Java Job Trends in East London

Java
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Permanent jobs citing Java 4 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 2.37% 3.48% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 19.05% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £125,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
London median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Programming Languages
East London

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 21 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 16.57% 18.26% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 48
10th Percentile £32,000 £49,000 £31,675
25th Percentile £33,500 £53,750 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +60.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,750 £59,375
90th Percentile - £127,500 £98,750
London median annual salary £82,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.61% +3.13% +6.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in East London.

Java job vacancy trend in East London

Java
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Java

Java
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Bexley - 2 - - 6
Dagenham - 1 - -
Java
London

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Android Development
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Line Management
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) OWASP
3 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Statistics
4 1 (25.00%) Budget Control
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Rust
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk