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 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 182 240
Rank change year-on-year -154 +58 +130
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 83 251 283
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 2.02% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 2.20% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 64 179 245
10th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £71,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £163,000
England median annual salary £81,250 £110,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -26.14% +12.82% +8.33%

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 20,699 11,394 21,274
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 91.55% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 14,260 7,394 15,472
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £94,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 16 £90,000 -7.69% 3
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 83 (100.00%) Java
1 83 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 41 (49.40%) AWS
3 26 (31.33%) Microservices
4 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
4 23 (27.71%) Test Automation
5 21 (25.30%) Spring Boot
6 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
7 18 (21.69%) Spring
8 17 (20.48%) Python
9 15 (18.07%) Clean Code
10 14 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (16.87%) GCP
10 14 (16.87%) Terraform
11 13 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (15.66%) Continuous Deployment
11 13 (15.66%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (15.66%) Grafana
11 13 (15.66%) Kafka
11 13 (15.66%) React
11 13 (15.66%) TeamCity
12 12 (14.46%) Agile
12 12 (14.46%) Node.js
13 11 (13.25%) AI
13 11 (13.25%) Fintech
13 11 (13.25%) Investment Management
14 10 (12.05%) Computer Science
14 10 (12.05%) Go
14 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
14 10 (12.05%) SaaS

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 (1.20%) Camunda
1 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 41 (49.40%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) GCP
3 13 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (12.05%) SaaS
5 7 (8.43%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (8.43%) Azure
6 2 (2.41%) Serverless
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.20%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.20%) Db2
3 1 (1.20%) MySQL
3 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) TeamCity
2 7 (8.43%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Maven
3 1 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 33 (39.76%) Finance
2 17 (20.48%) Banking
3 16 (19.28%) Front Office
4 14 (16.87%) Retail
5 13 (15.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (15.66%) Law
6 9 (10.84%) Back Office
6 9 (10.84%) Financial Institution
7 6 (7.23%) Health Technology
7 6 (7.23%) Tech for Good
8 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.41%) Games
9 2 (2.41%) Social Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) Spring Boot
2 18 (21.69%) Spring
3 13 (15.66%) Kafka
3 13 (15.66%) React
4 12 (14.46%) Node.js
5 9 (10.84%) GraphQL
6 8 (9.64%) Redux
7 7 (8.43%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (4.82%) REST
9 2 (2.41%) CSS
9 2 (2.41%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.41%) HTML
9 2 (2.41%) Spring Security
9 2 (2.41%) XML
10 1 (1.20%) .NET
10 1 (1.20%) J2EE
10 1 (1.20%) JSON
10 1 (1.20%) OAuth
10 1 (1.20%) SOAP
10 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (28.92%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Fixed Income
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Blog
5 3 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.61%) Equities
6 2 (2.41%) Derivative
7 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (31.33%) Microservices
3 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
3 23 (27.71%) Test Automation
4 15 (18.07%) Clean Code
5 14 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (15.66%) Continuous Deployment
6 13 (15.66%) Deployment Automation
7 12 (14.46%) Agile
8 11 (13.25%) AI
8 11 (13.25%) Fintech
8 11 (13.25%) Investment Management
9 10 (12.05%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.64%) Order Management
10 8 (9.64%) Portfolio Management
11 7 (8.43%) LLM
11 7 (8.43%) Low Latency
11 7 (8.43%) Workflow
12 5 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (4.82%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (20.48%) Python
3 10 (12.05%) Go
3 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.05%) TypeScript
4 8 (9.64%) Kotlin
5 6 (7.23%) SQL
6 1 (1.20%) C#
6 1 (1.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.87%) Terraform
3 13 (15.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.20%) Google
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.20%) OpenAI