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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,057 1,044 1,967
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.32% 8.81% 10.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.20% 22.31% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 573 628 1,386
10th Percentile £52,750 £57,500 £59,469
25th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £142,500 £148,750
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 5,505 4,680 7,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.49% 39.49% 41.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 3,159 5,367
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,750 £135,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 8 September 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 September 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 -20 127 £100,000 +11.11% 95
South London -26 21 £70,000 -15.15% 9
West London -16 16 £80,000 +12.28% 70
East London -8 1 - - 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 39 (3.69%) Confluence
2 19 (1.80%) Apache
3 17 (1.61%) Camunda
4 16 (1.51%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.095%) CICS
10 1 (0.095%) IIS
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle 10gAS
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.47%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.38%) Maximo
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.095%) Endur
5 1 (0.095%) Findur
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 506 (47.87%) AWS
2 229 (21.67%) Azure
3 187 (17.69%) GCP
4 74 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (6.43%) GitHub
6 51 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (4.64%) Serverless
8 46 (4.35%) SaaS
9 32 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
14 21 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
15 19 (1.80%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.80%) Datadog
16 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (1.61%) OpenShift
17 16 (1.51%) Snowflake
18 15 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.31%) HTTP
2 17 (1.61%) Network Security
3 13 (1.23%) DMARC
3 13 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.76%) DNS
5 7 (0.66%) BGP
5 7 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.57%) IPsec
7 5 (0.47%) Broadband
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
7 5 (0.47%) IPv4
7 5 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.28%) LAN
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.095%) AMQP
11 1 (0.095%) LTE
11 1 (0.095%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.23%) NoSQL
2 67 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.20%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.54%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.80%) Big Data
6 19 (1.80%) MySQL
7 18 (1.70%) Redis
8 17 (1.61%) Db2
9 13 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.95%) DTS
10 10 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.66%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.57%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.57%) HBase
14 5 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (8.04%) Git
2 69 (6.53%) GitLab
3 62 (5.87%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.45%) Cucumber
5 44 (4.16%) JIRA
6 36 (3.41%) TeamCity
7 32 (3.03%) Selenium
8 28 (2.65%) JUnit
9 21 (1.99%) Maven
10 17 (1.61%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.61%) Mockito
10 17 (1.61%) Postman
11 16 (1.51%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.32%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.95%) JMeter
14 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.85%) Gradle
16 7 (0.66%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 444 (42.01%) Finance
2 218 (20.62%) Banking
3 204 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 81 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.72%) Front Office
6 67 (6.34%) Law
7 66 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
8 57 (5.39%) Financial Institution
9 50 (4.73%) Retail
10 27 (2.55%) Back Office
11 24 (2.27%) Marketing
12 22 (2.08%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.23%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.04%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.66%) Aviation
17 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 295 (27.91%) Senior
2 257 (24.31%) Java Engineer
3 252 (23.84%) Software Engineer
4 233 (22.04%) Developer
5 145 (13.72%) Lead
6 134 (12.68%) Java Developer
7 103 (9.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 77 (7.28%) Senior Developer
9 74 (7.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 70 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 58 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
12 48 (4.54%) Architect
13 47 (4.45%) Lead Software Engineer
13 47 (4.45%) Principal Java Engineer
14 40 (3.78%) Engineering Manager
15 38 (3.60%) Software Developer
16 35 (3.31%) Senior Java Developer
17 34 (3.22%) Consultant
17 34 (3.22%) Software Development Engineer
17 34 (3.22%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (26.49%) Spring
2 228 (21.57%) Spring Boot
3 186 (17.60%) Kafka
4 135 (12.77%) REST
5 124 (11.73%) Terraform
6 80 (7.57%) React
7 78 (7.38%) RESTful
8 69 (6.53%) .NET
9 62 (5.87%) Node.js
10 46 (4.35%) AngularJS
11 38 (3.60%) OAuth
12 28 (2.65%) FIX Protocol
13 27 (2.55%) OAuth2
14 26 (2.46%) Hibernate
15 24 (2.27%) Middleware
15 24 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
16 23 (2.18%) Web Services
17 20 (1.89%) Playwright
18 17 (1.61%) JPA
19 16 (1.51%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 220 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 162 (15.33%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (11.92%) Product Ownership
4 115 (10.88%) Public Cloud
5 54 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 38 (3.60%) e-Learning
8 35 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 33 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.93%) Equities
11 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (2.37%) AI Agents
13 22 (2.08%) Fixed Income
14 19 (1.80%) Algorithms
14 19 (1.80%) Blog
14 19 (1.80%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.51%) Data Structures
16 16 (1.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.76%) Linux
2 31 (2.93%) Windows
3 15 (1.42%) Android
4 13 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.76%) Unix
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (41.06%) Software Engineering
2 356 (33.68%) CI/CD
3 307 (29.04%) Microservices
4 266 (25.17%) Agile
5 224 (21.19%) Test Automation
6 217 (20.53%) Mentoring
7 212 (20.06%) DevOps
8 202 (19.11%) AI
9 193 (18.26%) Roadmaps
10 175 (16.56%) Event-Driven
11 163 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
12 160 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 158 (14.95%) Technical Leadership
14 129 (12.20%) Containerisation
15 121 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 109 (10.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 102 (9.65%) Fintech
18 100 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
19 99 (9.37%) BDD
20 95 (8.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 328 (31.03%) Python
2 174 (16.46%) SQL
3 101 (9.56%) C#
4 94 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 77 (7.28%) C++
6 73 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.43%) Go
8 55 (5.20%) Kotlin
9 47 (4.45%) Bash
10 33 (3.12%) C
11 32 (3.03%) Ruby
12 27 (2.55%) Rust
13 21 (1.99%) Perl
13 21 (1.99%) PHP
13 21 (1.99%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.99%) Scala
14 11 (1.04%) R
15 10 (0.95%) RPG
16 8 (0.76%) VBA
17 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 134 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.31%) Degree
3 75 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 73 (6.91%) AWS Certification
5 63 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (5.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 47 (4.45%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.42%) OSCP
9 11 (1.04%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.66%) CISSP
12 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.47%) CCSP
14 5 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.15%) QA
2 21 (1.99%) GDPR
3 19 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 14 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.66%) NIST
6 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.38%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 135 (12.77%) Docker
2 18 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.095%) Firmware
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 213 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.49%) Grafana
3 39 (3.69%) Ansible
4 24 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.66%) Kibana
6 6 (0.57%) Argo
6 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.57%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.57%) Puppet
7 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.19%) kaniko
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 61 (5.77%) Oracle
2 52 (4.92%) Google
2 52 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.84%) IBM
4 28 (2.65%) Splunk
5 25 (2.37%) Palantir
6 22 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.80%) VMware
8 16 (1.51%) Foundry
8 16 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.23%) SAP
10 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
11 12 (1.14%) Bloomberg
12 11 (1.04%) Solace
13 9 (0.85%) Databricks
13 9 (0.85%) HP
14 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.76%) Guidewire
15 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics