Java Architect Jobs

Java Architect
UK

The median Java Architect salary in the UK is £135,000 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 815 908 1157
Rank change year-on-year +93 +249 -317
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Architect 75 69 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.070% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.076% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 46 46 56
10th Percentile £75,000 £80,625 £75,625
25th Percentile £88,125 £91,250 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £97,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +2.63% +9.20%
75th Percentile £161,250 £112,500 £104,063
90th Percentile £165,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +4.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Top 10 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 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
England +72 44 £135,000 +38.46% 11
UK excluding London +4 42 £75,000 -7.69% 9
London +87 31 £135,000 +38.46% 5
Work from Home +94 29 £135,000 +50.00% 3
Scotland - 28 - - 1
South West -21 6 £75,000 -21.05%
South East +3 4 £63,500 -23.03% 1
Yorkshire +85 3 £75,000 -16.67% 3
North of England +53 3 £75,000 -6.25% 5
Northern Ireland +20 1 £115,000 +43.75% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 75 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (80.00%) Finance
3 55 (73.33%) Software Engineering
4 53 (70.67%) Python
5 32 (42.67%) GCP
6 30 (40.00%) Banking
6 30 (40.00%) Data Architecture
6 30 (40.00%) Product Ownership
7 29 (38.67%) Investment Banking
7 29 (38.67%) Cloud Native
8 28 (37.33%) Decision-Making
8 28 (37.33%) Operational Stability
8 28 (37.33%) Architecture Governance
8 28 (37.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (37.33%) AWS
8 28 (37.33%) Marketing
8 28 (37.33%) Credit Risk
8 28 (37.33%) Scrum
8 28 (37.33%) Law
9 27 (36.00%) JavaScript
10 24 (32.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (32.00%) Apache
10 24 (32.00%) Front Office
10 24 (32.00%) Fixed Income
10 24 (32.00%) Equities
10 24 (32.00%) Hedge funds
10 24 (32.00%) SciPy
10 24 (32.00%) NumPy
10 24 (32.00%) Derivative
10 24 (32.00%) Agile

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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (32.00%) Apache
1 24 (32.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) GCP
2 28 (37.33%) AWS
3 24 (32.00%) dbt
4 22 (29.33%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.00%) Azure
6 1 (1.33%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (32.00%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (32.00%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (32.00%) Apache Ignite
1 24 (32.00%) Dremio
2 22 (29.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.33%) Big Data
3 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.33%) MySQL
3 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 60 (80.00%) Finance
2 30 (40.00%) Banking
3 29 (38.67%) Investment Banking
4 28 (37.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (37.33%) Law
4 28 (37.33%) Marketing
5 24 (32.00%) Front Office
6 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
7 5 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Advertising
9 1 (1.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.00%) gRPC
1 24 (32.00%) NumPy
1 24 (32.00%) Pandas
1 24 (32.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 24 (32.00%) SciPy
2 5 (6.67%) RESTful
2 5 (6.67%) Web Services
3 2 (2.67%) .NET
3 2 (2.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.33%) JavaBeans
4 1 (1.33%) Next.js
4 1 (1.33%) OAuth
4 1 (1.33%) React
4 1 (1.33%) Servlets
4 1 (1.33%) Spring
4 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 29 (38.67%) Cloud Native
3 28 (37.33%) Credit Risk
4 24 (32.00%) Derivative
4 24 (32.00%) Equities
4 24 (32.00%) Fixed Income
4 24 (32.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (32.00%) Hedge funds
5 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Android
1 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 30 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 28 (37.33%) Architecture Governance
3 28 (37.33%) Decision-Making
3 28 (37.33%) Operational Stability
3 28 (37.33%) Scrum
4 24 (32.00%) Agile
4 24 (32.00%) Asset Management
5 22 (29.33%) Line Management
6 16 (21.33%) Investment Management
7 10 (13.33%) Microservices
8 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.00%) Architectural Design
10 5 (6.67%) Architecture Roadmap
10 5 (6.67%) Fintech
11 3 (4.00%) Mentoring
11 3 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
12 2 (2.67%) Analytics
12 2 (2.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 75 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (70.67%) Python
3 27 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 24 (32.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.00%) SQL
6 2 (2.67%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.67%) Ruby
6 2 (2.67%) Scala
7 1 (1.33%) C#
7 1 (1.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.33%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (1.33%) Google
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (1.33%) Okta
1 1 (1.33%) Oracle