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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 993 1,038 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.51% 8.10% 8.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.20% 19.32% 21.02%
Number of salaries quoted 589 765 1,532
10th Percentile £56,000 £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 £117,688
90th Percentile £142,500 £145,000 £146,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 4,915 5,372 9,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.28% 41.90% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,452 3,939 7,607
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,356 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £127,500 £125,000
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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -5 154 £100,000 - 113
West London -26 13 £61,250 +104.17% 11
South London -11 12 £62,600 -24.12% 2
East London -14 4 - - 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 27 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.21%) Apache
3 12 (1.21%) Confluence
3 12 (1.21%) JBoss
4 11 (1.11%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.81%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.50%) Camunda
8 4 (0.40%) Appian
8 4 (0.40%) Moodle
8 4 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) Liferay
10 1 (0.10%) CICS
10 1 (0.10%) CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.21%) Maximo
2 7 (0.70%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.40%) Shopify
4 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 439 (44.21%) AWS
2 176 (17.72%) GCP
3 145 (14.60%) Azure
4 82 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
4 82 (8.26%) SaaS
5 52 (5.24%) GitHub
6 29 (2.92%) Serverless
7 28 (2.82%) OpenShift
8 25 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (2.22%) dbt
10 20 (2.01%) Pulumi
11 19 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
11 19 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.71%) Datadog
13 17 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.02%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.52%) Broadband
3 18 (1.81%) HTTP
4 7 (0.70%) VPN
5 6 (0.60%) BGP
5 6 (0.60%) Multicast
5 6 (0.60%) VLAN
6 5 (0.50%) AMQP
7 4 (0.40%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.30%) Firewall
8 3 (0.30%) Network Security
9 2 (0.20%) DHCP
9 2 (0.20%) DNS
9 2 (0.20%) Internet
9 2 (0.20%) LAN
9 2 (0.20%) NAS
9 2 (0.20%) SAN
9 2 (0.20%) SNMP
9 2 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.35%) Relational Database
3 70 (7.05%) NoSQL
4 42 (4.23%) RDBMS
5 33 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 29 (2.92%) DB2
7 23 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.71%) Big Data
10 15 (1.51%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.41%) MySQL
12 12 (1.21%) Neo4j
12 12 (1.21%) Redis
13 11 (1.11%) Flink
14 10 (1.01%) Pentaho
15 9 (0.91%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.81%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.70%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 66 (6.65%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.83%) Selenium
3 46 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 40 (4.03%) Git
5 30 (3.02%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.62%) GitLab
7 23 (2.32%) JIRA
8 16 (1.61%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.51%) JUnit
10 13 (1.31%) Gradle
11 11 (1.11%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.11%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.91%) JMeter
12 9 (0.91%) Maven
13 7 (0.70%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.70%) Postman
14 5 (0.50%) Mockito
14 5 (0.50%) SpecFlow
15 4 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 372 (37.46%) Finance
2 233 (23.46%) Banking
3 197 (19.84%) Social Skills
4 122 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (11.38%) Front Office
6 107 (10.78%) Law
7 90 (9.06%) Retail
8 85 (8.56%) Financial Institution
9 67 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
10 62 (6.24%) Public Sector
11 57 (5.74%) Back Office
11 57 (5.74%) Investment Banking
12 27 (2.72%) Telecoms
13 23 (2.32%) Games
14 18 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.71%) Billing
16 12 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.81%) Marketing
17 8 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 355 (35.75%) Developer
2 268 (26.99%) Senior
3 257 (25.88%) Software Engineer
4 199 (20.04%) Java Developer
5 176 (17.72%) Java Engineer
6 147 (14.80%) Lead
7 101 (10.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (8.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 82 (8.26%) Senior Developer
10 81 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 69 (6.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 68 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
13 53 (5.34%) Lead Software Engineer
