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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 286 378
Rank change year-on-year -12 +92 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 105 111 98
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 0.86% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.95% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 69 110 90
10th Percentile £70,000 £77,625 £58,938
25th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £144,375
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £155,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -20.93% +64.21% -22.98%

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 16,619 11,660 21,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 90.81% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,156 7,533 16,512
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £51,481 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 2 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 2 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 +20 20 £90,000 -1.37% 8
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 95 (90.48%) Software Engineering
3 58 (55.24%) AWS
4 36 (34.29%) Microservices
5 34 (32.38%) CI/CD
6 31 (29.52%) Test Automation
7 29 (27.62%) Kubernetes
7 29 (27.62%) Spring
8 25 (23.81%) Spring Boot
9 22 (20.95%) Agile
10 20 (19.05%) Clean Code
11 19 (18.10%) GCP
11 19 (18.10%) Terraform
12 18 (17.14%) Fintech
12 18 (17.14%) SaaS
13 17 (16.19%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (16.19%) Continuous Deployment
13 17 (16.19%) Deployment Automation
13 17 (16.19%) Grafana
13 17 (16.19%) Python
13 17 (16.19%) React
13 17 (16.19%) TeamCity
14 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (14.29%) JavaScript
16 14 (13.33%) Kafka
16 14 (13.33%) Node.js
16 14 (13.33%) TypeScript
17 13 (12.38%) Mentoring
18 12 (11.43%) Docker
18 12 (11.43%) Investment Management

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 (3.81%) Apache
1 4 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.24%) AWS
2 19 (18.10%) GCP
3 18 (17.14%) SaaS
4 17 (16.19%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (7.62%) Azure
6 7 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.81%) dbt
7 4 (3.81%) Serverless
7 4 (3.81%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.95%) GitHub
9 1 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.81%) Apache Arrow
2 4 (3.81%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (3.81%) Apache Ignite
2 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.81%) Dremio
3 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (16.19%) TeamCity
2 7 (6.67%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.95%) GitLab
3 1 (0.95%) Gradle
3 1 (0.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.95%) Maven
3 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 41 (39.05%) Finance
2 30 (28.57%) Banking
3 19 (18.10%) Retail
4 17 (16.19%) Front Office
4 17 (16.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (16.19%) Law
5 15 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 13 (12.38%) Back Office
7 6 (5.71%) Games
8 5 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.86%) Marketing
9 3 (2.86%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.90%) Social Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.62%) Spring
2 25 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 17 (16.19%) React
4 14 (13.33%) Kafka
4 14 (13.33%) Node.js
5 9 (8.57%) GraphQL
6 8 (7.62%) Redux
7 7 (6.67%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.76%) Hibernate
8 5 (4.76%) J2EE
9 4 (3.81%) gRPC
9 4 (3.81%) NumPy
9 4 (3.81%) Pandas
9 4 (3.81%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (3.81%) REST
9 4 (3.81%) RESTful
9 4 (3.81%) SciPy
9 4 (3.81%) XML
10 3 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.43%) Fixed Income
3 11 (10.48%) Blog
4 8 (7.62%) Derivative
5 5 (4.76%) Equities
6 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.81%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.81%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.86%) NHS
8 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (90.48%) Software Engineering
2 36 (34.29%) Microservices
3 34 (32.38%) CI/CD
4 31 (29.52%) Test Automation
5 22 (20.95%) Agile
6 20 (19.05%) Clean Code
7 18 (17.14%) Fintech
8 17 (16.19%) Continuous Deployment
8 17 (16.19%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (12.38%) Mentoring
11 12 (11.43%) Investment Management
12 10 (9.52%) Design Patterns
13 9 (8.57%) Order Management
14 8 (7.62%) AI
14 8 (7.62%) DevOps
14 8 (7.62%) Portfolio Management
15 7 (6.67%) Machine Learning
15 7 (6.67%) Open Source
15 7 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (16.19%) Python
3 15 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.48%) Go
6 10 (9.52%) SQL
7 7 (6.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Degree
2 7 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 12 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (27.62%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.10%) Terraform
3 17 (16.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft