The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 35 29 22
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 701 928 1161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 6.006% 7.058% 7.581%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.471% 7.584% 8.103%
Number of salaries quoted 662 891 1050
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10833 12236 14328
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.81% 93.06% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9362 11128 12878
Average salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.94% -3.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Developer
London

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title.

1 1332 (100.00%) Java
2 603 (45.27%) Spring
3 493 (37.01%) Finance
4 376 (28.23%) Multithreading
5 372 (27.93%) Front Office
6 360 (27.03%) Hibernate
7 343 (25.75%) Banking
8 336 (25.23%) SQL
9 332 (24.92%) TDD
10 303 (22.75%) Agile Software Development
11 298 (22.37%) J2EE
12 292 (21.92%) Oracle
13 233 (17.49%) JavaScript
14 217 (16.29%) Investment Banking
15 216 (16.22%) Degree
16 213 (15.99%) Computer Science
17 211 (15.84%) C#
18 209 (15.69%) HTML
19 204 (15.32%) Web Services
20 203 (15.24%) Linux
21 202 (15.17%) UNIX
22 191 (14.34%) Derivative
23 182 (13.66%) CSS
24 180 (13.51%) OO
25 178 (13.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 172 (12.91%) Maven
27 169 (12.69%) Sybase
27 169 (12.69%) Fixed Income
28 151 (11.34%) XML
29 142 (10.66%) JSP

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 603 (45.27%) Spring
2 360 (27.03%) Hibernate
3 298 (22.37%) J2EE
4 209 (15.69%) HTML
5 204 (15.32%) Web Services
6 182 (13.66%) CSS
7 151 (11.34%) XML
8 142 (10.66%) JSP
9 140 (10.51%) JMS
10 115 (8.634%) RESTful
11 100 (7.508%) jQuery
12 86 (6.456%) SOAP
13 82 (6.156%) Ajax
14 74 (5.556%) .NET
14 74 (5.556%) HTML5
15 73 (5.480%) Struts
16 72 (5.405%) Spring MVC
17 71 (5.330%) Swing
18 63 (4.730%) Middleware
18 63 (4.730%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 112 (8.408%) Apache
2 49 (3.679%) Tomcat
3 47 (3.529%) Oracle Coherence
4 40 (3.003%) Rendezvous
4 40 (3.003%) ActiveMQ
4 40 (3.003%) WebLogic
5 37 (2.778%) MQSeries
5 37 (2.778%) CMS
6 31 (2.327%) ESB
7 25 (1.877%) Apache Solr
8 20 (1.502%) GemFire
9 12 (0.901%) TIBCO EMS
10 10 (0.751%) Amazon AWS
11 9 (0.676%) Adobe CQ
12 8 (0.601%) GlassFish
12 8 (0.601%) Mule
13 7 (0.526%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.450%) WebSphere Application Server
14 6 (0.450%) Alfresco
15 5 (0.375%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 13 (0.976%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.225%) Stata
2 3 (0.225%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.075%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 12 (0.901%) ION MarketView
2 6 (0.450%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (0.450%) Front Arena
3 3 (0.225%) Kondor+
3 3 (0.225%) Summit
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.075%) Bond Adapt
4 1 (0.075%) TIBCO iProcess
4 1 (0.075%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 104 (7.808%) HTTP
2 15 (1.126%) Internet
3 4 (0.300%) Broadband
3 4 (0.300%) FTP
4 3 (0.225%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.150%) GSM
5 2 (0.150%) VoIP
5 2 (0.150%) SSL
5 2 (0.150%) RTP
6 1 (0.075%) Firewall
6 1 (0.075%) Wireless
6 1 (0.075%) VLAN
6 1 (0.075%) NAS
6 1 (0.075%) Intranet
6 1 (0.075%) Extranet
6 1 (0.075%) LDAP
6 1 (0.075%) SMS
6 1 (0.075%) DNS
6 1 (0.075%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (9.459%) MySQL
2 95 (7.132%) SQL Server
3 55 (4.129%) MongoDB
4 41 (3.078%) RDBMS
5 40 (3.003%) NoSQL
6 33 (2.477%) Hadoop
7 32 (2.402%) Big Data
8 30 (2.252%) DB2
9 26 (1.952%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (1.727%) MarkLogic
11 19 (1.426%) KDB
12 9 (0.676%) IDOL
12 9 (0.676%) Apache Hive
12 9 (0.676%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.526%) Oracle 11g
13 7 (0.526%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.375%) SQL Server 2008
14 5 (0.375%) Redis
15 4 (0.300%) Oracle 8/8i
16 3 (0.225%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 172 (12.91%) Maven
2 110 (8.258%) JUnit
3 92 (6.907%) Eclipse
4 91 (6.832%) Subversion
5 57 (4.279%) Git (software)
6 46 (3.453%) Ant
7 44 (3.303%) JIRA
8 33 (2.477%) Hudson
9 27 (2.027%) TeamCity
10 25 (1.877%) Selenium
11 22 (1.652%) Jenkins
