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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 505 1,048 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.03% 22.12% 21.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.68% 22.93% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 449 954 1,326
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 £107,313 £101,250
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 3,220 4,571 6,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 96.48% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 3,851 5,615
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 2 May 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 2 May 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.

1 172 (34.06%) Agile
2 170 (33.66%) AWS
3 148 (29.31%) JavaScript
4 145 (28.71%) Java
5 141 (27.92%) SQL
5 141 (27.92%) .NET
6 140 (27.72%) C#
7 139 (27.52%) Azure
8 105 (20.79%) Social Skills
9 104 (20.59%) Finance
10 100 (19.80%) Full Stack Development
11 99 (19.60%) Degree
12 98 (19.41%) HTML
13 96 (19.01%) SQL Server
14 93 (18.42%) Fintech
15 90 (17.82%) DevOps
15 90 (17.82%) CSS
16 87 (17.23%) Computer Science
17 81 (16.04%) React
18 80 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
19 71 (14.06%) CI/CD
20 67 (13.27%) Git
20 67 (13.27%) Kubernetes
21 66 (13.07%) Microservices
21 66 (13.07%) TDD
22 63 (12.48%) Microsoft
23 62 (12.28%) Python
23 62 (12.28%) Docker
23 62 (12.28%) Power Platform
24 61 (12.08%) 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 (5.35%) CMS
2 14 (2.77%) Drupal
2 14 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.39%) WordPress
4 5 (0.99%) IIS
5 4 (0.79%) Apache
5 4 (0.79%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.40%) Moodle
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.20%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (1.58%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (2.38%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Magento
4 2 (0.40%) 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
1 170 (33.66%) AWS
2 139 (27.52%) Azure
3 62 (12.28%) Power Platform
4 36 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (4.75%) GCP
5 24 (4.75%) Serverless
6 22 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (4.36%) PowerApps
7 15 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (2.97%) GitHub
7 15 (2.97%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.58%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 8 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.58%) Azure Functions
9 8 (1.58%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.58%) NuGet
10 7 (1.39%) PaaS
10 7 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Multicast
2 2 (0.40%) 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 96 (19.01%) SQL Server
2 48 (9.50%) Power BI
3 34 (6.73%) MySQL
4 19 (3.76%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.97%) Redis
8 11 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.78%) Big Data
10 8 (1.58%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.39%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.79%) Power Query
14 3 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.59%) DB2
14 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 3 (0.59%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 67 (13.27%) Git
2 29 (5.74%) JIRA
3 19 (3.76%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.77%) Moq
4 14 (2.77%) NUnit
5 13 (2.57%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.38%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.98%) SpecFlow
8 8 (1.58%) git-flow
8 8 (1.58%) GitLab
8 8 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.58%) Sourcetree
9 5 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.59%) Gradle
10 3 (0.59%) MSTest
10 3 (0.59%) Protractor
10 3 (0.59%) Storybook
11 2 (0.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 105 (20.79%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.59%) Finance
3 34 (6.73%) Banking
4 27 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.75%) Marketing
6 23 (4.55%) Front Office
7 16 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.77%) Law
9 12 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.58%) Legal
11 7 (1.39%) Games
11 7 (1.39%) Retail
12 6 (1.19%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.99%) Automotive
13 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.79%) Advertising
14 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Back Office
15 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (27.92%) .NET
2 98 (19.41%) HTML
3 90 (17.82%) CSS
4 81 (16.04%) React
5 61 (12.08%) RESTful
6 54 (10.69%) ASP.NET
7 49 (9.70%) AngularJS
8 38 (7.52%) .NET Framework
9 36 (7.13%) Web Services
10 33 (6.53%) jQuery
11 32 (6.34%) Node.js
12 31 (6.14%) REST
13 27 (5.35%) HTML5
14 26 (5.15%) Entity Framework
14 26 (5.15%) Kafka
14 26 (5.15%) XML
15 25 (4.95%) ASP.NET MVC
15 25 (4.95%) SOAP
15 25 (4.95%) Spring
15 25 (4.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.31%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (3.17%) Algorithms
3 13 (2.57%) Equities
3 13 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 10 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.78%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.19%) Derivative
8 6 (1.19%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.99%) Fixed Income
9 5 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.79%) Pricing Data
10 4 (0.79%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.59%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.59%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.75%) Windows
2 18 (3.56%) Linux
3 3 (0.59%) Android
3 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (34.06%) Agile
2 100 (19.80%) Full Stack Development
3 93 (18.42%) Fintech
4 90 (17.82%) DevOps
5 87 (17.23%) Computer Science
6 80 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (14.06%) CI/CD
8 66 (13.07%) Microservices
8 66 (13.07%) TDD
9 58 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (10.50%) Mentoring
11 43 (8.51%) Software Engineering
12 42 (8.32%) Analytics
12 42 (8.32%) Multithreading
13 40 (7.92%) Clean Code
14 39 (7.72%) Data Modelling
15 37 (7.33%) Scrum
16 35 (6.93%) Unit Testing
17 34 (6.73%) Collaborative Working
18 32 (6.34%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 148 (29.31%) JavaScript
2 145 (28.71%) Java
3 141 (27.92%) SQL
4 140 (27.72%) C#
5 62 (12.28%) Python
6 48 (9.50%) Kotlin
7 43 (8.51%) TypeScript
8 33 (6.53%) T-SQL
9 26 (5.15%) PHP
10 18 (3.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (2.97%) Apex Code
11 15 (2.97%) Scala
12 12 (2.38%) C++
12 12 (2.38%) XPath
13 8 (1.58%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.39%) Clojure
14 7 (1.39%) F#
14 7 (1.39%) Haskell
14 7 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (19.60%) Degree
2 33 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.16%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.18%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.59%) PhD
8 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.37%) QA
2 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
2 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (12.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.72%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 63 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.36%) Oracle
3 18 (3.56%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 10 (1.98%) Adobe
6 9 (1.78%) Google
7 8 (1.58%) Cognizant
8 5 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
8 5 (0.99%) Blue Prism
8 5 (0.99%) UiPath
9 4 (0.79%) Apttus
9 4 (0.79%) DocuSign
10 3 (0.59%) Databricks
10 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.40%) F5
11 2 (0.40%) Intapp
11 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.40%) SAP
11 2 (0.40%) Solace
12 1 (0.20%) Apple