Java Engineer Job Trends in London

Java Engineer
England > London

The median Java Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 208 287
Rank change year-on-year 0 +79 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 220 188 236
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 1.52% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.68% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 159 182 211
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,625 £80,313 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £146,625 £150,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +43.33% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 18,969 11,166 22,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 90.09% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12,964 7,258 16,651
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in London

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

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 17 May 2026. 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 +16 38 £93,750 -3.85% 14
South London -2 7 £24,000 -70.91% 1
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2026, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 220 (100.00%) Java
2 124 (56.36%) Software Engineering
3 92 (41.82%) AWS
4 77 (35.00%) Spring
5 76 (34.55%) Spring Boot
6 68 (30.91%) Microservices
7 63 (28.64%) CI/CD
8 60 (27.27%) Test Automation
9 50 (22.73%) Kafka
10 49 (22.27%) Kubernetes
11 43 (19.55%) Agile
12 39 (17.73%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (15.91%) SQL
14 32 (14.55%) Docker
15 31 (14.09%) Python
16 30 (13.64%) Fintech
16 30 (13.64%) Mentoring
17 29 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 28 (12.73%) Event-Driven
18 28 (12.73%) React
19 27 (12.27%) NoSQL
20 25 (11.36%) BDD
21 24 (10.91%) GCP
21 24 (10.91%) Terraform
22 22 (10.00%) Low Latency
23 21 (9.55%) Node.js
24 20 (9.09%) Clean Code
24 20 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
24 20 (9.09%) Kotlin
25 19 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.91%) Confluence
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) JBoss
3 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 92 (41.82%) AWS
2 24 (10.91%) GCP
3 17 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (7.27%) Azure
5 15 (6.82%) SaaS
6 8 (3.64%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (3.64%) Serverless
7 5 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.82%) dbt
8 4 (1.82%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.36%) GitHub
10 2 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.45%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) AMQP
2 1 (0.45%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.27%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.09%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.09%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.82%) Redis
4 4 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.45%) DB2
6 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 17 (7.73%) Cucumber
1 17 (7.73%) GitLab
2 14 (6.36%) TeamCity
3 8 (3.64%) Claude Code
4 6 (2.73%) Selenium
5 5 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.82%) Git
6 4 (1.82%) Maven
7 3 (1.36%) JUnit
8 2 (0.91%) JIRA
9 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.45%) Gradle
General
1 69 (31.36%) Finance
2 28 (12.73%) Banking
3 25 (11.36%) Front Office
4 15 (6.82%) Financial Institution
4 15 (6.82%) Retail
5 14 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.36%) Law
6 12 (5.45%) Social Skills
7 9 (4.09%) Back Office
8 8 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.64%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.73%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.82%) Games
12 3 (1.36%) Marketing
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (35.00%) Spring
2 76 (34.55%) Spring Boot
3 50 (22.73%) Kafka
4 28 (12.73%) React
5 21 (9.55%) Node.js
6 11 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.00%) RESTful
7 8 (3.64%) Akka
7 8 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (3.64%) Redux
8 7 (3.18%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (3.18%) REST
9 6 (2.73%) J2EE
10 5 (2.27%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.27%) Playwright
11 4 (1.82%) CSS
11 4 (1.82%) HTML
11 4 (1.82%) SOAP
11 4 (1.82%) Web Services
11 4 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.18%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.27%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.27%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.82%) e-Learning
5 14 (6.36%) Fixed Income
6 11 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.64%) Blog
8 5 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.82%) Derivative
9 4 (1.82%) Equities
9 4 (1.82%) NHS
10 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.45%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.45%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.45%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (56.36%) Software Engineering
2 68 (30.91%) Microservices
3 63 (28.64%) CI/CD
4 60 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 43 (19.55%) Agile
6 39 (17.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (13.64%) Fintech
7 30 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 29 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (12.73%) Event-Driven
10 25 (11.36%) BDD
11 22 (10.00%) Low Latency
12 20 (9.09%) Clean Code
12 20 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
13 19 (8.64%) Containerisation
13 19 (8.64%) CQRS
13 19 (8.64%) DevOps
14 15 (6.82%) Coaching
14 15 (6.82%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 220 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (15.91%) SQL
3 31 (14.09%) Python
4 20 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 17 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.27%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.36%) Go
8 4 (1.82%) C++
9 2 (0.91%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.82%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.64%) Degree
6 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.27%) QA
2 4 (1.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (14.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (22.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.91%) Terraform
3 18 (8.18%) Grafana
4 4 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (1.36%) Palantir
2 2 (0.91%) Google
2 2 (0.91%) Solace
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle
3 1 (0.45%) Splunk