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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 946 1,125 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.89% 7.74% 9.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.55% 18.88% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 573 763 1,643
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,450 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £143,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +5.44% -5.16%

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 4,603 5,959 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.64% 41.02% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,233 3,960 7,758
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,501 £101,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 28 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 28 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 0 146 £100,000 - 72
South London -4 14 £70,000 +5.66%
West London -14 14 £82,500 +175.00% 11
East London -10 4 £75,000 - 9
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 40 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 25 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.01%) Apache
4 14 (1.48%) Confluence
5 12 (1.27%) JBoss
6 11 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.85%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.42%) Appian
8 4 (0.42%) Camunda
8 4 (0.42%) Moodle
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.32%) Liferay
9 3 (0.32%) Mule
10 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Maximo
2 7 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 423 (44.71%) AWS
2 161 (17.02%) GCP
3 126 (13.32%) Azure
4 92 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (8.77%) SaaS
6 48 (5.07%) GitHub
7 38 (4.02%) Serverless
8 28 (2.96%) OpenShift
9 26 (2.75%) dbt
10 23 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.01%) Datadog
14 19 (2.01%) Snowflake
15 18 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.90%) Pulumi
16 17 (1.80%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.38%) TCP/IP
2 24 (2.54%) Broadband
3 11 (1.16%) HTTP
4 10 (1.06%) VPN
5 7 (0.74%) Multicast
6 6 (0.63%) BGP
6 6 (0.63%) VLAN
7 5 (0.53%) AMQP
7 5 (0.53%) Firewall
7 5 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) DNS
8 2 (0.21%) Internet
8 2 (0.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.21%) NAS
8 2 (0.21%) SAN
8 2 (0.21%) SNMP
8 2 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
1 82 (8.67%) Relational Database
2 66 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 49 (5.18%) RDBMS
4 35 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 31 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 30 (3.17%) Big Data
8 28 (2.96%) DB2
9 27 (2.85%) Hadoop
10 16 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.37%) Apache Hive
11 13 (1.37%) MySQL
11 13 (1.37%) Neo4j
12 12 (1.27%) Pentaho
13 11 (1.16%) Flink
14 10 (1.06%) Apache Ignite
14 10 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (6.66%) TeamCity
2 56 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 50 (5.29%) Selenium
4 33 (3.49%) Cucumber
4 33 (3.49%) Git
5 29 (3.07%) JIRA
6 25 (2.64%) GitLab
7 18 (1.90%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.80%) JUnit
9 16 (1.69%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.69%) JMeter
10 14 (1.48%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.37%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.95%) Gradle
13 8 (0.85%) Mockito
14 7 (0.74%) Maven
14 7 (0.74%) Postman
15 6 (0.63%) Subversion
16 5 (0.53%) LoadRunner
16 5 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 344 (36.36%) Finance
2 229 (24.21%) Banking
3 219 (23.15%) Social Skills
4 117 (12.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (11.31%) Law
6 106 (11.21%) Front Office
7 90 (9.51%) Financial Institution
8 86 (9.09%) Retail
9 67 (7.08%) Investment Banking
10 64 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
11 53 (5.60%) Back Office
12 52 (5.50%) Public Sector
13 29 (3.07%) Telecoms
14 21 (2.22%) Games
15 19 (2.01%) Billing
16 13 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.63%) Advertising
19 6 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 335 (35.41%) Developer
2 242 (25.58%) Senior
3 239 (25.26%) Software Engineer
4 190 (20.08%) Java Developer
5 163 (17.23%) Java Engineer
6 143 (15.12%) Lead
7 102 (10.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 78 (8.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 68 (7.19%) Senior Java Engineer
11 65 (6.87%) Senior Developer
12 61 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 59 (6.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 54 (5.71%) Architect
15 47 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
16 46 (4.86%) Senior Java Developer
