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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 24 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 832 1,342 1,871
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.08% 8.47% 10.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.43% 20.24% 24.05%
Number of salaries quoted 547 881 1,542
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,875 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £121,750 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £145,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 4,281 6,630 7,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.26% 41.82% 44.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,009 4,301 6,761
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £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 31 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 31 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 +5 154 £100,000 +11.11% 246
South London +4 24 £76,250 +24.49% 5
West London -11 8 £82,500 +48.65% 10
East London -17 2 £75,000 -40.00% 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 50 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (5.89%) Apache
3 41 (4.93%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.92%) Confluence
5 9 (1.08%) JBoss
6 8 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.72%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.48%) Appian
8 4 (0.48%) nginx
8 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.36%) Luigi
9 3 (0.36%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) Liferay
10 2 (0.24%) Moodle
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.48%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 2 (0.24%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 392 (47.12%) AWS
2 126 (15.14%) Azure
3 113 (13.58%) GCP
4 70 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
5 56 (6.73%) SaaS
6 49 (5.89%) Serverless
7 47 (5.65%) GitHub
8 46 (5.53%) Snowflake
9 45 (5.41%) dbt
10 29 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
11 26 (3.13%) Datadog
12 25 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.28%) OpenShift
15 18 (2.16%) Amazon S3
16 14 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
17 12 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
18 11 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.49%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.44%) HTTP
3 8 (0.96%) Broadband
3 8 (0.96%) Multicast
4 7 (0.84%) VPN
5 4 (0.48%) AMQP
5 4 (0.48%) DNS
5 4 (0.48%) Firewall
5 4 (0.48%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.48%) LAN
5 4 (0.48%) SAN
5 4 (0.48%) WAN
6 3 (0.36%) BGP
6 3 (0.36%) VLAN
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) FTP
7 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) SMTP
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.10%) Relational Database
2 79 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (6.13%) Data Lake
4 50 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (5.65%) NoSQL
6 45 (5.41%) RDBMS
7 44 (5.29%) SQL Server
8 40 (4.81%) Apache Ignite
8 40 (4.81%) MongoDB
9 38 (4.57%) Big Data
10 37 (4.45%) Amazon Athena
10 37 (4.45%) Apache Arrow
10 37 (4.45%) Apache Iceberg
10 37 (4.45%) Dremio
11 36 (4.33%) Hadoop
12 21 (2.52%) DB2
13 20 (2.40%) DynamoDB
14 18 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (1.92%) Neo4j
15 16 (1.92%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 72 (8.65%) Jenkins
2 47 (5.65%) Selenium
3 35 (4.21%) Git
4 33 (3.97%) TeamCity
5 32 (3.85%) JIRA
6 27 (3.25%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.88%) JMeter
7 24 (2.88%) JUnit
8 21 (2.52%) GitLab
9 20 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 20 (2.40%) Cypress.io
10 16 (1.92%) Mockito
11 12 (1.44%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.20%) Postman
13 7 (0.84%) Maven
13 7 (0.84%) Subversion
14 6 (0.72%) Vite
14 6 (0.72%) webpack
15 5 (0.60%) Jaeger
15 5 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 327 (39.30%) Finance
2 228 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 225 (27.04%) Banking
4 125 (15.02%) Front Office
5 100 (12.02%) Investment Banking
6 75 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
7 71 (8.53%) Financial Institution
8 62 (7.45%) Law
9 48 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 45 (5.41%) Public Sector
11 38 (4.57%) Retail
12 31 (3.73%) Back Office
13 18 (2.16%) Billing
13 18 (2.16%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.20%) Games
17 6 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.72%) Marketing
18 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (36.42%) Developer
2 215 (25.84%) Senior
3 197 (23.68%) Software Engineer
4 160 (19.23%) Java Developer
5 151 (18.15%) Java Engineer
6 118 (14.18%) Lead
7 104 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
9 81 (9.74%) Senior Java Engineer
10 72 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 69 (8.29%) AWS Engineer
