Senior Java Developer Jobs in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the City of London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 158 141
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 6 24 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.29% 0.71% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.75% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 94
10th Percentile - £88,750 £82,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £92,500 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £100,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £123,438 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £140,000 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £100,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +2.50%

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 1,921 3,220 4,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 95.86% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,466 2,569 3,851
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £95,000 £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%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 3 (50.00%) Flask
3 3 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (50.00%) Django
3 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) SimCorp
3 3 (50.00%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Kafka
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (16.67%) Low Latency

Senior 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Django
1 3 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (16.67%) Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SimCorp