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 leading to 13 June 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 73 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 939 1,343 4,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.79% 4.30% 5.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.01% 4.53% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 782 1,098 1,948
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £69,063 £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 £125,300
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.00%

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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 13 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 13 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 -20 146 £85,000 -5.56% 26
South London +8 33 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West London -6 9 £85,000 +1.49% 6
East London +13 5 £77,500 -22.50% 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 375 (39.94%) JavaScript
2 299 (31.84%) C#
3 291 (30.99%) SQL
3 291 (30.99%) .NET
4 278 (29.61%) AWS
5 255 (27.16%) Agile
6 250 (26.62%) Finance
7 248 (26.41%) Azure
8 239 (25.45%) React
9 226 (24.07%) Full Stack Development
10 197 (20.98%) Java
11 191 (20.34%) TypeScript
12 182 (19.38%) HTML
13 180 (19.17%) AngularJS
14 177 (18.85%) CSS
14 177 (18.85%) Python
15 156 (16.61%) Social Skills
16 151 (16.08%) Software Engineering
17 143 (15.23%) Degree
18 126 (13.42%) SQL Server
19 123 (13.10%) Computer Science
19 123 (13.10%) Microservices
20 117 (12.46%) DevOps
21 112 (11.93%) Mentoring
22 99 (10.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
23 98 (10.44%) ASP.NET
23 98 (10.44%) Git
23 98 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
24 95 (10.12%) Vue
25 85 (9.05%) Asset Management

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 (2.77%) CMS
2 18 (1.92%) Apache
3 16 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.06%) WordPress
5 9 (0.96%) Mendix
6 8 (0.85%) Confluence
7 7 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.75%) Drupal
7 7 (0.75%) nginx
8 6 (0.64%) JBoss
8 6 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.53%) K2 blackpearl
10 4 (0.43%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.32%) IIS
12 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.11%) GemFire
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.11%) Tornado
Applications
1 18 (1.92%) Photoshop
2 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.92%) SDL Web 8
2 10 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.21%) 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
1 278 (29.61%) AWS
2 248 (26.41%) Azure
3 80 (8.52%) GCP
4 57 (6.07%) Power Platform
5 44 (4.69%) Serverless
6 39 (4.15%) SaaS
7 34 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (3.19%) GitHub
9 28 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (2.56%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.02%) Power Automate
12 18 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 18 (1.92%) NuGet
13 17 (1.81%) Azure Functions
14 14 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.64%) AMQP
2 2 (0.21%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.21%) HTTP
2 2 (0.21%) 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
1 126 (13.42%) SQL Server
2 58 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (5.43%) MySQL
4 47 (5.01%) Relational Database
5 32 (3.41%) Power BI
6 31 (3.30%) Oracle Database
7 27 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 18 (1.92%) Redis
10 15 (1.60%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
13 6 (0.64%) Flink
14 5 (0.53%) Power Query
14 5 (0.53%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.53%) Tick Data
15 4 (0.43%) Big Data
15 4 (0.43%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 98 (10.44%) Git
2 50 (5.32%) JIRA
3 24 (2.56%) Moq
4 23 (2.45%) Oracle APEX
5 21 (2.24%) NUnit
5 21 (2.24%) Visual Studio
6 20 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 20 (2.13%) TeamCity
7 19 (2.02%) Sourcetree
8 18 (1.92%) git-flow
8 18 (1.92%) SpecFlow
9 16 (1.70%) Jenkins
10 14 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.28%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.96%) MSTest
13 7 (0.75%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.75%) CMake
13 7 (0.75%) JUnit
13 7 (0.75%) Storybook
14 6 (0.64%) fastlane
General
1 250 (26.62%) Finance
2 156 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 85 (9.05%) Front Office
4 55 (5.86%) Banking
4 55 (5.86%) Marketing
5 51 (5.43%) Back Office
