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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 189 214
Rank change year-on-year -177 +25 +179
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 82 222 290
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.32% 1.88% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 2.06% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 57 150 242
10th Percentile £68,000 £78,750 -
25th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +24.32%
75th Percentile - £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £124,000 £137,500 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +39.39%

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 23,968 10,756 17,941
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.07% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,211 6,970 11,037
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +4 7 £90,000 +12.50% 5
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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 82 (100.00%) Java
1 82 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (35.37%) AWS
3 21 (25.61%) Spring Boot
4 18 (21.95%) Kubernetes
5 17 (20.73%) CI/CD
5 17 (20.73%) Clean Code
5 17 (20.73%) Microservices
5 17 (20.73%) Test Automation
6 16 (19.51%) Fintech
7 15 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (18.29%) Continuous Deployment
7 15 (18.29%) Deployment Automation
7 15 (18.29%) GCP
7 15 (18.29%) Grafana
7 15 (18.29%) TeamCity
7 15 (18.29%) Terraform
8 14 (17.07%) Spring
9 13 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (15.85%) Python
10 12 (14.63%) AI
10 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
11 11 (13.41%) Disruptive Innovation
12 10 (12.20%) Kotlin
13 9 (10.98%) Degree
13 9 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (9.76%) Investment Management
14 8 (9.76%) Kafka
15 7 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (8.54%) Low Latency

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 1 (1.22%) Camunda
1 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.37%) AWS
2 15 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (18.29%) GCP
3 5 (6.10%) Anthropic Claude
3 5 (6.10%) ChatGPT
3 5 (6.10%) GitHub
3 5 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (4.88%) SaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Azure
6 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.22%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.22%) Db2
3 1 (1.22%) MySQL
3 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (18.29%) TeamCity
2 5 (6.10%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.22%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 29 (35.37%) Finance
2 24 (29.27%) Banking
3 15 (18.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (18.29%) Law
3 15 (18.29%) Retail
4 12 (14.63%) Front Office
5 8 (9.76%) Health Technology
5 8 (9.76%) Social Skills
5 8 (9.76%) Tech for Good
6 4 (4.88%) Back Office
6 4 (4.88%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.22%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.61%) Spring Boot
2 15 (18.29%) Terraform
3 14 (17.07%) Spring
4 8 (9.76%) Kafka
5 4 (4.88%) React
5 4 (4.88%) RESTful
6 3 (3.66%) Next.js
7 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.44%) REST
8 1 (1.22%) .NET
8 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.22%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.22%) HTML
8 1 (1.22%) JPA
8 1 (1.22%) JWT
8 1 (1.22%) Node.js
8 1 (1.22%) OAuth
8 1 (1.22%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.22%) OpenID
8 1 (1.22%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.95%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.41%) Blog
3 8 (9.76%) Equities
4 7 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (7.32%) Derivative
5 6 (7.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (6.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (6.10%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (6.10%) Fixed Income
6 5 (6.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (6.10%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (20.73%) CI/CD
2 17 (20.73%) Clean Code
2 17 (20.73%) Microservices
2 17 (20.73%) Test Automation
3 16 (19.51%) Fintech
4 15 (18.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 15 (18.29%) Deployment Automation
5 12 (14.63%) AI
5 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
6 11 (13.41%) Disruptive Innovation
7 9 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (9.76%) Investment Management
9 7 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.54%) Low Latency
10 6 (7.32%) Analytics
11 5 (6.10%) Agile
11 5 (6.10%) Asset Management
11 5 (6.10%) Observability
11 5 (6.10%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (15.85%) Python
3 10 (12.20%) Kotlin
4 4 (4.88%) SQL
5 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.44%) Go
7 1 (1.22%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) Degree
2 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.22%) Google
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.22%) OpenAI