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 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 211 130 116
Rank change year-on-year -81 -14 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 194 557 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.52% 2.36% 3.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 2.51% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 126 450 992
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,625 £58,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £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 £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £146,250 £134,875
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 11,480 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 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 1 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 1 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 +4 38 £62,500 -24.24%
Central London -39 26 £90,000 +5.88% 12
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 194 (100.00%) Java
2 124 (63.92%) AWS
3 93 (47.94%) Agile
4 88 (45.36%) Finance
5 87 (44.85%) Spring
6 75 (38.66%) Spring Boot
7 65 (33.51%) Kubernetes
7 65 (33.51%) Front Office
8 64 (32.99%) Microservices
8 64 (32.99%) Docker
9 61 (31.44%) Jenkins
10 56 (28.87%) Software Engineering
10 56 (28.87%) Serverless
10 56 (28.87%) CI/CD
11 55 (28.35%) TDD
11 55 (28.35%) PostgreSQL
12 54 (27.84%) JUnit
12 54 (27.84%) REST
13 53 (27.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 50 (25.77%) Distributed Systems
15 49 (25.26%) Amazon EKS
15 49 (25.26%) Git
16 48 (24.74%) Banking
17 46 (23.71%) Python
18 44 (22.68%) JavaScript
19 43 (22.16%) SQL
20 42 (21.65%) Web Services
21 41 (21.13%) DevOps
21 41 (21.13%) BDD
22 39 (20.10%) Scrum

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 28 (14.43%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (10.31%) Apache
3 12 (6.19%) JBoss
3 12 (6.19%) Red Hat Fuse
4 6 (3.09%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.55%) Mule
5 3 (1.55%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.55%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.52%) Camunda
6 1 (0.52%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 124 (63.92%) AWS
2 56 (28.87%) Serverless
3 49 (25.26%) Amazon EKS
4 35 (18.04%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (17.53%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (14.43%) dbt
7 22 (11.34%) Amazon S3
8 20 (10.31%) GCP
9 19 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (8.25%) Snowflake
11 15 (7.73%) Azure
12 14 (7.22%) Datadog
13 9 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.06%) AWS KMS
14 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.55%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (1.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (1.55%) SaaS
16 1 (0.52%) GitHub
16 1 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.35%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (18.04%) Relational Database
3 28 (14.43%) Amazon Athena
3 28 (14.43%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (14.43%) Apache Iceberg
3 28 (14.43%) Dremio
4 17 (8.76%) RDBMS
5 9 (4.64%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.09%) MySQL
7 5 (2.58%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.55%) Flink
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.52%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.52%) Power BI
10 1 (0.52%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.52%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 61 (31.44%) Jenkins
2 54 (27.84%) JUnit
3 49 (25.26%) Git
4 38 (19.59%) Mockito
5 27 (13.92%) Maven
6 19 (9.79%) GitLab
6 19 (9.79%) JMeter
7 17 (8.76%) IntelliJ
8 15 (7.73%) Cucumber
9 12 (6.19%) Gradle
10 5 (2.58%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.06%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.06%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.06%) jMock
12 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.03%) Jasmine
12 2 (1.03%) Selenium
12 2 (1.03%) Subversion
12 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 88 (45.36%) Finance
2 65 (33.51%) Front Office
3 48 (24.74%) Banking
4 33 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 33 (17.01%) Social Skills
5 27 (13.92%) Investment Banking
6 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Games
10 2 (1.03%) iGaming
10 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Publishing
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (44.85%) Spring
2 75 (38.66%) Spring Boot
3 54 (27.84%) REST
4 42 (21.65%) Web Services
5 35 (18.04%) ActiveMQ
6 33 (17.01%) Hibernate
7 30 (15.46%) Apache Camel
8 26 (13.40%) RESTful
9 24 (12.37%) Kafka
9 24 (12.37%) React
10 20 (10.31%) HTML
10 20 (10.31%) SOAP
11 19 (9.79%) Node.js
12 18 (9.28%) AngularJS
13 17 (8.76%) jQuery
13 17 (8.76%) WireMock
14 16 (8.25%) PySpark
15 15 (7.73%) JMS
15 15 (7.73%) Vue
16 13 (6.70%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 53 (27.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 50 (25.77%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (19.59%) Fixed Income
4 37 (19.07%) Equities
5 24 (12.37%) Derivative
6 20 (10.31%) Hedge funds
7 19 (9.79%) Credit Derivative
8 17 (8.76%) Algorithms
9 15 (7.73%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (7.22%) Management Information System
11 8 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (2.58%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
14 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
14 2 (1.03%) IoT
14 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (1.03%) Mobile Games
14 2 (1.03%) Online Games
14 2 (1.03%) Sports Betting
15 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Unix
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (47.94%) Agile
2 64 (32.99%) Microservices
3 56 (28.87%) CI/CD
3 56 (28.87%) Software Engineering
4 55 (28.35%) TDD
5 41 (21.13%) BDD
5 41 (21.13%) DevOps
6 39 (20.10%) Scrum
7 38 (19.59%) Low Latency
8 34 (17.53%) Kanban
9 30 (15.46%) Electronic Trading
9 30 (15.46%) SDLC
10 29 (14.95%) Fintech
11 28 (14.43%) Asset Management
12 27 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (12.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (12.37%) Multithreading
15 20 (10.31%) Workflow
16 19 (9.79%) Order Management
17 18 (9.28%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (23.71%) Python
3 44 (22.68%) JavaScript
4 43 (22.16%) SQL
5 18 (9.28%) Shell Script
6 17 (8.76%) C++
7 15 (7.73%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.58%) C#
9 3 (1.55%) Scala
9 3 (1.55%) XQuery
10 2 (1.03%) C
10 2 (1.03%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Bash
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.15%) Degree
4 6 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.19%) SLA
2 5 (2.58%) QA
System Software
1 64 (32.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.52%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 65 (33.51%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.95%) Ansible
3 19 (9.79%) Kibana
4 17 (8.76%) Terraform
5 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.52%) Argo
6 1 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (9.28%) Splunk
2 17 (8.76%) Dynatrace
2 17 (8.76%) IBM
3 10 (5.15%) Solace
4 5 (2.58%) Oracle
5 3 (1.55%) Google
5 3 (1.55%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.52%) SAP