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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 72 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 930 1,362 4,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.80% 4.31% 5.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.02% 4.54% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 774 1,113 1,987
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 £102,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £125,000
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 23,146 30,010 71,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,034 22,517 35,164
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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 8 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 8 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 -16 146 £85,000 -5.56% 18
South London +6 33 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West London -6 9 £85,000 +1.49% 5
East London +17 5 £77,500 -22.50% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 372 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 293 (31.51%) C#
3 292 (31.40%) SQL
4 287 (30.86%) .NET
5 279 (30.00%) AWS
6 256 (27.53%) Agile
7 248 (26.67%) Finance
8 244 (26.24%) Azure
9 239 (25.70%) React
10 221 (23.76%) Full Stack Development
11 197 (21.18%) Java
12 187 (20.11%) TypeScript
13 182 (19.57%) HTML
14 181 (19.46%) AngularJS
15 178 (19.14%) Python
16 176 (18.92%) CSS
17 158 (16.99%) Social Skills
18 152 (16.34%) Software Engineering
19 138 (14.84%) Degree
20 126 (13.55%) Microservices
21 125 (13.44%) SQL Server
22 119 (12.80%) Computer Science
22 119 (12.80%) DevOps
23 114 (12.26%) Mentoring
24 99 (10.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
25 98 (10.54%) ASP.NET
25 98 (10.54%) Git
25 98 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
26 96 (10.32%) Vue
27 87 (9.35%) 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 (2.80%) CMS
2 18 (1.94%) Apache
3 16 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.08%) WordPress
5 9 (0.97%) Mendix
6 8 (0.86%) Confluence
7 7 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.75%) Drupal
7 7 (0.75%) nginx
8 6 (0.65%) JBoss
8 6 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.54%) K2 blackpearl
10 4 (0.43%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.32%) IIS
12 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.11%) Documentum
13 1 (0.11%) GemFire
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 18 (1.94%) Photoshop
2 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.94%) SDL Web 8
2 9 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) 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
1 279 (30.00%) AWS
2 244 (26.24%) Azure
3 80 (8.60%) GCP
4 55 (5.91%) Power Platform
5 44 (4.73%) Serverless
6 36 (3.87%) SaaS
7 32 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (3.01%) GitHub
10 22 (2.37%) PowerApps
11 18 (1.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 18 (1.94%) NuGet
12 17 (1.83%) Azure Functions
12 17 (1.83%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.65%) 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
1 125 (13.44%) SQL Server
2 60 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.70%) MySQL
4 44 (4.73%) Relational Database
5 32 (3.44%) Oracle Database
6 31 (3.33%) Power BI
7 27 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 18 (1.94%) Redis
10 15 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.86%) Oracle Database 11g
14 6 (0.65%) Flink
15 5 (0.54%) Power Query
15 5 (0.54%) Tick Data
16 4 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
16 4 (0.43%) Apache Ignite
16 4 (0.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 98 (10.54%) Git
2 51 (5.48%) JIRA
3 24 (2.58%) Moq
4 23 (2.47%) Oracle APEX
5 21 (2.26%) NUnit
5 21 (2.26%) Visual Studio
6 20 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 20 (2.15%) TeamCity
7 19 (2.04%) Sourcetree
8 18 (1.94%) git-flow
8 18 (1.94%) SpecFlow
9 16 (1.72%) Jenkins
10 14 (1.51%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.29%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.97%) MSTest
13 8 (0.86%) JUnit
14 7 (0.75%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.75%) CMake
14 7 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.75%) Storybook
General
1 248 (26.67%) Finance
2 158 (16.99%) Social Skills
3 87 (9.35%) Front Office
4 56 (6.02%) Banking
5 53 (5.70%) Marketing
6 51 (5.48%) Back Office
7 37 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 25 (2.69%) Games
