Developer Jobs in the City of Westminster

Developer
Central London > City of Westminster

The median Developer salary in the City of Westminster is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 18 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 19 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 9.84% 11.73% 19.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.66% 12.21% 20.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 20
10th Percentile £32,375 £56,875 £51,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £69,375 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -1.64% +5.17%
75th Percentile £63,563 £88,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £64,880 £100,000 £111,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% -4.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of Westminster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of Westminster. 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 Westminster with a recognized job title 163 172 98
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.46% 96.09% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 55 112 68
10th Percentile £19,750 £28,425 £45,075
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £56,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,670 £50,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.34% -32.20% +22.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £110,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £111,250
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the City of Westminster

Developer
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of Westminster.

Salary trend for Developer in the City of Westminster

Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the City of Westminster

Developer
Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
Soho - 2 - -
Developer
Central London

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, 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 Westminster region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
1 11 (57.89%) MVC
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) .NET
2 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (47.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (36.84%) React
3 7 (36.84%) Vue
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) RESTful
3 7 (36.84%) Git
3 7 (36.84%) PHP
3 7 (36.84%) HTML
3 7 (36.84%) CSS
4 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
4 6 (31.58%) C#
4 6 (31.58%) Systems Analysis
4 6 (31.58%) Integration Testing
4 6 (31.58%) .NET Framework
4 6 (31.58%) HTML5
4 6 (31.58%) Sass
4 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
4 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
4 6 (31.58%) Performance Analysis
4 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (31.58%) .NET Core
4 6 (31.58%) Technical Debt
4 6 (31.58%) User Research

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Drupal
1 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
2 5 (26.32%) MySQL
2 5 (26.32%) Redis
3 3 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.53%) Looker
4 2 (10.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
General
1 9 (47.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (26.32%) Turkish Language
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) .NET
2 7 (36.84%) CSS
2 7 (36.84%) HTML
2 7 (36.84%) React
2 7 (36.84%) RESTful
2 7 (36.84%) Vue
3 6 (31.58%) .NET Core
3 6 (31.58%) .NET Framework
3 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
3 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (31.58%) HTML5
3 6 (31.58%) Sass
4 5 (26.32%) Laravel
4 5 (26.32%) Memcached
5 3 (15.79%) Node.js
5 3 (15.79%) Pandas
6 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.79%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.26%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) MVC
2 9 (47.37%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Integration Testing
4 6 (31.58%) Performance Analysis
4 6 (31.58%) Systems Analysis
4 6 (31.58%) Technical Debt
4 6 (31.58%) User Research
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Fintech
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) OO
6 4 (21.05%) OOP
7 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.79%) Kanban
7 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
7 3 (15.79%) OWASP
7 3 (15.79%) Pair Programming
7 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) PHP
4 6 (31.58%) C#
4 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.79%) C
5 3 (15.79%) C++
5 3 (15.79%) Go
5 3 (15.79%) Java
5 3 (15.79%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) Rust
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Google