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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 500 1,023 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 14.99% 22.10% 20.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.62% 22.97% 21.75%
Number of salaries quoted 445 930 1,308
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% +0.63% +10.34%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%

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 3,202 4,453 6,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.01% 96.22% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,539 3,732 5,656
10th Percentile £41,200 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,441 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +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 £74,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +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 14 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 14 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.

1 171 (34.20%) Agile
2 167 (33.40%) AWS
3 153 (30.60%) JavaScript
4 142 (28.40%) .NET
4 142 (28.40%) Java
5 138 (27.60%) C#
6 137 (27.40%) Azure
7 136 (27.20%) SQL
8 103 (20.60%) Social Skills
9 102 (20.40%) HTML
10 101 (20.20%) Full Stack Development
11 100 (20.00%) Finance
12 97 (19.40%) SQL Server
12 97 (19.40%) Fintech
13 96 (19.20%) Degree
14 95 (19.00%) CSS
15 90 (18.00%) DevOps
16 86 (17.20%) Computer Science
17 83 (16.60%) React
18 77 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
19 69 (13.80%) CI/CD
20 68 (13.60%) Git
21 66 (13.20%) TDD
21 66 (13.20%) Kubernetes
22 62 (12.40%) Microservices
22 62 (12.40%) Docker
23 60 (12.00%) RESTful
23 60 (12.00%) Python
23 60 (12.00%) Microsoft
24 57 (11.40%) Power Platform

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 (5.40%) CMS
2 14 (2.80%) Drupal
3 12 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.40%) WordPress
5 4 (0.80%) Apache
5 4 (0.80%) EPiServer
5 4 (0.80%) IIS
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 (1.60%) Photoshop
2 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (2.40%) SDL Web 8
2 6 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) 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
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 167 (33.40%) AWS
2 137 (27.40%) Azure
3 57 (11.40%) Power Platform
4 36 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (4.80%) Serverless
6 23 (4.60%) GCP
7 21 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 15 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (3.00%) GitHub
10 14 (2.80%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 8 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.60%) Azure Functions
12 8 (1.60%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.60%) NuGet
13 7 (1.40%) PaaS
14 6 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Multicast
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.60%) Power BI
3 36 (7.20%) MySQL
4 19 (3.80%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.20%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.00%) Redis
7 14 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.60%) Big Data
10 7 (1.40%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.20%) Oracle Database 11g
11 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.80%) Power Query
13 3 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.60%) DB2
13 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 68 (13.60%) Git
2 30 (6.00%) JIRA
3 17 (3.40%) Visual Studio
4 15 (3.00%) Moq
5 14 (2.80%) NUnit
6 13 (2.60%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.40%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.00%) SpecFlow
9 8 (1.60%) git-flow
9 8 (1.60%) GitLab
9 8 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (1.60%) Sourcetree
10 5 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.80%) MSTest
12 3 (0.60%) Protractor
12 3 (0.60%) Storybook
13 2 (0.40%) Maven
14 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.20%) Gradle
General
1 103 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 100 (20.00%) Finance
3 33 (6.60%) Banking
4 26 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.60%) Marketing
6 22 (4.40%) Front Office
7 16 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.60%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.20%) Law
10 8 (1.60%) Games
10 8 (1.60%) Legal
11 7 (1.40%) Retail
12 6 (1.20%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.00%) Automotive
13 5 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.80%) Advertising
14 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.60%) Back Office
16 2 (0.40%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (28.40%) .NET
2 102 (20.40%) HTML
3 95 (19.00%) CSS
4 83 (16.60%) React
5 60 (12.00%) RESTful
6 55 (11.00%) ASP.NET
7 51 (10.20%) AngularJS
8 40 (8.00%) .NET Framework
9 37 (7.40%) Web Services
10 35 (7.00%) jQuery
11 33 (6.60%) Node.js
12 30 (6.00%) REST
13 28 (5.60%) Entity Framework
13 28 (5.60%) HTML5
14 26 (5.20%) ASP.NET MVC
14 26 (5.20%) SOAP
15 25 (5.00%) Kafka
16 23 (4.60%) Spring Boot
16 23 (4.60%) XML
17 22 (4.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (3.20%) Algorithms
3 13 (2.60%) Equities
4 12 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (2.40%) Legacy Code
5 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.00%) Derivative
8 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.00%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.80%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.80%) Pricing Data
9 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.60%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.40%) CMDB
11 2 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.00%) Windows
2 16 (3.20%) Linux
3 2 (0.40%) Android
3 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (34.20%) Agile
2 101 (20.20%) Full Stack Development
3 97 (19.40%) Fintech
4 90 (18.00%) DevOps
5 86 (17.20%) Computer Science
6 77 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (13.80%) CI/CD
8 66 (13.20%) TDD
9 62 (12.40%) Microservices
10 54 (10.80%) Mentoring
11 53 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (8.60%) Multithreading
13 42 (8.40%) Clean Code
14 41 (8.20%) Analytics
15 40 (8.00%) Software Engineering
16 38 (7.60%) Data Modelling
17 37 (7.40%) Scrum
18 35 (7.00%) Unit Testing
19 33 (6.60%) Collaborative Working
20 32 (6.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 153 (30.60%) JavaScript
2 142 (28.40%) Java
3 138 (27.60%) C#
4 136 (27.20%) SQL
5 60 (12.00%) Python
6 49 (9.80%) Kotlin
7 42 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 32 (6.40%) T-SQL
9 25 (5.00%) PHP
10 17 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (3.00%) Apex Code
12 14 (2.80%) Scala
13 12 (2.40%) XPath
14 9 (1.80%) C++
14 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.20%) Clojure
15 6 (1.20%) F#
15 6 (1.20%) Haskell
15 6 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (19.20%) Degree
2 31 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.20%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.60%) PhD
8 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.40%) QA
2 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
2 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (12.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (13.20%) Kubernetes
2 40 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Ansible
3 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 60 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.40%) Oracle
3 18 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.00%) Adobe
6 8 (1.60%) Cognizant
6 8 (1.60%) Google
7 5 (1.00%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (1.00%) Blue Prism
7 5 (1.00%) UiPath
8 4 (0.80%) Apttus
8 4 (0.80%) DocuSign
9 3 (0.60%) Databricks
9 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.60%) SAP
10 2 (0.40%) F5
10 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.40%) Solace
11 1 (0.20%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.20%) Vertica