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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 42 59
Rank change year-on-year -50 +17 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 92 305 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.75% 6.59% 4.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 6.85% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 91 290 320
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £133,750 £131,250 £126,250
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 3,208 4,455 6,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 96.20% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,545 3,737 5,558
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +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 £73,480 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +1.35% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 92 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (68.48%) AWS
3 46 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 41 (44.57%) Fintech
4 41 (44.57%) Agile
5 37 (40.22%) Microservices
6 33 (35.87%) Docker
7 27 (29.35%) TDD
8 25 (27.17%) Kotlin
9 24 (26.09%) CI/CD
10 22 (23.91%) Low Latency
11 19 (20.65%) Spring Boot
12 17 (18.48%) Terraform
12 17 (18.48%) Spring
12 17 (18.48%) Banking
13 15 (16.30%) Azure
14 14 (15.22%) Kafka
14 14 (15.22%) Multithreading
14 14 (15.22%) Clean Code
15 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
15 13 (14.13%) Front Office
15 13 (14.13%) GCP
16 12 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
17 11 (11.96%) SDLC
17 11 (11.96%) Finance
17 11 (11.96%) Degree
17 11 (11.96%) Investment Banking
18 10 (10.87%) Computer Science
18 10 (10.87%) B2B
18 10 (10.87%) NoSQL

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 (1.09%) Confluence
1 1 (1.09%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (68.48%) AWS
2 15 (16.30%) Azure
3 13 (14.13%) GCP
4 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.43%) Serverless
5 4 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) HTTP
1 1 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.35%) Redis
3 3 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.26%) Big Data
3 3 (3.26%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.17%) MySQL
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) GitLab
2 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) Maven
General
1 17 (18.48%) Banking
2 13 (14.13%) Front Office
2 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.96%) Finance
3 11 (11.96%) Investment Banking
4 6 (6.52%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.17%) Police
6 1 (1.09%) Advertising
6 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.65%) Spring Boot
2 17 (18.48%) Spring
3 14 (15.22%) Kafka
4 7 (7.61%) REST
5 5 (5.43%) RESTful
6 3 (3.26%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (3.26%) JMS
6 3 (3.26%) React
7 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.17%) SOAP
7 2 (2.17%) Web Services
8 1 (1.09%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.09%) JPA
8 1 (1.09%) JSON
8 1 (1.09%) Rendezvous
8 1 (1.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Equities
2 7 (7.61%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.17%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.57%) Agile
1 41 (44.57%) Fintech
2 37 (40.22%) Microservices
3 27 (29.35%) TDD
4 24 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 22 (23.91%) Low Latency
6 14 (15.22%) Clean Code
6 14 (15.22%) Multithreading
7 12 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
8 11 (11.96%) SDLC
9 10 (10.87%) B2B
9 10 (10.87%) Computer Science
9 10 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.78%) Code Quality
11 7 (7.61%) Containerisation
11 7 (7.61%) Electronic Trading
12 6 (6.52%) Data Migration
12 6 (6.52%) Investment Management
12 6 (6.52%) Migration
12 6 (6.52%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (27.17%) Kotlin
3 8 (8.70%) SQL
4 3 (3.26%) Python
5 2 (2.17%) Scala
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) C++
6 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (11.96%) Degree
2 8 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 33 (35.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle
1 2 (2.17%) Solace
2 1 (1.09%) Google
2 1 (1.09%) IBM
2 1 (1.09%) TIBCO