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 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 214 410
Rank change year-on-year +16 +196 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 207 277 84
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.78% 1.52% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.60% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 134 232 80
10th Percentile £79,500 - £65,000
25th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +22.67% +3.68%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £131,563
90th Percentile £137,500 - £155,500
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £80,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +42.86% -8.00%

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 10,610 17,330 19,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 95.32% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,920 10,641 16,032
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -1.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 - 11 £82,500 -
Central London +43 3 £80,000 -15.79% 2
West London - 1 £82,500 - 3
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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.

1 207 (100.00%) Java
2 206 (99.52%) Software Engineering
3 196 (94.69%) Finance
4 178 (85.99%) Agile
5 158 (76.33%) AWS
6 138 (66.67%) Banking
7 117 (56.52%) TypeScript
8 108 (52.17%) Front Office
9 105 (50.72%) JavaScript
10 104 (50.24%) Fixed Income
11 101 (48.79%) Investment Management
12 99 (47.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 99 (47.83%) Apache Iceberg
13 98 (47.34%) Asset Management
14 97 (46.86%) Python
15 96 (46.38%) Equities
16 95 (45.89%) SciPy
16 95 (45.89%) NumPy
16 95 (45.89%) Apache Airflow
16 95 (45.89%) Amazon Athena
16 95 (45.89%) Dremio
16 95 (45.89%) dbt
16 95 (45.89%) Pandas
16 95 (45.89%) Apache Arrow
17 93 (44.93%) Investment Banking
18 91 (43.96%) Derivative
19 81 (39.13%) gRPC
19 81 (39.13%) Protocol Buffers
20 77 (37.20%) Pricing Data
20 77 (37.20%) Data Lake

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 95 (45.89%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (37.20%) Apache
3 4 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 158 (76.33%) AWS
2 95 (45.89%) dbt
3 77 (37.20%) Snowflake
4 22 (10.63%) GCP
5 7 (3.38%) Serverless
6 6 (2.90%) GitHub
7 5 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.45%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.97%) Azure
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) SSL
2 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (47.83%) Apache Iceberg
2 95 (45.89%) Amazon Athena
2 95 (45.89%) Apache Arrow
2 95 (45.89%) Dremio
3 77 (37.20%) Apache Ignite
3 77 (37.20%) Data Lake
4 22 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.80%) Big Data
7 11 (5.31%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.42%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.93%) MySQL
9 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.93%) Redis
9 4 (1.93%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.45%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.48%) Parquet
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Git
2 4 (1.93%) git-flow
2 4 (1.93%) JUnit
2 4 (1.93%) Vite
3 3 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.45%) Maven
3 3 (1.45%) Mockito
4 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.48%) Gradle
General
1 196 (94.69%) Finance
2 138 (66.67%) Banking
3 108 (52.17%) Front Office
4 93 (44.93%) Investment Banking
5 73 (35.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (33.82%) Law
7 26 (12.56%) Financial Institution
8 13 (6.28%) Social Skills
9 11 (5.31%) Marketing
10 8 (3.86%) Legal
11 5 (2.42%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (1.45%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.97%) Electronics
14 2 (0.97%) Games
14 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.97%) Retail
14 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (45.89%) NumPy
1 95 (45.89%) Pandas
1 95 (45.89%) SciPy
2 81 (39.13%) gRPC
2 81 (39.13%) Protocol Buffers
3 55 (26.57%) Spring
4 47 (22.71%) Kafka
5 40 (19.32%) React
6 34 (16.43%) Spring Boot
7 30 (14.49%) AngularJS
8 26 (12.56%) Node.js
9 19 (9.18%) Akka
9 19 (9.18%) RxJava
9 19 (9.18%) Spring WebFlux
10 18 (8.70%) Vue
11 12 (5.80%) JMS
12 10 (4.83%) RESTful
13 9 (4.35%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 104 (50.24%) Fixed Income
2 99 (47.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 96 (46.38%) Equities
4 91 (43.96%) Derivative
5 77 (37.20%) Hedge funds
5 77 (37.20%) Pricing Data
6 37 (17.87%) Cloud Native
7 20 (9.66%) Algorithms
8 18 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (6.28%) Public Cloud
10 9 (4.35%) Mobile Banking
11 8 (3.86%) Equity Derivative
12 6 (2.90%) Data Structures
13 5 (2.42%) Management Information System
14 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
15 2 (0.97%) PKI
16 1 (0.48%) Blog
16 1 (0.48%) Distributed Applications
16 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
16 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (99.52%) Software Engineering
2 178 (85.99%) Agile
3 101 (48.79%) Investment Management
4 98 (47.34%) Asset Management
5 59 (28.50%) Fintech
6 56 (27.05%) Microservices
7 54 (26.09%) SDLC
8 37 (17.87%) CI/CD
9 36 (17.39%) Operational Stability
10 35 (16.91%) Community of Practice
11 31 (14.98%) Multithreading
12 28 (13.53%) Order Management
13 27 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (13.04%) Risk Management
14 24 (11.59%) TDD
15 23 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (10.63%) Visualisation
17 21 (10.14%) BDD
17 21 (10.14%) Machine Learning
17 21 (10.14%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 207 (100.00%) Java
2 117 (56.52%) TypeScript
3 105 (50.72%) JavaScript
4 97 (46.86%) Python
5 34 (16.43%) Kotlin
6 23 (11.11%) SQL
7 14 (6.76%) Go
8 12 (5.80%) Scala
9 7 (3.38%) C++
10 4 (1.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (3.86%) Degree
2 5 (2.42%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.93%) PhD
4 3 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.97%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.48%) PSD2
1 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 31 (14.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.70%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (5.80%) Oracle
2 4 (1.93%) Google
3 2 (0.97%) SAP
4 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.48%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.48%) Splunk