Developer Jobs in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer salary in South London is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 106 102 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 12.18% 12.48% 14.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.65% 13.56% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 83 64 160
10th Percentile £52,750 £32,900 £41,125
25th Percentile £58,375 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +27.50% -16.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £63,781
90th Percentile - £95,000 £80,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 838 752 1,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.32% 92.04% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 423 415 745
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,076 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in South London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in South London

Developer
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Croydon +2 63 £75,000 +36.36% 5
Kingston Upon Thames -21 16 £65,000 -10.34% 3
Wandsworth +20 8 £70,000 - 2
Bromley -13 8 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Sutton -9 7 £67,500 -32.50%
Merton +4 3 £85,000 +3.03% 1
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 South London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 60 (56.60%) Agile
2 55 (51.89%) Full Stack Development
3 52 (49.06%) AWS
3 52 (49.06%) Java
3 52 (49.06%) Microservices
4 48 (45.28%) JavaScript
5 46 (43.40%) Docker
6 43 (40.57%) DevOps
7 41 (38.68%) Scrum
8 40 (37.74%) Azure
8 40 (37.74%) Kanban
8 40 (37.74%) TDD
8 40 (37.74%) Kubernetes
8 40 (37.74%) Serverless
9 38 (35.85%) Public Sector
9 38 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (34.91%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (34.91%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (34.91%) BDD
10 37 (34.91%) Jenkins
11 36 (33.96%) AngularJS
11 36 (33.96%) REST
11 36 (33.96%) Spring Boot
11 36 (33.96%) C#
11 36 (33.96%) Spring
11 36 (33.96%) Security Cleared
11 36 (33.96%) Git
12 35 (33.02%) Web Services
13 33 (31.13%) Ansible
14 32 (30.19%) Distributed Systems

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 26 (24.53%) OpenStack
2 11 (10.38%) JBoss
2 11 (10.38%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (6.60%) Apache
4 6 (5.66%) Confluence
5 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (49.06%) AWS
2 40 (37.74%) Azure
2 40 (37.74%) Serverless
3 37 (34.91%) Amazon ECS
3 37 (34.91%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.72%) Power Automate
5 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.72%) PowerApps
5 5 (4.72%) SaaS
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.94%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) Intranet
2 1 (0.94%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (25.47%) Relational Database
3 15 (14.15%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.77%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.83%) Power BI
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.94%) MySQL
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (34.91%) Jenkins
2 36 (33.96%) Git
3 17 (16.04%) JUnit
4 13 (12.26%) JIRA
5 5 (4.72%) JMeter
5 5 (4.72%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.77%) Mockito
7 2 (1.89%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.89%) Selenium
7 2 (1.89%) TestNG
8 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.94%) Mocha
8 1 (0.94%) Postman
8 1 (0.94%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.94%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.94%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.94%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (35.85%) Public Sector
2 17 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.38%) Finance
4 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Police
7 1 (0.94%) Legal
7 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (33.96%) AngularJS
1 36 (33.96%) REST
1 36 (33.96%) Spring
1 36 (33.96%) Spring Boot
2 35 (33.02%) Web Services
3 31 (29.25%) Apache Camel
4 30 (28.30%) Node.js
5 28 (26.42%) .NET
6 26 (24.53%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (18.87%) RESTful
8 18 (16.98%) React
9 16 (15.09%) XML
10 15 (14.15%) .NET Core
10 15 (14.15%) JSON
11 13 (12.26%) ASP.NET
12 11 (10.38%) SOAP
13 9 (8.49%) .NET Framework
13 9 (8.49%) HTML
13 9 (8.49%) J2EE
14 8 (7.55%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 32 (30.19%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.32%) IoT
3 9 (8.49%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.77%) Wiki
6 3 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (56.60%) Agile
2 55 (51.89%) Full Stack Development
3 52 (49.06%) Microservices
4 43 (40.57%) DevOps
5 41 (38.68%) Scrum
6 40 (37.74%) Kanban
6 40 (37.74%) TDD
7 37 (34.91%) BDD
8 20 (18.87%) SDLC
9 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
10 16 (15.09%) Test Automation
11 15 (14.15%) BPEL
12 13 (12.26%) Process Management
12 13 (12.26%) Workflow
13 9 (8.49%) Mentoring
14 8 (7.55%) Coaching
14 8 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (6.60%) Release Management
15 7 (6.60%) Unit Testing
16 6 (5.66%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (49.06%) Java
2 48 (45.28%) JavaScript
3 36 (33.96%) C#
4 31 (29.25%) SQL
5 21 (19.81%) Python
6 10 (9.43%) Shell Script
7 9 (8.49%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.60%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.72%) Delphi
10 4 (3.77%) PHP
10 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.94%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) AWS Certification
3 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.72%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (43.40%) Docker
2 12 (11.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (37.74%) Kubernetes
2 33 (31.13%) Ansible
3 16 (15.09%) Terraform
4 4 (3.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (24.53%) WSO2
2 15 (14.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.66%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.77%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.77%) Splunk
4 4 (3.77%) YouTube
5 3 (2.83%) UiPath
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle