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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,046 1,189 2,233
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.70% 9.53% 9.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.55% 22.94% 23.95%
Number of salaries quoted 592 767 1,679
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £74,935 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £139,375
90th Percentile £134,750 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,289 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.30% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,351 5,184 9,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.05% 41.53% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,774 3,612 7,140
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,025 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -20 148 £100,000 +2.56% 43
South London -18 24 £70,000 -15.15% 4
West London -10 20 £80,000 +166.67% 6
East London -7 2 - - 13
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 28 (2.68%) Confluence
2 25 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.53%) Apache
4 15 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.05%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) JBoss
8 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 1 (0.096%) CICS
10 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.096%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.096%) Endur
3 1 (0.096%) Findur
3 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 490 (46.85%) AWS
2 191 (18.26%) GCP
3 190 (18.16%) Azure
4 75 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
5 67 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (5.35%) SaaS
7 52 (4.97%) Serverless
8 51 (4.88%) GitHub
9 29 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (2.49%) OpenShift
12 24 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.72%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.53%) Amazon EventBridge
16 16 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (1.34%) AWS Control Tower
17 14 (1.34%) dbt
18 13 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.87%) HTTP
2 22 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.63%) Network Security
4 16 (1.53%) Broadband
5 13 (1.24%) DMARC
6 9 (0.86%) BGP
6 9 (0.86%) VPN
7 6 (0.57%) DNS
7 6 (0.57%) IPsec
8 5 (0.48%) Internet
8 5 (0.48%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.38%) IPv4
9 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.29%) Firewall
10 3 (0.29%) VLAN
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
11 2 (0.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) WAN
12 1 (0.096%) AMQP
12 1 (0.096%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (7.93%) NoSQL
2 65 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (4.78%) Relational Database
4 33 (3.15%) MongoDB
5 25 (2.39%) Db2
6 24 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.72%) Big Data
7 18 (1.72%) RDBMS
8 15 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.24%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.15%) MySQL
11 11 (1.05%) Redis
12 10 (0.96%) DTS
12 10 (0.96%) Metadata
13 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.67%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 62 (5.93%) Git
2 54 (5.16%) GitLab
2 54 (5.16%) TeamCity
3 45 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.35%) Cucumber
5 31 (2.96%) JIRA
6 29 (2.77%) Selenium
7 21 (2.01%) JUnit
8 15 (1.43%) Maven
9 14 (1.34%) Gradle
10 12 (1.15%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.05%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.05%) Mockito
12 8 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.67%) JMeter
14 6 (0.57%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.57%) Postman
15 5 (0.48%) Subversion
15 5 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 433 (41.40%) Finance
2 199 (19.02%) Banking
3 168 (16.06%) Social Skills
4 106 (10.13%) Front Office
5 97 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 80 (7.65%) Law
8 77 (7.36%) Retail
9 66 (6.31%) Financial Institution
10 64 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (4.11%) Back Office
12 28 (2.68%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.34%) Games
15 11 (1.05%) Marketing
15 11 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.96%) Billing
16 10 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.86%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 308 (29.45%) Developer
2 270 (25.81%) Senior
3 247 (23.61%) Software Engineer
4 223 (21.32%) Java Engineer
5 170 (16.25%) Java Developer
6 148 (14.15%) Lead
7 84 (8.03%) Java Software Engineer
7 84 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 76 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 62 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
10 59 (5.64%) Lead Software Engineer
11 49 (4.68%) Architect
12 48 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
13 47 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
14 46 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 43 (4.11%) Consultant
15 43 (4.11%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.63%) Engineering Manager
17 35 (3.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 35 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (24.38%) Spring
2 216 (20.65%) Spring Boot
3 171 (16.35%) Kafka
4 116 (11.09%) React
5 114 (10.90%) REST
6 90 (8.60%) Node.js
7 62 (5.93%) .NET
8 57 (5.45%) RESTful
9 53 (5.07%) AngularJS
10 42 (4.02%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.44%) Redux
12 34 (3.25%) Web Services
13 29 (2.77%) OAuth
14 25 (2.39%) Middleware
15 24 (2.29%) Hibernate
15 24 (2.29%) OAuth2
16 23 (2.20%) FIX Protocol
17 21 (2.01%) HTML
18 20 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
19 19 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 208 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.09%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (9.46%) Product Ownership
4 96 (9.18%) Public Cloud
5 51 (4.88%) Fixed Income
6 47 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (3.92%) Onboarding
8 32 (3.06%) Blog
9 30 (2.87%) Distributed Architecture
10 29 (2.77%) Equities
11 27 (2.58%) e-Learning
12 26 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (1.53%) FPGA
15 14 (1.34%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.05%) AI Agents
17 10 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
17 10 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.52%) Linux
2 31 (2.96%) Windows
3 18 (1.72%) Unix
4 17 (1.63%) Android
5 11 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (37.48%) Software Engineering
2 335 (32.03%) CI/CD
3 297 (28.39%) Agile
4 264 (25.24%) Microservices
5 218 (20.84%) Test Automation
6 217 (20.75%) DevOps
7 198 (18.93%) Mentoring
8 179 (17.11%) Roadmaps
9 151 (14.44%) AI
9 151 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (13.96%) Technical Leadership
11 138 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (12.14%) Containerisation
13 124 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 103 (9.85%) Event-Driven
15 98 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 97 (9.27%) Fintech
17 93 (8.89%) Low Latency
18 87 (8.32%) Computer Science
19 80 (7.65%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 342 (32.70%) Python
2 171 (16.35%) SQL
3 144 (13.77%) JavaScript
4 101 (9.66%) C#
5 100 (9.56%) Go
6 96 (9.18%) C++
7 95 (9.08%) TypeScript
8 56 (5.35%) Bash
9 40 (3.82%) Kotlin
10 38 (3.63%) Rust
11 35 (3.35%) C
12 25 (2.39%) Ruby
13 23 (2.20%) PowerShell
14 21 (2.01%) PHP
15 20 (1.91%) Scala
16 18 (1.72%) Perl
17 10 (0.96%) RPG
18 9 (0.86%) R
19 7 (0.67%) Apex Code
19 7 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 108 (10.33%) Degree
3 87 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 68 (6.50%) AWS Certification
5 57 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (5.35%) DV Cleared
7 52 (4.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.53%) OSCP
9 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.15%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.86%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.86%) PhD
12 8 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.38%) CISSP
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.07%) QA
2 20 (1.91%) GDPR
3 17 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.34%) GRC
5 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.67%) NIST
9 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.096%) MiFID
11 1 (0.096%) PSD2
System Software
1 121 (11.57%) Docker
2 17 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) KVM
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.096%) Firmware
7 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 219 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 149 (14.24%) Terraform
3 82 (7.84%) Grafana
4 40 (3.82%) Ansible
5 33 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.05%) Argo
7 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.67%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.57%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.48%) Puppet
11 4 (0.38%) Packer
11 4 (0.38%) Rancher
11 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.29%) Oracle Flashback
12 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (4.02%) Google
1 42 (4.02%) Oracle
2 41 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.06%) IBM
4 27 (2.58%) Splunk
5 24 (2.29%) Palantir
6 18 (1.72%) VMware
7 17 (1.63%) Foundry
7 17 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.34%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.34%) SAP
9 13 (1.24%) SendGrid
10 11 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.05%) Solace
11 9 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.76%) HP
13 7 (0.67%) Databricks
14 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.57%) Guidewire