6 38 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (3.19%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.66%) Games
9 23 (2.45%) Tech for Good
10 22 (2.34%) Legal
11 20 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.81%) Public Sector
12 17 (1.81%) Retail
13 11 (1.17%) Law
14 9 (0.96%) Advertising
15 7 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.75%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.53%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.21%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (30.99%) .NET
2 239 (25.45%) React
3 182 (19.38%) HTML
4 180 (19.17%) AngularJS
5 177 (18.85%) CSS
6 98 (10.44%) ASP.NET
7 95 (10.12%) Vue
8 75 (7.99%) Node.js
9 71 (7.56%) RESTful
9 71 (7.56%) Spring
10 68 (7.24%) REST
11 66 (7.03%) jQuery
12 62 (6.60%) Spring Boot
13 60 (6.39%) .NET Core
14 59 (6.28%) Redux
15 55 (5.86%) Kafka
16 53 (5.64%) Web Services
17 50 (5.32%) .NET Framework
18 46 (4.90%) JSON
19 42 (4.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 70 (7.45%) Equities
3 69 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
4 68 (7.24%) Derivative
5 60 (6.39%) Fixed Income
5 60 (6.39%) Hedge funds
6 42 (4.47%) IoT
7 32 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.88%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.66%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.92%) Legacy Code
12 16 (1.70%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.06%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 10 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.75%) NHS
14 7 (0.75%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.47%) Windows
2 25 (2.66%) Apple iOS
3 23 (2.45%) Linux
4 21 (2.24%) Android
5 7 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.75%) Unix
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (27.16%) Agile
2 226 (24.07%) Full Stack Development
3 151 (16.08%) Software Engineering
4 123 (13.10%) Computer Science
4 123 (13.10%) Microservices
5 117 (12.46%) DevOps
6 112 (11.93%) Mentoring
7 98 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (9.05%) Asset Management
9 83 (8.84%) Fintech
10 79 (8.41%) CI/CD
11 70 (7.45%) Investment Management
12 65 (6.92%) Front End Development
12 65 (6.92%) Scrum
13 57 (6.07%) Multithreading
13 57 (6.07%) MVC
14 54 (5.75%) Clean Code
14 54 (5.75%) Unit Testing
15 52 (5.54%) TDD
16 51 (5.43%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 375 (39.94%) JavaScript
2 299 (31.84%) C#
3 291 (30.99%) SQL
4 197 (20.98%) Java
5 191 (20.34%) TypeScript
6 177 (18.85%) Python
7 49 (5.22%) PHP
8 42 (4.47%) PL/SQL
9 40 (4.26%) T-SQL
10 32 (3.41%) Ruby
11 27 (2.88%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.92%) XPath
13 17 (1.81%) Apex Code
14 15 (1.60%) C++
15 14 (1.49%) Go
16 11 (1.17%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.75%) Scala
17 7 (0.75%) Swift
18 6 (0.64%) Dart
Qualifications
1 143 (15.23%) Degree
2 40 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (2.77%) Master's Degree
4 22 (2.34%) Security Cleared
5 20 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.32%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.88%) QA
2 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (0.64%) 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 (0.21%) GDPR
5 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.21%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.21%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 83 (8.84%) Docker
2 6 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.21%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Ceph
5 1 (0.11%) GridGain
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.38%) Ansible
3 8 (0.85%) Grafana
4 6 (0.64%) Data Guard
4 6 (0.64%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.64%) Terraform
5 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) cPanel
7 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.11%) Knative
Vendors
1 83 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.22%) Oracle
3 23 (2.45%) Google
4 22 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.02%) Adobe
6 18 (1.92%) Cognizant
7 11 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.06%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.75%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.64%) F5
10 6 (0.64%) Progress
10 6 (0.64%) WSO2
11 5 (0.53%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.53%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.53%) Databricks
11 5 (0.53%) Sybase
12 4 (0.43%) Murex
12 4 (0.43%) Vertica
13 3 (0.32%) Anaplan
13 3 (0.32%) Apple