Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,672 6,504 15,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.64% 18.16% 22.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.63% 19.11% 23.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,127 5,371 8,314
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £136,750 £121,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -5 555 £77,500 -3.13% 115
South London +6 107 £67,500 -3.57% 9
North London +20 41 £55,000 -15.38% 4
East London +11 34 £150,000 +81.82% 29
West London -49 24 £72,500 +30.83% 19
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 1,234 (33.61%) Agile
2 1,188 (32.35%) JavaScript
3 1,094 (29.79%) AWS
4 1,076 (29.30%) Finance
5 1,038 (28.27%) Azure
6 985 (26.82%) C#
7 928 (25.27%) Full Stack Development
8 912 (24.84%) .NET
9 907 (24.70%) SQL
10 851 (23.18%) Java
11 827 (22.52%) Python
12 763 (20.78%) React
13 701 (19.09%) Software Engineering
14 681 (18.55%) TypeScript
15 596 (16.23%) AngularJS
16 582 (15.85%) Social Skills
17 553 (15.06%) DevOps
18 525 (14.30%) HTML
19 521 (14.19%) Front Office
20 483 (13.15%) SQL Server
21 481 (13.10%) CSS
21 481 (13.10%) Microservices
22 479 (13.04%) Microsoft
23 459 (12.50%) Degree
24 443 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
25 426 (11.60%) TDD
26 416 (11.33%) Fintech
27 405 (11.03%) Computer Science
28 402 (10.95%) GCP
29 391 (10.65%) Fixed Income

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
1 172 (4.68%) Apache
2 160 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 72 (1.96%) CMS
5 46 (1.25%) WordPress
6 39 (1.06%) Confluence
7 37 (1.01%) Drupal
8 32 (0.87%) IIS
9 26 (0.71%) OpenStack
10 19 (0.52%) nginx
10 19 (0.52%) OpenEdge
11 17 (0.46%) Mendix
11 17 (0.46%) Tomcat
12 16 (0.44%) Apache Spark
13 14 (0.38%) JBoss
14 13 (0.35%) Appian
14 13 (0.35%) Ethereum
15 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
16 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
17 9 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.46%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.082%) Trello
6 2 (0.054%) Blender
6 2 (0.054%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.054%) Houdini
6 2 (0.054%) InDesign
6 2 (0.054%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.054%) Notion
7 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
3 12 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 11 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.25%) Magento
5 9 (0.25%) Shopify
5 9 (0.25%) Visualfiles
6 8 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
7 6 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.14%) Endur
8 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.11%) CiviCRM
10 3 (0.082%) R3 Corda
11 2 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.054%) Oracle FAH
11 2 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
12 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,094 (29.79%) AWS
2 1,038 (28.27%) Azure
3 402 (10.95%) GCP
4 314 (8.55%) Power Platform
5 198 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
6 177 (4.82%) Serverless
7 165 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
8 121 (3.30%) GitHub
9 120 (3.27%) PowerApps
10 104 (2.83%) SaaS
11 94 (2.56%) Power Automate
12 66 (1.80%) dbt
13 65 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
14 57 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 46 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
17 45 (1.23%) Azure Functions
18 44 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
19 42 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
20 41 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.63%) Internet
2 21 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.33%) VPN
4 11 (0.30%) BGP
4 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (0.30%) MPLS
5 9 (0.25%) HTTP
6 7 (0.19%) Multicast
6 7 (0.19%) Network Security
6 7 (0.19%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.16%) AMQP
7 6 (0.16%) Broadband
7 6 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
8 4 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.054%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.054%) Intranet
9 2 (0.054%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.054%) SSH
9 2 (0.054%) VoIP
10 1 (0.027%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 483 (13.15%) SQL Server
2 255 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
3 190 (5.17%) Power BI
4 166 (4.52%) Relational Database
5 147 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 144 (3.92%) Apache Ignite
7 142 (3.87%) MySQL
8 127 (3.46%) NoSQL
9 112 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 87 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
11 83 (2.26%) Redis
12 79 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 69 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
14 65 (1.77%) Dremio
15 64 (1.74%) Apache Arrow
16 58 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
17 49 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
18 46 (1.25%) Data Lake
19 38 (1.03%) Oracle Database
20 35 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 369 (10.05%) Git
2 123 (3.35%) JIRA
3 95 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 66 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 65 (1.77%) Visual Studio
6 44 (1.20%) GitLab
7 42 (1.14%) JUnit
8 37 (1.01%) NUnit
9 36 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 35 (0.95%) Selenium
11 34 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
12 26 (0.71%) Moq
13 25 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
14 22 (0.60%) Maven
15 19 (0.52%) Mockito
16 18 (0.49%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 17 (0.46%) Bitbucket
17 17 (0.46%) SpecFlow
18 15 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,076 (29.30%) Finance
2 582 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 521 (14.19%) Front Office
4 352 (9.59%) Banking
5 174 (4.74%) Investment Banking
6 163 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 105 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.86%) Marketing
8 104 (2.83%) Law
9 96 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 76 (2.07%) Games
11 60 (1.63%) Legal
12 57 (1.55%) Back Office
12 57 (1.55%) Retail
13 35 (0.95%) Tech for Good
14 31 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 26 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 23 (0.63%) Advertising
17 21 (0.57%) Turkish Language
18 19 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 912 (24.84%) .NET
2 763 (20.78%) React
3 596 (16.23%) AngularJS
4 525 (14.30%) HTML
5 481 (13.10%) CSS
6 342 (9.31%) ASP.NET
7 306 (8.33%) Node.js
8 302 (8.22%) .NET Core
9 287 (7.82%) Vue
10 266 (7.24%) REST
11 257 (7.00%) Redux
12 236 (6.43%) Spring
13 225 (6.13%) RESTful
14 212 (5.77%) .NET Framework
15 210 (5.72%) Spring Boot
16 207 (5.64%) Web Services
17 171 (4.66%) gRPC
18 159 (4.33%) HTML5
18 159 (4.33%) Kafka
19 157 (4.28%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 391 (10.65%) Fixed Income
2 349 (9.50%) Hedge funds
3 289 (7.87%) Equities
3 289 (7.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 215 (5.86%) Derivative
5 213 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
6 109 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 96 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 90 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 89 (2.42%) Client/Server
10 87 (2.37%) Algorithms
11 51 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 48 (1.31%) IoT
13 46 (1.25%) Cloud Native
14 42 (1.14%) Blockchain
15 41 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
16 40 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.95%) Onboarding
18 33 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
19 31 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.00%) Linux
2 61 (1.66%) Windows
3 58 (1.58%) Apple iOS
4 51 (1.39%) Android
5 42 (1.14%) Unix
6 18 (0.49%) CentOS
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,234 (33.61%) Agile
2 928 (25.27%) Full Stack Development
3 701 (19.09%) Software Engineering
4 553 (15.06%) DevOps
5 481 (13.10%) Microservices
6 443 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
7 426 (11.60%) TDD
8 416 (11.33%) Fintech
9 405 (11.03%) Computer Science
10 374 (10.19%) Asset Management
11 329 (8.96%) Investment Management
12 311 (8.47%) CI/CD
13 286 (7.79%) Mentoring
14 255 (6.94%) Scrum
15 253 (6.89%) Analytics
16 245 (6.67%) MVC
17 239 (6.51%) Front End Development
18 234 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
19 195 (5.31%) Low Latency
20 194 (5.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,188 (32.35%) JavaScript
2 985 (26.82%) C#
3 907 (24.70%) SQL
4 851 (23.18%) Java
5 827 (22.52%) Python
6 681 (18.55%) TypeScript
7 158 (4.30%) PHP
8 141 (3.84%) C++
9 132 (3.59%) Kotlin
10 127 (3.46%) T-SQL
11 72 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 66 (1.80%) Scala
13 63 (1.72%) Ruby
14 54 (1.47%) Go
15 48 (1.31%) Apex Code
16 47 (1.28%) PowerShell
16 47 (1.28%) R
17 39 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (1.01%) C
19 30 (0.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 459 (12.50%) Degree
2 182 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 148 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 89 (2.42%) SC Cleared
5 61 (1.66%) Master's Degree
6 38 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
7 19 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 18 (0.49%) PhD
9 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.38%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.25%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.22%) Postgraduate
14 5 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
16 3 (0.082%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (3.98%) QA
2 25 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 11 (0.30%) GDPR
4 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.25%) WCAG
6 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.11%) MiFID
8 3 (0.082%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.082%) PMO
8 3 (0.082%) SLA
9 2 (0.054%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.054%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.054%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.054%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.054%) WAI
10 1 (0.027%) COREP
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.027%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 380 (10.35%) Docker
2 13 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.27%) HDFS
4 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.054%) OpenSIPS
7 1 (0.027%) GridGain
7 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 298 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 106 (2.89%) Terraform
3 44 (1.20%) Ansible
4 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.49%) Grafana
6 13 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
7 6 (0.16%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.16%) Kibana
8 5 (0.14%) Control-M
9 2 (0.054%) Consul
9 2 (0.054%) Packer
10 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.027%) cPanel
10 1 (0.027%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.027%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.027%) MIIS
10 1 (0.027%) Nagios
10 1 (0.027%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 479 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 144 (3.92%) Oracle
3 130 (3.54%) Google
4 74 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 59 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 41 (1.12%) Bloomberg
7 34 (0.93%) Adobe
8 31 (0.84%) IBM
9 28 (0.76%) WSO2
10 18 (0.49%) Databricks
10 18 (0.49%) MuleSoft
10 18 (0.49%) Sybase
10 18 (0.49%) Unisys
11 16 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 15 (0.41%) TIBCO
13 13 (0.35%) Blue Prism
13 13 (0.35%) Cognizant
13 13 (0.35%) iManage
13 13 (0.35%) Progress
13 13 (0.35%) SAP