12 15 (1.126%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.601%) IntelliJ
13 8 (0.601%) Jasmine
14 7 (0.526%) PowerBuilder
15 6 (0.450%) JMeter
15 6 (0.450%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.450%) GitHub
16 4 (0.300%) Eclipse RCP
16 4 (0.300%) XMLUnit
General
1 493 (37.01%) Finance
2 372 (27.93%) Front Office
3 343 (25.75%) Banking
4 217 (16.29%) Investment Banking
5 90 (6.757%) Games
6 55 (4.129%) Telecoms
7 42 (3.153%) Financial Institution
8 37 (2.778%) Publishing
9 34 (2.553%) Legal
10 24 (1.802%) Retail
11 9 (0.676%) Back Office
12 7 (0.526%) Advertising
13 5 (0.375%) Marketing
14 4 (0.300%) Music
15 3 (0.225%) Interactive Media
16 2 (0.150%) Corporate Banking
17 1 (0.075%) International Banking
17 1 (0.075%) Electronics
17 1 (0.075%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.075%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 213 (15.99%) Computer Science
2 191 (14.34%) Derivative
3 178 (13.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 169 (12.69%) Fixed Income
5 133 (9.985%) Equities
6 119 (8.934%) Mathematics
7 86 (6.456%) Open Source
8 49 (3.679%) Hedge funds
9 38 (2.853%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.327%) Credit Risk
11 27 (2.027%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 26 (1.952%) iPhone
13 25 (1.877%) Online Games
14 24 (1.802%) N-Tier
15 23 (1.727%) Equity Derivative
15 23 (1.727%) Semantic Web
15 23 (1.727%) Blog
16 22 (1.652%) Grid Computing
17 18 (1.351%) Credit Derivative
17 18 (1.351%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 203 (15.24%) Linux
2 202 (15.17%) UNIX
3 37 (2.778%) Android
4 27 (2.027%) Solaris
5 22 (1.652%) Windows
6 11 (0.826%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.225%) AIX
8 1 (0.075%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (28.23%) Multithreading
2 332 (24.92%) TDD
3 303 (22.75%) Agile Software Development
4 180 (13.51%) OO
5 133 (9.985%) E-Commerce
6 129 (9.685%) Scrum
7 112 (8.408%) Risk Management
8 89 (6.682%) MVC
9 81 (6.081%) Continuous Integration
10 76 (5.706%) Algorithmic Trading
11 65 (4.880%) BDD
12 63 (4.730%) Electronic Trading
13 54 (4.054%) Unit Testing
14 52 (3.904%) Pair Programming
15 49 (3.679%) SOA
16 47 (3.529%) UML
17 42 (3.153%) Investment Management
18 39 (2.928%) Analytics
19 36 (2.703%) Asset Management
20 35 (2.628%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1332 (100.00%) Java
2 336 (25.23%) SQL
3 233 (17.49%) JavaScript
4 211 (15.84%) C#
5 81 (6.081%) C++
6 66 (4.955%) Scala
7 51 (3.829%) Perl
7 51 (3.829%) Python
8 50 (3.754%) PL/SQL
9 37 (2.778%) Ruby
10 33 (2.477%) Shell Script
11 27 (2.027%) C
12 26 (1.952%) XQuery
13 19 (1.426%) VBA
14 17 (1.276%) Clojure
15 16 (1.201%) Groovy
16 13 (0.976%) Haskell
17 12 (0.901%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.901%) PHP
18 10 (0.751%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 216 (16.22%) Degree
2 13 (0.976%) CIPD
3 5 (0.375%) PhD
3 5 (0.375%) Sun Certification
4 3 (0.225%) SCJP
4 3 (0.225%) CFA
4 3 (0.225%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.075%) Brainbench
5 1 (0.075%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.075%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.327%) QA
2 1 (0.075%) Basel III
2 1 (0.075%) Basel II
System Software
1 23 (1.727%) Squid
2 1 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 9 (0.676%) Business Desktop Deployment
2 8 (0.601%) MOM
3 2 (0.150%) Puppet
Vendors
1 292 (21.92%) Oracle
2 169 (12.69%) Sybase
3 108 (8.108%) TIBCO
4 49 (3.679%) JBoss
5 30 (2.252%) IBM
6 27 (2.027%) Google
7 26 (1.952%) DataSynapse
8 25 (1.877%) Microsoft
9 22 (1.652%) Murex
10 20 (1.502%) Twitter
11 18 (1.351%) Facebook
12 17 (1.276%) hybris
13 15 (1.126%) Demandware
14 14 (1.051%) Calypso
15 12 (0.901%) ION Trading
16 11 (0.826%) ATG
17 10 (0.751%) Perforce
18 8 (0.601%) Bloomberg
18 8 (0.601%) Red Hat
18 8 (0.601%) Cloudera
City, London
Key Skills required: - J2SE - strong core Java - Spring experience useful - Oracle experience desirable The role offers the opportunity to join a new Java team and develop a front...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £70 - 100k + bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
