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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 936 1,153 1,991
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.92% 7.79% 9.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.49% 19.09% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 568 775 1,656
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £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 £142,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -6.45%

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 4,568 6,039 9,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.90% 40.83% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 3,964 7,802
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 21 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 21 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 +7 145 £100,000 +1.27% 80
South London -5 15 £70,000 +9.80% 2
West London -13 14 £82,500 +175.00% 16
East London -2 4 £75,000 - 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 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.35%) Apache
4 14 (1.50%) Confluence
5 12 (1.28%) JBoss
6 11 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.75%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.43%) Appian
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
8 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.32%) Liferay
9 3 (0.32%) Moodle
9 3 (0.32%) Mule
10 2 (0.21%) Camunda
10 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Maximo
2 7 (0.75%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.43%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 422 (45.09%) AWS
2 156 (16.67%) GCP
3 123 (13.14%) Azure
4 94 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
5 82 (8.76%) SaaS
6 47 (5.02%) GitHub
7 41 (4.38%) Serverless
8 27 (2.88%) dbt
9 26 (2.78%) OpenShift
10 25 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (2.14%) Datadog
13 20 (2.14%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.92%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.82%) Pulumi
17 16 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.42%) TCP/IP
2 23 (2.46%) Broadband
3 11 (1.18%) HTTP
4 10 (1.07%) VPN
5 8 (0.85%) Multicast
6 6 (0.64%) BGP
6 6 (0.64%) VLAN
7 5 (0.53%) AMQP
7 5 (0.53%) Firewall
8 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.21%) DHCP
9 2 (0.21%) DNS
9 2 (0.21%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.21%) Internet
9 2 (0.21%) LAN
9 2 (0.21%) NAS
9 2 (0.21%) SAN
9 2 (0.21%) SNMP
9 2 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.97%) Relational Database
2 83 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 51 (5.45%) RDBMS
5 40 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (3.63%) SQL Server
7 31 (3.31%) Big Data
7 31 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.99%) Hadoop
9 26 (2.78%) DB2
10 20 (2.14%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.82%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.50%) MySQL
12 14 (1.50%) Neo4j
13 13 (1.39%) Apache Hive
13 13 (1.39%) Pentaho
14 12 (1.28%) Apache Ignite
15 11 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (1.18%) Flink
Development Applications
1 63 (6.73%) TeamCity
2 56 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 48 (5.13%) Selenium
4 34 (3.63%) Git
5 32 (3.42%) Cucumber
6 31 (3.31%) JIRA
7 24 (2.56%) GitLab
8 19 (2.03%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.92%) JUnit
10 16 (1.71%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.71%) JMeter
11 15 (1.60%) Cypress.io
12 13 (1.39%) WebDriver
13 9 (0.96%) Mockito
14 8 (0.85%) Maven
14 8 (0.85%) Postman
15 7 (0.75%) Gradle
16 6 (0.64%) Subversion
17 5 (0.53%) LoadRunner
17 5 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 338 (36.11%) Finance
2 237 (25.32%) Banking
3 221 (23.61%) Social Skills
4 114 (12.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (11.65%) Law
6 102 (10.90%) Front Office
7 90 (9.62%) Financial Institution
8 86 (9.19%) Retail
9 72 (7.69%) Investment Banking
10 64 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
11 53 (5.66%) Back Office
12 49 (5.24%) Public Sector
13 28 (2.99%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.14%) Games
15 19 (2.03%) Billing
16 13 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.64%) Legal
19 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 326 (34.83%) Developer
2 241 (25.75%) Senior
3 232 (24.79%) Software Engineer
4 186 (19.87%) Java Developer
5 162 (17.31%) Java Engineer
6 141 (15.06%) Lead
7 102 (10.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (9.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 79 (8.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 68 (7.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 62 (6.62%) Senior Developer
12 61 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 54 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 52 (5.56%) Architect
15 50 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
16 42 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
17 40 (4.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 39 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
18 39 (4.17%) React Developer
19 33 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (21.90%) Spring
2 163 (17.41%) React
3 156 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 140 (14.96%) Kafka
5 114 (12.18%) REST
6 77 (8.23%) Node.js
7 61 (6.52%) .NET
7 61 (6.52%) RESTful
8 52 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 48 (5.13%) HTML
10 46 (4.91%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.95%) SOAP
12 36 (3.85%) CSS
13 35 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
14 33 (3.53%) Hibernate
14 33 (3.53%) Web Services
15 30 (3.21%) JSON
16 27 (2.88%) FIX Protocol
16 27 (2.88%) XML
17 22 (2.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 201 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 136 (14.53%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 48 (5.13%) Equities
5 45 (4.81%) Fixed Income
6 38 (4.06%) Blog
7 31 (3.31%) Derivative
7 31 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.67%) Algorithms
10 22 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (2.24%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.24%) FPGA
12 19 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.92%) Hedge funds
13 18 (1.92%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.71%) Legacy Code
14 16 (1.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 118 (12.61%) Linux
2 30 (3.21%) Unix
3 22 (2.35%) Windows
4 19 (2.03%) Android
5 7 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.43%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (35.90%) Software Engineering
2 314 (33.55%) CI/CD
3 310 (33.12%) Agile
4 231 (24.68%) Microservices
5 188 (20.09%) Test Automation
6 187 (19.98%) DevOps
7 177 (18.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 158 (16.88%) Mentoring
9 142 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (12.71%) Fintech
11 110 (11.75%) Containerisation
11 110 (11.75%) Roadmaps
12 108 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 101 (10.79%) AI
14 94 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
15 89 (9.51%) Low Latency
16 87 (9.29%) Computer Science
17 85 (9.08%) Clean Code
18 73 (7.80%) TDD
19 71 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 295 (31.52%) Python
2 185 (19.76%) JavaScript
3 151 (16.13%) SQL
4 128 (13.68%) TypeScript
5 95 (10.15%) Go
6 84 (8.97%) C#
7 63 (6.73%) C++
8 56 (5.98%) Kotlin
9 40 (4.27%) C
10 34 (3.63%) Scala
11 30 (3.21%) Rust
12 28 (2.99%) Bash
13 14 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.85%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.75%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.75%) PHP
16 6 (0.64%) Ruby
16 6 (0.64%) VBA
17 5 (0.53%) R
17 5 (0.53%) RPG
Qualifications
1 124 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.29%) Degree
3 76 (8.12%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 45 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.60%) PhD
10 11 (1.18%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.18%) OSCP
11 9 (0.96%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.43%) OSCE
15 3 (0.32%) ISEB
15 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.63%) QA
2 19 (2.03%) GDPR
3 16 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.60%) SOC 2
5 7 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.43%) SLA
8 3 (0.32%) SEPA
9 2 (0.21%) PSD2
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (16.03%) Docker
2 15 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.96%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.75%) 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
1 252 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 115 (12.29%) Terraform
3 64 (6.84%) Grafana
4 39 (4.17%) Ansible
5 30 (3.21%) Argo
6 28 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.71%) Kustomize
8 13 (1.39%) Kibana
9 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.21%) logstash
11 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
12 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (3.85%) Google
2 28 (2.99%) Oracle
3 19 (2.03%) Databricks
3 19 (2.03%) IBM
4 17 (1.82%) Informatica
4 17 (1.82%) Talend
5 15 (1.60%) Guidewire
5 15 (1.60%) Microsoft
5 15 (1.60%) MuleSoft
6 13 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.39%) Splunk
7 11 (1.18%) Dell
7 11 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.07%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.07%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.07%) Solace
9 6 (0.64%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.64%) SAP
10 5 (0.53%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.43%) Jitterbit