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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 934 1,592 1,998
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.13% 9.37% 10.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.28% 22.19% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 587 1,084 1,683
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,800
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £131,875 £127,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 4,390 7,176 8,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.51% 42.21% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 4,749 7,205
10th Percentile £46,059 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 2 December 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 2 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
Central London +5 159 £100,000 +17.65% 60
South London +16 31 £82,500 +34.69% 10
West London -10 5 £60,000 -8.05% 13
East London -19 2 £75,000 -40.00% 14
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 70 (7.49%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (6.96%) Apache
3 42 (4.50%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.39%) Confluence
5 8 (0.86%) JBoss
6 7 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.64%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.43%) Appian
9 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.32%) Luigi
10 3 (0.32%) Mule
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.75%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.43%) Shopify
4 3 (0.32%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.32%) Maximo
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 475 (50.86%) AWS
2 146 (15.63%) Azure
3 137 (14.67%) GCP
4 76 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
5 64 (6.85%) dbt
6 62 (6.64%) Serverless
6 62 (6.64%) Snowflake
7 54 (5.78%) GitHub
8 53 (5.67%) SaaS
9 37 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.89%) Datadog
13 23 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
15 20 (2.14%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.82%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
18 12 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.32%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.96%) HTTP
2 9 (0.96%) Multicast
2 9 (0.96%) VPN
3 6 (0.64%) DNS
4 4 (0.43%) Broadband
4 4 (0.43%) DHCP
4 4 (0.43%) Firewall
4 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.43%) LAN
4 4 (0.43%) SAN
4 4 (0.43%) WAN
5 3 (0.32%) BGP
5 3 (0.32%) VLAN
6 2 (0.21%) AMQP
6 2 (0.21%) ICMP
6 2 (0.21%) Internet
6 2 (0.21%) NAS
6 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 90 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (7.71%) Data Lake
4 59 (6.32%) Apache Iceberg
5 57 (6.10%) Amazon Athena
5 57 (6.10%) Apache Arrow
5 57 (6.10%) Dremio
6 56 (6.00%) Apache Ignite
7 49 (5.25%) NoSQL
8 45 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (4.71%) MongoDB
10 42 (4.50%) RDBMS
11 41 (4.39%) Big Data
12 36 (3.85%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.64%) Hadoop
14 22 (2.36%) DynamoDB
15 18 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (1.93%) MySQL
16 17 (1.82%) DB2
17 14 (1.50%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (8.35%) Jenkins
2 52 (5.57%) Git
3 40 (4.28%) Selenium
4 33 (3.53%) JUnit
5 29 (3.10%) TeamCity
6 28 (3.00%) JIRA
6 28 (3.00%) JMeter
7 26 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.68%) GitLab
9 22 (2.36%) Mockito
10 20 (2.14%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.61%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.18%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.07%) Maven
13 10 (1.07%) Vite
14 9 (0.96%) Postman
15 7 (0.75%) Subversion
16 6 (0.64%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.64%) webpack
17 5 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 453 (48.50%) Finance
2 292 (31.26%) Banking
3 258 (27.62%) Social Skills
4 166 (17.77%) Front Office
5 143 (15.31%) Law
6 131 (14.03%) Investment Banking
7 128 (13.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 91 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
9 81 (8.67%) Financial Institution
10 53 (5.67%) Public Sector
11 31 (3.32%) Retail
12 29 (3.10%) Back Office
13 24 (2.57%) Marketing
14 16 (1.71%) Billing
15 15 (1.61%) Legal
15 15 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.50%) Games
17 11 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.18%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 321 (34.37%) Developer
2 301 (32.23%) Software Engineer
3 245 (26.23%) Senior
4 192 (20.56%) Java Engineer
5 174 (18.63%) Lead
6 160 (17.13%) Java Developer
7 148 (15.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 117 (12.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 100 (10.71%) Senior Java Engineer
10 93 (9.96%) AWS Engineer
11 82 (8.78%) Lead Software Engineer
12 76 (8.14%) Python Engineer
12 76 (8.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 69 (7.39%) Full-Stack Developer
