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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,035 1,038 2,003
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.15% 8.14% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.14% 19.89% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 584 758 1,566
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 £110,313 £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 5,139 5,218 9,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.57% 40.94% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,626 3,857 7,602
10th Percentile £49,250 £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 £101,250
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 4 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 4 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 -7 157 £100,000 +0.50% 100
South London -21 16 £62,600 -24.12% 5
West London -33 16 £61,250 +104.17% 13
East London -10 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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.64%) Confluence
4 14 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (1.26%) Apache
6 10 (0.97%) JBoss
7 8 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.39%) Appian
8 4 (0.39%) Camunda
8 4 (0.39%) Moodle
9 3 (0.29%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.097%) CICS
11 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.097%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.16%) Maximo
2 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.097%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.097%) Endur
3 1 (0.097%) Findur
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 452 (43.67%) AWS
2 189 (18.26%) GCP
3 160 (15.46%) Azure
4 70 (6.76%) SaaS
5 68 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
6 54 (5.22%) GitHub
7 36 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.71%) OpenShift
9 23 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 22 (2.13%) Serverless
11 20 (1.93%) Pulumi
12 17 (1.64%) dbt
13 16 (1.55%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (1.45%) Datadog
15 12 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.71%) HTTP
2 27 (2.61%) Broadband
3 26 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.39%) AMQP
4 4 (0.39%) BGP
4 4 (0.39%) IPv4
4 4 (0.39%) Multicast
4 4 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.39%) VLAN
4 4 (0.39%) VPN
5 3 (0.29%) Internet
5 3 (0.29%) LAN
5 3 (0.29%) Network Security
5 3 (0.29%) SAN
5 3 (0.29%) WAN
6 2 (0.19%) DHCP
6 2 (0.19%) DNS
6 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.19%) NAS
6 2 (0.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.34%) NoSQL
2 63 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.09%) Relational Database
3 36 (3.48%) RDBMS
4 32 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 27 (2.61%) DB2
6 25 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.55%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.45%) MySQL
10 13 (1.26%) Big Data
11 11 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.06%) Flink
11 11 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.97%) Neo4j
12 10 (0.97%) Pentaho
13 9 (0.87%) Metadata
13 9 (0.87%) Redis
14 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (5.80%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.64%) Git
3 46 (4.44%) Selenium
4 43 (4.15%) Jenkins
5 32 (3.09%) GitLab
6 30 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.51%) JIRA
8 18 (1.74%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.55%) Jaeger
10 14 (1.35%) Gradle
11 13 (1.26%) JUnit
12 10 (0.97%) Maven
13 9 (0.87%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.77%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.68%) Postman
16 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.48%) Subversion
17 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
18 3 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 399 (38.55%) Finance
2 225 (21.74%) Banking
3 184 (17.78%) Social Skills
4 113 (10.92%) Front Office
5 110 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (8.89%) Law
7 80 (7.73%) Retail
8 67 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
9 66 (6.38%) Financial Institution
10 61 (5.89%) Public Sector
11 50 (4.83%) Back Office
12 43 (4.15%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.51%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.84%) Games
16 16 (1.55%) Billing
17 12 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.77%) Marketing
18 8 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 340 (32.85%) Developer
2 275 (26.57%) Senior
3 261 (25.22%) Software Engineer
4 210 (20.29%) Java Engineer
5 192 (18.55%) Java Developer
6 158 (15.27%) Lead
7 108 (10.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (8.50%) Senior Developer
9 83 (8.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 71 (6.86%) Senior Java Engineer
11 65 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 63 (6.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 56 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
14 55 (5.31%) Senior Java Developer
15 45 (4.35%) Architect
16 44 (4.25%) Principal Engineer
17 42 (4.06%) Development Engineer
17 42 (4.06%) Software Development Engineer
18 39 (3.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 37 (3.57%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (20.39%) Spring
2 173 (16.71%) Spring Boot
3 158 (15.27%) React
4 133 (12.85%) Kafka
5 115 (11.11%) REST
6 86 (8.31%) Node.js
7 65 (6.28%) .NET
8 55 (5.31%) AngularJS
9 51 (4.93%) GraphQL
10 50 (4.83%) RESTful
11 40 (3.86%) HTML
12 39 (3.77%) Web Services
13 37 (3.57%) CSS
14 35 (3.38%) Redux
15 34 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
16 33 (3.19%) SOAP
17 26 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
18 24 (2.32%) Hibernate
19 23 (2.22%) Vue
20 22 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 181 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 98 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 65 (6.28%) Public Cloud
5 53 (5.12%) Fixed Income
6 45 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (3.57%) Equities
8 35 (3.38%) Blog
9 31 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.03%) FPGA
11 20 (1.93%) Derivative
12 19 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.64%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.16%) e-Learning
17 11 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 105 (10.14%) Linux
2 26 (2.51%) Unix
3 25 (2.42%) Android
3 25 (2.42%) Windows
4 10 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) CentOS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (36.71%) Software Engineering
2 307 (29.66%) CI/CD
3 297 (28.70%) Agile
4 219 (21.16%) Microservices
5 208 (20.10%) DevOps
6 184 (17.78%) Test Automation
7 183 (17.68%) Mentoring
8 170 (16.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 169 (16.33%) Roadmaps
10 140 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
11 137 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
12 127 (12.27%) AI
13 120 (11.59%) Containerisation
14 117 (11.30%) Fintech
15 112 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
16 99 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (8.99%) Low Latency
18 82 (7.92%) Clean Code
19 78 (7.54%) Computer Science
20 75 (7.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 307 (29.66%) Python
2 175 (16.91%) JavaScript
3 153 (14.78%) SQL
4 112 (10.82%) Go
5 111 (10.72%) TypeScript
6 83 (8.02%) C#
7 67 (6.47%) C++
8 52 (5.02%) Kotlin
9 41 (3.96%) Bash
10 31 (3.00%) C
11 22 (2.13%) Rust
12 18 (1.74%) Scala
13 17 (1.64%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.77%) PHP
15 7 (0.68%) Perl
15 7 (0.68%) Ruby
15 7 (0.68%) VBA
16 5 (0.48%) Groovy
17 4 (0.39%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 131 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 114 (11.01%) Degree
3 82 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.15%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.64%) OSCP
9 13 (1.26%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.16%) PhD
11 10 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.68%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.39%) CCNA
15 4 (0.39%) RHCE
15 4 (0.39%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.29%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.77%) QA
2 14 (1.35%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.26%) GRC
3 13 (1.26%) SOC 2
4 12 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.48%) GDPR
5 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.39%) SLA
7 3 (0.29%) NIST
8 1 (0.097%) MiFID
8 1 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.097%) WCAG
System Software
1 146 (14.11%) Docker
2 10 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.39%) KVM
4 4 (0.39%) Squid
4 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.097%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.097%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.097%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 235 (22.71%) Kubernetes
2 140 (13.53%) Terraform
3 70 (6.76%) Grafana
4 44 (4.25%) Ansible
5 29 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.71%) Argo
7 16 (1.55%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.39%) Packer
9 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.097%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 41 (3.96%) Google
2 31 (3.00%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.80%) Oracle
4 18 (1.74%) IBM
5 16 (1.55%) Foundry
6 15 (1.45%) Palantir
7 12 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.06%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.06%) Solace
8 11 (1.06%) Splunk
8 11 (1.06%) VMware
9 10 (0.97%) Informatica
9 10 (0.97%) Talend
10 8 (0.77%) Databricks
10 8 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.48%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.48%) HP