Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 October 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,559 3,701 11,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.10% 17.71% 20.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.70% 18.62% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,776 3,351 7,017
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 18,673 19,876 56,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.60% 95.12% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,742 16,090 33,010
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,992 £41,258
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £119,071 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +4.35%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in London over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in London

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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Central London -10 490 £72,500 -9.38% 91
South London -25 40 £70,000 +27.27% 10
West London -63 9 £64,750 +7.92% 18
East London +7 8 £90,000 +125.00% 25
North London +6 6 £60,000 -6.98% 5
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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 London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 869 (33.96%) JavaScript
2 852 (33.29%) Finance
3 824 (32.20%) Agile
4 715 (27.94%) AWS
5 675 (26.38%) C#
6 672 (26.26%) SQL
7 669 (26.14%) Python
8 621 (24.27%) Azure
9 596 (23.29%) Java
10 578 (22.59%) .NET
11 556 (21.73%) Full-Stack Development
12 508 (19.85%) TypeScript
13 490 (19.15%) Software Engineering
14 485 (18.95%) React
15 473 (18.48%) Social Skills
16 391 (15.28%) HTML
17 389 (15.20%) Front Office
18 384 (15.01%) Degree
19 350 (13.68%) CSS
20 349 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
21 328 (12.82%) GCP
22 325 (12.70%) SQL Server
23 308 (12.04%) Git
24 303 (11.84%) AngularJS
25 299 (11.68%) DevOps
26 298 (11.65%) Computer Science
26 298 (11.65%) Banking
27 293 (11.45%) Microsoft
28 277 (10.82%) Fixed Income
29 274 (10.71%) CI/CD

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
1 201 (7.85%) Apache
2 185 (7.23%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (2.07%) CMS
4 48 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 25 (0.98%) WordPress
6 23 (0.90%) Confluence
7 17 (0.66%) IIS
8 14 (0.55%) Appian
9 12 (0.47%) Drupal
10 11 (0.43%) Apache Spark
11 9 (0.35%) Moodle
11 9 (0.35%) nginx
11 9 (0.35%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.27%) OpenEdge
13 6 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.16%) JBoss
15 4 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
15 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 20 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.16%) InVision
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.16%) Sketch
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.16%) Zeplin
5 2 (0.078%) Trello
6 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.039%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.039%) InDesign
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 75 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.82%) SDL Web 8
3 12 (0.47%) Shopify
4 11 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.31%) BASE24
7 7 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.27%) Magento
7 7 (0.27%) Visualfiles
8 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.20%) CiviCRM
10 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
11 3 (0.12%) Endur
11 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
12 2 (0.078%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.078%) SAP Business ByDesign
13 1 (0.039%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 715 (27.94%) AWS
2 621 (24.27%) Azure
3 328 (12.82%) GCP
4 253 (9.89%) Power Platform
5 147 (5.74%) Serverless
6 133 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
7 122 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (4.34%) PowerApps
9 108 (4.22%) Power Automate
10 101 (3.95%) dbt
11 100 (3.91%) Snowflake
12 90 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (2.97%) SaaS
14 71 (2.77%) GitHub
15 69 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
16 65 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
17 50 (1.95%) Azure Functions
18 49 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (1.91%) PaaS
19 48 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.55%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.35%) HTTP
3 6 (0.23%) DNS
4 5 (0.20%) Multicast
4 5 (0.20%) VPN
5 4 (0.16%) FTP
6 3 (0.12%) Internet
7 2 (0.078%) ATM
7 2 (0.078%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.078%) MQTT
7 2 (0.078%) SMS
7 2 (0.078%) SSH
8 1 (0.039%) 5G
8 1 (0.039%) Broadband
8 1 (0.039%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
8 1 (0.039%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.039%) Telnet
8 1 (0.039%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (12.70%) SQL Server
2 188 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
3 184 (7.19%) Apache Ignite
4 167 (6.53%) Power BI
5 120 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 116 (4.53%) NoSQL
7 105 (4.10%) Data Lake
8 103 (4.03%) MySQL
9 99 (3.87%) Apache Arrow
10 98 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
10 98 (3.83%) Dremio
11 82 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 78 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
13 56 (2.19%) MongoDB
14 51 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 30 (1.17%) Redis
16 26 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (1.02%) DynamoDB
17 24 (0.94%) RDBMS
17 24 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 308 (12.04%) Git
2 107 (4.18%) JIRA
3 93 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 61 (2.38%) GitLab
5 54 (2.11%) Maven
6 50 (1.95%) Gradle
7 42 (1.64%) TeamCity
8 40 (1.56%) Mockito
9 39 (1.52%) JUnit
10 38 (1.48%) Visual Studio
11 31 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 29 (1.13%) Moq
13 25 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
14 22 (0.86%) NUnit
15 18 (0.70%) Cucumber
16 17 (0.66%) MSTest
17 16 (0.63%) webpack
