Senior Applications Developer Job Trends in London

Senior Application Developer
England > London

The median Senior Application Developer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 - 442
Rank change year-on-year - - +239
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Developer 4 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.030% - 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% - 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £62,500
25th Percentile - - £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile - - £86,250
90th Percentile - - £121,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 12,268 15,027 16,854
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 93.51% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,140 8,910 13,617
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,434 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Senior Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Applications Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Applications Developer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Applications Developer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Applications Developer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Applications Developer job vacancies in London

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Senior Applications Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Applications Developer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (75.00%) iOS Development
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Crashlytics
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Figma
2 2 (50.00%) Firebase
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Android Development
3 1 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (25.00%) Android SDK

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) Firebase
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Crashlytics
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (25.00%) Android SDK
2 1 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (25.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (25.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) iOS Development
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Android Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (25.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR