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 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 118 116
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 543 1,074 2,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.30% 3.12% 3.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 3.28% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 436 960 1,422
10th Percentile £58,750 £58,625 £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 £120,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £148,125 £133,750 £128,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

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 22,236 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,670 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -57 93 £85,000 -15.00% 7
South London +33 46 £82,500 -5.71%
East London +17 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 8 May 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.

1 543 (100.00%) Java
2 265 (48.80%) AWS
3 208 (38.31%) Finance
4 198 (36.46%) Spring
5 182 (33.52%) Spring Boot
6 168 (30.94%) Agile
7 163 (30.02%) Microservices
8 151 (27.81%) Kubernetes
9 135 (24.86%) Docker
10 129 (23.76%) JavaScript
11 123 (22.65%) Banking
12 120 (22.10%) Full Stack Development
13 113 (20.81%) Front Office
14 112 (20.63%) TDD
15 110 (20.26%) Low Latency
16 107 (19.71%) SQL
17 105 (19.34%) AngularJS
18 102 (18.78%) Fintech
19 98 (18.05%) Python
20 85 (15.65%) Investment Banking
21 84 (15.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 77 (14.18%) Social Skills
23 75 (13.81%) Hibernate
24 73 (13.44%) Software Engineering
24 73 (13.44%) Degree
25 64 (11.79%) Computer Science
25 64 (11.79%) Kafka
26 61 (11.23%) DevOps
27 60 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
27 60 (11.05%) 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 35 (6.45%) Apache
2 26 (4.79%) OpenStack
3 24 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.58%) JBoss
5 11 (2.03%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.47%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.29%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.92%) 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 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 265 (48.80%) AWS
2 48 (8.84%) Serverless
3 47 (8.66%) Azure
4 44 (8.10%) GCP
5 37 (6.81%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (4.42%) dbt
8 20 (3.68%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.84%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.10%) PaaS
11 5 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.37%) SaaS
12 2 (0.37%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.18%) AWS KMS
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.21%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.55%) FTP
3 2 (0.37%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.37%) HTTP
3 2 (0.37%) SSH
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.58%) Relational Database
2 51 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (9.21%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.60%) Apache Ignite
5 24 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (4.42%) Apache Arrow
5 24 (4.42%) Dremio
6 20 (3.68%) Data Lake
7 19 (3.50%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.95%) MySQL
9 14 (2.58%) Redis
10 10 (1.84%) DB2
10 10 (1.84%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.29%) CouchDB
13 6 (1.10%) Big Data
14 5 (0.92%) Flink
14 5 (0.92%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.92%) Tick Data
15 4 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (9.39%) Jenkins
2 43 (7.92%) Git
3 22 (4.05%) JUnit
4 13 (2.39%) Selenium
5 9 (1.66%) Maven
5 9 (1.66%) Mockito
6 8 (1.47%) JIRA
7 7 (1.29%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.74%) JMeter
9 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.55%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.37%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.37%) GitLab
10 2 (0.37%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.37%) JHipster
General
1 208 (38.31%) Finance
2 123 (22.65%) Banking
3 113 (20.81%) Front Office
4 85 (15.65%) Investment Banking
5 77 (14.18%) Social Skills
6 37 (6.81%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.95%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.21%) Tech for Good
10 10 (1.84%) Turkish Language
11 7 (1.29%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Retail
15 2 (0.37%) Games
15 2 (0.37%) Music Industry
15 2 (0.37%) Police
16 1 (0.18%) International Banking
16 1 (0.18%) Marketing
16 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (36.46%) Spring
2 182 (33.52%) Spring Boot
3 105 (19.34%) AngularJS
4 75 (13.81%) Hibernate
5 64 (11.79%) Kafka
6 54 (9.94%) REST
7 43 (7.92%) Web Services
8 33 (6.08%) Apache Camel
9 29 (5.34%) Node.js
10 27 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
10 27 (4.97%) gRPC
10 27 (4.97%) HTML
10 27 (4.97%) NumPy
10 27 (4.97%) Pandas
10 27 (4.97%) React
11 26 (4.79%) XML
12 24 (4.42%) JSON
12 24 (4.42%) Protocol Buffers
12 24 (4.42%) RESTful
12 24 (4.42%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 50 (9.21%) Fixed Income
3 49 (9.02%) Equities
4 47 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (6.45%) Hedge funds
6 33 (6.08%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (5.52%) Derivative
8 20 (3.68%) Algorithms
9 19 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (3.13%) Client/Server
11 12 (2.21%) FPGA
12 10 (1.84%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.47%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.29%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.29%) PropTech
14 7 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
16 3 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.00%) Linux
2 4 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (30.94%) Agile
2 163 (30.02%) Microservices
3 120 (22.10%) Full Stack Development
4 112 (20.63%) TDD
5 110 (20.26%) Low Latency
6 102 (18.78%) Fintech
7 73 (13.44%) Software Engineering
8 64 (11.79%) Computer Science
9 61 (11.23%) DevOps
10 60 (11.05%) Multithreading
10 60 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (10.13%) Electronic Trading
12 49 (9.02%) Scrum
13 46 (8.47%) CI/CD
14 43 (7.92%) BDD
15 42 (7.73%) SDLC
16 41 (7.55%) Investment Management
17 40 (7.37%) Kanban
17 40 (7.37%) Mentoring
18 28 (5.16%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 543 (100.00%) Java
2 129 (23.76%) JavaScript
3 107 (19.71%) SQL
4 98 (18.05%) Python
5 48 (8.84%) Kotlin
6 40 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.42%) C#
8 22 (4.05%) C++
9 15 (2.76%) Scala
10 12 (2.21%) C
11 11 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.66%) Perl
13 7 (1.29%) Ruby
14 5 (0.92%) Groovy
14 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.55%) Clojure
16 2 (0.37%) Bash
17 1 (0.18%) PHP
17 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 73 (13.44%) Degree
2 41 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.74%) PhD
8 3 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.29%) QA
2 3 (0.55%) MiFID
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 135 (24.86%) Docker
2 13 (2.39%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 151 (27.81%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.37%) Ansible
3 39 (7.18%) Terraform
4 4 (0.74%) Kibana
5 1 (0.18%) Consul
5 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (5.16%) WSO2
2 21 (3.87%) Oracle
3 11 (2.03%) Google
4 5 (0.92%) Splunk
4 5 (0.92%) TIBCO
4 5 (0.92%) YouTube
5 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.74%) Vertica
6 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.55%) IBM
6 3 (0.55%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.55%) Reuters
6 3 (0.55%) SAP
6 3 (0.55%) Sybase
7 2 (0.37%) Apple
7 2 (0.37%) Murex
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.37%) Solace