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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 26 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 834 1,205 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.83% 7.83% 10.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.25% 19.09% 23.31%
Number of salaries quoted 531 791 1,597
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.68%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

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 4,332 6,311 8,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.27% 41.00% 43.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,053 4,039 7,233
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +7 152 £100,000 +11.11% 88
South London 0 18 £62,600 +4.33% 16
West London -3 10 £82,500 +48.65% 22
East London -11 3 £75,000 -45.45% 22
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 40 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 37 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.32%) Apache
4 14 (1.68%) Confluence
5 11 (1.32%) JBoss
6 10 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.72%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.48%) Appian
8 4 (0.48%) nginx
8 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.36%) Liferay
9 3 (0.36%) Luigi
9 3 (0.36%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) Moodle
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.48%) Maximo
2 4 (0.48%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 377 (45.20%) AWS
2 124 (14.87%) Azure
3 116 (13.91%) GCP
4 69 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
5 57 (6.83%) SaaS
6 45 (5.40%) GitHub
7 42 (5.04%) Serverless
8 33 (3.96%) Snowflake
9 31 (3.72%) dbt
10 26 (3.12%) Amazon Kinesis
10 26 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.76%) Datadog
12 21 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (2.40%) OpenShift
14 19 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.80%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (1.32%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.36%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.56%) Broadband
2 13 (1.56%) HTTP
3 8 (0.96%) Multicast
4 7 (0.84%) VPN
5 4 (0.48%) AMQP
5 4 (0.48%) DNS
5 4 (0.48%) Firewall
5 4 (0.48%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.36%) BGP
6 3 (0.36%) LAN
6 3 (0.36%) SAN
6 3 (0.36%) VLAN
6 3 (0.36%) WAN
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) FTP
7 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) SMTP
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.95%) Relational Database
2 80 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 49 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 46 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 37 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 37 (4.44%) MongoDB
8 36 (4.32%) Big Data
9 34 (4.08%) Hadoop
10 27 (3.24%) Apache Ignite
11 24 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (2.88%) Apache Arrow
11 24 (2.88%) Apache Iceberg
11 24 (2.88%) Dremio
12 22 (2.64%) DB2
13 19 (2.28%) DynamoDB
14 17 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.80%) MySQL
15 15 (1.80%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 64 (7.67%) Jenkins
2 48 (5.76%) Selenium
3 37 (4.44%) TeamCity
4 36 (4.32%) Git
5 33 (3.96%) JIRA
6 28 (3.36%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.88%) JUnit
8 21 (2.52%) Bitbucket
8 21 (2.52%) JMeter
9 20 (2.40%) Cypress.io
10 19 (2.28%) GitLab
11 14 (1.68%) Mockito
12 12 (1.44%) Postman
12 12 (1.44%) WebDriver
13 11 (1.32%) Jaeger
14 8 (0.96%) Maven
15 7 (0.84%) Subversion
16 6 (0.72%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.72%) Vite
17 5 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 301 (36.09%) Finance
2 220 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 215 (25.78%) Banking
4 101 (12.11%) Front Office
5 86 (10.31%) Investment Banking
6 69 (8.27%) Financial Institution
7 67 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (8.03%) Law
8 62 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (5.40%) Public Sector
10 44 (5.28%) Retail
11 29 (3.48%) Back Office
12 23 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 18 (2.16%) Billing
14 14 (1.68%) Games
15 13 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.72%) Legal
17 6 (0.72%) Marketing
17 6 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 289 (34.65%) Developer
2 210 (25.18%) Senior
3 189 (22.66%) Software Engineer
4 165 (19.78%) Java Developer
5 147 (17.63%) Java Engineer
6 117 (14.03%) Lead
7 94 (11.27%) Java Software Engineer
8 79 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 78 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 71 (8.51%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (7.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 58 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
13 50 (6.00%) Architect
14 47 (5.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 43 (5.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 42 (5.04%) Senior Developer
17 33 (3.96%) Development Engineer
18 31 (3.72%) Data Engineer
18 31 (3.72%) Python Engineer
19 29 (3.48%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (21.70%) Spring
2 144 (17.27%) React
3 130 (15.59%) Spring Boot
4 114 (13.67%) Kafka
5 99 (11.87%) REST
6 64 (7.67%) RESTful
7 62 (7.43%) Node.js
8 58 (6.95%) .NET
9 53 (6.35%) HTML
10 46 (5.52%) AngularJS
11 37 (4.44%) CSS
12 35 (4.20%) Hibernate
13 31 (3.72%) GraphQL
14 29 (3.48%) SOAP
15 28 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
15 28 (3.36%) gRPC
16 27 (3.24%) JSON
16 27 (3.24%) Pandas
16 27 (3.24%) Web Services
17 24 (2.88%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 155 (18.59%) Cloud Native
2 132 (15.83%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (8.39%) Equities
4 59 (7.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 47 (5.64%) Derivative
6 42 (5.04%) Fixed Income
7 41 (4.92%) Product Ownership
8 39 (4.68%) Algorithms
9 38 (4.56%) Hedge funds
10 32 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
11 27 (3.24%) Onboarding
12 26 (3.12%) Pricing Data
13 24 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (2.64%) Management Information System
15 21 (2.52%) Public Cloud
16 20 (2.40%) Data Structures
16 20 (2.40%) FPGA
17 19 (2.28%) Distributed Architecture
18 17 (2.04%) Blog
18 17 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 106 (12.71%) Linux
2 23 (2.76%) Unix
2 23 (2.76%) Windows
3 12 (1.44%) Android
4 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.24%) CentOS
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (33.93%) Agile
2 277 (33.21%) Software Engineering
3 263 (31.53%) CI/CD
4 197 (23.62%) Microservices
5 165 (19.78%) DevOps
6 154 (18.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 151 (18.11%) Test Automation
8 143 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (14.75%) Mentoring
10 102 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (11.51%) Computer Science
12 95 (11.39%) Low Latency
13 93 (11.15%) Roadmaps
14 91 (10.91%) Containerisation
15 87 (10.43%) Fintech
16 84 (10.07%) AI
17 83 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
18 70 (8.39%) TDD
18 70 (8.39%) User Experience
19 64 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 284 (34.05%) Python
2 165 (19.78%) JavaScript
3 132 (15.83%) SQL
4 125 (14.99%) TypeScript
5 90 (10.79%) C#
6 61 (7.31%) Go
7 55 (6.59%) C++
8 54 (6.47%) Kotlin
9 41 (4.92%) Scala
10 40 (4.80%) C
11 20 (2.40%) Rust
12 17 (2.04%) Bash
12 17 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.96%) Ruby
14 7 (0.84%) Groovy
14 7 (0.84%) PHP
14 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.72%) Perl
15 6 (0.72%) VBA
16 5 (0.60%) RPG
Qualifications
1 118 (14.15%) Degree
2 105 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 57 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 45 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 36 (4.32%) Master's Degree
7 29 (3.48%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.28%) PhD
9 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.84%) CREST Certified
11 7 (0.84%) OSCP
12 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.48%) OSCE
14 3 (0.36%) ISEB
14 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.20%) QA
2 18 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.92%) GDPR
4 11 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.48%) SEPA
7 4 (0.48%) SLA
8 2 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (16.19%) Docker
2 15 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.96%) HDFS
6 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.24%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 198 (23.74%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.55%) Terraform
3 31 (3.72%) Ansible
4 29 (3.48%) Grafana
5 25 (3.00%) Argo
6 17 (2.04%) Kibana
7 15 (1.80%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.36%) Nagios
11 3 (0.36%) Puppet
12 2 (0.24%) logstash
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) Rancher
13 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (4.20%) Oracle
2 29 (3.48%) Google
3 24 (2.88%) Guidewire
4 19 (2.28%) Informatica
4 19 (2.28%) Talend
5 18 (2.16%) Databricks
6 17 (2.04%) Microsoft
6 17 (2.04%) Splunk
7 15 (1.80%) IBM
8 14 (1.68%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.44%) Dell
10 10 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.84%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.84%) Solace
12 6 (0.72%) SAP
13 5 (0.60%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.60%) HP
13 5 (0.60%) Salesforce