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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -13 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,099 1,011 1,924
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.25% 8.59% 10.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.99% 22.33% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 555 605 1,315
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 5,499 4,527 7,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.24% 38.45% 42.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,630 3,019 5,131
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -19 100 £100,000 +11.11% 183
South London -20 22 £70,000 -15.15% 15
West London -5 19 £80,000 -3.03% 29
East London -7 6 - - 10
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 41 (3.73%) Confluence
2 18 (1.64%) Apache
2 18 (1.64%) Camunda
3 13 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.45%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.36%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Hedera
8 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.091%) IIS
10 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.64%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.18%) Maximo
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.091%) Quorum
4 1 (0.091%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.091%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 518 (47.13%) AWS
2 211 (19.20%) Azure
3 199 (18.11%) GCP
4 81 (7.37%) GitHub
5 75 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (5.82%) SaaS
8 50 (4.55%) Serverless
9 37 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.64%) Anthropic Claude
10 29 (2.64%) GitHub Copilot
11 28 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.82%) Amazon S3
14 20 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (1.82%) Datadog
14 20 (1.82%) Snowflake
15 17 (1.55%) Amazon EventBridge
16 16 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.73%) HTTP
2 18 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.55%) Network Security
4 15 (1.36%) DMARC
5 12 (1.09%) BGP
5 12 (1.09%) VPN
6 8 (0.73%) DNS
7 6 (0.55%) IPsec
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.45%) IPv4
9 4 (0.36%) Broadband
9 4 (0.36%) Firewall
9 4 (0.36%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
12 1 (0.091%) AMQP
12 1 (0.091%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.83%) NoSQL
2 78 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (6.01%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.82%) Big Data
7 17 (1.55%) MySQL
8 16 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.46%) Redis
9 13 (1.18%) Db2
10 12 (1.09%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.91%) DTS
11 10 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 9 (0.82%) Hadoop
12 9 (0.82%) Power BI
13 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.55%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.55%) HBase
15 5 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 82 (7.46%) Git
2 75 (6.82%) GitLab
3 66 (6.01%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.46%) TeamCity
5 53 (4.82%) Cucumber
6 45 (4.09%) JIRA
7 30 (2.73%) JUnit
8 27 (2.46%) Selenium
9 21 (1.91%) Claude Code
9 21 (1.91%) Maven
10 20 (1.82%) Postman
11 18 (1.64%) Mockito
12 17 (1.55%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.36%) Bitbucket
14 14 (1.27%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.00%) JMeter
16 10 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.82%) Gradle
18 6 (0.55%) MLflow
18 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 462 (42.04%) Finance
2 251 (22.84%) Banking
3 236 (21.47%) Social Skills
4 105 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (8.92%) Law
6 80 (7.28%) Retail
7 71 (6.46%) Public Sector
8 70 (6.37%) Financial Institution
9 69 (6.28%) Front Office
10 66 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
11 38 (3.46%) Back Office
12 26 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.09%) Marketing
14 16 (1.46%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.09%) Legal
16 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
17 10 (0.91%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 308 (28.03%) Senior
2 282 (25.66%) Java Engineer
3 263 (23.93%) Software Engineer
4 228 (20.75%) Developer
5 148 (13.47%) Lead
6 135 (12.28%) Java Developer
7 98 (8.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 85 (7.73%) Senior Java Engineer
9 78 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
10 73 (6.64%) Senior Developer
11 66 (6.01%) Principal Engineer
12 53 (4.82%) Architect
13 51 (4.64%) Principal Java Engineer
14 45 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
15 38 (3.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 37 (3.37%) Engineering Manager
17 36 (3.28%) Senior Java Developer
18 32 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
19 31 (2.82%) Software Engineering Manager
19 31 (2.82%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (26.48%) Spring
2 243 (22.11%) Spring Boot
3 187 (17.02%) Kafka
4 152 (13.83%) Terraform
5 140 (12.74%) REST
6 82 (7.46%) React
6 82 (7.46%) RESTful
7 71 (6.46%) Node.js
8 66 (6.01%) .NET
9 53 (4.82%) AngularJS
10 41 (3.73%) OAuth
11 29 (2.64%) OAuth2
12 27 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
13 26 (2.37%) Hibernate
13 26 (2.37%) Middleware
14 21 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
15 18 (1.64%) Playwright
15 18 (1.64%) Web Services
16 15 (1.36%) AWS CDK
16 15 (1.36%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 251 (22.84%) Cloud Native
2 174 (15.83%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (11.19%) Product Ownership
4 111 (10.10%) Public Cloud
5 54 (4.91%) Onboarding
6 44 (4.00%) e-Learning
7 41 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (3.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 34 (3.09%) Blog
10 33 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (2.82%) Equities
12 28 (2.55%) Fixed Income
13 26 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (2.27%) AI Agents
15 24 (2.18%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.91%) Algorithms
17 20 (1.82%) Data Structures
18 19 (1.73%) Mobile App
19 18 (1.64%) Derivative
19 18 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.55%) Linux
2 26 (2.37%) Windows
3 18 (1.64%) Android
4 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.73%) Unix
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (42.13%) Software Engineering
2 401 (36.49%) CI/CD
3 341 (31.03%) Microservices
4 270 (24.57%) Agile
5 238 (21.66%) Test Automation
6 231 (21.02%) AI
7 218 (19.84%) Mentoring
8 213 (19.38%) DevOps
9 193 (17.56%) Event-Driven
10 179 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 163 (14.83%) Roadmaps
13 152 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
14 140 (12.74%) Containerisation
15 129 (11.74%) Fintech
16 127 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 122 (11.10%) Full-Stack Development
18 117 (10.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 101 (9.19%) BDD
19 101 (9.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 335 (30.48%) Python
2 193 (17.56%) SQL
3 101 (9.19%) JavaScript
4 100 (9.10%) C#
5 83 (7.55%) Go
6 82 (7.46%) C++
7 79 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 53 (4.82%) Kotlin
9 47 (4.28%) Bash
10 31 (2.82%) C
11 30 (2.73%) Ruby
12 24 (2.18%) Rust
13 23 (2.09%) Scala
14 20 (1.82%) PHP
15 19 (1.73%) Perl
16 17 (1.55%) PowerShell
17 11 (1.00%) R
18 10 (0.91%) RPG
19 8 (0.73%) VBA
20 7 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 132 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 101 (9.19%) Degree
3 80 (7.28%) AWS Certification
4 75 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 68 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 59 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.64%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.36%) OSCP
9 12 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.91%) CISSP
11 9 (0.82%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.64%) CCSP
12 7 (0.64%) CISM
12 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.37%) QA
2 24 (2.18%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.09%) GDPR
4 16 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.36%) NIST
6 12 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.55%) GRC
9 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.36%) WCAG
11 3 (0.27%) MiFID
11 3 (0.27%) UCITS
12 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 140 (12.74%) Docker
2 18 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.45%) KVM
6 5 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.091%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 249 (22.66%) Kubernetes
2 78 (7.10%) Grafana
3 42 (3.82%) Ansible
4 30 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.00%) Argo
6 7 (0.64%) Puppet
7 6 (0.55%) EnCase
7 6 (0.55%) FTK
7 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.55%) Kibana
7 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.36%) Packer
8 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.27%) Cilium
9 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.27%) Rancher
9 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (5.64%) Microsoft
1 62 (5.64%) Oracle
2 61 (5.55%) Google
3 34 (3.09%) Splunk
4 28 (2.55%) IBM
5 25 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.64%) VMware
7 17 (1.55%) Palantir
8 15 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.36%) SendGrid
9 14 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.18%) SAP
11 12 (1.09%) Bloomberg
11 12 (1.09%) Foundry
11 12 (1.09%) Solace
12 11 (1.00%) OutSystems
13 10 (0.91%) Databricks
14 9 (0.82%) HP
15 8 (0.73%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.73%) Guidewire