Developer Jobs in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer salary in South London is £34,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 22 28
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 51 96 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 7.13% 11.02% 12.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.99% 11.52% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6 75 45
10th Percentile - £51,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £59,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.63% -3.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36,000 £83,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £83,750 £95,000
London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 567 833 663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.30% 95.64% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 163 396 373
10th Percentile £26,375 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,313 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
Croydon -8 39 £34,000 -54.67% 1
Merton -3 4 £90,000 +9.09% 2
Bromley -8 4 - - 7
Sutton +6 2 - -
Kingston Upon Thames +4 2 - -
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 46 (90.20%) Agile
2 45 (88.24%) AWS
3 42 (82.35%) Serverless
4 37 (72.55%) JavaScript
5 33 (64.71%) Java
6 32 (62.75%) Docker
6 32 (62.75%) Kubernetes
6 32 (62.75%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (60.78%) CI/CD
7 31 (60.78%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (60.78%) Microservices
7 31 (60.78%) REST
7 31 (60.78%) Jenkins
7 31 (60.78%) Web Services
7 31 (60.78%) TDD
7 31 (60.78%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (60.78%) Spring
8 30 (58.82%) Relational Database
8 30 (58.82%) Spring Boot
8 30 (58.82%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (54.90%) JUnit
10 27 (52.94%) Scrum
11 26 (50.98%) Python
11 26 (50.98%) BDD
11 26 (50.98%) Public Sector
12 25 (49.02%) Apache Camel
13 24 (47.06%) Kanban
14 23 (45.10%) Security Cleared
15 21 (41.18%) SC Cleared
16 19 (37.25%) Git

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 13 (25.49%) JBoss
1 13 (25.49%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (9.80%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 45 (88.24%) AWS
2 42 (82.35%) Serverless
3 32 (62.75%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (58.82%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 13 (25.49%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.92%) Azure
10 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (60.78%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (58.82%) Relational Database
3 14 (27.45%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (23.53%) DynamoDB
4 12 (23.53%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (60.78%) Jenkins
2 28 (54.90%) JUnit
3 19 (37.25%) Git
4 13 (25.49%) Mockito
5 12 (23.53%) JMeter
6 5 (9.80%) Jasmine
6 5 (9.80%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.96%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.96%) JIRA
7 1 (1.96%) jMock
7 1 (1.96%) Maven
7 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (50.98%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (60.78%) REST
1 31 (60.78%) Spring
1 31 (60.78%) Web Services
2 30 (58.82%) Spring Boot
3 25 (49.02%) Apache Camel
4 17 (33.33%) HTML
4 17 (33.33%) React
5 14 (27.45%) RESTful
5 14 (27.45%) SOAP
6 13 (25.49%) ActiveMQ
6 13 (25.49%) Hibernate
6 13 (25.49%) J2EE
7 12 (23.53%) GraphQL
7 12 (23.53%) jQuery
7 12 (23.53%) Node.js
7 12 (23.53%) Serverless Framework
7 12 (23.53%) WireMock
8 5 (9.80%) CSS3
8 5 (9.80%) Mustache
8 5 (9.80%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 31 (60.78%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (3.92%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Android
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (90.20%) Agile
2 31 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 31 (60.78%) Microservices
2 31 (60.78%) TDD
3 27 (52.94%) Scrum
4 26 (50.98%) BDD
5 24 (47.06%) Kanban
6 15 (29.41%) Collaborative Working
6 15 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (27.45%) DevOps
8 13 (25.49%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (25.49%) Mentoring
9 12 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (23.53%) Clean Code
9 12 (23.53%) Event-Driven
9 12 (23.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 12 (23.53%) Process Management
9 12 (23.53%) Workflow
10 8 (15.69%) Architectural Design
11 5 (9.80%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 37 (72.55%) JavaScript
2 33 (64.71%) Java
3 26 (50.98%) Python
4 17 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 12 (23.53%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.92%) C++
6 2 (3.92%) Go
6 2 (3.92%) Rust
7 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 21 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (23.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.49%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (62.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (62.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (29.41%) Ansible
3 12 (23.53%) Kibana
4 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Dynatrace
1 12 (23.53%) Splunk
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce