Senior Developer Jobs in the City of London

Senior Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Developer salary in the City of London is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 51 48
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 133 264 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.97% 5.88% 5.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.13% 6.12% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 106 255 354
10th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £132,500 £130,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,219 4,316 7,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 96.21% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,517 3,600 5,674
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,441 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,188 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 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 City of London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 62 (46.62%) JavaScript
2 61 (45.86%) SQL
3 53 (39.85%) .NET
4 52 (39.10%) C#
5 48 (36.09%) Social Skills
6 46 (34.59%) Degree
7 44 (33.08%) HTML
7 44 (33.08%) CSS
8 42 (31.58%) Azure
8 42 (31.58%) AWS
9 39 (29.32%) SQL Server
10 36 (27.07%) Computer Science
11 33 (24.81%) Agile
12 27 (20.30%) Full Stack Development
13 26 (19.55%) Multithreading
13 26 (19.55%) DevOps
13 26 (19.55%) React
14 22 (16.54%) Finance
15 21 (15.79%) Java
15 21 (15.79%) Windows
15 21 (15.79%) HTML5
15 21 (15.79%) Multithreaded Programming
15 21 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
16 19 (14.29%) Git
16 19 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (13.53%) E-Commerce
18 17 (12.78%) Marketing
19 16 (12.03%) Unit Testing
19 16 (12.03%) WPF

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.02%) CMS
2 6 (4.51%) Drupal
3 4 (3.01%) WordPress
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (6.02%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Endur
3 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.58%) AWS
1 42 (31.58%) Azure
2 11 (8.27%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 8 (6.02%) NuGet
4 5 (3.76%) Serverless
5 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.01%) GCP
5 4 (3.01%) Stripe
6 3 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (2.26%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.75%) GitHub
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
1 1 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (29.32%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.03%) MySQL
3 10 (7.52%) Power BI
4 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.76%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.76%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (3.76%) Power Query
6 5 (3.76%) Redis
7 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (14.29%) Git
2 9 (6.77%) JIRA
2 9 (6.77%) Moq
3 8 (6.02%) git-flow
3 8 (6.02%) NUnit
3 8 (6.02%) Octopus Deploy
3 8 (6.02%) Sourcetree
3 8 (6.02%) SpecFlow
3 8 (6.02%) TeamCity
3 8 (6.02%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.26%) Storybook
5 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.75%) MSTest
General
1 48 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.54%) Finance
3 17 (12.78%) Marketing
4 15 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.02%) Banking
6 6 (4.51%) Games
6 6 (4.51%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.51%) Retail Banking
7 5 (3.76%) Front Office
7 5 (3.76%) Retail
8 2 (1.50%) Back Office
8 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (39.85%) .NET
2 44 (33.08%) CSS
2 44 (33.08%) HTML
3 26 (19.55%) React
4 21 (15.79%) HTML5
5 16 (12.03%) WPF
6 15 (11.28%) Node.js
7 14 (10.53%) .NET Framework
8 13 (9.77%) AngularJS
8 13 (9.77%) Kafka
9 12 (9.02%) jQuery
9 12 (9.02%) RESTful
9 12 (9.02%) Web Services
10 11 (8.27%) Entity Framework
11 10 (7.52%) ASP.NET
11 10 (7.52%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (6.77%) XML
13 8 (6.02%) Autofac
13 8 (6.02%) SOAP
13 8 (6.02%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (6.02%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.02%) Legacy Code
3 5 (3.76%) Equities
4 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.79%) Windows
2 6 (4.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.07%) Computer Science
2 33 (24.81%) Agile
3 27 (20.30%) Full Stack Development
4 26 (19.55%) DevOps
4 26 (19.55%) Multithreading
5 21 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
5 21 (15.79%) Multithreaded Programming
6 19 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (13.53%) E-Commerce
8 16 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
8 16 (12.03%) Unit Testing
9 15 (11.28%) Fintech
9 15 (11.28%) SOLID
10 14 (10.53%) Microservices
10 14 (10.53%) Scrum
11 13 (9.77%) CI/CD
11 13 (9.77%) OO
11 13 (9.77%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (9.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.62%) JavaScript
2 61 (45.86%) SQL
3 52 (39.10%) C#
4 21 (15.79%) Java
5 16 (12.03%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.53%) T-SQL
7 12 (9.02%) PHP
8 8 (6.02%) Python
8 8 (6.02%) XPath
9 5 (3.76%) Apex Code
9 5 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.76%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 46 (34.59%) Degree
2 7 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.26%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (8.27%) Oracle
2 9 (6.77%) Adobe
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.02%) Cognizant
4 7 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.76%) Databricks
6 3 (2.26%) Google
7 2 (1.50%) F5
8 1 (0.75%) Monzo
8 1 (0.75%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.75%) WorldPay