Java Developer Jobs in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer salary in London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 99 128
Rank change year-on-year -72 +29 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 405 893 2,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.95% 3.29% 3.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 3.46% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 310 807 1,380
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £142,500 £132,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +14.29%

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 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Central London -88 59 £85,000 -15.00% 9
South London -9 16 £82,500 -4.35% 1
East London +27 3 £90,000 -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 405 (100.00%) Java
2 226 (55.80%) AWS
3 196 (48.40%) Finance
4 155 (38.27%) Agile
5 152 (37.53%) Spring Boot
6 135 (33.33%) Spring
7 119 (29.38%) Banking
8 113 (27.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 113 (27.90%) JavaScript
9 111 (27.41%) Front Office
10 109 (26.91%) Kubernetes
11 101 (24.94%) Microservices
12 100 (24.69%) Python
13 95 (23.46%) Investment Banking
14 89 (21.98%) Docker
15 87 (21.48%) Software Engineering
16 83 (20.49%) SQL
16 83 (20.49%) Low Latency
17 81 (20.00%) Fintech
17 81 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
18 78 (19.26%) Fixed Income
19 77 (19.01%) Equities
20 74 (18.27%) TDD
21 70 (17.28%) Hedge funds
22 69 (17.04%) TypeScript
22 69 (17.04%) GCP
23 66 (16.30%) Apache
24 61 (15.06%) Hibernate
24 61 (15.06%) AngularJS
24 61 (15.06%) gRPC

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 66 (16.30%) Apache
2 55 (13.58%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.22%) Tomcat
4 8 (1.98%) JBoss
5 7 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.73%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.48%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.49%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Confluence
8 1 (0.25%) Documentum
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) GemFire
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 226 (55.80%) AWS
2 69 (17.04%) GCP
3 55 (13.58%) dbt
4 51 (12.59%) Snowflake
5 34 (8.40%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (5.68%) Serverless
8 21 (5.19%) Azure
9 19 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.48%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (0.74%) GitHub
13 2 (0.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 2 (0.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.49%) WhatsApp
14 1 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.25%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.73%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.74%) FTP
2 3 (0.74%) SSH
3 2 (0.49%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.83%) Apache Ignite
2 55 (13.58%) Amazon Athena
2 55 (13.58%) Apache Arrow
2 55 (13.58%) Dremio
3 51 (12.59%) Data Lake
4 34 (8.40%) Relational Database
5 28 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (6.17%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.44%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.47%) Redis
9 9 (2.22%) DB2
10 8 (1.98%) MySQL
10 8 (1.98%) Tick Data
11 7 (1.73%) Big Data
11 7 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.48%) Flink
13 4 (0.99%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.74%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.49%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 31 (7.65%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.42%) Git
3 20 (4.94%) JUnit
4 17 (4.20%) Maven
5 14 (3.46%) Selenium
6 9 (2.22%) Gradle
7 8 (1.98%) JIRA
7 8 (1.98%) Mockito
8 6 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.99%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.99%) JMeter
11 3 (0.74%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.49%) GitLab
12 2 (0.49%) Postman
12 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.49%) TestNG
13 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 196 (48.40%) Finance
2 119 (29.38%) Banking
3 111 (27.41%) Front Office
4 95 (23.46%) Investment Banking
5 57 (14.07%) Social Skills
6 23 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.47%) Turkish Language
8 9 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.73%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.23%) Games
11 4 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.49%) iGaming
12 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.49%) Publishing
12 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Advertising
13 1 (0.25%) International Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (37.53%) Spring Boot
2 135 (33.33%) Spring
3 61 (15.06%) AngularJS
3 61 (15.06%) gRPC
3 61 (15.06%) Hibernate
4 58 (14.32%) NumPy
4 58 (14.32%) Pandas
5 55 (13.58%) Protocol Buffers
5 55 (13.58%) SciPy
6 42 (10.37%) Kafka
7 35 (8.64%) REST
8 32 (7.90%) HTML
9 31 (7.65%) Web Services
10 21 (5.19%) CSS
11 20 (4.94%) RESTful
12 15 (3.70%) JPA
12 15 (3.70%) PySpark
12 15 (3.70%) React
13 14 (3.46%) Angular 2
13 14 (3.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (27.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 78 (19.26%) Fixed Income
3 77 (19.01%) Equities
4 70 (17.28%) Hedge funds
5 59 (14.57%) Derivative
6 25 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (4.44%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.72%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.73%) FPGA
12 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.99%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.99%) Mobile Games
13 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.99%) Wiki
14 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.16%) Linux
2 7 (1.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (38.27%) Agile
2 101 (24.94%) Microservices
3 87 (21.48%) Software Engineering
4 83 (20.49%) Low Latency
5 81 (20.00%) Fintech
5 81 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 74 (18.27%) TDD
7 58 (14.32%) Asset Management
8 53 (13.09%) CI/CD
9 51 (12.59%) Line Management
10 49 (12.10%) Multithreading
11 48 (11.85%) SDLC
12 44 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (9.38%) Investment Management
14 37 (9.14%) Electronic Trading
15 32 (7.90%) Migration
16 30 (7.41%) Computer Science
16 30 (7.41%) Design Patterns
16 30 (7.41%) Scrum
17 29 (7.16%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 405 (100.00%) Java
2 113 (27.90%) JavaScript
3 100 (24.69%) Python
4 83 (20.49%) SQL
5 69 (17.04%) TypeScript
6 39 (9.63%) Kotlin
7 16 (3.95%) C++
8 11 (2.72%) Scala
9 7 (1.73%) C
9 7 (1.73%) C#
10 5 (1.23%) Ruby
10 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.99%) Clojure
11 4 (0.99%) Perl
11 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.74%) Groovy
13 2 (0.49%) Bash
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (11.36%) Degree
2 24 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.47%) PhD
7 4 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.47%) QA
2 3 (0.74%) MiFID
System Software
1 89 (21.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 109 (26.91%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.42%) Terraform
3 15 (3.70%) Ansible
4 7 (1.73%) Kibana
5 3 (0.74%) Grafana
6 2 (0.49%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.49%) Packer
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (4.44%) Bloomberg
1 18 (4.44%) Reuters
2 12 (2.96%) Oracle
3 7 (1.73%) Google
4 6 (1.48%) WSO2
5 4 (0.99%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.99%) Splunk
5 4 (0.99%) Sybase
5 4 (0.99%) Vertica
6 3 (0.74%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.74%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.49%) StreamBase
8 1 (0.25%) iManage
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.25%) Solace
8 1 (0.25%) Tradeweb