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 23 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
23 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 3,648 6,141 15,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.39% 18.47% 22.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.31% 19.41% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,076 5,107 8,051
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,750 £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 £103,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 22,363 31,644 68,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 95.15% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,672 23,333 34,565
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,360 £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 £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +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 23 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 23 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 -6 538 £75,000 -6.25% 111
South London +5 96 £67,500 +3.85% 23
North London +21 36 £55,000 -15.38% 8
East London +18 33 £150,000 +81.82% 23
West London -58 23 £75,000 +35.34% 18
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 1,254 (34.38%) Agile
2 1,175 (32.21%) JavaScript
3 1,100 (30.15%) AWS
4 1,099 (30.13%) Finance
5 1,036 (28.40%) Azure
6 991 (27.17%) C#
7 962 (26.37%) Full Stack Development
8 917 (25.14%) SQL
9 909 (24.92%) .NET
10 845 (23.16%) Python
11 807 (22.12%) Java
12 773 (21.19%) React
13 717 (19.65%) Software Engineering
14 706 (19.35%) TypeScript
15 583 (15.98%) AngularJS
16 574 (15.73%) Social Skills
17 530 (14.53%) Front Office
18 527 (14.45%) HTML
19 524 (14.36%) DevOps
20 488 (13.38%) SQL Server
21 483 (13.24%) CSS
22 470 (12.88%) Microsoft
23 454 (12.45%) Degree
24 449 (12.31%) Microservices
25 443 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
26 426 (11.68%) GCP
27 418 (11.46%) TDD
28 411 (11.27%) Fintech
29 407 (11.16%) Fixed Income
30 401 (10.99%) Asset Management

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
1 227 (6.22%) Apache
2 209 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 80 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 77 (2.11%) CMS
5 42 (1.15%) WordPress
6 37 (1.01%) Confluence
7 35 (0.96%) Drupal
8 31 (0.85%) IIS
9 25 (0.69%) OpenStack
10 19 (0.52%) OpenEdge
11 18 (0.49%) Apache Spark
11 18 (0.49%) nginx
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%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.60%) 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 59 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.79%) SDL Web 8
3 15 (0.41%) 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 8 (0.22%) Visualfiles
8 6 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.11%) CiviCRM
11 3 (0.082%) BusinessWorks
11 3 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle FAH
12 2 (0.055%) R3 Corda
12 2 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.055%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 1,100 (30.15%) AWS
2 1,036 (28.40%) Azure
3 426 (11.68%) GCP
4 305 (8.36%) Power Platform
5 185 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (4.88%) Serverless
7 159 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (3.18%) PowerApps
9 111 (3.04%) GitHub
10 100 (2.74%) SaaS
11 91 (2.49%) Power Automate
12 81 (2.22%) dbt
13 66 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
14 58 (1.59%) Snowflake
15 57 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
15 57 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
16 44 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.21%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
18 40 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 21 (0.58%) Internet
3 12 (0.33%) VPN
4 11 (0.30%) BGP
4 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (0.30%) HTTP
4 11 (0.30%) MPLS
5 8 (0.22%) Multicast
6 7 (0.19%) Broadband
6 7 (0.19%) Mobile Broadband
7 6 (0.16%) AMQP
7 6 (0.16%) Network Security
7 6 (0.16%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.14%) FTP
9 3 (0.082%) SSH
10 2 (0.055%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.055%) Intranet
10 2 (0.055%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.027%) DNS
11 1 (0.027%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (13.38%) SQL Server
2 282 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
3 195 (5.35%) Apache Ignite
4 188 (5.15%) Power BI
5 161 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 145 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 141 (3.87%) MySQL
8 121 (3.32%) NoSQL
9 112 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 85 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
11 83 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
12 82 (2.25%) Redis
13 80 (2.19%) Dremio
13 80 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 79 (2.17%) Apache Arrow
15 64 (1.75%) Data Lake
16 56 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
17 49 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (0.96%) Oracle Database
19 34 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 373 (10.22%) Git
2 130 (3.56%) JIRA
3 87 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 84 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 67 (1.84%) Visual Studio
6 52 (1.43%) GitLab
7 42 (1.15%) NUnit
8 39 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 38 (1.04%) JUnit
10 34 (0.93%) Moq
10 34 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
11 29 (0.79%) Selenium
12 24 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
13 18 (0.49%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.47%) Sourcetree
15 16 (0.44%) Maven
15 16 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 16 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
