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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 957 1,070 1,917
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.65% 7.88% 8.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.16% 18.94% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 573 756 1,571
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £143,750 £145,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%

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 4,746 5,648 8,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.01% 41.59% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,339 3,958 7,681
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -3 145 £100,000 - 96
South London -10 13 £70,000 -6.67% 2
West London -22 13 £61,250 +104.17% 9
East London -10 5 £75,000 - 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 33 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.36%) Apache
3 13 (1.36%) Confluence
4 12 (1.25%) JBoss
5 11 (1.15%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.84%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.52%) Camunda
9 4 (0.42%) Appian
9 4 (0.42%) Moodle
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
10 3 (0.31%) Liferay
10 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.21%) Mule
12 1 (0.10%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Maximo
2 7 (0.73%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 423 (44.20%) AWS
2 167 (17.45%) GCP
3 132 (13.79%) Azure
4 89 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (8.67%) SaaS
6 49 (5.12%) GitHub
7 30 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 30 (3.13%) Serverless
8 23 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (2.40%) dbt
9 19 (1.99%) Amazon Kinesis
9 19 (1.99%) Pulumi
10 18 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (1.88%) Datadog
11 17 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (1.57%) Snowflake
14 14 (1.46%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.61%) Broadband
3 11 (1.15%) HTTP
4 9 (0.94%) VPN
5 6 (0.63%) BGP
5 6 (0.63%) Multicast
5 6 (0.63%) VLAN
6 5 (0.52%) AMQP
6 5 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.42%) Firewall
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) DNS
8 2 (0.21%) Internet
8 2 (0.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.21%) NAS
8 2 (0.21%) SAN
8 2 (0.21%) SNMP
8 2 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (8.25%) Relational Database
3 65 (6.79%) NoSQL
4 47 (4.91%) RDBMS
5 31 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 28 (2.93%) DB2
7 27 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 23 (2.40%) Big Data
10 20 (2.09%) Hadoop
11 15 (1.57%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.46%) MySQL
13 13 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.36%) Neo4j
14 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.15%) Flink
14 11 (1.15%) Pentaho
15 10 (1.04%) Apache Hive
15 10 (1.04%) Redis
16 9 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 66 (6.90%) TeamCity
2 50 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 47 (4.91%) Selenium
4 36 (3.76%) Git
5 31 (3.24%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.72%) GitLab
7 22 (2.30%) JIRA
8 17 (1.78%) JUnit
9 16 (1.67%) Jaeger
10 12 (1.25%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.25%) WebDriver
11 11 (1.15%) Gradle
11 11 (1.15%) JMeter
12 8 (0.84%) Maven
13 7 (0.73%) Mockito
13 7 (0.73%) Postman
14 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.52%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 349 (36.47%) Finance
2 224 (23.41%) Banking
3 207 (21.63%) Social Skills
4 121 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (11.70%) Front Office
6 108 (11.29%) Law
7 88 (9.20%) Retail
8 85 (8.88%) Financial Institution
9 66 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
10 63 (6.58%) Investment Banking
11 62 (6.48%) Public Sector
12 55 (5.75%) Back Office
13 29 (3.03%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.40%) Games
15 18 (1.88%) Billing
16 14 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.84%) Marketing
18 8 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 343 (35.84%) Developer
2 250 (26.12%) Software Engineer
3 247 (25.81%) Senior
4 193 (20.17%) Java Developer
5 170 (17.76%) Java Engineer
6 144 (15.05%) Lead
7 102 (10.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
9 82 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 70 (7.31%) Senior Java Engineer
11 69 (7.21%) Senior Developer
12 67 (7.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 57 (5.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 51 (5.33%) Architect
15 50 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
16 48 (5.02%) Senior Java Developer
17 43 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
