Developer Jobs in Croydon

Developer
South London > Croydon

The median Developer salary in Croydon is £34,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 46 61 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 24.60% 28.77% 21.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 30.87% 30.35% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 14 39 16
10th Percentile - £39,504 £48,125
25th Percentile £32,000 £56,250 £52,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.67% +36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,813 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,250 - £81,250
South London median annual salary £34,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -49.63% +12.50% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 149 201 184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.68% 94.81% 92.00%
Number of salaries quoted 32 146 113
10th Percentile - £24,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,272 £81,786 £67,000
90th Percentile £68,625 £83,750 £88,500
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Croydon

Developer
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Developer in Croydon

Developer
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Croydon over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Croydon

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

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

1 37 (80.43%) Java
1 37 (80.43%) Web Services
1 37 (80.43%) PostgreSQL
1 37 (80.43%) Agile
1 37 (80.43%) TDD
1 37 (80.43%) Spring
1 37 (80.43%) AWS
1 37 (80.43%) REST
1 37 (80.43%) Jenkins
1 37 (80.43%) Microservices
1 37 (80.43%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 34 (73.91%) Relational Database
2 34 (73.91%) Docker
2 34 (73.91%) Spring Boot
2 34 (73.91%) Serverless
2 34 (73.91%) Amazon EKS
2 34 (73.91%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (73.91%) JUnit
3 33 (71.74%) Scrum
4 32 (69.57%) BDD
4 32 (69.57%) Public Sector
5 31 (67.39%) JavaScript
6 29 (63.04%) Apache Camel
7 28 (60.87%) Kanban
8 27 (58.70%) SC Cleared
8 27 (58.70%) Security Cleared
9 26 (56.52%) HTML
10 22 (47.83%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (47.83%) CI/CD

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 12 (26.09%) JBoss
1 12 (26.09%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (10.87%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (80.43%) AWS
2 34 (73.91%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (73.91%) Amazon EKS
2 34 (73.91%) Serverless
3 20 (43.48%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.52%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (80.43%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (73.91%) Relational Database
3 17 (36.96%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 37 (80.43%) Jenkins
2 34 (73.91%) JUnit
3 20 (43.48%) Git
3 20 (43.48%) Mockito
4 17 (36.96%) JMeter
5 9 (19.57%) Jasmine
5 9 (19.57%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (6.52%) DbUnit
6 3 (6.52%) jMock
6 3 (6.52%) Maven
6 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (69.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (80.43%) REST
1 37 (80.43%) Spring
1 37 (80.43%) Web Services
2 34 (73.91%) Spring Boot
3 29 (63.04%) Apache Camel
4 26 (56.52%) HTML
5 20 (43.48%) ActiveMQ
5 20 (43.48%) Hibernate
6 17 (36.96%) jQuery
6 17 (36.96%) WireMock
7 15 (32.61%) RESTful
7 15 (32.61%) SOAP
8 14 (30.43%) Node.js
9 12 (26.09%) J2EE
10 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
10 9 (19.57%) CSS
10 9 (19.57%) CSS3
10 9 (19.57%) HTML5
10 9 (19.57%) NgRx
10 9 (19.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 37 (80.43%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (19.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) Agile
1 37 (80.43%) Microservices
1 37 (80.43%) TDD
2 33 (71.74%) Scrum
3 32 (69.57%) BDD
4 28 (60.87%) Kanban
5 22 (47.83%) CI/CD
5 22 (47.83%) Collaborative Working
6 19 (41.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (36.96%) Process Management
7 17 (36.96%) Workflow
8 13 (28.26%) Architectural Design
9 12 (26.09%) DevOps
10 11 (23.91%) SDLC
11 9 (19.57%) Code Quality
11 9 (19.57%) E-Commerce
11 9 (19.57%) Front End Development
11 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (19.57%) User Experience
11 9 (19.57%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 37 (80.43%) Java
2 31 (67.39%) JavaScript
3 17 (36.96%) Python
3 17 (36.96%) Shell Script
4 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (58.70%) SC Cleared
1 27 (58.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.09%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (73.91%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (36.96%) Kibana
3 12 (26.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Dynatrace
1 17 (36.96%) Splunk
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