Senior Java Developer Jobs in London

Senior Java Developer
England > London

The median Senior Java Developer salary in London is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 367 352
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 159 282 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.82% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.86% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 126 248 504
10th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £74,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +21.43%

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 22,079 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,593 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%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior 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 Senior Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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 -14 24 £100,000 -2.44% 1
South London - 8 - -
Senior Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 95 (59.75%) Finance
3 74 (46.54%) Spring
4 66 (41.51%) AWS
5 54 (33.96%) Microservices
6 53 (33.33%) AngularJS
7 52 (32.70%) JavaScript
8 48 (30.19%) Full Stack Development
9 47 (29.56%) Spring Boot
9 47 (29.56%) SQL
10 38 (23.90%) Agile
11 37 (23.27%) Hibernate
11 37 (23.27%) Kubernetes
12 35 (22.01%) Banking
13 32 (20.13%) Low Latency
14 30 (18.87%) Docker
14 30 (18.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (18.24%) Fintech
16 23 (14.47%) Front Office
16 23 (14.47%) Software Engineering
16 23 (14.47%) Multithreading
17 22 (13.84%) Computer Science
17 22 (13.84%) TDD
18 21 (13.21%) Python
18 21 (13.21%) Kafka
19 19 (11.95%) Mentoring
19 19 (11.95%) Social Skills
20 18 (11.32%) JMS
20 18 (11.32%) Degree
21 17 (10.69%) Investment Banking

Senior 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 8 (5.03%) JBoss
1 8 (5.03%) OpenStack
1 8 (5.03%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (3.77%) Apache
3 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Drupal
5 1 (0.63%) GemFire
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (41.51%) AWS
2 11 (6.92%) Serverless
3 8 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (2.52%) Azure
4 4 (2.52%) GCP
5 2 (1.26%) dbt
5 2 (1.26%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.26%) SaaS
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.26%) Bluetooth
1 2 (1.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (9.43%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.40%) MySQL
2 7 (4.40%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.52%) Flink
4 4 (2.52%) Tick Data
5 3 (1.89%) Big Data
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.26%) Apache Arrow
6 2 (1.26%) Apache Ignite
6 2 (1.26%) Dremio
7 1 (0.63%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (6.29%) Git
1 10 (6.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.03%) JUnit
3 2 (1.26%) JHipster
3 2 (1.26%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
General
1 95 (59.75%) Finance
2 35 (22.01%) Banking
3 23 (14.47%) Front Office
4 19 (11.95%) Social Skills
5 17 (10.69%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.29%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.66%) Financial Institution
8 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (4.40%) Retail Banking
10 6 (3.77%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.26%) Music Industry
11 2 (1.26%) Retail
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) International Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (46.54%) Spring
2 53 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 47 (29.56%) Spring Boot
4 37 (23.27%) Hibernate
5 21 (13.21%) Kafka
6 18 (11.32%) JMS
7 12 (7.55%) React
8 11 (6.92%) REST
8 11 (6.92%) RESTful
8 11 (6.92%) SOAP
8 11 (6.92%) Web Services
9 10 (6.29%) GWT
10 8 (5.03%) Apache Camel
10 8 (5.03%) CSS
10 8 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (5.03%) HTML
10 8 (5.03%) J2EE
10 8 (5.03%) Node.js
11 5 (3.14%) gRPC
11 5 (3.14%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (10.06%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (9.43%) Equities
4 8 (5.03%) Client/Server
5 7 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.14%) Derivative
7 4 (2.52%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.89%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.26%) Kindle
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.63%) PropTech
10 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.96%) Microservices
2 48 (30.19%) Full Stack Development
3 38 (23.90%) Agile
4 32 (20.13%) Low Latency
5 29 (18.24%) Fintech
6 23 (14.47%) Multithreading
6 23 (14.47%) Software Engineering
7 22 (13.84%) Computer Science
7 22 (13.84%) TDD
8 19 (11.95%) Mentoring
9 16 (10.06%) DevOps
10 15 (9.43%) Investment Management
11 12 (7.55%) Electronic Trading
11 12 (7.55%) Scrum
12 11 (6.92%) Migration
12 11 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (6.29%) BDD
13 10 (6.29%) CI/CD
13 10 (6.29%) Web Application Development
14 9 (5.66%) Proprietary Trading
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (32.70%) JavaScript
3 47 (29.56%) SQL
4 21 (13.21%) Python
5 12 (7.55%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.77%) Perl
7 2 (1.26%) C#
7 2 (1.26%) C++
7 2 (1.26%) Ruby
7 2 (1.26%) Scala
7 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (11.32%) Degree
2 10 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.40%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 30 (18.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.81%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (6.29%) Google
2 8 (5.03%) WSO2
3 4 (2.52%) Vertica
4 3 (1.89%) Sybase
5 2 (1.26%) Apple
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle
6 1 (0.63%) SAP