18 42 (4.39%) React Developer
19 39 (4.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 36 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (21.21%) Spring
2 178 (18.60%) React
3 154 (16.09%) Spring Boot
4 140 (14.63%) Kafka
5 111 (11.60%) REST
6 95 (9.93%) Node.js
7 66 (6.90%) .NET
8 60 (6.27%) GraphQL
9 59 (6.17%) AngularJS
9 59 (6.17%) RESTful
10 47 (4.91%) HTML
11 40 (4.18%) SOAP
12 38 (3.97%) CSS
13 36 (3.76%) Redux
14 35 (3.66%) Web Services
15 34 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (3.24%) Hibernate
17 28 (2.93%) FIX Protocol
17 28 (2.93%) JSON
18 25 (2.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 194 (20.27%) Cloud Native
2 128 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.96%) Fixed Income
4 51 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 42 (4.39%) Equities
7 38 (3.97%) Blog
8 28 (2.93%) Public Cloud
9 27 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (2.72%) Derivative
11 22 (2.30%) FPGA
11 22 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (2.19%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (2.09%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (1.67%) Onboarding
16 15 (1.57%) Algorithms
17 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (1.36%) Legacy Code
18 12 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 122 (12.75%) Linux
2 34 (3.55%) Unix
3 24 (2.51%) Windows
4 21 (2.19%) Android
5 7 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.21%) CentOS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (36.68%) Software Engineering
2 322 (33.65%) Agile
3 308 (32.18%) CI/CD
4 222 (23.20%) Microservices
5 194 (20.27%) DevOps
6 192 (20.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 189 (19.75%) Test Automation
8 155 (16.20%) Mentoring
9 145 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (12.33%) AI
11 116 (12.12%) Containerisation
11 116 (12.12%) Fintech
12 110 (11.49%) Roadmaps
13 102 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
15 91 (9.51%) Low Latency
16 87 (9.09%) Clean Code
17 82 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 80 (8.36%) Computer Science
19 68 (7.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 297 (31.03%) Python
2 198 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 149 (15.57%) SQL
4 137 (14.32%) TypeScript
5 115 (12.02%) Go
6 83 (8.67%) C#
7 68 (7.11%) C++
8 58 (6.06%) Kotlin
9 39 (4.08%) C
10 31 (3.24%) Rust
11 28 (2.93%) Bash
12 24 (2.51%) Scala
13 11 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.04%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.94%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.84%) PHP
17 6 (0.63%) Ruby
17 6 (0.63%) VBA
18 5 (0.52%) RPG
19 4 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 134 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.12%) Degree
3 85 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 55 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.93%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.46%) PhD
9 13 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.15%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.15%) OSCP
11 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.42%) ISEB
13 4 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.42%) OSCE
14 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 1 (0.10%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.66%) QA
2 16 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.57%) GDPR
3 15 (1.57%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.42%) GRC
7 4 (0.42%) SLA
8 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (14.73%) Docker
2 13 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.15%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.31%) HDFS
6 3 (0.31%) KVM
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 258 (26.96%) Kubernetes
2 126 (13.17%) Terraform
3 70 (7.31%) Grafana
4 39 (4.08%) Ansible
5 30 (3.13%) Argo
6 29 (3.03%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.67%) Kustomize
8 10 (1.04%) Kibana
9 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.10%) Icinga
11 1 (0.10%) logstash
11 1 (0.10%) Nagios
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.10%) Puppet
11 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (3.76%) Google
2 24 (2.51%) Oracle
3 21 (2.19%) IBM
4 18 (1.88%) Microsoft
5 17 (1.78%) MuleSoft
6 15 (1.57%) Informatica
6 15 (1.57%) Talend
7 14 (1.46%) Databricks
8 13 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.25%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.25%) Dell
9 12 (1.25%) Splunk
10 11 (1.15%) Solace
11 10 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.94%) Guidewire
13 8 (0.84%) Foundry
13 8 (0.84%) SAP
14 7 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.63%) Palantir
15 6 (0.63%) Red Hat