Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 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 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,614 3,682 6,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.31% 16.30% 17.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.67% 17.32% 18.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 3,185 5,595
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,898 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 11,808 21,257 36,356
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.10% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,533 16,527 26,405
10th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £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 £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.65% -8.71% +0.42%

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 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 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 -5 316 £75,000 -6.25% 101
South London -27 48 £34,000 -49.63% 15
West London +12 23 £40,000 -39.62% 21
North London -18 8 £55,250 +0.45% 2
East London -20 6 £80,000 -46.67% 14
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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 London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 634 (39.28%) Finance
2 608 (37.67%) Agile
3 551 (34.14%) JavaScript
4 462 (28.62%) AWS
5 457 (28.31%) Python
6 429 (26.58%) React
7 384 (23.79%) C#
8 375 (23.23%) SQL
9 368 (22.80%) Java
10 358 (22.18%) Social Skills
11 350 (21.69%) Azure
12 325 (20.14%) .NET
13 313 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
14 304 (18.84%) TypeScript
15 290 (17.97%) Software Engineering
16 267 (16.54%) HTML
17 260 (16.11%) AngularJS
18 259 (16.05%) Front Office
19 253 (15.68%) DevOps
20 251 (15.55%) Git
21 247 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
21 247 (15.30%) CI/CD
22 243 (15.06%) CSS
23 235 (14.56%) Fintech
24 222 (13.75%) Microsoft
25 221 (13.69%) Node.js
26 207 (12.83%) Docker
27 206 (12.76%) User Experience
27 206 (12.76%) Banking
28 190 (11.77%) Degree

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
1 101 (6.26%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (4.89%) Apache
3 53 (3.28%) CMS
4 28 (1.73%) OpenEdge
4 28 (1.73%) WordPress
5 27 (1.67%) Drupal
6 21 (1.30%) SharePoint
7 19 (1.18%) Confluence
8 18 (1.12%) nginx
9 14 (0.87%) Apache Spark
10 12 (0.74%) JBoss
10 12 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
11 7 (0.43%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.37%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.25%) Liferay
15 3 (0.19%) Mule
15 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.81%) Trello
4 9 (0.56%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.50%) Sketch
6 7 (0.43%) InDesign
7 4 (0.25%) InVision
7 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.062%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.062%) Blender
9 1 (0.062%) Maya
9 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.50%) Orchestrade
3 8 (0.50%) Shopify
4 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.31%) Endur
5 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.12%) Magento
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 462 (28.62%) AWS
2 350 (21.69%) Azure
3 166 (10.29%) GCP
4 155 (9.60%) Power Platform
5 116 (7.19%) Serverless
6 103 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
7 89 (5.51%) dbt
8 87 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
9 74 (4.58%) PowerApps
10 70 (4.34%) GitHub
11 69 (4.28%) Power Automate
12 65 (4.03%) Amazon S3
13 58 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
17 39 (2.42%) Snowflake
18 34 (2.11%) SaaS
19 30 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
20 26 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.37%) HTTP
3 5 (0.31%) MQTT
3 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
3 5 (0.31%) SMS
3 5 (0.31%) VPN
3 5 (0.31%) WAN
4 4 (0.25%) Multicast
5 2 (0.12%) FTP
5 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.062%) Internet
6 1 (0.062%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 159 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (5.70%) MySQL
4 91 (5.64%) MongoDB
5 85 (5.27%) Power BI
6 81 (5.02%) NoSQL
6 81 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 79 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
7 79 (4.89%) Apache Arrow
8 77 (4.77%) Apache Iceberg
8 77 (4.77%) Dremio
9 44 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (2.23%) Apache Ignite
11 36 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 31 (1.92%) Redis
14 29 (1.80%) RDBMS
15 24 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (1.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 251 (15.55%) Git
2 83 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 60 (3.72%) JIRA
4 58 (3.59%) JUnit
5 41 (2.54%) Maven
6 36 (2.23%) Mockito
7 35 (2.17%) GitLab
8 28 (1.73%) Visual Studio
9 27 (1.67%) Gradle
10 22 (1.36%) Jasmine
11 18 (1.12%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.12%) JMeter
12 16 (0.99%) IntelliJ
13 15 (0.93%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.93%) NUnit
14 14 (0.87%) webpack
