Senior Java Engineer Jobs in Central London

Senior Java Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in Central London is £117,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 183 224
Rank change year-on-year +27 +41 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 4 5 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.16% 0.13% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.14% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 21
10th Percentile £91,000 - £53,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +80.77% -21.21% -5.71%
75th Percentile £137,500 £83,375 £101,000
90th Percentile £148,000 £91,400 £106,250
London median annual salary £115,000 £94,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year +21.69% -14.09% +20.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in Central London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in Central London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in Central London

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +30 4 £117,500 +80.77%
Senior Java Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Central London region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (75.00%) Rust
2 3 (75.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) B2C
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) WebSockets
3 2 (50.00%) Redis
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (50.00%) High-Frequency Trading
3 2 (50.00%) gRPC
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) gRPC
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) B2C
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Rust
3 2 (50.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes