Senior Developer Jobs in Central London

Senior Developer
London > Central London

The median Senior Developer salary in Central London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 144 290 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.81% 5.51% 4.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% 5.74% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 117 279 382
10th Percentile £66,250 £64,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,598 5,054 7,700
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 96.10% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 4,217 6,457
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Central London.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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
City of London -10 135 £86,250 -4.17% 18
City of Westminster -5 10 £80,000 -3.03% 1
Camden -4 6 £80,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £50,000 -
Senior Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 Central London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 62 (43.06%) SQL
2 59 (40.97%) JavaScript
3 49 (34.03%) C#
3 49 (34.03%) .NET
4 48 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 44 (30.56%) AWS
6 41 (28.47%) Azure
6 41 (28.47%) HTML
6 41 (28.47%) CSS
6 41 (28.47%) Degree
7 34 (23.61%) Agile
7 34 (23.61%) SQL Server
8 32 (22.22%) Computer Science
9 29 (20.14%) React
10 28 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
11 26 (18.06%) DevOps
12 25 (17.36%) Multithreading
13 24 (16.67%) Finance
13 24 (16.67%) Java
14 22 (15.28%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (13.89%) Git
16 19 (13.19%) HTML5
16 19 (13.19%) Fintech
17 18 (12.50%) Mentoring
17 18 (12.50%) TypeScript
17 18 (12.50%) Windows
17 18 (12.50%) E-Commerce
17 18 (12.50%) Marketing
17 18 (12.50%) Collaborative Working

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 12 (8.33%) CMS
2 6 (4.17%) Drupal
3 5 (3.47%) K2 blackpearl
3 5 (3.47%) Mendix
4 4 (2.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.56%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Endur
3 1 (0.69%) Magento
3 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.56%) AWS
2 41 (28.47%) Azure
3 11 (7.64%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 8 (5.56%) NuGet
5 6 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.17%) Serverless
6 5 (3.47%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.47%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.78%) GCP
7 4 (2.78%) Stripe
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.69%) GitHub
10 1 (0.69%) SaaS
10 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) HTTP
1 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.61%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.42%) MySQL
3 10 (6.94%) Power BI
4 7 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.17%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 4 (2.78%) Redis
7 3 (2.08%) Power Query
8 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.69%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (13.89%) Git
2 11 (7.64%) JIRA
3 9 (6.25%) Moq
3 9 (6.25%) NUnit
4 8 (5.56%) git-flow
4 8 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (5.56%) Sourcetree
4 8 (5.56%) SpecFlow
4 8 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.56%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.08%) Storybook
6 2 (1.39%) MSTest
7 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.67%) Finance
3 18 (12.50%) Marketing
4 13 (9.03%) Banking
5 8 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.86%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.17%) Front Office
7 6 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 5 (3.47%) Games
8 5 (3.47%) Retail
9 2 (1.39%) Back Office
9 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Police
10 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (34.03%) .NET
2 41 (28.47%) CSS
2 41 (28.47%) HTML
3 29 (20.14%) React
4 19 (13.19%) HTML5
5 17 (11.81%) WPF
6 16 (11.11%) RESTful
7 14 (9.72%) AngularJS
7 14 (9.72%) Node.js
8 13 (9.03%) jQuery
8 13 (9.03%) Kafka
8 13 (9.03%) Web Services
9 12 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 10 (6.94%) ASP.NET
10 10 (6.94%) ASP.NET MVC
10 10 (6.94%) XML
11 9 (6.25%) Entity Framework
12 8 (5.56%) Autofac
12 8 (5.56%) Ninject
12 8 (5.56%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.28%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 7 (4.86%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.17%) Equities
5 5 (3.47%) BBC
5 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.47%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.39%) PropTech
7 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) 3D Printing
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.50%) Windows
2 8 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.61%) Agile
2 32 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 28 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
4 26 (18.06%) DevOps
5 25 (17.36%) Multithreading
6 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.19%) Fintech
8 18 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
8 18 (12.50%) E-Commerce
8 18 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 18 (12.50%) Multithreaded Programming
9 17 (11.81%) Unit Testing
10 16 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (10.42%) Microservices
11 15 (10.42%) SOLID
12 14 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (9.03%) CI/CD
13 13 (9.03%) Migration
13 13 (9.03%) Scrum
14 12 (8.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.06%) SQL
2 59 (40.97%) JavaScript
3 49 (34.03%) C#
4 24 (16.67%) Java
5 18 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.72%) T-SQL
7 12 (8.33%) PHP
8 11 (7.64%) Python
9 8 (5.56%) XPath
10 6 (4.17%) PL/SQL
11 5 (3.47%) Apex Code
12 3 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.08%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.69%) C++
13 1 (0.69%) Elixir
13 1 (0.69%) Go
13 1 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (28.47%) Degree
2 5 (3.47%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.47%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.25%) Adobe
2 9 (6.25%) Oracle
3 8 (5.56%) Cognizant
4 7 (4.86%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.47%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (3.47%) Blue Prism
6 3 (2.08%) Databricks
6 3 (2.08%) Google
7 2 (1.39%) F5
8 1 (0.69%) Monzo
8 1 (0.69%) Sybase
8 1 (0.69%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.69%) WorldPay