18 15 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
19 14 (0.55%) IntelliJ
19 14 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 852 (33.29%) Finance
2 473 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 389 (15.20%) Front Office
4 298 (11.65%) Banking
5 143 (5.59%) Investment Banking
6 139 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
7 87 (3.40%) Marketing
8 63 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 62 (2.42%) Games
10 56 (2.19%) Legal
11 53 (2.07%) Public Sector
12 37 (1.45%) Law
13 35 (1.37%) Advertising
14 33 (1.29%) Retail
15 24 (0.94%) Tech for Good
16 23 (0.90%) Manufacturing
17 20 (0.78%) Back Office
17 20 (0.78%) Retail Banking
18 18 (0.70%) Multimedia
19 17 (0.66%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (22.59%) .NET
2 485 (18.95%) React
3 391 (15.28%) HTML
4 350 (13.68%) CSS
5 303 (11.84%) AngularJS
6 260 (10.16%) RESTful
7 242 (9.46%) Node.js
8 189 (7.39%) gRPC
9 187 (7.31%) Protocol Buffers
10 179 (6.99%) Redux
11 162 (6.33%) ASP.NET
12 153 (5.98%) .NET Framework
13 148 (5.78%) .NET Core
14 144 (5.63%) Spring Boot
15 139 (5.43%) Web Services
16 136 (5.31%) Spring
17 133 (5.20%) REST
18 132 (5.16%) jQuery
19 130 (5.08%) NumPy
20 126 (4.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 277 (10.82%) Fixed Income
2 255 (9.96%) Hedge funds
3 192 (7.50%) Equities
4 182 (7.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 150 (5.86%) Derivative
6 111 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
7 105 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
8 89 (3.48%) Algorithms
9 64 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 59 (2.31%) Product Ownership
11 53 (2.07%) Cloud Native
12 40 (1.56%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.37%) Blockchain
14 29 (1.13%) Legacy Code
15 26 (1.02%) Low-Code
16 21 (0.82%) Onboarding
17 20 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
18 19 (0.74%) Client/Server
18 19 (0.74%) CMDB
18 19 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 140 (5.47%) Linux
2 68 (2.66%) Windows
3 49 (1.91%) Android
4 39 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.90%) Unix
6 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.078%) CentOS
8 2 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.078%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.078%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.039%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.039%) MVS
9 1 (0.039%) Solaris
9 1 (0.039%) VMS
9 1 (0.039%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (32.20%) Agile
2 556 (21.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 490 (19.15%) Software Engineering
4 349 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 299 (11.68%) DevOps
6 298 (11.65%) Computer Science
7 274 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 263 (10.28%) Asset Management
9 260 (10.16%) Fintech
10 255 (9.96%) Microservices
11 252 (9.85%) TDD
12 219 (8.56%) User Experience
13 185 (7.23%) Investment Management
14 180 (7.03%) Front End Development
15 162 (6.33%) Scrum
16 160 (6.25%) Unit Testing
17 158 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence
18 156 (6.10%) Analytics
19 155 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
20 153 (5.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 869 (33.96%) JavaScript
2 675 (26.38%) C#
3 672 (26.26%) SQL
4 669 (26.14%) Python
5 596 (23.29%) Java
6 508 (19.85%) TypeScript
7 146 (5.71%) C++
8 97 (3.79%) PHP
8 97 (3.79%) T-SQL
9 85 (3.32%) Kotlin
10 49 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 46 (1.80%) Go
12 36 (1.41%) Rust
13 35 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 35 (1.37%) Scala
14 32 (1.25%) C
15 26 (1.02%) Apex Code
15 26 (1.02%) Haskell
15 26 (1.02%) VBA
16 23 (0.90%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 384 (15.01%) Degree
2 146 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 81 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 66 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 22 (0.86%) PhD
7 19 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 15 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
9 13 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.20%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.16%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.12%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.078%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.078%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 2 (0.078%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.99%) QA
2 26 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 23 (0.90%) MiFID
4 18 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.39%) GRC
6 9 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.20%) GDPR
8 4 (0.16%) EMIR
8 4 (0.16%) SLA
9 3 (0.12%) WCAG
10 2 (0.078%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.078%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 228 (8.91%) Docker
2 6 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.12%) KVM
4 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.039%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.039%) Ceph
5 1 (0.039%) Firmware
5 1 (0.039%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 188 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 108 (4.22%) Terraform
3 18 (0.70%) Ansible
4 16 (0.63%) Grafana
5 14 (0.55%) Kibana
6 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.078%) cPanel
8 2 (0.078%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.078%) Packer
8 2 (0.078%) Plesk
9 1 (0.039%) Argo
9 1 (0.039%) Control-M
9 1 (0.039%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.039%) Knative
Vendors
1 293 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 80 (3.13%) Google
3 61 (2.38%) Oracle
4 49 (1.91%) ServiceNow
5 46 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.45%) Bloomberg
7 34 (1.33%) Databricks
7 34 (1.33%) Reuters
8 24 (0.94%) Adobe
8 24 (0.94%) OpenAI
9 21 (0.82%) IBM
10 19 (0.74%) Brio
11 16 (0.63%) F5
12 14 (0.55%) Progress
13 13 (0.51%) Apple
13 13 (0.51%) SAP
14 10 (0.39%) Murex
14 10 (0.39%) UiPath
15 9 (0.35%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.35%) Sybase