Java Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Java Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 154 179
Rank change year-on-year +24 +25 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 11 26 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.53% 0.77% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.81% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 56
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £155,000 £120,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £161,250 £156,750 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,926 3,224 4,573
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 95.90% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,467 2,574 3,849
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,125 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the City of London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in the City of London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the City of London

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Java Software 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 City of London region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
4 4 (36.36%) Market Making
4 4 (36.36%) Concurrent Programming
4 4 (36.36%) Garbage Collection
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
4 4 (36.36%) Banking
4 4 (36.36%) Retail
4 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
4 4 (36.36%) Low Latency
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) Spring
5 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Docker
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (18.18%) SOLID

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Retail
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Concurrent Programming
4 4 (36.36%) Garbage Collection
4 4 (36.36%) Low Latency
4 4 (36.36%) Market Making
4 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
4 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
4 4 (36.36%) TDD
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) SOLID
7 1 (9.09%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
2 1 (9.09%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform