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 September 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 202 373
Rank change year-on-year +19 +171 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 231 307 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.93% 1.60% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.68% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 159 255 131
10th Percentile £78,750 - £65,000
25th Percentile £103,750 £85,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% +13.35%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £130,000
90th Percentile £137,500 - £152,500
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +31.43% -

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 10,921 18,287 21,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 95.44% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,134 11,721 17,831
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,982
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £119,050 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 September 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 September 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 +31 15 £82,500 -24.14%
Central London +21 5 £80,000 -15.79% 1
West London - 1 £82,500 -
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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.

1 231 (100.00%) Java
1 231 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 214 (92.64%) Finance
3 200 (86.58%) Agile
4 179 (77.49%) AWS
5 153 (66.23%) Banking
6 133 (57.58%) TypeScript
7 128 (55.41%) Front Office
8 121 (52.38%) Fixed Income
8 121 (52.38%) JavaScript
9 118 (51.08%) Investment Management
10 116 (50.22%) Apache Iceberg
11 115 (49.78%) Asset Management
12 114 (49.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 112 (48.48%) SciPy
13 112 (48.48%) NumPy
13 112 (48.48%) Apache Airflow
13 112 (48.48%) Amazon Athena
13 112 (48.48%) Dremio
13 112 (48.48%) dbt
13 112 (48.48%) Apache Arrow
13 112 (48.48%) Pandas
14 111 (48.05%) Python
14 111 (48.05%) Equities
15 106 (45.89%) Investment Banking
16 104 (45.02%) Derivative
17 92 (39.83%) gRPC
17 92 (39.83%) Protocol Buffers
18 88 (38.10%) Pricing Data
18 88 (38.10%) Data Lake

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
1 112 (48.48%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (38.10%) Apache
3 4 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 179 (77.49%) AWS
2 112 (48.48%) dbt
3 88 (38.10%) Snowflake
4 30 (12.99%) GCP
5 7 (3.03%) Serverless
6 6 (2.60%) GitHub
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.87%) Azure
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) SSL
2 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (50.22%) Apache Iceberg
2 112 (48.48%) Amazon Athena
2 112 (48.48%) Apache Arrow
2 112 (48.48%) Dremio
3 88 (38.10%) Apache Ignite
3 88 (38.10%) Data Lake
4 28 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (7.79%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.19%) Big Data
7 8 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.16%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.73%) MySQL
9 4 (1.73%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.73%) Redis
9 4 (1.73%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.30%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.43%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (4.76%) Git
2 4 (1.73%) git-flow
2 4 (1.73%) JUnit
2 4 (1.73%) Vite
3 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.30%) Maven
3 3 (1.30%) Mockito
4 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
General
1 214 (92.64%) Finance
2 153 (66.23%) Banking
3 128 (55.41%) Front Office
4 106 (45.89%) Investment Banking
5 79 (34.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (30.30%) Law
7 29 (12.55%) Financial Institution
8 13 (5.63%) Social Skills
9 11 (4.76%) Marketing
10 8 (3.46%) Legal
11 4 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.30%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.30%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Electronics
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (48.48%) NumPy
1 112 (48.48%) Pandas
1 112 (48.48%) SciPy
2 92 (39.83%) gRPC
2 92 (39.83%) Protocol Buffers
3 60 (25.97%) Spring
4 49 (21.21%) Kafka
5 46 (19.91%) React
6 39 (16.88%) AngularJS
7 35 (15.15%) Spring Boot
8 32 (13.85%) Node.js
9 24 (10.39%) Vue
10 20 (8.66%) Akka
10 20 (8.66%) RxJava
10 20 (8.66%) Spring WebFlux
11 9 (3.90%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.90%) JMS
11 9 (3.90%) Web Services
12 8 (3.46%) .NET
12 8 (3.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 121 (52.38%) Fixed Income
2 114 (49.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 111 (48.05%) Equities
4 104 (45.02%) Derivative
5 88 (38.10%) Hedge funds
5 88 (38.10%) Pricing Data
6 38 (16.45%) Cloud Native
7 23 (9.96%) Algorithms
8 20 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (6.49%) Public Cloud
10 9 (3.90%) Mobile Banking
11 8 (3.46%) Data Structures
11 8 (3.46%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.87%) PKI
15 1 (0.43%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 200 (86.58%) Agile
3 118 (51.08%) Investment Management
4 115 (49.78%) Asset Management
5 66 (28.57%) Fintech
6 63 (27.27%) Microservices
7 60 (25.97%) SDLC
8 36 (15.58%) Operational Stability
9 35 (15.15%) Community of Practice
9 35 (15.15%) Multithreading
10 34 (14.72%) CI/CD
10 34 (14.72%) Order Management
10 34 (14.72%) Risk Management
11 28 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (10.82%) TDD
13 24 (10.39%) Performance Attribution
14 22 (9.52%) BDD
14 22 (9.52%) Concurrent Programming
14 22 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 231 (100.00%) Java
2 133 (57.58%) TypeScript
3 121 (52.38%) JavaScript
4 111 (48.05%) Python
5 33 (14.29%) Kotlin
6 24 (10.39%) SQL
7 14 (6.06%) Go
8 12 (5.19%) Scala
9 9 (3.90%) C++
10 4 (1.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (3.90%) Degree
2 6 (2.60%) Master's Degree
2 6 (2.60%) PhD
3 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (17.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.79%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (5.19%) Oracle
2 4 (1.73%) Google
3 2 (0.87%) SAP
4 1 (0.43%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.43%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.43%) Splunk