Java Engineer Jobs in London

Java Engineer
England > London

The median Java Engineer salary in London is £97,500 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 289 201 208
Rank change year-on-year -88 +7 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 238 613 1,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.01% 1.82% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.91% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 212 544 633
10th Percentile £56,375 £58,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £64,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £160,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in London

Java Engineer
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 Engineer 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 -2 40 £95,000 +2.70% 4
South London -2 7 £24,000 -46.67%
East London - 6 £150,000 - 20
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 238 (100.00%) Java
2 187 (78.57%) Software Engineering
3 181 (76.05%) AWS
4 133 (55.88%) Agile
5 120 (50.42%) Banking
6 108 (45.38%) Finance
7 106 (44.54%) Python
8 102 (42.86%) Investment Banking
9 94 (39.50%) Front Office
10 91 (38.24%) JavaScript
11 87 (36.55%) Fixed Income
12 86 (36.13%) Apache
12 86 (36.13%) Asset Management
13 85 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
13 85 (35.71%) Amazon Athena
13 85 (35.71%) dbt
14 83 (34.87%) Hedge funds
15 82 (34.45%) gRPC
15 82 (34.45%) Derivative
16 81 (34.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 81 (34.03%) Equities
16 81 (34.03%) SciPy
16 81 (34.03%) NumPy
16 81 (34.03%) Protocol Buffers
16 81 (34.03%) TypeScript
16 81 (34.03%) Pandas
16 81 (34.03%) Apache Arrow
16 81 (34.03%) Dremio
16 81 (34.03%) Apache Ignite
17 80 (33.61%) Investment Management

Java Engineer 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 86 (36.13%) Apache
2 85 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.10%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) Drupal
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 181 (76.05%) AWS
2 85 (35.71%) dbt
3 77 (32.35%) Snowflake
4 53 (22.27%) GCP
5 35 (14.71%) Azure
6 16 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.10%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.68%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.68%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (1.68%) Dagster
9 4 (1.68%) Prefect
10 3 (1.26%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.26%) SaaS
11 2 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.42%) AWS CodeCommit
12 1 (0.42%) AWS KMS
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (35.71%) Amazon Athena
2 81 (34.03%) Apache Arrow
2 81 (34.03%) Apache Ignite
2 81 (34.03%) Dremio
3 77 (32.35%) Data Lake
4 37 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (6.30%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.62%) MySQL
7 9 (3.78%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.78%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.52%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.68%) Data Hub
9 4 (1.68%) Metadata
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.84%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.42%) Flink
11 1 (0.42%) Redis
11 1 (0.42%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (5.88%) Git
2 12 (5.04%) TeamCity
3 10 (4.20%) JIRA
4 8 (3.36%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.10%) Maven
6 4 (1.68%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.26%) GitLab
8 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.42%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.42%) Mockito
9 1 (0.42%) mountebank
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 120 (50.42%) Banking
2 108 (45.38%) Finance
3 102 (42.86%) Investment Banking
4 94 (39.50%) Front Office
5 31 (13.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (9.66%) Law
7 17 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.46%) Social Skills
9 10 (4.20%) Retail
10 9 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.36%) Legal
11 8 (3.36%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Aeronautics
14 1 (0.42%) Back Office
14 1 (0.42%) Marketing
14 1 (0.42%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (34.45%) gRPC
2 81 (34.03%) NumPy
2 81 (34.03%) Pandas
2 81 (34.03%) Protocol Buffers
2 81 (34.03%) SciPy
3 48 (20.17%) Spring
4 44 (18.49%) Spring Boot
5 30 (12.61%) Kafka
6 14 (5.88%) RESTful
7 11 (4.62%) Node.js
7 11 (4.62%) React
8 8 (3.36%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.94%) Hibernate
10 6 (2.52%) REST
10 6 (2.52%) Vue
11 5 (2.10%) JPA
11 5 (2.10%) OAuth
11 5 (2.10%) OpenAPI
11 5 (2.10%) OpenID
12 4 (1.68%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 87 (36.55%) Fixed Income
2 83 (34.87%) Hedge funds
3 82 (34.45%) Derivative
4 81 (34.03%) Equities
4 81 (34.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (12.61%) Cloud Native
5 30 (12.61%) Pricing Data
6 10 (4.20%) Blog
7 6 (2.52%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.84%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.42%) IoT
11 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
1 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (78.57%) Software Engineering
2 133 (55.88%) Agile
3 86 (36.13%) Asset Management
4 80 (33.61%) Investment Management
5 74 (31.09%) Microservices
6 36 (15.13%) TDD
7 34 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 31 (13.03%) CI/CD
9 30 (12.61%) Fintech
10 28 (11.76%) Mentoring
11 24 (10.08%) Line Management
12 23 (9.66%) Greeks
13 18 (7.56%) Continuous Deployment
13 18 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (7.14%) BDD
15 14 (5.88%) Coaching
16 13 (5.46%) DevOps
16 13 (5.46%) Electronic Trading
17 12 (5.04%) Clean Code
17 12 (5.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 238 (100.00%) Java
2 106 (44.54%) Python
3 91 (38.24%) JavaScript
4 81 (34.03%) TypeScript
5 39 (16.39%) Kotlin
6 20 (8.40%) SQL
7 13 (5.46%) Scala
8 12 (5.04%) C#
9 8 (3.36%) Go
10 6 (2.52%) C
11 4 (1.68%) Ruby
12 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 2 (0.84%) Rust
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) Dart
13 1 (0.42%) F#
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
13 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (4.62%) Degree
2 7 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.10%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.20%) QA
System Software
1 25 (10.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (24.79%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.18%) Terraform
3 14 (5.88%) Ansible
4 7 (2.94%) Grafana
5 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.42%) Istio
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (2.52%) YouTube
2 4 (1.68%) Oracle
3 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (0.42%) Google
3 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.42%) Xamarin