Java Software Engineer Jobs in London

Java Software Engineer
England > London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in London is £115,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 358 430
Rank change year-on-year -3 +72 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 157 294 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.86% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.90% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 141 268 329
10th Percentile £58,938 £58,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £92,500 £91,355
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% +1.25% +14.19%
75th Percentile £148,750 £122,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £141,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +17.24% +26.09%

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 22,208 32,645 65,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 95.11% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,625 24,089 34,734
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in London

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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 +25 27 £95,000 -5.00% 4
East London - 6 £150,000 - 5
South London -6 2 £108,750 +141.67%
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 London region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 157 (100.00%) Java
1 157 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 128 (81.53%) AWS
3 99 (63.06%) Agile
4 88 (56.05%) Banking
5 85 (54.14%) Finance
6 82 (52.23%) Investment Banking
6 82 (52.23%) Front Office
7 78 (49.68%) JavaScript
7 78 (49.68%) Python
8 75 (47.77%) Fixed Income
9 72 (45.86%) Hedge funds
10 71 (45.22%) Derivative
10 71 (45.22%) Asset Management
10 71 (45.22%) Apache
10 71 (45.22%) gRPC
11 70 (44.59%) Apache Airflow
11 70 (44.59%) Protocol Buffers
11 70 (44.59%) TypeScript
11 70 (44.59%) Pandas
11 70 (44.59%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (44.59%) Apache Ignite
11 70 (44.59%) Dremio
11 70 (44.59%) dbt
11 70 (44.59%) Apache Arrow
11 70 (44.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 70 (44.59%) Equities
11 70 (44.59%) SciPy
11 70 (44.59%) NumPy
12 66 (42.04%) Investment Management

Java Software 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 71 (45.22%) Apache
2 70 (44.59%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Drupal
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) JBoss
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 128 (81.53%) AWS
2 70 (44.59%) dbt
3 66 (42.04%) Snowflake
4 45 (28.66%) GCP
5 17 (10.83%) Azure
6 10 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (44.59%) Amazon Athena
1 70 (44.59%) Apache Arrow
1 70 (44.59%) Apache Ignite
1 70 (44.59%) Dremio
2 66 (42.04%) Data Lake
3 25 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.37%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.10%) MySQL
6 7 (4.46%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.64%) Flink
9 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.64%) Redis
9 1 (0.64%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Git
2 8 (5.10%) JIRA
3 7 (4.46%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.18%) Maven
5 2 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 88 (56.05%) Banking
2 85 (54.14%) Finance
3 82 (52.23%) Front Office
3 82 (52.23%) Investment Banking
4 15 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (8.92%) Law
6 10 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.10%) Legal
8 5 (3.18%) Retail
8 5 (3.18%) Social Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.64%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
11 1 (0.64%) Marketing
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (45.22%) gRPC
2 70 (44.59%) NumPy
2 70 (44.59%) Pandas
2 70 (44.59%) Protocol Buffers
2 70 (44.59%) SciPy
3 33 (21.02%) Spring Boot
4 32 (20.38%) Spring
5 18 (11.46%) Kafka
6 12 (7.64%) RESTful
7 8 (5.10%) React
8 7 (4.46%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.18%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.18%) JPA
9 5 (3.18%) Node.js
9 5 (3.18%) OAuth
9 5 (3.18%) OpenID
10 4 (2.55%) REST
11 3 (1.91%) JSON
11 3 (1.91%) SOAP
11 3 (1.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (47.77%) Fixed Income
2 72 (45.86%) Hedge funds
3 71 (45.22%) Derivative
4 70 (44.59%) Equities
4 70 (44.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (15.29%) Pricing Data
6 20 (12.74%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.82%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.18%) Blog
8 5 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.27%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.64%) PKI
12 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 99 (63.06%) Agile
3 71 (45.22%) Asset Management
4 66 (42.04%) Investment Management
5 39 (24.84%) Microservices
6 22 (14.01%) Line Management
7 21 (13.38%) CI/CD
8 20 (12.74%) Greeks
9 18 (11.46%) Fintech
10 16 (10.19%) Test Automation
11 15 (9.55%) Mentoring
11 15 (9.55%) TDD
12 13 (8.28%) Electronic Trading
13 12 (7.64%) Continuous Deployment
14 10 (6.37%) BDD
14 10 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (5.73%) Scrum
16 8 (5.10%) Computer Science
16 8 (5.10%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 78 (49.68%) JavaScript
2 78 (49.68%) Python
3 70 (44.59%) TypeScript
4 24 (15.29%) Kotlin
5 17 (10.83%) SQL
6 13 (8.28%) Scala
7 6 (3.82%) C#
8 4 (2.55%) Go
8 4 (2.55%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) PHP
9 2 (1.27%) Rust
10 1 (0.64%) Dart
10 1 (0.64%) F#
10 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (5.10%) Degree
2 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.55%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (18.47%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.01%) Terraform
3 13 (8.28%) Ansible
4 6 (3.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.64%) Istio
5 1 (0.64%) Kibana
5 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle
2 1 (0.64%) Google
2 1 (0.64%) Xamarin