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 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 73 71
Rank change year-on-year -51 -2 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 361 889 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.81% 3.77% 4.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 4.01% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 254 763 1,170
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% +4.29%
75th Percentile £88,750 £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 11,591 22,195 33,076
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 94.12% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,387 16,681 24,330
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 8 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 8 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 -15 86 £81,250 -4.41% 51
East London -2 5 £80,000 +10.34% 8
West London +27 1 £65,000 -18.75% 9
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 (37.40%) Finance
2 125 (34.63%) Agile
3 110 (30.47%) Python
4 106 (29.36%) C#
5 96 (26.59%) AWS
6 92 (25.48%) .NET
7 90 (24.93%) JavaScript
8 89 (24.65%) Social Skills
9 80 (22.16%) Azure
10 77 (21.33%) SQL
11 72 (19.94%) React
12 67 (18.56%) Git
12 67 (18.56%) C++
13 66 (18.28%) CI/CD
14 64 (17.73%) DevOps
15 63 (17.45%) Linux
16 62 (17.17%) TypeScript
17 61 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
18 59 (16.34%) QA
19 58 (16.07%) CSS
19 58 (16.07%) Java
20 57 (15.79%) HTML
21 56 (15.51%) Test Automation
22 54 (14.96%) Microservices
22 54 (14.96%) SQL Server
23 53 (14.68%) Front End Development
23 53 (14.68%) RESTful
24 52 (14.40%) Software Engineering
25 51 (14.13%) Low Latency
26 47 (13.02%) 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 14 (3.88%) CMS
2 7 (1.94%) Drupal
3 6 (1.66%) WordPress
4 5 (1.39%) Confluence
4 5 (1.39%) Liferay
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.55%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Adobe XD
1 4 (1.11%) 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 (4.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.11%) Shopify
3 3 (0.83%) Endur
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.83%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (26.59%) AWS
2 80 (22.16%) Azure
3 40 (11.08%) Serverless
4 34 (9.42%) Power Platform
5 33 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (8.03%) GCP
7 27 (7.48%) Amazon S3
8 23 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (5.26%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.16%) GitHub
11 15 (4.16%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (3.88%) Datadog
13 12 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.32%) SaaS
14 10 (2.77%) Snowflake
15 8 (2.22%) Figma
16 7 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) Multicast
2 2 (0.55%) HTTP
2 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.96%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.31%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (7.20%) MySQL
5 19 (5.26%) Power BI
6 17 (4.71%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.43%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.60%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.49%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.22%) Redis
12 5 (1.39%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.11%) Data Hub
13 4 (1.11%) Data Vault
13 4 (1.11%) Metadata
13 4 (1.11%) Power Query
13 4 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 67 (18.56%) Git
2 21 (5.82%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.82%) Maven
3 19 (5.26%) GitLab
4 16 (4.43%) JUnit
5 14 (3.88%) Cucumber
5 14 (3.88%) IntelliJ
5 14 (3.88%) JIRA
5 14 (3.88%) Mockito
6 8 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.94%) Gradle
8 4 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.11%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.83%) Selenium
9 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.55%) Crucible
10 2 (0.55%) NUnit
10 2 (0.55%) Postman
11 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 135 (37.40%) Finance
2 89 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 27 (7.48%) Banking
3 27 (7.48%) Front Office
4 24 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.99%) Marketing
7 14 (3.88%) Health Technology
7 14 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.88%) Publishing
7 14 (3.88%) Tech for Good
8 12 (3.32%) Games
8 12 (3.32%) Retail
8 12 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.49%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.94%) Back Office
10 7 (1.94%) Electronics
10 7 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.48%) .NET
2 72 (19.94%) React
3 58 (16.07%) CSS
4 57 (15.79%) HTML
5 53 (14.68%) RESTful
6 42 (11.63%) AngularJS
7 33 (9.14%) REST
8 31 (8.59%) Node.js
9 29 (8.03%) Spring
10 26 (7.20%) .NET Core
10 26 (7.20%) .NET Framework
11 25 (6.93%) Spring Boot
12 24 (6.65%) HTML5
13 19 (5.26%) Vue
14 17 (4.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 17 (4.71%) Next.js
15 16 (4.43%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (4.43%) XML
16 15 (4.16%) FIX Protocol
16 15 (4.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.25%) Equities
1 37 (10.25%) Hedge funds
2 28 (7.76%) Management Information System
3 27 (7.48%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.93%) Algorithms
5 23 (6.37%) Mobile App
6 21 (5.82%) Data Structures
7 16 (4.43%) Product Ownership
8 15 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (3.88%) Credit Derivative
10 12 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.49%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.66%) Mobile Games
14 6 (1.66%) Onboarding
15 5 (1.39%) Derivative
15 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (17.45%) Linux
2 8 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.94%) Windows
4 6 (1.66%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (34.63%) Agile
2 66 (18.28%) CI/CD
3 64 (17.73%) DevOps
4 61 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (15.51%) Test Automation
6 54 (14.96%) Microservices
7 53 (14.68%) Front End Development
8 52 (14.40%) Software Engineering
9 51 (14.13%) Low Latency
10 47 (13.02%) Mentoring
10 47 (13.02%) User Experience
11 36 (9.97%) Multithreading
12 35 (9.70%) SDLC
13 34 (9.42%) Computer Science
14 32 (8.86%) Scrum
15 30 (8.31%) Analytics
15 30 (8.31%) Clean Code
15 30 (8.31%) TDD
16 28 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
17 27 (7.48%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 110 (30.47%) Python
2 106 (29.36%) C#
3 90 (24.93%) JavaScript
4 77 (21.33%) SQL
5 67 (18.56%) C++
6 62 (17.17%) TypeScript
7 58 (16.07%) Java
8 15 (4.16%) PHP
8 15 (4.16%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.05%) C
10 6 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.66%) Ruby
11 5 (1.39%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.11%) 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%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 46 (12.74%) Degree
2 18 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (4.99%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.77%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.49%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.66%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.39%) 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 59 (16.34%) QA
2 12 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.83%) WCAG
5 1 (0.28%) CDISC
System Software
1 38 (10.53%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (8.86%) Terraform
2 30 (8.31%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.16%) Ansible
4 8 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.66%) Argo
6 5 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.55%) Grafana
9 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.65%) Google
3 15 (4.16%) IBM
4 14 (3.88%) Oracle
5 11 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.77%) Adobe
7 7 (1.94%) SAP
8 6 (1.66%) Databricks
8 6 (1.66%) New Relic
9 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.11%) VMware
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