Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,731 4,068 13,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.53% 18.25% 20.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.15% 19.17% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,951 3,694 7,333
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,295 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £135,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 19,303 21,217 61,347
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.60% 95.20% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,486 17,316 34,117
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,259
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -10 497 £72,500 -9.38% 102
South London -21 47 £65,000 +18.18% 9
West London -64 13 £73,500 +22.50% 15
North London +6 9 £57,500 -11.54% 5
East London +8 8 £90,000 +125.00% 25
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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.

1 902 (33.03%) JavaScript
2 898 (32.88%) Finance
3 880 (32.22%) Agile
4 752 (27.54%) AWS
5 740 (27.10%) C#
6 712 (26.07%) SQL
7 702 (25.70%) Python
8 679 (24.86%) Azure
9 637 (23.32%) .NET
10 631 (23.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 617 (22.59%) Java
12 529 (19.37%) TypeScript
13 526 (19.26%) Software Engineering
14 497 (18.20%) Social Skills
15 487 (17.83%) React
16 415 (15.20%) Front Office
17 407 (14.90%) HTML
18 403 (14.76%) Degree
19 373 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
20 368 (13.47%) CSS
21 348 (12.74%) GCP
22 341 (12.49%) SQL Server
23 331 (12.12%) DevOps
23 331 (12.12%) AngularJS
24 330 (12.08%) Banking
25 323 (11.83%) Git
26 308 (11.28%) Computer Science
27 303 (11.09%) Hedge funds
28 301 (11.02%) Fixed Income
29 300 (10.98%) Microsoft

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
1 231 (8.46%) Apache
2 212 (7.76%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 61 (2.23%) CMS
5 23 (0.84%) Confluence
6 21 (0.77%) WordPress
7 20 (0.73%) IIS
8 19 (0.70%) Appian
9 13 (0.48%) Drupal
10 10 (0.37%) Apache Spark
10 10 (0.37%) OpenEdge
11 8 (0.29%) Mendix
11 8 (0.29%) Moodle
12 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.22%) JBoss
13 6 (0.22%) nginx
14 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
14 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) Photoshop
3 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.15%) InVision
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Sketch
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.15%) Zeplin
5 2 (0.073%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.037%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.037%) InDesign
6 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.037%) Revit
Business Applications
1 79 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.10%) SDL Web 8
3 10 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.37%) Shopify
4 9 (0.33%) Visualfiles
5 8 (0.29%) BASE24
6 6 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 6 (0.22%) Magento
7 5 (0.18%) CiviCRM
7 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.073%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.073%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.037%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 752 (27.54%) AWS
2 679 (24.86%) Azure
3 348 (12.74%) GCP
4 283 (10.36%) Power Platform
5 155 (5.68%) Serverless
6 151 (5.53%) Dynamics 365
7 133 (4.87%) PowerApps
8 127 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 125 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
10 114 (4.17%) Snowflake
11 111 (4.06%) dbt
12 89 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
13 81 (2.97%) SaaS
14 74 (2.71%) GitHub
15 67 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
16 64 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
17 59 (2.16%) Azure Functions
18 54 (1.98%) PaaS
19 50 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
20 47 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.51%) TCP/IP
2 7 (0.26%) DNS
3 6 (0.22%) HTTP
4 5 (0.18%) FTP
4 5 (0.18%) Multicast
4 5 (0.18%) VPN
5 3 (0.11%) Internet
5 3 (0.11%) SSH
6 2 (0.073%) ATM
6 2 (0.073%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.073%) MQTT
6 2 (0.073%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.073%) SMS
7 1 (0.037%) Broadband
7 1 (0.037%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.037%) Mobile Broadband
7 1 (0.037%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (12.49%) SQL Server
2 213 (7.80%) Apache Ignite
3 200 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 178 (6.52%) Power BI
5 131 (4.80%) Relational Database
6 120 (4.39%) Data Lake
7 117 (4.28%) NoSQL
8 109 (3.99%) Apache Arrow
9 108 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
9 108 (3.95%) Dremio
10 90 (3.30%) MySQL
11 89 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 78 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
13 67 (2.45%) MongoDB
14 52 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 32 (1.17%) DynamoDB
16 31 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
17 28 (1.03%) Redis
18 25 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
18 25 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 323 (11.83%) Git
2 120 (4.39%) JIRA
3 90 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.42%) GitLab
5 54 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 46 (1.68%) Maven
7 45 (1.65%) Gradle
7 45 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 41 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 38 (1.39%) Moq
10 35 (1.28%) Mockito
11 34 (1.24%) JUnit
12 33 (1.21%) NUnit
13 24 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
14 23 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (0.77%) SpecFlow
16 18 (0.66%) MSTest
17 17 (0.62%) Cucumber
18 15 (0.55%) CircleCI
18 15 (0.55%) Sourcetree
General
1 898 (32.88%) Finance
2 497 (18.20%) Social Skills
3 415 (15.20%) Front Office
4 330 (12.08%) Banking
5 160 (5.86%) Investment Banking
6 137 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
7 103 (3.77%) Marketing
8 82 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 63 (2.31%) Legal
10 60 (2.20%) Public Sector
11 50 (1.83%) Games
12 46 (1.68%) Law
13 38 (1.39%) Retail
14 32 (1.17%) Advertising
15 27 (0.99%) Back Office
16 24 (0.88%) Tech for Good
17 21 (0.77%) Manufacturing
18 17 (0.62%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.59%) Multimedia
20 13 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 637 (23.32%) .NET
2 487 (17.83%) React
3 407 (14.90%) HTML
4 368 (13.47%) CSS
5 331 (12.12%) AngularJS
6 265 (9.70%) RESTful
7 220 (8.06%) gRPC
8 215 (7.87%) Protocol Buffers
9 212 (7.76%) Node.js
10 189 (6.92%) ASP.NET
10 189 (6.92%) Redux
11 162 (5.93%) .NET Framework
12 158 (5.79%) .NET Core
12 158 (5.79%) Web Services
13 148 (5.42%) REST
14 146 (5.35%) Spring Boot
15 141 (5.16%) NumPy
16 136 (4.98%) jQuery
16 136 (4.98%) Pandas
17 133 (4.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 303 (11.09%) Hedge funds
2 301 (11.02%) Fixed Income
3 239 (8.75%) Equities
4 220 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 167 (6.11%) Derivative
6 115 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
7 102 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
8 87 (3.19%) Algorithms
9 71 (2.60%) Data Structures
10 57 (2.09%) Cloud Native
11 56 (2.05%) Product Ownership
12 47 (1.72%) Low-Code
13 45 (1.65%) Blockchain
14 41 (1.50%) Mobile App
15 37 (1.35%) Legacy Code
16 30 (1.10%) IoT
17 22 (0.81%) CMDB
18 19 (0.70%) Client/Server
18 19 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
18 19 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 136 (4.98%) Linux
2 69 (2.53%) Windows
3 51 (1.87%) Android
4 41 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.88%) Unix
6 6 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.073%) CentOS
8 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.073%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.037%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.037%) Solaris
9 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (32.22%) Agile
2 631 (23.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 526 (19.26%) Software Engineering
4 373 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
5 331 (12.12%) DevOps
6 308 (11.28%) Computer Science
7 288 (10.55%) Asset Management
8 283 (10.36%) TDD
9 277 (10.14%) CI/CD
10 267 (9.78%) Fintech
11 260 (9.52%) Microservices
12 211 (7.73%) Investment Management
13 208 (7.62%) User Experience
14 191 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence
15 178 (6.52%) Front End Development
16 177 (6.48%) Scrum
17 173 (6.33%) Machine Learning
18 169 (6.19%) Unit Testing
19 165 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
20 153 (5.60%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 902 (33.03%) JavaScript
2 740 (27.10%) C#
3 712 (26.07%) SQL
4 702 (25.70%) Python
5 617 (22.59%) Java
6 529 (19.37%) TypeScript
7 145 (5.31%) C++
8 103 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 89 (3.26%) PHP
10 81 (2.97%) Kotlin
11 51 (1.87%) Go
12 49 (1.79%) PowerShell
13 36 (1.32%) Apex Code
14 35 (1.28%) Rust
14 35 (1.28%) Scala
15 34 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 32 (1.17%) C
17 23 (0.84%) Haskell
17 23 (0.84%) VBA
18 22 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 403 (14.76%) Degree
2 152 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 122 (4.47%) Security Cleared
4 86 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 68 (2.49%) Master's Degree
6 24 (0.88%) PhD
7 21 (0.77%) DBS Check
8 19 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 12 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
10 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.18%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
13 4 (0.15%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.11%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.073%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (3.99%) QA
2 28 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 24 (0.88%) MiFID
4 19 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.33%) GRC
5 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.15%) EMIR
6 4 (0.15%) SLA
7 3 (0.11%) GDPR
7 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.11%) WCAG
8 2 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 221 (8.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.11%) KVM
4 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.073%) Firmware
6 1 (0.037%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.037%) Ceph
6 1 (0.037%) GridGain
6 1 (0.037%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 187 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.14%) Terraform
3 19 (0.70%) Grafana
4 17 (0.62%) Ansible
5 16 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.40%) Kibana
7 7 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.11%) Packer
9 2 (0.073%) cPanel
9 2 (0.073%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.073%) Plesk
10 1 (0.037%) Control-M
10 1 (0.037%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.037%) Knative
Vendors
1 300 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 96 (3.52%) Google
3 72 (2.64%) Oracle
4 61 (2.23%) Salesforce
5 57 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 38 (1.39%) Bloomberg
7 35 (1.28%) Databricks
7 35 (1.28%) Reuters
8 30 (1.10%) Adobe
9 24 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 23 (0.84%) IBM
11 17 (0.62%) Brio
11 17 (0.62%) Progress
12 16 (0.59%) F5
13 15 (0.55%) Cognizant
14 12 (0.44%) Apple
14 12 (0.44%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.44%) SAP
15 11 (0.40%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.37%) Sybase