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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,043 1,032 2,025
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.12% 8.15% 8.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.05% 19.96% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 587 751 1,584
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
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 £128,750 £122,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £147,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £74,301 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -0.93% +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 5,202 5,171 9,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.53% 40.84% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,663 3,807 7,609
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,875 £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 £129,000
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 8 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 8 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 -3 156 £100,000 +1.01% 95
South London -21 18 £70,000 -15.15% 6
West London -28 16 £61,250 +104.17% 15
East London -14 3 - - 12
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 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.82%) Confluence
3 18 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.34%) Apache
4 14 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (0.86%) JBoss
6 7 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.38%) Appian
7 4 (0.38%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) Moodle
8 3 (0.29%) Liferay
8 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.15%) Maximo
2 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.096%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.096%) Endur
4 1 (0.096%) Findur
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 453 (43.43%) AWS
2 187 (17.93%) GCP
3 158 (15.15%) Azure
4 70 (6.71%) SaaS
5 67 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
6 54 (5.18%) GitHub
7 38 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (2.59%) OpenShift
9 24 (2.30%) Serverless
10 22 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
11 20 (1.92%) Pulumi
12 17 (1.63%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.63%) dbt
13 15 (1.44%) Datadog
13 15 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.68%) HTTP
2 27 (2.59%) Broadband
3 26 (2.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.38%) AMQP
4 4 (0.38%) BGP
4 4 (0.38%) IPv4
4 4 (0.38%) Multicast
4 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.38%) VLAN
4 4 (0.38%) VPN
5 3 (0.29%) Internet
5 3 (0.29%) LAN
5 3 (0.29%) Network Security
5 3 (0.29%) SAN
5 3 (0.29%) 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 (7.48%) NoSQL
2 62 (5.94%) Relational Database
3 61 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (3.45%) RDBMS
5 32 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.59%) DB2
7 26 (2.49%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.34%) Big Data
10 13 (1.25%) MySQL
11 11 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.05%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.96%) Flink
12 10 (0.96%) Neo4j
12 10 (0.96%) Pentaho
13 9 (0.86%) Metadata
13 9 (0.86%) Redis
14 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (5.75%) TeamCity
2 46 (4.41%) Git
2 46 (4.41%) Selenium
3 44 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.36%) GitLab
5 31 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 29 (2.78%) JIRA
7 19 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.53%) Jaeger
9 13 (1.25%) Gradle
10 12 (1.15%) JUnit
11 11 (1.05%) Maven
12 10 (0.96%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.86%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.86%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.67%) Postman
15 5 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 401 (38.45%) Finance
2 223 (21.38%) Banking
3 187 (17.93%) Social Skills
4 115 (11.03%) Front Office
5 109 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (8.82%) Law
7 80 (7.67%) Retail
8 69 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (6.23%) Financial Institution
10 60 (5.75%) Public Sector
11 50 (4.79%) Back Office
12 40 (3.84%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.82%) Games
16 16 (1.53%) Billing
17 12 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.77%) Marketing
18 8 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 341 (32.69%) Developer
2 272 (26.08%) Senior
3 262 (25.12%) Software Engineer
4 215 (20.61%) Java Engineer
5 193 (18.50%) Java Developer
6 162 (15.53%) Lead
7 108 (10.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 87 (8.34%) Senior Developer
9 83 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 70 (6.71%) Senior Java Engineer
11 64 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 63 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 57 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 56 (5.37%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
16 42 (4.03%) Development Engineer
16 42 (4.03%) Software Development Engineer
17 41 (3.93%) Architect
18 38 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 37 (3.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (20.42%) Spring
2 178 (17.07%) Spring Boot
3 156 (14.96%) React
4 134 (12.85%) Kafka
5 116 (11.12%) REST
6 85 (8.15%) Node.js
7 65 (6.23%) .NET
8 54 (5.18%) AngularJS
9 52 (4.99%) GraphQL
10 48 (4.60%) RESTful
11 39 (3.74%) HTML
11 39 (3.74%) Web Services
12 36 (3.45%) CSS
13 35 (3.36%) Redux
14 33 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
15 32 (3.07%) SOAP
16 27 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
17 23 (2.21%) Hibernate
18 22 (2.11%) Vue
19 21 (2.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 183 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 98 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 67 (6.42%) Public Cloud
5 53 (5.08%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (3.64%) Equities
8 35 (3.36%) Blog
9 31 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.01%) FPGA
11 19 (1.82%) Derivative
11 19 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.63%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.34%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.25%) e-Learning
15 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.16%) Linux
2 26 (2.49%) Unix
3 25 (2.40%) Android
3 25 (2.40%) Windows
4 10 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) CentOS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (36.63%) Software Engineering
2 306 (29.34%) CI/CD
3 297 (28.48%) Agile
4 223 (21.38%) Microservices
5 209 (20.04%) DevOps
6 187 (17.93%) Mentoring
7 186 (17.83%) Test Automation
8 172 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 169 (16.20%) Roadmaps
10 140 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
11 138 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
12 127 (12.18%) AI
13 118 (11.31%) Containerisation
14 115 (11.03%) Fintech
15 114 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
16 99 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (8.92%) Low Latency
18 81 (7.77%) Clean Code
19 77 (7.38%) Computer Science
20 75 (7.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 312 (29.91%) Python
2 176 (16.87%) JavaScript
3 155 (14.86%) SQL
4 114 (10.93%) Go
5 111 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 85 (8.15%) C#
7 71 (6.81%) C++
8 51 (4.89%) Kotlin
9 41 (3.93%) Bash
10 31 (2.97%) C
11 22 (2.11%) Rust
12 18 (1.73%) Scala
13 17 (1.63%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.77%) PHP
15 7 (0.67%) Perl
15 7 (0.67%) Ruby
15 7 (0.67%) VBA
16 5 (0.48%) Groovy
17 4 (0.38%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 131 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 112 (10.74%) Degree
3 82 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 63 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (4.22%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.63%) OSCP
10 13 (1.25%) CREST Certified
11 12 (1.15%) PhD
12 10 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.38%) CCNA
16 4 (0.38%) RHCE
16 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
17 3 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.64%) QA
2 14 (1.34%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.25%) GRC
3 13 (1.25%) SOC 2
4 5 (0.48%) GDPR
4 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
5 4 (0.38%) SLA
6 3 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.096%) MiFID
7 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 143 (13.71%) Docker
2 10 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.38%) KVM
4 4 (0.38%) Squid
4 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.38%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.096%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.096%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.096%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.096%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 230 (22.05%) Kubernetes
2 141 (13.52%) Terraform
3 69 (6.62%) Grafana
4 44 (4.22%) Ansible
5 29 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.59%) Argo
7 16 (1.53%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Kibana
10 3 (0.29%) Puppet
10 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.096%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (3.84%) Google
2 31 (2.97%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.78%) Oracle
4 19 (1.82%) IBM
5 17 (1.63%) Palantir
6 16 (1.53%) Foundry
7 12 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.15%) Splunk
8 11 (1.05%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.05%) Solace
8 11 (1.05%) VMware
9 10 (0.96%) Informatica
9 10 (0.96%) Talend
10 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.77%) Databricks
10 8 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.48%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.48%) HP