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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 874 1,193 2,084
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.90% 7.76% 9.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.80% 19.22% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 537 779 1,703
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 4,415 6,206 9,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.78% 40.39% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,104 3,960 7,882
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £79,566
Median % change year-on-year - +0.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,125 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +8 152 £100,000 +11.11% 100
South London -8 14 £62,600 +4.33% 7
West London -4 12 £82,500 +175.00% 13
East London -10 4 £75,000 -45.45% 15
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 40 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.20%) Apache
3 27 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.60%) Confluence
5 12 (1.37%) JBoss
6 11 (1.26%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.69%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.46%) Appian
8 4 (0.46%) nginx
8 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.34%) Liferay
9 3 (0.34%) Luigi
9 3 (0.34%) Mule
10 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.23%) Camunda
10 2 (0.23%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.69%) Maximo
3 4 (0.46%) Shopify
4 2 (0.23%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 396 (45.31%) AWS
2 131 (14.99%) GCP
3 120 (13.73%) Azure
4 82 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 73 (8.35%) SaaS
6 45 (5.15%) GitHub
7 42 (4.81%) Serverless
8 28 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
10 24 (2.75%) dbt
10 24 (2.75%) Snowflake
11 23 (2.63%) Datadog
12 22 (2.52%) OpenShift
13 21 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.17%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (1.83%) Pulumi
16 15 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.55%) TCP/IP
2 18 (2.06%) Broadband
3 12 (1.37%) HTTP
4 10 (1.14%) VPN
5 8 (0.92%) Multicast
6 6 (0.69%) BGP
6 6 (0.69%) VLAN
7 5 (0.57%) AMQP
8 4 (0.46%) Firewall
8 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.34%) DNS
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.23%) Internet
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) NAS
10 2 (0.23%) SAN
10 2 (0.23%) SNMP
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 1 (0.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (9.73%) Relational Database
3 64 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 52 (5.95%) RDBMS
5 44 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (4.46%) SQL Server
7 35 (4.00%) Big Data
8 34 (3.89%) Hadoop
8 34 (3.89%) MongoDB
9 26 (2.97%) Data Lake
10 24 (2.75%) DB2
11 20 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (2.17%) DynamoDB
13 18 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
14 16 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (1.83%) MySQL
14 16 (1.83%) Neo4j
15 15 (1.72%) Apache Arrow
15 15 (1.72%) Dremio
15 15 (1.72%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 60 (6.86%) Jenkins
2 51 (5.84%) TeamCity
3 48 (5.49%) Selenium
4 36 (4.12%) Git
5 33 (3.78%) JIRA
6 30 (3.43%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.52%) GitLab
8 20 (2.29%) Bitbucket
8 20 (2.29%) JUnit
9 18 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.95%) JMeter
11 16 (1.83%) Jaeger
12 13 (1.49%) WebDriver
13 11 (1.26%) Mockito
14 10 (1.14%) Postman
15 9 (1.03%) Maven
16 6 (0.69%) Gradle
16 6 (0.69%) Subversion
16 6 (0.69%) Vite
17 5 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 304 (34.78%) Finance
2 229 (26.20%) Banking
3 225 (25.74%) Social Skills
4 95 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (10.41%) Front Office
5 91 (10.41%) Law
6 82 (9.38%) Financial Institution
7 77 (8.81%) Investment Banking
8 69 (7.89%) Retail
9 66 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
10 47 (5.38%) Public Sector
11 44 (5.03%) Back Office
12 24 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 18 (2.06%) Billing
14 16 (1.83%) Games
15 13 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.69%) Legal
17 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 295 (33.75%) Developer
2 221 (25.29%) Senior
3 201 (23.00%) Software Engineer
4 168 (19.22%) Java Developer
5 149 (17.05%) Java Engineer
6 129 (14.76%) Lead
7 95 (10.87%) Java Software Engineer
8 79 (9.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 78 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 68 (7.78%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (6.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 54 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
13 53 (6.06%) Architect
14 49 (5.61%) Senior Developer
15 45 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 43 (4.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 32 (3.66%) Development Engineer
18 31 (3.55%) Senior Java Developer
19 30 (3.43%) Data Engineer
20 29 (3.32%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (20.94%) Spring
2 150 (17.16%) React
3 134 (15.33%) Spring Boot
4 112 (12.81%) Kafka
5 102 (11.67%) REST
6 65 (7.44%) Node.js
7 64 (7.32%) RESTful
8 62 (7.09%) .NET
9 50 (5.72%) HTML
10 44 (5.03%) AngularJS
11 37 (4.23%) CSS
12 35 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
13 34 (3.89%) Hibernate
13 34 (3.89%) SOAP
14 31 (3.55%) GraphQL
15 28 (3.20%) Web Services
16 26 (2.97%) JSON
17 24 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
17 24 (2.75%) XML
18 21 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 183 (20.94%) Cloud Native
2 136 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (6.41%) Equities
4 51 (5.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 37 (4.23%) Derivative
7 33 (3.78%) Fixed Income
8 32 (3.66%) Algorithms
8 32 (3.66%) Blog
8 32 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.97%) Hedge funds
10 25 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.75%) Onboarding
11 24 (2.75%) Public Cloud
12 20 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
12 20 (2.29%) FPGA
12 20 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (2.29%) Management Information System
13 18 (2.06%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.95%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 113 (12.93%) Linux
2 27 (3.09%) Unix
3 22 (2.52%) Windows
4 15 (1.72%) Android
5 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (33.98%) Software Engineering
2 290 (33.18%) CI/CD
3 287 (32.84%) Agile
4 210 (24.03%) Microservices
5 178 (20.37%) DevOps
6 171 (19.57%) Test Automation
7 157 (17.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 147 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (16.02%) Mentoring
10 104 (11.90%) Roadmaps
11 103 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (11.67%) Fintech
13 98 (11.21%) Containerisation
14 94 (10.76%) Computer Science
15 91 (10.41%) Low Latency
16 89 (10.18%) AI
17 88 (10.07%) Technical Leadership
18 74 (8.47%) Clean Code
19 70 (8.01%) TDD
19 70 (8.01%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 286 (32.72%) Python
2 169 (19.34%) JavaScript
3 137 (15.68%) SQL
4 118 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 90 (10.30%) C#
6 75 (8.58%) Go
7 57 (6.52%) C++
8 56 (6.41%) Kotlin
9 41 (4.69%) C
10 38 (4.35%) Scala
11 25 (2.86%) Bash
11 25 (2.86%) Rust
12 14 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.92%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.80%) PHP
14 7 (0.80%) Ruby
15 6 (0.69%) Groovy
15 6 (0.69%) VBA
16 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 119 (13.62%) Degree
2 117 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 68 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (5.03%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.78%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.95%) PhD
9 14 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.92%) CREST Certified
10 8 (0.92%) OSCP
11 7 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.46%) OSCE
14 3 (0.34%) ISEB
14 3 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.89%) QA
2 18 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.06%) GDPR
3 12 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.37%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.37%) SOC 2
4 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.46%) SEPA
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.23%) PSD2
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.11%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 140 (16.02%) Docker
2 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.92%) HDFS
6 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 222 (25.40%) Kubernetes
2 93 (10.64%) Terraform
3 46 (5.26%) Grafana
4 38 (4.35%) Ansible
5 30 (3.43%) Argo
6 22 (2.52%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.83%) Kustomize
8 14 (1.60%) Kibana
9 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.34%) Puppet
12 2 (0.23%) logstash
12 2 (0.23%) Nagios
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.11%) Icinga
13 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (3.78%) Google
1 33 (3.78%) Oracle
2 21 (2.40%) Guidewire
3 19 (2.17%) Informatica
3 19 (2.17%) Talend
4 17 (1.95%) Databricks
4 17 (1.95%) IBM
5 15 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 15 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 14 (1.60%) Splunk
7 13 (1.49%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.26%) Dell
8 11 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.92%) Solace
10 7 (0.80%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.69%) SAP
12 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.46%) SnapLogic