Java Developer Job Trends in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 191 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 -95 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 180 264 652
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.75% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.91% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 137 152 568
10th Percentile £59,500 £61,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £79,688 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £111,563
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,875 £145,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -5.88%

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 14,069 13,799 20,036
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 91.60% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,978 16,176
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,420
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Java Developer job vacancy trend in London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in London

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 February 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 +14 25 £100,000 +11.11% 12
South London +15 10 £70,000 +12.00%
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 2026, Java Developer 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (37.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 64 (35.56%) Spring
4 48 (26.67%) Microservices
5 47 (26.11%) REST
5 47 (26.11%) Spring Boot
6 46 (25.56%) React
7 45 (25.00%) Agile
7 45 (25.00%) AWS
8 42 (23.33%) Kubernetes
9 40 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 37 (20.56%) CI/CD
11 35 (19.44%) JavaScript
11 35 (19.44%) Security Cleared
12 32 (17.78%) Docker
13 28 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (15.56%) TypeScript
14 27 (15.00%) Relational Database
14 27 (15.00%) Scrum
15 26 (14.44%) HTML
15 26 (14.44%) Jenkins
16 25 (13.89%) Python
16 25 (13.89%) RDBMS
17 24 (13.33%) Low Latency
18 22 (12.22%) Test Automation
19 21 (11.67%) BDD
19 21 (11.67%) SDLC
19 21 (11.67%) SQL
20 20 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
20 20 (11.11%) AngularJS

Java Developer 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 10 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Apache
2 1 (0.56%) JBoss
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 45 (25.00%) AWS
2 20 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (6.67%) Serverless
4 11 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.89%) Azure
8 5 (2.78%) SaaS
9 4 (2.22%) GCP
10 3 (1.67%) GitHub
10 3 (1.67%) Stripe
11 2 (1.11%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.11%) Apigee
11 2 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon MSK
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.56%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 25 (13.89%) RDBMS
4 14 (7.78%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.67%) DB2
6 8 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.67%) KDB
7 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.67%) Tick Data
8 2 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.11%) MySQL
9 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.56%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.22%) JIRA
3 12 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 12 (6.67%) JUnit
3 12 (6.67%) Selenium
3 12 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 10 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.00%) JMeter
5 9 (5.00%) Mockito
6 7 (3.89%) Git
7 6 (3.33%) Maven
8 3 (1.67%) Gradle
8 3 (1.67%) Subversion
9 1 (0.56%) GitLab
9 1 (0.56%) MLflow
9 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 50 (27.78%) Finance
2 46 (25.56%) Banking
3 38 (21.11%) Social Skills
4 26 (14.44%) Investment Banking
5 25 (13.89%) Front Office
6 17 (9.44%) Public Sector
7 15 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.44%) Billing
10 5 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.67%) Games
12 2 (1.11%) Retail
12 2 (1.11%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (35.56%) Spring
2 47 (26.11%) REST
2 47 (26.11%) Spring Boot
3 46 (25.56%) React
4 26 (14.44%) HTML
5 20 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 20 (11.11%) WebSockets
6 19 (10.56%) Kafka
7 16 (8.89%) CSS
7 16 (8.89%) Node.js
8 15 (8.33%) JSON
8 15 (8.33%) RESTful
8 15 (8.33%) Web Services
8 15 (8.33%) XML
9 14 (7.78%) Hibernate
10 13 (7.22%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (5.56%) Gherkin
11 10 (5.56%) GraphQL
11 10 (5.56%) jQuery
12 9 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.00%) Hedge funds
5 8 (4.44%) Equities
5 8 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.44%) Reference Data
6 7 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.78%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.22%) Derivative
9 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.11%) Pricing Data
10 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.78%) Full-Stack Development
2 48 (26.67%) Microservices
3 45 (25.00%) Agile
4 40 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 37 (20.56%) CI/CD
6 27 (15.00%) Scrum
7 24 (13.33%) Low Latency
8 22 (12.22%) Test Automation
9 21 (11.67%) BDD
9 21 (11.67%) SDLC
10 20 (11.11%) Front End Development
11 17 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (8.89%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.89%) Fintech
12 16 (8.89%) TDD
13 15 (8.33%) DevOps
13 15 (8.33%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (7.78%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (7.78%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 28 (15.56%) TypeScript
4 25 (13.89%) Python
5 21 (11.67%) SQL
6 9 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.78%) Go
8 3 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.11%) C#
9 2 (1.11%) RPG
9 2 (1.11%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Korn
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.56%) Degree
2 19 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.00%) Kibana
3 2 (1.11%) Terraform
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (5.00%) Atlassian
1 9 (5.00%) Dynatrace
1 9 (5.00%) Splunk
2 4 (2.22%) Mercator
2 4 (2.22%) Solace
3 3 (1.67%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.67%) Revolut
4 2 (1.11%) IBM
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle