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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,029 1,060 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.42% 8.20% 8.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.40% 19.75% 21.19%
Number of salaries quoted 589 774 1,536
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £73,981 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £94,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.82% +5.28%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £138,200 £146,375 £147,500
England median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -0.67% +2.04% -8.13%

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 5,043 5,367 9,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.56% 41.50% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,524 3,941 7,609
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £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% +2.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £130,000 £127,500
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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -10 154 £100,000 - 108
West London -25 13 £61,250 +104.17% 8
South London -23 12 £55,200 -33.09% 9
East London -13 4 - - 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 27 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.55%) Confluence
4 12 (1.17%) Apache
5 11 (1.07%) JBoss
5 11 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.78%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.49%) Camunda
9 4 (0.39%) Appian
9 4 (0.39%) Moodle
9 4 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) Liferay
11 2 (0.19%) CMS
12 1 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.097%) CICS
12 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.097%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.097%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (1.26%) Maximo
2 4 (0.39%) Shopify
3 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.097%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.097%) Endur
4 1 (0.097%) Findur
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 462 (44.90%) AWS
2 191 (18.56%) GCP
3 157 (15.26%) Azure
4 87 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
5 85 (8.26%) SaaS
6 53 (5.15%) GitHub
7 32 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (2.92%) OpenShift
9 28 (2.72%) Serverless
10 21 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
11 20 (1.94%) Pulumi
12 18 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
12 18 (1.75%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.75%) Datadog
12 18 (1.75%) dbt
12 18 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.01%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.43%) Broadband
3 20 (1.94%) HTTP
4 6 (0.58%) BGP
4 6 (0.58%) Multicast
4 6 (0.58%) VLAN
4 6 (0.58%) VPN
5 5 (0.49%) AMQP
6 3 (0.29%) Internet
6 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
7 2 (0.19%) DHCP
7 2 (0.19%) DNS
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) IPv4
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) NAS
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) SNMP
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.09%) NoSQL
1 73 (7.09%) Relational Database
2 70 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (4.08%) RDBMS
4 33 (3.21%) SQL Server
5 30 (2.92%) DB2
6 22 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 18 (1.75%) Big Data
9 16 (1.55%) Hadoop
10 15 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.46%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.36%) MySQL
12 13 (1.26%) Flink
13 12 (1.17%) Neo4j
13 12 (1.17%) Redis
14 10 (0.97%) Pentaho
15 9 (0.87%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (6.71%) TeamCity
2 51 (4.96%) Selenium
3 48 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 45 (4.37%) Git
5 32 (3.11%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.53%) GitLab
7 25 (2.43%) JIRA
8 16 (1.55%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.55%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.46%) JUnit
10 13 (1.26%) Gradle
11 10 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.97%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.87%) Maven
13 8 (0.78%) JMeter
14 7 (0.68%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.68%) Postman
15 5 (0.49%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.49%) Subversion
16 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 386 (37.51%) Finance
2 237 (23.03%) Banking
3 199 (19.34%) Social Skills
4 128 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (10.98%) Law
6 111 (10.79%) Front Office
7 95 (9.23%) Retail
8 85 (8.26%) Financial Institution
9 72 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
10 68 (6.61%) Public Sector
11 61 (5.93%) Back Office
12 49 (4.76%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.53%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.94%) Games
14 20 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.65%) Billing
16 13 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.78%) Legal
17 8 (0.78%) Marketing
17 8 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 351 (34.11%) Developer
2 277 (26.92%) Senior
3 266 (25.85%) Software Engineer
4 199 (19.34%) Java Developer
5 188 (18.27%) Java Engineer
6 150 (14.58%) Lead
7 105 (10.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (8.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 84 (8.16%) Senior Developer
10 79 (7.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 70 (6.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 68 (6.61%) Senior Java Engineer
13 53 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
14 52 (5.05%) Senior Java Developer
15 51 (4.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 49 (4.76%) Architect
17 42 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
18 41 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
18 41 (3.98%) Development Engineer
18 41 (3.98%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (20.12%) Spring
2 179 (17.40%) React
3 163 (15.84%) Spring Boot
4 140 (13.61%) Kafka
5 111 (10.79%) REST
6 90 (8.75%) Node.js
7 73 (7.09%) .NET
8 60 (5.83%) AngularJS
8 60 (5.83%) RESTful
9 55 (5.34%) GraphQL
10 46 (4.47%) HTML
11 41 (3.98%) Web Services
12 40 (3.89%) CSS
13 37 (3.60%) SOAP
14 36 (3.50%) Redux
15 34 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
17 27 (2.62%) Hibernate
18 26 (2.53%) JSON
19 25 (2.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 194 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 54 (5.25%) Fixed Income
5 47 (4.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 47 (4.57%) Public Cloud
6 38 (3.69%) Blog
7 36 (3.50%) Equities
8 26 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 22 (2.14%) Derivative
10 22 (2.14%) FPGA
11 19 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.36%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 119 (11.56%) Linux
2 30 (2.92%) Unix
3 28 (2.72%) Windows
4 26 (2.53%) Android
5 10 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) CentOS
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (37.12%) Software Engineering
2 324 (31.49%) CI/CD
3 311 (30.22%) Agile
4 226 (21.96%) Microservices
5 207 (20.12%) DevOps
6 198 (19.24%) Test Automation
7 190 (18.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 182 (17.69%) Mentoring
9 153 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
10 149 (14.48%) Roadmaps
11 127 (12.34%) Technical Leadership
12 126 (12.24%) AI
13 122 (11.86%) Containerisation
13 122 (11.86%) Fintech
14 103 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 103 (10.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (9.04%) Clean Code
15 93 (9.04%) Low Latency
16 81 (7.87%) Computer Science
17 73 (7.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 305 (29.64%) Python
2 191 (18.56%) JavaScript
3 150 (14.58%) SQL
4 125 (12.15%) TypeScript
5 118 (11.47%) Go
6 85 (8.26%) C#
7 72 (7.00%) C++
8 58 (5.64%) Kotlin
9 38 (3.69%) Bash
9 38 (3.69%) C
10 27 (2.62%) Rust
11 22 (2.14%) Scala
12 15 (1.46%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.78%) PHP
15 7 (0.68%) Perl
15 7 (0.68%) Ruby
16 6 (0.58%) VBA
17 4 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 142 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 122 (11.86%) Degree
3 91 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 63 (6.12%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.85%) OSCP
9 17 (1.65%) CREST Certified
10 14 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.17%) PhD
12 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.68%) OSCE
14 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.39%) ISEB
14 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.29%) GPEN
15 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.60%) QA
2 16 (1.55%) GDPR
2 16 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.46%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.97%) GRC
6 8 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.39%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.39%) SLA
9 3 (0.29%) NIST
10 2 (0.19%) WCAG
11 1 (0.097%) MiFID
11 1 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 152 (14.77%) Docker
2 8 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.39%) KVM
6 3 (0.29%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) Squid
7 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.19%) vSphere
8 1 (0.097%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.097%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.097%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 259 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 146 (14.19%) Terraform
3 77 (7.48%) Grafana
4 40 (3.89%) Ansible
5 30 (2.92%) Argo
6 28 (2.72%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.55%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.78%) Kibana
9 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.29%) 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%) Packer
11 2 (0.19%) Puppet
11 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.097%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (3.69%) Google
2 27 (2.62%) Oracle
3 24 (2.33%) IBM
4 23 (2.24%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.55%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.36%) Informatica
6 14 (1.36%) Talend
7 13 (1.26%) Foundry
8 12 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.07%) Databricks
9 11 (1.07%) Palantir
9 11 (1.07%) Splunk
10 10 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.87%) VMware
12 8 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.78%) Dell
12 8 (0.78%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.78%) Solace
13 7 (0.68%) SAP