Senior Developer Jobs in Central London

Senior Developer
London > Central London

The median Senior Developer salary in Central London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 52 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 144 267 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.80% 5.33% 5.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.99% 5.55% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 117 257 382
10th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £121,000 £130,000 £119,875
London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,612 4,809 8,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.97% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 3,990 6,434
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,063 £55,000
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
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 Senior Developer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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 -12 133 £87,500 -2.78% 18
City of Westminster -11 10 £80,000 -3.03%
Camden - 6 £80,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £50,000 -
Senior Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Central London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 64 (44.44%) SQL
2 63 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 55 (38.19%) .NET
4 54 (37.50%) C#
5 49 (34.03%) Social Skills
6 48 (33.33%) Degree
7 46 (31.94%) HTML
7 46 (31.94%) CSS
8 44 (30.56%) Azure
9 42 (29.17%) AWS
10 39 (27.08%) SQL Server
11 36 (25.00%) Computer Science
11 36 (25.00%) Agile
12 30 (20.83%) Full Stack Development
13 28 (19.44%) Multithreading
14 27 (18.75%) React
15 26 (18.06%) DevOps
16 23 (15.97%) HTML5
16 23 (15.97%) Java
17 22 (15.28%) Finance
18 21 (14.58%) Windows
18 21 (14.58%) Git
18 21 (14.58%) Multithreaded Programming
18 21 (14.58%) Greenfield Project
18 21 (14.58%) Collaborative Working
19 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
20 18 (12.50%) E-Commerce
20 18 (12.50%) Marketing
21 17 (11.81%) Fintech
22 16 (11.11%) Mentoring

Senior Developer Skill Set
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 12 (8.33%) CMS
2 6 (4.17%) Drupal
3 5 (3.47%) K2 blackpearl
3 5 (3.47%) Mendix
4 4 (2.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.56%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Endur
3 1 (0.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.56%) Azure
2 42 (29.17%) AWS
3 11 (7.64%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 8 (5.56%) NuGet
5 5 (3.47%) Serverless
6 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.78%) GCP
6 4 (2.78%) Stripe
7 3 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.08%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.08%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.39%) GitHub
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) HTTP
1 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.08%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.11%) MySQL
3 10 (6.94%) Power BI
4 9 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.47%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.47%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (3.47%) Power Query
6 5 (3.47%) Redis
7 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.69%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (14.58%) Git
2 11 (7.64%) JIRA
3 10 (6.94%) NUnit
4 9 (6.25%) Moq
5 8 (5.56%) git-flow
5 8 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (5.56%) Sourcetree
5 8 (5.56%) SpecFlow
5 8 (5.56%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.56%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.08%) MSTest
6 3 (2.08%) Storybook
7 2 (1.39%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 49 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Finance
3 18 (12.50%) Marketing
4 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.33%) Banking
6 6 (4.17%) Games
6 6 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.17%) Retail Banking
7 5 (3.47%) Front Office
7 5 (3.47%) Retail
8 2 (1.39%) Back Office
8 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.69%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (38.19%) .NET
2 46 (31.94%) CSS
2 46 (31.94%) HTML
3 27 (18.75%) React
4 23 (15.97%) HTML5
5 16 (11.11%) WPF
6 15 (10.42%) Node.js
7 14 (9.72%) .NET Framework
7 14 (9.72%) AngularJS
7 14 (9.72%) jQuery
7 14 (9.72%) Web Services
8 13 (9.03%) Kafka
9 12 (8.33%) RESTful
10 11 (7.64%) Entity Framework
10 11 (7.64%) XML
11 10 (6.94%) ASP.NET
11 10 (6.94%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (5.56%) Autofac
12 8 (5.56%) Ninject
12 8 (5.56%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.58%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 5 (3.47%) BBC
3 5 (3.47%) Equities
3 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.47%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.39%) Wiki
6 1 (0.69%) 3D Printing
6 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.58%) Windows
2 6 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.00%) Agile
1 36 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 30 (20.83%) Full Stack Development
3 28 (19.44%) Multithreading
4 26 (18.06%) DevOps
5 21 (14.58%) Collaborative Working
5 21 (14.58%) Multithreaded Programming
6 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (12.50%) E-Commerce
8 17 (11.81%) Fintech
9 16 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 16 (11.11%) Microservices
9 16 (11.11%) Scrum
9 16 (11.11%) Unit Testing
10 15 (10.42%) SOLID
11 14 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (9.03%) CI/CD
12 13 (9.03%) OO
12 13 (9.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (44.44%) SQL
2 63 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 54 (37.50%) C#
4 23 (15.97%) Java
5 16 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.72%) T-SQL
7 12 (8.33%) PHP
8 8 (5.56%) Python
8 8 (5.56%) XPath
9 5 (3.47%) Apex Code
9 5 (3.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.47%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.69%) Elixir
11 1 (0.69%) Go
11 1 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (33.33%) Degree
2 7 (4.86%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) QA
System Software
1 11 (7.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (7.64%) Oracle
2 9 (6.25%) Adobe
2 9 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.56%) Cognizant
4 7 (4.86%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.47%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (3.47%) Blue Prism
5 5 (3.47%) Databricks
6 3 (2.08%) Google
7 2 (1.39%) F5
7 2 (1.39%) Sybase
8 1 (0.69%) Monzo
8 1 (0.69%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.69%) WorldPay