Java, Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, Git, Scrum My Client, one of the UK's leading price comparison websites is seeking an experienced Java Developer to join its London head...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills required: - Strong core Java and TDD skills - Strong technical skills across the entire development life cycle - Good knowledge of databases , preferably Oracle - Experience in Agile methodologies...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: 65 - 100k + bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Java, Equities, Algorithmic trading, Stocks, Futures, Options, Swaps, Front Office, Investment Bank. One of the world's leading banks are currently hiring a JAVA developer to work in...
iKas International
Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
The candidate will have a strong understanding of agile methodologies and will have experience of Hibernate. The candidate will have at least 2 years commercial experience using java...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Developer, Java, Sybase, Linux, Market Risk, Investment Bank. Leading investment bank are currently hiring an experienced VP level Java developer to join their market risk team technology team...
iKas International
Salary: £65000 - £90000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
The role is working in on a greenfield High Frequency trading platform within Equities. You will be working on core low latency java applications to help build out...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + Extensive Package+ Bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Java & Sybase Developers - London Tier One Investment Bank - My client is a leading Investment bank known globally... The candidate needs to be technically very strong and be developing...
Aston Carter
Salary: £65000 - £85000 per annum + Benefits & Bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
This is a global team; development will be in Core Java on a strategic algorithmic Trading Platform. You would be working very closely with the business with exposure...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: Competative
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer required to grow the expanding team of this well known media company in London.
ISL
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
A leading Global Investment Bank is seeking a talented Senior Java Developer to join an established team within Compliance Technology... To succeed in this role you should be...
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer (Multi-threading, TDD, OOP, OOD, AGILE, XML, Spring, Hibernate, Widget, Risk) Asset Risk Management Software Vendor - London City £35,000 to £55,000 + Benefits An Asset...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Ultimately, you will cover an end-to-end support function, including; diagnosing problems in Java, debugging/bug fixing, testing and providing an end solution to the customer... You...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer Android Mobile London to £85k. Java Developer / Android Software Engineer (Mobile Android Marketplace)... Requirements for Java / Android Developer: Strong object orientated Java development experience... Degree educated,...
Client Server
Salary: £70k to £85k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer (Multi-threading, TDD, OOP, OOD, AGILE, XML, Spring, Hibernate, Widget, Risk) Asset Management Risk Technology - London City £35,000 to £60,000 + Benefits An Asset Risk...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
My client is looking for an experienced Java J2ee Developer to join their development team of 25 people... Familiarity with Agile (Scrum based) methodology would be useful... Development...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
A leading investment bank are seeking a senior java developer with strong object orientated analysis and design skills to join their Clients Assets Technology team... The ideal candidate...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Our top tier Investment Management client has just had a large project of work signed off and is now looking to employ around 12 extremely strong Core Java...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £30000 - £60000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
JAVA developer required for our city based client... The company is looking to hire a JAVA developer... Proven commercial experience in object oriented software design and development using...
