Java Jobs in London

Java
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,052 2,028 5,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.26% 8.59% 14.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.08% 21.43% 29.53%
Number of salaries quoted 761 1,576 3,613
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £147,500 £148,750 £138,750
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.05% -8.13% +10.34%

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 5,240 9,464 17,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.14% 40.07% 49.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,861 7,633 12,961
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £131,250 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in London

Java
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in London.

Salary trend for Java in London

Java
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 2025. 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 -15 182 £100,000 +11.11% 121
South London +7 88 £82,500 - 6
West London +58 19 £30,000 -55.56% 53
East London -13 5 - - 19
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 214 (20.34%) Apache Airflow
2 185 (17.59%) Apache
3 89 (8.46%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.71%) Confluence
5 12 (1.14%) JBoss
5 12 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (0.86%) Tomcat
7 8 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.57%) nginx
9 4 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.29%) Camunda
10 3 (0.29%) CMS
10 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.29%) Mule
10 3 (0.29%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.19%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Endur
2 4 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.29%) Orchestrade
3 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.19%) Maximo
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.19%) Shopify
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.095%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 631 (59.98%) AWS
2 215 (20.44%) Azure
3 208 (19.77%) dbt
4 183 (17.40%) GCP
5 181 (17.21%) Serverless
6 155 (14.73%) Amazon ECS
7 133 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (11.03%) Snowflake
9 101 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
10 98 (9.32%) Amazon EC2
11 85 (8.08%) OpenShift
12 63 (5.99%) GitHub
13 57 (5.42%) Dagster
14 48 (4.56%) Amazon S3
15 47 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
18 28 (2.66%) Datadog
19 23 (2.19%) SaaS
20 22 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.09%) Network Security
2 20 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.38%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) VPN
5 2 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.19%) Multicast
5 2 (0.19%) SSH
5 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.095%) LAN
6 1 (0.095%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.095%) SAN
6 1 (0.095%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (20.53%) Amazon Athena
2 208 (19.77%) Apache Iceberg
2 208 (19.77%) Dremio
3 186 (17.68%) Apache Arrow
4 141 (13.40%) Apache Ignite
5 115 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
6 91 (8.65%) Data Lake
7 64 (6.08%) Relational Database
8 54 (5.13%) NoSQL
9 34 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.76%) MySQL
11 28 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (2.66%) RDBMS
12 27 (2.57%) DynamoDB
13 26 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 26 (2.47%) MongoDB
14 25 (2.38%) Big Data
15 22 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 129 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 118 (11.22%) Git
3 85 (8.08%) Artifactory
4 76 (7.22%) JUnit
5 53 (5.04%) Maven
6 44 (4.18%) JIRA
7 42 (3.99%) Mockito
8 36 (3.42%) IntelliJ
9 33 (3.14%) GitLab
10 27 (2.57%) JMeter
11 26 (2.47%) Gradle
12 25 (2.38%) Cucumber
13 23 (2.19%) Selenium
14 22 (2.09%) SonarQube
15 18 (1.71%) Postman
16 17 (1.62%) Bitbucket
17 13 (1.24%) TestNG
18 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
19 9 (0.86%) CircleCI
20 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
General
1 502 (47.72%) Finance
2 305 (28.99%) Banking
2 305 (28.99%) Front Office
3 236 (22.43%) Social Skills
4 161 (15.30%) Investment Banking
5 75 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (5.23%) Financial Institution
8 52 (4.94%) Public Sector
9 41 (3.90%) Law
10 36 (3.42%) Games
11 14 (1.33%) Legal
11 14 (1.33%) Retail
12 13 (1.24%) Retail Banking
13 10 (0.95%) Advertising
14 9 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.76%) Marketing
16 7 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.67%) Publishing
17 6 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 362 (34.41%) Developer
2 264 (25.10%) Software Engineer
3 230 (21.86%) Senior
4 201 (19.11%) AWS Engineer
5 193 (18.35%) Java Developer
6 189 (17.97%) Java Engineer
7 162 (15.40%) Python Engineer
8 140 (13.31%) Java Software Engineer
9 139 (13.21%) Lead
10 130 (12.36%) Data Engineer
11 114 (10.84%) AWS Software Engineer
12 103 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
13 101 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
14 93 (8.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 90 (8.56%) Senior Java Engineer
