Senior Backend Developer Jobs in London

Senior Backend Developer
England > London

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 578 709
Rank change year-on-year +99 +131 -200
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 22 49 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.093% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 22 35 71
10th Percentile - £61,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £108,438 £97,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 - £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% +8.00%

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 22,259 33,394 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,752 24,563 34,933
10th Percentile £38,138 £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 £91,250
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%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in London

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Backend Developer in London

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Backend Developer in London

Senior Backend 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 Senior Backend Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
West London - 1 £65,000 -
Senior Backend Developer
England

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior Backend 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 Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 15 (68.18%) Docker
2 13 (59.09%) Microservices
3 12 (54.55%) .NET
4 11 (50.00%) SDLC
5 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
6 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
6 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
6 9 (40.91%) Fintech
7 8 (36.36%) Node.js
7 8 (36.36%) Azure
7 8 (36.36%) Agile
8 7 (31.82%) SQL
8 7 (31.82%) AWS
8 7 (31.82%) OAuth
8 7 (31.82%) MongoDB
8 7 (31.82%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (31.82%) GCP
8 7 (31.82%) Kafka
8 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
8 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
8 7 (31.82%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (27.27%) gRPC
9 6 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (27.27%) Mongoose
9 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
9 6 (27.27%) npm
9 6 (27.27%) Yarn
9 6 (27.27%) Jest
9 6 (27.27%) Serverless
9 6 (27.27%) MEAN Stack

Senior Backend 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 6 (27.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
3 6 (27.27%) npm
3 6 (27.27%) Serverless
3 6 (27.27%) Yarn
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) MongoDB
1 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Cypress.io
1 6 (27.27%) Mocha
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Games
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) .NET
2 8 (36.36%) Node.js
3 7 (31.82%) Kafka
3 7 (31.82%) OAuth
3 7 (31.82%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (27.27%) AngularJS
4 6 (27.27%) Express.js
4 6 (27.27%) GraphQL
4 6 (27.27%) gRPC
4 6 (27.27%) Jest
4 6 (27.27%) JWT
4 6 (27.27%) MEAN Stack
4 6 (27.27%) MERN Stack
4 6 (27.27%) Mongoose
4 6 (27.27%) NestJS
4 6 (27.27%) OAuth2
4 6 (27.27%) OpenAPI
4 6 (27.27%) React
5 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (22.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Derivative
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Android
1 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Microservices
2 11 (50.00%) SDLC
3 9 (40.91%) Fintech
3 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Observability
5 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (18.18%) MVC
6 4 (18.18%) User Experience
7 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
8 2 (9.09%) Clean Code
8 2 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 2 (9.09%) DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) C#
3 6 (27.27%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) Kotlin
3 6 (27.27%) Python
4 5 (22.73%) Go
5 4 (18.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Grafana
2 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Google