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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,056 1,023 2,034
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.18% 8.10% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.17% 19.89% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 598 748 1,581
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £147,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £73,627 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -1.83% +1.62% -7.74%

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 5,235 5,142 9,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.69% 40.74% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,697 3,810 7,600
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £128,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -5 157 £100,000 +1.01% 97
South London -21 18 £70,000 -15.15% 5
West London -22 17 £80,000 +166.67% 14
East London -12 3 - - 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 23 (2.18%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.89%) Confluence
3 19 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.52%) Apache
5 14 (1.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.85%) JBoss
7 7 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.38%) Appian
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Moodle
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maximo
2 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.095%) Endur
4 1 (0.095%) Findur
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 456 (43.18%) AWS
2 190 (17.99%) GCP
3 163 (15.44%) Azure
4 69 (6.53%) SaaS
5 66 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 55 (5.21%) GitHub
7 40 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 26 (2.46%) Serverless
10 22 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
11 20 (1.89%) Pulumi
12 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.61%) dbt
13 16 (1.52%) Datadog
13 16 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.75%) HTTP
2 26 (2.46%) Broadband
3 25 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.38%) AMQP
4 4 (0.38%) IPv4
4 4 (0.38%) Multicast
4 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.28%) BGP
5 3 (0.28%) Internet
5 3 (0.28%) LAN
5 3 (0.28%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) SAN
5 3 (0.28%) VLAN
5 3 (0.28%) VPN
5 3 (0.28%) WAN
6 2 (0.19%) DHCP
6 2 (0.19%) DNS
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.39%) NoSQL
2 62 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (5.87%) Relational Database
3 36 (3.41%) RDBMS
4 31 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 27 (2.56%) DB2
6 26 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.42%) Big Data
9 13 (1.23%) MySQL
10 12 (1.14%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.95%) Flink
12 10 (0.95%) Neo4j
12 10 (0.95%) Pentaho
13 9 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.85%) Metadata
14 8 (0.76%) Redis
15 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (5.68%) TeamCity
2 47 (4.45%) Git
3 46 (4.36%) Selenium
4 43 (4.07%) Jenkins
5 35 (3.31%) GitLab
6 32 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 29 (2.75%) JIRA
8 19 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.52%) Jaeger
10 13 (1.23%) Gradle
11 12 (1.14%) JUnit
12 11 (1.04%) Maven
13 10 (0.95%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.85%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
15 7 (0.66%) Postman
16 5 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
17 4 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 405 (38.35%) Finance
2 225 (21.31%) Banking
3 187 (17.71%) Social Skills
4 115 (10.89%) Front Office
5 108 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 91 (8.62%) Law
7 80 (7.58%) Retail
8 68 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (6.16%) Financial Institution
10 61 (5.78%) Public Sector
11 49 (4.64%) Back Office
12 40 (3.79%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.46%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.80%) Games
16 16 (1.52%) Billing
17 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.76%) Marketing
18 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 344 (32.58%) Developer
2 277 (26.23%) Senior
3 268 (25.38%) Software Engineer
4 219 (20.74%) Java Engineer
5 196 (18.56%) Java Developer
6 164 (15.53%) Lead
7 109 (10.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 86 (8.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 71 (6.72%) Senior Java Engineer
11 64 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 63 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 58 (5.49%) Lead Software Engineer
14 57 (5.40%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (4.36%) Principal Engineer
16 42 (3.98%) Architect
16 42 (3.98%) Development Engineer
16 42 (3.98%) Software Development Engineer
17 38 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 37 (3.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (20.45%) Spring
2 182 (17.23%) Spring Boot
3 157 (14.87%) React
4 135 (12.78%) Kafka
5 117 (11.08%) REST
6 88 (8.33%) Node.js
7 66 (6.25%) .NET
8 55 (5.21%) AngularJS
9 52 (4.92%) GraphQL
10 48 (4.55%) RESTful
11 39 (3.69%) HTML
12 38 (3.60%) Web Services
13 36 (3.41%) CSS
14 35 (3.31%) Redux
15 33 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (3.03%) SOAP
17 27 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
18 23 (2.18%) Hibernate
19 22 (2.08%) Middleware
19 22 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 184 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 98 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 69 (6.53%) Public Cloud
5 53 (5.02%) Fixed Income
6 47 (4.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (3.60%) Equities
8 35 (3.31%) Blog
9 33 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (1.99%) FPGA
11 19 (1.80%) Derivative
11 19 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.33%) e-Learning
14 14 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.04%) Linux
2 26 (2.46%) Unix
3 25 (2.37%) Android
3 25 (2.37%) Windows
4 10 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) CentOS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (36.84%) Software Engineering
2 308 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 299 (28.31%) Agile
4 229 (21.69%) Microservices
5 213 (20.17%) DevOps
6 189 (17.90%) Mentoring
6 189 (17.90%) Test Automation
7 172 (16.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 172 (16.29%) Roadmaps
8 141 (13.35%) Technical Leadership
9 137 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
10 128 (12.12%) AI
11 121 (11.46%) Containerisation
12 116 (10.98%) Fintech
13 114 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 100 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 93 (8.81%) Low Latency
16 82 (7.77%) Clean Code
17 78 (7.39%) Computer Science
18 75 (7.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 313 (29.64%) Python
2 177 (16.76%) JavaScript
3 157 (14.87%) SQL
4 112 (10.61%) Go
4 112 (10.61%) TypeScript
5 87 (8.24%) C#
6 74 (7.01%) C++
7 52 (4.92%) Kotlin
8 40 (3.79%) Bash
9 31 (2.94%) C
10 22 (2.08%) Rust
11 18 (1.70%) Scala
12 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
13 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.76%) PHP
14 7 (0.66%) Perl
14 7 (0.66%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) VBA
15 5 (0.47%) Groovy
16 4 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 132 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 112 (10.61%) Degree
3 83 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.61%) OSCP
9 13 (1.23%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.14%) PhD
11 10 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.79%) QA
2 14 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.23%) GRC
3 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.57%) GDPR
6 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.38%) SLA
7 3 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.095%) MiFID
8 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 145 (13.73%) Docker
2 9 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.38%) KVM
3 4 (0.38%) Squid
3 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 231 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 139 (13.16%) Terraform
3 69 (6.53%) Grafana
4 43 (4.07%) Ansible
5 28 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.56%) Argo
7 16 (1.52%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
10 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (3.88%) Google
2 31 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.75%) Oracle
4 19 (1.80%) IBM
5 17 (1.61%) Palantir
6 16 (1.52%) Foundry
7 12 (1.14%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.14%) Splunk
8 11 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.04%) Solace
9 10 (0.95%) Informatica
9 10 (0.95%) Talend
9 10 (0.95%) VMware
10 8 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.76%) Databricks
10 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.47%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.47%) HP