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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,045 1,150 2,190
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.88% 9.41% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.62% 22.62% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 588 722 1,671
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £73,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £133,250 £140,000 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,325 5,083 9,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.88% 41.57% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 3,513 7,664
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £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 £118,750 £134,100 £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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -14 159 £100,000 +2.04% 58
South London -11 23 £60,000 -27.27% 4
West London -13 19 £80,000 +166.67% 16
East London -10 3 - - 7
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 20 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.72%) Confluence
3 17 (1.63%) Apache
4 15 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.67%) JBoss
7 5 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.19%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.096%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.38%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.096%) Endur
5 1 (0.096%) Findur
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 461 (44.11%) AWS
2 189 (18.09%) GCP
3 168 (16.08%) Azure
4 62 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
5 61 (5.84%) SaaS
6 50 (4.78%) GitHub
7 46 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (2.39%) Serverless
9 24 (2.30%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.82%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 18 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.53%) dbt
13 15 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
14 14 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.97%) HTTP
2 25 (2.39%) Broadband
3 23 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.96%) DMARC
5 4 (0.38%) IPv4
5 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.29%) BGP
6 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
6 3 (0.29%) VLAN
6 3 (0.29%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) AMQP
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.096%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.096%) LTE
8 1 (0.096%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.27%) NoSQL
2 57 (5.45%) Relational Database
3 56 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.68%) MongoDB
4 28 (2.68%) RDBMS
5 21 (2.01%) Db2
5 21 (2.01%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.34%) BigQuery
7 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.05%) MySQL
8 10 (0.96%) Metadata
9 9 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.86%) Redis
10 8 (0.77%) Big Data
11 7 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.67%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (5.17%) Git
2 53 (5.07%) TeamCity
3 48 (4.59%) GitLab
4 43 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 33 (3.16%) Selenium
6 31 (2.97%) JIRA
7 29 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.72%) JUnit
9 15 (1.44%) Gradle
9 15 (1.44%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.44%) Maven
10 13 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.05%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.86%) Postman
13 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.67%) Mockito
14 7 (0.67%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.48%) JMeter
15 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 409 (39.14%) Finance
2 205 (19.62%) Banking
3 168 (16.08%) Social Skills
4 109 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (9.86%) Front Office
6 85 (8.13%) Law
7 78 (7.46%) Retail
8 77 (7.37%) Public Sector
9 67 (6.41%) Financial Institution
10 59 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
11 45 (4.31%) Back Office
12 30 (2.87%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.63%) Games
15 16 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.34%) Billing
17 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.96%) Tech for Good
19 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
20 7 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 330 (31.58%) Developer
2 259 (24.78%) Software Engineer
3 258 (24.69%) Senior
4 226 (21.63%) Java Engineer
5 191 (18.28%) Java Developer
6 155 (14.83%) Lead
7 94 (9.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 85 (8.13%) Senior Developer
9 81 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 63 (6.03%) Senior Java Engineer
11 58 (5.55%) Lead Software Engineer
12 56 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 52 (4.98%) Senior Java Developer
14 49 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
16 42 (4.02%) Architect
16 42 (4.02%) Software Developer
17 36 (3.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 36 (3.44%) Engineering Manager
18 32 (3.06%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (23.92%) Spring
2 210 (20.10%) Spring Boot
3 145 (13.88%) Kafka
4 123 (11.77%) React
5 112 (10.72%) REST
6 76 (7.27%) Node.js
7 58 (5.55%) .NET
8 54 (5.17%) AngularJS
9 51 (4.88%) RESTful
10 41 (3.92%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.54%) Web Services
12 34 (3.25%) Redux
13 29 (2.78%) HTML
14 27 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
15 26 (2.49%) OAuth
16 25 (2.39%) SOAP
17 23 (2.20%) CSS
18 22 (2.11%) Hibernate
19 21 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
19 21 (2.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 200 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 102 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.19%) Product Ownership
4 87 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.69%) Fixed Income
6 48 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 32 (3.06%) Equities
8 31 (2.97%) Blog
9 22 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.01%) e-Learning
11 19 (1.82%) FPGA
12 15 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.34%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.15%) Mobile Banking
15 11 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 10 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.24%) Linux
2 26 (2.49%) Unix
3 24 (2.30%) Android
4 23 (2.20%) Windows
5 11 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (37.42%) Software Engineering
2 315 (30.14%) CI/CD
3 296 (28.33%) Agile
4 244 (23.35%) Microservices
5 218 (20.86%) DevOps
6 208 (19.90%) Test Automation
7 199 (19.04%) Mentoring
8 176 (16.84%) Roadmaps
9 149 (14.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 148 (14.16%) Technical Leadership
11 131 (12.54%) Containerisation
11 131 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 124 (11.87%) AI
14 106 (10.14%) Fintech
15 100 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 92 (8.80%) Low Latency
17 83 (7.94%) Event-Driven
18 80 (7.66%) Clean Code
19 78 (7.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 297 (28.42%) Python
2 150 (14.35%) JavaScript
2 150 (14.35%) SQL
3 107 (10.24%) Go
4 96 (9.19%) TypeScript
5 90 (8.61%) C#
6 89 (8.52%) C++
7 44 (4.21%) Bash
7 44 (4.21%) Kotlin
8 32 (3.06%) Rust
9 30 (2.87%) C
10 20 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.91%) Scala
11 9 (0.86%) R
12 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.67%) Julia
13 7 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.57%) Groovy
14 6 (0.57%) PHP
15 5 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 139 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 96 (9.19%) Degree
3 91 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 46 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.72%) OSCP
9 14 (1.34%) CREST Certified
10 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.86%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.86%) PhD
12 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.38%) CCNA
14 4 (0.38%) RHCE
14 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.50%) QA
2 16 (1.53%) GDPR
3 15 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.34%) GRC
5 12 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.05%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.38%) NIST
11 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.19%) WCAG
12 1 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 133 (12.73%) Docker
2 11 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) KVM
4 4 (0.38%) Squid
4 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.38%) vSphere
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.096%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.096%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.096%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 229 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 138 (13.21%) Terraform
3 75 (7.18%) Grafana
4 43 (4.11%) Ansible
5 35 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.72%) Argo
7 15 (1.44%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.77%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.19%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
13 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (4.02%) Google
2 33 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.87%) Oracle
4 23 (2.20%) Palantir
5 22 (2.11%) Splunk
6 19 (1.82%) IBM
7 17 (1.63%) Foundry
8 14 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.15%) Solace
10 11 (1.05%) VMware
11 10 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.96%) SendGrid
12 7 (0.67%) Databricks
12 7 (0.67%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.48%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.48%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.48%) SAP
14 4 (0.38%) Sybase