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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 952 1,112 1,935
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.76% 7.91% 8.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.37% 19.05% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 575 777 1,593
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £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 £143,750 £145,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -7.22%

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 4,674 5,838 9,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.28% 41.54% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,282 4,003 7,743
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,350
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -4 143 £100,000 +0.50% 104
South London -8 14 £70,000 -6.67%
West London -11 13 £61,250 +104.17% 10
East London -6 4 £75,000 - 13
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 37 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.79%) Apache
4 13 (1.37%) Confluence
5 12 (1.26%) JBoss
6 11 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.84%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Maximo
2 7 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 419 (44.01%) AWS
2 158 (16.60%) GCP
3 123 (12.92%) Azure
4 91 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
5 80 (8.40%) SaaS
6 48 (5.04%) GitHub
7 33 (3.47%) Serverless
8 29 (3.05%) OpenShift
9 25 (2.63%) dbt
10 21 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
12 19 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (1.89%) Datadog
13 18 (1.89%) Pulumi
14 17 (1.79%) Snowflake
15 16 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (1.58%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.47%) TCP/IP
2 24 (2.52%) Broadband
3 11 (1.16%) HTTP
4 10 (1.05%) VPN
5 6 (0.63%) BGP
5 6 (0.63%) Multicast
5 6 (0.63%) VLAN
6 5 (0.53%) AMQP
6 5 (0.53%) Firewall
6 5 (0.53%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.21%) DHCP
7 2 (0.21%) DNS
7 2 (0.21%) Internet
7 2 (0.21%) LAN
7 2 (0.21%) NAS
7 2 (0.21%) SAN
7 2 (0.21%) SNMP
7 2 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.40%) Relational Database
2 77 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (6.83%) NoSQL
4 48 (5.04%) RDBMS
5 32 (3.36%) SQL Server
6 29 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (2.94%) DB2
8 27 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 26 (2.73%) Big Data
10 23 (2.42%) Hadoop
11 15 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.47%) Data Lake
13 13 (1.37%) Neo4j
14 12 (1.26%) MySQL
15 11 (1.16%) Apache Hive
15 11 (1.16%) Flink
15 11 (1.16%) Pentaho
16 10 (1.05%) Redis
17 9 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 63 (6.62%) TeamCity
2 51 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 47 (4.94%) Selenium
4 34 (3.57%) Git
5 31 (3.26%) Cucumber
6 25 (2.63%) GitLab
7 23 (2.42%) JIRA
8 16 (1.68%) Jaeger
8 16 (1.68%) JUnit
9 13 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.26%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.26%) JMeter
10 12 (1.26%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.05%) Gradle
12 8 (0.84%) Maven
13 7 (0.74%) Mockito
13 7 (0.74%) Postman
14 5 (0.53%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.53%) SpecFlow
15 4 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 346 (36.34%) Finance
2 230 (24.16%) Banking
3 213 (22.37%) Social Skills
4 118 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (12.29%) Front Office
6 106 (11.13%) Law
7 86 (9.03%) Retail
8 85 (8.93%) Financial Institution
9 69 (7.25%) Investment Banking
10 64 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
11 58 (6.09%) Public Sector
12 53 (5.57%) Back Office
13 30 (3.15%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.31%) Games
15 19 (2.00%) Billing
16 14 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.74%) Marketing
20 6 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 346 (36.34%) Developer
2 245 (25.74%) Software Engineer
3 239 (25.11%) Senior
4 195 (20.48%) Java Developer
5 167 (17.54%) Java Engineer
6 145 (15.23%) Lead
7 103 (10.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (9.24%) Full-Stack Developer
9 78 (8.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 68 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
11 66 (6.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 66 (6.93%) Senior Developer
12 59 (6.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 54 (5.67%) Architect
14 49 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
15 48 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
16 44 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
17 43 (4.52%) React Developer
18 39 (4.10%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 36 (3.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (21.43%) Spring
2 178 (18.70%) React
3 157 (16.49%) Spring Boot
4 146 (15.34%) Kafka
5 114 (11.97%) REST
6 94 (9.87%) Node.js
7 65 (6.83%) .NET
8 60 (6.30%) GraphQL
9 59 (6.20%) RESTful
10 58 (6.09%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.15%) HTML
12 40 (4.20%) SOAP
13 38 (3.99%) CSS
14 36 (3.78%) Redux
14 36 (3.78%) Web Services
15 34 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (3.26%) Hibernate
17 28 (2.94%) JSON
18 27 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
19 26 (2.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 194 (20.38%) Cloud Native
2 130 (13.66%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (6.09%) Fixed Income
4 50 (5.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 44 (4.62%) Equities
7 38 (3.99%) Blog
8 28 (2.94%) Derivative
8 28 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 27 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 22 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.21%) FPGA
11 21 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.00%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.89%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.37%) Hedge funds
15 13 (1.37%) Legacy Code
16 12 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 116 (12.18%) Linux
2 34 (3.57%) Unix
3 25 (2.63%) Windows
4 20 (2.10%) 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
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (36.03%) Software Engineering
2 326 (34.24%) Agile
3 308 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 226 (23.74%) Microservices
5 194 (20.38%) DevOps
6 193 (20.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 187 (19.64%) Test Automation
8 151 (15.86%) Mentoring
9 141 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (12.29%) Fintech
11 113 (11.87%) Containerisation
12 110 (11.55%) AI
13 105 (11.03%) Roadmaps
14 104 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
16 89 (9.35%) Low Latency
17 84 (8.82%) Clean Code
18 81 (8.51%) Computer Science
19 78 (8.19%) Infrastructure as Code
20 68 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 297 (31.20%) Python
2 200 (21.01%) JavaScript
3 148 (15.55%) SQL
4 142 (14.92%) TypeScript
5 112 (11.76%) Go
6 82 (8.61%) C#
7 64 (6.72%) C++
8 56 (5.88%) Kotlin
9 38 (3.99%) C
10 30 (3.15%) Rust
11 28 (2.94%) Bash
12 26 (2.73%) Scala
13 12 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.16%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.95%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.74%) PHP
17 6 (0.63%) Ruby
17 6 (0.63%) VBA
18 5 (0.53%) RPG
19 4 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 131 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.08%) Degree
3 84 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 52 (5.46%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.47%) PhD
9 13 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.16%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.16%) OSCP
11 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.42%) OSCE
14 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.32%) ISEB
14 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 1 (0.11%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.78%) QA
2 16 (1.68%) GDPR
2 16 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.58%) SOC 2
4 12 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.05%) 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 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (14.81%) Docker
2 13 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.42%) HDFS
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 252 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 119 (12.50%) Terraform
3 66 (6.93%) Grafana
4 39 (4.10%) Ansible
5 30 (3.15%) Argo
6 29 (3.05%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.68%) Kustomize
8 11 (1.16%) 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%) AWS Copilot
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 35 (3.68%) Google
2 25 (2.63%) Oracle
3 21 (2.21%) IBM
4 18 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 17 (1.79%) Databricks
5 17 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 15 (1.58%) Informatica
6 15 (1.58%) Talend
7 13 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.37%) Splunk
8 12 (1.26%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.26%) Dell
9 11 (1.16%) Guidewire
9 11 (1.16%) Solace
10 10 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.84%) SAP
12 6 (0.63%) Mercator
12 6 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.42%) HP