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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,112 1,015 1,903
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.27% 8.61% 10.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.10% 22.35% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 559 606 1,302
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,313 £75,313
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 £134,500 £139,375
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 5,533 4,542 7,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.25% 38.54% 42.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,651 3,026 5,080
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £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 £132,500
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 7 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 7 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 99 £100,000 +11.11% 155
South London -19 23 £70,000 -15.15% 15
West London -7 19 £80,000 -3.03% 24
East London -5 7 - - 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 40 (3.60%) Confluence
2 19 (1.71%) Camunda
3 18 (1.62%) Apache
4 13 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.45%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.36%) JBoss
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Hedera
9 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.27%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.090%) IIS
11 1 (0.090%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.17%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.63%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.090%) 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%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.090%) Maximo
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.090%) Quorum
4 1 (0.090%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.090%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.090%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 520 (46.76%) AWS
2 212 (19.06%) Azure
3 199 (17.90%) GCP
4 82 (7.37%) GitHub
5 77 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (5.76%) SaaS
8 50 (4.50%) Serverless
9 37 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
10 29 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 28 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.89%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (1.80%) Datadog
16 17 (1.53%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.52%) HTTP
2 19 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.53%) Network Security
4 15 (1.35%) DMARC
5 12 (1.08%) BGP
5 12 (1.08%) VPN
6 8 (0.72%) DNS
7 6 (0.54%) IPsec
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
9 4 (0.36%) Broadband
9 4 (0.36%) Firewall
9 4 (0.36%) IPv4
9 4 (0.36%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
12 1 (0.090%) Unicast
12 1 (0.090%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (7.91%) NoSQL
2 79 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (6.03%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.32%) MongoDB
5 29 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.89%) Big Data
7 18 (1.62%) MySQL
8 16 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.44%) Redis
9 12 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.08%) Db2
10 10 (0.90%) DTS
10 10 (0.90%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.90%) Power BI
11 9 (0.81%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.63%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.54%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (0.54%) HBase
13 6 (0.54%) KDB
Development Applications
1 82 (7.37%) Git
2 76 (6.83%) GitLab
3 66 (5.94%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.40%) TeamCity
5 55 (4.95%) Cucumber
6 44 (3.96%) JIRA
7 31 (2.79%) JUnit
8 27 (2.43%) Selenium
9 22 (1.98%) Maven
10 21 (1.89%) Claude Code
11 20 (1.80%) Postman
12 19 (1.71%) Mockito
13 17 (1.53%) Cypress.io
14 14 (1.26%) Bitbucket
14 14 (1.26%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.99%) JMeter
16 10 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.90%) Gradle
17 7 (0.63%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 466 (41.91%) Finance
2 252 (22.66%) Banking
3 238 (21.40%) Social Skills
4 105 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (8.90%) Law
6 80 (7.19%) Retail
7 71 (6.38%) Financial Institution
7 71 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 69 (6.21%) Front Office
9 66 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (3.42%) Back Office
11 27 (2.43%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.07%) Marketing
13 16 (1.44%) Tech for Good
14 13 (1.17%) Legal
15 12 (1.08%) Retail Banking
16 11 (0.99%) Health Technology
16 11 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 312 (28.06%) Senior
2 287 (25.81%) Java Engineer
3 263 (23.65%) Software Engineer
4 231 (20.77%) Developer
5 146 (13.13%) Lead
6 138 (12.41%) Java Developer
7 98 (8.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 87 (7.82%) Senior Java Engineer
9 77 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
10 74 (6.65%) Senior Developer
11 69 (6.21%) Principal Engineer
12 56 (5.04%) Architect
13 53 (4.77%) Principal Java Engineer
14 44 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
15 38 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 37 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
16 37 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
17 34 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
18 32 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
19 31 (2.79%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (26.80%) Spring
2 249 (22.39%) Spring Boot
3 189 (17.00%) Kafka
4 152 (13.67%) Terraform
5 140 (12.59%) REST
6 83 (7.46%) RESTful
7 82 (7.37%) React
8 72 (6.47%) Node.js
9 66 (5.94%) .NET
10 56 (5.04%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.69%) OAuth
12 29 (2.61%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.43%) Middleware
14 26 (2.34%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.34%) Hibernate
15 21 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (1.62%) Playwright
17 17 (1.53%) Web Services
18 15 (1.35%) HTML
18 15 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 254 (22.84%) Cloud Native
2 177 (15.92%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (11.15%) Product Ownership
4 111 (9.98%) Public Cloud
5 55 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 46 (4.14%) e-Learning
7 43 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 34 (3.06%) Blog
10 32 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 30 (2.70%) Equities
12 28 (2.52%) Fixed Income
13 26 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (2.25%) AI Agents
15 24 (2.16%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.89%) Algorithms
17 20 (1.80%) Data Structures
18 19 (1.71%) Management Information System
18 19 (1.71%) Mobile App
19 17 (1.53%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.56%) Linux
2 26 (2.34%) Windows
3 18 (1.62%) Android
4 13 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.72%) Unix
6 8 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (42.00%) Software Engineering
2 406 (36.51%) CI/CD
3 348 (31.29%) Microservices
4 274 (24.64%) Agile
5 242 (21.76%) Test Automation
6 233 (20.95%) AI
7 217 (19.51%) Mentoring
8 216 (19.42%) DevOps
9 195 (17.54%) Event-Driven
10 178 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
11 173 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 161 (14.48%) Roadmaps
13 151 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
14 140 (12.59%) Containerisation
15 129 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 129 (11.60%) Fintech
16 126 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
17 118 (10.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 102 (9.17%) BDD
19 101 (9.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 337 (30.31%) Python
2 196 (17.63%) SQL
3 102 (9.17%) C#
4 101 (9.08%) JavaScript
5 84 (7.55%) C++
5 84 (7.55%) Go
6 80 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 53 (4.77%) Kotlin
8 47 (4.23%) Bash
9 31 (2.79%) C
10 30 (2.70%) Ruby
11 26 (2.34%) Rust
12 23 (2.07%) Scala
13 20 (1.80%) PHP
14 19 (1.71%) Perl
15 17 (1.53%) PowerShell
16 11 (0.99%) R
17 10 (0.90%) RPG
18 8 (0.72%) VBA
19 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (11.87%) Security Cleared
2 100 (8.99%) Degree
3 82 (7.37%) AWS Certification
4 74 (6.65%) SC Cleared
5 70 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 58 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.60%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.26%) OSCP
9 11 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.90%) CISSP
11 9 (0.81%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.63%) CCSP
13 7 (0.63%) CISM
14 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.29%) QA
2 24 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.07%) GDPR
4 16 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.35%) NIST
6 12 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.54%) GRC
9 6 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.36%) WCAG
11 3 (0.27%) MiFID
11 3 (0.27%) UCITS
12 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 141 (12.68%) Docker
2 18 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.45%) KVM
7 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) Squid
7 3 (0.27%) vSphere
8 1 (0.090%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 251 (22.57%) Kubernetes
2 78 (7.01%) Grafana
3 42 (3.78%) Ansible
4 30 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.99%) Argo
6 8 (0.72%) Puppet
7 7 (0.63%) EnCase
7 7 (0.63%) FTK
8 6 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.54%) Kibana
8 6 (0.54%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.27%) Packer
10 3 (0.27%) Rancher
10 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.27%) WSUS
10 3 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (5.85%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.67%) Oracle
3 61 (5.49%) Google
4 33 (2.97%) Splunk
5 27 (2.43%) IBM
6 25 (2.25%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.62%) VMware
8 17 (1.53%) Palantir
9 15 (1.35%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.35%) SendGrid
10 14 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.17%) SAP
12 12 (1.08%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.08%) Foundry
12 12 (1.08%) OutSystems
12 12 (1.08%) Solace
13 10 (0.90%) Databricks
14 9 (0.81%) HP
15 8 (0.72%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.72%) Guidewire