Java Architect Job Trends

Java Architect
UK

The median Java Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 713 743
Rank change year-on-year +61 +30 +367
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Architect 11 81 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.10% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.11% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 6 64 28
10th Percentile £81,875 £93,125 £67,500
25th Percentile - £102,813 £89,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £135,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £125,625 £165,000 £123,125
90th Percentile £137,500 - £137,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% +15.63% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 44,334 74,253 58,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 95.25% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26,030 45,319 45,191
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £74,258 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Java Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Java Architect job vacancies in the UK

Java Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Architect over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 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
England +62 11 £90,000 -33.33% 9
London +29 8 £90,000 -33.33% 6
UK excluding London +69 3 £90,000 -2.70% 6
Work from Home +24 3 £90,000 -33.33%
South West +66 1 £90,000 -2.70%
North of England +31 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - -

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, Java Architect 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 featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 5 (45.45%) Banking
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Spring
6 2 (18.18%) OOP
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Degree
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) REST
6 2 (18.18%) CSS
6 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (18.18%) HTML
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Management

Java Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DocumentDB
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Advertising
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) ADO
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) LangChain
3 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) COBOL
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
1 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 15022
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat