Backend Developer Jobs in London

Backend Developer
England > London

The median Backend Developer salary in 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 425 427 365
Rank change year-on-year +2 -62 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 85 176 836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.56% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.59% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 69 152 196
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £81,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £112,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in London

Backend 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 Backend Developer within the 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
Central London +36 5 £82,500 +32.00%
East London - 5 £150,000 -
West London -5 2 £57,500 -4.17% 1
South London -9 1 £85,000 -15.00%
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Backend 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 Backend Developer in the job title.

1 40 (47.06%) Java
2 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 23 (27.06%) AWS
4 22 (25.88%) Agile
4 22 (25.88%) Microservices
5 21 (24.71%) TypeScript
5 21 (24.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (24.71%) Python
6 20 (23.53%) Finance
7 18 (21.18%) Docker
7 18 (21.18%) Node.js
8 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
9 14 (16.47%) Spring
9 14 (16.47%) Spring Boot
10 13 (15.29%) Kubernetes
10 13 (15.29%) DevOps
10 13 (15.29%) Relational Database
10 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.29%) SQL
10 13 (15.29%) .NET
10 13 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (14.12%) SDLC
11 12 (14.12%) AngularJS
12 11 (12.94%) Go
12 11 (12.94%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (12.94%) Serverless
12 11 (12.94%) Banking
12 11 (12.94%) Azure
12 11 (12.94%) Design Patterns
12 11 (12.94%) CI/CD

Backend 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 8 (9.41%) nginx
2 3 (3.53%) WordPress
3 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Shopify
2 1 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.06%) AWS
2 11 (12.94%) Azure
2 11 (12.94%) Serverless
3 8 (9.41%) GCP
4 7 (8.24%) GitHub
5 6 (7.06%) npm
5 6 (7.06%) Yarn
6 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.88%) SaaS
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Storage
8 3 (3.53%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.35%) WhatsApp
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) AMQP
2 1 (1.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) Relational Database
2 10 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.06%) DB2
3 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.88%) KDB
4 5 (5.88%) Kdb+
5 4 (4.71%) MySQL
5 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.71%) Redis
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Mocha
2 6 (7.06%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.71%) Git
3 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.35%) JUnit
4 2 (2.35%) Maven
4 2 (2.35%) Mockito
4 2 (2.35%) Postman
4 2 (2.35%) Selenium
4 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.35%) TestNG
5 1 (1.18%) Moq
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.53%) Finance
3 11 (12.94%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Front Office
4 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Retail
6 2 (2.35%) Games
6 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.18%) Law
7 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) Node.js
2 14 (16.47%) Spring
2 14 (16.47%) Spring Boot
3 13 (15.29%) .NET
4 12 (14.12%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.59%) OAuth
5 9 (10.59%) React
6 8 (9.41%) Express.js
6 8 (9.41%) HTML
6 8 (9.41%) Kafka
6 8 (9.41%) OpenAPI
7 7 (8.24%) GraphQL
7 7 (8.24%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (8.24%) REST
8 6 (7.06%) Angular 2
8 6 (7.06%) gRPC
8 6 (7.06%) Hibernate
8 6 (7.06%) HTML5
8 6 (7.06%) J2EE
8 6 (7.06%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (10.59%) Client/Server
3 8 (9.41%) Hedge funds
4 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.88%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.35%) Derivative
7 2 (2.35%) Life Science
8 1 (1.18%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.18%) NFT
8 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.18%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.88%) Agile
1 22 (25.88%) Microservices
2 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
3 13 (15.29%) DevOps
3 13 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
3 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (14.12%) SDLC
5 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
5 11 (12.94%) Design Patterns
6 10 (11.76%) Fintech
6 10 (11.76%) OO
7 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (10.59%) Computer Science
7 9 (10.59%) TDD
7 9 (10.59%) Web Application Development
8 8 (9.41%) Data Management
9 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.24%) Electronic Trading
9 7 (8.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (8.24%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.06%) Java
2 21 (24.71%) JavaScript
2 21 (24.71%) Python
2 21 (24.71%) TypeScript
3 13 (15.29%) SQL
4 11 (12.94%) Go
5 7 (8.24%) C#
5 7 (8.24%) Rust
6 6 (7.06%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.71%) C++
7 4 (4.71%) PHP
8 3 (3.53%) Clojure
8 3 (3.53%) F#
8 3 (3.53%) Haskell
8 3 (3.53%) Scala
9 2 (2.35%) Bash
10 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (21.18%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (15.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.41%) Terraform
3 6 (7.06%) Grafana
3 6 (7.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (7.06%) Oracle
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.18%) Google