Senior Developer Jobs in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 73 70
Rank change year-on-year -46 -3 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 363 887 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.84% 3.76% 4.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.15% 3.99% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 256 762 1,169
10th Percentile £57,001 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +4.94%
75th Percentile £89,063 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +3.45%

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 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
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%

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 9 May 2025.

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 9 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 -12 88 £82,500 -2.94% 63
East London -1 5 £80,000 +10.34% 10
West London +26 1 £65,000 -23.53% 12
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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.

1 135 (37.19%) Finance
2 123 (33.88%) Agile
3 111 (30.58%) Python
4 106 (29.20%) C#
5 95 (26.17%) AWS
6 93 (25.62%) .NET
7 90 (24.79%) JavaScript
8 88 (24.24%) Social Skills
9 81 (22.31%) Azure
10 77 (21.21%) SQL
11 72 (19.83%) React
12 67 (18.46%) C++
13 66 (18.18%) CI/CD
14 65 (17.91%) Git
15 63 (17.36%) DevOps
15 63 (17.36%) Linux
16 62 (17.08%) TypeScript
17 59 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
18 58 (15.98%) CSS
18 58 (15.98%) QA
19 57 (15.70%) HTML
19 57 (15.70%) Java
20 55 (15.15%) SQL Server
21 54 (14.88%) Test Automation
22 53 (14.60%) Microservices
22 53 (14.60%) Front End Development
23 52 (14.33%) RESTful
24 51 (14.05%) Low Latency
24 51 (14.05%) Software Engineering
25 47 (12.95%) Mentoring

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 13 (3.58%) CMS
2 6 (1.65%) Drupal
2 6 (1.65%) WordPress
3 5 (1.38%) Confluence
3 5 (1.38%) Liferay
3 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.55%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Adobe XD
1 4 (1.10%) Sketch
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.83%) Trello
3 1 (0.28%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.28%) Blender
3 1 (0.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 15 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.83%) Endur
2 3 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.83%) Shopify
2 3 (0.83%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (26.17%) AWS
2 81 (22.31%) Azure
3 40 (11.02%) Serverless
4 35 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 33 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (7.71%) GCP
7 27 (7.44%) Amazon S3
8 23 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (5.23%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.13%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (3.86%) Datadog
12 14 (3.86%) GitHub
13 13 (3.58%) SaaS
14 12 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (2.75%) Snowflake
16 8 (2.20%) Figma
17 7 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (1.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) Multicast
2 2 (0.55%) HTTP
2 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 29 (7.99%) NoSQL
3 27 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (6.89%) MySQL
5 20 (5.51%) Power BI
6 17 (4.68%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.68%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.48%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.20%) Redis
11 5 (1.38%) Data Hub
11 5 (1.38%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.38%) Metadata
11 5 (1.38%) SQL CLR
11 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (1.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 65 (17.91%) Git
2 21 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 20 (5.51%) Maven
4 19 (5.23%) GitLab
5 16 (4.41%) JUnit
6 14 (3.86%) Cucumber
6 14 (3.86%) IntelliJ
6 14 (3.86%) JIRA
6 14 (3.86%) Mockito
7 8 (2.20%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.65%) Gradle
9 4 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.10%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.83%) Selenium
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.55%) Crucible
11 2 (0.55%) NUnit
11 2 (0.55%) Postman
12 1 (0.28%) fastlane
General
1 135 (37.19%) Finance
2 88 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.71%) Banking
4 27 (7.44%) Front Office
5 24 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.96%) Marketing
8 14 (3.86%) Health Technology
8 14 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.86%) Publishing
8 14 (3.86%) Tech for Good
9 12 (3.31%) Retail
9 12 (3.31%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.03%) Games
11 9 (2.48%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.20%) Back Office
13 7 (1.93%) Electronics
13 7 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.38%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (25.62%) .NET
2 72 (19.83%) React
3 58 (15.98%) CSS
4 57 (15.70%) HTML
5 52 (14.33%) RESTful
6 42 (11.57%) AngularJS
7 34 (9.37%) REST
8 31 (8.54%) Node.js
9 28 (7.71%) Spring
10 26 (7.16%) .NET Core
10 26 (7.16%) .NET Framework
11 25 (6.89%) Spring Boot
12 23 (6.34%) HTML5
13 18 (4.96%) Vue
14 17 (4.68%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 17 (4.68%) Next.js
15 16 (4.41%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (4.41%) XML
16 15 (4.13%) FIX Protocol
16 15 (4.13%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.19%) Equities
1 37 (10.19%) Hedge funds
2 28 (7.71%) Management Information System
3 26 (7.16%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.89%) Algorithms
5 24 (6.61%) Mobile App
6 21 (5.79%) Data Structures
7 15 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 14 (3.86%) Credit Derivative
9 11 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.48%) Fixed Income
11 8 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.38%) Mobile Games
13 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (17.36%) Linux
2 9 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.93%) Android
3 7 (1.93%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (33.88%) Agile
2 66 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 63 (17.36%) DevOps
4 59 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (14.88%) Test Automation
6 53 (14.60%) Front End Development
6 53 (14.60%) Microservices
7 51 (14.05%) Low Latency
7 51 (14.05%) Software Engineering
8 47 (12.95%) Mentoring
8 47 (12.95%) User Experience
9 36 (9.92%) Multithreading
10 35 (9.64%) SDLC
11 33 (9.09%) Computer Science
12 32 (8.82%) Scrum
13 30 (8.26%) TDD
14 29 (7.99%) Analytics
14 29 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (7.99%) Clean Code
15 27 (7.44%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 111 (30.58%) Python
2 106 (29.20%) C#
3 90 (24.79%) JavaScript
4 77 (21.21%) SQL
5 67 (18.46%) C++
6 62 (17.08%) TypeScript
7 57 (15.70%) Java
8 16 (4.41%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.86%) PHP
10 11 (3.03%) C
11 6 (1.65%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.65%) Ruby
12 4 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.10%) SOQL
13 3 (0.83%) Go
13 3 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.83%) Swift
13 3 (0.83%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (12.40%) Degree
2 18 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.38%) PhD
7 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (15.98%) QA
2 11 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.38%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.83%) WCAG
5 1 (0.28%) CDISC
System Software
1 37 (10.19%) Docker
2 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (8.82%) Terraform
2 29 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.13%) Ansible
4 7 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.38%) Argo
6 5 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.55%) Grafana
8 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.06%) Google
3 15 (4.13%) IBM
4 14 (3.86%) Oracle
5 12 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.75%) Adobe
7 7 (1.93%) Databricks
7 7 (1.93%) SAP
8 5 (1.38%) New Relic
8 5 (1.38%) VMware
9 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.83%) Cognos
10 3 (0.83%) Conga
10 3 (0.83%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.83%) SimCorp
11 2 (0.55%) Okta
11 2 (0.55%) Trayport
12 1 (0.28%) DocuSign
12 1 (0.28%) F5
12 1 (0.28%) Twitter