16 84 (7.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 69 (6.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 68 (6.46%) Python Software Engineer
19 66 (6.27%) AWS Developer
20 65 (6.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (19.87%) Spring
2 205 (19.49%) Kafka
3 173 (16.44%) Spring Boot
4 171 (16.25%) PySpark
5 166 (15.78%) React
6 119 (11.31%) Pandas
7 112 (10.65%) AngularJS
8 105 (9.98%) NumPy
8 105 (9.98%) SciPy
9 104 (9.89%) REST
10 96 (9.13%) J2EE
11 91 (8.65%) Node.js
12 76 (7.22%) .NET
13 74 (7.03%) gRPC
14 72 (6.84%) RESTful
15 70 (6.65%) Protocol Buffers
16 61 (5.80%) Web Services
17 51 (4.85%) HTML
18 45 (4.28%) Hibernate
19 35 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 164 (15.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 152 (14.45%) Fixed Income
3 149 (14.16%) Equities
4 134 (12.74%) Derivative
5 112 (10.65%) Hedge funds
6 80 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
7 69 (6.56%) Cloud Native
8 47 (4.47%) Algorithms
9 43 (4.09%) Product Ownership
10 42 (3.99%) Management Information System
11 36 (3.42%) Pricing Data
12 30 (2.85%) Mobile Games
13 27 (2.57%) Data Structures
14 25 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.81%) Credit Derivative
15 19 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.52%) Public Cloud
17 15 (1.43%) Mobile App
18 14 (1.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 105 (9.98%) Linux
2 40 (3.80%) Android
3 22 (2.09%) Apple iOS
4 21 (2.00%) Unix
5 15 (1.43%) Windows
6 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) zOS
7 1 (0.095%) Fedora
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Rocky
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (56.56%) Agile
2 502 (47.72%) Software Engineering
3 325 (30.89%) CI/CD
4 290 (27.57%) DevOps
5 242 (23.00%) Microservices
6 234 (22.24%) Asset Management
7 170 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (14.73%) Mentoring
9 146 (13.88%) Containerisation
10 142 (13.50%) TDD
11 140 (13.31%) SDLC
12 139 (13.21%) Computer Science
13 118 (11.22%) Data Engineering
14 111 (10.55%) Open Source
15 96 (9.13%) Fintech
16 91 (8.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 91 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
17 90 (8.56%) Full-Stack Development
17 90 (8.56%) Test Automation
18 89 (8.46%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 500 (47.53%) Python
2 252 (23.95%) JavaScript
3 186 (17.68%) SQL
4 136 (12.93%) Go
5 130 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 104 (9.89%) C#
7 101 (9.60%) C++
8 42 (3.99%) Kotlin
9 41 (3.90%) Scala
10 36 (3.42%) Rust
11 30 (2.85%) C
12 29 (2.76%) Shell Script
13 22 (2.09%) Bash
14 21 (2.00%) Objective-C
15 20 (1.90%) Swift
16 13 (1.24%) PHP
16 13 (1.24%) PowerShell
16 13 (1.24%) Ruby
17 7 (0.67%) Groovy
18 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (17.49%) Degree
2 100 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 82 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (7.03%) SC Cleared
5 61 (5.80%) Master's Degree
6 31 (2.95%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.57%) PhD
9 23 (2.19%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.19%) Chartered Engineer
14 1 (0.095%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.095%) CCSP
14 1 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.095%) CISSP
14 1 (0.095%) MCSA
14 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.08%) QA
2 25 (2.38%) GDPR
3 21 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 15 (1.43%) SLA
5 8 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.76%) NIST
6 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.095%) COBIT
9 1 (0.095%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.095%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.095%) NCSC
9 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 349 (33.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.095%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.095%) HDFS
4 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.095%) Postfix
4 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 385 (36.60%) Kubernetes
2 194 (18.44%) Terraform
3 59 (5.61%) Ansible
4 50 (4.75%) Prometheus
5 39 (3.71%) Grafana
6 20 (1.90%) Kibana
7 18 (1.71%) Argo
8 9 (0.86%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.67%) Puppet
11 6 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.48%) Oozie
12 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.38%) Consul
13 4 (0.38%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.38%) Packer
14 2 (0.19%) CA Endevor
14 2 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
15 1 (0.095%) Salt
15 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 55 (5.23%) Google
2 39 (3.71%) Oracle
3 34 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 26 (2.47%) IBM
5 24 (2.28%) Splunk
6 21 (2.00%) Databricks
7 20 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.71%) New Relic
9 10 (0.95%) Solace
10 9 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.57%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.57%) OpenLink
11 6 (0.57%) Sybase
12 5 (0.48%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.48%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.38%) Informatica
13 4 (0.38%) Remedy
13 4 (0.38%) Teradata
14 3 (0.29%) Murex
14 3 (0.29%) TIBCO