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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 112 121
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 525 986 2,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.17% 3.09% 3.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 3.25% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 413 896 1,435
10th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,188 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £121,250 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £140,000 £128,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -64 85 £85,000 -15.00% 7
South London +29 40 £82,500 -12.00% 2
East London +25 7 £150,000 +50.00%
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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
2 270 (51.43%) AWS
3 205 (39.05%) Finance
4 186 (35.43%) Spring
4 186 (35.43%) Spring Boot
5 163 (31.05%) Agile
6 157 (29.90%) Microservices
7 149 (28.38%) Kubernetes
8 130 (24.76%) Docker
9 120 (22.86%) JavaScript
10 119 (22.67%) Banking
11 111 (21.14%) Front Office
11 111 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
12 110 (20.95%) Low Latency
13 107 (20.38%) Fintech
14 102 (19.43%) TDD
14 102 (19.43%) Python
15 101 (19.24%) SQL
16 89 (16.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 89 (16.95%) AngularJS
17 85 (16.19%) Investment Banking
18 77 (14.67%) Software Engineering
19 73 (13.90%) Hibernate
20 66 (12.57%) Degree
20 66 (12.57%) Social Skills
21 64 (12.19%) Kafka
22 56 (10.67%) Multithreading
23 54 (10.29%) Equities
24 53 (10.10%) Fixed Income
24 53 (10.10%) 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 41 (7.81%) Apache
2 30 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (4.19%) OpenStack
4 12 (2.29%) JBoss
5 10 (1.90%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (1.71%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.33%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.76%) Confluence
9 2 (0.38%) nginx
10 1 (0.19%) Drupal
10 1 (0.19%) GemFire
10 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.19%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 270 (51.43%) AWS
2 48 (9.14%) GCP
3 45 (8.57%) Serverless
4 41 (7.81%) Azure
5 32 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (5.71%) dbt
8 26 (4.95%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.90%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.38%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.38%) SaaS
13 2 (0.38%) WhatsApp
14 1 (0.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.19%) AWS CodePipeline
14 1 (0.19%) AWS KMS
14 1 (0.19%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.57%) FTP
2 3 (0.57%) SSH
3 2 (0.38%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (9.14%) Relational Database
3 44 (8.38%) NoSQL
4 31 (5.90%) Apache Ignite
5 30 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (5.71%) Apache Arrow
5 30 (5.71%) Dremio
6 26 (4.95%) Data Lake
7 19 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.24%) MySQL
9 14 (2.67%) Redis
10 10 (1.90%) DB2
10 10 (1.90%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.52%) Big Data
13 7 (1.33%) CouchDB
14 6 (1.14%) Flink
14 6 (1.14%) Tick Data
15 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (8.19%) Jenkins
2 38 (7.24%) Git
3 23 (4.38%) JUnit
4 15 (2.86%) Selenium
5 9 (1.71%) JIRA
5 9 (1.71%) Maven
6 8 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.33%) Mockito
8 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.76%) JMeter
9 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.38%) GitLab
10 2 (0.38%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.38%) JHipster
10 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.19%) Gradle
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) TestNG
General
1 205 (39.05%) Finance
2 119 (22.67%) Banking
3 111 (21.14%) Front Office
4 85 (16.19%) Investment Banking
5 66 (12.57%) Social Skills
6 33 (6.29%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.86%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.29%) Tech for Good
9 12 (2.29%) Turkish Language
10 7 (1.33%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.38%) Games
13 2 (0.38%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.38%) Retail
14 1 (0.19%) Advertising
14 1 (0.19%) International Banking
14 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.19%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (35.43%) Spring
1 186 (35.43%) Spring Boot
2 89 (16.95%) AngularJS
3 73 (13.90%) Hibernate
4 64 (12.19%) Kafka
5 50 (9.52%) REST
6 41 (7.81%) Web Services
7 35 (6.67%) gRPC
8 33 (6.29%) NumPy
8 33 (6.29%) Pandas
9 30 (5.71%) Protocol Buffers
9 30 (5.71%) SciPy
10 28 (5.33%) Apache Camel
11 27 (5.14%) HTML
12 25 (4.76%) Node.js
13 24 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
13 24 (4.57%) XML
14 23 (4.38%) React
14 23 (4.38%) RESTful
15 22 (4.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 54 (10.29%) Equities
3 53 (10.10%) Fixed Income
4 46 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
5 43 (8.19%) Hedge funds
6 35 (6.67%) Derivative
7 29 (5.52%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (4.00%) Algorithms
10 17 (3.24%) Client/Server
11 12 (2.29%) FPGA
11 12 (2.29%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.33%) PropTech
12 7 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.86%) Linux
2 5 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (31.05%) Agile
2 157 (29.90%) Microservices
3 111 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
4 110 (20.95%) Low Latency
5 107 (20.38%) Fintech
6 102 (19.43%) TDD
7 77 (14.67%) Software Engineering
8 56 (10.67%) Multithreading
9 53 (10.10%) Computer Science
9 53 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (9.90%) DevOps
11 49 (9.33%) Electronic Trading
12 48 (9.14%) CI/CD
13 46 (8.76%) Scrum
14 45 (8.57%) SDLC
15 41 (7.81%) Investment Management
16 40 (7.62%) BDD
17 37 (7.05%) Mentoring
18 35 (6.67%) Kanban
19 34 (6.48%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 525 (100.00%) Java
2 120 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 102 (19.43%) Python
4 101 (19.24%) SQL
5 50 (9.52%) Kotlin
6 44 (8.38%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.76%) C#
8 24 (4.57%) C++
9 15 (2.86%) Scala
10 12 (2.29%) C
11 11 (2.10%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.90%) 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
Qualifications
1 66 (12.57%) Degree
2 37 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.71%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.52%) PhD
7 6 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.19%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.71%) QA
2 3 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (24.76%) Docker
2 10 (1.90%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 149 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.24%) Terraform
3 36 (6.86%) Ansible
4 4 (0.76%) Kibana
5 2 (0.38%) Kustomize
5 2 (0.38%) Packer
6 1 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 22 (4.19%) WSO2
2 18 (3.43%) Oracle
3 9 (1.71%) 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%) Sybase
5 4 (0.76%) Vertica
6 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.57%) Reuters
6 3 (0.57%) SAP
7 2 (0.38%) Apple
7 2 (0.38%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.38%) Murex
7 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.38%) Solace
8 1 (0.19%) IBM