Java Software Engineer Jobs in Central London

Java Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Central London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 190 293
Rank change year-on-year +25 +103 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 27 58 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.71% 1.09% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 1.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 24 57 8
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £58,100
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £87,313
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 £128,750
London median annual salary £105,000 £92,500 £91,355
% change year-on-year +13.51% +1.25% +14.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,596 5,140 7,636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 96.20% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 4,299 6,437
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Central London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in Central London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in Central London

Java Software Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
City of London +26 26 £95,000 -5.00% 4
Camden - 1 £65,000 -
Java Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Central 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 12 (44.44%) Kotlin
4 12 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (40.74%) Microservices
5 11 (40.74%) Ansible
6 8 (29.63%) Agile
6 8 (29.63%) Spring
7 6 (22.22%) Degree
7 6 (22.22%) Git
7 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
7 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
7 6 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
8 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
8 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
8 5 (18.52%) Electronic Trading
8 5 (18.52%) GCP
8 5 (18.52%) Maven
8 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
8 5 (18.52%) Fixed Income
8 5 (18.52%) TDD
8 5 (18.52%) Banking
8 5 (18.52%) Front Office
8 5 (18.52%) OO
8 5 (18.52%) OOD
9 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) Maven
3 2 (7.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 5 (18.52%) Banking
1 5 (18.52%) Front Office
1 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
3 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%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.70%) gRPC
4 1 (3.70%) J2EE
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Fixed Income
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (40.74%) Microservices
3 8 (29.63%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
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 3 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (7.41%) Data Design
7 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
7 2 (7.41%) User Experience
7 2 (7.41%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) Kotlin
3 2 (7.41%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Dart
4 1 (3.70%) F#
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) R
4 1 (3.70%) Ruby
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (22.22%) 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
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Google