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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 238 391
Rank change year-on-year +17 +153 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 162 222 64
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.23% 1.27% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.35% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 95 186 61
10th Percentile £80,500 - £67,500
25th Percentile £102,500 £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 £137,500 £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 11,942 16,474 17,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.56% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,747 10,025 14,453
10th Percentile £36,000 £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 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 29 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 29 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
Central London +23 4 £82,500 -2.94%
South London - 4 £95,000 - 1
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 29 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.

1 162 (100.00%) Java
2 155 (95.68%) Software Engineering
3 120 (74.07%) Agile
4 113 (69.75%) AWS
5 76 (46.91%) TypeScript
6 69 (42.59%) Python
7 67 (41.36%) JavaScript
8 65 (40.12%) Investment Management
9 62 (38.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 62 (38.27%) Asset Management
10 59 (36.42%) Amazon Athena
10 59 (36.42%) Apache Airflow
10 59 (36.42%) Apache Arrow
10 59 (36.42%) dbt
10 59 (36.42%) Dremio
10 59 (36.42%) NumPy
10 59 (36.42%) Pandas
10 59 (36.42%) SciPy
11 55 (33.95%) gRPC
11 55 (33.95%) Protocol Buffers
12 53 (32.72%) Apache
12 53 (32.72%) Apache Ignite
12 53 (32.72%) Data Lake
12 53 (32.72%) Snowflake
13 51 (31.48%) Microservices
14 41 (25.31%) Kubernetes
15 39 (24.07%) SDLC
15 39 (24.07%) Spring
16 38 (23.46%) CI/CD
17 37 (22.84%) Fintech

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 59 (36.42%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (32.72%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 113 (69.75%) AWS
2 59 (36.42%) dbt
3 53 (32.72%) Snowflake
4 16 (9.88%) GCP
5 9 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.32%) SaaS
7 4 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.47%) GitHub
8 3 (1.85%) Serverless
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.23%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (38.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 59 (36.42%) Amazon Athena
2 59 (36.42%) Apache Arrow
2 59 (36.42%) Dremio
3 53 (32.72%) Apache Ignite
3 53 (32.72%) Data Lake
4 13 (8.02%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.56%) Big Data
5 9 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.85%) MySQL
7 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.85%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.23%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.23%) Redis
9 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Git
2 7 (4.32%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.85%) git-flow
3 3 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.85%) JUnit
3 3 (1.85%) Maven
3 3 (1.85%) Vite
4 2 (1.23%) Mockito
5 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.62%) Gradle
General
1 143 (88.27%) Finance
2 108 (66.67%) Banking
3 71 (43.83%) Front Office
4 67 (41.36%) Investment Banking
5 57 (35.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (35.19%) Law
6 26 (16.05%) Financial Institution
7 10 (6.17%) Social Skills
8 9 (5.56%) Retail
9 7 (4.32%) Back Office
10 6 (3.70%) Legal
11 5 (3.09%) Marketing
12 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (1.23%) Games
14 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
14 2 (1.23%) Wholesale Banking
15 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (36.42%) NumPy
1 59 (36.42%) Pandas
1 59 (36.42%) SciPy
2 55 (33.95%) gRPC
2 55 (33.95%) Protocol Buffers
3 39 (24.07%) Spring
4 33 (20.37%) Kafka
5 24 (14.81%) React
6 23 (14.20%) Spring Boot
7 13 (8.02%) Akka
7 13 (8.02%) RxJava
7 13 (8.02%) Spring WebFlux
8 12 (7.41%) JMS
8 12 (7.41%) Node.js
9 11 (6.79%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (4.94%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.70%) Redux
12 6 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 67 (41.36%) Fixed Income
2 64 (39.51%) Derivative
3 62 (38.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 59 (36.42%) Equities
5 53 (32.72%) Hedge funds
5 53 (32.72%) Pricing Data
6 33 (20.37%) Cloud Native
7 15 (9.26%) Algorithms
7 15 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (6.17%) Public Cloud
9 6 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (3.09%) Blog
10 5 (3.09%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (95.68%) Software Engineering
2 120 (74.07%) Agile
3 65 (40.12%) Investment Management
4 62 (38.27%) Asset Management
5 51 (31.48%) Microservices
6 39 (24.07%) SDLC
7 38 (23.46%) CI/CD
8 37 (22.84%) Fintech
9 27 (16.67%) Community of Practice
9 27 (16.67%) Operational Stability
10 21 (12.96%) Machine Learning
10 21 (12.96%) Multithreading
11 20 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (11.73%) TDD
13 17 (10.49%) Architectural Patterns
13 17 (10.49%) Visualisation
14 16 (9.88%) AI
14 16 (9.88%) Open Source
15 15 (9.26%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 162 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (46.91%) TypeScript
3 69 (42.59%) Python
4 67 (41.36%) JavaScript
5 29 (17.90%) Kotlin
6 18 (11.11%) SQL
7 11 (6.79%) Go
8 9 (5.56%) Scala
9 5 (3.09%) C++
10 2 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (6.79%) Degree
2 9 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.47%) PhD
4 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.62%) PSD2
1 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 20 (12.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (25.31%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.96%) Terraform
3 7 (4.32%) Grafana
4 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (3.70%) Oracle
2 2 (1.23%) Google
3 1 (0.62%) ForgeRock