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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 233 391
Rank change year-on-year +15 +158 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 171 234 65
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.32% 1.33% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.40% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 101 194 62
10th Percentile £81,250 - £68,107
25th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £84,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £160,625
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +58.62% -17.14%

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 11,757 16,703 18,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.78% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,615 10,219 14,688
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -

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 22 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 22 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
South London - 4 £95,000 - 2
Central London +40 3 £82,500 -5.71% 25
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 22 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.

1 171 (100.00%) Java
2 166 (97.08%) Software Engineering
3 131 (76.61%) Agile
4 122 (71.35%) AWS
5 84 (49.12%) TypeScript
6 75 (43.86%) JavaScript
6 75 (43.86%) Python
7 71 (41.52%) Investment Management
8 68 (39.77%) Apache Iceberg
8 68 (39.77%) Asset Management
9 65 (38.01%) Amazon Athena
9 65 (38.01%) Apache Airflow
9 65 (38.01%) Apache Arrow
9 65 (38.01%) dbt
9 65 (38.01%) Dremio
9 65 (38.01%) NumPy
9 65 (38.01%) Pandas
9 65 (38.01%) SciPy
10 60 (35.09%) gRPC
10 60 (35.09%) Protocol Buffers
11 57 (33.33%) Apache
11 57 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
11 57 (33.33%) Data Lake
11 57 (33.33%) Snowflake
12 52 (30.41%) Microservices
13 43 (25.15%) Spring
14 42 (24.56%) Kubernetes
14 42 (24.56%) SDLC
15 39 (22.81%) CI/CD
15 39 (22.81%) 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 65 (38.01%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (33.33%) Apache
3 3 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 122 (71.35%) AWS
2 65 (38.01%) dbt
3 57 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 18 (10.53%) GCP
5 9 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.68%) SaaS
7 6 (3.51%) Serverless
8 5 (2.92%) GitHub
9 4 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.17%) Azure
12 1 (0.58%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (0.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) SSL
2 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (39.77%) Apache Iceberg
2 65 (38.01%) Amazon Athena
2 65 (38.01%) Apache Arrow
2 65 (38.01%) Dremio
3 57 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
3 57 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 14 (8.19%) NoSQL
5 11 (6.43%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (5.26%) Big Data
7 4 (2.34%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.75%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.75%) MySQL
8 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.75%) Redis
8 3 (1.75%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.26%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.34%) JUnit
4 3 (1.75%) git-flow
4 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.75%) Maven
4 3 (1.75%) Mockito
4 3 (1.75%) Vite
5 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.58%) Gradle
General
1 155 (90.64%) Finance
2 115 (67.25%) Banking
3 77 (45.03%) Front Office
4 71 (41.52%) Investment Banking
5 60 (35.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (35.09%) Law
6 26 (15.20%) Financial Institution
7 12 (7.02%) Social Skills
8 9 (5.26%) Retail
9 8 (4.68%) Marketing
10 7 (4.09%) Back Office
11 6 (3.51%) Legal
11 6 (3.51%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (1.17%) Electronics
13 2 (1.17%) Games
13 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.01%) NumPy
1 65 (38.01%) Pandas
1 65 (38.01%) SciPy
2 60 (35.09%) gRPC
2 60 (35.09%) Protocol Buffers
3 43 (25.15%) Spring
4 35 (20.47%) Kafka
5 27 (15.79%) React
6 26 (15.20%) Spring Boot
7 16 (9.36%) Node.js
8 13 (7.60%) Akka
8 13 (7.60%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.60%) RxJava
8 13 (7.60%) Spring WebFlux
9 12 (7.02%) JMS
10 9 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (5.26%) GraphQL
10 9 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (4.68%) Vue
12 7 (4.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 74 (43.27%) Fixed Income
2 68 (39.77%) Derivative
2 68 (39.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 65 (38.01%) Equities
4 57 (33.33%) Hedge funds
4 57 (33.33%) Pricing Data
5 38 (22.22%) Cloud Native
6 15 (8.77%) Algorithms
6 15 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (7.02%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.51%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.51%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (2.34%) Blog
9 4 (2.34%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (97.08%) Software Engineering
2 131 (76.61%) Agile
3 71 (41.52%) Investment Management
4 68 (39.77%) Asset Management
5 52 (30.41%) Microservices
6 42 (24.56%) SDLC
7 39 (22.81%) CI/CD
7 39 (22.81%) Fintech
8 29 (16.96%) Community of Practice
8 29 (16.96%) Operational Stability
9 22 (12.87%) Multithreading
9 22 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (12.28%) Machine Learning
11 19 (11.11%) TDD
12 17 (9.94%) AI
12 17 (9.94%) Architectural Patterns
12 17 (9.94%) Visualisation
13 16 (9.36%) Open Source
13 16 (9.36%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (100.00%) Java
2 84 (49.12%) TypeScript
3 75 (43.86%) JavaScript
3 75 (43.86%) Python
4 29 (16.96%) Kotlin
5 19 (11.11%) SQL
6 12 (7.02%) Go
7 9 (5.26%) Scala
8 6 (3.51%) C++
9 3 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (5.85%) Degree
2 8 (4.68%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.34%) PhD
4 3 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.58%) PSD2
1 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 20 (11.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (24.56%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.87%) Terraform
3 7 (4.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.26%) Oracle
2 3 (1.75%) Google
3 2 (1.17%) SAP
4 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock