Senior Developer Jobs in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 70 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 890 1,484 4,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.76% 4.40% 6.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.99% 4.62% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 764 1,164 2,023
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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 -15 146 £83,750 -6.94% 22
South London +12 31 £65,000 +18.18% 5
West London +2 9 £85,000 -1.45% 4
East London +12 4 £72,500 -27.50% 52
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 363 (40.79%) JavaScript
2 286 (32.13%) SQL
3 281 (31.57%) C#
4 277 (31.12%) AWS
5 274 (30.79%) .NET
6 250 (28.09%) Agile
7 243 (27.30%) Finance
8 239 (26.85%) Azure
9 236 (26.52%) React
10 209 (23.48%) Full Stack Development
11 194 (21.80%) Java
12 189 (21.24%) AngularJS
13 186 (20.90%) TypeScript
14 175 (19.66%) Python
15 165 (18.54%) HTML
16 161 (18.09%) CSS
17 159 (17.87%) Social Skills
18 143 (16.07%) Software Engineering
19 124 (13.93%) Microservices
20 118 (13.26%) Degree
21 117 (13.15%) DevOps
22 116 (13.03%) SQL Server
23 115 (12.92%) Mentoring
24 105 (11.80%) Computer Science
25 101 (11.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 97 (10.90%) Vue
27 92 (10.34%) Fintech
27 92 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
28 91 (10.22%) Git
29 89 (10.00%) Front Office

Senior 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 23 (2.58%) CMS
2 16 (1.80%) Apache
2 16 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.12%) WordPress
4 9 (1.01%) Mendix
5 8 (0.90%) Confluence
6 7 (0.79%) Drupal
6 7 (0.79%) JBoss
6 7 (0.79%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.56%) K2 blackpearl
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) GemFire
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (1.69%) Photoshop
2 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.69%) SDL Web 8
2 9 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.22%) Endur
4 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 277 (31.12%) AWS
2 239 (26.85%) Azure
3 82 (9.21%) GCP
4 51 (5.73%) Power Platform
5 42 (4.72%) Serverless
6 32 (3.60%) SaaS
7 31 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (3.26%) GitHub
9 27 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.47%) PowerApps
11 18 (2.02%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.91%) Azure Functions
13 15 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 15 (1.69%) NuGet
14 12 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.67%) AMQP
2 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.22%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
3 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.11%) VoIP
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.03%) SQL Server
2 57 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (5.28%) MySQL
4 41 (4.61%) Relational Database
5 32 (3.60%) Oracle Database
6 30 (3.37%) Power BI
7 23 (2.58%) MongoDB
7 23 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (2.02%) Redis
9 16 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.90%) Oracle Database 11g
11 8 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.45%) Apache Arrow
12 4 (0.45%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (0.45%) Flink
12 4 (0.45%) Power Query
12 4 (0.45%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 91 (10.22%) Git
2 47 (5.28%) JIRA
3 23 (2.58%) Oracle APEX
4 19 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.13%) Visual Studio
5 18 (2.02%) Moq
5 18 (2.02%) NUnit
6 17 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (1.91%) Sourcetree
6 17 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 15 (1.69%) git-flow
7 15 (1.69%) SpecFlow
8 14 (1.57%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.35%) CircleCI
10 9 (1.01%) JUnit
11 7 (0.79%) CMake
11 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.79%) Storybook
12 6 (0.67%) fastlane
12 6 (0.67%) MSTest
General
1 243 (27.30%) Finance
2 159 (17.87%) Social Skills
3 89 (10.00%) Front Office
4 55 (6.18%) Banking
5 49 (5.51%) Back Office
6 48 (5.39%) Marketing
7 33 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (3.60%) Investment Banking
9 23 (2.58%) Games
10 22 (2.47%) Legal
11 18 (2.02%) Retail
