Java Developer Jobs in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 525 1,048 2,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.22% 3.12% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 3.28% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 418 938 1,427
10th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £135,000 £128,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

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 22,294 31,975 66,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,646 23,616 34,555
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in London

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 Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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 -59 88 £85,000 -15.00% 11
South London +31 45 £82,500 -12.00%
East London +21 7 £150,000 +50.00% 20
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 525 (100.00%) Java
2 265 (50.48%) AWS
3 202 (38.48%) Finance
4 195 (37.14%) Spring
5 180 (34.29%) Spring Boot
6 161 (30.67%) Agile
7 156 (29.71%) Microservices
8 148 (28.19%) Kubernetes
9 131 (24.95%) Docker
10 127 (24.19%) JavaScript
11 119 (22.67%) Full Stack Development
12 118 (22.48%) Banking
13 108 (20.57%) Front Office
14 107 (20.38%) Low Latency
15 106 (20.19%) TDD
16 105 (20.00%) SQL
17 104 (19.81%) Fintech
18 102 (19.43%) AngularJS
19 96 (18.29%) Python
20 85 (16.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 84 (16.00%) Investment Banking
22 73 (13.90%) Social Skills
23 72 (13.71%) Software Engineering
23 72 (13.71%) Hibernate
24 67 (12.76%) Degree
25 61 (11.62%) Kafka
26 58 (11.05%) Multithreading
26 58 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
26 58 (11.05%) DevOps
27 57 (10.86%) Computer Science

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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (7.05%) Apache
2 26 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (4.76%) OpenStack
4 12 (2.29%) JBoss
5 10 (1.90%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.52%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.33%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.95%) Confluence
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) GemFire
9 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 265 (50.48%) AWS
2 48 (9.14%) Azure
3 46 (8.76%) GCP
3 46 (8.76%) Serverless
4 36 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
5 35 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (4.95%) dbt
7 22 (4.19%) Snowflake
8 10 (1.90%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.38%) SaaS
11 2 (0.38%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.19%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.19%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.19%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (0.19%) AWS KMS
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.57%) FTP
3 2 (0.38%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.38%) SSH
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.71%) Relational Database
2 50 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (9.33%) NoSQL
4 27 (5.14%) Apache Ignite
5 26 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (4.95%) Apache Arrow
5 26 (4.95%) Dremio
6 22 (4.19%) Data Lake
7 19 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.05%) MySQL
8 16 (3.05%) Redis
9 10 (1.90%) DB2
9 10 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.33%) CouchDB
12 6 (1.14%) Big Data
13 5 (0.95%) Flink
13 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.95%) Tick Data
14 4 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (9.33%) Jenkins
2 41 (7.81%) Git
3 20 (3.81%) JUnit
4 15 (2.86%) Selenium
5 8 (1.52%) JIRA
5 8 (1.52%) Mockito
6 7 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.33%) Maven
7 4 (0.76%) JMeter
8 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.57%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.38%) GitLab
9 2 (0.38%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.38%) JHipster
General
1 202 (38.48%) Finance
2 118 (22.48%) Banking
3 108 (20.57%) Front Office
4 84 (16.00%) Investment Banking
5 73 (13.90%) Social Skills
6 36 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.86%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.29%) Turkish Language
10 11 (2.10%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.33%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Retail
15 2 (0.38%) Games
15 2 (0.38%) Music Industry
15 2 (0.38%) Police
16 1 (0.19%) International Banking
16 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.19%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (37.14%) Spring
2 180 (34.29%) Spring Boot
3 102 (19.43%) AngularJS
4 72 (13.71%) Hibernate
5 61 (11.62%) Kafka
6 53 (10.10%) REST
7 41 (7.81%) Web Services
8 32 (6.10%) Apache Camel
9 29 (5.52%) gRPC
9 29 (5.52%) NumPy
9 29 (5.52%) Pandas
10 28 (5.33%) Node.js
11 27 (5.14%) React
12 26 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (4.95%) HTML
12 26 (4.95%) Protocol Buffers
12 26 (4.95%) SciPy
13 25 (4.76%) XML
14 24 (4.57%) JSON
15 23 (4.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (16.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 50 (9.52%) Equities
2 50 (9.52%) Fixed Income
3 47 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (7.05%) Hedge funds
5 32 (6.10%) Greenfield Project
6 31 (5.90%) Derivative
7 21 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.43%) Algorithms
9 17 (3.24%) Client/Server
10 12 (2.29%) FPGA
10 12 (2.29%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.33%) PropTech
11 7 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.86%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (30.67%) Agile
2 156 (29.71%) Microservices
3 119 (22.67%) Full Stack Development
4 107 (20.38%) Low Latency
5 106 (20.19%) TDD
6 104 (19.81%) Fintech
7 72 (13.71%) Software Engineering
8 58 (11.05%) DevOps
8 58 (11.05%) Multithreading
8 58 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (10.86%) Computer Science
10 51 (9.71%) Electronic Trading
11 48 (9.14%) Scrum
12 45 (8.57%) CI/CD
13 42 (8.00%) BDD
14 41 (7.81%) Investment Management
15 40 (7.62%) Mentoring
15 40 (7.62%) SDLC
16 39 (7.43%) Kanban
17 29 (5.52%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 525 (100.00%) Java
2 127 (24.19%) JavaScript
3 105 (20.00%) SQL
4 96 (18.29%) Python
5 50 (9.52%) Kotlin
6 42 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.38%) C#
8 22 (4.19%) C++
9 15 (2.86%) Scala
10 12 (2.29%) C
11 11 (2.10%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.71%) Perl
13 6 (1.14%) Ruby
14 5 (0.95%) Groovy
15 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.57%) Clojure
17 2 (0.38%) Bash
18 1 (0.19%) PHP
18 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 67 (12.76%) Degree
2 41 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.95%) PhD
9 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.33%) QA
2 3 (0.57%) MiFID
3 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 131 (24.95%) Docker
2 13 (2.48%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 148 (28.19%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.43%) Ansible
3 38 (7.24%) Terraform
4 4 (0.76%) Kibana
5 1 (0.19%) Consul
5 1 (0.19%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (4.76%) WSO2
2 18 (3.43%) Oracle
3 10 (1.90%) Google
4 5 (0.95%) Splunk
4 5 (0.95%) TIBCO
4 5 (0.95%) YouTube
5 4 (0.76%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.76%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.76%) Vertica
6 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.57%) IBM
6 3 (0.57%) Reuters
6 3 (0.57%) SAP
6 3 (0.57%) Sybase
7 2 (0.38%) Apple
7 2 (0.38%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.38%) Murex
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.38%) Solace