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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,059 1,981 2,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.86% 10.27% 12.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.51% 24.71% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 640 1,379 2,291
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%

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 4,704 8,017 10,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.36% 41.57% 46.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,172 5,342 8,876
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £49,875
25th Percentile £62,188 £62,500 £60,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,250 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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
Central London +6 203 £90,000 +5.88% 87
South London +29 55 £82,500 - 8
West London +39 12 £82,500 +65.00% 9
East London -6 3 - - 10
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 121 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (10.01%) Apache
3 36 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.61%) Confluence
5 8 (0.76%) JBoss
6 7 (0.66%) nginx
6 7 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
7 5 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.38%) Traefik
9 3 (0.28%) Luigi
9 3 (0.28%) Mule
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Adaptiv
1 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.38%) Endur
2 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.19%) Maximo
4 2 (0.19%) Shopify
5 1 (0.094%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 565 (53.35%) AWS
2 182 (17.19%) Azure
3 161 (15.20%) GCP
4 117 (11.05%) dbt
5 99 (9.35%) Serverless
6 98 (9.25%) Snowflake
7 78 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
9 56 (5.29%) GitHub
10 48 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (3.31%) SaaS
13 32 (3.02%) Datadog
14 30 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (2.74%) Amazon S3
16 24 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
19 14 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 10 (0.94%) Network Security
3 8 (0.76%) DNS
4 7 (0.66%) VPN
5 4 (0.38%) DHCP
5 4 (0.38%) ICMP
5 4 (0.38%) Multicast
5 4 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.28%) LAN
6 3 (0.28%) SAN
6 3 (0.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.28%) WAN
7 2 (0.19%) Broadband
7 2 (0.19%) FTP
7 2 (0.19%) HTTP
7 2 (0.19%) SMTP
7 2 (0.19%) SSH
8 1 (0.094%) Firewall
8 1 (0.094%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (11.05%) Apache Iceberg
3 114 (10.76%) Data Lake
4 113 (10.67%) Amazon Athena
4 113 (10.67%) Apache Arrow
4 113 (10.67%) Dremio
5 110 (10.39%) Relational Database
6 92 (8.69%) Apache Ignite
7 54 (5.10%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.15%) MongoDB
8 44 (4.15%) RDBMS
9 40 (3.78%) Big Data
10 39 (3.68%) SQL Server
11 35 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (2.27%) Hadoop
13 23 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (1.98%) DynamoDB
15 20 (1.89%) MySQL
16 19 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (1.61%) KDB
Development Applications
1 94 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 79 (7.46%) Git
3 59 (5.57%) JUnit
4 40 (3.78%) Mockito
5 35 (3.31%) JIRA
6 30 (2.83%) JMeter
7 25 (2.36%) Maven
7 25 (2.36%) Selenium
8 24 (2.27%) GitLab
9 19 (1.79%) IntelliJ
10 18 (1.70%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.42%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 13 (1.23%) Postman
13 13 (1.23%) Vite
14 9 (0.85%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.85%) Subversion
14 9 (0.85%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 582 (54.96%) Finance
2 379 (35.79%) Banking
3 252 (23.80%) Social Skills
4 246 (23.23%) Front Office
5 222 (20.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 216 (20.40%) Law
7 174 (16.43%) Investment Banking
8 114 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (6.14%) Financial Institution
10 61 (5.76%) Public Sector
11 53 (5.00%) Marketing
12 28 (2.64%) Legal
13 18 (1.70%) Billing
14 16 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.85%) Games
17 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.66%) Back Office
18 7 (0.66%) Retail
19 6 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 403 (38.05%) Software Engineer
2 341 (32.20%) Developer
3 275 (25.97%) Senior
4 270 (25.50%) Java Engineer
5 242 (22.85%) Lead
6 232 (21.91%) Java Software Engineer
7 176 (16.62%) Java Developer
8 161 (15.20%) Senior Software Engineer
9 141 (13.31%) AWS Engineer
10 136 (12.84%) Senior Java Engineer
11 131 (12.37%) Lead Software Engineer
12 127 (11.99%) AWS Software Engineer
13 126 (11.90%) Python Engineer
14 124 (11.71%) Python Software Engineer
15 121 (11.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 58 (5.48%) Lead Java Engineer
17 55 (5.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 44 (4.15%) Data Engineer
19 42 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
20 39 (3.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (19.92%) Spring
