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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 910 1,177 1,992
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.94% 7.84% 9.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.16% 19.33% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 560 776 1,653
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 4,515 6,089 9,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.49% 40.56% 42.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,185 3,948 7,797
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +5 153 £100,000 +6.67% 81
South London -2 14 £70,000 +12.00% 8
West London -5 12 £82,500 +175.00% 16
East London -5 4 £75,000 - 11
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 42 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.97%) Apache
4 15 (1.65%) Confluence
5 12 (1.32%) JBoss
6 11 (1.21%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.44%) Appian
8 4 (0.44%) nginx
8 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) Liferay
9 3 (0.33%) Luigi
9 3 (0.33%) Mule
10 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Fidessa
1 7 (0.77%) Maximo
2 4 (0.44%) Shopify
3 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 410 (45.05%) AWS
2 140 (15.38%) GCP
3 122 (13.41%) Azure
4 85 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
5 74 (8.13%) SaaS
6 46 (5.05%) GitHub
7 42 (4.62%) Serverless
8 27 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (2.86%) dbt
10 24 (2.64%) Amazon Kinesis
10 24 (2.64%) Datadog
11 23 (2.53%) OpenShift
11 23 (2.53%) Snowflake
12 20 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (2.09%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (1.76%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (1.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.41%) TCP/IP
2 19 (2.09%) Broadband
3 11 (1.21%) HTTP
4 10 (1.10%) VPN
5 8 (0.88%) Multicast
6 6 (0.66%) BGP
6 6 (0.66%) VLAN
7 5 (0.55%) AMQP
7 5 (0.55%) Firewall
8 4 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.22%) DHCP
9 2 (0.22%) DNS
9 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.22%) Internet
9 2 (0.22%) LAN
9 2 (0.22%) NAS
9 2 (0.22%) SAN
9 2 (0.22%) SNMP
9 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (9.23%) Relational Database
3 66 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 51 (5.60%) RDBMS
5 44 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 34 (3.74%) Big Data
8 33 (3.63%) Hadoop
8 33 (3.63%) MongoDB
9 25 (2.75%) Data Lake
9 25 (2.75%) DB2
10 19 (2.09%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.87%) Apache Ignite
12 16 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.76%) MySQL
12 16 (1.76%) Neo4j
13 15 (1.65%) Pentaho
14 14 (1.54%) Apache Hive
14 14 (1.54%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 57 (6.26%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.15%) TeamCity
3 49 (5.38%) Selenium
4 37 (4.07%) Git
5 35 (3.85%) JIRA
6 31 (3.41%) Cucumber
7 23 (2.53%) GitLab
8 20 (2.20%) Bitbucket
9 19 (2.09%) JUnit
10 17 (1.87%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.76%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.76%) JMeter
12 14 (1.54%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.10%) Maven
13 10 (1.10%) Postman
14 9 (0.99%) Mockito
15 7 (0.77%) Gradle
16 6 (0.66%) Subversion
16 6 (0.66%) Vite
17 5 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 322 (35.38%) Finance
2 236 (25.93%) Banking
3 224 (24.62%) Social Skills
4 101 (11.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (10.88%) Front Office
6 97 (10.66%) Law
7 84 (9.23%) Financial Institution
8 77 (8.46%) Investment Banking
9 74 (8.13%) Retail
10 68 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
11 48 (5.27%) Public Sector
12 45 (4.95%) Back Office
13 25 (2.75%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.98%) Games
15 17 (1.87%) Billing
16 13 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.66%) Legal
18 6 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 311 (34.18%) Developer
2 231 (25.38%) Senior
3 218 (23.96%) Software Engineer
4 178 (19.56%) Java Developer
5 158 (17.36%) Java Engineer
6 137 (15.05%) Lead
7 101 (11.10%) Java Software Engineer
8 83 (9.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 80 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 69 (7.58%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 55 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
13 54 (5.93%) Senior Developer
14 53 (5.82%) Architect
15 51 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 43 (4.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 35 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
18 33 (3.63%) React Developer
19 32 (3.52%) Development Engineer
19 32 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (21.21%) Spring
2 156 (17.14%) React
3 143 (15.71%) Spring Boot
4 126 (13.85%) Kafka
5 106 (11.65%) REST
6 73 (8.02%) Node.js
7 63 (6.92%) .NET
8 61 (6.70%) RESTful
9 49 (5.38%) HTML
10 48 (5.27%) AngularJS
11 39 (4.29%) GraphQL
12 37 (4.07%) CSS
12 37 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
13 35 (3.85%) SOAP
14 34 (3.74%) Hibernate
15 31 (3.41%) Web Services
16 26 (2.86%) JSON
17 24 (2.64%) FIX Protocol
18 23 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
18 23 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 190 (20.88%) Cloud Native
2 139 (15.27%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.93%) Equities
4 52 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 47 (5.16%) Product Ownership
6 40 (4.40%) Fixed Income
7 37 (4.07%) Derivative
8 35 (3.85%) Blog
9 33 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
10 30 (3.30%) Algorithms
11 25 (2.75%) Public Cloud
12 24 (2.64%) Hedge funds
12 24 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
13 21 (2.31%) Onboarding
14 20 (2.20%) Data Structures
14 20 (2.20%) FPGA
14 20 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 19 (2.09%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.76%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 113 (12.42%) Linux
2 27 (2.97%) Unix
3 21 (2.31%) Windows
4 16 (1.76%) Android
5 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) CentOS
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (35.38%) Software Engineering
2 305 (33.52%) CI/CD
3 302 (33.19%) Agile
4 219 (24.07%) Microservices
5 180 (19.78%) Test Automation
6 178 (19.56%) DevOps
7 167 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 149 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
9 147 (16.15%) Mentoring
10 113 (12.42%) Fintech
11 106 (11.65%) Roadmaps
12 104 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 101 (11.10%) Containerisation
14 96 (10.55%) AI
15 94 (10.33%) Computer Science
16 91 (10.00%) Low Latency
16 91 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
17 78 (8.57%) Clean Code
18 72 (7.91%) TDD
19 70 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 295 (32.42%) Python
2 178 (19.56%) JavaScript
3 143 (15.71%) SQL
4 126 (13.85%) TypeScript
5 86 (9.45%) C#
6 85 (9.34%) Go
7 59 (6.48%) C++
8 57 (6.26%) Kotlin
9 40 (4.40%) C
10 36 (3.96%) Scala
11 28 (3.08%) Bash
12 27 (2.97%) Rust
13 14 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.88%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.77%) PHP
16 6 (0.66%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.66%) Ruby
16 6 (0.66%) VBA
17 5 (0.55%) Groovy
17 5 (0.55%) RPG
Qualifications
1 122 (13.41%) Degree
2 119 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 72 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 35 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.63%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.87%) PhD
9 16 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.99%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.88%) CREST Certified
11 8 (0.88%) OSCP
12 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.55%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.44%) OSCE
15 3 (0.33%) ISEB
15 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.85%) QA
2 20 (2.20%) GDPR
3 18 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.54%) SOC 2
6 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.44%) SEPA
8 4 (0.44%) SLA
9 2 (0.22%) PSD2
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 145 (15.93%) Docker
2 15 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.88%) HDFS
6 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 233 (25.60%) Kubernetes
2 102 (11.21%) Terraform
3 55 (6.04%) Grafana
4 41 (4.51%) Ansible
5 30 (3.30%) Argo
6 26 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.76%) Kustomize
8 13 (1.43%) Kibana
9 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.33%) Puppet
13 2 (0.22%) logstash
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.11%) Icinga
14 1 (0.11%) Nagios
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (3.74%) Google
2 31 (3.41%) Oracle
3 19 (2.09%) Informatica
3 19 (2.09%) Talend
4 18 (1.98%) Databricks
4 18 (1.98%) Guidewire
4 18 (1.98%) IBM
5 15 (1.65%) Microsoft
6 14 (1.54%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.54%) MuleSoft
7 13 (1.43%) Splunk
8 11 (1.21%) Dell
9 10 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.99%) Solace
11 7 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.77%) SAP
12 5 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.44%) Jitterbit