11 18 (2.02%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.80%) Public Sector
13 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.12%) Law
15 9 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.79%) Advertising
16 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.56%) Health Technology
18 3 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (30.79%) .NET
2 236 (26.52%) React
3 189 (21.24%) AngularJS
4 165 (18.54%) HTML
5 161 (18.09%) CSS
6 97 (10.90%) Vue
7 88 (9.89%) ASP.NET
8 78 (8.76%) Node.js
9 73 (8.20%) Spring
10 68 (7.64%) REST
11 64 (7.19%) RESTful
12 61 (6.85%) Redux
13 56 (6.29%) .NET Core
13 56 (6.29%) jQuery
14 53 (5.96%) Kafka
15 52 (5.84%) Spring Boot
16 47 (5.28%) Web Services
17 44 (4.94%) JSON
18 43 (4.83%) .NET Framework
19 40 (4.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 101 (11.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 72 (8.09%) Equities
3 68 (7.64%) Greenfield Project
4 67 (7.53%) Derivative
5 62 (6.97%) Fixed Income
6 60 (6.74%) Hedge funds
7 39 (4.38%) IoT
8 31 (3.48%) Product Ownership
9 27 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.81%) Mobile App
11 24 (2.70%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.80%) Legacy Code
13 13 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.12%) Client/Server
14 10 (1.12%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.79%) NHS
16 6 (0.67%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.67%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.16%) Windows
2 26 (2.92%) Linux
3 25 (2.81%) Apple iOS
4 21 (2.36%) Android
5 8 (0.90%) Unix
6 7 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (28.09%) Agile
2 209 (23.48%) Full Stack Development
3 143 (16.07%) Software Engineering
4 124 (13.93%) Microservices
5 117 (13.15%) DevOps
6 115 (12.92%) Mentoring
7 105 (11.80%) Computer Science
8 92 (10.34%) Fintech
8 92 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (9.78%) Asset Management
10 81 (9.10%) CI/CD
11 74 (8.31%) Investment Management
12 65 (7.30%) Front End Development
13 58 (6.52%) Multithreading
14 53 (5.96%) TDD
15 50 (5.62%) MVC
15 50 (5.62%) Scrum
16 49 (5.51%) Clean Code
16 49 (5.51%) Unit Testing
17 48 (5.39%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 363 (40.79%) JavaScript
2 286 (32.13%) SQL
3 281 (31.57%) C#
4 194 (21.80%) Java
5 186 (20.90%) TypeScript
6 175 (19.66%) Python
7 45 (5.06%) PHP
8 43 (4.83%) PL/SQL
9 38 (4.27%) T-SQL
10 31 (3.48%) Ruby
11 27 (3.03%) Kotlin
12 20 (2.25%) C++
13 16 (1.80%) XPath
14 15 (1.69%) Apex Code
15 11 (1.24%) Go
16 8 (0.90%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.90%) Scala
17 7 (0.79%) Swift
18 6 (0.67%) Dart
18 6 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 118 (13.26%) Degree
2 30 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (1.91%) Master's Degree
4 16 (1.80%) Security Cleared
5 15 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.34%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.92%) QA
2 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.34%) PMO
4 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.22%) EMIR
4 2 (0.22%) GDPR
4 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.22%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.22%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.22%) MiFID
5 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (9.78%) Docker
2 6 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Ceph
5 1 (0.11%) GridGain
5 1 (0.11%) OpenSIPS
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.57%) Ansible
3 8 (0.90%) Grafana
4 6 (0.67%) Data Guard
4 6 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.56%) Terraform
6 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) cPanel
8 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.11%) Knative
Vendors
1 82 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.62%) Oracle
3 23 (2.58%) Google
4 19 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 16 (1.80%) Adobe
6 15 (1.69%) Cognizant
7 11 (1.24%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.79%) WSO2
10 6 (0.67%) F5
10 6 (0.67%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.56%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.56%) Sybase
12 4 (0.45%) Databricks
12 4 (0.45%) Murex
12 4 (0.45%) Vertica
13 3 (0.34%) Apple
13 3 (0.34%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.34%) WooCommerce