Java Software Engineer Job Trends in West London

Java Software Engineer
London > West London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in West London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £86,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +24.32% +2.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 257 644 389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.17% 98.32% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 173 212 327
10th Percentile £30,625 £36,300 £33,948
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +7.14%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West 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 West London.

Java Software Engineer job vacancy trend in West London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in West London.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in West London

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 4 October 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 West London region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) RxJava
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RxJava
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes