Java Software Engineer Job Trends in London

Java Software Engineer
England > London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 246 389
Rank change year-on-year +11 +143 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 148 215 64
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 1.26% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.34% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 97 179 61
10th Percentile £78,750 - £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £136,000 £148,750 £161,250
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -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 11,885 16,072 17,520
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 94.55% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,769 9,745 14,287
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Java Software Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in London

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Central London +36 4 £82,500 -2.94%
South London - 4 £95,000 -
West London - 1 £82,500 - 2
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 141 (95.27%) Software Engineering
3 106 (71.62%) Agile
3 106 (71.62%) AWS
4 71 (47.97%) TypeScript
5 67 (45.27%) Python
6 65 (43.92%) JavaScript
7 63 (42.57%) Investment Management
8 59 (39.86%) Apache Iceberg
8 59 (39.86%) Asset Management
9 57 (38.51%) Amazon Athena
9 57 (38.51%) Apache Airflow
9 57 (38.51%) Apache Arrow
9 57 (38.51%) dbt
9 57 (38.51%) Dremio
9 57 (38.51%) NumPy
9 57 (38.51%) Pandas
9 57 (38.51%) SciPy
10 54 (36.49%) gRPC
10 54 (36.49%) Protocol Buffers
11 53 (35.81%) Apache
11 53 (35.81%) Apache Ignite
11 53 (35.81%) Data Lake
11 53 (35.81%) Snowflake
12 48 (32.43%) Microservices
13 36 (24.32%) Spring
14 35 (23.65%) Kubernetes
15 32 (21.62%) Fintech
16 30 (20.27%) CI/CD
17 29 (19.59%) Kafka

Java Software 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 57 (38.51%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (35.81%) Apache
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 106 (71.62%) AWS
2 57 (38.51%) dbt
3 53 (35.81%) Snowflake
4 14 (9.46%) GCP
5 9 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.73%) SaaS
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.03%) GitHub
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.35%) Azure
8 2 (1.35%) Serverless
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (39.86%) Apache Iceberg
2 57 (38.51%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (38.51%) Apache Arrow
2 57 (38.51%) Dremio
3 53 (35.81%) Apache Ignite
3 53 (35.81%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.08%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.08%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.05%) Big Data
6 5 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.35%) MySQL
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.35%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.68%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.73%) TeamCity
2 6 (4.05%) Git
3 2 (1.35%) git-flow
3 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.35%) JUnit
3 2 (1.35%) Maven
3 2 (1.35%) Vite
4 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.68%) Gradle
4 1 (0.68%) Mockito
General
1 125 (84.46%) Finance
2 95 (64.19%) Banking
3 67 (45.27%) Front Office
4 63 (42.57%) Investment Banking
5 41 (27.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (27.70%) Law
6 24 (16.22%) Financial Institution
7 9 (6.08%) Retail
8 7 (4.73%) Back Office
8 7 (4.73%) Social Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Legal
9 4 (2.70%) Marketing
9 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.03%) Games
11 2 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.35%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (38.51%) NumPy
1 57 (38.51%) Pandas
1 57 (38.51%) SciPy
2 54 (36.49%) gRPC
2 54 (36.49%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (24.32%) Spring
4 29 (19.59%) Kafka
5 24 (16.22%) Spring Boot
6 18 (12.16%) React
7 13 (8.78%) Akka
7 13 (8.78%) RxJava
7 13 (8.78%) Spring WebFlux
8 11 (7.43%) JMS
9 10 (6.76%) Node.js
10 9 (6.08%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (6.08%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.08%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (5.41%) GraphQL
12 6 (4.05%) Redux
13 5 (3.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 64 (43.24%) Fixed Income
2 60 (40.54%) Derivative
3 59 (39.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 57 (38.51%) Equities
5 53 (35.81%) Hedge funds
5 53 (35.81%) Pricing Data
6 27 (18.24%) Cloud Native
7 11 (7.43%) Algorithms
7 11 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (4.73%) Public Cloud
9 5 (3.38%) Blog
10 4 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (95.27%) Software Engineering
2 106 (71.62%) Agile
3 63 (42.57%) Investment Management
4 59 (39.86%) Asset Management
5 48 (32.43%) Microservices
6 32 (21.62%) Fintech
7 30 (20.27%) CI/CD
8 27 (18.24%) SDLC
9 18 (12.16%) Community of Practice
9 18 (12.16%) Multithreading
9 18 (12.16%) Operational Stability
9 18 (12.16%) TDD
10 16 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.81%) Machine Learning
11 15 (10.14%) Pair Programming
11 15 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (9.46%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (9.46%) BDD
13 13 (8.78%) Concurrent Programming
13 13 (8.78%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (47.97%) TypeScript
3 67 (45.27%) Python
4 65 (43.92%) JavaScript
5 23 (15.54%) Kotlin
6 13 (8.78%) SQL
7 9 (6.08%) Go
8 6 (4.05%) Scala
9 3 (2.03%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (6.08%) Degree
2 8 (5.41%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.03%) PhD
4 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.68%) PSD2
1 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (23.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.49%) Terraform
3 7 (4.73%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (0.68%) ForgeRock
2 1 (0.68%) Google