
9 100 (2.74%) Public Sector
10 98 (2.68%) Law
11 74 (2.03%) Games
12 58 (1.59%) Back Office
12 58 (1.59%) Legal
13 55 (1.51%) Retail
14 33 (0.90%) Tech for Good
15 29 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 27 (0.74%) Financial Institution
17 26 (0.71%) Advertising
18 23 (0.63%) Turkish Language
19 17 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 903 (24.72%) .NET
2 773 (21.16%) React
3 591 (16.18%) AngularJS
4 524 (14.34%) HTML
5 479 (13.11%) CSS
6 337 (9.23%) ASP.NET
7 308 (8.43%) Node.js
8 292 (7.99%) .NET Core
9 282 (7.72%) Redux
10 278 (7.61%) Vue
11 262 (7.17%) REST
12 226 (6.19%) RESTful
13 225 (6.16%) Spring
14 212 (5.80%) Web Services
15 208 (5.69%) gRPC
16 207 (5.67%) .NET Framework
16 207 (5.67%) Spring Boot
17 194 (5.31%) Protocol Buffers
18 157 (4.30%) HTML5
19 155 (4.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 406 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 374 (10.24%) Hedge funds
3 306 (8.38%) Equities
4 287 (7.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 213 (5.83%) Derivative
6 207 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
7 107 (2.93%) Data Structures
8 94 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
9 92 (2.52%) Client/Server
10 89 (2.44%) Product Ownership
11 88 (2.41%) Algorithms
12 52 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 49 (1.34%) Cloud Native
13 49 (1.34%) IoT
14 46 (1.26%) Blockchain
15 44 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
16 41 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
17 39 (1.07%) Onboarding
18 31 (0.85%) Low-Code
18 31 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.08%) Linux
2 70 (1.92%) Windows
3 57 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.42%) Android
5 45 (1.23%) Unix
6 18 (0.49%) CentOS
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.027%) Solaris
11 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,252 (34.27%) Agile
2 960 (26.28%) Full Stack Development
3 713 (19.52%) Software Engineering
4 532 (14.56%) DevOps
5 452 (12.37%) Microservices
6 446 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
7 418 (11.44%) TDD
8 414 (11.33%) Fintech
9 397 (10.87%) Computer Science
10 396 (10.84%) Asset Management
11 353 (9.66%) Investment Management
12 298 (8.16%) CI/CD
13 281 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 258 (7.06%) Scrum
15 243 (6.65%) MVC
16 233 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
17 226 (6.19%) Analytics
18 225 (6.16%) Front End Development
19 219 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence
20 193 (5.28%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1,172 (32.08%) JavaScript
2 987 (27.02%) C#
3 915 (25.05%) SQL
4 837 (22.91%) Python
5 818 (22.39%) Java
6 699 (19.13%) TypeScript
7 158 (4.33%) PHP
8 132 (3.61%) C++
9 130 (3.56%) Kotlin
10 118 (3.23%) T-SQL
11 69 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 63 (1.72%) Scala
13 59 (1.62%) Ruby
14 53 (1.45%) Go
15 48 (1.31%) Apex Code
15 48 (1.31%) R
16 45 (1.23%) PowerShell
17 43 (1.18%) C
18 39 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 31 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 447 (12.24%) Degree
2 167 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 144 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 89 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 63 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 35 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
7 19 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 19 (0.52%) PhD
8 17 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (0.38%) DBS Check
10 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.25%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.22%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.082%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.082%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.082%) MCSD
14 2 (0.055%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.055%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (3.64%) QA
2 24 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.33%) GDPR
5 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.19%) MiFID
6 7 (0.19%) WCAG
7 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.082%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.082%) PMO
8 3 (0.082%) SLA
9 2 (0.055%) EMIR
9 2 (0.055%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.055%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.055%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.055%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.055%) WAI
10 1 (0.027%) COREP
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 361 (9.88%) Docker
2 13 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.27%) HDFS
4 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.027%) Ceph
7 1 (0.027%) GridGain
7 1 (0.027%) OpenSIPS
7 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.027%) Varnish
7 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.027%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 281 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 106 (2.90%) Terraform
3 44 (1.20%) Ansible
4 21 (0.57%) Grafana
5 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.22%) Kibana
8 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.082%) Control-M
10 2 (0.055%) Packer
11 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.027%) Consul
11 1 (0.027%) cPanel
11 1 (0.027%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.027%) Knative
11 1 (0.027%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.027%) MIIS
11 1 (0.027%) Nagios
11 1 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 474 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 152 (4.16%) Google
3 137 (3.75%) Oracle
4 77 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 63 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 42 (1.15%) Bloomberg
7 33 (0.90%) Adobe
8 30 (0.82%) IBM
9 25 (0.68%) WSO2
10 20 (0.55%) Databricks
10 20 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 18 (0.49%) Unisys
12 16 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.41%) Sybase
14 14 (0.38%) Cognizant
14 14 (0.38%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.38%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.38%) SAP
15 13 (0.36%) Aderant
15 13 (0.36%) Blue Prism