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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,670 6,301 15,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.55% 18.32% 22.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.52% 19.29% 23.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,120 5,230 8,128
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,073 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +4.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £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 22,209 32,673 64,762
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.98% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,661 24,068 34,399
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £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 £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +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 9 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 9 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 -5 545 £77,500 -3.13% 104
South London +8 102 £67,500 +12.50% 12
North London +22 41 £55,000 -15.38% 8
East London +13 34 £150,000 +81.82% 23
West London -59 24 £72,500 +30.83% 12
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,251 (34.09%) Agile
2 1,173 (31.96%) JavaScript
3 1,098 (29.92%) AWS
4 1,092 (29.75%) Finance
5 1,041 (28.37%) Azure
6 986 (26.87%) C#
7 959 (26.13%) Full Stack Development
8 912 (24.85%) SQL
9 907 (24.71%) .NET
10 839 (22.86%) Java
10 839 (22.86%) Python
11 769 (20.95%) React
12 717 (19.54%) Software Engineering
13 695 (18.94%) TypeScript
14 592 (16.13%) AngularJS
15 579 (15.78%) Social Skills
16 539 (14.69%) DevOps
17 535 (14.58%) Front Office
18 526 (14.33%) HTML
19 483 (13.16%) CSS
20 481 (13.11%) SQL Server
21 480 (13.08%) Microsoft
22 466 (12.70%) Microservices
23 449 (12.23%) Degree
24 441 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
25 420 (11.44%) TDD
26 416 (11.34%) GCP
27 412 (11.23%) Fintech
28 406 (11.06%) Fixed Income
29 401 (10.93%) 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
1 201 (5.48%) Apache
2 185 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 73 (1.99%) CMS
5 46 (1.25%) WordPress
6 39 (1.06%) Confluence
7 37 (1.01%) Drupal
8 31 (0.84%) IIS
9 26 (0.71%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.54%) nginx
11 19 (0.52%) OpenEdge
12 17 (0.46%) Mendix
13 16 (0.44%) Apache Spark
14 15 (0.41%) Tomcat
15 14 (0.38%) JBoss
16 13 (0.35%) Appian
17 12 (0.33%) Ethereum
18 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
19 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
20 8 (0.22%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.46%) 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 (0.054%) Blender
6 2 (0.054%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.054%) Houdini
6 2 (0.054%) InDesign
6 2 (0.054%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.054%) Notion
7 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
3 13 (0.35%) 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%) Endur
11 3 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.054%) Oracle FAH
12 2 (0.054%) R3 Corda
12 2 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,098 (29.92%) AWS
2 1,041 (28.37%) Azure
3 416 (11.34%) GCP
4 312 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 195 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
6 177 (4.82%) Serverless
7 164 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
8 119 (3.24%) PowerApps
9 117 (3.19%) GitHub
10 102 (2.78%) SaaS
11 95 (2.59%) Power Automate
12 69 (1.88%) dbt
13 65 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
14 58 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 48 (1.31%) Snowflake
17 45 (1.23%) Azure Functions
18 44 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
19 41 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 22 (0.60%) Internet
3 12 (0.33%) VPN
4 11 (0.30%) BGP
4 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (0.30%) MPLS
5 9 (0.25%) HTTP
6 8 (0.22%) Multicast
7 7 (0.19%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.16%) AMQP
8 6 (0.16%) Broadband
8 6 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
8 6 (0.16%) Network Security
9 5 (0.14%) FTP
10 2 (0.054%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.054%) Intranet
10 2 (0.054%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.054%) SSH
11 1 (0.027%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.027%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 276 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
3 188 (5.12%) Power BI
4 171 (4.66%) Apache Ignite
5 164 (4.47%) Relational Database
6 148 (4.03%) MongoDB
7 142 (3.87%) MySQL
8 125 (3.41%) NoSQL
9 110 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 87 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
11 83 (2.26%) Redis
12 81 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 72 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
14 68 (1.85%) Dremio
15 67 (1.83%) Apache Arrow
16 56 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
17 55 (1.50%) Data Lake
18 49 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
19 37 (1.01%) Oracle Database
20 34 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 371 (10.11%) Git
2 124 (3.38%) JIRA
3 91 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 80 (2.18%) Cypress.io
5 63 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 45 (1.23%) GitLab
7 41 (1.12%) JUnit
8 37 (1.01%) NUnit
9 35 (0.95%) TeamCity
10 34 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
10 34 (0.93%) Selenium
11 28 (0.76%) Moq
12 24 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
13 19 (0.52%) Maven
14 18 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.49%) SpecFlow
14 18 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 16 (0.44%) Bitbucket
15 16 (0.44%) Mockito
16 15 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,092 (29.75%) Finance
