Java Developer Jobs in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer salary in London is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 142 112
Rank change year-on-year -78 -30 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 183 535 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.42% 2.26% 3.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 2.40% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 118 428 940
10th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £80,625 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £124,375 £120,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 11,624 22,265 32,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 16,628 23,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London -14 30 - -
Central London -32 26 £90,000 +5.88% 11
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 183 (100.00%) Java
2 116 (63.39%) AWS
3 89 (48.63%) Finance
4 86 (46.99%) Agile
5 76 (41.53%) Spring
6 68 (37.16%) Spring Boot
7 65 (35.52%) Front Office
8 58 (31.69%) Software Engineering
8 58 (31.69%) Kubernetes
9 56 (30.60%) Docker
10 55 (30.05%) Microservices
11 54 (29.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 53 (28.96%) Jenkins
13 52 (28.42%) Serverless
14 51 (27.87%) CI/CD
14 51 (27.87%) PostgreSQL
15 47 (25.68%) TDD
15 47 (25.68%) Git
16 46 (25.14%) Banking
17 45 (24.59%) JUnit
18 44 (24.04%) REST
18 44 (24.04%) Amazon EKS
19 43 (23.50%) DevOps
20 42 (22.95%) Distributed Systems
21 41 (22.40%) Python
22 40 (21.86%) Fixed Income
22 40 (21.86%) SQL
23 39 (21.31%) Equities
24 38 (20.77%) JavaScript
25 35 (19.13%) Low Latency

Java Developer 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 30 (16.39%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (10.93%) Apache
3 13 (7.10%) JBoss
3 13 (7.10%) Red Hat Fuse
4 6 (3.28%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.64%) Mule
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.55%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.55%) Camunda
6 1 (0.55%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 116 (63.39%) AWS
2 52 (28.42%) Serverless
3 44 (24.04%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (16.39%) dbt
5 29 (15.85%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (14.21%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (12.57%) Amazon S3
8 22 (12.02%) GCP
9 20 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (8.74%) Snowflake
11 14 (7.65%) Azure
11 14 (7.65%) Datadog
12 6 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.09%) SaaS
15 1 (0.55%) GitHub
15 1 (0.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (27.87%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (16.94%) Relational Database
3 30 (16.39%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (16.39%) Apache Arrow
3 30 (16.39%) Apache Iceberg
3 30 (16.39%) Dremio
4 11 (6.01%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.73%) MySQL
7 4 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.64%) Flink
9 2 (1.09%) Power BI
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.55%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.55%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (28.96%) Jenkins
2 47 (25.68%) Git
3 45 (24.59%) JUnit
4 28 (15.30%) Mockito
5 23 (12.57%) Maven
6 18 (9.84%) GitLab
7 16 (8.74%) IntelliJ
8 15 (8.20%) Cucumber
9 13 (7.10%) JMeter
10 12 (6.56%) Gradle
11 4 (2.19%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.09%) Gatling
12 2 (1.09%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.09%) Selenium
12 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.09%) Subversion
12 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (0.55%) Protractor
General
1 89 (48.63%) Finance
2 65 (35.52%) Front Office
3 46 (25.14%) Banking
4 33 (18.03%) Social Skills
5 27 (14.75%) Investment Banking
6 25 (13.66%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Back Office
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) iGaming
12 1 (0.55%) Legal
12 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.55%) Publishing
12 1 (0.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (41.53%) Spring
2 68 (37.16%) Spring Boot
3 44 (24.04%) REST
4 34 (18.58%) Web Services
5 26 (14.21%) ActiveMQ
5 26 (14.21%) React
6 25 (13.66%) Apache Camel
6 25 (13.66%) RESTful
7 23 (12.57%) Hibernate
7 23 (12.57%) Kafka
8 20 (10.93%) Node.js
9 19 (10.38%) AngularJS
10 18 (9.84%) SOAP
11 17 (9.29%) Vue
12 16 (8.74%) PySpark
13 15 (8.20%) JMS
14 14 (7.65%) HTML
14 14 (7.65%) J2EE
14 14 (7.65%) Pandas
14 14 (7.65%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 54 (29.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (22.95%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (21.86%) Fixed Income
4 39 (21.31%) Equities
5 21 (11.48%) Derivative
6 19 (10.38%) Hedge funds
7 17 (9.29%) Credit Derivative
8 15 (8.20%) Algorithms
8 15 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (7.65%) Management Information System
10 9 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (3.28%) Cloud Native
12 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
14 2 (1.09%) IoT
14 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
15 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
15 1 (0.55%) State Machine
15 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (46.99%) Agile
2 58 (31.69%) Software Engineering
3 55 (30.05%) Microservices
4 51 (27.87%) CI/CD
5 47 (25.68%) TDD
6 43 (23.50%) DevOps
7 35 (19.13%) Low Latency
8 33 (18.03%) BDD
9 31 (16.94%) Fintech
9 31 (16.94%) Scrum
10 30 (16.39%) Asset Management
11 29 (15.85%) Electronic Trading
12 26 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (13.66%) Kanban
14 24 (13.11%) Multithreading
14 24 (13.11%) SDLC
15 22 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
16 21 (11.48%) Order Management
17 20 (10.93%) Risk Management
18 18 (9.84%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (22.40%) Python
3 40 (21.86%) SQL
4 38 (20.77%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.29%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.74%) C++
7 12 (6.56%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.73%) C#
9 3 (1.64%) Scala
9 3 (1.64%) XQuery
10 2 (1.09%) C
10 2 (1.09%) Ruby
11 1 (0.55%) Bash
11 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) Degree
4 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.10%) SLA
2 5 (2.73%) QA
System Software
1 56 (30.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 58 (31.69%) Kubernetes
2 30 (16.39%) Ansible
3 17 (9.29%) Terraform
4 12 (6.56%) Kibana
5 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
7 1 (0.55%) Argo
7 1 (0.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) IBM
2 12 (6.56%) Splunk
3 11 (6.01%) Dynatrace
4 10 (5.46%) Solace
5 6 (3.28%) Oracle
6 4 (2.19%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.64%) Google
8 1 (0.55%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.55%) Informatica
8 1 (0.55%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.55%) SAP