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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,054 1,021 2,037
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.17% 8.06% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.13% 19.81% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 601 757 1,588
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £147,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -2.67% +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 5,237 5,154 9,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.68% 40.71% 40.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 3,843 7,597
10th Percentile £49,400 £49,050 £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 £128,750
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 10 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 10 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 -3 158 £100,000 +1.01% 100
South London -21 18 £70,000 -15.15% 5
West London -21 17 £80,000 +166.67% 15
East London -11 3 - - 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 22 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.90%) Confluence
3 19 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.52%) Apache
5 14 (1.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.85%) JBoss
7 7 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.38%) Appian
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Moodle
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.57%) 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%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg AIM
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
1 452 (42.88%) AWS
2 187 (17.74%) GCP
3 163 (15.46%) Azure
4 66 (6.26%) SaaS
5 63 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
6 56 (5.31%) GitHub
7 40 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 26 (2.47%) Serverless
10 23 (2.18%) GitHub Copilot
11 19 (1.80%) Pulumi
12 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.61%) dbt
13 16 (1.52%) Datadog
13 16 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
17 9 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.75%) HTTP
2 25 (2.37%) Broadband
2 25 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.38%) AMQP
3 4 (0.38%) IPv4
3 4 (0.38%) Multicast
3 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (0.28%) BGP
4 3 (0.28%) Internet
4 3 (0.28%) LAN
4 3 (0.28%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) SAN
4 3 (0.28%) VLAN
4 3 (0.28%) VPN
4 3 (0.28%) 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 77 (7.31%) NoSQL
2 62 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 35 (3.32%) RDBMS
5 30 (2.85%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.56%) DB2
7 26 (2.47%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.42%) Big Data
10 13 (1.23%) MySQL
11 12 (1.14%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.95%) Flink
12 10 (0.95%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.95%) Neo4j
12 10 (0.95%) Pentaho
13 9 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.85%) Metadata
14 8 (0.76%) Redis
15 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (5.41%) TeamCity
2 47 (4.46%) Git
3 46 (4.36%) Selenium
4 43 (4.08%) Jenkins
5 35 (3.32%) GitLab
6 32 (3.04%) Cucumber
7 29 (2.75%) JIRA
8 19 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
10 13 (1.23%) Gradle
11 12 (1.14%) JUnit
12 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.04%) Maven
13 9 (0.85%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.66%) Postman
15 5 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 403 (38.24%) Finance
2 222 (21.06%) Banking
3 188 (17.84%) Social Skills
4 115 (10.91%) Front Office
5 104 (9.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 88 (8.35%) Law
7 76 (7.21%) Retail
8 67 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
9 62 (5.88%) Financial Institution
9 62 (5.88%) Public Sector
10 46 (4.36%) Back Office
11 40 (3.80%) Investment Banking
12 26 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 22 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.80%) Games
15 16 (1.52%) Billing
16 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.76%) Marketing
17 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 346 (32.83%) Developer
2 277 (26.28%) Senior
3 266 (25.24%) Software Engineer
4 218 (20.68%) Java Engineer
5 197 (18.69%) Java Developer
6 164 (15.56%) Lead
7 108 (10.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (8.35%) Senior Developer
9 86 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 71 (6.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 64 (6.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 63 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
13 58 (5.50%) Lead Software Engineer
14 57 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (4.36%) Principal Engineer
16 42 (3.98%) Architect
16 42 (3.98%) Development Engineer
16 42 (3.98%) Software Development Engineer
17 38 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 37 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (20.49%) Spring
2 182 (17.27%) Spring Boot
3 158 (14.99%) React
4 135 (12.81%) Kafka
5 117 (11.10%) REST
6 88 (8.35%) Node.js
7 66 (6.26%) .NET
8 55 (5.22%) AngularJS
9 52 (4.93%) GraphQL
10 48 (4.55%) RESTful
11 39 (3.70%) HTML
12 38 (3.61%) Web Services
13 36 (3.42%) CSS
14 35 (3.32%) Redux
15 32 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
15 32 (3.04%) SOAP
16 27 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
17 23 (2.18%) Hibernate
18 22 (2.09%) Middleware
18 22 (2.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 182 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 98 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (7.40%) Product Ownership
4 69 (6.55%) Public Cloud
5 53 (5.03%) Fixed Income
6 47 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (3.61%) Equities
8 35 (3.32%) Blog
9 33 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (1.99%) FPGA
11 19 (1.80%) Derivative
11 19 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.33%) e-Learning
14 14 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 105 (9.96%) Linux
2 25 (2.37%) Android
2 25 (2.37%) Unix
2 25 (2.37%) Windows
3 10 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) CentOS
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (36.72%) Software Engineering
2 307 (29.13%) CI/CD
3 299 (28.37%) Agile
4 228 (21.63%) Microservices
5 212 (20.11%) DevOps
6 187 (17.74%) Mentoring
7 186 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 173 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 171 (16.22%) Roadmaps
10 142 (13.47%) Technical Leadership
11 138 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (12.14%) AI
13 120 (11.39%) Containerisation
14 115 (10.91%) Fintech
15 113 (10.72%) Infrastructure as Code
16 100 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (8.92%) Low Latency
18 79 (7.50%) Clean Code
19 77 (7.31%) Computer Science
20 75 (7.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 311 (29.51%) Python
2 177 (16.79%) JavaScript
3 156 (14.80%) SQL
4 112 (10.63%) TypeScript
5 111 (10.53%) Go
6 87 (8.25%) C#
7 74 (7.02%) C++
8 52 (4.93%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.70%) Bash
10 31 (2.94%) C
11 22 (2.09%) Rust
12 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
12 17 (1.61%) Scala
13 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.76%) PHP
14 7 (0.66%) Perl
14 7 (0.66%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) VBA
15 5 (0.47%) Groovy
16 4 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 133 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 111 (10.53%) Degree
3 84 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.61%) OSCP
9 13 (1.23%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.04%) PhD
11 10 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) 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 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.80%) QA
2 14 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.23%) GRC
3 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.57%) GDPR
6 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.38%) SLA
7 3 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.095%) MiFID
8 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (13.66%) 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
1 227 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 135 (12.81%) Terraform
3 66 (6.26%) Grafana
4 42 (3.98%) Ansible
5 27 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.47%) Argo
7 15 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
10 3 (0.28%) 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 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (3.70%) Google
2 30 (2.85%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.75%) Oracle
4 19 (1.80%) IBM
5 17 (1.61%) Palantir
6 16 (1.52%) Foundry
7 12 (1.14%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.14%) Splunk
8 11 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.04%) Solace
9 10 (0.95%) Informatica
9 10 (0.95%) Talend
9 10 (0.95%) VMware
10 8 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.76%) Databricks
10 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.47%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.47%) Dynatrace