Java Engineer Jobs in London

Java Engineer
England > London

The median Java Engineer salary in London is £110,000 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 212 307 208
Rank change year-on-year +95 -99 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 192 207 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.51% 0.88% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 0.93% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 183 179 569
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £97,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £147,500 £150,000 £160,000
England median annual salary £107,500 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% -22.22% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
South London +31 23 £82,500 +243.75%
Central London +1 13 £85,000 -10.53% 9
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 165 (85.94%) AWS
3 148 (77.08%) Software Engineering
4 138 (71.88%) Agile
5 136 (70.83%) Finance
6 101 (52.60%) Banking
7 95 (49.48%) Front Office
8 92 (47.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 91 (47.40%) Amazon Athena
10 90 (46.88%) Apache Airflow
10 90 (46.88%) Dremio
10 90 (46.88%) dbt
10 90 (46.88%) Asset Management
10 90 (46.88%) Fixed Income
10 90 (46.88%) Apache Arrow
10 90 (46.88%) Apache Iceberg
11 89 (46.35%) Equities
12 88 (45.83%) Python
13 85 (44.27%) Investment Banking
14 83 (43.23%) JavaScript
15 80 (41.67%) Derivative
16 79 (41.15%) Apache
17 78 (40.63%) Hedge funds
17 78 (40.63%) Snowflake
18 77 (40.10%) TypeScript
19 74 (38.54%) Pandas
19 74 (38.54%) Kubernetes
19 74 (38.54%) SciPy
19 74 (38.54%) NumPy
20 72 (37.50%) Docker

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 90 (46.88%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (41.15%) Apache
3 3 (1.56%) Confluence
3 3 (1.56%) nginx
3 3 (1.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 165 (85.94%) AWS
2 90 (46.88%) dbt
3 78 (40.63%) Snowflake
4 43 (22.40%) GCP
5 41 (21.35%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (13.02%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (11.98%) Dagster
9 5 (2.60%) SaaS
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (2.08%) Azure
11 3 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.56%) IBM Cloud
12 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.04%) GitHub
12 2 (1.04%) Serverless
13 1 (0.52%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (47.40%) Amazon Athena
2 90 (46.88%) Apache Arrow
2 90 (46.88%) Apache Iceberg
2 90 (46.88%) Dremio
3 62 (32.29%) Apache Ignite
3 62 (32.29%) Data Lake
4 37 (19.27%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.04%) MySQL
7 2 (1.04%) Redis
8 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (8.85%) IntelliJ
2 14 (7.29%) Maven
3 9 (4.69%) Git
4 8 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.17%) JUnit
5 7 (3.65%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.65%) JIRA
6 4 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.08%) TestNG
7 3 (1.56%) Mockito
7 3 (1.56%) Postman
7 3 (1.56%) Selenium
7 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.04%) GitLab
9 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 136 (70.83%) Finance
2 101 (52.60%) Banking
3 95 (49.48%) Front Office
4 85 (44.27%) Investment Banking
5 27 (14.06%) Financial Institution
6 16 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.33%) Social Skills
7 12 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.08%) Retail
10 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.52%) Local Government
11 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (38.54%) NumPy
1 74 (38.54%) Pandas
1 74 (38.54%) SciPy
2 64 (33.33%) gRPC
3 62 (32.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 46 (23.96%) Spring
5 45 (23.44%) AngularJS
6 42 (21.88%) React
6 42 (21.88%) Spring Boot
7 39 (20.31%) PySpark
8 36 (18.75%) Kafka
9 25 (13.02%) REST
10 23 (11.98%) Akka
11 13 (6.77%) Node.js
11 13 (6.77%) RxJava
11 13 (6.77%) Spring WebFlux
12 12 (6.25%) Vue
13 10 (5.21%) RESTful
14 8 (4.17%) .NET
15 4 (2.08%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 92 (47.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 90 (46.88%) Fixed Income
3 89 (46.35%) Equities
4 80 (41.67%) Derivative
5 78 (40.63%) Hedge funds
6 39 (20.31%) Pricing Data
7 7 (3.65%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.13%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.56%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.56%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Life Science
9 3 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.52%) NHS
11 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (77.08%) Software Engineering
2 138 (71.88%) Agile
3 90 (46.88%) Asset Management
4 56 (29.17%) Microservices
5 52 (27.08%) Investment Management
6 50 (26.04%) TDD
7 40 (20.83%) Fintech
8 35 (18.23%) DevOps
9 34 (17.71%) Containerisation
10 30 (15.63%) BDD
10 30 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (14.06%) Pair Programming
12 25 (13.02%) Multithreading
13 24 (12.50%) Migration
14 22 (11.46%) CI/CD
15 19 (9.90%) Concurrent Programming
16 18 (9.38%) Application Security
17 17 (8.85%) Creative Thinking
17 17 (8.85%) Risk Management
18 16 (8.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 88 (45.83%) Python
3 83 (43.23%) JavaScript
4 77 (40.10%) TypeScript
5 31 (16.15%) SQL
6 3 (1.56%) Rust
7 2 (1.04%) C++
7 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.52%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) Go
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.52%) Scala
8 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (8.85%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 16 (8.33%) PhD
3 4 (2.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 72 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (38.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.13%) Terraform
3 3 (1.56%) Ansible
3 3 (1.56%) Grafana
3 3 (1.56%) Kustomize
3 3 (1.56%) Packer
4 1 (0.52%) Argo
4 1 (0.52%) Istio
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (3.13%) Red Hat
2 5 (2.60%) Oracle
3 3 (1.56%) IBM
3 3 (1.56%) Splunk
4 1 (0.52%) Google
4 1 (0.52%) Revolut