Senior Developer Jobs in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 71 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 886 1,577 3,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.77% 4.36% 5.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% 4.59% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 764 1,215 2,068
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,323 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £81,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.98% +9.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

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 22,145 34,385 62,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.08% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,692 25,122 34,959
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior 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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 -22 144 £85,000 -5.56% 18
South London +30 34 £65,000 -10.34% 3
West London -4 10 £80,000 -5.88% 2
East London +7 4 £72,500 -27.50% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 363 (40.97%) JavaScript
2 287 (32.39%) SQL
3 285 (32.17%) AWS
4 280 (31.60%) C#
5 271 (30.59%) .NET
6 256 (28.89%) Agile
7 249 (28.10%) Finance
8 240 (27.09%) Azure
9 237 (26.75%) React
10 202 (22.80%) Java
11 199 (22.46%) AngularJS
11 199 (22.46%) Full Stack Development
12 183 (20.65%) TypeScript
13 182 (20.54%) Python
14 164 (18.51%) Social Skills
15 160 (18.06%) HTML
16 158 (17.83%) CSS
17 144 (16.25%) Software Engineering
18 136 (15.35%) Microservices
19 115 (12.98%) SQL Server
19 115 (12.98%) DevOps
19 115 (12.98%) Mentoring
20 107 (12.08%) Degree
21 105 (11.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 102 (11.51%) Vue
23 96 (10.84%) Computer Science
24 95 (10.72%) Fintech
25 94 (10.61%) Front Office
26 93 (10.50%) Asset Management
27 92 (10.38%) ASP.NET

Senior 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 21 (2.37%) CMS
2 20 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.69%) Apache
4 9 (1.02%) JBoss
4 9 (1.02%) Mendix
4 9 (1.02%) OpenStack
4 9 (1.02%) Red Hat Fuse
4 9 (1.02%) WordPress
5 7 (0.79%) Confluence
5 7 (0.79%) Drupal
5 7 (0.79%) nginx
6 5 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.56%) K2 blackpearl
7 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (1.47%) Photoshop
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.47%) SDL Web 8
2 8 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.56%) Endur
4 4 (0.45%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) Magento
6 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 285 (32.17%) AWS
2 240 (27.09%) Azure
3 85 (9.59%) GCP
4 48 (5.42%) Power Platform
5 41 (4.63%) Serverless
6 32 (3.61%) SaaS
7 31 (3.50%) GitHub
8 29 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.60%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.14%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.69%) Azure Functions
13 13 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 13 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.47%) NuGet
14 12 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) AMQP
2 3 (0.34%) VoIP
3 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.23%) HTTP
3 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) MQTT
4 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 60 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (5.08%) MySQL
3 45 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 33 (3.72%) Oracle Database
5 29 (3.27%) Power BI
6 21 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.26%) Redis
7 20 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
11 8 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.68%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.45%) Apache Arrow
13 4 (0.45%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (0.45%) Dremio
13 4 (0.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 89 (10.05%) Git
2 44 (4.97%) JIRA
3 23 (2.60%) Oracle APEX
4 19 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.14%) Visual Studio
5 17 (1.92%) NUnit
6 15 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.69%) Moq
6 15 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (1.69%) Sourcetree
6 15 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.47%) git-flow
7 13 (1.47%) SpecFlow
8 12 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 11 (1.24%) JUnit
10 7 (0.79%) CMake
10 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.79%) Storybook
11 6 (0.68%) fastlane
11 6 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 249 (28.10%) Finance
2 164 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 94 (10.61%) Front Office
4 58 (6.55%) Banking
5 47 (5.30%) Back Office
6 43 (4.85%) Marketing
7 34 (3.84%) Investment Banking
8 28 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (2.82%) Games
10 19 (2.14%) Retail
11 18 (2.03%) Legal
12 17 (1.92%) Tech for Good
13 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.69%) Public Sector
14 11 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.24%) Law
15 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.56%) Advertising
16 5 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (30.59%) .NET
2 237 (26.75%) React
3 199 (22.46%) AngularJS
4 160 (18.06%) HTML
5 158 (17.83%) CSS
6 102 (11.51%) Vue
7 92 (10.38%) ASP.NET
8 80 (9.03%) Node.js
9 79 (8.92%) Spring
10 70 (7.90%) REST
11 63 (7.11%) .NET Core
12 62 (7.00%) RESTful
13 59 (6.66%) Redux
14 54 (6.09%) Kafka
15 49 (5.53%) jQuery
15 49 (5.53%) Spring Boot
16 46 (5.19%) .NET Framework
17 45 (5.08%) JSON
18 43 (4.85%) Web Services
19 39 (4.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 105 (11.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 78 (8.80%) Equities
3 71 (8.01%) Derivative
4 66 (7.45%) Fixed Income
5 61 (6.88%) Greenfield Project
5 61 (6.88%) Hedge funds
6 39 (4.40%) IoT
7 28 (3.16%) Product Ownership
8 27 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.48%) Mobile App
10 20 (2.26%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.58%) Legacy Code
13 10 (1.13%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.13%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.61%) Linux
1 32 (3.61%) Windows
2 27 (3.05%) Apple iOS
3 23 (2.60%) Android
4 10 (1.13%) Unix
5 7 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (28.89%) Agile
2 199 (22.46%) Full Stack Development
3 144 (16.25%) Software Engineering
4 136 (15.35%) Microservices
5 115 (12.98%) DevOps
5 115 (12.98%) Mentoring
6 96 (10.84%) Computer Science
7 95 (10.72%) Fintech
8 93 (10.50%) Asset Management
9 91 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (8.58%) CI/CD
10 76 (8.58%) Investment Management
11 71 (8.01%) Front End Development
12 60 (6.77%) TDD
13 53 (5.98%) Multithreading
14 51 (5.76%) Low Latency
15 49 (5.53%) User Experience
16 48 (5.42%) Scrum
17 47 (5.30%) Clean Code
17 47 (5.30%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 363 (40.97%) JavaScript
2 287 (32.39%) SQL
3 280 (31.60%) C#
4 202 (22.80%) Java
5 183 (20.65%) TypeScript
6 182 (20.54%) Python
7 41 (4.63%) PHP
7 41 (4.63%) PL/SQL
8 37 (4.18%) T-SQL
9 33 (3.72%) Ruby
10 26 (2.93%) Kotlin
11 24 (2.71%) C++
12 15 (1.69%) Apex Code
13 14 (1.58%) XPath
14 10 (1.13%) Go
15 7 (0.79%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.79%) Swift
16 6 (0.68%) Dart
16 6 (0.68%) Scala
17 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 107 (12.08%) Degree
2 29 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (1.81%) Master's Degree
4 15 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 14 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.34%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.39%) QA
2 6 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.45%) PMO
4 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.23%) GDPR
4 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.23%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.23%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (10.16%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.34%) OpenSIPS
5 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 81 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.58%) Ansible
3 6 (0.68%) Data Guard
3 6 (0.68%) Grafana
3 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.34%) Terraform
6 1 (0.11%) cPanel
6 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 79 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.87%) Oracle
3 23 (2.60%) Google
4 17 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 15 (1.69%) Adobe
6 13 (1.47%) Cognizant
7 9 (1.02%) WSO2
8 8 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.79%) Sybase
10 6 (0.68%) F5
11 5 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.56%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.56%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.45%) Murex
12 4 (0.45%) OpenLink
12 4 (0.45%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.45%) Vertica
13 3 (0.34%) Databricks
13 3 (0.34%) WooCommerce