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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,047 1,198 2,275
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.78% 9.64% 9.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.57% 23.15% 23.46%
Number of salaries quoted 598 773 1,741
10th Percentile £55,875 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £96,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £132,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £135,375 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,351 5,175 9,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.41% 41.65% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 3,608 7,520
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -18 153 £100,000 +2.56% 116
South London -11 24 £70,000 -15.15% 5
West London -17 21 £80,000 +166.67% 16
East London -1 3 - - 21
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 26 (2.48%) Confluence
2 22 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.53%) Apache
4 15 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.76%) Camunda
7 5 (0.48%) JBoss
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.19%) Moodle
11 1 (0.096%) CICS
11 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.096%) Endur
3 1 (0.096%) Findur
3 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 474 (45.27%) AWS
2 191 (18.24%) GCP
3 181 (17.29%) Azure
4 70 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
5 58 (5.54%) SaaS
6 57 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 51 (4.87%) GitHub
8 39 (3.72%) Serverless
9 25 (2.39%) OpenShift
10 22 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (1.62%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (1.43%) dbt
13 15 (1.43%) Pulumi
14 14 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.87%) HTTP
2 22 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.01%) Broadband
4 13 (1.24%) DMARC
5 11 (1.05%) Network Security
6 6 (0.57%) BGP
6 6 (0.57%) VPN
7 4 (0.38%) IPv4
7 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.29%) DNS
8 3 (0.29%) Firewall
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 3 (0.29%) IPsec
8 3 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.19%) LAN
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) WAN
10 1 (0.096%) AMQP
10 1 (0.096%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.35%) NoSQL
2 61 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.87%) MongoDB
5 25 (2.39%) Db2
6 23 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 23 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 13 (1.24%) Big Data
9 12 (1.15%) MySQL
10 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.96%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.96%) Metadata
11 10 (0.96%) Redis
12 9 (0.86%) DTS
13 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 57 (5.44%) Git
2 53 (5.06%) TeamCity
3 50 (4.78%) GitLab
4 43 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.96%) Cucumber
6 30 (2.87%) JIRA
6 30 (2.87%) Selenium
7 19 (1.81%) JUnit
8 15 (1.43%) Maven
9 14 (1.34%) Gradle
10 13 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.05%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.05%) Jaeger
12 8 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.76%) Mockito
13 5 (0.48%) JMeter
13 5 (0.48%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 420 (40.11%) Finance
2 197 (18.82%) Banking
3 165 (15.76%) Social Skills
4 104 (9.93%) Front Office
4 104 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 82 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 81 (7.74%) Law
7 76 (7.26%) Retail
8 65 (6.21%) Financial Institution
9 62 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
10 44 (4.20%) Back Office
11 29 (2.77%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.43%) Games
12 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.05%) Billing
14 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.67%) Advertising
16 7 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 320 (30.56%) Developer
2 264 (25.21%) Senior
3 247 (23.59%) Software Engineer
4 220 (21.01%) Java Engineer
5 179 (17.10%) Java Developer
6 152 (14.52%) Lead
7 85 (8.12%) Java Software Engineer
8 84 (8.02%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 61 (5.83%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.64%) Lead Software Engineer
12 51 (4.87%) Architect
13 50 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
15 45 (4.30%) Principal Engineer
16 44 (4.20%) Software Developer
17 41 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (3.72%) Engineering Manager
19 38 (3.63%) Consultant
20 35 (3.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (23.59%) Spring
2 208 (19.87%) Spring Boot
3 159 (15.19%) Kafka
4 118 (11.27%) React
5 112 (10.70%) REST
6 84 (8.02%) Node.js
7 61 (5.83%) .NET
8 54 (5.16%) RESTful
9 53 (5.06%) AngularJS
10 40 (3.82%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.44%) Redux
12 35 (3.34%) Web Services
13 27 (2.58%) OAuth
14 26 (2.48%) Middleware
15 24 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
16 22 (2.10%) Hibernate
17 21 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
17 21 (2.01%) HTML
17 21 (2.01%) OAuth2
17 21 (2.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 206 (19.68%) Cloud Native
2 109 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.17%) Product Ownership
4 91 (8.69%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.68%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (3.06%) Blog
8 30 (2.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 30 (2.87%) Equities
9 29 (2.77%) Onboarding
10 24 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.20%) e-Learning
12 22 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.62%) FPGA
14 16 (1.53%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
18 9 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 112 (10.70%) Linux
2 26 (2.48%) Windows
3 23 (2.20%) Unix
4 19 (1.81%) Android
5 10 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (37.92%) Software Engineering
2 323 (30.85%) CI/CD
3 296 (28.27%) Agile
4 256 (24.45%) Microservices
5 218 (20.82%) DevOps
6 210 (20.06%) Test Automation
7 198 (18.91%) Mentoring
8 177 (16.91%) Roadmaps
9 146 (13.94%) Technical Leadership
10 138 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 135 (12.89%) AI
12 134 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 134 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
13 133 (12.70%) Containerisation
14 101 (9.65%) Fintech
15 97 (9.26%) Event-Driven
16 96 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (8.60%) Low Latency
18 80 (7.64%) Computer Science
19 79 (7.55%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 328 (31.33%) Python
2 159 (15.19%) SQL
3 150 (14.33%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.74%) Go
5 97 (9.26%) C++
6 96 (9.17%) C#
7 94 (8.98%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.06%) Bash
9 40 (3.82%) Kotlin
10 36 (3.44%) Rust
11 34 (3.25%) C
12 22 (2.10%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.91%) Scala
14 16 (1.53%) Ruby
15 13 (1.24%) PHP
16 12 (1.15%) Perl
17 9 (0.86%) R
17 9 (0.86%) RPG
18 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
19 7 (0.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 147 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 103 (9.84%) Degree
3 90 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 61 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 60 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 54 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.53%) OSCP
9 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.15%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.86%) PhD
12 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.38%) CCNA
14 4 (0.38%) RHCE
14 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.97%) QA
2 18 (1.72%) GDPR
3 16 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.34%) GRC
5 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.48%) NIST
9 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 128 (12.23%) Docker
2 13 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.48%) KVM
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.38%) vSphere
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 226 (21.59%) Kubernetes
2 146 (13.94%) Terraform
3 79 (7.55%) Grafana
4 43 (4.11%) Ansible
5 35 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.43%) Argo
7 11 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.67%) Kibana
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
12 1 (0.096%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (4.20%) Google
2 36 (3.44%) Oracle
3 35 (3.34%) Microsoft
4 29 (2.77%) IBM
5 25 (2.39%) Splunk
6 24 (2.29%) Palantir
7 17 (1.62%) Foundry
8 16 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.34%) VMware
10 13 (1.24%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.24%) SendGrid
11 11 (1.05%) Solace
12 10 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.86%) SAP
14 7 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.57%) Databricks
15 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.57%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.57%) Sybase