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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 228 389
Rank change year-on-year +32 +161 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 192 245 69
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.56% 1.41% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.49% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 110 205 66
10th Percentile £85,000 - £70,533
25th Percentile £102,813 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.47%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 - £158,125
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £75,277
% change year-on-year -4.35% +52.77% -13.97%

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 11,232 16,454 18,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 95.01% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,362 10,107 15,114
10th Percentile £35,775 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 - 6 £95,000 - 3
Central London +31 2 £82,500 -8.33% 57
West London - 1 £82,500 - 4
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 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.

1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 190 (98.96%) Software Engineering
3 154 (80.21%) Agile
4 139 (72.40%) AWS
5 97 (50.52%) TypeScript
6 86 (44.79%) Python
7 85 (44.27%) JavaScript
8 81 (42.19%) Investment Management
9 79 (41.15%) Apache Iceberg
10 78 (40.63%) Asset Management
11 75 (39.06%) Amazon Athena
11 75 (39.06%) Apache Airflow
11 75 (39.06%) Apache Arrow
11 75 (39.06%) dbt
11 75 (39.06%) Dremio
11 75 (39.06%) NumPy
11 75 (39.06%) Pandas
11 75 (39.06%) SciPy
12 69 (35.94%) gRPC
12 69 (35.94%) Protocol Buffers
13 65 (33.85%) Apache
13 65 (33.85%) Apache Ignite
13 65 (33.85%) Data Lake
13 65 (33.85%) Snowflake
14 59 (30.73%) Microservices
15 54 (28.13%) SDLC
16 50 (26.04%) Spring
17 49 (25.52%) Fintech
18 48 (25.00%) Kubernetes
19 44 (22.92%) CI/CD

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 75 (39.06%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (33.85%) Apache
3 4 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 139 (72.40%) AWS
2 75 (39.06%) dbt
3 65 (33.85%) Snowflake
4 20 (10.42%) GCP
5 7 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.65%) Serverless
6 6 (3.13%) GitHub
6 6 (3.13%) SaaS
7 5 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.56%) Azure
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (0.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) SSL
2 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (41.15%) Apache Iceberg
2 75 (39.06%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (39.06%) Apache Arrow
2 75 (39.06%) Dremio
3 65 (33.85%) Apache Ignite
3 65 (33.85%) Data Lake
4 18 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 14 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (6.25%) Big Data
6 12 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.08%) MySQL
8 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.08%) Redis
8 4 (2.08%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.56%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.52%) Parquet
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.73%) Git
2 5 (2.60%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.08%) git-flow
3 4 (2.08%) JUnit
3 4 (2.08%) Vite
4 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.56%) Maven
4 3 (1.56%) Mockito
5 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.52%) Gradle
General
1 182 (94.79%) Finance
2 133 (69.27%) Banking
3 88 (45.83%) Front Office
4 81 (42.19%) Investment Banking
5 75 (39.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (39.06%) Law
6 27 (14.06%) Financial Institution
7 14 (7.29%) Social Skills
8 11 (5.73%) Marketing
9 8 (4.17%) Legal
10 7 (3.65%) Retail
11 6 (3.13%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.60%) Back Office
13 4 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (1.56%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (1.04%) Electronics
15 2 (1.04%) Games
15 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
15 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (39.06%) NumPy
1 75 (39.06%) Pandas
1 75 (39.06%) SciPy
2 69 (35.94%) gRPC
2 69 (35.94%) Protocol Buffers
3 50 (26.04%) Spring
4 43 (22.40%) Kafka
5 32 (16.67%) React
6 30 (15.63%) Spring Boot
7 18 (9.38%) Node.js
8 17 (8.85%) AngularJS
9 15 (7.81%) Akka
9 15 (7.81%) RxJava
9 15 (7.81%) Spring WebFlux
10 13 (6.77%) JMS
11 10 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (5.21%) RESTful
11 10 (5.21%) Vue
12 9 (4.69%) GraphQL
12 9 (4.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (43.75%) Fixed Income
2 79 (41.15%) Derivative
2 79 (41.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (39.58%) Equities
4 65 (33.85%) Hedge funds
4 65 (33.85%) Pricing Data
5 44 (22.92%) Cloud Native
6 20 (10.42%) Algorithms
6 20 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (7.29%) Public Cloud
8 9 (4.69%) Mobile Banking
9 8 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (3.13%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.60%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.04%) Blog
13 2 (1.04%) PKI
14 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
14 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (98.96%) Software Engineering
2 154 (80.21%) Agile
3 81 (42.19%) Investment Management
4 78 (40.63%) Asset Management
5 59 (30.73%) Microservices
6 54 (28.13%) SDLC
7 49 (25.52%) Fintech
8 44 (22.92%) CI/CD
9 36 (18.75%) Operational Stability
10 35 (18.23%) Community of Practice
11 28 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (14.06%) Multithreading
13 24 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (11.46%) Machine Learning
14 22 (11.46%) Visualisation
15 21 (10.94%) TDD
16 20 (10.42%) AI
16 20 (10.42%) Architectural Patterns
16 20 (10.42%) Order Management
17 19 (9.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 97 (50.52%) TypeScript
3 86 (44.79%) Python
4 85 (44.27%) JavaScript
5 35 (18.23%) Kotlin
6 23 (11.98%) SQL
7 14 (7.29%) Go
8 12 (6.25%) Scala
9 7 (3.65%) C++
10 4 (2.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (4.69%) Degree
2 6 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.08%) PhD
4 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.52%) PSD2
1 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 25 (13.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.98%) Terraform
3 6 (3.13%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.25%) Oracle
2 4 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (1.04%) SAP
4 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.52%) Splunk