Developer Jobs in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer salary in South London is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 104 93 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 11.66% 12.14% 13.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.26% 13.23% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 82 53 147
10th Percentile £52,625 £46,500 £39,800
25th Percentile £59,250 £51,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £63,781
90th Percentile - £94,500 £81,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 848 703 1,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 91.78% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 416 392 675
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £35,229
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.42%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,150 £63,781
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in South London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in South London

Developer
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Croydon +1 61 £75,000 +36.36% 5
Kingston Upon Thames -19 17 £65,000 -14.75% 2
Wandsworth +20 8 £70,000 -
Sutton -7 7 £67,500 -32.50%
Bromley -12 6 £53,750 -10.42% 1
Merton +3 4 £82,500 +8.20% 1
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 South London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 59 (56.73%) Agile
2 55 (52.88%) Full Stack Development
3 51 (49.04%) AWS
4 50 (48.08%) Java
5 49 (47.12%) Microservices
6 46 (44.23%) JavaScript
7 44 (42.31%) Docker
8 40 (38.46%) DevOps
8 40 (38.46%) Scrum
9 39 (37.50%) TDD
9 39 (37.50%) Kanban
9 39 (37.50%) Kubernetes
9 39 (37.50%) Azure
9 39 (37.50%) Serverless
10 38 (36.54%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (34.62%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (34.62%) Public Sector
11 36 (34.62%) BDD
11 36 (34.62%) Jenkins
12 35 (33.65%) AngularJS
12 35 (33.65%) REST
12 35 (33.65%) Spring Boot
12 35 (33.65%) Security Cleared
12 35 (33.65%) Git
12 35 (33.65%) Spring
13 34 (32.69%) Web Services
14 33 (31.73%) C#
15 32 (30.77%) SC Cleared
15 32 (30.77%) Ansible

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 25 (24.04%) OpenStack
2 10 (9.62%) JBoss
2 10 (9.62%) Red Hat Fuse
3 8 (7.69%) Apache
4 7 (6.73%) Confluence
5 4 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.96%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (49.04%) AWS
2 39 (37.50%) Azure
2 39 (37.50%) Serverless
3 36 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
3 36 (34.62%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.77%) SaaS
5 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.85%) Power Automate
5 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.85%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.96%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) Intranet
2 1 (0.96%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.54%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 15 (14.42%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.92%) MySQL
7 2 (1.92%) Power BI
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 35 (33.65%) Git
3 16 (15.38%) JUnit
4 14 (13.46%) JIRA
5 5 (4.81%) JMeter
6 4 (3.85%) Mockito
7 3 (2.88%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.92%) Selenium
8 2 (1.92%) TestNG
9 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.96%) Mocha
9 1 (0.96%) Postman
9 1 (0.96%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.96%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.96%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Finance
4 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Police
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (33.65%) AngularJS
1 35 (33.65%) REST
1 35 (33.65%) Spring
1 35 (33.65%) Spring Boot
2 34 (32.69%) Web Services
3 30 (28.85%) Apache Camel
3 30 (28.85%) Node.js
4 28 (26.92%) .NET
5 25 (24.04%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (18.27%) React
7 17 (16.35%) RESTful
8 16 (15.38%) XML
9 15 (14.42%) .NET Core
9 15 (14.42%) JSON
10 13 (12.50%) ASP.NET
11 10 (9.62%) SOAP
12 9 (8.65%) .NET Framework
12 9 (8.65%) HTML
13 8 (7.69%) Hibernate
13 8 (7.69%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 31 (29.81%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (12.50%) IoT
3 8 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.85%) Wiki
6 3 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.73%) Agile
2 55 (52.88%) Full Stack Development
3 49 (47.12%) Microservices
4 40 (38.46%) DevOps
4 40 (38.46%) Scrum
5 39 (37.50%) Kanban
5 39 (37.50%) TDD
6 36 (34.62%) BDD
7 19 (18.27%) SDLC
8 16 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 15 (14.42%) BPEL
9 15 (14.42%) CI/CD
10 13 (12.50%) Process Management
10 13 (12.50%) Workflow
11 9 (8.65%) Mentoring
11 9 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.69%) Coaching
12 8 (7.69%) Release Management
12 8 (7.69%) Time Management
13 7 (6.73%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.08%) Java
2 46 (44.23%) JavaScript
3 33 (31.73%) C#
4 29 (27.88%) SQL
5 21 (20.19%) Python
6 11 (10.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.62%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.81%) Delphi
9 5 (4.81%) PHP
10 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (33.65%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.81%) Degree
5 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (42.31%) Docker
2 12 (11.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 32 (30.77%) Ansible
3 16 (15.38%) Terraform
4 4 (3.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (24.04%) WSO2
2 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.73%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.85%) Splunk
4 4 (3.85%) YouTube
5 3 (2.88%) UiPath
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle
7 1 (0.96%) SAP