Java Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Java Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 176 270
Rank change year-on-year +25 +94 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 27 57 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 1.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.23% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 56 6
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £69,375
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +40.63%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £156,375 £125,000 £131,250
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +25.00%

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 3,219 4,624 6,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.53% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 3,901 5,616
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,193 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the City of London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in the City of London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Java
1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (59.26%) AWS
3 15 (55.56%) Terraform
4 11 (40.74%) Kotlin
4 11 (40.74%) Ansible
4 11 (40.74%) Microservices
4 11 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (33.33%) Agile
6 8 (29.63%) Spring
7 6 (22.22%) Banking
7 6 (22.22%) Front Office
7 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
7 6 (22.22%) Git
7 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
7 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
8 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
8 5 (18.52%) Electronic Trading
8 5 (18.52%) OOD
8 5 (18.52%) OO
8 5 (18.52%) Maven
8 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
8 5 (18.52%) TDD
8 5 (18.52%) Fixed Income
8 5 (18.52%) Degree
8 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Finance
9 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
9 4 (14.81%) GCP

Java Software 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 (7.41%) JBoss
1 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) Maven
3 2 (7.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 6 (22.22%) Banking
1 6 (22.22%) Front Office
2 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
2 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.41%) Java EE
3 2 (7.41%) JPA
3 2 (7.41%) JSON
3 2 (7.41%) React
3 2 (7.41%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) SOAP
3 2 (7.41%) Web Services
3 2 (7.41%) XML
3 2 (7.41%) XSD
4 1 (3.70%) J2EE
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) Quarkus
4 1 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Fixed Income
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (40.74%) Microservices
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
5 5 (18.52%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
5 5 (18.52%) OO
5 5 (18.52%) OOD
5 5 (18.52%) TDD
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.41%) Data Design
8 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
8 2 (7.41%) User Experience
8 2 (7.41%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (40.74%) Kotlin
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (55.56%) Terraform
2 11 (40.74%) Ansible
3 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes