Java Engineer Jobs in London

Java Engineer
England > London

The median Java Engineer salary in London is £97,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 207 194
Rank change year-on-year -90 -13 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 221 617 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.94% 1.79% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.88% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 191 549 607
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,952 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £160,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% +15.38%

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 22,236 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,670 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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 -12 43 £95,000 +2.70% 3
South London +2 7 £24,000 -46.67%
East London - 6 £150,000 - 5
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 London region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 221 (100.00%) Java
2 168 (76.02%) Software Engineering
3 162 (73.30%) AWS
4 115 (52.04%) Agile
5 100 (45.25%) Banking
6 88 (39.82%) Finance
6 88 (39.82%) Python
7 82 (37.10%) Investment Banking
8 74 (33.48%) Front Office
8 74 (33.48%) Microservices
9 71 (32.13%) JavaScript
10 67 (30.32%) Fixed Income
11 66 (29.86%) Apache
11 66 (29.86%) Asset Management
12 65 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
12 65 (29.41%) Amazon Athena
12 65 (29.41%) dbt
13 63 (28.51%) Hedge funds
14 62 (28.05%) gRPC
14 62 (28.05%) Derivative
14 62 (28.05%) Investment Management
15 61 (27.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 61 (27.60%) Equities
15 61 (27.60%) Kubernetes
15 61 (27.60%) SciPy
15 61 (27.60%) NumPy
15 61 (27.60%) Protocol Buffers
15 61 (27.60%) TypeScript
15 61 (27.60%) Pandas
15 61 (27.60%) Dremio

Java Engineer 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 66 (29.86%) Apache
2 65 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.26%) Confluence
4 3 (1.36%) JBoss
4 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (0.90%) Drupal
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 162 (73.30%) AWS
2 65 (29.41%) dbt
3 57 (25.79%) Snowflake
4 49 (22.17%) GCP
5 35 (15.84%) Azure
6 16 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.81%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.81%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (1.81%) Dagster
9 4 (1.81%) Prefect
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.36%) SaaS
10 3 (1.36%) Serverless
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (29.41%) Amazon Athena
2 61 (27.60%) Apache Arrow
2 61 (27.60%) Apache Ignite
2 61 (27.60%) Dremio
3 57 (25.79%) Data Lake
4 34 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.07%) MySQL
6 9 (4.07%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.71%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.81%) Data Hub
8 4 (1.81%) Metadata
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.45%) Flink
10 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.45%) Redis
10 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (7.24%) Git
2 12 (5.43%) TeamCity
3 10 (4.52%) JIRA
4 6 (2.71%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.26%) Maven
6 4 (1.81%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.36%) GitLab
7 3 (1.36%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.45%) Mockito
9 1 (0.45%) mountebank
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 100 (45.25%) Banking
2 88 (39.82%) Finance
3 82 (37.10%) Investment Banking
4 74 (33.48%) Front Office
5 31 (14.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (10.41%) Law
7 19 (8.60%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.88%) Social Skills
9 10 (4.52%) Retail
10 9 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.62%) Legal
11 8 (3.62%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.45%) Aviation
14 1 (0.45%) Back Office
14 1 (0.45%) Marketing
14 1 (0.45%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (28.05%) gRPC
2 61 (27.60%) NumPy
2 61 (27.60%) Pandas
2 61 (27.60%) Protocol Buffers
2 61 (27.60%) SciPy
3 52 (23.53%) Spring
4 44 (19.91%) Spring Boot
5 32 (14.48%) Kafka
6 16 (7.24%) RESTful
7 13 (5.88%) React
8 11 (4.98%) Node.js
9 10 (4.52%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.07%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.62%) REST
12 7 (3.17%) JPA
13 6 (2.71%) Vue
14 5 (2.26%) JSON
14 5 (2.26%) OAuth
14 5 (2.26%) OpenID
14 5 (2.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (30.32%) Fixed Income
2 63 (28.51%) Hedge funds
3 62 (28.05%) Derivative
4 61 (27.60%) Equities
4 61 (27.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (13.57%) Cloud Native
6 18 (8.14%) Pricing Data
7 10 (4.52%) Blog
8 6 (2.71%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.90%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.45%) IoT
12 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
1 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (76.02%) Software Engineering
2 115 (52.04%) Agile
3 74 (33.48%) Microservices
4 66 (29.86%) Asset Management
5 62 (28.05%) Investment Management
6 36 (16.29%) TDD
7 34 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 32 (14.48%) Fintech
8 32 (14.48%) Mentoring
9 29 (13.12%) CI/CD
10 20 (9.05%) Line Management
11 19 (8.60%) Greeks
12 18 (8.14%) Continuous Deployment
12 18 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.24%) Coaching
13 16 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (6.79%) BDD
15 14 (6.33%) Clean Code
16 13 (5.88%) DevOps
16 13 (5.88%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 221 (100.00%) Java
2 88 (39.82%) Python
3 71 (32.13%) JavaScript
4 61 (27.60%) TypeScript
5 40 (18.10%) Kotlin
6 18 (8.14%) SQL
7 14 (6.33%) C#
8 13 (5.88%) Scala
9 8 (3.62%) Go
10 6 (2.71%) C
10 6 (2.71%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) PHP
11 2 (0.90%) Rust
12 1 (0.45%) Bash
12 1 (0.45%) Dart
12 1 (0.45%) F#
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
12 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (4.98%) Degree
2 7 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (3.17%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.86%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.52%) QA
System Software
1 27 (12.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (27.60%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.67%) Terraform
3 13 (5.88%) Ansible
4 7 (3.17%) Grafana
5 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
6 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (2.71%) YouTube
2 4 (1.81%) Oracle
3 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (0.45%) Google
3 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.45%) Xamarin