Senior Developer Jobs in Central London

Senior Developer
London > Central London

The median Senior Developer salary in Central London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 146 256 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.83% 5.19% 5.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.02% 5.40% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 117 247 382
10th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,630 4,740 8,150
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 96.03% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 3,920 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £53,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £92,625
90th Percentile £110,250 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
City of London -11 135 £87,500 -2.78% 21
City of Westminster -16 10 £80,000 -3.03% 1
Camden - 6 £80,000 - 1
Lambeth - 1 £50,000 - 1
Senior Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 Central London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 65 (44.52%) JavaScript
2 61 (41.78%) SQL
3 56 (38.36%) .NET
4 55 (37.67%) C#
5 51 (34.93%) Degree
6 48 (32.88%) HTML
6 48 (32.88%) CSS
6 48 (32.88%) Social Skills
7 43 (29.45%) Azure
8 41 (28.08%) AWS
8 41 (28.08%) SQL Server
9 38 (26.03%) Computer Science
10 37 (25.34%) Agile
11 31 (21.23%) Full Stack Development
12 28 (19.18%) React
13 27 (18.49%) Multithreading
14 26 (17.81%) DevOps
15 23 (15.75%) HTML5
15 23 (15.75%) Finance
15 23 (15.75%) Java
16 22 (15.07%) Git
17 21 (14.38%) Multithreaded Programming
17 21 (14.38%) Windows
17 21 (14.38%) Greenfield Project
17 21 (14.38%) Collaborative Working
18 20 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
19 18 (12.33%) E-Commerce
19 18 (12.33%) Marketing
19 18 (12.33%) TypeScript
20 17 (11.64%) Fintech

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 12 (8.22%) CMS
2 6 (4.11%) Drupal
3 5 (3.42%) K2 blackpearl
3 5 (3.42%) Mendix
4 4 (2.74%) WordPress
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.48%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Endur
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.45%) Azure
2 41 (28.08%) AWS
3 11 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 8 (5.48%) NuGet
5 5 (3.42%) Serverless
6 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.74%) GCP
6 4 (2.74%) Stripe
7 3 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.05%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.05%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.37%) GitHub
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) HTTP
1 1 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.08%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.64%) MySQL
3 10 (6.85%) Power BI
4 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.11%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.42%) Power Query
6 5 (3.42%) Redis
7 4 (2.74%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.74%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (15.07%) Git
2 11 (7.53%) JIRA
3 10 (6.85%) Moq
3 10 (6.85%) NUnit
4 8 (5.48%) git-flow
4 8 (5.48%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (5.48%) Sourcetree
4 8 (5.48%) SpecFlow
4 8 (5.48%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.48%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.74%) MSTest
6 3 (2.05%) Storybook
7 2 (1.37%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 48 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.75%) Finance
3 18 (12.33%) Marketing
4 17 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.53%) Banking
6 6 (4.11%) Games
6 6 (4.11%) Retail Banking
7 5 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.42%) Retail
8 4 (2.74%) Front Office
9 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.05%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.37%) Back Office
10 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (38.36%) .NET
2 48 (32.88%) CSS
2 48 (32.88%) HTML
3 28 (19.18%) React
4 23 (15.75%) HTML5
5 16 (10.96%) .NET Framework
6 15 (10.27%) AngularJS
6 15 (10.27%) jQuery
6 15 (10.27%) Node.js
6 15 (10.27%) Web Services
6 15 (10.27%) WPF
7 13 (8.90%) Entity Framework
7 13 (8.90%) Kafka
7 13 (8.90%) RESTful
8 12 (8.22%) XML
9 11 (7.53%) ASP.NET
9 11 (7.53%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (5.48%) Autofac
10 8 (5.48%) Ninject
10 8 (5.48%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.38%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (5.48%) Legacy Code
3 7 (4.79%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.42%) BBC
4 5 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.42%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.74%) Equities
5 4 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.37%) Wiki
7 1 (0.68%) 3D Printing
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.38%) Windows
2 5 (3.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.03%) Computer Science
2 37 (25.34%) Agile
3 31 (21.23%) Full Stack Development
4 27 (18.49%) Multithreading
5 26 (17.81%) DevOps
6 21 (14.38%) Collaborative Working
6 21 (14.38%) Multithreaded Programming
7 20 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.33%) E-Commerce
9 17 (11.64%) Fintech
9 17 (11.64%) Scrum
10 16 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (10.96%) Mentoring
10 16 (10.96%) SOLID
10 16 (10.96%) Unit Testing
11 15 (10.27%) Microservices
11 15 (10.27%) OO
12 14 (9.59%) Clean Code
12 14 (9.59%) Software Engineering
13 13 (8.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 65 (44.52%) JavaScript
2 61 (41.78%) SQL
3 55 (37.67%) C#
4 23 (15.75%) Java
5 18 (12.33%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.59%) T-SQL
7 12 (8.22%) PHP
8 8 (5.48%) Python
8 8 (5.48%) XPath
9 5 (3.42%) Apex Code
9 5 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.74%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) Elixir
12 1 (0.68%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (34.93%) Degree
2 9 (6.16%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.42%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (7.53%) Oracle
2 9 (6.16%) Adobe
2 9 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.48%) Cognizant
4 7 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.42%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (3.42%) Blue Prism
5 5 (3.42%) Databricks
6 3 (2.05%) Google
7 2 (1.37%) F5
7 2 (1.37%) Sybase
8 1 (0.68%) Monzo
8 1 (0.68%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.68%) WorldPay