Java Architect Jobs

Java Architect
UK

The median Java Architect salary in the UK is £135,000 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 837 891 1150
Rank change year-on-year +54 +259 -300
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Architect 77 61 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.063% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.069% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 47 40 57
10th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £69,000
25th Percentile £101,875 £90,938 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £97,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +2.63% +8.57%
75th Percentile £165,000 £112,500 £103,750
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Architect.

Salary trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Architect over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Architect within the UK 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
England +63 46 £135,000 +38.46% 5
UK excluding London +11 40 £75,000 -6.25% 1
London +130 35 £135,000 +38.46% 4
Work from Home +94 34 £135,000 +50.00% 3
Scotland - 28 - -
South West -21 6 £75,000 -21.05%
Yorkshire +81 3 £75,000 -16.67% 1
North of England +49 3 £75,000 -6.25% 1
South East +1 2 £65,000 -14.75%
Northern Ireland +19 1 £115,000 +43.75%

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Java Architect 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 featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (83.12%) Finance
3 59 (76.62%) Software Engineering
4 57 (74.03%) Python
5 35 (45.45%) GCP
6 33 (42.86%) Banking
7 32 (41.56%) Investment Banking
7 32 (41.56%) AWS
8 31 (40.26%) JavaScript
9 30 (38.96%) Data Architecture
10 29 (37.66%) Cloud Native
10 29 (37.66%) Product Ownership
11 28 (36.36%) Apache Arrow
11 28 (36.36%) gRPC
11 28 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
11 28 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
11 28 (36.36%) Decision-Making
11 28 (36.36%) Apache Ignite
11 28 (36.36%) Operational Stability
11 28 (36.36%) Architecture Governance
11 28 (36.36%) dbt
11 28 (36.36%) Dremio
11 28 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (36.36%) Protocol Buffers
11 28 (36.36%) TypeScript
11 28 (36.36%) Pandas
11 28 (36.36%) Marketing
11 28 (36.36%) Credit Risk
11 28 (36.36%) Hedge funds
11 28 (36.36%) SciPy

Java Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (36.36%) Apache
1 28 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 35 (45.45%) GCP
2 32 (41.56%) AWS
3 28 (36.36%) dbt
4 26 (33.77%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.90%) Azure
6 1 (1.30%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (36.36%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (36.36%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (36.36%) Dremio
2 26 (33.77%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.30%) Big Data
3 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.30%) MySQL
3 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
General
1 64 (83.12%) Finance
2 33 (42.86%) Banking
3 32 (41.56%) Investment Banking
4 28 (36.36%) Front Office
4 28 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (36.36%) Law
4 28 (36.36%) Marketing
5 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Advertising
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (36.36%) gRPC
1 28 (36.36%) NumPy
1 28 (36.36%) Pandas
1 28 (36.36%) Protocol Buffers
1 28 (36.36%) SciPy
2 4 (5.19%) RESTful
2 4 (5.19%) Web Services
3 3 (3.90%) Kafka
4 2 (2.60%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) JavaBeans
5 1 (1.30%) Next.js
5 1 (1.30%) OAuth
5 1 (1.30%) React
5 1 (1.30%) Servlets
5 1 (1.30%) Spring
5 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (37.66%) Cloud Native
1 29 (37.66%) Product Ownership
2 28 (36.36%) Credit Risk
2 28 (36.36%) Derivative
2 28 (36.36%) Equities
2 28 (36.36%) Fixed Income
2 28 (36.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (36.36%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Android
1 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) Software Engineering
2 30 (38.96%) Data Architecture
3 28 (36.36%) Agile
3 28 (36.36%) Architecture Governance
3 28 (36.36%) Asset Management
3 28 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 28 (36.36%) Operational Stability
3 28 (36.36%) Scrum
4 26 (33.77%) Line Management
5 16 (20.78%) Investment Management
6 10 (12.99%) Microservices
7 6 (7.79%) Architectural Design
7 6 (7.79%) Roadmaps
8 5 (6.49%) Fintech
9 4 (5.19%) Architecture Roadmap
10 3 (3.90%) DevOps
11 2 (2.60%) Analytics
11 2 (2.60%) Mentoring
11 2 (2.60%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (2.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (74.03%) Python
3 31 (40.26%) JavaScript
4 28 (36.36%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.90%) SQL
6 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.60%) Ruby
6 2 (2.60%) Scala
7 1 (1.30%) C#
7 1 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.30%) Degree
1 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (1.30%) Google
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
1 1 (1.30%) Okta
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle