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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 249 395
Rank change year-on-year -6 +146 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 132 213 63
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.00% 1.25% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.32% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 94 177 61
10th Percentile £78,750 - £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £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 £136,750 £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 12,001 16,146 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.43% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,915 9,771 14,135
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 £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +33 4 £82,500 -2.94% 1
South London - 4 £95,000 -
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 5 December 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.

1 132 (100.00%) Java
2 125 (94.70%) Software Engineering
3 97 (73.48%) AWS
4 94 (71.21%) Agile
5 64 (48.48%) TypeScript
6 61 (46.21%) JavaScript
6 61 (46.21%) Python
7 59 (44.70%) Investment Management
8 55 (41.67%) Asset Management
9 54 (40.91%) Apache Iceberg
10 53 (40.15%) Amazon Athena
10 53 (40.15%) Apache Airflow
10 53 (40.15%) Apache Arrow
10 53 (40.15%) dbt
10 53 (40.15%) Dremio
10 53 (40.15%) NumPy
10 53 (40.15%) Pandas
10 53 (40.15%) SciPy
11 50 (37.88%) gRPC
11 50 (37.88%) Protocol Buffers
12 49 (37.12%) Apache
12 49 (37.12%) Apache Ignite
12 49 (37.12%) Data Lake
12 49 (37.12%) Snowflake
13 42 (31.82%) Microservices
14 31 (23.48%) Spring
15 30 (22.73%) Kubernetes
16 28 (21.21%) Fintech
17 26 (19.70%) Kafka
18 25 (18.94%) CI/CD

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 53 (40.15%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (37.12%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 97 (73.48%) AWS
2 53 (40.15%) dbt
3 49 (37.12%) Snowflake
4 14 (10.61%) GCP
5 9 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.30%) SaaS
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.52%) Azure
7 2 (1.52%) GitHub
8 1 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (40.91%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (40.15%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (40.15%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (40.15%) Dremio
3 49 (37.12%) Apache Ignite
3 49 (37.12%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.27%) Big Data
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.76%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.76%) MySQL
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.76%) Redis
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.30%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.03%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.52%) JUnit
3 2 (1.52%) Maven
4 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.76%) git-flow
4 1 (0.76%) Gradle
4 1 (0.76%) Mockito
4 1 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 109 (82.58%) Finance
2 81 (61.36%) Banking
3 62 (46.97%) Front Office
4 57 (43.18%) Investment Banking
5 28 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (21.21%) Law
6 23 (17.42%) Financial Institution
7 9 (6.82%) Retail
8 7 (5.30%) Back Office
9 6 (4.55%) Social Skills
10 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.27%) Games
12 2 (1.52%) Legal
12 2 (1.52%) Marketing
12 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.76%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (40.15%) NumPy
1 53 (40.15%) Pandas
1 53 (40.15%) SciPy
2 50 (37.88%) gRPC
2 50 (37.88%) Protocol Buffers
3 31 (23.48%) Spring
4 26 (19.70%) Kafka
5 23 (17.42%) Spring Boot
6 15 (11.36%) React
7 13 (9.85%) Akka
7 13 (9.85%) RxJava
7 13 (9.85%) Spring WebFlux
8 10 (7.58%) JMS
8 10 (7.58%) Node.js
9 9 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (6.82%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (6.06%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.55%) Redux
12 4 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (45.45%) Fixed Income
2 54 (40.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (40.15%) Derivative
3 53 (40.15%) Equities
4 49 (37.12%) Hedge funds
4 49 (37.12%) Pricing Data
5 21 (15.91%) Cloud Native
6 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
6 8 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.79%) Blog
9 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.52%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (94.70%) Software Engineering
2 94 (71.21%) Agile
3 59 (44.70%) Investment Management
4 55 (41.67%) Asset Management
5 42 (31.82%) Microservices
6 28 (21.21%) Fintech
7 25 (18.94%) CI/CD
8 18 (13.64%) SDLC
8 18 (13.64%) TDD
9 16 (12.12%) Multithreading
10 15 (11.36%) Pair Programming
11 14 (10.61%) BDD
12 13 (9.85%) Community of Practice
12 13 (9.85%) Concurrent Programming
12 13 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (9.85%) Machine Learning
12 13 (9.85%) Operational Stability
13 12 (9.09%) Test Automation
14 11 (8.33%) High Availability
14 11 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 132 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (48.48%) TypeScript
3 61 (46.21%) JavaScript
3 61 (46.21%) Python
4 16 (12.12%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.58%) SQL
6 8 (6.06%) Go
7 3 (2.27%) C++
7 3 (2.27%) Scala
8 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (6.06%) Degree
1 8 (6.06%) Master's Degree
2 3 (2.27%) PhD
3 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) PSD2
1 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.61%) Terraform
3 7 (5.30%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (1.52%) Oracle
2 1 (0.76%) ForgeRock
2 1 (0.76%) Google