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 £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 47 62
Rank change year-on-year -44 +15 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 97 307 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.89% 6.47% 4.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.01% 6.71% 4.84%
Number of salaries quoted 96 292 321
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £100,625 £117,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £135,625 £130,750 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £100,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.56% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,218 4,574 6,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.44% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 3,850 5,640
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024, 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 97 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (67.01%) AWS
3 47 (48.45%) Kubernetes
4 43 (44.33%) Agile
5 39 (40.21%) Fintech
5 39 (40.21%) Microservices
6 34 (35.05%) Docker
7 28 (28.87%) TDD
8 26 (26.80%) Kotlin
8 26 (26.80%) CI/CD
9 23 (23.71%) Low Latency
10 21 (21.65%) Spring Boot
10 21 (21.65%) Spring
11 19 (19.59%) Terraform
12 18 (18.56%) Banking
13 16 (16.49%) Kafka
14 15 (15.46%) Multithreading
14 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
15 14 (14.43%) Clean Code
15 14 (14.43%) Front Office
15 14 (14.43%) Azure
16 13 (13.40%) Finance
16 13 (13.40%) Degree
17 12 (12.37%) Computer Science
17 12 (12.37%) GCP
17 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (11.34%) Code Quality
18 11 (11.34%) Continuous Delivery
18 11 (11.34%) Investment Banking
19 10 (10.31%) SDLC

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 (1.03%) Confluence
1 1 (1.03%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (67.01%) AWS
2 14 (14.43%) Azure
3 12 (12.37%) GCP
4 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.15%) Serverless
5 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) HTTP
1 1 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.15%) Redis
3 4 (4.12%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (4.12%) Big Data
3 4 (4.12%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.06%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) Gradle
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) Maven
General
1 18 (18.56%) Banking
2 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.43%) Front Office
4 13 (13.40%) Finance
5 11 (11.34%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.19%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Police
7 2 (2.06%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.03%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.65%) Spring
1 21 (21.65%) Spring Boot
2 16 (16.49%) Kafka
3 6 (6.19%) REST
3 6 (6.19%) RESTful
4 4 (4.12%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (4.12%) JMS
5 3 (3.09%) React
6 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.06%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.06%) JPA
6 2 (2.06%) Micronaut
6 2 (2.06%) SOAP
6 2 (2.06%) Web Services
6 2 (2.06%) WPF
7 1 (1.03%) JSON
7 1 (1.03%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Equities
2 6 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.15%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (44.33%) Agile
2 39 (40.21%) Fintech
2 39 (40.21%) Microservices
3 28 (28.87%) TDD
4 26 (26.80%) CI/CD
5 23 (23.71%) Low Latency
6 15 (15.46%) Multithreading
7 14 (14.43%) Clean Code
8 12 (12.37%) Computer Science
8 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.34%) Code Quality
9 11 (11.34%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (10.31%) SDLC
11 9 (9.28%) B2B
12 8 (8.25%) Containerisation
12 8 (8.25%) Electronic Trading
13 7 (7.22%) Investment Management
13 7 (7.22%) Software Engineering
14 6 (6.19%) Data Migration
14 6 (6.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (26.80%) Kotlin
3 8 (8.25%) SQL
4 4 (4.12%) Python
5 2 (2.06%) C#
5 2 (2.06%) C++
5 2 (2.06%) Scala
6 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.09%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 34 (35.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (48.45%) Kubernetes
2 19 (19.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle
1 2 (2.06%) Solace
2 1 (1.03%) Google
2 1 (1.03%) IBM
2 1 (1.03%) TIBCO