Java Developer Jobs in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer salary in London is £90,000 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 136 115 116
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 551 1,092 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.34% 3.11% 3.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 3.27% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 444 975 1,428
10th Percentile £57,875 £58,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,938 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £146,250 £134,500 £128,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

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 22,181 33,417 64,405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,675 24,567 34,955
10th Percentile £38,084 £42,500 £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 £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Java Developer in London

Java 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 Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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 -55 96 £85,000 -15.00% 10
South London +35 47 £82,500 -5.71%
East London +17 7 £150,000 +50.00% 1
North London - 1 £60,000 - 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Java 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 551 (100.00%) Java
2 274 (49.73%) AWS
3 208 (37.75%) Finance
4 205 (37.21%) Spring
5 187 (33.94%) Spring Boot
6 170 (30.85%) Microservices
7 168 (30.49%) Agile
8 154 (27.95%) Kubernetes
9 139 (25.23%) Docker
10 128 (23.23%) JavaScript
11 121 (21.96%) Banking
12 120 (21.78%) Full Stack Development
13 116 (21.05%) TDD
14 111 (20.15%) Front Office
15 110 (19.96%) Low Latency
16 108 (19.60%) SQL
17 105 (19.06%) AngularJS
18 104 (18.87%) Fintech
19 96 (17.42%) Python
20 83 (15.06%) Investment Banking
21 80 (14.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 78 (14.16%) Social Skills
23 76 (13.79%) Hibernate
23 76 (13.79%) Degree
24 72 (13.07%) Software Engineering
25 69 (12.52%) Kafka
26 67 (12.16%) Computer Science
27 63 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
28 62 (11.25%) DevOps
29 60 (10.89%) Multithreading

Java 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 33 (5.99%) Apache
2 26 (4.72%) OpenStack
3 22 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.54%) JBoss
5 11 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.45%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.91%) Confluence
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) GemFire
9 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 274 (49.73%) AWS
2 48 (8.71%) Azure
2 48 (8.71%) Serverless
3 42 (7.62%) GCP
4 37 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
5 36 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (3.99%) dbt
7 18 (3.27%) Snowflake
8 10 (1.81%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.09%) PaaS
10 2 (0.36%) SaaS
10 2 (0.36%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.18%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.18%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.18%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.18%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.54%) FTP
3 2 (0.36%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.36%) HTTP
3 2 (0.36%) SSH
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.62%) Relational Database
2 52 (9.44%) NoSQL
3 51 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.17%) Apache Ignite
5 22 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (3.99%) Apache Arrow
5 22 (3.99%) Dremio
6 19 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.27%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.90%) MySQL
9 15 (2.72%) Redis
10 12 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.81%) DB2
11 10 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.27%) CouchDB
13 6 (1.09%) Big Data
14 5 (0.91%) Flink
14 5 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.91%) Tick Data
15 4 (0.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 52 (9.44%) Jenkins
2 43 (7.80%) Git
3 22 (3.99%) JUnit
4 13 (2.36%) Selenium
5 10 (1.81%) Maven
5 10 (1.81%) Mockito
6 8 (1.45%) JIRA
7 7 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.73%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.73%) JMeter
9 3 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.54%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.36%) GitLab
10 2 (0.36%) JHipster
11 1 (0.18%) Gradle
General
1 208 (37.75%) Finance
2 121 (21.96%) Banking
3 111 (20.15%) Front Office
4 83 (15.06%) Investment Banking
5 78 (14.16%) Social Skills
6 38 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.36%) Tech for Good
10 10 (1.81%) Turkish Language
11 7 (1.27%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.73%) Retail
14 2 (0.36%) Games
14 2 (0.36%) Music Industry
14 2 (0.36%) Police
15 1 (0.18%) International Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Marketing
15 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (37.21%) Spring
2 187 (33.94%) Spring Boot
3 105 (19.06%) AngularJS
4 76 (13.79%) Hibernate
5 69 (12.52%) Kafka
6 54 (9.80%) REST
7 43 (7.80%) Web Services
8 34 (6.17%) Apache Camel
9 29 (5.26%) Node.js
10 28 (5.08%) React
11 27 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (4.72%) HTML
12 26 (4.72%) RESTful
12 26 (4.72%) XML
13 25 (4.54%) gRPC
13 25 (4.54%) NumPy
13 25 (4.54%) Pandas
14 24 (4.36%) JSON
15 22 (3.99%) FIX Protocol
15 22 (3.99%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 80 (14.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (8.71%) Fixed Income
3 47 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (8.53%) Equities
4 34 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (5.99%) Hedge funds
6 28 (5.08%) Derivative
7 20 (3.63%) Algorithms
8 19 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.09%) Client/Server
10 12 (2.18%) FPGA
11 10 (1.81%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.27%) PropTech
13 7 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.08%) Linux
2 4 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (30.85%) Microservices
2 168 (30.49%) Agile
3 120 (21.78%) Full Stack Development
4 116 (21.05%) TDD
5 110 (19.96%) Low Latency
6 104 (18.87%) Fintech
7 72 (13.07%) Software Engineering
8 67 (12.16%) Computer Science
9 63 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (11.25%) DevOps
11 60 (10.89%) Multithreading
12 55 (9.98%) Electronic Trading
13 50 (9.07%) Scrum
14 48 (8.71%) CI/CD
15 44 (7.99%) BDD
16 42 (7.62%) Investment Management
16 42 (7.62%) Mentoring
16 42 (7.62%) SDLC
17 40 (7.26%) Kanban
18 28 (5.08%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 551 (100.00%) Java
2 128 (23.23%) JavaScript
3 108 (19.60%) SQL
4 96 (17.42%) Python
5 51 (9.26%) Kotlin
6 38 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.36%) C#
8 22 (3.99%) C++
9 16 (2.90%) Scala
10 12 (2.18%) C
11 11 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.63%) Perl
13 7 (1.27%) Ruby
14 6 (1.09%) Groovy
15 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.54%) Clojure
17 2 (0.36%) Bash
18 1 (0.18%) PHP
18 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 76 (13.79%) Degree
2 42 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.18%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.73%) PhD
8 3 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.27%) QA
2 3 (0.54%) MiFID
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 139 (25.23%) Docker
2 13 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 154 (27.95%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.44%) Terraform
3 40 (7.26%) Ansible
4 4 (0.73%) Kibana
5 1 (0.18%) Consul
5 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (5.08%) WSO2
2 21 (3.81%) Oracle
3 11 (2.00%) Google
4 5 (0.91%) Splunk
4 5 (0.91%) TIBCO
4 5 (0.91%) YouTube
5 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.73%) IBM
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.73%) Vertica
6 3 (0.54%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.54%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.54%) Reuters
6 3 (0.54%) SAP
6 3 (0.54%) Sybase
7 2 (0.36%) Apple
7 2 (0.36%) Murex
7 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.36%) Solace