10 22 (2.37%) Legal
10 22 (2.37%) Tech for Good
11 20 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.94%) Retail
13 17 (1.83%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.08%) Law
15 9 (0.97%) Advertising
16 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.75%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.54%) Health Technology
19 2 (0.22%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (30.86%) .NET
2 239 (25.70%) React
3 182 (19.57%) HTML
4 181 (19.46%) AngularJS
5 176 (18.92%) CSS
6 98 (10.54%) ASP.NET
7 96 (10.32%) Vue
8 77 (8.28%) Node.js
9 70 (7.53%) Spring
10 69 (7.42%) RESTful
11 68 (7.31%) REST
12 66 (7.10%) jQuery
13 61 (6.56%) Redux
14 60 (6.45%) Spring Boot
15 59 (6.34%) .NET Core
16 56 (6.02%) Kafka
17 53 (5.70%) Web Services
18 50 (5.38%) .NET Framework
19 47 (5.05%) JSON
20 42 (4.52%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 71 (7.63%) Equities
3 70 (7.53%) Greenfield Project
4 69 (7.42%) Derivative
5 61 (6.56%) Fixed Income
6 60 (6.45%) Hedge funds
7 42 (4.52%) IoT
8 31 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 27 (2.90%) Mobile App
10 26 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (2.69%) Cloud Native
12 19 (2.04%) Legacy Code
13 17 (1.83%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.29%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.08%) Client/Server
15 10 (1.08%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
17 7 (0.75%) NHS
18 6 (0.65%) Onboarding
18 6 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.52%) Windows
2 25 (2.69%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.58%) Linux
4 21 (2.26%) Android
5 7 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.75%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (27.53%) Agile
2 221 (23.76%) Full Stack Development
3 152 (16.34%) Software Engineering
4 126 (13.55%) Microservices
5 119 (12.80%) Computer Science
5 119 (12.80%) DevOps
6 114 (12.26%) Mentoring
7 98 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (9.35%) Fintech
9 86 (9.25%) Asset Management
10 80 (8.60%) CI/CD
11 71 (7.63%) Investment Management
12 64 (6.88%) Front End Development
13 63 (6.77%) Scrum
14 57 (6.13%) Multithreading
14 57 (6.13%) MVC
15 55 (5.91%) Unit Testing
16 54 (5.81%) Clean Code
17 52 (5.59%) E-Commerce
18 51 (5.48%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 372 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 293 (31.51%) C#
3 292 (31.40%) SQL
4 197 (21.18%) Java
5 187 (20.11%) TypeScript
6 178 (19.14%) Python
7 48 (5.16%) PHP
8 43 (4.62%) PL/SQL
9 41 (4.41%) T-SQL
10 32 (3.44%) Ruby
11 26 (2.80%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.94%) XPath
13 17 (1.83%) Apex Code
14 15 (1.61%) C++
15 13 (1.40%) Go
16 10 (1.08%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.75%) Scala
17 7 (0.75%) Swift
18 6 (0.65%) Dart
Qualifications
1 138 (14.84%) Degree
2 39 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (2.69%) Master's Degree
4 22 (2.37%) Security Cleared
5 20 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.32%) 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 27 (2.90%) QA
2 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.43%) EMIR
3 4 (0.43%) MiFID
4 3 (0.32%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.32%) PMO
5 2 (0.22%) GDPR
5 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.22%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.22%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 86 (9.25%) Docker
2 6 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.43%) 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 74 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.40%) Ansible
3 8 (0.86%) Grafana
4 6 (0.65%) Data Guard
4 6 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Terraform
5 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.22%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) cPanel
7 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.11%) Knative
Vendors
1 82 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.38%) Oracle
3 22 (2.37%) Google
3 22 (2.37%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.04%) Adobe
5 18 (1.94%) Cognizant
6 11 (1.18%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.65%) F5
8 6 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.65%) WSO2
9 5 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
9 5 (0.54%) Blue Prism
9 5 (0.54%) Databricks
9 5 (0.54%) Progress
9 5 (0.54%) Sybase
10 4 (0.43%) Murex
10 4 (0.43%) Vertica
11 3 (0.32%) Apple
11 3 (0.32%) Cadence