Senior Developer Jobs in the City of London

Senior Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Developer salary in the City of London is £85,000 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 63 49 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 136 292 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.05% 6.12% 5.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.23% 6.34% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 108 281 362
10th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
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 £106,250
90th Percentile £119,500 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +16.13%

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%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the City of London

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

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

1 60 (44.12%) SQL
2 57 (41.91%) JavaScript
3 47 (34.56%) C#
4 46 (33.82%) .NET
4 46 (33.82%) Social Skills
5 45 (33.09%) AWS
6 40 (29.41%) Azure
6 40 (29.41%) CSS
6 40 (29.41%) HTML
7 39 (28.68%) Degree
8 33 (24.26%) Agile
8 33 (24.26%) SQL Server
9 31 (22.79%) Computer Science
10 29 (21.32%) React
11 26 (19.12%) DevOps
11 26 (19.12%) Full Stack Development
12 25 (18.38%) Finance
12 25 (18.38%) Java
13 23 (16.91%) Multithreading
14 21 (15.44%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (13.97%) Mentoring
15 19 (13.97%) Git
15 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (13.24%) WPF
16 18 (13.24%) E-Commerce
16 18 (13.24%) TypeScript
16 18 (13.24%) HTML5
17 17 (12.50%) Multithreaded Programming
17 17 (12.50%) Fintech
17 17 (12.50%) Windows

Senior 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 12 (8.82%) CMS
2 6 (4.41%) Drupal
3 4 (2.94%) WordPress
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.74%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.88%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Endur
3 1 (0.74%) Magento
3 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.09%) AWS
2 40 (29.41%) Azure
3 11 (8.09%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 8 (5.88%) NuGet
5 6 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.41%) Serverless
6 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.68%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.94%) GCP
7 4 (2.94%) Stripe
8 3 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.74%) GitHub
10 1 (0.74%) SaaS
10 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) HTTP
1 1 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.26%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.03%) MySQL
3 10 (7.35%) Power BI
4 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.41%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.41%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.94%) Redis
6 3 (2.21%) Power Query
7 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (13.97%) Git
2 10 (7.35%) JIRA
3 9 (6.62%) Moq
4 8 (5.88%) git-flow
4 8 (5.88%) NUnit
4 8 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (5.88%) Sourcetree
4 8 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 8 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.88%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.21%) Storybook
6 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.74%) MSTest
General
1 46 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.38%) Finance
3 17 (12.50%) Marketing
4 13 (9.56%) Banking
5 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.41%) Front Office
6 6 (4.41%) Retail Banking
7 5 (3.68%) Games
7 5 (3.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.47%) Back Office
8 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Police
9 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (33.82%) .NET
2 40 (29.41%) CSS
2 40 (29.41%) HTML
3 29 (21.32%) React
4 18 (13.24%) HTML5
4 18 (13.24%) WPF
5 16 (11.76%) RESTful
6 14 (10.29%) Node.js
7 13 (9.56%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.56%) Kafka
7 13 (9.56%) Web Services
8 12 (8.82%) .NET Framework
8 12 (8.82%) jQuery
9 10 (7.35%) ASP.NET
9 10 (7.35%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (6.62%) Entity Framework
10 9 (6.62%) XML
11 8 (5.88%) Ninject
11 8 (5.88%) SOAP
11 8 (5.88%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (5.88%) Legacy Code
3 7 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.41%) Equities
5 4 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.47%) PropTech
6 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.50%) Windows
2 9 (6.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.26%) Agile
2 31 (22.79%) Computer Science
3 26 (19.12%) DevOps
3 26 (19.12%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (16.91%) Multithreading
5 19 (13.97%) Mentoring
5 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.24%) E-Commerce
7 17 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 17 (12.50%) Fintech
7 17 (12.50%) Multithreaded Programming
7 17 (12.50%) Unit Testing
8 16 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (11.03%) Microservices
9 15 (11.03%) SOLID
10 14 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (9.56%) CI/CD
11 13 (9.56%) Migration
12 12 (8.82%) Data Migration
12 12 (8.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.12%) SQL
2 57 (41.91%) JavaScript
3 47 (34.56%) C#
4 25 (18.38%) Java
5 18 (13.24%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.56%) Python
6 13 (9.56%) T-SQL
7 12 (8.82%) PHP
8 8 (5.88%) XPath
9 6 (4.41%) PL/SQL
10 5 (3.68%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.21%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (28.68%) Degree
2 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.21%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) Adobe
3 8 (5.88%) Cognizant
3 8 (5.88%) Oracle
4 7 (5.15%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.21%) Databricks
5 3 (2.21%) Google
6 2 (1.47%) F5
7 1 (0.74%) Monzo
7 1 (0.74%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.74%) WorldPay