Java Software Engineer Jobs 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 3 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 275 342
Rank change year-on-year +80 +67 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 241 261 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.85% 1.07% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.14% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 169 240 214
10th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £130,000
90th Percentile £139,500 £165,000 £152,500
England median annual salary £110,000 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% +8.57% +2.94%

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 11,918 22,981 28,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 94.44% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,250 16,886 21,759
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +21 25 £82,500 -24.14% 1
Central London +15 10 £88,750 -6.58% 46
Java Software Engineer
England

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Java Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 241 (100.00%) Java
1 241 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 216 (89.63%) Finance
3 205 (85.06%) Agile
4 182 (75.52%) AWS
5 153 (63.49%) Banking
6 125 (51.87%) Front Office
7 118 (48.96%) Fixed Income
8 117 (48.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 115 (47.72%) Apache Iceberg
10 114 (47.30%) Asset Management
10 114 (47.30%) TypeScript
11 111 (46.06%) Apache Airflow
11 111 (46.06%) Amazon Athena
11 111 (46.06%) Dremio
11 111 (46.06%) dbt
11 111 (46.06%) Apache Arrow
12 110 (45.64%) Equities
13 107 (44.40%) Python
14 105 (43.57%) Investment Banking
15 103 (42.74%) Derivative
16 101 (41.91%) JavaScript
17 95 (39.42%) SciPy
17 95 (39.42%) NumPy
17 95 (39.42%) Pandas
18 88 (36.51%) Investment Management
19 87 (36.10%) Hedge funds
19 87 (36.10%) Apache
19 87 (36.10%) Snowflake
20 81 (33.61%) Inclusion and Diversity

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 111 (46.06%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (36.10%) Apache
3 4 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 182 (75.52%) AWS
2 111 (46.06%) dbt
3 87 (36.10%) Snowflake
4 44 (18.26%) GCP
5 16 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (4.56%) Dagster
8 7 (2.90%) GitHub
8 7 (2.90%) Serverless
9 4 (1.66%) Azure
10 3 (1.24%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (47.72%) Apache Iceberg
2 111 (46.06%) Amazon Athena
2 111 (46.06%) Apache Arrow
2 111 (46.06%) Dremio
3 71 (29.46%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (29.46%) Data Lake
4 28 (11.62%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.88%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.98%) Big Data
7 5 (2.07%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.66%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.66%) MySQL
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.66%) Redis
8 4 (1.66%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.24%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.41%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (4.56%) Git
2 6 (2.49%) JUnit
3 4 (1.66%) git-flow
3 4 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.66%) Vite
4 3 (1.24%) Maven
4 3 (1.24%) Mockito
5 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 216 (89.63%) Finance
2 153 (63.49%) Banking
3 125 (51.87%) Front Office
4 105 (43.57%) Investment Banking
5 81 (33.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (29.05%) Law
7 35 (14.52%) Financial Institution
8 15 (6.22%) Social Skills
9 11 (4.56%) Marketing
10 8 (3.32%) Legal
11 7 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Retail
12 3 (1.24%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (39.42%) NumPy
1 95 (39.42%) Pandas
1 95 (39.42%) SciPy
2 75 (31.12%) gRPC
2 75 (31.12%) Protocol Buffers
3 67 (27.80%) Spring
4 53 (21.99%) Kafka
5 49 (20.33%) AngularJS
6 44 (18.26%) React
7 41 (17.01%) Spring Boot
8 30 (12.45%) Node.js
9 27 (11.20%) PySpark
10 25 (10.37%) Akka
11 24 (9.96%) Vue
12 17 (7.05%) RxJava
12 17 (7.05%) Spring WebFlux
13 9 (3.73%) Web Services
14 8 (3.32%) .NET
14 8 (3.32%) REST
15 7 (2.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 118 (48.96%) Fixed Income
2 117 (48.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 110 (45.64%) Equities
4 103 (42.74%) Derivative
5 87 (36.10%) Hedge funds
6 60 (24.90%) Pricing Data
7 39 (16.18%) Cloud Native
8 27 (11.20%) Algorithms
9 21 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (6.22%) Public Cloud
11 9 (3.73%) Mobile Banking
12 8 (3.32%) Data Structures
12 8 (3.32%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
14 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 1 (0.41%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.41%) PKI
15 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 205 (85.06%) Agile
3 114 (47.30%) Asset Management
4 88 (36.51%) Investment Management
5 72 (29.88%) Fintech
5 72 (29.88%) Microservices
6 60 (24.90%) SDLC
7 44 (18.26%) CI/CD
8 37 (15.35%) Risk Management
9 36 (14.94%) Multithreading
9 36 (14.94%) Operational Stability
10 35 (14.52%) Community of Practice
10 35 (14.52%) TDD
11 32 (13.28%) Order Management
12 30 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (11.62%) BDD
14 26 (10.79%) Pair Programming
15 24 (9.96%) Performance Attribution
16 22 (9.13%) Concurrent Programming
16 22 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 241 (100.00%) Java
2 114 (47.30%) TypeScript
3 107 (44.40%) Python
4 101 (41.91%) JavaScript
5 41 (17.01%) SQL
6 32 (13.28%) Kotlin
7 12 (4.98%) Go
7 12 (4.98%) Scala
8 9 (3.73%) C++
9 4 (1.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (3.73%) Degree
2 6 (2.49%) Master's Degree
2 6 (2.49%) PhD
3 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 48 (19.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (27.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.47%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (5.39%) Oracle
2 5 (2.07%) Google
3 2 (0.83%) SAP
3 2 (0.83%) Splunk
4 1 (0.41%) CA Agile Central