Developer Jobs in the City of London

Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Developer salary in the City of London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 512 1,042 1,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.24% 21.82% 21.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.91% 22.63% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 455 947 1,339
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,125 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +6.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,218 4,605 6,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.44% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 3,879 5,627
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Developer in the City of London

Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 City of London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 175 (34.18%) Agile
2 173 (33.79%) AWS
3 151 (29.49%) Java
4 148 (28.91%) JavaScript
5 142 (27.73%) SQL
6 141 (27.54%) .NET
7 140 (27.34%) C#
7 140 (27.34%) Azure
8 104 (20.31%) Social Skills
8 104 (20.31%) Finance
9 100 (19.53%) Degree
9 100 (19.53%) Full Stack Development
10 98 (19.14%) HTML
11 95 (18.55%) SQL Server
12 94 (18.36%) Fintech
13 89 (17.38%) DevOps
13 89 (17.38%) CSS
14 88 (17.19%) Computer Science
15 83 (16.21%) React
16 80 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
17 73 (14.26%) CI/CD
18 71 (13.87%) Kubernetes
19 67 (13.09%) TDD
20 66 (12.89%) Microservices
20 66 (12.89%) Git
21 65 (12.70%) Python
22 64 (12.50%) Docker
23 63 (12.30%) Microsoft
24 62 (12.11%) Power Platform
25 60 (11.72%) RESTful

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 27 (5.27%) CMS
2 15 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.73%) Drupal
4 7 (1.37%) WordPress
5 6 (1.17%) IIS
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
6 4 (0.78%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.39%) Confluence
7 2 (0.39%) Moodle
7 2 (0.39%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.20%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (1.56%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (2.34%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Endur
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 173 (33.79%) AWS
2 140 (27.34%) Azure
3 62 (12.11%) Power Platform
4 35 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (4.88%) GCP
6 24 (4.69%) Serverless
7 22 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (4.30%) PowerApps
8 15 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (2.93%) GitHub
8 15 (2.93%) Power Automate
9 9 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 8 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.56%) Azure Functions
10 8 (1.56%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.56%) NuGet
11 7 (1.37%) PaaS
11 7 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Multicast
2 2 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (18.55%) SQL Server
2 48 (9.38%) Power BI
3 34 (6.64%) MySQL
4 20 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.93%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.93%) Redis
8 11 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (1.95%) Big Data
10 9 (1.76%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.37%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.37%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.78%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.78%) Power Query
14 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 3 (0.59%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 66 (12.89%) Git
2 28 (5.47%) JIRA
3 20 (3.91%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.73%) Moq
4 14 (2.73%) NUnit
5 13 (2.54%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.34%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.95%) SpecFlow
8 8 (1.56%) git-flow
8 8 (1.56%) GitLab
8 8 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.56%) Sourcetree
9 5 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.59%) Gradle
10 3 (0.59%) MSTest
10 3 (0.59%) Protractor
10 3 (0.59%) Storybook
11 2 (0.39%) Maven
11 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 104 (20.31%) Finance
1 104 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.45%) Banking
3 26 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.88%) Front Office
5 24 (4.69%) Marketing
6 16 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.93%) Law
8 12 (2.34%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.56%) Legal
10 7 (1.37%) Games
10 7 (1.37%) Retail
11 6 (1.17%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.98%) Automotive
12 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Advertising
13 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Back Office
14 3 (0.59%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (27.54%) .NET
2 98 (19.14%) HTML
3 89 (17.38%) CSS
4 83 (16.21%) React
5 60 (11.72%) RESTful
6 54 (10.55%) ASP.NET
7 50 (9.77%) AngularJS
8 37 (7.23%) .NET Framework
8 37 (7.23%) Web Services
9 32 (6.25%) jQuery
9 32 (6.25%) REST
10 31 (6.05%) Node.js
11 29 (5.66%) Kafka
12 27 (5.27%) HTML5
12 27 (5.27%) Spring Boot
12 27 (5.27%) XML
13 26 (5.08%) Spring
14 25 (4.88%) ASP.NET MVC
14 25 (4.88%) Entity Framework
15 24 (4.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 15 (2.93%) Equities
3 15 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (2.34%) Legacy Code
5 10 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.76%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.17%) Derivative
9 6 (1.17%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.17%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.98%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.78%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.78%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.59%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.59%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.49%) Windows
2 18 (3.52%) Linux
3 3 (0.59%) Android
3 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (34.18%) Agile
2 100 (19.53%) Full Stack Development
3 94 (18.36%) Fintech
4 89 (17.38%) DevOps
5 88 (17.19%) Computer Science
6 80 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (14.26%) CI/CD
8 67 (13.09%) TDD
9 66 (12.89%) Microservices
10 58 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
11 55 (10.74%) Mentoring
12 43 (8.40%) Multithreading
12 43 (8.40%) Software Engineering
13 41 (8.01%) Analytics
13 41 (8.01%) Clean Code
14 38 (7.42%) Data Modelling
15 37 (7.23%) Scrum
16 35 (6.84%) Unit Testing
17 33 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
18 32 (6.25%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 151 (29.49%) Java
2 148 (28.91%) JavaScript
3 142 (27.73%) SQL
4 140 (27.34%) C#
5 65 (12.70%) Python
6 49 (9.57%) Kotlin
7 44 (8.59%) TypeScript
8 33 (6.45%) T-SQL
9 26 (5.08%) PHP
10 18 (3.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (2.93%) Apex Code
11 15 (2.93%) Scala
12 14 (2.73%) C++
13 12 (2.34%) XPath
14 8 (1.56%) PowerShell
15 7 (1.37%) Clojure
15 7 (1.37%) F#
15 7 (1.37%) Haskell
15 7 (1.37%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 100 (19.53%) Degree
2 35 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.10%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.15%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.59%) PhD
8 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.13%) QA
2 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
2 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.81%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 63 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.10%) Oracle
3 18 (3.52%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 10 (1.95%) Adobe
6 9 (1.76%) Google
7 8 (1.56%) Cognizant
8 5 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
8 5 (0.98%) Blue Prism
8 5 (0.98%) UiPath
9 4 (0.78%) Apttus
9 4 (0.78%) DocuSign
10 3 (0.59%) Databricks
10 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.39%) F5
11 2 (0.39%) Intapp
11 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.39%) SAP
11 2 (0.39%) Solace
12 1 (0.20%) IBM