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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,739 5,877 16,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.45% 18.33% 22.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.35% 19.29% 23.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,114 4,981 7,966
10th Percentile £48,105 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £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 £105,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £125,000 £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 22,868 30,463 70,595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 95.03% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,938 22,839 34,712
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +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 2 June 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 2 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 -6 541 £75,000 -6.25% 102
South London +1 95 £67,500 -3.57% 14
East London +16 33 £150,000 +81.82% 16
North London +21 32 £55,000 -15.38% 6
West London -53 24 £75,000 +35.34% 15
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 1,269 (33.94%) Agile
2 1,188 (31.77%) JavaScript
3 1,107 (29.61%) AWS
4 1,104 (29.53%) Finance
5 1,034 (27.65%) Azure
6 1,008 (26.96%) C#
7 973 (26.02%) Full Stack Development
8 925 (24.74%) SQL
8 925 (24.74%) .NET
9 847 (22.65%) Python
10 817 (21.85%) Java
11 779 (20.83%) React
12 723 (19.34%) Software Engineering
13 709 (18.96%) TypeScript
14 581 (15.54%) Social Skills
15 579 (15.49%) AngularJS
16 541 (14.47%) HTML
17 535 (14.31%) Front Office
18 518 (13.85%) DevOps
19 500 (13.37%) SQL Server
20 494 (13.21%) CSS
21 471 (12.60%) Microsoft
22 463 (12.38%) Degree
23 450 (12.04%) Microservices
24 449 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
25 425 (11.37%) GCP
26 424 (11.34%) TDD
27 417 (11.15%) Fintech
28 411 (10.99%) Fixed Income
29 405 (10.83%) 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
1 235 (6.29%) Apache
2 216 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (2.19%) CMS
4 77 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 43 (1.15%) WordPress
6 39 (1.04%) Confluence
7 36 (0.96%) Drupal
8 31 (0.83%) IIS
9 22 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 19 (0.51%) nginx
10 19 (0.51%) OpenEdge
11 17 (0.45%) Apache Spark
11 17 (0.45%) Mendix
12 15 (0.40%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.35%) Appian
14 12 (0.32%) Ethereum
14 12 (0.32%) JBoss
15 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
15 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
16 9 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.080%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.080%) Trello
6 2 (0.053%) Blender
6 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.053%) Houdini
6 2 (0.053%) InDesign
6 2 (0.053%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.053%) Notion
7 1 (0.027%) Revit
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.86%) SDL Web 8
3 17 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.40%) Shopify
5 12 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
7 9 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
7 9 (0.24%) Magento
7 9 (0.24%) Visualfiles
8 6 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.11%) CiviCRM
11 2 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.053%) HFM
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.053%) R3 Corda
11 2 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.053%) SAP Business ByDesign
12 1 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.027%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,107 (29.61%) AWS
2 1,034 (27.65%) Azure
3 425 (11.37%) GCP
4 306 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 186 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (4.76%) Serverless
7 167 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
8 117 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 112 (3.00%) GitHub
10 107 (2.86%) SaaS
11 92 (2.46%) Power Automate
12 86 (2.30%) dbt
13 68 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
14 60 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (1.60%) Snowflake
15 59 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
16 44 (1.18%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
18 41 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
19 37 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.62%) TCP/IP
2 21 (0.56%) Internet
3 12 (0.32%) VPN
4 11 (0.29%) BGP
4 11 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (0.29%) HTTP
4 11 (0.29%) MPLS
5 8 (0.21%) 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 (0.13%) FTP
9 3 (0.080%) SSH
10 2 (0.053%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.053%) Intranet
10 2 (0.053%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.027%) DNS
11 1 (0.027%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 500 (13.37%) SQL Server
2 290 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (5.40%) Apache Ignite
4 188 (5.03%) Power BI
5 160 (4.28%) Relational Database
6 148 (3.96%) MySQL
7 145 (3.88%) MongoDB
8 118 (3.16%) NoSQL
9 112 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 88 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
11 85 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
11 85 (2.27%) Dremio
12 84 (2.25%) Apache Arrow
13 82 (2.19%) Redis
14 79 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 68 (1.82%) Data Lake
16 59 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
17 49 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (0.91%) Oracle Database
19 33 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 378 (10.11%) Git
2 136 (3.64%) JIRA
3 87 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 82 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 69 (1.85%) Visual Studio
6 52 (1.39%) GitLab
7 44 (1.18%) NUnit
8 42 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 40 (1.07%) JUnit
10 39 (1.04%) Moq
11 34 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
12 30 (0.80%) Selenium
13 27 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
14 21 (0.56%) SpecFlow
15 20 (0.53%) Sourcetree