Vadis People
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + substantial bonus potential
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Java, Spring, TDD, Agile, Sybase, Fixed Income, Swaps, Interest Rates, Credit, Equities, Derivatives, Trade Capture, Trade workflow, Front Office, Investment Bank... Sales to trader workflow... Agile/TDD exposure.....
iKas International
Salary: £65000 - £90000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Java, Sybase, Test driven development, Agile, Developer, OTC Derivatives, Credit Valuation adjustment, Counterparty exposure management, Risk, Front office, Investment Bank... To be successful you must have: Java development...
iKas International
Salary: £65000 - £85000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
The successful developer must have significant experience in both server side Java and Front end web technologies such at HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript... Key Requirements Core Java... Hibernate...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £70 - £90 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Core Java Developer, Server Side Programming, Spring, Maven, Eclipse, Multi Threading, High Frequency Trading (HFT), Algorithmic Trading, Hedge Fund, Investment Banking, Core Java Developer... They have engaged Edison...
Edison Hill Ltd
Salary: From £90,000 to £120,000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
the FIX protocol, Market Links Development)... Other essential skills include multi-threaded programming, Spring framework, Oracle PL/SQL, XML based GUI frameworks and Unix... Ideal additional skills cover...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
Development practices - Must be able to use test driven development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse, SVN and continuous build servers...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £80 - £95 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Java, Tibco, low latency, multi-threading, FX eCommerce, Position Management, Trade Capture, Front Office, Investment Bank... * Advanced level of Java development and multi-threading experience * Knowledge of messaging...
iKas International
Salary: £70000 - £900000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Skills required: Java; including Spring, JEE Web services experience; SOAP, Restful MySQL, Oracle This is a rare opportunity to join a successful, well known company with big expansion...
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
The successful Agile Java Developer will have excellent knowledge of multiple Java technologies and a good understanding of internet technologies such as JavaScript, JQuery, CSS et cetera... Exposure...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + 15 % bonus + 15% pension
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
The role will be very much a business facing role with a mixture of buy and build technology in an exciting and strategic area. The successful candidate will...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £60 - 80k + Bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer / Java Software Engineer Agile - London to £45k. Java Developer / Java Software Engineer (Agile TDD). Opportunity for a highly intelligent and motivated Java Developer to gain valuable...
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £45k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer / Web Programmer London to £60k. Java Developer / Web Programmer (Java JEE CMS CQ5)... Requirements for Java Developer: Strong core Java object orientated development experience. Experience of...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
My London based Client are seeking a Senior Java Developer to join a team of developers building next generation products. This is a senior role needing a strong...
Asset Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + multiple benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: *Java (J2SE/J2EE) *Core Java *Experience of Spring and Hibernate *Proficiency in Oracle database systems PL/SQL, SQL *...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INS,PENSION
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
We are currently seeking Java Developers to work on the development and enhancement of an equities trading system which is built in Java with a C++ core and...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £32000 - £42000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Developer, Core Java, threading, strategy, MQ Series, UNIX, Spring, Linux, front office, trading This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate core Java developer in an already established...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 12 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer (Multi-threading, TDD, OOP, OOD, AGILE, XML, Spring, Hibernate, Widget, Risk) Asset Management Risk Technology - London City £35,000 to £60,000 + Benefits An Asset Risk...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits Package
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer / Programmer London to £60k. Java Developer / Senior Java Software Engineer / Programmer (Big Data AI Machine Learning Java)... Requirements for Java Developer: Strong core Java design and...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £60k + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
One of the world's leading investment banks are expanding their credit business and are seeking several developers to develop and implement new components to their in-house...
iKas International
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills: - In depth Java development experience using JDBC, JQuery, Spring, and Hibernate - Additional skills desired include FIX Protocol, Flex, actuate and WSDL but not essential This role...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: Up to 80k + bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Graduate Java Developer / Software Engineer London to £50k. Graduate Java Developer / Java Software Engineer (SQL Algorithm Mathematics)... Strong core Java development experience. Good SQL Server knowledge. Strong knowledge...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £50k + generous bonuses
Posted: 17 May 2013