Junior Developer Jobs in London

Junior Developer
England > London

The median Junior Developer salary in London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 429 492
Rank change year-on-year +59 +63 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 23 74 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 23 69 85
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,375 £30,301
25th Percentile £43,125 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £65,000 £67,250
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 11,585 22,238 32,603
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 16,672 24,036
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in London

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in London

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in London

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +23 4 £48,750 +21.88% 16
South London - 1 £60,000 -
Junior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 13 (56.52%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Pandas
3 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) Relational Database
3 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 7 (30.43%) HTML
5 6 (26.09%) NumPy
5 6 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
6 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 5 (21.74%) Situational Awareness
6 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
6 5 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (21.74%) .NET
6 5 (21.74%) CSS
6 5 (21.74%) InDesign
6 5 (21.74%) Adobe
7 4 (17.39%) Web Services
7 4 (17.39%) Java
7 4 (17.39%) C#
7 4 (17.39%) Web Development
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) Banking
7 4 (17.39%) Asset Management
7 4 (17.39%) React
7 4 (17.39%) Docker

Junior 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 5 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Ethereum
2 1 (4.35%) Solana
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) InDesign
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Serverless
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Gradle
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JMeter
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Mockito
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 13 (56.52%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Pandas
2 7 (30.43%) HTML
3 6 (26.09%) NumPy
4 5 (21.74%) .NET
4 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 5 (21.74%) CSS
5 4 (17.39%) React
5 4 (17.39%) Web Services
6 3 (13.04%) Spring
7 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
7 2 (8.70%) HTML5
7 2 (8.70%) Kafka
7 2 (8.70%) RESTful
8 1 (4.35%) Apache Camel
8 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (4.35%) CSS3
8 1 (4.35%) pytest
8 1 (4.35%) REST
8 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Bitcoin
2 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Situational Awareness
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Asset Management
4 4 (17.39%) Web Development
5 3 (13.04%) Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Fintech
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) BDD
6 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
6 2 (8.70%) OOP
6 2 (8.70%) SDLC
6 2 (8.70%) TDD
6 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) Go
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk