Principal Java Engineer Jobs in London

Principal Java Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Java Engineer salary in London is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 578 733
Rank change year-on-year +69 +155 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 6 64 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.025% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5 62 11
10th Percentile £102,000 £109,250 £85,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £150,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +33.33% +18.42%
75th Percentile £120,000 £160,000 £128,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £110,000 £145,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% +28.89% +18.42%

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 22,249 32,570 65,049
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.05% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,679 24,002 34,556
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%

Principal Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Java Engineer in London

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Principal Java Engineer in London

Principal 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 Principal Java Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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 +46 1 £100,000 -9.09%
Principal Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Principal 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 Principal Java Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (50.00%) Go
4 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (33.33%) Kafka
5 2 (33.33%) WFM
5 2 (33.33%) Docker
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (16.67%) Quarkus
6 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
6 1 (16.67%) Fintech
6 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (16.67%) OpenID
6 1 (16.67%) OAuth
6 1 (16.67%) RESTful

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) Micronaut
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
3 1 (16.67%) Quarkus
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) WFM
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Go
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes