Developer Jobs in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer salary in South London is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 97 85 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 11.07% 12.21% 12.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.58% 12.90% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 74 45 130
10th Percentile £50,750 £47,500 £41,075
25th Percentile £59,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +40.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £80,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 838 659 1,146
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.66% 94.68% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 396 372 653
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,063 £40,000 £35,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £71,563 £70,150 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 2024.

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 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
Croydon 0 54 £75,000 +36.36% 10
Kingston Upon Thames -20 20 £65,000 -18.75%
Sutton -8 7 £67,500 -32.50%
Wandsworth +19 6 £70,000 -
Bromley -12 5 £50,000 -7.33% 6
Merton +5 4 £82,500 +3.13%
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 South London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 53 (54.64%) Agile
2 51 (52.58%) Full Stack Development
3 49 (50.52%) AWS
4 46 (47.42%) Java
5 44 (45.36%) JavaScript
6 42 (43.30%) Docker
6 42 (43.30%) Microservices
7 39 (40.21%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (39.18%) Scrum
8 38 (39.18%) TDD
8 38 (39.18%) Kubernetes
9 37 (38.14%) Serverless
9 37 (38.14%) Kanban
10 36 (37.11%) DevOps
11 35 (36.08%) Azure
12 34 (35.05%) BDD
12 34 (35.05%) Jenkins
12 34 (35.05%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (35.05%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (34.02%) Spring Boot
13 33 (34.02%) AngularJS
13 33 (34.02%) REST
13 33 (34.02%) Git
13 33 (34.02%) Security Cleared
13 33 (34.02%) Spring
13 33 (34.02%) Web Services
14 32 (32.99%) Public Sector
15 31 (31.96%) SC Cleared
16 30 (30.93%) C#
16 30 (30.93%) Ansible

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 24 (24.74%) OpenStack
2 9 (9.28%) Apache
2 9 (9.28%) JBoss
2 9 (9.28%) Red Hat Fuse
3 8 (8.25%) Confluence
4 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.03%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.52%) AWS
2 37 (38.14%) Serverless
3 35 (36.08%) Azure
4 34 (35.05%) Amazon ECS
4 34 (35.05%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.22%) SaaS
6 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.03%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Intranet
2 1 (1.03%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (40.21%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (24.74%) Relational Database
3 14 (14.43%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.12%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.09%) MySQL
7 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.03%) Power BI
8 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (35.05%) Jenkins
2 33 (34.02%) Git
3 15 (15.46%) JIRA
3 15 (15.46%) JUnit
4 5 (5.15%) JMeter
5 4 (4.12%) Mockito
6 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.06%) Selenium
7 2 (2.06%) TestNG
8 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.03%) Mocha
8 1 (1.03%) Postman
8 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.03%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.03%) Sourcetree
8 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (32.99%) Public Sector
2 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Finance
4 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Police
6 1 (1.03%) Legal
6 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (34.02%) AngularJS
1 33 (34.02%) REST
1 33 (34.02%) Spring
1 33 (34.02%) Spring Boot
1 33 (34.02%) Web Services
2 29 (29.90%) Apache Camel
3 28 (28.87%) Node.js
4 24 (24.74%) .NET
4 24 (24.74%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (21.65%) React
6 15 (15.46%) XML
7 14 (14.43%) JSON
7 14 (14.43%) RESTful
8 11 (11.34%) .NET Core
8 11 (11.34%) ASP.NET
9 10 (10.31%) GraphQL
10 9 (9.28%) HTML
11 8 (8.25%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (8.25%) Hibernate
11 8 (8.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.93%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (15.46%) IoT
3 5 (5.15%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.12%) Wiki
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) Agile
2 51 (52.58%) Full Stack Development
3 42 (43.30%) Microservices
4 38 (39.18%) Scrum
4 38 (39.18%) TDD
5 37 (38.14%) Kanban
6 36 (37.11%) DevOps
7 34 (35.05%) BDD
8 16 (16.49%) SDLC
8 16 (16.49%) Test Automation
9 15 (15.46%) BPEL
10 14 (14.43%) CI/CD
11 13 (13.40%) Process Management
11 13 (13.40%) Workflow
12 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (9.28%) Release Management
12 9 (9.28%) Time Management
13 8 (8.25%) Coaching
13 8 (8.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.42%) Java
2 44 (45.36%) JavaScript
3 30 (30.93%) C#
4 25 (25.77%) SQL
5 21 (21.65%) Python
6 13 (13.40%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.31%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.19%) PHP
9 5 (5.15%) Delphi
9 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) AWS Certification
3 7 (7.22%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.15%) Degree
5 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (43.30%) Docker
2 12 (12.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (39.18%) Kubernetes
2 30 (30.93%) Ansible
3 16 (16.49%) Terraform
4 4 (4.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) WSO2
2 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.25%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.12%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.12%) Splunk
4 4 (4.12%) YouTube
5 3 (3.09%) UiPath
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle
7 1 (1.03%) SAP