16 15 (0.41%) git-flow
General
1 1,099 (30.13%) Finance
2 574 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 530 (14.53%) Front Office
4 382 (10.47%) Banking
5 174 (4.77%) Investment Banking
6 166 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 115 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 113 (3.10%) Marketing
9 99 (2.71%) Law
10 98 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 72 (1.97%) Games
12 60 (1.64%) Legal
13 59 (1.62%) Back Office
14 55 (1.51%) Retail
15 35 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 28 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 25 (0.69%) Advertising
19 23 (0.63%) Turkish Language
20 17 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 909 (24.92%) .NET
2 773 (21.19%) React
3 583 (15.98%) AngularJS
4 527 (14.45%) HTML
5 483 (13.24%) CSS
6 341 (9.35%) ASP.NET
7 311 (8.53%) Node.js
8 291 (7.98%) .NET Core
9 285 (7.81%) Redux
10 278 (7.62%) Vue
11 261 (7.15%) REST
12 225 (6.17%) RESTful
13 220 (6.03%) gRPC
13 220 (6.03%) Spring
14 216 (5.92%) Web Services
15 210 (5.76%) Spring Boot
16 208 (5.70%) .NET Framework
17 206 (5.65%) Protocol Buffers
18 156 (4.28%) JSON
19 154 (4.22%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 407 (11.16%) Fixed Income
2 375 (10.28%) Hedge funds
3 308 (8.44%) Equities
4 285 (7.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 212 (5.81%) Derivative
6 203 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
7 107 (2.93%) Data Structures
8 94 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
9 92 (2.52%) Client/Server
10 90 (2.47%) Algorithms
11 86 (2.36%) Product Ownership
12 50 (1.37%) Cloud Native
12 50 (1.37%) IoT
12 50 (1.37%) Mobile App
13 48 (1.32%) Blockchain
14 45 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.07%) Onboarding
17 31 (0.85%) Low-Code
17 31 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 145 (3.97%) Linux
2 70 (1.92%) Windows
3 55 (1.51%) Apple iOS
4 50 (1.37%) Android
5 45 (1.23%) Unix
6 17 (0.47%) 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 2 (0.055%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,254 (34.38%) Agile
2 962 (26.37%) Full Stack Development
3 717 (19.65%) Software Engineering
4 524 (14.36%) DevOps
5 449 (12.31%) Microservices
6 443 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
7 418 (11.46%) TDD
8 411 (11.27%) Fintech
9 401 (10.99%) Asset Management
10 399 (10.94%) Computer Science
11 353 (9.68%) Investment Management
12 296 (8.11%) CI/CD
13 276 (7.57%) Mentoring
14 257 (7.04%) Scrum
15 247 (6.77%) MVC
16 234 (6.41%) Business Intelligence
17 228 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
18 222 (6.09%) Analytics
19 220 (6.03%) Front End Development
20 202 (5.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,175 (32.21%) JavaScript
2 991 (27.17%) C#
3 917 (25.14%) SQL
4 845 (23.16%) Python
5 807 (22.12%) Java
6 706 (19.35%) TypeScript
7 151 (4.14%) PHP
8 128 (3.51%) Kotlin
9 126 (3.45%) C++
10 122 (3.34%) T-SQL
11 69 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.67%) Scala
13 60 (1.64%) Ruby
14 53 (1.45%) Go
15 51 (1.40%) Apex Code
16 44 (1.21%) PowerShell
17 43 (1.18%) C
17 43 (1.18%) R
18 39 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 32 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 454 (12.45%) Degree
2 164 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 142 (3.89%) Security Cleared
4 88 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 65 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 33 (0.90%) CTC Cleared
7 21 (0.58%) PhD
8 19 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.27%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.22%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.082%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.082%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.082%) MCSD
15 2 (0.055%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 2 (0.055%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (3.51%) QA
2 24 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.33%) GDPR
5 10 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.22%) MiFID
7 7 (0.19%) WCAG
8 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.082%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.082%) PMO
9 3 (0.082%) SLA
10 2 (0.055%) EMIR
10 2 (0.055%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.055%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.055%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.055%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.055%) WAI
11 1 (0.027%) COREP
11 1 (0.027%) IFRS
11 1 (0.027%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 356 (9.76%) Docker
2 14 (0.38%) Hyper-V
3 12 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.25%) HDFS
5 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.027%) Ceph
8 1 (0.027%) GridGain
8 1 (0.027%) KVM
8 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.027%) Varnish
8 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 279 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 105 (2.88%) Terraform
3 44 (1.21%) Ansible
4 21 (0.58%) 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
1 470 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 154 (4.22%) Google
3 135 (3.70%) Oracle
4 80 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 62 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 40 (1.10%) Bloomberg
7 33 (0.90%) Adobe
8 29 (0.79%) IBM
9 25 (0.69%) WSO2
10 21 (0.58%) Databricks
11 20 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 16 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.44%) Unisys
13 15 (0.41%) Cognizant
13 15 (0.41%) OpenAI
13 15 (0.41%) SAP
14 14 (0.38%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.38%) Sybase
15 13 (0.36%) Aderant
15 13 (0.36%) Progress