2 203 (19.17%) Kafka
3 171 (16.15%) React
4 162 (15.30%) Spring Boot
5 132 (12.46%) Pandas
6 113 (10.67%) NumPy
6 113 (10.67%) SciPy
7 108 (10.20%) RESTful
8 103 (9.73%) Node.js
9 96 (9.07%) gRPC
10 93 (8.78%) .NET
10 93 (8.78%) Protocol Buffers
11 91 (8.59%) REST
12 72 (6.80%) AngularJS
13 55 (5.19%) HTML
14 52 (4.91%) Web Services
15 45 (4.25%) Hibernate
16 38 (3.59%) ActiveMQ
17 37 (3.49%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 190 (17.94%) Cloud Native
2 159 (15.01%) Equities
3 158 (14.92%) Fixed Income
3 158 (14.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 155 (14.64%) Derivative
5 138 (13.03%) Distributed Systems
6 99 (9.35%) Hedge funds
7 91 (8.59%) Pricing Data
8 70 (6.61%) Algorithms
9 53 (5.00%) Onboarding
10 48 (4.53%) Public Cloud
11 39 (3.68%) Management Information System
12 32 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (2.93%) Data Structures
14 28 (2.64%) Product Ownership
15 23 (2.17%) Virtual Team
16 22 (2.08%) Mobile App
17 19 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
18 18 (1.70%) FPGA
19 17 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 102 (9.63%) Linux
2 25 (2.36%) Android
3 18 (1.70%) Unix
4 15 (1.42%) Windows
5 10 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
8 2 (0.19%) zOS
9 1 (0.094%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (54.96%) Agile
2 507 (47.88%) Software Engineering
3 332 (31.35%) CI/CD
4 256 (24.17%) Microservices
5 212 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (19.64%) SDLC
7 182 (17.19%) DevOps
8 161 (15.20%) Fintech
9 141 (13.31%) Investment Management
10 135 (12.75%) Computer Science
11 127 (11.99%) Asset Management
12 124 (11.71%) Test Automation
13 123 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 110 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
16 109 (10.29%) Containerisation
17 105 (9.92%) TDD
18 101 (9.54%) Machine Learning
19 100 (9.44%) Analytics
20 96 (9.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 499 (47.12%) Python
2 268 (25.31%) JavaScript
3 225 (21.25%) TypeScript
4 162 (15.30%) SQL
5 126 (11.90%) C++
6 124 (11.71%) C#
7 101 (9.54%) Go
8 80 (7.55%) Kotlin
9 54 (5.10%) Scala
10 44 (4.15%) Shell Script
11 43 (4.06%) C
12 34 (3.21%) Rust
13 17 (1.61%) Bash
14 15 (1.42%) Groovy
14 15 (1.42%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.66%) Ruby
17 5 (0.47%) R
18 4 (0.38%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 142 (13.41%) Degree
2 89 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.48%) Master's Degree
4 56 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (4.63%) SC Cleared
6 39 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 35 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.31%) PhD
8 17 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.85%) CFA
9 9 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.85%) PMP
10 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.28%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.28%) Dell Certification
12 3 (0.28%) MCSA
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.21%) QA
2 21 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.61%) GDPR
4 12 (1.13%) SLA
5 11 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.47%) NIST
8 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.38%) SEPA
10 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.19%) GRC
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.19%) ITGC
11 2 (0.19%) PSD2
12 1 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.094%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 193 (18.22%) Docker
2 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.47%) HDFS
4 4 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.19%) KVM
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.19%) Xen
7 1 (0.094%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.094%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 280 (26.44%) Kubernetes
2 98 (9.25%) Terraform
3 40 (3.78%) Ansible
4 31 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.83%) Grafana
6 26 (2.46%) Kibana
7 15 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.23%) Argo
8 13 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.57%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.47%) Puppet
11 4 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.38%) Packer
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Istio
12 3 (0.28%) WSUS
13 2 (0.19%) CA Endevor
13 2 (0.19%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (6.14%) Oracle
2 43 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 40 (3.78%) Google
3 40 (3.78%) Guidewire
4 35 (3.31%) Splunk
5 32 (3.02%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.98%) Databricks
7 15 (1.42%) Foundry
8 14 (1.32%) Palantir
9 10 (0.94%) IBM
9 10 (0.94%) Informatica
9 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.94%) Solace
10 9 (0.85%) Murex
11 8 (0.76%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.66%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.66%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.66%) Talend
13 6 (0.57%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.57%) SAP