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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,046 1,165 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.77% 9.52% 9.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.45% 23.00% 23.05%
Number of salaries quoted 594 745 1,708
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,875
25th Percentile £66,250 £74,675 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £137,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +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 5,379 5,065 9,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.54% 41.40% 40.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,809 3,517 7,539
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,900 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £131,250
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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -18 152 £100,000 +2.56% 42
South London -12 24 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -14 20 £80,000 +166.67% 9
East London -1 3 - - 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 23 (2.20%) Confluence
2 21 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.43%) Apache
3 15 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
4 12 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.76%) Camunda
6 5 (0.48%) JBoss
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.29%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 1 (0.096%) Liferay
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) 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
1 472 (45.12%) AWS
2 192 (18.36%) GCP
3 179 (17.11%) Azure
4 68 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
5 58 (5.54%) SaaS
6 55 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (4.97%) GitHub
8 34 (3.25%) Serverless
9 24 (2.29%) OpenShift
10 22 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (1.63%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.43%) dbt
13 15 (1.43%) Pulumi
14 13 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.24%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.87%) HTTP
2 22 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.01%) Broadband
4 13 (1.24%) DMARC
5 9 (0.86%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) BGP
6 5 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.38%) IPv4
7 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.29%) Firewall
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 3 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.19%) DNS
9 2 (0.19%) IPsec
9 2 (0.19%) LAN
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) WAN
10 1 (0.096%) AMQP
10 1 (0.096%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.36%) NoSQL
2 60 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.07%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.87%) MongoDB
5 23 (2.20%) Db2
5 23 (2.20%) RDBMS
5 23 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 15 (1.43%) BigQuery
7 11 (1.05%) Big Data
7 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.05%) MySQL
8 10 (0.96%) Metadata
9 9 (0.86%) Hadoop
9 9 (0.86%) Redis
10 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.67%) DTS
11 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 57 (5.45%) Git
2 53 (5.07%) TeamCity
3 51 (4.88%) GitLab
4 42 (4.02%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.96%) Cucumber
5 31 (2.96%) JIRA
6 30 (2.87%) Selenium
7 19 (1.82%) 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%) Jaeger
12 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.76%) Mockito
13 7 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.67%) Postman
14 6 (0.57%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.48%) JMeter
15 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 414 (39.58%) Finance
2 199 (19.02%) Banking
3 165 (15.77%) Social Skills
4 103 (9.85%) Front Office
4 103 (9.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 81 (7.74%) Law
5 81 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 75 (7.17%) Retail
7 65 (6.21%) Financial Institution
8 61 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (4.21%) Back Office
10 30 (2.87%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.43%) Games
12 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.15%) Billing
14 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 327 (31.26%) Developer
2 260 (24.86%) Senior
3 249 (23.80%) Software Engineer
4 218 (20.84%) Java Engineer
5 184 (17.59%) Java Developer
6 153 (14.63%) Lead
7 86 (8.22%) Java Software Engineer
8 85 (8.13%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 60 (5.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 60 (5.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 50 (4.78%) Architect
11 50 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (4.68%) Senior Java Developer
13 46 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
13 46 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
14 45 (4.30%) Software Developer
15 39 (3.73%) Engineering Manager
16 37 (3.54%) Consultant
17 35 (3.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (24.00%) Spring
2 212 (20.27%) Spring Boot
3 154 (14.72%) Kafka
4 117 (11.19%) React
5 114 (10.90%) REST
6 81 (7.74%) Node.js
7 58 (5.54%) .NET
8 55 (5.26%) RESTful
9 52 (4.97%) AngularJS
10 40 (3.82%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.44%) Redux
12 35 (3.35%) Web Services
13 28 (2.68%) OAuth
14 25 (2.39%) HTML
15 24 (2.29%) Middleware
16 23 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
17 22 (2.10%) SOAP
18 21 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
18 21 (2.01%) Hibernate
18 21 (2.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 203 (19.41%) Cloud Native
2 105 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.18%) Product Ownership
4 90 (8.60%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.68%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (3.06%) Blog
8 30 (2.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 30 (2.87%) Equities
9 25 (2.39%) Onboarding
10 24 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.20%) e-Learning
12 20 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.72%) FPGA
14 16 (1.53%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
18 9 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 111 (10.61%) Linux
2 26 (2.49%) Windows
3 23 (2.20%) Unix
4 20 (1.91%) Android
5 10 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (37.57%) Software Engineering
2 323 (30.88%) CI/CD
3 297 (28.39%) Agile
4 255 (24.38%) Microservices
5 221 (21.13%) DevOps
6 208 (19.89%) Test Automation
7 200 (19.12%) Mentoring
8 174 (16.63%) Roadmaps
9 144 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
10 141 (13.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 135 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 133 (12.72%) AI
12 133 (12.72%) Containerisation
12 133 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (9.56%) Fintech
14 99 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 93 (8.89%) Event-Driven
16 89 (8.51%) Low Latency
17 79 (7.55%) Clean Code
18 77 (7.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 320 (30.59%) Python
2 158 (15.11%) SQL
3 150 (14.34%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.75%) Go
5 95 (9.08%) C++
5 95 (9.08%) TypeScript
6 93 (8.89%) C#
7 49 (4.68%) Bash
8 42 (4.02%) Kotlin
9 35 (3.35%) Rust
10 34 (3.25%) C
11 21 (2.01%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.91%) Scala
13 13 (1.24%) Ruby
14 12 (1.15%) PHP
15 10 (0.96%) Perl
16 9 (0.86%) R
17 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.67%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.67%) RPG
Qualifications
1 146 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 100 (9.56%) Degree
3 91 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.64%) DV Cleared
5 58 (5.54%) AWS Certification
6 51 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.54%) 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%) PhD
12 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.78%) QA
2 18 (1.72%) GDPR
3 15 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.34%) GRC
5 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.48%) NIST
10 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 131 (12.52%) Docker
2 13 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.48%) KVM
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.38%) vSphere
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 227 (21.70%) Kubernetes
2 142 (13.58%) Terraform
3 77 (7.36%) Grafana
4 41 (3.92%) Ansible
5 33 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.43%) Argo
7 11 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.67%) Kibana
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
12 1 (0.096%) logstash
Vendors
1 44 (4.21%) Google
2 34 (3.25%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.25%) Oracle
3 26 (2.49%) IBM
4 24 (2.29%) Palantir
5 23 (2.20%) Splunk
6 17 (1.63%) Foundry
7 15 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.34%) VMware
9 13 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.24%) SendGrid
10 11 (1.05%) Solace
11 10 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.76%) SAP
13 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.57%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.57%) Sybase
14 5 (0.48%) Databricks