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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 26 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 819 1,232 1,896
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.89% 7.96% 10.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.26% 19.30% 23.54%
Number of salaries quoted 530 805 1,558
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 4,253 6,384 8,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.57% 41.23% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,002 4,099 6,990
10th Percentile £44,955 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £105,625 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +7 153 £100,000 +11.11% 80
South London +7 19 £62,600 +4.33% 12
West London -7 9 £82,500 +48.65% 14
East London -11 3 £75,000 -45.45% 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 42 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (5.01%) Apache
3 40 (4.88%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.83%) Confluence
5 10 (1.22%) JBoss
6 9 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.73%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.49%) Appian
8 4 (0.49%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.37%) Liferay
9 3 (0.37%) Luigi
9 3 (0.37%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) Moodle
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.49%) Maximo
2 4 (0.49%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 373 (45.54%) AWS
2 123 (15.02%) Azure
3 111 (13.55%) GCP
4 65 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
5 54 (6.59%) SaaS
6 45 (5.49%) GitHub
7 44 (5.37%) Serverless
8 38 (4.64%) Snowflake
9 36 (4.40%) dbt
10 27 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (2.93%) Datadog
13 21 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.32%) OpenShift
15 17 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.83%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (1.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.42%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.59%) HTTP
3 12 (1.47%) Broadband
4 8 (0.98%) Multicast
5 7 (0.85%) VPN
6 4 (0.49%) AMQP
6 4 (0.49%) DNS
6 4 (0.49%) Firewall
6 4 (0.49%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.37%) BGP
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
7 3 (0.37%) SAN
7 3 (0.37%) VLAN
7 3 (0.37%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) DHCP
8 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.24%) Internet
8 2 (0.24%) NAS
8 2 (0.24%) SMTP
8 2 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (10.13%) Relational Database
2 78 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 47 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (5.74%) RDBMS
5 42 (5.13%) Data Lake
6 40 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 39 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 36 (4.40%) Big Data
9 34 (4.15%) Hadoop
10 32 (3.91%) Apache Ignite
11 29 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
11 29 (3.54%) Apache Arrow
11 29 (3.54%) Apache Iceberg
11 29 (3.54%) Dremio
12 22 (2.69%) DB2
13 19 (2.32%) DynamoDB
14 18 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.83%) Neo4j
15 15 (1.83%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 66 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 47 (5.74%) Selenium
3 34 (4.15%) Git
3 34 (4.15%) JIRA
4 33 (4.03%) TeamCity
5 27 (3.30%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.56%) JMeter
6 21 (2.56%) JUnit
7 20 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.44%) GitLab
8 19 (2.32%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.71%) Mockito
10 12 (1.47%) Postman
10 12 (1.47%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.22%) Jaeger
12 6 (0.73%) Maven
12 6 (0.73%) Subversion
12 6 (0.73%) Vite
12 6 (0.73%) webpack
13 5 (0.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 302 (36.87%) Finance
2 224 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 216 (26.37%) Banking
4 105 (12.82%) Front Office
5 92 (11.23%) Investment Banking
6 71 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (8.18%) Financial Institution
8 61 (7.45%) Law
9 53 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 45 (5.49%) Public Sector
11 37 (4.52%) Retail
12 27 (3.30%) Back Office
13 22 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.20%) Billing
15 13 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.22%) Games
18 6 (0.73%) Legal
18 6 (0.73%) Marketing
19 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 294 (35.90%) Developer
2 210 (25.64%) Senior
3 181 (22.10%) Software Engineer
4 166 (20.27%) Java Developer
5 141 (17.22%) Java Engineer
6 114 (13.92%) Lead
7 91 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
8 79 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 77 (9.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 73 (8.91%) Senior Java Engineer
11 61 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
12 57 (6.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 49 (5.98%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 47 (5.74%) Architect
15 42 (5.13%) Senior Developer
16 41 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 37 (4.52%) Python Engineer
18 33 (4.03%) AWS Software Engineer
18 33 (4.03%) Development Engineer
19 31 (3.79%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (21.61%) Spring
2 145 (17.70%) React
3 126 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 116 (14.16%) Kafka
5 97 (11.84%) REST
6 67 (8.18%) Node.js
7 66 (8.06%) RESTful
8 61 (7.45%) .NET
9 56 (6.84%) HTML
10 47 (5.74%) AngularJS
11 40 (4.88%) CSS
12 35 (4.27%) Hibernate
13 33 (4.03%) gRPC
14 32 (3.91%) Pandas
15 31 (3.79%) GraphQL
16 29 (3.54%) NumPy
16 29 (3.54%) Protocol Buffers
16 29 (3.54%) SciPy
17 27 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
18 26 (3.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 147 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 127 (15.51%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (9.28%) Equities
4 62 (7.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (6.35%) Derivative
6 49 (5.98%) Fixed Income
7 43 (5.25%) Hedge funds
8 41 (5.01%) Algorithms
9 39 (4.76%) Product Ownership
10 32 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (3.79%) Pricing Data
12 29 (3.54%) Onboarding
13 23 (2.81%) Management Information System
13 23 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (2.44%) Data Structures
14 20 (2.44%) FPGA
15 19 (2.32%) Distributed Architecture
15 19 (2.32%) Public Cloud
16 17 (2.08%) Legacy Code
17 16 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 102 (12.45%) Linux
2 23 (2.81%) Windows
3 22 (2.69%) Unix
4 10 (1.22%) Android
5 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.24%) CentOS
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (35.16%) Agile
2 268 (32.72%) Software Engineering
3 254 (31.01%) CI/CD
4 191 (23.32%) Microservices
5 158 (19.29%) DevOps
6 153 (18.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 148 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (17.58%) Test Automation
9 115 (14.04%) Mentoring
10 102 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 99 (12.09%) Computer Science
12 94 (11.48%) Low Latency
13 91 (11.11%) Containerisation
14 89 (10.87%) Roadmaps
15 82 (10.01%) AI
16 81 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
17 80 (9.77%) Fintech
18 74 (9.04%) User Experience
19 67 (8.18%) TDD
20 65 (7.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 289 (35.29%) Python
2 172 (21.00%) JavaScript
3 133 (16.24%) SQL
4 130 (15.87%) TypeScript
5 91 (11.11%) C#
6 56 (6.84%) Go
7 53 (6.47%) Kotlin
8 52 (6.35%) C++
9 42 (5.13%) Scala
10 40 (4.88%) C
11 17 (2.08%) Rust
11 17 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.83%) Bash
13 9 (1.10%) Ruby
14 8 (0.98%) Groovy
15 7 (0.85%) PHP
15 7 (0.85%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.85%) VBA
16 6 (0.73%) Perl
17 5 (0.61%) RPG
Qualifications
1 120 (14.65%) Degree
2 97 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 53 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 38 (4.64%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.30%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.32%) PhD
9 10 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.73%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.73%) OSCP
13 5 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.49%) OSCE
15 3 (0.37%) ISEB
15 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.24%) CFA
16 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.15%) QA
2 20 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.95%) GDPR
4 11 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.61%) SLA
7 5 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.49%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.49%) SEPA
9 2 (0.24%) PSD2
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 130 (15.87%) Docker
2 15 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.98%) HDFS
6 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 186 (22.71%) Kubernetes
2 53 (6.47%) Terraform
3 28 (3.42%) Ansible
4 25 (3.05%) Grafana
5 23 (2.81%) Argo
6 17 (2.08%) Kibana
7 15 (1.83%) Prometheus
8 10 (1.22%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.37%) Nagios
12 2 (0.24%) logstash
12 2 (0.24%) Puppet
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Control-M
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (4.52%) Oracle
2 28 (3.42%) Google
3 26 (3.17%) Guidewire
4 19 (2.32%) Informatica
4 19 (2.32%) Talend
5 18 (2.20%) Databricks
6 17 (2.08%) Microsoft
6 17 (2.08%) Splunk
7 15 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 15 (1.83%) IBM
8 14 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.47%) Dell
10 9 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.85%) SAP
12 6 (0.73%) Solace
13 5 (0.61%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.61%) HP
14 4 (0.49%) Salesforce