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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,057 976 2,069
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.11% 7.91% 8.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.16% 19.57% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 594 724 1,598
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £69,063 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £109,375 £127,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £143,750 £148,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 5,242 4,986 9,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.32% 40.39% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,702 3,708 7,564
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £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 £131,625 £130,000
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 20 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 20 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 -12 158 £100,000 +2.56% 66
South London -15 22 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -16 18 £80,000 +166.67% 7
East London -10 3 - - 13
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 (2.18%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.89%) Confluence
3 15 (1.42%) Apache
3 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
4 14 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.66%) JBoss
6 5 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.38%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) Moodle
8 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 2 (0.19%) Appian
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.095%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maximo
2 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.095%) Endur
4 1 (0.095%) Findur
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 457 (43.24%) AWS
2 195 (18.45%) GCP
3 164 (15.52%) Azure
4 69 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.24%) SaaS
6 49 (4.64%) GitHub
7 41 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.65%) Serverless
9 25 (2.37%) OpenShift
10 20 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
11 19 (1.80%) Pulumi
12 18 (1.70%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.51%) dbt
14 14 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.32%) Datadog
14 14 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.84%) HTTP
2 25 (2.37%) Broadband
3 24 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.38%) AMQP
4 4 (0.38%) IPv4
4 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.28%) BGP
5 3 (0.28%) Internet
5 3 (0.28%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) VLAN
5 3 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.19%) DMARC
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.19%) LAN
6 2 (0.19%) SAN
6 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.095%) MQTT
7 1 (0.095%) SNMP
7 1 (0.095%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.28%) NoSQL
2 60 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (5.58%) Relational Database
4 35 (3.31%) RDBMS
5 29 (2.74%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 23 (2.18%) DB2
8 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.42%) Big Data
10 13 (1.23%) BigQuery
10 13 (1.23%) MySQL
11 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.95%) Pentaho
11 10 (0.95%) Redis
12 9 (0.85%) Flink
12 9 (0.85%) Metadata
12 9 (0.85%) Neo4j
13 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (5.68%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.54%) Git
3 45 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.88%) Selenium
5 37 (3.50%) GitLab
6 30 (2.84%) Cucumber
7 29 (2.74%) JIRA
8 17 (1.61%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
10 14 (1.32%) Gradle
10 14 (1.32%) JUnit
11 12 (1.14%) Maven
12 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.57%) Postman
16 5 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
17 4 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 409 (38.69%) Finance
2 223 (21.10%) Banking
3 180 (17.03%) Social Skills
4 115 (10.88%) Front Office
5 111 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 95 (8.99%) Law
7 82 (7.76%) Retail
8 67 (6.34%) Public Sector
9 65 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (6.15%) Financial Institution
10 47 (4.45%) Back Office
11 36 (3.41%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.70%) Games
15 16 (1.51%) Billing
16 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
18 7 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 352 (33.30%) Developer
2 272 (25.73%) Senior
3 264 (24.98%) Software Engineer
4 218 (20.62%) Java Engineer
5 201 (19.02%) Java Developer
6 166 (15.70%) Lead
7 107 (10.12%) Java Software Engineer
8 89 (8.42%) Senior Developer
9 86 (8.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 67 (6.34%) Senior Java Engineer
11 61 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 61 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 57 (5.39%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (5.20%) Senior Java Developer
14 46 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
15 40 (3.78%) Development Engineer
15 40 (3.78%) Software Development Engineer
16 39 (3.69%) Software Developer
17 38 (3.60%) Architect
17 38 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (21.85%) Spring
2 194 (18.35%) Spring Boot
3 141 (13.34%) React
4 137 (12.96%) Kafka
5 114 (10.79%) REST
6 79 (7.47%) Node.js
7 62 (5.87%) .NET
8 55 (5.20%) AngularJS
9 48 (4.54%) RESTful
10 45 (4.26%) GraphQL
11 39 (3.69%) Web Services
12 34 (3.22%) Redux
13 33 (3.12%) HTML
14 30 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (2.74%) SOAP
16 28 (2.65%) CSS
17 23 (2.18%) Hibernate
18 21 (1.99%) OAuth
18 21 (1.99%) Vue
19 20 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 187 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 99 (9.37%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 75 (7.10%) Public Cloud
5 51 (4.82%) Fixed Income
6 44 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (3.41%) Blog
8 34 (3.22%) Equities
9 30 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (1.89%) FPGA
11 19 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.42%) Derivative
13 15 (1.42%) e-Learning
14 14 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 102 (9.65%) Linux
2 26 (2.46%) Android
3 25 (2.37%) Unix
4 22 (2.08%) Windows
5 11 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.095%) CentOS
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (36.61%) Software Engineering
2 315 (29.80%) CI/CD
3 295 (27.91%) Agile
4 232 (21.95%) Microservices
5 214 (20.25%) DevOps
6 195 (18.45%) Test Automation
7 193 (18.26%) Mentoring
8 172 (16.27%) Roadmaps
9 166 (15.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 146 (13.81%) Technical Leadership
11 135 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (11.64%) AI
13 120 (11.35%) Fintech
14 117 (11.07%) Containerisation
15 113 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 101 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (8.51%) Low Latency
18 83 (7.85%) Clean Code
19 77 (7.28%) TDD
20 71 (6.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 302 (28.57%) Python
2 166 (15.70%) JavaScript
3 148 (14.00%) SQL
4 107 (10.12%) Go
5 100 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 83 (7.85%) C#
7 76 (7.19%) C++
8 49 (4.64%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.69%) Bash
10 30 (2.84%) C
11 22 (2.08%) Rust
12 19 (1.80%) Scala
13 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.66%) PHP
15 7 (0.66%) VBA
16 6 (0.57%) Perl
17 5 (0.47%) Groovy
18 4 (0.38%) RPG
18 4 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 132 (12.49%) Security Cleared
2 105 (9.93%) Degree
3 84 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 60 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.70%) OSCP
9 16 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.32%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.04%) PhD
12 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.47%) 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 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.60%) QA
2 16 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 8 (0.76%) GDPR
7 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 2 (0.19%) SLA
11 1 (0.095%) MiFID
11 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (13.62%) Docker
2 9 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.38%) KVM
3 4 (0.38%) Squid
3 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 235 (22.23%) Kubernetes
2 139 (13.15%) Terraform
3 70 (6.62%) Grafana
4 40 (3.78%) Ansible
5 28 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.18%) Argo
7 15 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.57%) Kibana
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
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 Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (3.88%) Google
2 31 (2.93%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.74%) Oracle
4 20 (1.89%) IBM
5 18 (1.70%) Palantir
6 17 (1.61%) Foundry
7 14 (1.32%) Splunk
8 12 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.04%) Solace
10 10 (0.95%) Informatica
10 10 (0.95%) Talend
10 10 (0.95%) VMware
11 8 (0.76%) Databricks
11 8 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.57%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.47%) Guidewire