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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,054 1,206 2,233
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.73% 9.60% 9.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.64% 23.05% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 595 773 1,679
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £139,375
90th Percentile £134,000 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,366 5,231 9,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.09% 41.62% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 3,634 7,146
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,063 £60,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -22 148 £100,000 +2.56% 139
South London -15 24 £70,000 -15.15% 5
West London -14 20 £80,000 +166.67% 105
East London -5 2 - - 12
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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 25 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.52%) Apache
4 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.04%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 1 (0.095%) CICS
10 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.095%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.095%) Endur
3 1 (0.095%) Findur
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 491 (46.58%) AWS
2 194 (18.41%) GCP
3 190 (18.03%) Azure
4 77 (7.31%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (5.50%) SaaS
7 52 (4.93%) GitHub
7 52 (4.93%) Serverless
8 29 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (2.47%) OpenShift
11 24 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.71%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.52%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (1.42%) dbt
17 14 (1.33%) AWS Control Tower
18 13 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.85%) HTTP
2 22 (2.09%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.61%) Network Security
4 16 (1.52%) Broadband
5 13 (1.23%) DMARC
6 9 (0.85%) BGP
6 9 (0.85%) VPN
7 6 (0.57%) DNS
7 6 (0.57%) IPsec
8 5 (0.47%) Internet
9 4 (0.38%) IPv4
9 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.28%) Firewall
10 3 (0.28%) VLAN
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
11 2 (0.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) WAN
12 1 (0.095%) AMQP
12 1 (0.095%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 66 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 32 (3.04%) MongoDB
5 25 (2.37%) Db2
6 23 (2.18%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.71%) Big Data
7 18 (1.71%) RDBMS
8 16 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.14%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.14%) MySQL
11 11 (1.04%) Redis
12 10 (0.95%) DTS
12 10 (0.95%) Metadata
13 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 62 (5.88%) Git
2 56 (5.31%) TeamCity
3 52 (4.93%) GitLab
4 46 (4.36%) Jenkins
5 33 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 30 (2.85%) JIRA
6 30 (2.85%) Selenium
7 21 (1.99%) JUnit
8 15 (1.42%) Maven
9 14 (1.33%) Gradle
10 13 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.04%) Mockito
12 8 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.66%) JMeter
14 6 (0.57%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.57%) Postman
15 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 436 (41.37%) Finance
2 202 (19.17%) Banking
3 170 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 106 (10.06%) Front Office
5 102 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 87 (8.25%) Public Sector
7 84 (7.97%) Law
8 81 (7.69%) Retail
9 67 (6.36%) Financial Institution
10 63 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
11 45 (4.27%) Back Office
12 28 (2.66%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.42%) Games
14 14 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.04%) Marketing
15 11 (1.04%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.95%) Billing
16 10 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 312 (29.60%) Developer
2 269 (25.52%) Senior
3 249 (23.62%) Software Engineer
4 222 (21.06%) Java Engineer
5 171 (16.22%) Java Developer
6 149 (14.14%) Lead
7 85 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 85 (8.06%) Senior Developer
8 76 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 60 (5.69%) Lead Software Engineer
9 60 (5.69%) Senior Java Engineer
10 50 (4.74%) Architect
11 48 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
12 47 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
13 43 (4.08%) Consultant
13 43 (4.08%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
15 35 (3.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 35 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (24.00%) Spring
2 214 (20.30%) Spring Boot
3 170 (16.13%) Kafka
4 117 (11.10%) React
5 115 (10.91%) REST
6 90 (8.54%) Node.js
7 63 (5.98%) .NET
8 57 (5.41%) RESTful
9 53 (5.03%) AngularJS
10 42 (3.98%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.42%) Redux
12 34 (3.23%) Web Services
13 29 (2.75%) OAuth
14 26 (2.47%) Middleware
15 24 (2.28%) Hibernate
15 24 (2.28%) OAuth2
16 23 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
17 21 (1.99%) HTML
18 20 (1.90%) SOAP
19 19 (1.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 210 (19.92%) Cloud Native
2 115 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (9.49%) Product Ownership
4 94 (8.92%) Public Cloud
5 51 (4.84%) Fixed Income
6 47 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (3.80%) Onboarding
8 35 (3.32%) Blog
9 31 (2.94%) Equities
10 30 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 25 (2.37%) e-Learning
11 25 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.61%) FPGA
14 16 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
15 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.04%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.44%) Linux
2 30 (2.85%) Windows
3 18 (1.71%) Unix
4 17 (1.61%) Android
5 10 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (37.48%) Software Engineering
2 339 (32.16%) CI/CD
3 298 (28.27%) Agile
4 262 (24.86%) Microservices
5 219 (20.78%) DevOps
5 219 (20.78%) Test Automation
6 198 (18.79%) Mentoring
7 178 (16.89%) Roadmaps
8 151 (14.33%) AI
9 148 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 147 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
11 138 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (12.05%) Containerisation
13 126 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 101 (9.58%) Event-Driven
14 101 (9.58%) Fintech
15 98 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (8.92%) Low Latency
17 86 (8.16%) Computer Science
18 79 (7.50%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 344 (32.64%) Python
2 169 (16.03%) SQL
3 147 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 101 (9.58%) C#
5 100 (9.49%) Go
6 97 (9.20%) C++
7 96 (9.11%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.22%) Bash
9 40 (3.80%) Kotlin
10 37 (3.51%) Rust
11 36 (3.42%) C
12 25 (2.37%) Ruby
13 23 (2.18%) PowerShell
14 21 (1.99%) PHP
15 20 (1.90%) Scala
16 18 (1.71%) Perl
17 10 (0.95%) RPG
18 9 (0.85%) R
19 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
20 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 148 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 108 (10.25%) Degree
3 88 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 66 (6.26%) AWS Certification
5 56 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 50 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (1.52%) OSCP
8 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.14%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.85%) PhD
11 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.38%) CCNA
13 4 (0.38%) RHCE
13 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.28%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.03%) QA
2 19 (1.80%) GDPR
3 17 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.33%) GRC
5 12 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.57%) NIST
9 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.095%) MiFID
11 1 (0.095%) PSD2
System Software
1 121 (11.48%) Docker
2 16 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.095%) Firmware
9 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 221 (20.97%) Kubernetes
2 153 (14.52%) Terraform
3 83 (7.87%) Grafana
4 40 (3.80%) Ansible
5 32 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.95%) Argo
7 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.57%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) Puppet
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.28%) Oracle Flashback
11 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.28%) Rancher
11 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (3.98%) Google
2 41 (3.89%) Microsoft
2 41 (3.89%) Oracle
3 32 (3.04%) IBM
4 25 (2.37%) Splunk
5 24 (2.28%) Palantir
6 17 (1.61%) Foundry
6 17 (1.61%) VMware
7 16 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.33%) SAP
9 13 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
10 11 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.04%) Solace
11 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.76%) HP
13 7 (0.66%) Databricks
14 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.57%) Guidewire