Java Software Engineer Jobs in South London

Java Software Engineer
London > South London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in South London is £82,500 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 52 88 83
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 23 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 3.89% 0.22% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.18% 0.24% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23 2 4
10th Percentile - £103,125 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £104,063 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £108,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +141.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £111,250 £114,063 £49,000
90th Percentile - £115,375 -
London median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +24.32% +0.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 444 850 699
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.13% 95.18% 91.73%
Number of salaries quoted 177 425 393
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,840 £36,750 £40,151
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in South London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in South London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in South London

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

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in South London

Java Software Engineer
Job Locations in South 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 South 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
Merton +22 23 £82,500 -24.14%
Java Software Engineer
London

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 South London region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Java
1 23 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 23 (100.00%) Finance
1 23 (100.00%) Agile
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
1 23 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 23 (100.00%) Spring
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
1 23 (100.00%) BDD
1 23 (100.00%) Kafka
1 23 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 23 (100.00%) Akka
1 23 (100.00%) Docker
1 23 (100.00%) Microservices
1 23 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 23 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 23 (100.00%) Fintech
2 13 (56.52%) Spring WebFlux
2 13 (56.52%) Concurrent Programming
2 13 (56.52%) Multithreading
2 13 (56.52%) RxJava
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) High Availability

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 23 (100.00%) Finance
1 23 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) Akka
1 23 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 23 (100.00%) Kafka
1 23 (100.00%) Spring
1 23 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 13 (56.52%) RxJava
2 13 (56.52%) Spring WebFlux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Agile
1 23 (100.00%) BDD
1 23 (100.00%) Fintech
1 23 (100.00%) Microservices
1 23 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
2 13 (56.52%) Concurrent Programming
2 13 (56.52%) Multithreading
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 23 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (100.00%) Kubernetes