2 579 (15.78%) Social Skills
3 535 (14.58%) Front Office
4 375 (10.22%) Banking
5 177 (4.82%) Investment Banking
6 164 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 106 (2.89%) Marketing
9 101 (2.75%) Law
10 98 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 75 (2.04%) Games
12 58 (1.58%) Legal
13 57 (1.55%) Back Office
14 55 (1.50%) Retail
15 34 (0.93%) Tech for Good
16 27 (0.74%) Financial Institution
16 27 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 24 (0.65%) Advertising
18 22 (0.60%) Turkish Language
19 17 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 907 (24.71%) .NET
2 769 (20.95%) React
3 592 (16.13%) AngularJS
4 526 (14.33%) HTML
5 483 (13.16%) CSS
6 337 (9.18%) ASP.NET
7 311 (8.47%) Node.js
8 297 (8.09%) .NET Core
9 280 (7.63%) Vue
10 276 (7.52%) Redux
11 264 (7.19%) REST
12 229 (6.24%) Spring
13 221 (6.02%) RESTful
14 210 (5.72%) Spring Boot
14 210 (5.72%) Web Services
15 208 (5.67%) .NET Framework
16 196 (5.34%) gRPC
17 182 (4.96%) Protocol Buffers
18 159 (4.33%) JSON
19 158 (4.31%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 406 (11.06%) Fixed Income
2 373 (10.16%) Hedge funds
3 303 (8.26%) Equities
4 287 (7.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 214 (5.83%) Derivative
6 209 (5.69%) Greenfield Project
7 111 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 93 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
9 92 (2.51%) Client/Server
10 91 (2.48%) Algorithms
11 89 (2.43%) Product Ownership
12 51 (1.39%) Mobile App
13 48 (1.31%) IoT
14 47 (1.28%) Cloud Native
15 43 (1.17%) Blockchain
16 42 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
17 41 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (1.01%) Onboarding
19 33 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
20 31 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.06%) Linux
2 68 (1.85%) Windows
3 58 (1.58%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.42%) Android
5 44 (1.20%) Unix
6 18 (0.49%) CentOS
7 9 (0.25%) 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 1,251 (34.09%) Agile
2 959 (26.13%) Full Stack Development
3 717 (19.54%) Software Engineering
4 539 (14.69%) DevOps
5 466 (12.70%) Microservices
6 441 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
7 420 (11.44%) TDD
8 412 (11.23%) Fintech
9 401 (10.93%) Computer Science
10 389 (10.60%) Asset Management
11 350 (9.54%) Investment Management
12 297 (8.09%) CI/CD
13 281 (7.66%) Mentoring
14 255 (6.95%) Scrum
15 245 (6.68%) MVC
16 236 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
17 230 (6.27%) Analytics
18 229 (6.24%) Front End Development
19 214 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence
20 195 (5.31%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1,173 (31.96%) JavaScript
2 986 (26.87%) C#
3 912 (24.85%) SQL
4 839 (22.86%) Java
4 839 (22.86%) Python
5 695 (18.94%) TypeScript
6 162 (4.41%) PHP
7 133 (3.62%) C++
8 132 (3.60%) Kotlin
9 118 (3.22%) T-SQL
10 71 (1.93%) PL/SQL
11 65 (1.77%) Scala
12 63 (1.72%) Ruby
13 52 (1.42%) Go
14 48 (1.31%) R
15 47 (1.28%) Apex Code
16 45 (1.23%) PowerShell
17 41 (1.12%) C
18 39 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 30 (0.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 449 (12.23%) Degree
2 171 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 151 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 93 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 61 (1.66%) Master's Degree
6 38 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
7 19 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 18 (0.49%) PhD
9 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.25%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.22%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.082%) MCSD
15 3 (0.082%) Numerate Degree
16 2 (0.054%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (3.71%) QA
2 25 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.33%) GDPR
5 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.22%) WCAG
7 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.16%) MiFID
8 3 (0.082%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.082%) PMO
8 3 (0.082%) SLA
9 2 (0.054%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.054%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.054%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.054%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.054%) WAI
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.027%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 369 (10.05%) Docker
2 13 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.27%) HDFS
4 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
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
Systems Management
1 287 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 105 (2.86%) Terraform
3 44 (1.20%) Ansible
4 20 (0.54%) Grafana
5 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.19%) Kibana
8 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.11%) Control-M
10 2 (0.054%) Consul
10 2 (0.054%) Packer
11 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.027%) cPanel
11 1 (0.027%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.027%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.027%) MIIS
11 1 (0.027%) Nagios
11 1 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 480 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 150 (4.09%) Google
3 142 (3.87%) Oracle
4 76 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 61 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 42 (1.14%) Bloomberg
7 33 (0.90%) Adobe
8 30 (0.82%) IBM
9 27 (0.74%) WSO2
10 19 (0.52%) Databricks
10 19 (0.52%) MuleSoft
11 18 (0.49%) Unisys
12 16 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.44%) Sybase
13 14 (0.38%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.38%) SAP
14 13 (0.35%) Blue Prism
14 13 (0.35%) Cognizant
14 13 (0.35%) iManage
14 13 (0.35%) Progress