Senior Developer Jobs in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 69 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 883 1,560 3,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.76% 4.39% 5.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% 4.61% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 760 1,201 2,054
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

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 22,098 33,809 63,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.04% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,640 24,774 34,933
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,284
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 £92,625 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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 -18 145 £85,000 -5.56% 17
South London +25 33 £65,000 +1.96% 3
West London +3 10 £80,000 -5.88% 3
East London +10 4 £72,500 -27.50% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 356 (40.32%) JavaScript
2 287 (32.50%) SQL
3 284 (32.16%) AWS
4 276 (31.26%) C#
5 269 (30.46%) .NET
6 255 (28.88%) Agile
7 246 (27.86%) Finance
8 238 (26.95%) Azure
9 236 (26.73%) React
10 202 (22.88%) Java
11 200 (22.65%) Full Stack Development
12 196 (22.20%) AngularJS
13 182 (20.61%) TypeScript
14 179 (20.27%) Python
15 165 (18.69%) Social Skills
16 159 (18.01%) HTML
17 157 (17.78%) CSS
18 143 (16.19%) Software Engineering
19 133 (15.06%) Microservices
20 114 (12.91%) DevOps
20 114 (12.91%) Mentoring
21 113 (12.80%) SQL Server
22 108 (12.23%) Degree
23 103 (11.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
24 99 (11.21%) Vue
25 97 (10.99%) Computer Science
26 95 (10.76%) Fintech
27 93 (10.53%) Front Office
28 91 (10.31%) Asset Management
29 90 (10.19%) ASP.NET

Senior 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 21 (2.38%) CMS
2 18 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.81%) Apache
4 9 (1.02%) Mendix
4 9 (1.02%) WordPress
5 8 (0.91%) Confluence
5 8 (0.91%) JBoss
5 8 (0.91%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.91%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.79%) Drupal
6 7 (0.79%) nginx
7 5 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.57%) K2 blackpearl
8 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) GemFire
Applications
1 13 (1.47%) Photoshop
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.47%) SDL Web 8
2 8 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Endur
3 4 (0.45%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 284 (32.16%) AWS
2 238 (26.95%) Azure
3 83 (9.40%) GCP
4 49 (5.55%) Power Platform
5 41 (4.64%) Serverless
6 31 (3.51%) SaaS
7 30 (3.40%) GitHub
8 29 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.60%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.15%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.81%) Azure Functions
13 14 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 13 (1.47%) NuGet
15 12 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) AMQP
2 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.23%) HTTP
2 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.23%) VoIP
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
3 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 61 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.21%) MySQL
4 43 (4.87%) Relational Database
5 33 (3.74%) Oracle Database
6 29 (3.28%) Power BI
7 21 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.27%) Redis
8 20 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (1.93%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
12 8 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.57%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.45%) Apache Arrow
15 4 (0.45%) Apache Ignite
15 4 (0.45%) Dremio
15 4 (0.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 89 (10.08%) Git
2 46 (5.21%) JIRA
3 23 (2.60%) Oracle APEX
4 19 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 18 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.93%) NUnit
7 15 (1.70%) Moq
7 15 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.70%) Sourcetree
7 15 (1.70%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.59%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.47%) git-flow
9 13 (1.47%) SpecFlow
10 12 (1.36%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.13%) JUnit
12 7 (0.79%) CMake
12 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 7 (0.79%) Storybook
13 6 (0.68%) fastlane
13 6 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 246 (27.86%) Finance
2 165 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 93 (10.53%) Front Office
4 57 (6.46%) Banking
5 47 (5.32%) Back Office
6 44 (4.98%) Marketing
7 33 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 29 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.72%) Games
10 19 (2.15%) Retail
11 18 (2.04%) Legal
12 17 (1.93%) Tech for Good
13 15 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.59%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.25%) Law
16 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.57%) Advertising
17 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
18 4 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (30.46%) .NET
2 236 (26.73%) React
3 196 (22.20%) AngularJS
4 159 (18.01%) HTML
5 157 (17.78%) CSS
6 99 (11.21%) Vue
7 90 (10.19%) ASP.NET
8 80 (9.06%) Node.js
8 80 (9.06%) Spring
9 69 (7.81%) REST
10 61 (6.91%) .NET Core
10 61 (6.91%) RESTful
11 59 (6.68%) Redux
12 54 (6.12%) Kafka
13 50 (5.66%) jQuery
13 50 (5.66%) Spring Boot
14 46 (5.21%) JSON
15 45 (5.10%) .NET Framework
16 43 (4.87%) Web Services
17 39 (4.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 76 (8.61%) Equities
3 69 (7.81%) Derivative
4 64 (7.25%) Fixed Income
5 63 (7.13%) Greenfield Project
6 61 (6.91%) Hedge funds
7 39 (4.42%) IoT
8 28 (3.17%) Product Ownership
9 27 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (2.49%) Mobile App
11 20 (2.27%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.70%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.59%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.59%) Legacy Code
14 10 (1.13%) Client/Server
14 10 (1.13%) Low-Code
15 9 (1.02%) Management Information System
16 8 (0.91%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.79%) Public Cloud
18 6 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.62%) Windows
2 30 (3.40%) Linux
3 27 (3.06%) Apple iOS
4 23 (2.60%) Android
5 9 (1.02%) Unix
6 7 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (28.88%) Agile
2 200 (22.65%) Full Stack Development
3 143 (16.19%) Software Engineering
4 133 (15.06%) Microservices
5 114 (12.91%) DevOps
5 114 (12.91%) Mentoring
6 97 (10.99%) Computer Science
7 95 (10.76%) Fintech
8 91 (10.31%) Asset Management
9 90 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
10 77 (8.72%) CI/CD
11 76 (8.61%) Investment Management
12 72 (8.15%) Front End Development
13 59 (6.68%) TDD
14 55 (6.23%) Multithreading
15 51 (5.78%) Low Latency
16 49 (5.55%) Scrum
17 47 (5.32%) Clean Code
17 47 (5.32%) MVC
17 47 (5.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 356 (40.32%) JavaScript
2 287 (32.50%) SQL
3 276 (31.26%) C#
4 202 (22.88%) Java
5 182 (20.61%) TypeScript
6 179 (20.27%) Python
7 41 (4.64%) PL/SQL
8 40 (4.53%) PHP
9 38 (4.30%) T-SQL
10 33 (3.74%) Ruby
11 26 (2.94%) Kotlin
12 22 (2.49%) C++
13 15 (1.70%) Apex Code
14 14 (1.59%) XPath
15 10 (1.13%) Go
16 7 (0.79%) Swift
17 6 (0.68%) Dart
17 6 (0.68%) Perl
17 6 (0.68%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 108 (12.23%) Degree
2 29 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (1.81%) Master's Degree
4 15 (1.70%) Security Cleared
5 14 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.34%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.62%) QA
2 6 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.34%) PMO
4 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.23%) GDPR
4 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.23%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.23%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (10.19%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) OpenSIPS
5 1 (0.11%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 81 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.59%) Ansible
3 6 (0.68%) Data Guard
3 6 (0.68%) Grafana
3 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.45%) Terraform
5 1 (0.11%) cPanel
5 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 78 (8.83%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.78%) Oracle
3 23 (2.60%) Google
4 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.59%) Adobe
6 13 (1.47%) Cognizant
7 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.91%) WSO2
9 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.79%) Sybase
10 6 (0.68%) F5
11 5 (0.57%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.57%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.57%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.45%) Murex
12 4 (0.45%) Vertica
13 3 (0.34%) Databricks
13 3 (0.34%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.34%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.34%) WooCommerce