Java Architect Jobs

Java Architect
UK

The median Java Architect salary in the UK is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 March 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 804 923
Rank change year-on-year +125 +119 +158
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Architect 3 54 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.060% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.063% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 28 71
10th Percentile £76,625 £65,125 £83,750
25th Percentile £77,188 £75,000 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £102,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.17% +5.13% +2.63%
75th Percentile £79,688 £142,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £79,875 £165,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% -8.33%

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 46,532 85,499 102,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.70% 92.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,438 62,910 63,663
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,817 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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

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

Salary trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Top 4 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 24 March 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 +132 3 £78,750 -12.50% 5
UK excluding London +137 2 £80,000 +6.67% 1
South East +86 2 £80,000 +23.08% 1
London +65 1 £77,500 -42.59% 5

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Struts
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) OOP

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Struts
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC