Java Developer Jobs in the City of London

Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Developer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 90 46
Rank change year-on-year -25 -44 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 26 95 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.25% 2.83% 6.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 2.95% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 22 94 295
10th Percentile £76,500 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £136,375 £131,050
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,926 3,224 4,573
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 95.90% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,467 2,574 3,849
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,125 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 11 (42.31%) Multithreading
4 10 (38.46%) AWS
4 10 (38.46%) Low Latency
4 10 (38.46%) Concurrent Programming
5 7 (26.92%) Electronic Trading
5 7 (26.92%) Front Office
6 6 (23.08%) Banking
6 6 (23.08%) Fintech
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Distributed Cache
7 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
7 5 (19.23%) Solace
7 5 (19.23%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (19.23%) Re-Platforming
7 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (19.23%) Fixed Income
8 4 (15.38%) Agile
8 4 (15.38%) Python
8 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
8 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
8 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
8 4 (15.38%) Memory Management
8 4 (15.38%) DevOps
8 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
9 3 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (11.54%) Serverless
9 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (3.85%) Alfresco
1 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Camunda
1 1 (3.85%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (11.54%) Serverless
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Flink
2 1 (3.85%) Hazelcast
2 1 (3.85%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Gradle
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Front Office
3 6 (23.08%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Django
1 3 (11.54%) Flask
1 3 (11.54%) REST
1 3 (11.54%) Spring
1 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) J2EE
3 1 (3.85%) JPA
3 1 (3.85%) JSP
3 1 (3.85%) Micronaut
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Fixed Income
1 5 (19.23%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (7.69%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.85%) Derivative
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.85%) Equities
5 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Multithreading
2 10 (38.46%) Concurrent Programming
2 10 (38.46%) Low Latency
3 7 (26.92%) Electronic Trading
4 6 (23.08%) Distributed Cache
4 6 (23.08%) Fintech
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (19.23%) Re-Platforming
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) Memory Management
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (11.54%) Investment Management
7 3 (11.54%) Portfolio Management
7 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Solace
2 3 (11.54%) SimCorp
3 1 (3.85%) SAP