Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 5 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,249 8,993 13,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.26% 18.53% 26.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.17% 19.46% 27.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,935 6,667 9,089
10th Percentile £51,550 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +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 17,882 46,215 49,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 95.23% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,395 31,903 33,641
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,275 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 -2 593 £80,000 - 201
South London +5 50 £60,000 - 15
West London -5 33 £62,500 -3.85% 26
East London -22 18 £40,000 -42.86% 223
North London +18 10 £55,000 +184.97% 7
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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 1,137 (35.00%) Agile
2 1,113 (34.26%) JavaScript
3 1,079 (33.21%) Finance
4 1,007 (30.99%) C#
5 975 (30.01%) Java
6 928 (28.56%) AWS
7 910 (28.01%) .NET
8 892 (27.45%) Azure
9 839 (25.82%) SQL
10 742 (22.84%) Python
11 736 (22.65%) React
12 665 (20.47%) Full Stack Development
13 621 (19.11%) DevOps
14 616 (18.96%) Software Engineering
15 585 (18.01%) TypeScript
16 570 (17.54%) Social Skills
17 533 (16.41%) Front Office
18 530 (16.31%) AngularJS
19 513 (15.79%) Microservices
20 490 (15.08%) Degree
21 454 (13.97%) CSS
22 442 (13.60%) HTML
23 440 (13.54%) SQL Server
24 437 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
25 428 (13.17%) CI/CD
26 407 (12.53%) Microsoft
27 399 (12.28%) TDD
28 394 (12.13%) GCP
29 390 (12.00%) Docker
30 360 (11.08%) Fintech

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
1 125 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 122 (3.76%) Apache
3 60 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 44 (1.35%) WordPress
5 35 (1.08%) CMS
6 29 (0.89%) IIS
7 20 (0.62%) Confluence
8 17 (0.52%) Drupal
9 14 (0.43%) JBoss
10 13 (0.40%) Apache Spark
11 11 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
12 10 (0.31%) nginx
13 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.28%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.22%) Mendix
15 6 (0.18%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.15%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
17 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.43%) Sketch
3 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.12%) InDesign
8 3 (0.092%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.092%) Blender
8 3 (0.092%) Maya
8 3 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.062%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.062%) InVision
9 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.062%) UXPin
9 2 (0.062%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 84 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.34%) BusinessWorks
3 8 (0.25%) Endur
3 8 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.25%) Shopify
4 7 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 6 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 6 (0.18%) JDE OneWorld
6 5 (0.15%) SAP CX
7 4 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.12%) Magento
7 4 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.092%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.062%) SDL Web 8
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.031%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.031%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.031%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 928 (28.56%) AWS
2 892 (27.45%) Azure
3 394 (12.13%) GCP
4 271 (8.34%) Power Platform
5 235 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
6 147 (4.52%) Serverless
7 126 (3.88%) PowerApps
8 124 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
9 80 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
10 75 (2.31%) SaaS
11 73 (2.25%) GitHub
12 68 (2.09%) Power Automate
13 56 (1.72%) dbt
14 48 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.29%) Azure Functions
16 36 (1.11%) PaaS
17 34 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
17 34 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (0.83%) HTTP
2 24 (0.74%) Internet
3 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.28%) VoIP
5 6 (0.18%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.15%) ATM
7 4 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.12%) Network Security
8 2 (0.062%) FTP
8 2 (0.062%) Intranet
8 2 (0.062%) Multicast
8 2 (0.062%) Unicast
9 1 (0.031%) DMZ
9 1 (0.031%) IPFS
9 1 (0.031%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.031%) PPP
9 1 (0.031%) RTP
9 1 (0.031%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 440 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 175 (5.39%) Power BI
3 162 (4.99%) Relational Database
4 160 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 133 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 131 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 100 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 95 (2.92%) Apache Ignite
9 85 (2.62%) MongoDB
10 70 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
11 69 (2.12%) MySQL
12 61 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 59 (1.82%) RDBMS
14 58 (1.79%) Redis
15 55 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
16 52 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
16 52 (1.60%) Dremio
17 45 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
18 35 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 29 (0.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 314 (9.66%) Git
2 110 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.65%) JIRA
4 68 (2.09%) Maven
5 65 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 63 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 59 (1.82%) Gradle
8 57 (1.75%) JUnit
9 50 (1.54%) Bitbucket
10 43 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 43 (1.32%) Selenium
11 41 (1.26%) Jasmine
