Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £75,000 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 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,691 6,453 15,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.64% 18.24% 22.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.62% 19.19% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,137 5,339 8,251
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,581 £60,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +4.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% +10.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,214 33,631 64,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 95.05% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,714 24,683 34,818
10th Percentile £38,110 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in London

Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -5 549 £77,500 -3.13% 116
South London 0 105 £67,500 +12.50% 11
North London +23 41 £55,000 -15.38% 4
East London +12 34 £150,000 +81.82% 26
West London -57 24 £72,500 +30.83% 18
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,245 (33.73%) Agile
2 1,178 (31.92%) JavaScript
3 1,098 (29.75%) AWS
4 1,091 (29.56%) Finance
5 1,041 (28.20%) Azure
6 986 (26.71%) C#
7 947 (25.66%) Full Stack Development
8 914 (24.76%) SQL
9 909 (24.63%) .NET
10 849 (23.00%) Java
11 838 (22.70%) Python
12 768 (20.81%) React
13 702 (19.02%) Software Engineering
14 686 (18.59%) TypeScript
15 590 (15.98%) AngularJS
16 584 (15.82%) Social Skills
17 548 (14.85%) DevOps
18 527 (14.28%) HTML
18 527 (14.28%) Front Office
19 483 (13.09%) SQL Server
19 483 (13.09%) CSS
20 480 (13.00%) Microsoft
21 478 (12.95%) Microservices
22 459 (12.44%) Degree
23 445 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
24 426 (11.54%) TDD
25 413 (11.19%) Fintech
26 407 (11.03%) GCP
27 406 (11.00%) Computer Science
28 399 (10.81%) Fixed Income

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 183 (4.96%) Apache
2 170 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 72 (1.95%) CMS
5 47 (1.27%) WordPress
6 39 (1.06%) Confluence
7 37 (1.00%) Drupal
8 31 (0.84%) IIS
9 26 (0.70%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.54%) nginx
11 19 (0.51%) OpenEdge
12 17 (0.46%) Mendix
13 16 (0.43%) Apache Spark
13 16 (0.43%) Tomcat
14 14 (0.38%) JBoss
15 13 (0.35%) Appian
15 13 (0.35%) Ethereum
16 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
17 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
18 9 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.46%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.081%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.081%) Trello
6 2 (0.054%) Blender
6 2 (0.054%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.054%) Houdini
6 2 (0.054%) InDesign
6 2 (0.054%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.054%) Notion
7 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.62%) SDL Web 8
3 12 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 11 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.24%) Magento
5 9 (0.24%) Shopify
6 8 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.22%) Visualfiles
7 6 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.14%) BusinessWorks
8 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.11%) CiviCRM
9 4 (0.11%) Endur
10 3 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.081%) R3 Corda
11 2 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.054%) Oracle FAH
11 2 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,098 (29.75%) AWS
2 1,041 (28.20%) Azure
3 407 (11.03%) GCP
4 313 (8.48%) Power Platform
5 197 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (4.82%) Serverless
7 165 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
8 120 (3.25%) GitHub
8 120 (3.25%) PowerApps
9 105 (2.84%) SaaS
10 95 (2.57%) Power Automate
11 66 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
12 65 (1.76%) dbt
13 58 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 53 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (1.22%) Azure Functions
15 45 (1.22%) Snowflake
16 44 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
17 42 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.62%) Internet
2 22 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.33%) VPN
4 11 (0.30%) BGP
4 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (0.30%) MPLS
5 9 (0.24%) HTTP
6 7 (0.19%) Multicast
6 7 (0.19%) Network Security
6 7 (0.19%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.16%) AMQP
7 6 (0.16%) Broadband
7 6 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
8 4 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.054%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.054%) Intranet
9 2 (0.054%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.054%) SSH
10 1 (0.027%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.027%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 483 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 266 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
3 191 (5.17%) Power BI
4 165 (4.47%) Relational Database
5 154 (4.17%) Apache Ignite
6 147 (3.98%) MongoDB
7 141 (3.82%) MySQL
8 126 (3.41%) NoSQL
9 113 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 89 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 82 (2.22%) Redis
11 82 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 68 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
13 64 (1.73%) Dremio
14 63 (1.71%) Apache Arrow
15 57 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
16 50 (1.35%) Data Lake
17 49 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
18 38 (1.03%) Oracle Database
19 35 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 371 (10.05%) Git
2 124 (3.36%) JIRA
3 94 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 73 (1.98%) Cypress.io
5 64 (1.73%) Visual Studio
6 44 (1.19%) GitLab
7 42 (1.14%) JUnit
8 37 (1.00%) NUnit
9 36 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 34 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
10 34 (0.92%) Selenium
11 27 (0.73%) Moq
12 25 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
13 21 (0.57%) Maven
14 18 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 17 (0.46%) Mockito
15 17 (0.46%) SpecFlow
16 16 (0.43%) Bitbucket