14 52 (5.24%) Senior Java Developer
15 51 (5.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 48 (4.83%) Architect
17 43 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
18 41 (4.13%) React Developer
19 39 (3.93%) Development Engineer
19 39 (3.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (20.44%) Spring
2 181 (18.23%) React
3 156 (15.71%) Spring Boot
4 131 (13.19%) Kafka
5 111 (11.18%) REST
6 94 (9.47%) Node.js
7 69 (6.95%) .NET
8 62 (6.24%) AngularJS
9 60 (6.04%) RESTful
10 56 (5.64%) GraphQL
11 45 (4.53%) HTML
12 39 (3.93%) Web Services
13 38 (3.83%) CSS
13 38 (3.83%) SOAP
14 35 (3.52%) Redux
15 33 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (2.92%) FIX Protocol
16 29 (2.92%) Hibernate
17 26 (2.62%) JSON
18 24 (2.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 190 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 117 (11.78%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.74%) Fixed Income
4 55 (5.54%) Product Ownership
5 51 (5.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 44 (4.43%) Equities
7 41 (4.13%) Public Cloud
8 38 (3.83%) Blog
9 27 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (2.62%) Derivative
11 24 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 21 (2.11%) FPGA
13 18 (1.81%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
15 15 (1.51%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (1.31%) Mobile Banking
17 12 (1.21%) Algorithms
18 11 (1.11%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 117 (11.78%) Linux
2 31 (3.12%) Unix
3 26 (2.62%) Windows
4 22 (2.22%) Android
5 7 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (36.35%) Software Engineering
2 312 (31.42%) CI/CD
3 311 (31.32%) Agile
4 215 (21.65%) Microservices
5 194 (19.54%) DevOps
6 190 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 190 (19.13%) Test Automation
7 170 (17.12%) Mentoring
8 147 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (13.60%) Roadmaps
10 123 (12.39%) AI
11 118 (11.88%) Fintech
12 117 (11.78%) Technical Leadership
13 115 (11.58%) Containerisation
14 100 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 92 (9.26%) Low Latency
16 89 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 88 (8.86%) Clean Code
18 80 (8.06%) Computer Science
19 67 (6.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 299 (30.11%) Python
2 195 (19.64%) JavaScript
3 150 (15.11%) SQL
4 137 (13.80%) TypeScript
5 116 (11.68%) Go
6 84 (8.46%) C#
7 69 (6.95%) C++
8 57 (5.74%) Kotlin
9 37 (3.73%) C
10 33 (3.32%) Bash
11 30 (3.02%) Rust
12 22 (2.22%) Scala
13 12 (1.21%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.81%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.81%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Perl
16 7 (0.70%) Ruby
17 6 (0.60%) VBA
18 5 (0.50%) RPG
Qualifications
1 133 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 120 (12.08%) Degree
3 86 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 58 (5.84%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.72%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.41%) CREST Certified
8 14 (1.41%) OSCP
9 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.31%) PhD
10 10 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.70%) OSCE
12 6 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.40%) ISEB
13 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.30%) CCSAM
14 3 (0.30%) GPEN
14 3 (0.30%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.63%) QA
2 16 (1.61%) GDPR
2 16 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.51%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (0.81%) GRC
6 7 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.40%) SLA
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.30%) NIST
9 2 (0.20%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) MiFID
10 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 138 (13.90%) Docker
2 10 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.30%) HDFS
6 3 (0.30%) KVM
7 2 (0.20%) 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
1 246 (24.77%) Kubernetes
2 131 (13.19%) Terraform
3 70 (7.05%) Grafana
4 37 (3.73%) Ansible
5 30 (3.02%) Argo
6 27 (2.72%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.61%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.70%) Kibana
9 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
12 1 (0.10%) Nagios
12 1 (0.10%) Puppet
12 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (3.52%) Google
2 24 (2.42%) IBM
2 24 (2.42%) Oracle
3 18 (1.81%) Microsoft
4 16 (1.61%) MuleSoft
5 14 (1.41%) Informatica
5 14 (1.41%) Talend
6 12 (1.21%) Databricks
6 12 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.11%) Foundry
8 10 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.01%) Solace
9 9 (0.91%) Dell
9 9 (0.91%) Palantir
9 9 (0.91%) Splunk
10 7 (0.70%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.70%) SAP
11 6 (0.60%) Guidewire
11 6 (0.60%) VMware