12 33 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 33 (1.02%) Mockito
13 31 (0.95%) GitLab
13 31 (0.95%) IntelliJ
14 24 (0.74%) Artifactory
15 23 (0.71%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.71%) TeamCity
16 19 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,079 (33.21%) Finance
2 570 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 533 (16.41%) Front Office
4 309 (9.51%) Banking
5 181 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
6 148 (4.56%) Investment Banking
7 136 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (2.83%) Retail
9 89 (2.74%) Marketing
10 78 (2.40%) Legal
11 65 (2.00%) Games
12 58 (1.79%) Financial Institution
13 54 (1.66%) Law
14 47 (1.45%) Public Sector
15 31 (0.95%) Back Office
16 29 (0.89%) Tech for Good
17 25 (0.77%) Advertising
18 23 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (0.55%) Telecoms
20 16 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 910 (28.01%) .NET
2 736 (22.65%) React
3 530 (16.31%) AngularJS
4 454 (13.97%) CSS
5 442 (13.60%) HTML
6 345 (10.62%) ASP.NET
7 280 (8.62%) Spring
8 275 (8.46%) REST
9 258 (7.94%) Node.js
10 249 (7.66%) .NET Core
11 237 (7.29%) .NET Framework
12 209 (6.43%) Redux
13 202 (6.22%) Spring Boot
14 198 (6.09%) RESTful
14 198 (6.09%) Vue
15 191 (5.88%) Kafka
16 161 (4.96%) Web Services
17 151 (4.65%) JSON
18 126 (3.88%) HTML5
19 124 (3.82%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 292 (8.99%) Fixed Income
2 254 (7.82%) Greenfield Project
3 222 (6.83%) Derivative
4 217 (6.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 215 (6.62%) Hedge funds
6 185 (5.69%) Equities
7 77 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 74 (2.28%) Algorithms
9 69 (2.12%) Cloud Native
10 67 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 65 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
12 62 (1.91%) Mobile App
13 56 (1.72%) Product Ownership
14 52 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.14%) Low-Code
16 28 (0.86%) Public Cloud
17 26 (0.80%) IoT
18 25 (0.77%) Client/Server
19 24 (0.74%) Sports Betting
20 22 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 116 (3.57%) Linux
2 73 (2.25%) Android
3 61 (1.88%) Windows
4 55 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 35 (1.08%) Unix
6 6 (0.18%) CentOS
7 5 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.062%) VMS
9 1 (0.031%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.031%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,137 (35.00%) Agile
2 665 (20.47%) Full Stack Development
3 621 (19.11%) DevOps
4 616 (18.96%) Software Engineering
5 513 (15.79%) Microservices
6 437 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
7 428 (13.17%) CI/CD
8 399 (12.28%) TDD
9 360 (11.08%) Fintech
10 344 (10.59%) Computer Science
11 325 (10.00%) Asset Management
12 294 (9.05%) Analytics
13 285 (8.77%) Front End Development
14 255 (7.85%) Investment Management
15 250 (7.69%) User Experience
16 226 (6.96%) OO
17 223 (6.86%) Scrum
18 214 (6.59%) Mentoring
19 201 (6.19%) MVC
20 194 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,113 (34.26%) JavaScript
2 1,007 (30.99%) C#
3 975 (30.01%) Java
4 839 (25.82%) SQL
5 742 (22.84%) Python
6 585 (18.01%) TypeScript
7 221 (6.80%) C++
8 148 (4.56%) T-SQL
9 129 (3.97%) PHP
10 117 (3.60%) Kotlin
11 56 (1.72%) Go
11 56 (1.72%) PowerShell
12 54 (1.66%) Scala
13 45 (1.39%) VB.NET
14 39 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 34 (1.05%) Ruby
16 33 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.86%) VB
18 24 (0.74%) Objective-C
19 20 (0.62%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 490 (15.08%) Degree
2 210 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 98 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 94 (2.89%) Master's Degree
5 72 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 28 (0.86%) PhD
7 14 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.12%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.12%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.092%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.092%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.031%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.031%) Sun Certification
13 1 (0.031%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (6.25%) QA
2 28 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.34%) WCAG
6 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.092%) PMO
8 2 (0.062%) SLA
9 1 (0.031%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.031%) COREP
9 1 (0.031%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.031%) EMIR
9 1 (0.031%) IFRS
9 1 (0.031%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.031%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.031%) MiFID
System Software
1 390 (12.00%) Docker
2 12 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.28%) OpenSIPS
4 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.092%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.092%) HDFS
6 2 (0.062%) Postfix
7 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 301 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 132 (4.06%) Terraform
3 42 (1.29%) Ansible
4 11 (0.34%) Grafana
4 11 (0.34%) Kibana
5 7 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.15%) Control-M
6 5 (0.15%) SELinux
7 2 (0.062%) MIIS
8 1 (0.031%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.031%) Consul
8 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.031%) Matomo
8 1 (0.031%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.031%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 407 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.51%) Google
3 95 (2.92%) Oracle
4 54 (1.66%) Salesforce
5 32 (0.98%) Adobe
5 32 (0.98%) IBM
6 27 (0.83%) TIBCO
7 24 (0.74%) Finsemble
8 22 (0.68%) ServiceNow
9 20 (0.62%) WSO2
10 18 (0.55%) SAP
11 15 (0.46%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.37%) Intapp
13 11 (0.34%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.34%) Sybase
14 10 (0.31%) Apple
15 8 (0.25%) Alteryx
15 8 (0.25%) OpenLink
15 8 (0.25%) VMware
16 7 (0.22%) Databricks