14 68 (7.28%) Python Software Engineer
15 66 (7.07%) AWS Software Engineer
16 51 (5.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 40 (4.28%) Architect
18 39 (4.18%) Data Engineer
19 35 (3.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (19.91%) Spring
2 179 (19.16%) React
3 177 (18.95%) Kafka
4 129 (13.81%) Spring Boot
5 96 (10.28%) Node.js
6 95 (10.17%) REST
7 88 (9.42%) RESTful
8 73 (7.82%) .NET
9 63 (6.75%) Pandas
10 59 (6.32%) AngularJS
11 58 (6.21%) gRPC
12 57 (6.10%) NumPy
12 57 (6.10%) SciPy
13 54 (5.78%) GraphQL
13 54 (5.78%) HTML
13 54 (5.78%) Protocol Buffers
14 39 (4.18%) Hibernate
15 36 (3.85%) Web Services
16 33 (3.53%) CSS
17 31 (3.32%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 194 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 157 (16.81%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (12.10%) Equities
4 106 (11.35%) Fixed Income
5 99 (10.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 87 (9.31%) Derivative
7 68 (7.28%) Hedge funds
8 57 (6.10%) Algorithms
9 55 (5.89%) Pricing Data
10 46 (4.93%) Onboarding
11 38 (4.07%) Public Cloud
12 37 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
12 37 (3.96%) Product Ownership
13 28 (3.00%) Management Information System
14 24 (2.57%) Data Structures
15 23 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
16 21 (2.25%) FPGA
17 17 (1.82%) Legacy Code
17 17 (1.82%) Virtual Team
18 14 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 104 (11.13%) Linux
2 24 (2.57%) Windows
3 15 (1.61%) Unix
4 8 (0.86%) Android
5 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.21%) CentOS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.21%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (45.82%) Agile
2 388 (41.54%) Software Engineering
3 310 (33.19%) CI/CD
4 231 (24.73%) Microservices
5 195 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (17.02%) Test Automation
7 154 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 152 (16.27%) DevOps
9 128 (13.70%) Computer Science
9 128 (13.70%) SDLC
10 119 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (12.10%) Fintech
12 104 (11.13%) AI
12 104 (11.13%) Low Latency
12 104 (11.13%) Mentoring
13 89 (9.53%) Investment Management
14 85 (9.10%) Machine Learning
14 85 (9.10%) TDD
15 81 (8.67%) Containerisation
16 80 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 394 (42.18%) Python
2 219 (23.45%) JavaScript
3 193 (20.66%) TypeScript
4 153 (16.38%) SQL
5 106 (11.35%) C#
6 80 (8.57%) C++
6 80 (8.57%) Go
7 75 (8.03%) Kotlin
8 52 (5.57%) Scala
9 47 (5.03%) C
10 29 (3.10%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.14%) Rust
12 12 (1.28%) Groovy
12 12 (1.28%) Ruby
13 8 (0.86%) Bash
13 8 (0.86%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.64%) Perl
14 6 (0.64%) R
15 4 (0.43%) RPG
16 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (14.67%) Degree
2 84 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 53 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (5.03%) SC Cleared
5 45 (4.82%) Master's Degree
6 28 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 25 (2.68%) PhD
8 24 (2.57%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.43%) CFA
13 4 (0.43%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.43%) OSCE
13 4 (0.43%) OSCP
13 4 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.43%) PMP
14 3 (0.32%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.18%) QA
2 23 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.93%) GDPR
4 11 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.75%) SLA
7 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.43%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.43%) SEPA
9 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.21%) ITGC
10 2 (0.21%) PSD2
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 131 (14.03%) Docker
2 17 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.86%) HDFS
6 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 217 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.21%) Terraform
3 29 (3.10%) Grafana
4 23 (2.46%) Kibana
5 19 (2.03%) Ansible
6 15 (1.61%) Argo
6 15 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.54%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.32%) Control-M
8 3 (0.32%) Nagios
9 2 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.21%) logstash
9 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (0.21%) WSUS
10 1 (0.11%) Icinga
Vendors
1 47 (5.03%) Oracle
2 35 (3.75%) Guidewire
3 29 (3.10%) Microsoft
4 26 (2.78%) Google
5 25 (2.68%) Splunk
6 21 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.03%) Databricks
8 14 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.39%) Dell
9 13 (1.39%) IBM
9 13 (1.39%) Informatica
9 13 (1.39%) Talend
10 12 (1.28%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.96%) Foundry
12 9 (0.96%) SAP
12 9 (0.96%) Solace
13 8 (0.86%) Palantir
14 7 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.64%) SnapLogic