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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 112 122
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 522 1,050 2,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.21% 3.11% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 3.27% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 414 940 1,449
10th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £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 £120,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £148,875 £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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
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 20 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 20 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 86 £85,000 -15.00% 11
South London +31 46 £82,500 -12.00%
East London +21 7 £150,000 +50.00% 21
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 522 (100.00%) Java
2 268 (51.34%) AWS
3 203 (38.89%) Finance
4 194 (37.16%) Spring
5 183 (35.06%) Spring Boot
6 162 (31.03%) Agile
7 157 (30.08%) Microservices
8 149 (28.54%) Kubernetes
9 131 (25.10%) Docker
10 127 (24.33%) JavaScript
11 116 (22.22%) Banking
11 116 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
12 107 (20.50%) Front Office
13 104 (19.92%) TDD
13 104 (19.92%) Low Latency
14 103 (19.73%) Fintech
15 102 (19.54%) SQL
16 100 (19.16%) AngularJS
17 98 (18.77%) Python
18 87 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 82 (15.71%) Investment Banking
20 73 (13.98%) Software Engineering
21 72 (13.79%) Hibernate
22 69 (13.22%) Social Skills
23 66 (12.64%) Degree
24 61 (11.69%) Kafka
25 59 (11.30%) DevOps
26 57 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
27 55 (10.54%) Computer Science
28 54 (10.34%) Multithreading

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 39 (7.47%) Apache
2 28 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (4.98%) OpenStack
4 13 (2.49%) JBoss
5 11 (2.11%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.53%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.34%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.96%) 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
1 268 (51.34%) AWS
2 48 (9.20%) GCP
3 47 (9.00%) Azure
3 47 (9.00%) Serverless
4 37 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
5 36 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (5.36%) dbt
7 24 (4.60%) Snowflake
8 10 (1.92%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.77%) 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 (2.30%) 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 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
1 51 (9.77%) Relational Database
2 47 (9.00%) NoSQL
3 29 (5.56%) Apache Ignite
4 28 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
4 28 (5.36%) Apache Arrow
4 28 (5.36%) Dremio
5 24 (4.60%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.07%) MySQL
8 15 (2.87%) Redis
9 10 (1.92%) DB2
9 10 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.34%) CouchDB
12 6 (1.15%) Big Data
13 5 (0.96%) Flink
13 5 (0.96%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.96%) Tick Data
14 4 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (9.58%) Jenkins
2 42 (8.05%) Git
3 21 (4.02%) JUnit
4 15 (2.87%) Selenium
5 8 (1.53%) JIRA
6 7 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.34%) Maven
6 7 (1.34%) Mockito
7 4 (0.77%) JMeter
8 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.38%) GitLab
9 2 (0.38%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.38%) JHipster
10 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.19%) Jasmine
General
1 203 (38.89%) Finance
2 116 (22.22%) Banking
3 107 (20.50%) Front Office
4 82 (15.71%) Investment Banking
5 69 (13.22%) Social Skills
6 36 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.87%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.30%) Tech for Good
9 12 (2.30%) Turkish Language
10 7 (1.34%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Retail
14 2 (0.38%) Games
14 2 (0.38%) Music Industry
14 2 (0.38%) Police
15 1 (0.19%) International Banking
15 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.19%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (37.16%) Spring
2 183 (35.06%) Spring Boot
3 100 (19.16%) AngularJS
4 72 (13.79%) Hibernate
5 61 (11.69%) Kafka
6 54 (10.34%) REST
7 42 (8.05%) Web Services
8 33 (6.32%) Apache Camel
9 31 (5.94%) gRPC
9 31 (5.94%) NumPy
9 31 (5.94%) Pandas
10 29 (5.56%) Node.js
11 28 (5.36%) Protocol Buffers
11 28 (5.36%) SciPy
12 27 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
13 26 (4.98%) HTML
13 26 (4.98%) React
14 25 (4.79%) XML
15 24 (4.60%) JSON
15 24 (4.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 51 (9.77%) Fixed Income
3 50 (9.58%) Equities
4 48 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (7.47%) Hedge funds
6 33 (6.32%) Derivative
7 32 (6.13%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (3.45%) Algorithms
10 17 (3.26%) Client/Server
11 12 (2.30%) FPGA
11 12 (2.30%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.34%) PropTech
12 7 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.70%) Linux
2 4 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (31.03%) Agile
2 157 (30.08%) Microservices
3 116 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
4 104 (19.92%) Low Latency
4 104 (19.92%) TDD
5 103 (19.73%) Fintech
6 73 (13.98%) Software Engineering
7 59 (11.30%) DevOps
8 57 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (10.54%) Computer Science
10 54 (10.34%) Multithreading
11 49 (9.39%) Scrum
12 48 (9.20%) Electronic Trading
13 45 (8.62%) CI/CD
14 43 (8.24%) BDD
15 41 (7.85%) Investment Management
16 40 (7.66%) Kanban
16 40 (7.66%) SDLC
17 39 (7.47%) Mentoring
18 31 (5.94%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 522 (100.00%) Java
2 127 (24.33%) JavaScript
3 102 (19.54%) SQL
4 98 (18.77%) Python
5 50 (9.58%) Kotlin
6 44 (8.43%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.41%) C#
8 22 (4.21%) C++
9 15 (2.87%) Scala
10 12 (2.30%) C
11 11 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.72%) Perl
13 6 (1.15%) Ruby
14 5 (0.96%) Groovy
15 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.57%) Clojure
17 2 (0.38%) Bash
18 1 (0.19%) PHP
18 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (12.64%) Degree
2 42 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.11%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.96%) 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 (1.34%) QA
2 3 (0.57%) MiFID
3 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 131 (25.10%) Docker
2 13 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 149 (28.54%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.66%) Ansible
3 38 (7.28%) Terraform
4 4 (0.77%) Kibana
5 1 (0.19%) Consul
5 1 (0.19%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (4.98%) WSO2
2 18 (3.45%) Oracle
3 10 (1.92%) Google
4 5 (0.96%) Splunk
4 5 (0.96%) TIBCO
4 5 (0.96%) YouTube
5 4 (0.77%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.77%) Vertica
6 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.57%) Reuters
6 3 (0.57%) SAP
6 3 (0.57%) Sybase
7 2 (0.38%) Apple
7 2 (0.38%) IBM
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