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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,057 1,085 1,993
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.42% 8.97% 10.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.00% 22.09% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 575 670 1,441
10th Percentile £54,250 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £106,875 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 5,562 4,912 7,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.24% 40.59% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,818 3,351 5,696
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,625
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,305
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.95% -5.68%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -17 136 £100,000 +11.11% 40
South London -22 22 £70,000 -15.15% 4
West London -19 16 £80,000 +33.33% 22
East London -12 1 - - 16
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 37 (3.50%) Confluence
2 19 (1.80%) Apache
3 18 (1.70%) Camunda
4 16 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.095%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.095%) IIS
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.47%) Moqups
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
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%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 501 (47.40%) AWS
2 225 (21.29%) Azure
3 187 (17.69%) GCP
4 67 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 63 (5.96%) GitHub
6 50 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (4.64%) Serverless
8 44 (4.16%) SaaS
9 28 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 19 (1.80%) OpenShift
13 18 (1.70%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.61%) Datadog
15 15 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
15 15 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
15 15 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.12%) HTTP
2 17 (1.61%) Network Security
3 15 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.23%) DMARC
5 7 (0.66%) DNS
5 7 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.57%) BGP
6 6 (0.57%) Broadband
6 6 (0.57%) IPsec
6 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.38%) IPv4
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.28%) LAN
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.095%) AMQP
11 1 (0.095%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.095%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (7.85%) NoSQL
2 67 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.45%) MongoDB
5 31 (2.93%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.89%) Db2
7 18 (1.70%) Big Data
7 18 (1.70%) MySQL
7 18 (1.70%) Redis
8 13 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.95%) DTS
11 9 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
12 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.66%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.57%) HBase
13 6 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (7.85%) Git
2 57 (5.39%) GitLab
3 55 (5.20%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.97%) Cucumber
5 40 (3.78%) JIRA
6 35 (3.31%) TeamCity
7 34 (3.22%) Selenium
8 25 (2.37%) JUnit
9 19 (1.80%) Maven
10 16 (1.51%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.51%) Mockito
11 14 (1.32%) Claude Code
12 12 (1.14%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.14%) Gradle
12 12 (1.14%) Postman
13 11 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.66%) JMeter
15 6 (0.57%) MLflow
15 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
16 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 454 (42.95%) Finance
2 209 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 208 (19.68%) Banking
4 92 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 90 (8.51%) Front Office
6 80 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
8 65 (6.15%) Law
9 53 (5.01%) Financial Institution
10 47 (4.45%) Retail
11 28 (2.65%) Investment Banking
12 25 (2.37%) Back Office
12 25 (2.37%) Marketing
13 16 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.23%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.04%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.57%) Games
18 6 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 290 (27.44%) Senior
2 261 (24.69%) Software Engineer
3 257 (24.31%) Developer
4 247 (23.37%) Java Engineer
5 150 (14.19%) Lead
6 142 (13.43%) Java Developer
7 102 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 75 (7.10%) Senior Developer
9 73 (6.91%) Java Software Engineer
10 67 (6.34%) Senior Java Engineer
11 57 (5.39%) Principal Engineer
12 56 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
13 48 (4.54%) Architect
14 44 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 44 (4.16%) Principal Java Engineer
15 38 (3.60%) Engineering Manager
16 37 (3.50%) Software Developer
17 36 (3.41%) Consultant
18 34 (3.22%) Senior Java Developer
19 32 (3.03%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (25.92%) Spring
2 225 (21.29%) Spring Boot
3 189 (17.88%) Kafka
4 126 (11.92%) REST
5 124 (11.73%) Terraform
6 100 (9.46%) React
7 80 (7.57%) Node.js
8 78 (7.38%) RESTful
9 70 (6.62%) .NET
10 49 (4.64%) AngularJS
11 37 (3.50%) OAuth
12 31 (2.93%) GraphQL
13 29 (2.74%) OAuth2
14 27 (2.55%) FIX Protocol
15 26 (2.46%) Hibernate
15 26 (2.46%) Web Services
16 24 (2.27%) Middleware
16 24 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
17 21 (1.99%) Redux
18 18 (1.70%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 207 (19.58%) Cloud Native
2 158 (14.95%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (10.88%) Product Ownership
4 106 (10.03%) Public Cloud
5 58 (5.49%) Onboarding
6 43 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 39 (3.69%) Distributed Architecture
7 39 (3.69%) Fixed Income
8 32 (3.03%) e-Learning
8 32 (3.03%) Equities
9 30 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (2.37%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.80%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.61%) Blog
13 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (1.51%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.42%) Derivative
16 14 (1.32%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 90 (8.51%) Linux
2 32 (3.03%) Windows
3 13 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.14%) Android
4 12 (1.14%) Unix
4 12 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (40.59%) Software Engineering
2 347 (32.83%) CI/CD
3 297 (28.10%) Microservices
4 288 (27.25%) Agile
5 217 (20.53%) DevOps
6 213 (20.15%) Test Automation
7 211 (19.96%) Mentoring
8 197 (18.64%) AI
9 192 (18.16%) Roadmaps
10 161 (15.23%) Event-Driven
10 161 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
11 159 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 156 (14.76%) Technical Leadership
13 132 (12.49%) Containerisation
14 117 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (11.07%) Full-Stack Development
15 101 (9.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 97 (9.18%) Fintech
17 94 (8.89%) Low Latency
18 92 (8.70%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 344 (32.54%) Python
2 169 (15.99%) SQL
3 118 (11.16%) JavaScript
4 99 (9.37%) C#
5 90 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 82 (7.76%) C++
7 80 (7.57%) Go
8 55 (5.20%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.35%) Bash
10 34 (3.22%) C
11 31 (2.93%) Ruby
12 28 (2.65%) Rust
13 24 (2.27%) PowerShell
14 21 (1.99%) PHP
14 21 (1.99%) Scala
15 20 (1.89%) Perl
16 11 (1.04%) R
17 10 (0.95%) RPG
18 8 (0.76%) VBA
19 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 138 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.41%) Degree
3 81 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 67 (6.34%) AWS Certification
5 62 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 48 (4.54%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.32%) OSCP
9 10 (0.95%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.57%) CISSP
12 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.47%) CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.87%) QA
2 21 (1.99%) GDPR
3 19 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.32%) GRC
5 10 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.95%) ISO 20022
6 9 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.85%) NIST
7 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.47%) WCAG
9 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) UCITS
11 2 (0.19%) PSD2
12 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (12.68%) Docker
2 18 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.095%) Firmware
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 214 (20.25%) Kubernetes
2 56 (5.30%) Grafana
3 37 (3.50%) Ansible
4 24 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.66%) Kibana
6 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.57%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.47%) Argo
7 5 (0.47%) Puppet
7 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) 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 58 (5.49%) Oracle
2 51 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 50 (4.73%) Google
4 30 (2.84%) IBM
4 30 (2.84%) Splunk
5 24 (2.27%) Palantir
6 19 (1.80%) Red Hat
6 19 (1.80%) VMware
7 18 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.51%) Foundry
9 15 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.42%) SAP
10 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
11 12 (1.14%) Bloomberg
11 12 (1.14%) Solace
12 11 (1.04%) Databricks
13 9 (0.85%) HP
14 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.66%) Salesforce