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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,052 1,066 2,001
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.36% 8.92% 10.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.23% 22.20% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 571 651 1,423
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £66,125 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 5,471 4,802 7,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.66% 40.16% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,738 3,265 5,495
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 3 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 3 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 -19 128 £100,000 +11.11% 105
South London -25 21 £70,000 -15.15% 9
West London -19 16 £80,000 +33.33% 80
East London -6 1 - - 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 (3.71%) Confluence
2 19 (1.81%) Apache
3 17 (1.62%) Camunda
4 16 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (1.24%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) JBoss
8 3 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.29%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.29%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.095%) CICS
10 1 (0.095%) IIS
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle 10gAS
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.24%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.48%) Moqups
4 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.48%) Maximo
1 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg TOMS
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%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 499 (47.43%) AWS
2 227 (21.58%) Azure
3 185 (17.59%) GCP
4 71 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (6.46%) GitHub
6 51 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (4.56%) Serverless
8 46 (4.37%) SaaS
9 32 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
14 21 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
15 19 (1.81%) Datadog
16 18 (1.71%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.71%) OpenShift
17 17 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (1.52%) Snowflake
19 15 (1.43%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.23%) HTTP
2 17 (1.62%) Network Security
3 13 (1.24%) DMARC
3 13 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.76%) DNS
5 7 (0.67%) BGP
5 7 (0.67%) VPN
6 6 (0.57%) IPsec
7 5 (0.48%) Broadband
7 5 (0.48%) Internet
7 5 (0.48%) IPv4
7 5 (0.48%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.29%) LAN
9 3 (0.29%) SAN
9 3 (0.29%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.095%) DHCP
11 1 (0.095%) IPv6
11 1 (0.095%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.08%) NoSQL
2 67 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (5.32%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.56%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.04%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.81%) MySQL
7 18 (1.71%) Big Data
7 18 (1.71%) Db2
7 18 (1.71%) Redis
8 12 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 10 (0.95%) DTS
9 10 (0.95%) Hadoop
10 9 (0.86%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.67%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.57%) Apache Hive
12 6 (0.57%) HBase
13 5 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.48%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 84 (7.98%) Git
2 66 (6.27%) GitLab
3 61 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 45 (4.28%) Cucumber
5 44 (4.18%) JIRA
6 36 (3.42%) TeamCity
7 34 (3.23%) Selenium
8 27 (2.57%) JUnit
9 20 (1.90%) Maven
10 17 (1.62%) Mockito
10 17 (1.62%) Postman
11 16 (1.52%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.52%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.33%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.95%) JMeter
14 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.86%) Gradle
16 6 (0.57%) MLflow
16 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 440 (41.83%) Finance
2 212 (20.15%) Banking
3 202 (19.20%) Social Skills
4 84 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 80 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (6.75%) Front Office
7 67 (6.37%) Law
8 66 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
9 56 (5.32%) Financial Institution
10 50 (4.75%) Retail
11 27 (2.57%) Back Office
12 24 (2.28%) Marketing
13 22 (2.09%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.24%) Tech for Good
16 11 (1.05%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.86%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.67%) Aviation
18 7 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 296 (28.14%) Senior
2 252 (23.95%) Java Engineer
3 250 (23.76%) Software Engineer
4 235 (22.34%) Developer
5 143 (13.59%) Lead
6 137 (13.02%) Java Developer
7 104 (9.89%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 72 (6.84%) Senior Java Engineer
10 70 (6.65%) Java Software Engineer
11 57 (5.42%) Principal Engineer
12 48 (4.56%) Architect
13 46 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
13 46 (4.37%) Principal Java Engineer
14 39 (3.71%) Engineering Manager
15 38 (3.61%) Software Developer
16 36 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
17 35 (3.33%) Consultant
18 34 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 33 (3.14%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (26.52%) Spring
2 228 (21.67%) Spring Boot
3 184 (17.49%) Kafka
4 135 (12.83%) REST
5 124 (11.79%) Terraform
6 79 (7.51%) React
7 77 (7.32%) RESTful
8 68 (6.46%) .NET
9 61 (5.80%) Node.js
10 45 (4.28%) AngularJS
11 38 (3.61%) OAuth
12 28 (2.66%) FIX Protocol
13 27 (2.57%) OAuth2
14 26 (2.47%) Hibernate
15 24 (2.28%) Middleware
15 24 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (2.28%) Web Services
16 20 (1.90%) Playwright
17 17 (1.62%) JPA
18 16 (1.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (20.53%) Cloud Native
2 161 (15.30%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (11.60%) Product Ownership
4 111 (10.55%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.32%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 36 (3.42%) e-Learning
8 35 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.95%) Equities
11 27 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (2.38%) AI Agents
13 22 (2.09%) Fixed Income
14 19 (1.81%) Blog
14 19 (1.81%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.71%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (1.43%) Data Structures
17 15 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.89%) Linux
2 31 (2.95%) Windows
3 14 (1.33%) Android
4 13 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.76%) Unix
7 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (40.68%) Software Engineering
2 352 (33.46%) CI/CD
3 304 (28.90%) Microservices
4 264 (25.10%) Agile
5 220 (20.91%) Test Automation
6 215 (20.44%) Mentoring
7 212 (20.15%) DevOps
8 201 (19.11%) AI
9 190 (18.06%) Roadmaps
10 173 (16.44%) Event-Driven
11 160 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 156 (14.83%) Technical Leadership
14 129 (12.26%) Containerisation
15 117 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (10.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 102 (9.70%) Fintech
18 101 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
19 95 (9.03%) BDD
19 95 (9.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 327 (31.08%) Python
2 171 (16.25%) SQL
3 100 (9.51%) C#
4 95 (9.03%) JavaScript
5 78 (7.41%) C++
6 72 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 69 (6.56%) Go
8 54 (5.13%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.37%) Bash
10 33 (3.14%) C
11 32 (3.04%) Ruby
12 28 (2.66%) Rust
13 21 (2.00%) Perl
13 21 (2.00%) PHP
13 21 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 21 (2.00%) Scala
14 11 (1.05%) R
15 10 (0.95%) RPG
16 8 (0.76%) VBA
17 7 (0.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 135 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.46%) Degree
3 77 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 71 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 63 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (5.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 47 (4.47%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.43%) OSCP
9 11 (1.05%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.86%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.67%) CISSP
12 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.48%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.48%) CCSP
14 5 (0.48%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.99%) QA
2 21 (2.00%) GDPR
3 19 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.33%) GRC
4 14 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 9 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.67%) NIST
6 7 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.38%) WCAG
9 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.29%) MiFID
9 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.29%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (12.64%) Docker
2 18 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.48%) KVM
5 5 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.095%) Firmware
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 213 (20.25%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.51%) Grafana
3 39 (3.71%) Ansible
4 24 (2.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.67%) Kibana
6 6 (0.57%) Argo
6 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.57%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.57%) Puppet
7 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.29%) Rancher
9 3 (0.29%) WSUS
10 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.19%) kaniko
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 61 (5.80%) Oracle
2 52 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 51 (4.85%) Google
4 31 (2.95%) IBM
5 28 (2.66%) Splunk
6 25 (2.38%) Palantir
7 22 (2.09%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.81%) VMware
9 16 (1.52%) Foundry
9 16 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.24%) SAP
11 13 (1.24%) SendGrid
12 12 (1.14%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.05%) Solace
14 9 (0.86%) Databricks
14 9 (0.86%) HP
15 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.76%) Guidewire
16 7 (0.67%) AppDynamics