Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Software Engineer - Java
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 459 576
Rank change year-on-year +139 +117 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 72 43 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 72 40 52
10th Percentile £85,000 £58,938 £52,500
25th Percentile £103,438 £85,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £130,000
90th Percentile £147,500 - -
England median annual salary £110,000 £71,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +54.39% -13.64% -8.33%

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 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Java Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 10 £107,500 -
Central London +28 2 £117,500 - 1
Senior Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Java
1 72 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 67 (93.06%) AWS
2 67 (93.06%) Agile
3 64 (88.89%) Finance
4 53 (73.61%) Front Office
4 53 (73.61%) Python
4 53 (73.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 53 (73.61%) Banking
4 53 (73.61%) Derivative
4 53 (73.61%) Investment Banking
5 51 (70.83%) Hedge funds
5 51 (70.83%) SciPy
5 51 (70.83%) NumPy
5 51 (70.83%) Protocol Buffers
5 51 (70.83%) TypeScript
5 51 (70.83%) Pandas
5 51 (70.83%) Asset Management
5 51 (70.83%) Apache
5 51 (70.83%) JavaScript
5 51 (70.83%) Fixed Income
5 51 (70.83%) Equities
5 51 (70.83%) Apache Iceberg
5 51 (70.83%) Apache Arrow
5 51 (70.83%) Data Lake
5 51 (70.83%) gRPC
5 51 (70.83%) Apache Airflow
5 51 (70.83%) Amazon Athena
5 51 (70.83%) Apache Ignite
5 51 (70.83%) Dremio

Senior 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 51 (70.83%) Apache
1 51 (70.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (93.06%) AWS
2 51 (70.83%) dbt
2 51 (70.83%) Snowflake
3 14 (19.44%) GCP
4 13 (18.06%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (18.06%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (16.67%) Dagster
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (70.83%) Amazon Athena
1 51 (70.83%) Apache Arrow
1 51 (70.83%) Apache Iceberg
1 51 (70.83%) Apache Ignite
1 51 (70.83%) Data Lake
1 51 (70.83%) Dremio
2 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (88.89%) Finance
2 53 (73.61%) Banking
2 53 (73.61%) Front Office
2 53 (73.61%) Investment Banking
3 13 (18.06%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (70.83%) gRPC
1 51 (70.83%) NumPy
1 51 (70.83%) Pandas
1 51 (70.83%) Protocol Buffers
1 51 (70.83%) SciPy
2 16 (22.22%) Spring
3 12 (16.67%) PySpark
3 12 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 11 (15.28%) Kafka
5 10 (13.89%) Akka
5 10 (13.89%) AngularJS
6 6 (8.33%) RxJava
6 6 (8.33%) Spring WebFlux
7 4 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 53 (73.61%) Derivative
1 53 (73.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 51 (70.83%) Equities
2 51 (70.83%) Fixed Income
2 51 (70.83%) Hedge funds
3 39 (54.17%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 67 (93.06%) Agile
3 51 (70.83%) Asset Management
4 39 (54.17%) Investment Management
5 15 (20.83%) Microservices
6 12 (16.67%) Migration
7 11 (15.28%) BDD
7 11 (15.28%) Fintech
7 11 (15.28%) TDD
8 10 (13.89%) High Availability
8 10 (13.89%) Multithreading
8 10 (13.89%) Pair Programming
9 9 (12.50%) DevOps
10 7 (9.72%) Concurrent Programming
11 4 (5.56%) CI/CD
11 4 (5.56%) Containerisation
11 4 (5.56%) Mentoring
11 4 (5.56%) SDLC
11 4 (5.56%) SOLID
12 2 (2.78%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 72 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (73.61%) Python
3 51 (70.83%) JavaScript
3 51 (70.83%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.39%) Rust
5 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.39%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.39%) Google
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle
1 1 (1.39%) Splunk