Developer Jobs in London

Developer
England > London

The median Developer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,653 6,246 15,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.49% 18.37% 22.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.45% 19.31% 23.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,104 5,188 8,166
10th Percentile £48,914 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.84% +12.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,206 32,343 66,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 95.12% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 23,852 34,726
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Developer in London

Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in London

Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Central London -5 543 £77,500 -3.13% 132
South London +7 100 £67,500 +12.50% 14
North London +21 40 £55,000 -15.38% 7
East London +14 33 £150,000 +81.82% 30
West London -59 24 £72,500 +30.83% 18
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,250 (34.22%) Agile
2 1,169 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 1,102 (30.17%) AWS
4 1,098 (30.06%) Finance
5 1,037 (28.39%) Azure
6 978 (26.77%) C#
7 955 (26.14%) Full Stack Development
8 908 (24.86%) SQL
9 900 (24.64%) .NET
10 844 (23.10%) Python
11 832 (22.78%) Java
12 771 (21.11%) React
13 717 (19.63%) Software Engineering
14 700 (19.16%) TypeScript
15 592 (16.21%) AngularJS
16 580 (15.88%) Social Skills
17 541 (14.81%) Front Office
18 532 (14.56%) DevOps
19 522 (14.29%) HTML
20 478 (13.09%) SQL Server
21 477 (13.06%) CSS
22 474 (12.98%) Microsoft
23 460 (12.59%) Microservices
24 446 (12.21%) Degree
25 441 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
26 425 (11.63%) GCP
27 417 (11.42%) TDD
28 413 (11.31%) Fintech
29 412 (11.28%) Fixed Income
30 398 (10.90%) Computer Science

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 213 (5.83%) Apache
2 197 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 72 (1.97%) CMS
5 44 (1.20%) WordPress
6 39 (1.07%) Confluence
7 37 (1.01%) Drupal
8 31 (0.85%) IIS
9 25 (0.68%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.55%) nginx
11 19 (0.52%) OpenEdge
12 17 (0.47%) Mendix
13 16 (0.44%) Apache Spark
14 15 (0.41%) Tomcat
15 13 (0.36%) Appian
16 12 (0.33%) Ethereum
16 12 (0.33%) JBoss
17 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
17 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
18 8 (0.22%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 31 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.47%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.082%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.082%) Trello
6 2 (0.055%) Blender
6 2 (0.055%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.055%) Houdini
6 2 (0.055%) InDesign
6 2 (0.055%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.055%) Notion
7 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 60 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
3 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.25%) Magento
6 9 (0.25%) Shopify
7 7 (0.19%) Visualfiles
8 6 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.11%) CiviCRM
11 3 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.055%) Endur
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle FAH
12 2 (0.055%) R3 Corda
12 2 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,102 (30.17%) AWS
2 1,037 (28.39%) Azure
3 425 (11.63%) GCP
4 303 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 192 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 175 (4.79%) Serverless
7 160 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
8 118 (3.23%) PowerApps
9 115 (3.15%) GitHub
10 101 (2.76%) SaaS
11 93 (2.55%) Power Automate
12 75 (2.05%) dbt
13 65 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
14 57 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 51 (1.40%) Snowflake
17 45 (1.23%) Azure Functions
18 43 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
19 40 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 21 (0.57%) Internet
3 12 (0.33%) VPN
4 11 (0.30%) BGP
4 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (0.30%) MPLS
5 10 (0.27%) HTTP
6 8 (0.22%) Multicast
7 7 (0.19%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.16%) AMQP
8 6 (0.16%) Broadband
8 6 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
8 6 (0.16%) Network Security
9 5 (0.14%) FTP
10 2 (0.055%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.055%) Intranet
10 2 (0.055%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.055%) SSH
11 1 (0.027%) MQTT
11 1 (0.027%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 279 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
3 183 (5.01%) Apache Ignite
3 183 (5.01%) Power BI
4 163 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 148 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 143 (3.91%) MySQL
7 125 (3.42%) NoSQL
8 110 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 85 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 82 (2.24%) Redis
11 79 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 78 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
13 74 (2.03%) Dremio
14 73 (2.00%) Apache Arrow
15 58 (1.59%) Data Lake
16 56 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
17 49 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (0.96%) Oracle Database
19 34 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 369 (10.10%) Git
2 123 (3.37%) JIRA
3 90 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 83 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 64 (1.75%) Visual Studio
6 44 (1.20%) GitLab
7 38 (1.04%) JUnit
8 37 (1.01%) NUnit
9 34 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
9 34 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 32 (0.88%) Selenium
11 28 (0.77%) Moq
12 23 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
13 18 (0.49%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.47%) Maven
15 16 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 15 (0.41%) Bitbucket
16 15 (0.41%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 1,098 (30.06%) Finance
2 580 (15.88%) Social Skills
3 541 (14.81%) Front Office
4 382 (10.46%) Banking
5 180 (4.93%) Investment Banking
6 164 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 106 (2.90%) Marketing
9 99 (2.71%) Law
9 99 (2.71%) Public Sector
10 72 (1.97%) Games
11 58 (1.59%) Back Office
11 58 (1.59%) Legal
12 55 (1.51%) Retail
13 34 (0.93%) Tech for Good
14 28 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 27 (0.74%) Financial Institution
16 25 (0.68%) Advertising
17 22 (0.60%) Turkish Language
18 17 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 900 (24.64%) .NET
2 771 (21.11%) React
3 592 (16.21%) AngularJS
4 522 (14.29%) HTML
5 477 (13.06%) CSS
6 336 (9.20%) ASP.NET
7 308 (8.43%) Node.js
8 294 (8.05%) .NET Core
9 282 (7.72%) Vue
10 279 (7.64%) Redux
11 263 (7.20%) REST
12 228 (6.24%) Spring
13 220 (6.02%) RESTful
14 210 (5.75%) Spring Boot
14 210 (5.75%) Web Services
15 208 (5.69%) gRPC
16 206 (5.64%) .NET Framework
17 194 (5.31%) Protocol Buffers
18 158 (4.33%) JSON
19 157 (4.30%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 412 (11.28%) Fixed Income
2 378 (10.35%) Hedge funds
3 311 (8.51%) Equities
4 292 (7.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 216 (5.91%) Derivative
6 206 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
7 110 (3.01%) Data Structures
8 92 (2.52%) Client/Server
8 92 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
9 90 (2.46%) Algorithms
10 89 (2.44%) Product Ownership
11 50 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 48 (1.31%) IoT
13 47 (1.29%) Cloud Native
14 44 (1.20%) Blockchain
15 42 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
16 41 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.04%) Onboarding
18 31 (0.85%) Low-Code
18 31 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.02%) Linux
2 69 (1.89%) Windows
3 59 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 53 (1.45%) Android
5 44 (1.20%) Unix
6 18 (0.49%) CentOS
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.027%) Solaris
11 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,250 (34.22%) Agile
2 955 (26.14%) Full Stack Development
3 717 (19.63%) Software Engineering
4 532 (14.56%) DevOps
5 460 (12.59%) Microservices
6 441 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
7 417 (11.42%) TDD
8 413 (11.31%) Fintech
9 398 (10.90%) Computer Science
10 397 (10.87%) Asset Management
11 355 (9.72%) Investment Management
12 292 (7.99%) CI/CD
13 281 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 253 (6.93%) Scrum
15 244 (6.68%) MVC
16 231 (6.32%) Business Intelligence
17 227 (6.21%) Front End Development
18 225 (6.16%) Analytics
19 218 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence
20 195 (5.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,169 (32.00%) JavaScript
2 978 (26.77%) C#
3 908 (24.86%) SQL
4 844 (23.10%) Python
5 832 (22.78%) Java
6 700 (19.16%) TypeScript
7 160 (4.38%) PHP
8 132 (3.61%) C++
9 130 (3.56%) Kotlin
10 118 (3.23%) T-SQL
11 69 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 65 (1.78%) Scala
13 62 (1.70%) Ruby
14 52 (1.42%) Go
15 48 (1.31%) R
16 47 (1.29%) Apex Code
17 45 (1.23%) PowerShell
18 41 (1.12%) C
19 37 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 30 (0.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 446 (12.21%) Degree
2 171 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 146 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 89 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 61 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 37 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
7 19 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 18 (0.49%) PhD
9 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.25%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.22%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.082%) MCSD
15 3 (0.082%) Numerate Degree
16 2 (0.055%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.67%) QA
2 24 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.33%) GDPR
5 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.19%) MiFID
6 7 (0.19%) WCAG
7 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.082%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.082%) PMO
8 3 (0.082%) SLA
9 2 (0.055%) EMIR
9 2 (0.055%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.055%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.055%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.055%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.055%) WAI
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.027%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 367 (10.05%) Docker
2 13 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.27%) HDFS
4 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.027%) GridGain
7 1 (0.027%) OpenSIPS
7 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.027%) Varnish
7 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 283 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 106 (2.90%) Terraform
3 43 (1.18%) Ansible
4 21 (0.57%) Grafana
5 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.22%) Kibana
8 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.082%) Control-M
10 2 (0.055%) Packer
11 1 (0.027%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.027%) Consul
11 1 (0.027%) cPanel
11 1 (0.027%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.027%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.027%) MIIS
11 1 (0.027%) Nagios
11 1 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 474 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 155 (4.24%) Google
3 137 (3.75%) Oracle
4 76 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 62 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 42 (1.15%) Bloomberg
7 32 (0.88%) Adobe
8 30 (0.82%) IBM
9 26 (0.71%) WSO2
10 20 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 18 (0.49%) Databricks
11 18 (0.49%) Unisys
12 16 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.41%) SAP
13 15 (0.41%) Sybase
14 14 (0.38%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.36%) Blue Prism
15 13 (0.36%) Cognizant
15 13 (0.36%) iManage
15 13 (0.36%) Progress