Java Engineer Jobs in London

Java Engineer
England > London

The median Java Engineer salary in London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 206 192
Rank change year-on-year -110 -14 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 200 641 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.85% 1.78% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.87% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 175 573 600
10th Percentile £56,250 £60,200 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +16.88%
75th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £160,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +15.38%

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 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 25 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 -15 41 £95,000 +2.70% 7
South London +8 7 £24,000 -46.67% 1
East London - 6 £150,000 - 5
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 200 (100.00%) Java
2 151 (75.50%) Software Engineering
3 142 (71.00%) AWS
4 100 (50.00%) Agile
5 87 (43.50%) Banking
6 73 (36.50%) Python
7 72 (36.00%) Microservices
8 70 (35.00%) Finance
8 70 (35.00%) Investment Banking
9 63 (31.50%) Front Office
10 59 (29.50%) JavaScript
10 59 (29.50%) Kubernetes
11 52 (26.00%) Apache
11 52 (26.00%) Fixed Income
11 52 (26.00%) Asset Management
12 51 (25.50%) Apache Airflow
12 51 (25.50%) dbt
12 51 (25.50%) Amazon Athena
13 50 (25.00%) gRPC
13 50 (25.00%) Spring
14 49 (24.50%) SciPy
14 49 (24.50%) NumPy
14 49 (24.50%) Pandas
14 49 (24.50%) TypeScript
14 49 (24.50%) Protocol Buffers
14 49 (24.50%) Apache Ignite
14 49 (24.50%) Dremio
14 49 (24.50%) Apache Arrow
15 48 (24.00%) Hedge funds
16 47 (23.50%) Derivative

Java Engineer 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 52 (26.00%) Apache
2 51 (25.50%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.50%) Confluence
4 3 (1.50%) JBoss
4 3 (1.50%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (1.00%) Drupal
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 142 (71.00%) AWS
2 51 (25.50%) dbt
3 46 (23.00%) GCP
4 42 (21.00%) Snowflake
5 34 (17.00%) Azure
6 16 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.50%) SaaS
8 3 (1.50%) Serverless
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.00%) Dagster
9 2 (1.00%) Prefect
10 1 (0.50%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (0.50%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.50%) PaaS
10 1 (0.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (25.50%) Amazon Athena
2 49 (24.50%) Apache Arrow
2 49 (24.50%) Apache Ignite
2 49 (24.50%) Dremio
3 42 (21.00%) Data Lake
4 30 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.50%) MySQL
7 8 (4.00%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.00%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.00%) Metadata
11 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.50%) Flink
11 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.50%) Redis
11 1 (0.50%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (7.00%) Git
2 12 (6.00%) TeamCity
3 10 (5.00%) JIRA
4 6 (3.00%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.50%) Maven
6 4 (2.00%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.50%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.00%) GitLab
9 1 (0.50%) mountebank
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 87 (43.50%) Banking
2 70 (35.00%) Finance
2 70 (35.00%) Investment Banking
3 63 (31.50%) Front Office
4 25 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 18 (9.00%) Law
7 12 (6.00%) Social Skills
8 10 (5.00%) Retail
9 8 (4.00%) Tech for Good
10 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.50%) Legal
12 4 (2.00%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.50%) Aeronautics
14 1 (0.50%) Aviation
14 1 (0.50%) Back Office
14 1 (0.50%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (25.00%) gRPC
1 50 (25.00%) Spring
2 49 (24.50%) NumPy
2 49 (24.50%) Pandas
2 49 (24.50%) Protocol Buffers
2 49 (24.50%) SciPy
3 42 (21.00%) Spring Boot
4 32 (16.00%) Kafka
5 15 (7.50%) RESTful
6 13 (6.50%) React
7 11 (5.50%) Node.js
8 10 (5.00%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.50%) Hibernate
10 8 (4.00%) REST
11 7 (3.50%) JPA
12 6 (3.00%) Vue
13 5 (2.50%) JSON
13 5 (2.50%) SOAP
13 5 (2.50%) XML
14 4 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.00%) Fixed Income
2 48 (24.00%) Hedge funds
3 47 (23.50%) Derivative
4 46 (23.00%) Equities
4 46 (23.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 26 (13.00%) Cloud Native
6 12 (6.00%) Pricing Data
7 10 (5.00%) Blog
8 6 (3.00%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.00%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (75.50%) Software Engineering
2 100 (50.00%) Agile
3 72 (36.00%) Microservices
4 52 (26.00%) Asset Management
5 47 (23.50%) Investment Management
6 35 (17.50%) TDD
7 33 (16.50%) Test Automation
8 32 (16.00%) Mentoring
9 27 (13.50%) CI/CD
9 27 (13.50%) Fintech
10 18 (9.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 17 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (8.00%) Coaching
12 16 (8.00%) Line Management
13 14 (7.00%) BDD
13 14 (7.00%) Clean Code
13 14 (7.00%) Greeks
14 13 (6.50%) Electronic Trading
14 13 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (6.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 200 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (36.50%) Python
3 59 (29.50%) JavaScript
4 49 (24.50%) TypeScript
5 35 (17.50%) Kotlin
6 18 (9.00%) SQL
7 14 (7.00%) C#
8 13 (6.50%) Scala
9 8 (4.00%) Go
10 6 (3.00%) C
10 6 (3.00%) Ruby
11 2 (1.00%) PHP
11 2 (1.00%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) Dart
12 1 (0.50%) F#
12 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (4.50%) Degree
2 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.50%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 26 (13.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (29.50%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.50%) Terraform
3 11 (5.50%) Ansible
4 6 (3.00%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) Kibana
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (3.00%) YouTube
2 4 (2.00%) Oracle
3 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (0.50%) Google
3 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.50%) Xamarin