Java Architect Jobs in London

Java Architect
England > London

The median Java Architect salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 476 565
Rank change year-on-year +86 +89 +247
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Architect 2 26 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 26 39
10th Percentile - £125,000 £89,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £127,500 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £135,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.59% +38.46% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £165,000 £112,500
90th Percentile - - £117,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £135,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -42.59% +38.46% +2.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in London

Java Architect
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Architect in London.

Salary trend for Java Architect in London

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Architect 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 London region featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Tandem
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001

Java Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (50.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 15022
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat