Applications Developer Jobs in London

Application Developer
England > London

The median Application Developer salary in London is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 436 479
Rank change year-on-year +57 +43 +99
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 21 71 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.30% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.32% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 20 54 128
10th Percentile £48,125 £52,500 £48,375
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £90,000 £99,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.48% +10.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Developer in London

Applications 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 Applications Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +13 3 £45,000 -26.83% 10
Applications Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Applications 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 Applications Developer in the job title.

1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 8 (38.10%) SQL
4 8 (38.10%) .NET
4 8 (38.10%) HTML
5 7 (33.33%) Agile
5 7 (33.33%) C#
5 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (33.33%) Finance
5 7 (33.33%) Git
5 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) User Experience
6 6 (28.57%) React
6 6 (28.57%) MVC
6 6 (28.57%) CSS
6 6 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
6 6 (28.57%) Clean Code
7 5 (23.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (23.81%) Mobile App
7 5 (23.81%) Fintech
8 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
8 4 (19.05%) Data Privacy
8 4 (19.05%) Prototyping
8 4 (19.05%) Web Application Development
8 4 (19.05%) koa
8 4 (19.05%) NHibernate

Applications 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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.76%) Elite 3E
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 5 (23.81%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (19.05%) Power Automate
5 4 (19.05%) PowerApps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Boomi
6 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (19.05%) MySQL
2 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) NUnit
2 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Local Government
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) .NET
1 8 (38.10%) HTML
2 6 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 6 (28.57%) CSS
2 6 (28.57%) React
3 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
3 4 (19.05%) koa
3 4 (19.05%) NHibernate
3 4 (19.05%) Svelte
4 3 (14.29%) Kafka
5 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
5 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
5 2 (9.52%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (9.52%) Jest
5 2 (9.52%) jQuery
5 2 (9.52%) LINQ to SQL
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.52%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Clean Code
2 6 (28.57%) MVC
2 6 (28.57%) User Experience
3 5 (23.81%) Fintech
4 4 (19.05%) Data Privacy
4 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (19.05%) Prototyping
4 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Web Application Development
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) OO
5 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.52%) OOP
6 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 8 (38.10%) SQL
4 7 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.76%) C++
7 1 (4.76%) Java
7 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Okta
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) iManage
3 1 (4.76%) Intapp
3 1 (4.76%) SAP