Developer Job Trends in Romford

Developer
Havering > Romford

The median Developer salary in Romford is £30,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 April 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 4 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Romford 7.27% - 6.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.00% - 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 - £52,500
75th Percentile £32,750 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Havering median annual salary £30,500 - £52,500

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Romford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Romford. 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 Romford with a recognized job title 50 6 39
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 20.00% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19 0 26
10th Percentile £28,250 - £28,176
25th Percentile £33,125 - £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £36,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.84%
75th Percentile £55,000 - £49,034
90th Percentile £80,000 - £54,875
Havering median annual salary £47,500 - £40,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.90%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Romford

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Romford

Developer
Salary Trend in Romford

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Romford.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Romford

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Romford

For the 6 months to 5 April 2026, 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 Romford region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Broadband
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Akka
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Romford 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%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Broadband
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Akka
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 2 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Personalization
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Typelevel