12 58 (6.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 52 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 45 (5.41%) Python Engineer
15 43 (5.17%) Senior Developer
16 42 (5.05%) Architect
16 42 (5.05%) AWS Software Engineer
17 40 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 37 (4.45%) Python Software Engineer
19 33 (3.97%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (20.55%) Spring
2 152 (18.27%) React
3 130 (15.63%) Kafka
4 120 (14.42%) Spring Boot
5 98 (11.78%) REST
6 75 (9.01%) Node.js
7 66 (7.93%) RESTful
8 64 (7.69%) .NET
9 55 (6.61%) HTML
10 52 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.93%) gRPC
12 40 (4.81%) Pandas
13 38 (4.57%) CSS
13 38 (4.57%) GraphQL
14 37 (4.45%) Hibernate
14 37 (4.45%) NumPy
14 37 (4.45%) Protocol Buffers
14 37 (4.45%) SciPy
15 28 (3.37%) Web Services
16 27 (3.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 145 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 133 (15.99%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (10.70%) Equities
4 73 (8.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 65 (7.81%) Fixed Income
6 60 (7.21%) Derivative
7 51 (6.13%) Hedge funds
8 43 (5.17%) Algorithms
9 39 (4.69%) Pricing Data
9 39 (4.69%) Product Ownership
10 33 (3.97%) Onboarding
11 31 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
12 24 (2.88%) Management Information System
13 23 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (2.52%) Data Structures
14 21 (2.52%) FPGA
15 20 (2.40%) Public Cloud
16 18 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
17 17 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (2.04%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 102 (12.26%) Linux
2 24 (2.88%) Windows
3 18 (2.16%) Unix
4 10 (1.20%) Android
5 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) CentOS
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (37.14%) Agile
2 279 (33.53%) Software Engineering
3 259 (31.13%) CI/CD
4 191 (22.96%) Microservices
5 154 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (18.27%) DevOps
7 149 (17.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 148 (17.79%) Test Automation
9 107 (12.86%) Computer Science
10 106 (12.74%) Mentoring
11 99 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (11.66%) Low Latency
13 84 (10.10%) Fintech
14 83 (9.98%) Roadmaps
15 82 (9.86%) Containerisation
16 81 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
17 75 (9.01%) AI
18 72 (8.65%) TDD
19 69 (8.29%) User Experience
20 68 (8.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 315 (37.86%) Python
2 188 (22.60%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.31%) TypeScript
4 139 (16.71%) SQL
5 97 (11.66%) C#
6 59 (7.09%) Go
7 55 (6.61%) C++
8 54 (6.49%) Kotlin
9 46 (5.53%) Scala
10 42 (5.05%) C
11 20 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.04%) Rust
13 10 (1.20%) Bash
13 10 (1.20%) Ruby
14 9 (1.08%) Groovy
14 9 (1.08%) VBA
15 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.72%) Perl
17 5 (0.60%) R
17 5 (0.60%) RPG
Qualifications
1 129 (15.50%) Degree
2 90 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 51 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (5.89%) SC Cleared
5 44 (5.29%) Master's Degree
6 34 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.64%) PhD
8 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.72%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.72%) OSCP
12 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) OSCE
14 3 (0.36%) ISEB
14 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.21%) QA
2 20 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.92%) GDPR
4 11 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.60%) SLA
7 5 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.48%) SEPA
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.24%) PSD2
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 126 (15.14%) Docker
2 16 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.32%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.96%) HDFS
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 183 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.77%) Terraform
3 27 (3.25%) Grafana
4 24 (2.88%) Ansible
5 19 (2.28%) Kibana
6 18 (2.16%) Argo
7 14 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.60%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.36%) Control-M
10 3 (0.36%) Nagios
11 2 (0.24%) logstash
11 2 (0.24%) Puppet
11 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.24%) WSUS
12 1 (0.12%) Icinga
Vendors
1 38 (4.57%) Oracle
2 29 (3.49%) Guidewire
3 23 (2.76%) Google
4 20 (2.40%) Informatica
4 20 (2.40%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.40%) Splunk
4 20 (2.40%) Talend
5 18 (2.16%) Databricks
6 16 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.80%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.68%) IBM
9 13 (1.56%) Dell
10 10 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.96%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.84%) SAP
13 6 (0.72%) HP
13 6 (0.72%) Solace
14 5 (0.60%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.60%) Salesforce