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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,043 1,042 2,012
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.18% 8.21% 8.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.22% 19.94% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 593 758 1,574
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £112,500 £127,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £147,500 £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 5,157 5,226 9,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.61% 41.20% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,641 3,859 7,616
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £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 £132,500 £127,500
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 3 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 3 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 -7 159 £100,000 +0.50% 115
South London -20 16 £62,600 -24.12% 5
West London -34 16 £61,250 +104.17% 12
East London -13 3 - - 19
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 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (1.63%) Confluence
3 14 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
4 12 (1.15%) Apache
5 10 (0.96%) JBoss
6 8 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.48%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.38%) Appian
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) Moodle
9 3 (0.29%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.096%) CICS
11 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.15%) Maximo
2 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.096%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.096%) Endur
3 1 (0.096%) Findur
3 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 456 (43.72%) AWS
2 189 (18.12%) GCP
3 161 (15.44%) Azure
4 71 (6.81%) SaaS
5 68 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
6 54 (5.18%) GitHub
7 36 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.68%) OpenShift
9 23 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 22 (2.11%) Serverless
11 20 (1.92%) Pulumi
12 17 (1.63%) dbt
13 16 (1.53%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (1.44%) Datadog
15 12 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.68%) HTTP
2 27 (2.59%) Broadband
2 27 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.38%) AMQP
3 4 (0.38%) BGP
3 4 (0.38%) IPv4
3 4 (0.38%) Multicast
3 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (0.38%) VLAN
3 4 (0.38%) VPN
4 3 (0.29%) Internet
4 3 (0.29%) LAN
4 3 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.29%) SAN
4 3 (0.29%) WAN
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.29%) NoSQL
2 64 (6.14%) Relational Database
3 63 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (3.45%) RDBMS
5 32 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.59%) DB2
7 25 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.53%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.44%) MySQL
11 14 (1.34%) Big Data
12 11 (1.05%) Flink
12 11 (1.05%) Hadoop
13 10 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.96%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.96%) Neo4j
13 10 (0.96%) Pentaho
14 9 (0.86%) Metadata
14 9 (0.86%) Redis
15 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (5.75%) TeamCity
2 49 (4.70%) Git
3 46 (4.41%) Selenium
4 43 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 32 (3.07%) GitLab
6 30 (2.88%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.49%) JIRA
8 18 (1.73%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.53%) Jaeger
10 14 (1.34%) Gradle
11 13 (1.25%) JUnit
12 10 (0.96%) Maven
13 9 (0.86%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.77%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.67%) Postman
16 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.48%) Subversion
17 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
18 3 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 401 (38.45%) Finance
2 225 (21.57%) Banking
3 188 (18.02%) Social Skills
4 114 (10.93%) Front Office
5 110 (10.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 93 (8.92%) Law
7 80 (7.67%) Retail
8 68 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
9 66 (6.33%) Financial Institution
10 62 (5.94%) Public Sector
11 50 (4.79%) Back Office
12 43 (4.12%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.82%) Games
16 16 (1.53%) Billing
17 12 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.77%) Marketing
18 8 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 343 (32.89%) Developer
2 277 (26.56%) Senior
3 264 (25.31%) Software Engineer
4 212 (20.33%) Java Engineer
5 195 (18.70%) Java Developer
6 160 (15.34%) Lead
7 108 (10.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (8.44%) Senior Developer
9 84 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 72 (6.90%) Senior Java Engineer
11 65 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 64 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 57 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 55 (5.27%) Senior Java Developer
15 45 (4.31%) Architect
16 44 (4.22%) Principal Engineer
17 43 (4.12%) Development Engineer
18 42 (4.03%) Software Development Engineer
19 39 (3.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 38 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (20.42%) Spring
2 175 (16.78%) Spring Boot
3 160 (15.34%) React
4 133 (12.75%) Kafka
5 116 (11.12%) REST
6 87 (8.34%) Node.js
7 66 (6.33%) .NET
8 55 (5.27%) AngularJS
9 51 (4.89%) GraphQL
9 51 (4.89%) RESTful
10 40 (3.84%) HTML
10 40 (3.84%) Web Services
11 37 (3.55%) CSS
12 35 (3.36%) Redux
13 34 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
13 34 (3.26%) SOAP
14 26 (2.49%) FIX Protocol
15 24 (2.30%) Hibernate
16 23 (2.21%) Vue
17 22 (2.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 186 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 103 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 64 (6.14%) Public Cloud
5 53 (5.08%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (3.55%) Equities
8 35 (3.36%) Blog
9 31 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.01%) FPGA
11 20 (1.92%) Derivative
12 19 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.34%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.15%) e-Learning
17 11 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 109 (10.45%) Linux
2 27 (2.59%) Unix
3 25 (2.40%) Android
3 25 (2.40%) Windows
4 10 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) CentOS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (36.82%) Software Engineering
2 308 (29.53%) CI/CD
3 300 (28.76%) Agile
4 219 (21.00%) Microservices
5 207 (19.85%) DevOps
6 185 (17.74%) Mentoring
6 185 (17.74%) Test Automation
7 172 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 169 (16.20%) Roadmaps
9 143 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
10 138 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
11 128 (12.27%) AI
12 122 (11.70%) Containerisation
13 118 (11.31%) Fintech
14 111 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 101 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 95 (9.11%) Low Latency
17 84 (8.05%) Clean Code
18 80 (7.67%) Computer Science
19 75 (7.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 307 (29.43%) Python
2 178 (17.07%) JavaScript
3 154 (14.77%) SQL
4 115 (11.03%) Go
5 112 (10.74%) TypeScript
6 85 (8.15%) C#
7 69 (6.62%) C++
8 53 (5.08%) Kotlin
9 41 (3.93%) Bash
10 33 (3.16%) C
11 24 (2.30%) Rust
12 17 (1.63%) PowerShell
12 17 (1.63%) Scala
13 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.77%) PHP
14 7 (0.67%) Perl
14 7 (0.67%) Ruby
14 7 (0.67%) VBA
15 5 (0.48%) Groovy
16 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 132 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 117 (11.22%) Degree
3 83 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.12%) AWS Certification
7 21 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.63%) OSCP
9 13 (1.25%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.15%) PhD
11 10 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.74%) QA
2 14 (1.34%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.25%) GRC
3 13 (1.25%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.58%) GDPR
6 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.38%) SLA
8 3 (0.29%) NIST
9 1 (0.096%) MiFID
9 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 148 (14.19%) Docker
2 10 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.86%) Active Directory
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 Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.096%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.096%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.096%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.096%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 240 (23.01%) Kubernetes
2 140 (13.42%) Terraform
3 70 (6.71%) Grafana
4 44 (4.22%) Ansible
5 29 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.68%) Argo
7 16 (1.53%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Kibana
10 3 (0.29%) Puppet
10 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
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 Spacewalk
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.096%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (3.84%) Google
2 31 (2.97%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.88%) Oracle
4 19 (1.82%) IBM
5 16 (1.53%) Foundry
6 15 (1.44%) Palantir
7 13 (1.25%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.05%) Informatica
9 11 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.05%) Solace
9 11 (1.05%) Splunk
9 11 (1.05%) Talend
9 11 (1.05%) VMware
10 8 (0.77%) Databricks
10 8 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.67%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.48%) Dell
12 5 (0.48%) HP