15 13 (0.81%) SonarQube
16 12 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
16 12 (0.74%) Mocha
16 12 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 634 (39.28%) Finance
2 358 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 259 (16.05%) Front Office
4 206 (12.76%) Banking
5 106 (6.57%) Investment Banking
6 105 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 70 (4.34%) Public Sector
9 58 (3.59%) Marketing
10 57 (3.53%) Games
11 44 (2.73%) Retail
12 23 (1.43%) Advertising
12 23 (1.43%) Publishing
13 18 (1.12%) Legal
14 16 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.93%) Retail Banking
16 14 (0.87%) Health Technology
17 13 (0.81%) Back Office
17 13 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (26.58%) React
2 325 (20.14%) .NET
3 267 (16.54%) HTML
4 260 (16.11%) AngularJS
5 243 (15.06%) CSS
6 221 (13.69%) Node.js
7 182 (11.28%) RESTful
8 137 (8.49%) Vue
9 129 (7.99%) REST
10 128 (7.93%) Redux
11 119 (7.37%) Spring
12 101 (6.26%) HTML5
13 99 (6.13%) Web Services
14 87 (5.39%) .NET Core
15 85 (5.27%) .NET Framework
15 85 (5.27%) Spring Boot
16 79 (4.89%) Pandas
17 75 (4.65%) NumPy
18 64 (3.97%) Kafka
19 63 (3.90%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 172 (10.66%) Fixed Income
2 124 (7.68%) Hedge funds
3 116 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 103 (6.38%) Equities
5 74 (4.58%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
7 68 (4.21%) Mobile App
8 66 (4.09%) Derivative
9 52 (3.22%) Cloud Native
10 46 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
11 43 (2.66%) Product Ownership
12 35 (2.17%) Data Structures
13 33 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
13 33 (2.04%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.98%) Mobile Games
15 27 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.43%) Credit Derivative
17 19 (1.18%) FPGA
18 15 (0.93%) Client/Server
19 14 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 151 (9.36%) Linux
2 38 (2.35%) Android
2 38 (2.35%) Apple iOS
3 19 (1.18%) Windows
4 14 (0.87%) Unix
5 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.19%) zOS
6 2 (0.12%) CentOS
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.062%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (37.67%) Agile
2 313 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
3 290 (17.97%) Software Engineering
4 253 (15.68%) DevOps
5 247 (15.30%) CI/CD
5 247 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 235 (14.56%) Fintech
7 206 (12.76%) User Experience
8 184 (11.40%) Microservices
9 182 (11.28%) Asset Management
10 159 (9.85%) Front End Development
11 154 (9.54%) TDD
12 152 (9.42%) Low Latency
13 148 (9.17%) Analytics
14 142 (8.80%) Mentoring
15 141 (8.74%) Investment Management
16 139 (8.61%) Computer Science
17 124 (7.68%) Scrum
18 110 (6.82%) Test Automation
19 108 (6.69%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 551 (34.14%) JavaScript
2 457 (28.31%) Python
3 384 (23.79%) C#
4 375 (23.23%) SQL
5 368 (22.80%) Java
6 304 (18.84%) TypeScript
7 156 (9.67%) C++
8 71 (4.40%) PHP
9 55 (3.41%) C
10 42 (2.60%) T-SQL
11 37 (2.29%) Kotlin
12 31 (1.92%) PowerShell
13 26 (1.61%) Swift
14 21 (1.30%) Apex Code
14 21 (1.30%) Objective-C
15 20 (1.24%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.24%) VBA
16 19 (1.18%) Go
16 19 (1.18%) Ruby
17 18 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 190 (11.77%) Degree
2 91 (5.64%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 32 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.12%) PhD
7 11 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.062%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.062%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.062%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.062%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.38%) QA
2 49 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.74%) SLA
4 10 (0.62%) WCAG
5 4 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.25%) GRC
6 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.12%) MiFID
8 1 (0.062%) CDISC
8 1 (0.062%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 207 (12.83%) Docker
2 7 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.85%) Terraform
3 32 (1.98%) Ansible
4 20 (1.24%) Kibana
5 9 (0.56%) Grafana
5 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.43%) Argo
6 7 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.19%) Istio
7 3 (0.19%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.062%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.062%) CEMLI
9 1 (0.062%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 222 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 50 (3.10%) Google
3 49 (3.04%) Oracle
4 29 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 26 (1.61%) Databricks
5 26 (1.61%) IBM
6 25 (1.55%) Adobe
6 25 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.49%) Progress
8 16 (0.99%) Splunk
9 14 (0.87%) Dynatrace
9 14 (0.87%) New Relic
9 14 (0.87%) SAP
10 9 (0.56%) Solace
11 6 (0.37%) Okta
12 5 (0.31%) Apple
12 5 (0.31%) Cognos
12 5 (0.31%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.31%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.31%) OpenLink