Backend Developer Job Trends in Southwark

Backend Developer
Central London > Southwark

The median Backend Developer salary in Southwark is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Southwark 5.88% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 -
% change year-on-year -14.71% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Southwark

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southwark. 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 Southwark with a recognized job title 10 40 33
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 58.82% 81.63% 70.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 28
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,600 £34,457
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,094 £40,702
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% -26.67%
75th Percentile £69,688 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £74,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £74,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% +4.93% -5.33%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southwark

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

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Southwark

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Southwark

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Southwark.

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Southwark

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 2026, Backend 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 Southwark region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) NestJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southwark 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) NestJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript