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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,066 1,057 1,984
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.30% 8.81% 10.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.33% 22.37% 24.97%
Number of salaries quoted 573 639 1,391
10th Percentile £52,750 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £123,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.46%

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 5,514 4,726 7,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.26% 39.40% 41.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 3,197 5,386
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -19 121 £100,000 +11.11% 91
South London -24 21 £70,000 -15.15% 9
West London -10 17 £80,000 +12.28% 55
East London -5 3 - - 11
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 39 (3.66%) Confluence
2 19 (1.78%) Apache
3 17 (1.59%) Camunda
4 14 (1.31%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.094%) CICS
10 1 (0.094%) IIS
10 1 (0.094%) Oracle 10gAS
10 1 (0.094%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.094%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.22%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.47%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.38%) Maximo
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.094%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.094%) Endur
5 1 (0.094%) Findur
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 508 (47.65%) AWS
2 227 (21.29%) Azure
3 190 (17.82%) GCP
4 75 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (6.38%) GitHub
6 54 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (4.60%) Serverless
8 47 (4.41%) SaaS
9 32 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
14 21 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
15 20 (1.88%) Datadog
16 19 (1.78%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
18 17 (1.59%) Snowflake
19 16 (1.50%) OpenShift
20 15 (1.41%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.28%) HTTP
2 17 (1.59%) Network Security
3 13 (1.22%) DMARC
3 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.75%) DNS
5 7 (0.66%) BGP
5 7 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.56%) IPsec
7 5 (0.47%) Broadband
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
7 5 (0.47%) IPv4
7 5 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.28%) LAN
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.094%) DHCP
11 1 (0.094%) IPv6
11 1 (0.094%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 69 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (5.44%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.78%) Big Data
6 19 (1.78%) Redis
7 18 (1.69%) MySQL
8 17 (1.59%) Db2
9 13 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.94%) DTS
10 10 (0.94%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.84%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.66%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.56%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.56%) HBase
15 5 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 85 (7.97%) Git
2 70 (6.57%) GitLab
3 62 (5.82%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.41%) Cucumber
5 44 (4.13%) JIRA
6 39 (3.66%) TeamCity
7 32 (3.00%) Selenium
8 28 (2.63%) JUnit
9 21 (1.97%) Maven
10 17 (1.59%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.59%) Mockito
10 17 (1.59%) Postman
11 16 (1.50%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.31%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.94%) JMeter
14 10 (0.94%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.84%) Gradle
16 7 (0.66%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 449 (42.12%) Finance
2 227 (21.29%) Banking
3 211 (19.79%) Social Skills
4 88 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 76 (7.13%) Law
7 70 (6.57%) Front Office
8 67 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (5.44%) Financial Institution
10 57 (5.35%) Retail
11 28 (2.63%) Back Office
12 24 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.25%) Marketing
13 15 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.22%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.03%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.75%) Legal
18 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 296 (27.77%) Senior
2 259 (24.30%) Java Engineer
3 256 (24.02%) Software Engineer
4 235 (22.05%) Developer
5 145 (13.60%) Lead
6 137 (12.85%) Java Developer
7 101 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (7.32%) Senior Developer
9 73 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
9 73 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 58 (5.44%) Principal Engineer
11 49 (4.60%) Architect
12 48 (4.50%) Principal Java Engineer
13 47 (4.41%) Lead Software Engineer
14 40 (3.75%) Engineering Manager
15 37 (3.47%) Senior Java Developer
15 37 (3.47%) Software Developer
16 34 (3.19%) Development Engineer
16 34 (3.19%) Software Development Engineer
16 34 (3.19%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (26.45%) Spring
2 230 (21.58%) Spring Boot
3 186 (17.45%) Kafka
4 136 (12.76%) REST
5 131 (12.29%) Terraform
6 81 (7.60%) React
7 78 (7.32%) RESTful
8 67 (6.29%) .NET
9 63 (5.91%) Node.js
10 46 (4.32%) AngularJS
11 39 (3.66%) OAuth
12 28 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
12 28 (2.63%) OAuth2
13 26 (2.44%) Hibernate
14 24 (2.25%) Middleware
14 24 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
15 23 (2.16%) Web Services
16 20 (1.88%) Playwright
17 17 (1.59%) JPA
18 16 (1.50%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 225 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 161 (15.10%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (11.82%) Product Ownership
4 116 (10.88%) Public Cloud
5 54 (5.07%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 38 (3.56%) e-Learning
8 32 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (2.91%) Equities
10 27 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (2.35%) AI Agents
12 23 (2.16%) Blog
13 22 (2.06%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.88%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.78%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.59%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.59%) Mobile App
17 16 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.50%) Linux
2 30 (2.81%) Windows
3 15 (1.41%) Android
4 13 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.75%) Unix
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (41.28%) Software Engineering
2 361 (33.86%) CI/CD
3 309 (28.99%) Microservices
4 264 (24.77%) Agile
5 227 (21.29%) Test Automation
6 216 (20.26%) Mentoring
7 211 (19.79%) DevOps
8 206 (19.32%) AI
9 190 (17.82%) Roadmaps
10 177 (16.60%) Event-Driven
11 164 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 158 (14.82%) Technical Leadership
14 130 (12.20%) Containerisation
15 122 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (10.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 109 (10.23%) Fintech
18 102 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
19 99 (9.29%) BDD
20 96 (9.01%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 330 (30.96%) Python
2 176 (16.51%) SQL
3 101 (9.47%) C#
4 94 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 79 (7.41%) C++
6 72 (6.75%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.38%) Go
8 55 (5.16%) Kotlin
9 47 (4.41%) Bash
10 33 (3.10%) C
11 32 (3.00%) Ruby
12 26 (2.44%) Rust
13 21 (1.97%) Perl
13 21 (1.97%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.97%) Scala
14 20 (1.88%) PHP
15 11 (1.03%) R
16 10 (0.94%) RPG
17 8 (0.75%) VBA
18 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 134 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 108 (10.13%) Degree
3 76 (7.13%) SC Cleared
4 73 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 64 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (5.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 47 (4.41%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.41%) OSCP
9 11 (1.03%) CREST Certified
10 10 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) CISSP
12 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.47%) CCSP
14 5 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.19%) QA
2 22 (2.06%) GDPR
3 19 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.41%) ISO 20022
5 12 (1.13%) GRC
6 9 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.66%) NIST
7 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.38%) WCAG
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.28%) UCITS
11 2 (0.19%) PSD2
12 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (12.48%) Docker
2 18 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.094%) Firmware
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 214 (20.08%) Kubernetes
2 61 (5.72%) Grafana
3 40 (3.75%) Ansible
4 25 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.66%) Kibana
6 6 (0.56%) Argo
6 6 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.56%) Puppet
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.19%) EnCase
10 2 (0.19%) FTK
10 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 63 (5.91%) Oracle
2 54 (5.07%) Microsoft
3 52 (4.88%) Google
4 30 (2.81%) IBM
5 28 (2.63%) Splunk
6 23 (2.16%) Palantir
6 23 (2.16%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.78%) VMware
8 16 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.41%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.31%) Foundry
11 13 (1.22%) SAP
11 13 (1.22%) SendGrid
12 12 (1.13%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.03%) Solace
14 9 (0.84%) Databricks
14 9 (0.84%) HP
15 8 (0.75%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.75%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.75%) Guidewire