16 18 (0.48%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.48%) git-flow
16 18 (0.48%) Maven
17 17 (0.45%) Bitbucket
18 16 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,104 (29.53%) Finance
2 581 (15.54%) Social Skills
3 535 (14.31%) Front Office
4 384 (10.27%) Banking
5 177 (4.73%) Investment Banking
6 166 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 119 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 117 (3.13%) Marketing
9 101 (2.70%) Public Sector
10 100 (2.67%) Law
11 75 (2.01%) Games
12 66 (1.77%) Legal
13 60 (1.60%) Back Office
14 56 (1.50%) Retail
15 36 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 30 (0.80%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.70%) Advertising
17 26 (0.70%) Financial Institution
18 23 (0.62%) Turkish Language
19 16 (0.43%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 925 (24.74%) .NET
2 779 (20.83%) React
3 579 (15.49%) AngularJS
4 541 (14.47%) HTML
5 494 (13.21%) CSS
6 349 (9.33%) ASP.NET
7 310 (8.29%) Node.js
8 293 (7.84%) .NET Core
9 287 (7.68%) Redux
10 284 (7.60%) Vue
11 258 (6.90%) REST
12 234 (6.26%) RESTful
13 229 (6.12%) gRPC
14 223 (5.96%) Web Services
15 213 (5.70%) Protocol Buffers
15 213 (5.70%) Spring
16 212 (5.67%) .NET Framework
16 212 (5.67%) Spring Boot
17 161 (4.31%) jQuery
18 157 (4.20%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 411 (10.99%) Fixed Income
2 380 (10.16%) Hedge funds
3 311 (8.32%) Equities
4 288 (7.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 213 (5.70%) Derivative
6 206 (5.51%) Greenfield Project
7 105 (2.81%) Data Structures
8 93 (2.49%) Algorithms
9 92 (2.46%) Client/Server
9 92 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
10 85 (2.27%) Product Ownership
11 53 (1.42%) IoT
12 51 (1.36%) Cloud Native
12 51 (1.36%) Mobile App
13 49 (1.31%) Blockchain
14 45 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 42 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.04%) Onboarding
17 33 (0.88%) Legacy Code
18 31 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 144 (3.85%) Linux
2 73 (1.95%) Windows
3 57 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.39%) Android
5 44 (1.18%) Unix
6 17 (0.45%) CentOS
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.027%) Solaris
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,269 (33.94%) Agile
2 973 (26.02%) Full Stack Development
3 723 (19.34%) Software Engineering
4 518 (13.85%) DevOps
5 450 (12.04%) Microservices
6 449 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
7 424 (11.34%) TDD
8 417 (11.15%) Fintech
9 405 (10.83%) Asset Management
10 401 (10.72%) Computer Science
11 352 (9.41%) Investment Management
12 300 (8.02%) CI/CD
13 275 (7.35%) Mentoring
14 264 (7.06%) Scrum
15 254 (6.79%) MVC
16 236 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
17 232 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence
18 220 (5.88%) Front End Development
19 216 (5.78%) Analytics
20 203 (5.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,188 (31.77%) JavaScript
2 1,008 (26.96%) C#
3 925 (24.74%) SQL
4 847 (22.65%) Python
5 817 (21.85%) Java
6 709 (18.96%) TypeScript
7 160 (4.28%) PHP
8 129 (3.45%) Kotlin
9 126 (3.37%) C++
9 126 (3.37%) T-SQL
10 67 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 63 (1.68%) Ruby
12 59 (1.58%) Scala
13 54 (1.44%) Go
14 53 (1.42%) Apex Code
15 43 (1.15%) C
15 43 (1.15%) PowerShell
16 42 (1.12%) R
17 38 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 33 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 463 (12.38%) Degree
2 165 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 140 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 90 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 67 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 29 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
7 23 (0.62%) PhD
8 17 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 11 (0.29%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.27%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.21%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.080%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.080%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.080%) MCSD
15 2 (0.053%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 2 (0.053%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (3.40%) QA
2 23 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.32%) GDPR
5 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.24%) MiFID
6 7 (0.19%) WCAG
7 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.080%) EMIR
8 3 (0.080%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.080%) PMO
8 3 (0.080%) SLA
9 2 (0.053%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.053%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.053%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.053%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.053%) WAI
System Software
1 353 (9.44%) Docker
2 12 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.21%) HDFS
5 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.053%) 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
1 277 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 106 (2.83%) Terraform
3 41 (1.10%) Ansible
4 21 (0.56%) Grafana
5 19 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.24%) Kibana
8 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.11%) Control-M
10 3 (0.080%) Packer
11 2 (0.053%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.027%) Consul
12 1 (0.027%) cPanel
12 1 (0.027%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.027%) Knative
12 1 (0.027%) MIIS
12 1 (0.027%) Nagios
12 1 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 471 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 153 (4.09%) Google
3 136 (3.64%) Oracle
4 83 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 65 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 38 (1.02%) Bloomberg
7 37 (0.99%) Adobe
8 26 (0.70%) IBM
9 22 (0.59%) Databricks
9 22 (0.59%) WSO2
10 20 (0.53%) MuleSoft
11 18 (0.48%) Cognizant
12 17 (0.45%) Atlassian
12 17 (0.45%) Sybase
13 16 (0.43%) OpenAI
13 16 (0.43%) Progress
13 16 (0.43%) SAP
14 15 (0.40%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.37%) Unisys
16 13 (0.35%) Aderant