Java Developer Job Trends in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 190 87
Rank change year-on-year -37 -103 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 159 293 650
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 1.82% 3.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.95% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 97 184 586
10th Percentile £58,250 £61,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -2.70%
75th Percentile £136,250 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £139,250 £145,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 12,268 15,027 16,854
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 93.51% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,140 8,910 13,617
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,434 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 +31 20 £70,000 +12.00% 1
Central London +23 12 £110,000 +22.22% 8
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, 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.

1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (40.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 61 (38.36%) Spring
4 59 (37.11%) Agile
5 58 (36.48%) AWS
6 54 (33.96%) Microservices
7 48 (30.19%) React
8 47 (29.56%) JavaScript
8 47 (29.56%) Kubernetes
9 46 (28.93%) REST
10 44 (27.67%) CI/CD
10 44 (27.67%) Python
11 42 (26.42%) Docker
12 41 (25.79%) Spring Boot
13 38 (23.90%) Relational Database
14 36 (22.64%) Jenkins
15 34 (21.38%) HTML
15 34 (21.38%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (20.13%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (19.50%) SDLC
18 30 (18.87%) RDBMS
18 30 (18.87%) Scrum
18 30 (18.87%) Software Engineering
19 29 (18.24%) BDD
20 27 (16.98%) Kafka
20 27 (16.98%) Low Latency
20 27 (16.98%) TDD
20 27 (16.98%) TypeScript
21 25 (15.72%) Degree
21 25 (15.72%) Problem-Solving

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 (6.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (5.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.48%) AWS
2 32 (20.13%) Amazon EKS
3 21 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
3 21 (13.21%) Serverless
4 17 (10.69%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (6.92%) Azure
6 9 (5.66%) GCP
7 6 (3.77%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.52%) SaaS
9 3 (1.89%) GitHub
10 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.26%) Apigee
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (23.90%) Relational Database
2 34 (21.38%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (18.87%) RDBMS
4 12 (7.55%) DB2
4 12 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.89%) KDB
7 3 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.89%) Tick Data
8 2 (1.26%) MySQL
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.63%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 36 (22.64%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.32%) JUnit
2 18 (11.32%) Mockito
3 17 (10.69%) JMeter
4 12 (7.55%) Cucumber
4 12 (7.55%) JIRA
4 12 (7.55%) Selenium
4 12 (7.55%) TeamCity
5 10 (6.29%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.03%) Git
7 3 (1.89%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.63%) GitLab
8 1 (0.63%) Gradle
8 1 (0.63%) MLflow
8 1 (0.63%) Subversion
8 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 58 (36.48%) Finance
2 54 (33.96%) Banking
3 53 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 29 (18.24%) Front Office
5 24 (15.09%) Investment Banking
6 19 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (11.95%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.52%) Billing
10 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.26%) Games
10 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (38.36%) Spring
2 48 (30.19%) React
3 46 (28.93%) REST
4 41 (25.79%) Spring Boot
5 34 (21.38%) HTML
6 27 (16.98%) Kafka
7 20 (12.58%) AngularJS
7 20 (12.58%) Hibernate
8 19 (11.95%) Web Services
9 18 (11.32%) JSON
9 18 (11.32%) Node.js
9 18 (11.32%) XML
10 17 (10.69%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (10.69%) Apache Camel
10 17 (10.69%) jQuery
10 17 (10.69%) RESTful
10 17 (10.69%) WebSockets
10 17 (10.69%) WireMock
11 16 (10.06%) CSS
12 15 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.16%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (10.69%) Equities
3 15 (9.43%) Algorithms
3 15 (9.43%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (8.81%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (7.55%) Management Information System
6 11 (6.92%) Hedge funds
7 10 (6.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (6.29%) Reference Data
8 7 (4.40%) Fixed Income
9 6 (3.77%) Cloud Native
10 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.89%) Derivative
12 2 (1.26%) Credit Risk
12 2 (1.26%) Legacy Code
12 2 (1.26%) Pricing Data
12 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 59 (37.11%) Agile
3 54 (33.96%) Microservices
4 44 (27.67%) CI/CD
5 31 (19.50%) SDLC
6 30 (18.87%) Scrum
6 30 (18.87%) Software Engineering
7 29 (18.24%) BDD
8 27 (16.98%) Low Latency
8 27 (16.98%) TDD
9 25 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (15.72%) Test Automation
10 19 (11.95%) Workflow
11 18 (11.32%) Computer Science
11 18 (11.32%) Electronic Trading
12 17 (10.69%) Front End Development
13 16 (10.06%) Design Patterns
13 16 (10.06%) High-Frequency Trading
13 16 (10.06%) Market Making
14 15 (9.43%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (29.56%) JavaScript
3 44 (27.67%) Python
4 27 (16.98%) TypeScript
5 20 (12.58%) SQL
6 17 (10.69%) Shell Script
7 9 (5.66%) Go
8 6 (3.77%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.14%) Scala
10 3 (1.89%) C#
11 2 (1.26%) C++
11 2 (1.26%) RPG
12 1 (0.63%) Bash
12 1 (0.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) Korn
12 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (15.72%) Degree
2 20 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) Master's Degree
4 13 (8.18%) PhD
5 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.89%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (26.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (29.56%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.69%) Kibana
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (10.69%) Dynatrace
1 17 (10.69%) Splunk
2 9 (5.66%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.52%) Mercator
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle
4 3 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.26%) Google
5 2 (1.26%) IBM
5 2 (1.26%) Solace
6 1 (0.63%) Confluent
6 1 (0.63%) SAP