Java Job Trends in London

Java
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,078 1,123 1,973
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.53% 9.21% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.30% 22.42% 24.80%
Number of salaries quoted 594 709 1,442
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £108,438 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £149,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,586 5,008 7,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.48% 41.06% 40.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,847 3,429 5,799
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,200
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Java job vacancy trend in London

Java
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in London

Java
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 11 August 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 -18 140 £100,000 +11.11% 80
South London -24 23 £70,000 -15.15% 5
West London -22 18 £80,000 +77.78% 19
East London -12 1 - - 13
Java
England

Java
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 35 (3.25%) Confluence
2 21 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.76%) Apache
4 18 (1.67%) Camunda
5 16 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) Moodle
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.093%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.37%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Maximo
2 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.46%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.093%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Endur
4 1 (0.093%) Findur
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.093%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.093%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 506 (46.94%) AWS
2 219 (20.32%) Azure
3 192 (17.81%) GCP
4 66 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 61 (5.66%) GitHub
6 53 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (4.45%) Serverless
8 44 (4.08%) SaaS
9 29 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.04%) OpenShift
13 21 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.86%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (1.58%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (1.39%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (1.39%) Snowflake
17 14 (1.30%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.97%) HTTP
2 18 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.58%) Network Security
4 13 (1.21%) DMARC
5 10 (0.93%) Broadband
6 7 (0.65%) DNS
6 7 (0.65%) VPN
7 6 (0.56%) BGP
7 6 (0.56%) IPsec
7 6 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.46%) Internet
9 4 (0.37%) IPv4
9 4 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) SAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.19%) Firewall
12 1 (0.093%) AMQP
12 1 (0.093%) LTE
12 1 (0.093%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.51%) NoSQL
2 64 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (5.57%) Relational Database
4 44 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 31 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.04%) Db2
7 18 (1.67%) Big Data
8 17 (1.58%) MySQL
8 17 (1.58%) Redis
9 13 (1.21%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.11%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.11%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.93%) DTS
12 9 (0.83%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.74%) Metadata
14 7 (0.65%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.56%) HBase
16 5 (0.46%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 76 (7.05%) Git
2 55 (5.10%) GitLab
3 51 (4.73%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.62%) Cucumber
4 39 (3.62%) JIRA
5 37 (3.43%) TeamCity
6 35 (3.25%) Selenium
7 21 (1.95%) JUnit
8 15 (1.39%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.39%) Maven
9 13 (1.21%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.21%) Mockito
10 11 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.02%) Gradle
10 11 (1.02%) Postman
11 10 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.65%) JMeter
13 6 (0.56%) MLflow
14 5 (0.46%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 464 (43.04%) Finance
2 206 (19.11%) Social Skills
3 205 (19.02%) Banking
4 101 (9.37%) Front Office
5 91 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 81 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (6.86%) Law
8 57 (5.29%) Financial Institution
9 52 (4.82%) Retail
10 32 (2.97%) Investment Banking
11 27 (2.50%) Back Office
12 23 (2.13%) Marketing
13 16 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.21%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.02%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.65%) Advertising
17 7 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 300 (27.83%) Senior
2 278 (25.79%) Developer
3 264 (24.49%) Software Engineer
4 244 (22.63%) Java Engineer
5 154 (14.29%) Lead
6 151 (14.01%) Java Developer
7 96 (8.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 83 (7.70%) Senior Developer
9 76 (7.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 66 (6.12%) Senior Java Engineer
11 62 (5.75%) Lead Software Engineer
12 58 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
13 49 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (4.45%) Architect
15 43 (3.99%) Principal Java Engineer
16 42 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
17 38 (3.53%) Consultant
18 37 (3.43%) Engineering Manager
18 37 (3.43%) Software Developer
19 31 (2.88%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (26.16%) Spring
2 234 (21.71%) Spring Boot
3 199 (18.46%) Kafka
4 124 (11.50%) REST
5 110 (10.20%) React
6 84 (7.79%) Node.js
7 76 (7.05%) RESTful
8 69 (6.40%) .NET
9 52 (4.82%) AngularJS
10 37 (3.43%) GraphQL
10 37 (3.43%) OAuth
11 30 (2.78%) OAuth2
12 29 (2.69%) Redux
13 28 (2.60%) Web Services
14 27 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
15 24 (2.23%) Hibernate
16 23 (2.13%) Middleware
17 21 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
18 19 (1.76%) HTML
18 19 (1.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 211 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 153 (14.19%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (10.39%) Product Ownership
4 104 (9.65%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 49 (4.55%) Fixed Income
7 46 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 37 (3.43%) Distributed Architecture
9 34 (3.15%) Equities
10 31 (2.88%) e-Learning
11 30 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (2.04%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.58%) Blog
14 17 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (1.58%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.30%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.30%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 97 (9.00%) Linux
2 34 (3.15%) Windows
3 15 (1.39%) Unix
4 13 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.11%) Android
5 12 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (39.98%) Software Engineering
2 350 (32.47%) CI/CD
3 305 (28.29%) Agile
4 299 (27.74%) Microservices
5 224 (20.78%) DevOps
6 214 (19.85%) Test Automation
7 211 (19.57%) Mentoring
8 195 (18.09%) AI
9 193 (17.90%) Roadmaps
10 160 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 160 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
11 155 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
12 143 (13.27%) Event-Driven
13 137 (12.71%) Containerisation
14 124 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
15 120 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 95 (8.81%) Fintech
16 95 (8.81%) Low Latency
17 90 (8.35%) Computer Science
18 87 (8.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 353 (32.75%) Python
2 180 (16.70%) SQL
3 130 (12.06%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.46%) C#
5 99 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 90 (8.35%) C++
7 86 (7.98%) Go
8 48 (4.45%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.27%) Bash
10 35 (3.25%) C
11 30 (2.78%) Ruby
11 30 (2.78%) Rust
12 24 (2.23%) PowerShell
13 22 (2.04%) Scala
14 21 (1.95%) PHP
15 19 (1.76%) Perl
16 11 (1.02%) R
17 10 (0.93%) RPG
18 8 (0.74%) VBA
19 7 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 140 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.11%) Degree
3 84 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 66 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 59 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 52 (4.82%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.30%) OSCP
9 10 (0.93%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.83%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.46%) CCSP
12 5 (0.46%) CISM
12 5 (0.46%) CISSP
13 4 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.66%) QA
2 20 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.76%) GDPR
4 14 (1.30%) GRC
5 10 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.83%) NIST
7 8 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.46%) WCAG
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) UCITS
11 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 136 (12.62%) Docker
2 18 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) KVM
5 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.093%) Firmware
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 222 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 127 (11.78%) Terraform
3 57 (5.29%) Grafana
4 35 (3.25%) Ansible
5 23 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.65%) Kibana
7 6 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.56%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.46%) Puppet
8 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Packer
9 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 3 (0.28%) WSUS
11 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 54 (5.01%) Oracle
2 49 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 48 (4.45%) Google
4 31 (2.88%) IBM
5 30 (2.78%) Splunk
6 24 (2.23%) Palantir
7 19 (1.76%) VMware
8 18 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.58%) Foundry
10 15 (1.39%) SAP
11 13 (1.21%) Databricks
11 13 (1.21%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.21%) SendGrid
12 12 (1.11%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.11%) Solace
13 9 (0.83%) HP
14 8 (0.74%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 7 (0.65%) MuleSoft