17 15 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,091 (29.56%) Finance
2 584 (15.82%) Social Skills
3 527 (14.28%) Front Office
4 368 (9.97%) Banking
5 176 (4.77%) Investment Banking
6 163 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
7 107 (2.90%) Marketing
8 106 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (2.79%) Law
10 100 (2.71%) Public Sector
11 74 (2.00%) Games
12 61 (1.65%) Legal
13 58 (1.57%) Back Office
14 57 (1.54%) Retail
15 35 (0.95%) Tech for Good
16 30 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 26 (0.70%) Telecoms
18 24 (0.65%) Advertising
19 21 (0.57%) Turkish Language
20 18 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 909 (24.63%) .NET
2 768 (20.81%) React
3 590 (15.98%) AngularJS
4 527 (14.28%) HTML
5 483 (13.09%) CSS
6 342 (9.27%) ASP.NET
7 308 (8.34%) Node.js
8 301 (8.15%) .NET Core
9 286 (7.75%) Vue
10 267 (7.23%) REST
11 266 (7.21%) Redux
12 236 (6.39%) Spring
13 225 (6.10%) RESTful
14 211 (5.72%) Spring Boot
14 211 (5.72%) Web Services
15 210 (5.69%) .NET Framework
16 181 (4.90%) gRPC
17 167 (4.52%) Protocol Buffers
18 158 (4.28%) JSON
19 157 (4.25%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 399 (10.81%) Fixed Income
2 362 (9.81%) Hedge funds
3 295 (7.99%) Equities
4 289 (7.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 218 (5.91%) Derivative
6 210 (5.69%) Greenfield Project
7 110 (2.98%) Data Structures
8 94 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 91 (2.47%) Product Ownership
10 90 (2.44%) Client/Server
11 89 (2.41%) Algorithms
12 52 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 48 (1.30%) IoT
14 47 (1.27%) Cloud Native
15 43 (1.16%) Blockchain
16 41 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 40 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
18 36 (0.98%) Onboarding
19 33 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
20 31 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.04%) Linux
2 64 (1.73%) Windows
3 58 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.41%) Android
5 43 (1.16%) Unix
6 18 (0.49%) CentOS
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,245 (33.73%) Agile
2 947 (25.66%) Full Stack Development
3 702 (19.02%) Software Engineering
4 548 (14.85%) DevOps
5 478 (12.95%) Microservices
6 445 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
7 426 (11.54%) TDD
8 413 (11.19%) Fintech
9 406 (11.00%) Computer Science
10 380 (10.30%) Asset Management
11 339 (9.18%) Investment Management
12 306 (8.29%) CI/CD
13 287 (7.78%) Mentoring
14 256 (6.94%) Scrum
15 247 (6.69%) MVC
16 243 (6.58%) Analytics
17 238 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
18 235 (6.37%) Front End Development
19 201 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence
20 196 (5.31%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1,178 (31.92%) JavaScript
2 986 (26.71%) C#
3 914 (24.76%) SQL
4 849 (23.00%) Java
5 838 (22.70%) Python
6 686 (18.59%) TypeScript
7 163 (4.42%) PHP
8 138 (3.74%) C++
9 132 (3.58%) Kotlin
10 123 (3.33%) T-SQL
11 72 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 67 (1.82%) Scala
13 64 (1.73%) Ruby
14 54 (1.46%) Go
15 48 (1.30%) PowerShell
16 47 (1.27%) Apex Code
16 47 (1.27%) R
17 40 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 38 (1.03%) C
19 30 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 459 (12.44%) Degree
2 179 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 150 (4.06%) Security Cleared
4 91 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 61 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 38 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
7 19 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 18 (0.49%) PhD
9 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.38%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.24%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.22%) Postgraduate
14 5 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
16 3 (0.081%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (0.081%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (3.90%) QA
2 25 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 11 (0.30%) GDPR
4 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.24%) WCAG
6 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.14%) MiFID
8 3 (0.081%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.081%) PMO
8 3 (0.081%) SLA
9 2 (0.054%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.054%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.054%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.054%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.054%) WAI
10 1 (0.027%) COREP
10 1 (0.027%) EMIR
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS
10 1 (0.027%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 376 (10.19%) Docker
2 13 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.27%) HDFS
4 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.027%) GridGain
7 1 (0.027%) OpenSIPS
7 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.027%) Varnish
7 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 293 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 106 (2.87%) Terraform
3 44 (1.19%) Ansible
4 20 (0.54%) Grafana
5 19 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.19%) Kibana
8 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.14%) Control-M
10 2 (0.054%) Consul
10 2 (0.054%) Packer
11 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.027%) cPanel
11 1 (0.027%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.027%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.027%) MIIS
11 1 (0.027%) Nagios
11 1 (0.027%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 480 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 144 (3.90%) Oracle
3 141 (3.82%) Google
4 76 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 61 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 41 (1.11%) Bloomberg
7 33 (0.89%) Adobe
8 30 (0.81%) IBM
9 28 (0.76%) WSO2
10 19 (0.51%) MuleSoft
11 18 (0.49%) Databricks
11 18 (0.49%) Unisys
12 17 (0.46%) Sybase
13 16 (0.43%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.35%) Blue Prism
14 13 (0.35%) Cognizant
14 13 (0.35%) Progress
14 13 (0.35%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.35%) SAP
14 13 (0.35%) TIBCO