Software Developer Job Trends in Croydon

Software Developer
South London > Croydon

The median Software Developer salary in Croydon is £55,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 41 23
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1 1 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 1.04% 0.77% 7.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.78% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.86%
75th Percentile £58,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £56,350 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +69.23%

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 88 129 147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 99.23% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 35 27 87
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £39,550
25th Percentile £34,250 £46,975 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £58,375 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,500 £79,050
South London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Software Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Software Developer job vacancy trend in Croydon

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in Croydon.

Salary distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in Croydon

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Croydon region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle