Java Developer Jobs in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 112 110
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 551 1,117 2,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.35% 3.12% 3.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 3.28% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 447 999 1,435
10th Percentile £58,250 £58,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £146,250 £134,000 £128,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +18.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -55 98 £85,000 -15.00% 10
South London +37 47 £82,500 -5.71%
East London +21 7 £150,000 +50.00% 1
North London - 1 £60,000 - 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 551 (100.00%) Java
2 273 (49.55%) AWS
3 208 (37.75%) Spring
4 206 (37.39%) Finance
5 184 (33.39%) Spring Boot
6 170 (30.85%) Agile
7 169 (30.67%) Microservices
8 154 (27.95%) Kubernetes
9 138 (25.05%) Docker
10 129 (23.41%) JavaScript
11 120 (21.78%) Banking
12 116 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
13 114 (20.69%) TDD
14 110 (19.96%) Front Office
15 107 (19.42%) SQL
15 107 (19.42%) Low Latency
16 105 (19.06%) AngularJS
17 102 (18.51%) Fintech
18 98 (17.79%) Python
19 82 (14.88%) Investment Banking
20 77 (13.97%) Degree
20 77 (13.97%) Social Skills
21 76 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 75 (13.61%) Hibernate
23 72 (13.07%) Software Engineering
24 71 (12.89%) Kafka
25 69 (12.52%) Computer Science
26 65 (11.80%) DevOps
26 65 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
27 60 (10.89%) Multithreading

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 34 (6.17%) Apache
2 26 (4.72%) OpenStack
3 23 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.54%) JBoss
5 11 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.45%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.91%) Confluence
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) GemFire
9 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 273 (49.55%) AWS
2 49 (8.89%) Azure
3 47 (8.53%) Serverless
4 43 (7.80%) GCP
5 37 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (4.17%) dbt
8 16 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.81%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.09%) PaaS
11 5 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.36%) SaaS
12 2 (0.36%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.18%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (0.18%) AWS KMS
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.18%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.54%) FTP
3 2 (0.36%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.36%) HTTP
3 2 (0.36%) SSH
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.62%) Relational Database
2 51 (9.26%) NoSQL
2 51 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (4.36%) Apache Ignite
4 23 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (4.17%) Apache Arrow
4 23 (4.17%) Dremio
5 19 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.90%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.90%) MySQL
7 15 (2.72%) Redis
8 14 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.63%) DB2
11 7 (1.27%) Big Data
11 7 (1.27%) CouchDB
12 6 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.91%) Flink
13 5 (0.91%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 54 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 44 (7.99%) Git
3 23 (4.17%) JUnit
4 13 (2.36%) Selenium
5 12 (2.18%) Maven
6 10 (1.81%) Mockito
7 8 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.45%) JIRA
8 4 (0.73%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.73%) JMeter
9 3 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.54%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.36%) GitLab
10 2 (0.36%) Gradle
10 2 (0.36%) JHipster
General
1 206 (37.39%) Finance
2 120 (21.78%) Banking
3 110 (19.96%) Front Office
4 82 (14.88%) Investment Banking
5 77 (13.97%) Social Skills
6 38 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.36%) Tech for Good
10 10 (1.81%) Turkish Language
11 7 (1.27%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.73%) Retail
14 3 (0.54%) Games
15 2 (0.36%) Back Office
15 2 (0.36%) Music Industry
15 2 (0.36%) Police
16 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.18%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (37.75%) Spring
2 184 (33.39%) Spring Boot
3 105 (19.06%) AngularJS
4 75 (13.61%) Hibernate
5 71 (12.89%) Kafka
6 55 (9.98%) REST
7 43 (7.80%) Web Services
8 35 (6.35%) Apache Camel
9 29 (5.26%) Node.js
9 29 (5.26%) React
10 28 (5.08%) RESTful
11 27 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (4.72%) gRPC
12 26 (4.72%) HTML
12 26 (4.72%) NumPy
12 26 (4.72%) Pandas
12 26 (4.72%) XML
13 24 (4.36%) JSON
14 23 (4.17%) JMS
14 23 (4.17%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 76 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 47 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.17%) Equities
3 45 (8.17%) Fixed Income
4 34 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (5.63%) Hedge funds
6 27 (4.90%) Derivative
7 20 (3.63%) Algorithms
8 19 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.09%) Client/Server
10 12 (2.18%) FPGA
11 10 (1.81%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.27%) PropTech
13 7 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.26%) Linux
2 3 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (30.85%) Agile
2 169 (30.67%) Microservices
3 116 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
4 114 (20.69%) TDD
5 107 (19.42%) Low Latency
6 102 (18.51%) Fintech
7 72 (13.07%) Software Engineering
8 69 (12.52%) Computer Science
9 65 (11.80%) DevOps
9 65 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (10.89%) Multithreading
11 53 (9.62%) Electronic Trading
12 50 (9.07%) CI/CD
12 50 (9.07%) Scrum
13 45 (8.17%) BDD
14 42 (7.62%) Investment Management
14 42 (7.62%) Mentoring
15 40 (7.26%) Kanban
16 39 (7.08%) SDLC
17 29 (5.26%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 551 (100.00%) Java
2 129 (23.41%) JavaScript
3 107 (19.42%) SQL
4 98 (17.79%) Python
5 51 (9.26%) Kotlin
6 39 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.54%) C#
8 23 (4.17%) C++
9 16 (2.90%) Scala
10 12 (2.18%) C
11 11 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.63%) Perl
13 7 (1.27%) Ruby
14 6 (1.09%) Groovy
15 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.54%) Clojure
17 2 (0.36%) Bash
18 1 (0.18%) PHP
18 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 77 (13.97%) Degree
2 42 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.36%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.73%) PhD
9 3 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.27%) QA
2 3 (0.54%) MiFID
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 138 (25.05%) Docker
2 13 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 154 (27.95%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.62%) Terraform
3 40 (7.26%) Ansible
4 4 (0.73%) Kibana
5 1 (0.18%) Consul
5 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (5.08%) WSO2
2 20 (3.63%) Oracle
3 11 (2.00%) Google
4 5 (0.91%) Splunk
4 5 (0.91%) TIBCO
4 5 (0.91%) YouTube
5 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.73%) IBM
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.73%) Vertica
6 3 (0.54%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.54%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.54%) Reuters
6 3 (0.54%) SAP
6 3 (0.54%) Sybase
7 2 (0.36%) Apple
7 2 (0.36%) Murex
7 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.36%) Solace