Junior Java Developer Jobs in London

Junior Java Developer
England > London

The median Junior Java Developer salary in London is £55,000 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 389 497 612
Rank change year-on-year +108 +115 +242
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Java Developer 3 5 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.021% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.022% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile £42,000 £27,400 £33,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -26.09% +27.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £122,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - - £81,250
England median annual salary £29,000 £35,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.14% -41.67% +26.32%

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%

Junior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Java Developer in London

Junior Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Junior Java Developer in London

Junior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Java Developer in London

Junior 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 Junior 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 - 1 £60,000 -
Junior Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Java Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Mockito
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk