Development Engineer Jobs in London

Development Engineer
England > London

The median Development Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 580 658
Rank change year-on-year +97 +78 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 29 64 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 51 46
10th Percentile £52,400 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,000 £66,250 £58,841
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,875 £86,719
90th Percentile - £100,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £65,000 £59,845
% change year-on-year -18.46% +8.61% -0.26%

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 22,108 34,442 62,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 95.06% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,669 25,177 34,949
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in London

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Development Engineer in London

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in London

Development Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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 +43 7 £75,000 -6.25% 1
Development Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (65.52%) Agile
2 16 (55.17%) Architectural Patterns
3 14 (48.28%) Degree
4 13 (44.83%) C#
4 13 (44.83%) Computer Science
4 13 (44.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (41.38%) Onboarding
5 12 (41.38%) Java
6 11 (37.93%) Python
6 11 (37.93%) DevOps
6 11 (37.93%) Azure
6 11 (37.93%) REST
7 10 (34.48%) SDLC
7 10 (34.48%) SQL
8 9 (31.03%) Finance
8 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (31.03%) Design Patterns
9 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
9 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
10 7 (24.14%) AWS
10 7 (24.14%) Git
10 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (24.14%) React
10 7 (24.14%) Scrum
10 7 (24.14%) .NET
10 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
10 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
11 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (20.69%) Front End Development
11 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code

Development Engineer 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 6 (20.69%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) AWS
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (20.69%) GCP
5 5 (17.24%) SaaS
5 5 (17.24%) Serverless
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Big Data
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) REST
2 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 7 (24.14%) React
3 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
3 6 (20.69%) JSON
3 6 (20.69%) SOAP
3 6 (20.69%) Web Services
3 6 (20.69%) XML
3 6 (20.69%) XSLT
4 5 (17.24%) FastAPI
4 5 (17.24%) Flask
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.90%) Kafka
6 2 (6.90%) Spring
6 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.45%) AWS SAM
7 1 (3.45%) Gherkin
7 1 (3.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (6.90%) Kindle
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Agile
2 16 (55.17%) Architectural Patterns
3 13 (44.83%) Computer Science
4 11 (37.93%) DevOps
5 10 (34.48%) SDLC
6 9 (31.03%) Design Patterns
7 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
7 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
8 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
8 7 (24.14%) Scrum
9 6 (20.69%) Analytics
9 6 (20.69%) Content Management
9 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (20.69%) MVC
9 6 (20.69%) OO
9 6 (20.69%) OOD
9 6 (20.69%) OWASP
9 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.69%) Process Improvement
9 6 (20.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) C#
2 12 (41.38%) Java
3 11 (37.93%) Python
4 10 (34.48%) SQL
5 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 6 (20.69%) T-SQL
5 6 (20.69%) XPath
6 4 (13.79%) Go
6 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) C
7 1 (3.45%) C++
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) Degree
2 13 (44.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Atlassian