17 45 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
18 41 (4.33%) React Developer
19 39 (4.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 32 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (21.88%) Spring
2 171 (18.08%) React
3 160 (16.91%) Spring Boot
4 146 (15.43%) Kafka
5 116 (12.26%) REST
6 85 (8.99%) Node.js
7 64 (6.77%) .NET
8 61 (6.45%) RESTful
9 54 (5.71%) AngularJS
10 53 (5.60%) GraphQL
11 49 (5.18%) HTML
12 38 (4.02%) CSS
12 38 (4.02%) SOAP
13 35 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
13 35 (3.70%) Web Services
14 32 (3.38%) Hibernate
15 30 (3.17%) JSON
16 28 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
16 28 (2.96%) Redux
17 27 (2.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 202 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 135 (14.27%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.29%) Fixed Income
4 49 (5.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 47 (4.97%) Product Ownership
6 44 (4.65%) Equities
7 38 (4.02%) Blog
8 30 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.96%) Derivative
9 28 (2.96%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.22%) Algorithms
11 21 (2.22%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (2.11%) FPGA
13 18 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.90%) Onboarding
14 15 (1.59%) Hedge funds
14 15 (1.59%) Legacy Code
15 14 (1.48%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 119 (12.58%) Linux
2 33 (3.49%) Unix
3 24 (2.54%) Windows
4 19 (2.01%) Android
5 7 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.21%) CentOS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (36.05%) Software Engineering
2 321 (33.93%) Agile
3 314 (33.19%) CI/CD
4 231 (24.42%) Microservices
5 191 (20.19%) DevOps
5 191 (20.19%) Test Automation
6 185 (19.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 155 (16.38%) Mentoring
8 144 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (12.68%) Fintech
10 113 (11.95%) Containerisation
11 109 (11.52%) AI
12 108 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (11.42%) Roadmaps
13 98 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
14 88 (9.30%) Low Latency
15 85 (8.99%) Clean Code
16 84 (8.88%) Computer Science
17 77 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 70 (7.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 297 (31.40%) Python
2 191 (20.19%) JavaScript
3 153 (16.17%) SQL
4 133 (14.06%) TypeScript
5 104 (10.99%) Go
6 83 (8.77%) C#
7 64 (6.77%) C++
8 56 (5.92%) Kotlin
9 39 (4.12%) C
10 30 (3.17%) Rust
11 29 (3.07%) Scala
12 28 (2.96%) Bash
13 13 (1.37%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.95%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.85%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.74%) PHP
17 6 (0.63%) Ruby
17 6 (0.63%) VBA
18 5 (0.53%) R
18 5 (0.53%) RPG
Qualifications
1 128 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.16%) Degree
3 81 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 49 (5.18%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.96%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.37%) PhD
10 11 (1.16%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.16%) OSCP
11 10 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.42%) OSCE
14 3 (0.32%) ISEB
14 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.91%) QA
2 18 (1.90%) GDPR
3 16 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.59%) SOC 2
5 13 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.42%) SLA
9 3 (0.32%) SEPA
10 2 (0.21%) WCAG
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 151 (15.96%) Docker
2 15 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.63%) HDFS
6 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.21%) 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
1 258 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 119 (12.58%) Terraform
3 66 (6.98%) Grafana
4 39 (4.12%) Ansible
5 30 (3.17%) Argo
6 29 (3.07%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.69%) Kustomize
8 12 (1.27%) Kibana
9 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.21%) logstash
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.11%) Icinga
11 1 (0.11%) Nagios
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (3.91%) Google
2 28 (2.96%) Oracle
3 20 (2.11%) IBM
4 18 (1.90%) Databricks
5 16 (1.69%) Informatica
5 16 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.69%) MuleSoft
5 16 (1.69%) Talend
6 13 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.37%) Guidewire
6 13 (1.37%) Splunk
7 12 (1.27%) Dell
7 12 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.16%) Solace
9 10 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.85%) SAP
12 6 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.42%) Epicor
13 4 (0.42%) HP