Java Software Engineer Job Trends in London

Java Software Engineer
England > London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 279 390
Rank change year-on-year -24 +111 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 108 123 104
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 0.96% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.05% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 73 122 94
10th Percentile £70,250 £68,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £145,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £155,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.93% +53.57% -17.65%

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 17,163 11,669 21,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.69% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11,523 7,548 16,618
10th Percentile £38,000 £41,425 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 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 +12 23 £90,000 +5.88% 8
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 2026, 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 99 (91.67%) Software Engineering
3 58 (53.70%) AWS
4 35 (32.41%) Microservices
5 32 (29.63%) CI/CD
6 30 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 28 (25.93%) Kubernetes
7 28 (25.93%) Spring
8 26 (24.07%) Spring Boot
9 20 (18.52%) Clean Code
10 19 (17.59%) Agile
10 19 (17.59%) GCP
10 19 (17.59%) Terraform
11 18 (16.67%) Fintech
11 18 (16.67%) SaaS
12 17 (15.74%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (15.74%) Continuous Deployment
12 17 (15.74%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (15.74%) Grafana
12 17 (15.74%) Python
12 17 (15.74%) React
12 17 (15.74%) TeamCity
13 16 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (13.89%) JavaScript
15 14 (12.96%) Node.js
15 14 (12.96%) TypeScript
16 13 (12.04%) Kafka
17 12 (11.11%) Investment Management
18 11 (10.19%) Docker
18 11 (10.19%) Go

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 4 (3.70%) Apache
1 4 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 58 (53.70%) AWS
2 19 (17.59%) GCP
3 18 (16.67%) SaaS
4 17 (15.74%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (7.41%) Azure
6 7 (6.48%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.70%) dbt
7 4 (3.70%) Serverless
7 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Arrow
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Ignite
2 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.70%) Dremio
3 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) DB2
4 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (15.74%) TeamCity
2 7 (6.48%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Gradle
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) Maven
3 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 41 (37.96%) Finance
2 31 (28.70%) Banking
3 18 (16.67%) Front Office
3 18 (16.67%) Retail
4 17 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (15.74%) Law
5 14 (12.96%) Financial Institution
6 13 (12.04%) Back Office
7 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.63%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.70%) Games
9 4 (3.70%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.78%) Marketing
11 2 (1.85%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.93%) Spring
2 26 (24.07%) Spring Boot
3 17 (15.74%) React
4 14 (12.96%) Node.js
5 13 (12.04%) Kafka
6 9 (8.33%) GraphQL
7 8 (7.41%) Redux
8 7 (6.48%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.63%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.63%) J2EE
11 4 (3.70%) gRPC
11 4 (3.70%) NumPy
11 4 (3.70%) Pandas
11 4 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (3.70%) REST
11 4 (3.70%) SciPy
11 4 (3.70%) XML
12 3 (2.78%) JSON
12 3 (2.78%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 30 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 10 (9.26%) Blog
4 8 (7.41%) Derivative
5 5 (4.63%) Equities
6 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.70%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.70%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.78%) NHS
8 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (91.67%) Software Engineering
2 35 (32.41%) Microservices
3 32 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 30 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 20 (18.52%) Clean Code
6 19 (17.59%) Agile
7 18 (16.67%) Fintech
8 17 (15.74%) Continuous Deployment
8 17 (15.74%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (11.11%) Investment Management
11 10 (9.26%) Design Patterns
11 10 (9.26%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.33%) Order Management
13 8 (7.41%) AI
13 8 (7.41%) DevOps
13 8 (7.41%) Portfolio Management
14 6 (5.56%) Open Source
14 6 (5.56%) Unit Testing
14 6 (5.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (15.74%) Python
3 15 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.96%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.19%) Go
6 10 (9.26%) SQL
7 7 (6.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (8.33%) Degree
2 6 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 11 (10.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.59%) Terraform
3 17 (15.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft