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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 995 1,041 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.49% 8.11% 8.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.15% 19.35% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 586 763 1,532
10th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £145,000 £146,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% +4.83% -9.38%

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 4,939 5,380 9,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.26% 41.90% 40.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,466 3,938 7,613
10th Percentile £46,939 £49,815 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,063 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 April 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 2 April 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 -2 151 £100,000 - 113
West London -23 13 £61,250 +104.17% 11
South London -11 12 £62,600 -24.12% 2
East London -15 4 - - 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 27 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.41%) Apache
4 13 (1.31%) Confluence
5 12 (1.21%) JBoss
6 11 (1.11%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.80%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) Appian
10 4 (0.40%) Moodle
10 4 (0.40%) nginx
11 3 (0.30%) Liferay
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
12 1 (0.10%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.21%) Maximo
2 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.40%) Shopify
3 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 445 (44.72%) AWS
2 179 (17.99%) GCP
3 146 (14.67%) Azure
4 85 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
5 84 (8.44%) SaaS
6 51 (5.13%) GitHub
7 29 (2.91%) Serverless
8 28 (2.81%) OpenShift
9 27 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (2.21%) dbt
11 20 (2.01%) Pulumi
12 19 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
12 19 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
13 18 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.61%) Datadog
16 15 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.02%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.51%) Broadband
3 18 (1.81%) HTTP
4 7 (0.70%) VPN
5 6 (0.60%) BGP
5 6 (0.60%) Multicast
5 6 (0.60%) VLAN
6 5 (0.50%) AMQP
7 3 (0.30%) Firewall
7 3 (0.30%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.30%) Network Security
8 2 (0.20%) DHCP
8 2 (0.20%) DNS
8 2 (0.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) LAN
8 2 (0.20%) NAS
8 2 (0.20%) SAN
8 2 (0.20%) SNMP
8 2 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.24%) Relational Database
3 70 (7.04%) NoSQL
4 42 (4.22%) RDBMS
5 34 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 30 (3.02%) DB2
7 22 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.21%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.61%) Big Data
9 15 (1.51%) DynamoDB
10 14 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.41%) Hadoop
10 14 (1.41%) MySQL
11 12 (1.21%) Neo4j
11 12 (1.21%) Redis
12 11 (1.11%) Flink
13 10 (1.01%) Pentaho
14 8 (0.80%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 68 (6.83%) TeamCity
2 49 (4.92%) Selenium
3 46 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 40 (4.02%) Git
5 32 (3.22%) Cucumber
6 27 (2.71%) GitLab
7 23 (2.31%) JIRA
8 16 (1.61%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.51%) JUnit
10 13 (1.31%) Gradle
11 12 (1.21%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.11%) WebDriver
13 9 (0.90%) JMeter
14 8 (0.80%) Maven
15 7 (0.70%) Claude Code
15 7 (0.70%) Postman
16 5 (0.50%) Mockito
16 5 (0.50%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 378 (37.99%) Finance
2 234 (23.52%) Banking
3 196 (19.70%) Social Skills
4 125 (12.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (11.46%) Front Office
6 110 (11.06%) Law
7 93 (9.35%) Retail
8 87 (8.74%) Financial Institution
9 68 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
10 63 (6.33%) Public Sector
11 59 (5.93%) Back Office
12 54 (5.43%) Investment Banking
13 27 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.31%) Games
15 18 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.71%) Billing
17 12 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.80%) Marketing
18 8 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 352 (35.38%) Developer
2 269 (27.04%) Senior
3 263 (26.43%) Software Engineer
4 198 (19.90%) Java Developer
5 180 (18.09%) Java Engineer
6 147 (14.77%) Lead
7 105 (10.55%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (8.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 81 (8.14%) Senior Developer
10 80 (8.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 70 (7.04%) Senior Java Engineer
12 69 (6.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 54 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
14 52 (5.23%) Senior Java Developer
15 50 (5.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 46 (4.62%) Architect
17 43 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
18 41 (4.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 40 (4.02%) React Developer
20 39 (3.92%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (20.30%) Spring
2 180 (18.09%) React
3 156 (15.68%) Spring Boot
4 131 (13.17%) Kafka
5 110 (11.06%) REST
6 95 (9.55%) Node.js
7 68 (6.83%) .NET
8 61 (6.13%) AngularJS
8 61 (6.13%) RESTful
9 56 (5.63%) GraphQL
10 46 (4.62%) HTML
11 39 (3.92%) CSS
11 39 (3.92%) Web Services
12 38 (3.82%) SOAP
13 35 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
13 35 (3.52%) Redux
14 29 (2.91%) Hibernate
15 28 (2.81%) FIX Protocol
16 26 (2.61%) JSON
17 25 (2.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 194 (19.50%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.73%) Fixed Income
4 56 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 51 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 42 (4.22%) Equities
7 41 (4.12%) Public Cloud
8 39 (3.92%) Blog
9 27 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (2.61%) Derivative
11 23 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
12 21 (2.11%) FPGA
13 18 (1.81%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.41%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.31%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.31%) Mobile Banking
17 12 (1.21%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 116 (11.66%) Linux
2 30 (3.02%) Unix
3 26 (2.61%) Windows
4 23 (2.31%) Android
5 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (37.09%) Software Engineering
2 315 (31.66%) CI/CD
3 312 (31.36%) Agile
4 216 (21.71%) Microservices
5 195 (19.60%) DevOps
6 192 (19.30%) Test Automation
7 189 (18.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 170 (17.09%) Mentoring
9 150 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (13.57%) Roadmaps
11 122 (12.26%) Fintech
12 121 (12.16%) AI
13 117 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
14 116 (11.66%) Containerisation
15 102 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (9.45%) Low Latency
17 91 (9.15%) Clean Code
17 91 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
18 83 (8.34%) Computer Science
19 67 (6.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 297 (29.85%) Python
2 196 (19.70%) JavaScript
3 149 (14.97%) SQL
4 135 (13.57%) TypeScript
5 117 (11.76%) Go
6 84 (8.44%) C#
7 71 (7.14%) C++
8 59 (5.93%) Kotlin
9 37 (3.72%) C
10 35 (3.52%) Bash
11 30 (3.02%) Rust
12 22 (2.21%) Scala
13 13 (1.31%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.80%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Perl
16 7 (0.70%) Ruby
17 6 (0.60%) VBA
18 5 (0.50%) RPG
Qualifications
1 134 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.26%) Degree
3 85 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.71%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.51%) CREST Certified
8 15 (1.51%) OSCP
9 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.31%) PhD
10 11 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.70%) OSCE
12 6 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.40%) ISEB
13 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.30%) CCSAM
14 3 (0.30%) GPEN
14 3 (0.30%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.72%) QA
2 16 (1.61%) GDPR
2 16 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.51%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (0.80%) GRC
6 7 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.40%) SLA
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.30%) NIST
9 2 (0.20%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) MiFID
10 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 140 (14.07%) Docker
2 10 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.30%) HDFS
6 3 (0.30%) KVM
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 249 (25.03%) Kubernetes
2 136 (13.67%) Terraform
3 73 (7.34%) Grafana
4 37 (3.72%) Ansible
5 30 (3.02%) Argo
6 27 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.61%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.80%) Kibana
9 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
12 1 (0.10%) logstash
12 1 (0.10%) Nagios
12 1 (0.10%) Puppet
12 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (3.62%) Google
2 24 (2.41%) IBM
2 24 (2.41%) Oracle
3 19 (1.91%) Microsoft
4 16 (1.61%) MuleSoft
5 14 (1.41%) Informatica
5 14 (1.41%) Talend
6 12 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.11%) Databricks
7 11 (1.11%) Foundry
8 10 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.90%) Palantir
9 9 (0.90%) Solace
9 9 (0.90%) Splunk
10 8 (0.80%) Dell
11 7 (0.70%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) VMware
13 5 (0.50%) Mercator