Java Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Java Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Engineer salary in the City of London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 128 210
Rank change year-on-year -11 +82 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 39 107 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.16% 2.28% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 2.36% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 36 105 76
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £153,750 £117,500 £145,000
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% +5.71% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,223 4,526 6,835
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.92% 96.32% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,565 3,799 5,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,441 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the City of London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the City of London

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the City of London

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Java Engineer 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 City of London region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (74.36%) Software Engineering
3 28 (71.79%) AWS
4 18 (46.15%) Microservices
5 17 (43.59%) Kotlin
6 16 (41.03%) Terraform
7 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
7 15 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (38.46%) Spring
8 13 (33.33%) TDD
9 12 (30.77%) Agile
9 12 (30.77%) Spring Boot
9 12 (30.77%) Ansible
10 9 (23.08%) Banking
11 8 (20.51%) Git
11 8 (20.51%) Kafka
11 8 (20.51%) Docker
12 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
12 6 (15.38%) Azure
12 6 (15.38%) Degree
12 6 (15.38%) Fixed Income
12 6 (15.38%) Front Office
13 5 (12.82%) OO
13 5 (12.82%) OOD
13 5 (12.82%) Finance
13 5 (12.82%) Maven
13 5 (12.82%) Investment Banking
13 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
13 5 (12.82%) Multithreading
13 5 (12.82%) Electronic Trading

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (5.13%) JBoss
1 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (71.79%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Maven
3 2 (5.13%) GitLab
3 2 (5.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.08%) Banking
2 6 (15.38%) Front Office
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) Spring
2 12 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 8 (20.51%) Kafka
4 4 (10.26%) React
5 3 (7.69%) RESTful
6 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.13%) Java EE
6 2 (5.13%) JPA
6 2 (5.13%) JSON
6 2 (5.13%) REST
6 2 (5.13%) SOAP
6 2 (5.13%) Web Services
6 2 (5.13%) XML
6 2 (5.13%) XSD
7 1 (2.56%) .NET
7 1 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.56%) J2EE
7 1 (2.56%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (2.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) Software Engineering
2 18 (46.15%) Microservices
3 13 (33.33%) TDD
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
5 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
6 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.82%) Electronic Trading
6 5 (12.82%) Fintech
6 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.82%) Multithreading
6 5 (12.82%) OO
6 5 (12.82%) OOD
7 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.26%) Code Quality
8 3 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (7.69%) Containerisation
8 3 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.69%) User Experience
9 2 (5.13%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (43.59%) Kotlin
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) Ruby
4 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Terraform
2 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 12 (30.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow