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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 979 1,631 2,050
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.44% 9.36% 11.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.81% 22.21% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 594 1,110 1,729
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £132,500 £127,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 4,488 7,343 8,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.11% 42.15% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,009 4,863 7,321
10th Percentile £46,118 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +4 165 £100,000 +17.65% 46
South London +17 32 £82,500 +32.00% 9
West London -12 5 £60,000 -20.00% 10
East London -17 2 £75,000 -40.00% 8
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 73 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (6.74%) Apache
3 42 (4.29%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.33%) Confluence
5 9 (0.92%) JBoss
6 7 (0.72%) nginx
6 7 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.41%) Appian
8 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.31%) Luigi
9 3 (0.31%) Mule
9 3 (0.31%) Traefik
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.41%) Adaptiv
3 4 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.41%) Shopify
4 3 (0.31%) Maximo
5 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 498 (50.87%) AWS
2 147 (15.02%) Azure
3 144 (14.71%) GCP
4 79 (8.07%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.74%) dbt
6 64 (6.54%) Serverless
7 61 (6.23%) Snowflake
8 58 (5.92%) GitHub
9 53 (5.41%) SaaS
10 40 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (2.86%) Datadog
14 25 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
16 20 (2.04%) Amazon S3
17 17 (1.74%) OpenShift
18 15 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 12 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
19 12 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.27%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.02%) VPN
3 9 (0.92%) HTTP
3 9 (0.92%) Multicast
4 7 (0.72%) DNS
5 5 (0.51%) DHCP
6 4 (0.41%) Broadband
6 4 (0.41%) Firewall
6 4 (0.41%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.41%) LAN
6 4 (0.41%) SAN
6 4 (0.41%) WAN
7 3 (0.31%) BGP
7 3 (0.31%) ICMP
7 3 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.31%) VLAN
8 2 (0.20%) AMQP
8 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.20%) NAS
8 2 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (10.93%) Relational Database
2 96 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 62 (6.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 59 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
5 59 (6.03%) Apache Arrow
5 59 (6.03%) Dremio
6 56 (5.72%) Apache Ignite
7 54 (5.52%) NoSQL
8 45 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (4.49%) MongoDB
10 43 (4.39%) Big Data
11 41 (4.19%) RDBMS
12 35 (3.58%) SQL Server
13 33 (3.37%) Hadoop
14 23 (2.35%) DynamoDB
15 19 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (1.94%) MySQL
16 17 (1.74%) DB2
17 14 (1.43%) KDB
Development Applications
1 81 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 57 (5.82%) Git
3 40 (4.09%) Selenium
4 36 (3.68%) JUnit
5 29 (2.96%) JIRA
5 29 (2.96%) TeamCity
6 28 (2.86%) JMeter
7 25 (2.55%) Cucumber
7 25 (2.55%) GitLab
8 24 (2.45%) Mockito
9 20 (2.04%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.53%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.23%) Maven
11 12 (1.23%) Vite
12 11 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.02%) Postman
14 8 (0.82%) Subversion
15 7 (0.72%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.61%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 496 (50.66%) Finance
2 327 (33.40%) Banking
3 274 (27.99%) Social Skills
4 183 (18.69%) Law
5 175 (17.88%) Front Office
6 169 (17.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 137 (13.99%) Investment Banking
8 95 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
9 85 (8.68%) Financial Institution
10 54 (5.52%) Public Sector
11 33 (3.37%) Marketing
12 31 (3.17%) Retail
13 29 (2.96%) Back Office
14 20 (2.04%) Legal
15 17 (1.74%) Billing
16 15 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.33%) Games
18 12 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (1.12%) Telecoms
20 7 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 336 (34.32%) Software Engineer
2 329 (33.61%) Developer
3 256 (26.15%) Senior
4 207 (21.14%) Java Engineer
5 200 (20.43%) Lead
6 163 (16.65%) Java Developer
7 162 (16.55%) Java Software Engineer
8 125 (12.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 104 (10.62%) Lead Software Engineer
10 103 (10.52%) Senior Java Engineer
11 98 (10.01%) AWS Engineer
12 84 (8.58%) Python Engineer
13 78 (7.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 76 (7.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 71 (7.25%) AWS Software Engineer
16 69 (7.05%) Full-Stack Developer
17 50 (5.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 41 (4.19%) Lead Java Engineer
19 40 (4.09%) Data Engineer
20 38 (3.88%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (20.22%) Spring
2 192 (19.61%) Kafka
3 188 (19.20%) React
4 135 (13.79%) Spring Boot
5 101 (10.32%) RESTful
6 99 (10.11%) Node.js
7 98 (10.01%) REST
8 75 (7.66%) .NET
9 67 (6.84%) Pandas
10 63 (6.44%) AngularJS
11 59 (6.03%) gRPC
11 59 (6.03%) NumPy
11 59 (6.03%) SciPy
12 55 (5.62%) HTML
12 55 (5.62%) Protocol Buffers
13 54 (5.52%) GraphQL
14 42 (4.29%) Hibernate
15 40 (4.09%) Web Services
16 34 (3.47%) CSS
17 31 (3.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 216 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 169 (17.26%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (11.95%) Equities
4 109 (11.13%) Fixed Income
5 104 (10.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 95 (9.70%) Derivative
7 68 (6.95%) Hedge funds
8 62 (6.33%) Algorithms
9 55 (5.62%) Pricing Data
10 50 (5.11%) Onboarding
11 45 (4.60%) Public Cloud
12 39 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
13 37 (3.78%) Product Ownership
14 30 (3.06%) Management Information System
15 25 (2.55%) Data Structures
16 23 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (2.15%) FPGA
17 21 (2.15%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.74%) Legacy Code
19 14 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 105 (10.73%) Linux
2 24 (2.45%) Windows
3 15 (1.53%) Unix
4 8 (0.82%) Android
5 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.20%) VMS
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) AIX
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (47.19%) Agile
2 425 (43.41%) Software Engineering
3 332 (33.91%) CI/CD
4 248 (25.33%) Microservices
5 210 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (16.96%) Test Automation
7 158 (16.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 156 (15.93%) DevOps
8 156 (15.93%) SDLC
9 138 (14.10%) Computer Science
10 129 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 129 (13.18%) Fintech
11 114 (11.64%) AI
12 105 (10.73%) Low Latency
13 104 (10.62%) Mentoring
14 97 (9.91%) Machine Learning
15 91 (9.30%) Investment Management
16 89 (9.09%) TDD
17 85 (8.68%) Containerisation
18 82 (8.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 413 (42.19%) Python
2 222 (22.68%) JavaScript
3 199 (20.33%) TypeScript
4 159 (16.24%) SQL
5 113 (11.54%) C#
6 88 (8.99%) C++
7 86 (8.78%) Go
7 86 (8.78%) Kotlin
8 55 (5.62%) Scala
9 48 (4.90%) C
10 31 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.25%) Rust
12 14 (1.43%) Groovy
13 12 (1.23%) Ruby
14 9 (0.92%) Bash
15 8 (0.82%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.61%) R
17 5 (0.51%) Perl
18 4 (0.41%) RPG
19 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (14.71%) Degree
2 85 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 47 (4.80%) SC Cleared
6 32 (3.27%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.66%) PhD
8 25 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.61%) CFA
11 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.61%) PMP
12 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.41%) OSCE
13 4 (0.41%) OSCP
14 3 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.98%) QA
2 23 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.84%) GDPR
4 11 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.82%) SLA
6 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.41%) SEPA
8 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.20%) ITGC
9 2 (0.20%) PSD2
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 138 (14.10%) Docker
2 17 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.82%) HDFS
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 241 (24.62%) Kubernetes
2 67 (6.84%) Terraform
3 31 (3.17%) Grafana
4 23 (2.35%) Kibana
5 20 (2.04%) Ansible
6 18 (1.84%) Argo
7 17 (1.74%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.31%) Control-M
10 3 (0.31%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.31%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.20%) logstash
11 2 (0.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.20%) WSUS
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
Vendors
1 49 (5.01%) Oracle
2 37 (3.78%) Guidewire
3 30 (3.06%) Microsoft
4 28 (2.86%) Google
5 26 (2.66%) Splunk
6 22 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.94%) Databricks
8 14 (1.43%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.33%) Dell
10 12 (1.23%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.23%) IBM
10 12 (1.23%) Informatica
10 12 (1.23%) Talend
11 10 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.92%) Foundry
12 9 (0.92%) SAP
12 9 (0.92%) Solace
13 8 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.82%) Palantir
14 6 (0.61%) SnapLogic