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 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 72 73
Rank change year-on-year -32 +1 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 419 871 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.16% 3.72% 4.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.46% 3.94% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 260 725 1,067
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £104,375
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +0.69%

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 12,127 22,129 27,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 94.40% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,424 16,081 21,650
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -3 93 £80,000 -8.57% 28
South London -16 13 - - 6
West London +26 9 £65,000 -23.53% 9
East London -12 8 £80,000 +1.59% 5
North London - 2 - -
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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.

1 162 (38.66%) Python
2 161 (38.42%) Agile
3 143 (34.13%) Finance
4 137 (32.70%) AWS
5 116 (27.68%) React
6 115 (27.45%) JavaScript
7 107 (25.54%) CI/CD
8 106 (25.30%) TypeScript
9 102 (24.34%) Azure
10 93 (22.20%) Mentoring
11 89 (21.24%) SQL
12 87 (20.76%) Serverless
13 86 (20.53%) C#
14 81 (19.33%) Social Skills
15 77 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
15 77 (18.38%) User Experience
16 74 (17.66%) Test Automation
16 74 (17.66%) .NET
17 69 (16.47%) QA
18 68 (16.23%) AWS Lambda
19 62 (14.80%) DevOps
20 59 (14.08%) CSS
21 58 (13.84%) Software Engineering
21 58 (13.84%) Amazon S3
22 56 (13.37%) C++
23 55 (13.13%) HTML
24 52 (12.41%) Linux
24 52 (12.41%) Clean Code
25 51 (12.17%) RESTful
25 51 (12.17%) Front End Development

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 10 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.15%) WordPress
3 8 (1.91%) CMS
3 8 (1.91%) Headless CMS
3 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.19%) Liferay
5 3 (0.72%) Drupal
6 2 (0.48%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.72%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.15%) Shopify
3 6 (1.43%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.95%) Endur
4 4 (0.95%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.24%) Magento
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 137 (32.70%) AWS
2 102 (24.34%) Azure
3 87 (20.76%) Serverless
4 68 (16.23%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (13.84%) Amazon S3
6 36 (8.59%) GCP
6 36 (8.59%) Power Platform
7 32 (7.64%) AWS Step Functions
8 22 (5.25%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (5.25%) PowerApps
9 18 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (4.30%) SaaS
9 18 (4.30%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.58%) Figma
11 14 (3.34%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (2.63%) Datadog
13 10 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.92%) Broadband
2 5 (1.19%) Multicast
3 2 (0.48%) HTTP
3 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.24%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.98%) DynamoDB
2 43 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
2 43 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 38 (9.07%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.25%) Power BI
6 20 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.77%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.06%) MySQL
8 16 (3.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (3.34%) RDBMS
9 14 (3.34%) Redis
10 11 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (2.15%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.91%) Data Hub
12 8 (1.91%) Metadata
12 8 (1.91%) SQL CLR
12 8 (1.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (1.43%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 49 (11.69%) Git
2 21 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.82%) Cypress.io
4 15 (3.58%) GitLab
5 13 (3.10%) JUnit
5 13 (3.10%) Maven
6 11 (2.63%) Mockito
7 10 (2.39%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.39%) IntelliJ
7 10 (2.39%) JIRA
8 4 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.95%) Vite
9 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.72%) Gradle
9 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.72%) Selenium
10 2 (0.48%) NUnit
10 2 (0.48%) Postman
11 1 (0.24%) Crucible
11 1 (0.24%) fastlane
General
1 143 (34.13%) Finance
2 81 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 49 (11.69%) Banking
4 42 (10.02%) Marketing
5 31 (7.40%) Front Office
6 27 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.06%) Health Technology
7 17 (4.06%) Publishing
7 17 (4.06%) Tech for Good
7 17 (4.06%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.82%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (3.58%) Back Office
10 14 (3.34%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.63%) Electronics
11 11 (2.63%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.91%) Games
13 8 (1.91%) Law
14 7 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (27.68%) React
2 74 (17.66%) .NET
3 59 (14.08%) CSS
4 55 (13.13%) HTML
5 51 (12.17%) RESTful
6 50 (11.93%) GraphQL
7 48 (11.46%) REST
8 38 (9.07%) Node.js
9 33 (7.88%) AngularJS
10 32 (7.64%) Flask
11 27 (6.44%) Serverless Framework
12 20 (4.77%) .NET Core
13 19 (4.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 19 (4.53%) Django
14 18 (4.30%) Spring Boot
15 17 (4.06%) .NET Framework
15 17 (4.06%) Next.js
15 17 (4.06%) Swagger
15 17 (4.06%) Web Services
16 16 (3.82%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.11%) Equities
2 33 (7.88%) Hedge funds
3 30 (7.16%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.21%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.97%) Algorithms
6 22 (5.25%) Data Structures
7 20 (4.77%) Mobile App
8 18 (4.30%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.39%) Credit Derivative
10 10 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.39%) Fixed Income
10 10 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (2.39%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.15%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.91%) Derivative
12 8 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.43%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.41%) Linux
2 8 (1.91%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.67%) Android
4 3 (0.72%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (38.42%) Agile
2 107 (25.54%) CI/CD
3 93 (22.20%) Mentoring
4 77 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (18.38%) User Experience
5 74 (17.66%) Test Automation
6 62 (14.80%) DevOps
7 58 (13.84%) Software Engineering
8 52 (12.41%) Clean Code
9 51 (12.17%) Front End Development
10 47 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
10 47 (11.22%) UX Design
11 46 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 46 (10.98%) Low Latency
12 45 (10.74%) Microservices
13 41 (9.79%) SDLC
14 37 (8.83%) Event-Driven
14 37 (8.83%) TDD
15 36 (8.59%) Scrum
16 35 (8.35%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 162 (38.66%) Python
2 115 (27.45%) JavaScript
3 106 (25.30%) TypeScript
4 89 (21.24%) SQL
5 86 (20.53%) C#
6 56 (13.37%) C++
7 46 (10.98%) Java
8 19 (4.53%) T-SQL
9 18 (4.30%) PHP
10 10 (2.39%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.67%) Bicep
11 7 (1.67%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.19%) SOQL
13 4 (0.95%) C
13 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.95%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.95%) Ruby
14 3 (0.72%) Go
14 3 (0.72%) Swift
14 3 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (6.92%) AWS Certification
2 27 (6.44%) Degree
3 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.91%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (16.47%) QA
2 17 (4.06%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (0.72%) WCAG
5 2 (0.48%) EMIR
5 2 (0.48%) MiFID
6 1 (0.24%) CDISC
System Software
1 44 (10.50%) Docker
2 8 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (9.79%) Terraform
2 34 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.86%) Ansible
4 10 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.91%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.72%) Grafana
8 2 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 40 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.73%) Google
3 22 (5.25%) Salesforce
4 17 (4.06%) Databricks
5 15 (3.58%) Oracle
6 11 (2.63%) IBM
6 11 (2.63%) SAP
7 8 (1.91%) Adobe
7 8 (1.91%) Apple
7 8 (1.91%) VMware
8 6 (1.43%) WooCommerce
9 5 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.95%) OpenLink
10 4 (0.95%) SimCorp
11 3 (0.72%) Cognos
11 3 (0.72%) Dell
12 2 (0.48%) Informatica
12 2 (0.48%) ION Trading
12 2 (0.48%) Solace
12 2 (0.48%) Sybase