Senior Java Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Java Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 286 419
Rank change year-on-year -52 +133 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 67 105 106
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.32% 0.87% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.96% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 37 87 104
10th Percentile £68,000 £97,500 £70,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £121,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +21.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £120,500 £137,500 -
England median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +1.41%

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 19,587 10,910 22,940
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 90.31% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,395 6,931 17,072
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.86%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Java Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java 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 Senior Java Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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 +6 9 £100,000 -33.33% 3
South London +4 1 £105,000 -2.33%
Senior Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, Senior Java 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 Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (64.18%) Software Engineering
3 38 (56.72%) Microservices
4 32 (47.76%) Spring
5 31 (46.27%) Spring Boot
6 26 (38.81%) Kubernetes
7 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
7 25 (37.31%) Test Automation
8 23 (34.33%) AWS
9 20 (29.85%) Kafka
10 18 (26.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (25.37%) Docker
12 16 (23.88%) Agile
12 16 (23.88%) Python
13 15 (22.39%) BDD
14 13 (19.40%) AI
15 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (17.91%) GCP
15 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (17.91%) NoSQL
15 12 (17.91%) SQL
16 10 (14.93%) Fintech
16 10 (14.93%) Grafana
16 10 (14.93%) MongoDB
16 10 (14.93%) TDD
16 10 (14.93%) Terraform
17 8 (11.94%) Akka
17 8 (11.94%) Clean Code
17 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
17 8 (11.94%) LLM

Senior Java 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 4 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.33%) AWS
2 12 (17.91%) GCP
3 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (8.96%) Anthropic Claude
3 6 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.46%) SaaS
5 4 (5.97%) Azure
5 4 (5.97%) dbt
5 4 (5.97%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.99%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) NoSQL
2 10 (14.93%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) Db2
4 1 (1.49%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Cucumber
2 6 (8.96%) Claude Code
2 6 (8.96%) GitLab
2 6 (8.96%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.49%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) Selenium
General
1 34 (50.75%) Finance
2 15 (22.39%) Banking
3 13 (19.40%) Financial Institution
4 6 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.96%) Law
4 6 (8.96%) Retail
5 5 (7.46%) Back Office
5 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (47.76%) Spring
2 31 (46.27%) Spring Boot
3 20 (29.85%) Kafka
4 8 (11.94%) Akka
5 6 (8.96%) Model Context Protocol
5 6 (8.96%) Node.js
5 6 (8.96%) React
5 6 (8.96%) RESTful
6 1 (1.49%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.49%) CSS
6 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.49%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.49%) HTML
6 1 (1.49%) JMS
6 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.49%) REST
6 1 (1.49%) RxJava
6 1 (1.49%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.96%) e-Learning
3 6 (8.96%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) Blog
4 3 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.49%) Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) Software Engineering
2 38 (56.72%) Microservices
3 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
3 25 (37.31%) Test Automation
4 18 (26.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (23.88%) Agile
6 15 (22.39%) BDD
7 13 (19.40%) AI
8 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (14.93%) Fintech
9 10 (14.93%) TDD
10 8 (11.94%) Clean Code
10 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
10 8 (11.94%) LLM
11 7 (10.45%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (8.96%) Continuous Deployment
12 6 (8.96%) Data Engineering
12 6 (8.96%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (8.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (23.88%) Python
3 12 (17.91%) SQL
4 7 (10.45%) Kotlin
5 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.99%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) AWS Certification
1 6 (8.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (4.48%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) QA
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (38.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.93%) Grafana
2 10 (14.93%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Prometheus