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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,055 1,179 2,010
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.61% 9.62% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.49% 22.93% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 597 757 1,487
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £133,500 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 5,412 5,141 8,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.63% 41.97% 40.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,786 3,545 6,171
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £135,000
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 28 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 28 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 -18 142 £95,000 +2.70% 51
South London -24 24 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -22 16 £80,000 +166.67% 23
East London -11 1 - - 14
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 31 (2.94%) Confluence
2 25 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.61%) Apache
4 15 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.42%) Camunda
4 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.38%) CMS
6 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.28%) SAS
7 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.19%) JBoss
7 2 (0.19%) Moodle
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Moqups
6 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.85%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg TOMS
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%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 481 (45.59%) AWS
2 202 (19.15%) Azure
3 182 (17.25%) GCP
4 68 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
6 55 (5.21%) GitHub
7 52 (4.93%) Serverless
8 42 (3.98%) SaaS
9 30 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (2.18%) OpenShift
13 20 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (1.33%) AWS Control Tower
18 13 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.94%) HTTP
2 19 (1.80%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.61%) Network Security
4 13 (1.23%) DMARC
5 10 (0.95%) Broadband
6 7 (0.66%) BGP
6 7 (0.66%) VPN
7 6 (0.57%) DNS
7 6 (0.57%) IPsec
8 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 5 (0.47%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.38%) IPv4
9 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.28%) Firewall
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
12 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (7.49%) NoSQL
2 61 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 39 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 26 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.27%) Db2
7 18 (1.71%) Big Data
8 14 (1.33%) Redis
9 13 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 13 (1.23%) MySQL
10 12 (1.14%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.95%) DTS
11 10 (0.95%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.85%) Metadata
13 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.57%) HBase
15 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 68 (6.45%) Git
2 55 (5.21%) GitLab
3 49 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.70%) TeamCity
5 36 (3.41%) Cucumber
6 35 (3.32%) JIRA
7 34 (3.22%) Selenium
8 22 (2.09%) JUnit
9 14 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.23%) Gradle
11 12 (1.14%) Claude Code
11 12 (1.14%) Maven
11 12 (1.14%) Mockito
12 9 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (0.85%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.76%) Postman
14 7 (0.66%) JMeter
15 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.47%) WebDriver
16 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 451 (42.75%) Finance
2 195 (18.48%) Banking
3 185 (17.54%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.52%) Front Office
5 88 (8.34%) Public Sector
6 77 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
8 66 (6.26%) Law
9 56 (5.31%) Retail
10 55 (5.21%) Financial Institution
11 33 (3.13%) Investment Banking
12 29 (2.75%) Back Office
13 18 (1.71%) Marketing
14 15 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.95%) Health Technology
15 10 (0.95%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.85%) Games
16 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 298 (28.25%) Developer
2 283 (26.82%) Senior
3 250 (23.70%) Software Engineer
4 234 (22.18%) Java Engineer
5 160 (15.17%) Java Developer
6 150 (14.22%) Lead
7 83 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 82 (7.77%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 63 (5.97%) Senior Java Engineer
11 61 (5.78%) Lead Software Engineer
12 52 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
13 51 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 45 (4.27%) Architect
15 43 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
16 41 (3.89%) Consultant
16 41 (3.89%) Software Developer
17 38 (3.60%) Principal Java Engineer
18 37 (3.51%) Engineering Manager
19 34 (3.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (25.88%) Spring
2 228 (21.61%) Spring Boot
3 193 (18.29%) Kafka
4 118 (11.18%) REST
5 117 (11.09%) React
6 91 (8.63%) Node.js
7 66 (6.26%) .NET
8 65 (6.16%) RESTful
9 56 (5.31%) AngularJS
10 43 (4.08%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.51%) Redux
12 33 (3.13%) OAuth
13 32 (3.03%) Web Services
14 28 (2.65%) OAuth2
15 24 (2.27%) Middleware
16 23 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
16 23 (2.18%) Hibernate
17 20 (1.90%) HTML
17 20 (1.90%) Playwright
18 19 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 197 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 131 (12.42%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (9.76%) Product Ownership
4 99 (9.38%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.31%) Fixed Income
6 48 (4.55%) Onboarding
7 47 (4.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 33 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 33 (3.13%) Equities
9 29 (2.75%) e-Learning
10 27 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.71%) Blog
13 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.42%) AI Agents
14 15 (1.42%) FPGA
15 14 (1.33%) Derivative
15 14 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (8.91%) Linux
2 30 (2.84%) Windows
3 15 (1.42%) Android
4 14 (1.33%) Unix
5 11 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (38.77%) Software Engineering
2 346 (32.80%) CI/CD
3 307 (29.10%) Agile
4 282 (26.73%) Microservices
5 214 (20.28%) DevOps
5 214 (20.28%) Test Automation
6 198 (18.77%) Mentoring
7 183 (17.35%) Roadmaps
8 172 (16.30%) AI
9 155 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
10 149 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 146 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
12 132 (12.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 128 (12.13%) Containerisation
14 121 (11.47%) Event-Driven
15 109 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (8.91%) Low Latency
17 87 (8.25%) Computer Science
18 86 (8.15%) Fintech
19 83 (7.87%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 347 (32.89%) Python
2 178 (16.87%) SQL
3 137 (12.99%) JavaScript
4 101 (9.57%) TypeScript
5 97 (9.19%) C#
6 91 (8.63%) C++
7 90 (8.53%) Go
8 48 (4.55%) Bash
9 44 (4.17%) Kotlin
10 34 (3.22%) C
11 31 (2.94%) Rust
12 26 (2.46%) Ruby
13 22 (2.09%) PowerShell
14 21 (1.99%) PHP
14 21 (1.99%) Scala
15 19 (1.80%) Perl
16 10 (0.95%) R
16 10 (0.95%) RPG
17 8 (0.76%) VBA
18 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 140 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.33%) Degree
3 88 (8.34%) SC Cleared
4 64 (6.07%) AWS Certification
5 58 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (5.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 51 (4.83%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.33%) OSCP
9 10 (0.95%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.47%) PhD
14 4 (0.38%) CCSP
14 4 (0.38%) CISSP
14 4 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.40%) QA
2 21 (1.99%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.90%) GDPR
4 14 (1.33%) GRC
5 8 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.66%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.66%) NIST
7 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.38%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.19%) MiFID
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
10 2 (0.19%) UCITS
System Software
1 124 (11.75%) Docker
2 16 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.095%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 211 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 130 (12.32%) Terraform
3 65 (6.16%) Grafana
4 36 (3.41%) Ansible
5 28 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.66%) Kibana
7 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.38%) Argo
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) Puppet
8 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.28%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Flashback
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (4.45%) Oracle
2 43 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 40 (3.79%) Google
4 33 (3.13%) IBM
5 29 (2.75%) Splunk
6 24 (2.27%) Palantir
7 17 (1.61%) Foundry
7 17 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.61%) VMware
8 15 (1.42%) SAP
9 14 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
11 12 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.14%) Solace
12 11 (1.04%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.95%) Databricks
14 9 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.76%) HP
16 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace