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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,111 1,030 1,938
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.29% 8.72% 10.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.93% 22.47% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 565 621 1,327
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £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 £100,000 £135,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 5,575 4,583 7,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.50% 38.80% 41.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,709 3,068 5,158
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,065 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -24 106 £100,000 +11.11% 174
South London -22 22 £70,000 -15.15% 13
West London -3 19 £80,000 -3.03% 63
East London -6 5 - - 10
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 42 (3.78%) Confluence
2 21 (1.89%) Apache
3 18 (1.62%) Camunda
4 13 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.36%) JBoss
7 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.27%) CMS
7 3 (0.27%) Hedera
7 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.090%) IIS
9 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.17%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.63%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.18%) Maximo
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.090%) Quorum
4 1 (0.090%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.090%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.090%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 530 (47.70%) AWS
2 217 (19.53%) Azure
3 205 (18.45%) GCP
4 80 (7.20%) GitHub
5 79 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 72 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (5.85%) SaaS
8 51 (4.59%) Serverless
9 36 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 28 (2.52%) Anthropic Claude
12 27 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.98%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.89%) Datadog
16 20 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (1.80%) Snowflake
17 17 (1.53%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.61%) HTTP
2 17 (1.53%) Network Security
2 17 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.35%) DMARC
4 11 (0.99%) BGP
4 11 (0.99%) VPN
5 8 (0.72%) DNS
6 6 (0.54%) IPsec
7 5 (0.45%) Internet
7 5 (0.45%) IPv4
8 4 (0.36%) Broadband
8 4 (0.36%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.27%) Firewall
9 3 (0.27%) LAN
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
9 3 (0.27%) WAN
10 2 (0.18%) VLAN
11 1 (0.090%) MPLS
11 1 (0.090%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (7.83%) NoSQL
2 79 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (5.94%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 29 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.80%) Big Data
7 17 (1.53%) MySQL
8 16 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.44%) Redis
9 14 (1.26%) Db2
10 12 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.90%) DTS
12 10 (0.90%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.72%) Power BI
14 7 (0.63%) Flink
14 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.63%) Pinecone
15 6 (0.54%) Apache Hive
15 6 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (7.56%) Git
2 76 (6.84%) GitLab
3 67 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 61 (5.49%) TeamCity
5 55 (4.95%) Cucumber
6 46 (4.14%) JIRA
7 29 (2.61%) JUnit
8 28 (2.52%) Selenium
9 22 (1.98%) Maven
10 20 (1.80%) Claude Code
10 20 (1.80%) Postman
11 18 (1.62%) Mockito
12 17 (1.53%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.44%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.17%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.99%) JMeter
16 8 (0.72%) Gradle
17 6 (0.54%) MLflow
17 6 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 468 (42.12%) Finance
2 253 (22.77%) Banking
3 235 (21.15%) Social Skills
4 106 (9.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (9.00%) Law
6 83 (7.47%) Retail
7 73 (6.57%) Public Sector
8 71 (6.39%) Financial Institution
8 71 (6.39%) Front Office
9 67 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (3.51%) Back Office
11 25 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.07%) Marketing
13 16 (1.44%) Tech for Good
14 12 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.99%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.99%) Legal
16 10 (0.90%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 309 (27.81%) Senior
2 287 (25.83%) Java Engineer
3 268 (24.12%) Software Engineer
4 234 (21.06%) Developer
5 147 (13.23%) Lead
6 140 (12.60%) Java Developer
7 99 (8.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 87 (7.83%) Senior Java Engineer
9 82 (7.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 74 (6.66%) Senior Developer
11 66 (5.94%) Principal Engineer
12 53 (4.77%) Architect
13 51 (4.59%) Principal Java Engineer
14 45 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
15 37 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
15 37 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 37 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
16 33 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
17 31 (2.79%) Software Engineering Manager
17 31 (2.79%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (26.64%) Spring
2 247 (22.23%) Spring Boot
3 193 (17.37%) Kafka
4 159 (14.31%) Terraform
5 139 (12.51%) REST
6 84 (7.56%) RESTful
7 83 (7.47%) React
8 72 (6.48%) Node.js
9 65 (5.85%) .NET
10 52 (4.68%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.69%) OAuth
12 29 (2.61%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.43%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.34%) Hibernate
14 26 (2.34%) Middleware
15 21 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (1.62%) Playwright
16 18 (1.62%) Web Services
17 16 (1.44%) HTML
18 15 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 256 (23.04%) Cloud Native
2 175 (15.75%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (11.16%) Product Ownership
4 110 (9.90%) Public Cloud
5 54 (4.86%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.96%) e-Learning
7 41 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
9 34 (3.06%) Blog
9 34 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 31 (2.79%) Equities
11 28 (2.52%) Fixed Income
12 27 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (2.16%) AI Agents
13 24 (2.16%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.89%) Algorithms
15 20 (1.80%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.71%) Derivative
17 18 (1.62%) Mobile App
18 17 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (6.66%) Linux
2 28 (2.52%) Windows
3 18 (1.62%) Android
4 14 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (42.21%) Software Engineering
2 406 (36.54%) CI/CD
3 344 (30.96%) Microservices
4 275 (24.75%) Agile
5 240 (21.60%) Test Automation
6 227 (20.43%) AI
7 219 (19.71%) Mentoring
8 217 (19.53%) DevOps
9 196 (17.64%) Event-Driven
10 177 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
11 174 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 164 (14.76%) Roadmaps
13 153 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
14 142 (12.78%) Containerisation
15 131 (11.79%) Fintech
16 128 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 122 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
18 118 (10.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 103 (9.27%) Computer Science
20 100 (9.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 339 (30.51%) Python
2 197 (17.73%) SQL
3 104 (9.36%) JavaScript
4 99 (8.91%) C#
5 83 (7.47%) C++
5 83 (7.47%) Go
6 77 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 56 (5.04%) Kotlin
8 49 (4.41%) Bash
9 31 (2.79%) C
10 30 (2.70%) Ruby
11 26 (2.34%) Rust
12 24 (2.16%) Scala
13 20 (1.80%) PHP
14 19 (1.71%) Perl
14 19 (1.71%) PowerShell
15 11 (0.99%) R
16 10 (0.90%) RPG
17 8 (0.72%) VBA
18 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 134 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 104 (9.36%) Degree
3 80 (7.20%) AWS Certification
4 75 (6.75%) SC Cleared
5 68 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 62 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.87%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.44%) OSCP
9 11 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.90%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.72%) CISSP
12 8 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.54%) CCSP
14 6 (0.54%) CISM
14 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.30%) QA
2 24 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.07%) GDPR
4 16 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.26%) NIST
6 11 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.54%) GRC
8 6 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.36%) WCAG
11 3 (0.27%) MiFID
11 3 (0.27%) UCITS
12 2 (0.18%) PSD2
13 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 144 (12.96%) Docker
2 18 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.45%) KVM
6 5 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.090%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 256 (23.04%) Kubernetes
2 80 (7.20%) Grafana
3 43 (3.87%) Ansible
4 30 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.90%) Argo
6 7 (0.63%) Kibana
6 7 (0.63%) Puppet
7 6 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.54%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.45%) EnCase
8 5 (0.45%) FTK
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) Packer
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.27%) Rancher
10 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) WSUS
11 2 (0.18%) kaniko
Vendors
1 63 (5.67%) Microsoft
1 63 (5.67%) Oracle
2 61 (5.49%) Google
3 34 (3.06%) Splunk
4 28 (2.52%) IBM
5 25 (2.25%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.62%) VMware
7 17 (1.53%) Palantir
8 15 (1.35%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.35%) SendGrid
9 14 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.17%) SAP
11 12 (1.08%) Bloomberg
11 12 (1.08%) Foundry
11 12 (1.08%) Solace
12 11 (0.99%) OutSystems
13 10 (0.90%) Databricks
14 9 (0.81%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.81%) HP
15 8 (0.72%) Guidewire