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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,055 1,099 1,979
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.43% 9.06% 10.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.96% 22.14% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 578 687 1,445
10th Percentile £53,750 £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 £106,250 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £142,500 £148,750
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 5,565 4,963 7,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.38% 40.90% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,819 3,398 5,786
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +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 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 14 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 14 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 -17 138 £100,000 +11.11% 82
South London -24 23 £70,000 -15.15% 6
West London -19 18 £80,000 +33.33% 22
East London -12 1 - - 16
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 (3.32%) Confluence
2 20 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.80%) Apache
4 18 (1.71%) Camunda
5 15 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.28%) CMS
6 3 (0.28%) JBoss
6 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.28%) SAS
7 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.19%) Moodle
7 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.095%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.38%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.095%) Endur
4 1 (0.095%) Findur
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 488 (46.26%) AWS
2 219 (20.76%) Azure
3 182 (17.25%) GCP
4 64 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 62 (5.88%) GitHub
6 49 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (4.55%) Serverless
8 40 (3.79%) SaaS
9 28 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.90%) GitHub Copilot
13 20 (1.90%) OpenShift
14 18 (1.71%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (1.42%) Datadog
16 15 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.03%) HTTP
2 17 (1.61%) Network Security
3 16 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.23%) DMARC
5 10 (0.95%) Broadband
6 7 (0.66%) DNS
6 7 (0.66%) VPN
7 6 (0.57%) BGP
7 6 (0.57%) IPsec
7 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.47%) Internet
9 4 (0.38%) IPv4
9 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.095%) AMQP
12 1 (0.095%) LTE
12 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (7.58%) NoSQL
2 65 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (5.69%) Relational Database
4 45 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 31 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.09%) Db2
7 18 (1.71%) Big Data
8 17 (1.61%) MySQL
8 17 (1.61%) Redis
9 13 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.14%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.14%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.95%) DTS
12 8 (0.76%) Metadata
12 8 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.57%) HBase
14 6 (0.57%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 80 (7.58%) Git
2 55 (5.21%) GitLab
3 53 (5.02%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 39 (3.70%) JIRA
5 34 (3.22%) Selenium
5 34 (3.22%) TeamCity
6 23 (2.18%) JUnit
7 17 (1.61%) Maven
8 16 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.42%) Mockito
10 13 (1.23%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (1.04%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.04%) Gradle
11 11 (1.04%) Postman
12 7 (0.66%) JMeter
13 6 (0.57%) MLflow
13 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 445 (42.18%) Finance
2 207 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 198 (18.77%) Banking
4 91 (8.63%) Front Office
4 91 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 74 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (6.35%) Law
8 51 (4.83%) Financial Institution
9 44 (4.17%) Retail
10 30 (2.84%) Investment Banking
11 24 (2.27%) Marketing
12 23 (2.18%) Back Office
13 16 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.23%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.04%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.76%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.66%) Advertising
18 7 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 295 (27.96%) Senior
2 267 (25.31%) Developer
3 256 (24.27%) Software Engineer
4 241 (22.84%) Java Engineer
5 146 (13.84%) Java Developer
5 146 (13.84%) Lead
6 100 (9.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 80 (7.58%) Senior Developer
8 73 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
9 64 (6.07%) Senior Java Engineer
10 55 (5.21%) Principal Engineer
11 54 (5.12%) Lead Software Engineer
12 48 (4.55%) Architect
13 45 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 42 (3.98%) Principal Java Engineer
15 38 (3.60%) Consultant
15 38 (3.60%) Senior Java Developer
15 38 (3.60%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.51%) Engineering Manager
17 31 (2.94%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (26.45%) Spring
2 231 (21.90%) Spring Boot
3 191 (18.10%) Kafka
4 123 (11.66%) REST
5 100 (9.48%) React
6 78 (7.39%) Node.js
7 77 (7.30%) RESTful
8 69 (6.54%) .NET
9 51 (4.83%) AngularJS
10 37 (3.51%) OAuth
11 30 (2.84%) GraphQL
11 30 (2.84%) OAuth2
12 28 (2.65%) Web Services
13 27 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
14 25 (2.37%) Hibernate
15 23 (2.18%) Middleware
16 22 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
17 21 (1.99%) Redux
18 19 (1.80%) HTML
19 18 (1.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 201 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 151 (14.31%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (10.62%) Product Ownership
4 103 (9.76%) Public Cloud
5 58 (5.50%) Onboarding
6 44 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (3.89%) Fixed Income
8 37 (3.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 33 (3.13%) Equities
10 30 (2.84%) e-Learning
11 29 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (2.37%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (1.61%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.52%) Blog
15 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.42%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
17 14 (1.33%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 95 (9.00%) Linux
2 34 (3.22%) Windows
3 13 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (1.23%) Unix
4 12 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.95%) Android
6 7 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (40.09%) Software Engineering
2 343 (32.51%) CI/CD
3 294 (27.87%) Microservices
4 287 (27.20%) Agile
5 219 (20.76%) DevOps
6 207 (19.62%) Mentoring
7 206 (19.53%) Test Automation
8 195 (18.48%) AI
9 192 (18.20%) Roadmaps
10 161 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
11 155 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 154 (14.60%) Technical Leadership
13 148 (14.03%) Event-Driven
14 133 (12.61%) Containerisation
15 116 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 115 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
17 93 (8.82%) Low Latency
18 92 (8.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 91 (8.63%) Computer Science
19 91 (8.63%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 345 (32.70%) Python
2 176 (16.68%) SQL
3 120 (11.37%) JavaScript
4 101 (9.57%) C#
5 89 (8.44%) TypeScript
6 88 (8.34%) C++
7 78 (7.39%) Go
8 52 (4.93%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.36%) Bash
10 34 (3.22%) C
11 30 (2.84%) Ruby
12 29 (2.75%) Rust
13 24 (2.27%) PowerShell
14 23 (2.18%) Scala
15 21 (1.99%) PHP
16 19 (1.80%) Perl
17 11 (1.04%) R
18 10 (0.95%) RPG
19 8 (0.76%) VBA
20 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 141 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.43%) Degree
3 83 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 65 (6.16%) AWS Certification
5 60 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (5.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 52 (4.93%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.14%) OSCP
9 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.76%) CREST Certified
11 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.47%) CCSP
12 5 (0.47%) CISM
12 5 (0.47%) CISSP
12 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.69%) QA
2 20 (1.90%) Data Quality
2 20 (1.90%) GDPR
3 14 (1.33%) GRC
4 10 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 9 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.85%) NIST
6 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.47%) WCAG
8 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (12.61%) Docker
2 18 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.095%) Firmware
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 212 (20.09%) Kubernetes
2 121 (11.47%) Terraform
3 53 (5.02%) Grafana
4 36 (3.41%) Ansible
5 23 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.66%) Kibana
7 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.57%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.47%) Puppet
8 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.38%) Argo
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) 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 56 (5.31%) Oracle
2 50 (4.74%) Microsoft
3 49 (4.64%) Google
4 31 (2.94%) IBM
5 30 (2.84%) Splunk
6 24 (2.27%) Palantir
7 19 (1.80%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.80%) VMware
8 18 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.61%) Foundry
10 15 (1.42%) SAP
11 14 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
13 12 (1.14%) Bloomberg
13 12 (1.14%) Databricks
14 11 (1.04%) Solace
15 9 (0.85%) HP
16 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
16 8 (0.76%) Salesforce
17 7 (0.66%) MuleSoft