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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 971 1,036 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.51% 8.06% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.10% 19.19% 21.13%
Number of salaries quoted 581 762 1,544
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £145,000 £145,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% +4.83% -9.38%

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 4,832 5,399 9,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.41% 42.01% 40.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,391 3,931 7,627
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,959 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -7 149 £100,000 - 113
South London -11 13 £62,600 -16.53% 2
West London -21 13 £61,250 +104.17% 11
East London -12 5 £75,000 - 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 31 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.24%) Apache
3 12 (1.24%) Confluence
3 12 (1.24%) JBoss
4 11 (1.13%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.82%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.51%) Camunda
8 4 (0.41%) Appian
8 4 (0.41%) Moodle
8 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.31%) Liferay
10 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.82%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.13%) Maximo
2 7 (0.72%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.41%) Shopify
4 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 428 (44.08%) AWS
2 174 (17.92%) GCP
3 142 (14.62%) Azure
4 84 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (8.55%) SaaS
6 49 (5.05%) GitHub
7 31 (3.19%) OpenShift
8 29 (2.99%) Serverless
9 23 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (2.27%) dbt
11 20 (2.06%) Pulumi
12 19 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
13 17 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
14 16 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (1.65%) Datadog
14 16 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (1.44%) Amazon S3
16 13 (1.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.19%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.57%) Broadband
3 14 (1.44%) HTTP
4 8 (0.82%) VPN
5 6 (0.62%) BGP
5 6 (0.62%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.62%) Multicast
5 6 (0.62%) VLAN
6 5 (0.51%) AMQP
7 4 (0.41%) Firewall
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) DNS
8 2 (0.21%) Internet
8 2 (0.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.21%) NAS
8 2 (0.21%) SAN
8 2 (0.21%) SNMP
8 2 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (7.62%) Relational Database
3 68 (7.00%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.43%) RDBMS
5 33 (3.40%) SQL Server
6 28 (2.88%) DB2
7 24 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.47%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.16%) Big Data
9 18 (1.85%) Hadoop
10 14 (1.44%) MySQL
11 13 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.34%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.24%) Neo4j
13 11 (1.13%) Flink
13 11 (1.13%) Redis
14 10 (1.03%) Apache Hive
14 10 (1.03%) Pentaho
15 9 (0.93%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 66 (6.80%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.94%) Selenium
3 47 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 39 (4.02%) Git
5 30 (3.09%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.68%) GitLab
7 23 (2.37%) JIRA
8 16 (1.65%) Jaeger
8 16 (1.65%) JUnit
9 12 (1.24%) Gradle
10 11 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.13%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.03%) JMeter
12 8 (0.82%) Maven
13 7 (0.72%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.72%) Postman
14 6 (0.62%) Mockito
15 5 (0.51%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 356 (36.66%) Finance
2 222 (22.86%) Banking
3 199 (20.49%) Social Skills
4 123 (12.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (11.74%) Front Office
6 106 (10.92%) Law
7 90 (9.27%) Retail
8 86 (8.86%) Financial Institution
9 66 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
10 62 (6.39%) Public Sector
11 57 (5.87%) Back Office
11 57 (5.87%) Investment Banking
12 28 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 23 (2.37%) Games
14 17 (1.75%) Billing
15 16 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.82%) Marketing
17 8 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 345 (35.53%) Developer
2 259 (26.67%) Senior
3 251 (25.85%) Software Engineer
4 193 (19.88%) Java Developer
5 172 (17.71%) Java Engineer
6 146 (15.04%) Lead
7 100 (10.30%) Java Software Engineer
8 84 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 82 (8.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 74 (7.62%) Senior Developer
11 69 (7.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 69 (7.11%) Senior Java Engineer
12 52 (5.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 51 (5.25%) Lead Software Engineer
14 49 (5.05%) Architect
15 48 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
16 41 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
16 41 (4.22%) React Developer
17 39 (4.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 36 (3.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (20.70%) Spring
2 180 (18.54%) React
3 152 (15.65%) Spring Boot
4 134 (13.80%) Kafka
5 108 (11.12%) REST
6 94 (9.68%) Node.js
7 69 (7.11%) .NET
8 61 (6.28%) AngularJS
9 58 (5.97%) RESTful
10 57 (5.87%) GraphQL
11 46 (4.74%) HTML
12 38 (3.91%) CSS
12 38 (3.91%) SOAP
13 37 (3.81%) Web Services
14 35 (3.60%) Redux
15 33 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (3.09%) Hibernate
17 29 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
18 27 (2.78%) JSON
19 25 (2.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 192 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 122 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.87%) Fixed Income
4 50 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 50 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 42 (4.33%) Equities
6 38 (3.91%) Blog
7 33 (3.40%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.68%) Derivative
10 23 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.16%) FPGA
12 19 (1.96%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.44%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
18 11 (1.13%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 119 (12.26%) Linux
2 34 (3.50%) Unix
3 25 (2.57%) Windows
4 21 (2.16%) Android
5 7 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.21%) CentOS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (36.25%) Software Engineering
2 314 (32.34%) Agile
3 307 (31.62%) CI/CD
4 219 (22.55%) Microservices
5 192 (19.77%) DevOps
6 191 (19.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 191 (19.67%) Test Automation
7 162 (16.68%) Mentoring
8 148 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (12.67%) AI
10 122 (12.56%) Roadmaps
11 117 (12.05%) Containerisation
11 117 (12.05%) Fintech
12 109 (11.23%) Technical Leadership
13 98 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 93 (9.58%) Low Latency
15 88 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (8.96%) Clean Code
17 81 (8.34%) Computer Science
18 68 (7.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 299 (30.79%) Python
2 197 (20.29%) JavaScript
3 150 (15.45%) SQL
4 135 (13.90%) TypeScript
5 114 (11.74%) Go
6 82 (8.44%) C#
7 65 (6.69%) C++
8 55 (5.66%) Kotlin
9 35 (3.60%) C
10 30 (3.09%) Bash
11 28 (2.88%) Rust
12 23 (2.37%) Scala
13 11 (1.13%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.82%) PHP
15 6 (0.62%) Ruby
15 6 (0.62%) VBA
16 5 (0.51%) Perl
16 5 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 132 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 119 (12.26%) Degree
3 83 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 56 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.78%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.34%) PhD
9 12 (1.24%) CREST Certified
9 12 (1.24%) OSCP
10 10 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.51%) OSCE
13 4 (0.41%) ISEB
13 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.71%) QA
2 16 (1.65%) GDPR
2 16 (1.65%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.54%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.62%) GRC
8 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.41%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) NIST
10 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.21%) WCAG
11 1 (0.10%) MiFID
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 139 (14.32%) Docker
2 11 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.31%) HDFS
6 3 (0.31%) KVM
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 252 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 130 (13.39%) Terraform
3 71 (7.31%) Grafana
4 40 (4.12%) Ansible
5 30 (3.09%) Argo
6 28 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.65%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.82%) Kibana
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.21%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
12 1 (0.10%) Nagios
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (3.60%) Google
2 25 (2.57%) Oracle
3 23 (2.37%) IBM
4 18 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.65%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.44%) Informatica
6 14 (1.44%) Talend
7 13 (1.34%) Databricks
8 12 (1.24%) Dell
8 12 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.13%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.13%) Splunk
10 10 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.03%) Solace
11 9 (0.93%) Foundry
12 7 (0.72%) Palantir
12 7 (0.72%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.72%) SAP
13 6 (0.62%) Mercator
13 6 (0.62%) VMware