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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,054 1,022 2,038
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.20% 8.08% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.25% 19.86% 21.58%
Number of salaries quoted 601 758 1,588
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £147,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -2.67% +1.62% -7.74%

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 5,205 5,146 9,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.66% 40.70% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,686 3,844 7,611
10th Percentile £49,625 £49,075 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £127,500
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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -6 157 £100,000 +1.01% 90
South London -22 19 £70,000 -15.15% 6
West London -16 17 £80,000 +166.67% 14
East London -7 3 - - 21
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 22 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (1.80%) Confluence
3 16 (1.52%) Apache
4 14 (1.33%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (0.85%) JBoss
6 7 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.38%) Appian
7 4 (0.38%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) Moodle
8 3 (0.28%) Liferay
8 3 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.095%) CICS
10 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maximo
2 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg AIM
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 453 (42.98%) AWS
2 186 (17.65%) GCP
3 164 (15.56%) Azure
4 65 (6.17%) SaaS
5 62 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 57 (5.41%) GitHub
7 40 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 26 (2.47%) Serverless
10 23 (2.18%) GitHub Copilot
11 19 (1.80%) Pulumi
12 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.61%) dbt
13 16 (1.52%) Datadog
13 16 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
18 9 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.75%) HTTP
2 25 (2.37%) Broadband
2 25 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.38%) AMQP
3 4 (0.38%) IPv4
3 4 (0.38%) Multicast
3 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (0.28%) BGP
4 3 (0.28%) Internet
4 3 (0.28%) LAN
4 3 (0.28%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) SAN
4 3 (0.28%) VLAN
4 3 (0.28%) VPN
4 3 (0.28%) WAN
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.40%) NoSQL
2 61 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (5.79%) Relational Database
3 35 (3.32%) RDBMS
4 30 (2.85%) SQL Server
5 28 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 26 (2.47%) DB2
7 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.42%) Big Data
9 13 (1.23%) MySQL
10 12 (1.14%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.95%) Flink
11 10 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.95%) Neo4j
11 10 (0.95%) Pentaho
12 9 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.85%) Metadata
13 8 (0.76%) Redis
14 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (5.22%) TeamCity
2 49 (4.65%) Git
3 44 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.17%) Selenium
4 37 (3.51%) GitLab
5 31 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 29 (2.75%) JIRA
7 18 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
9 14 (1.33%) Gradle
10 12 (1.14%) JUnit
10 12 (1.14%) Maven
11 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.66%) Postman
15 5 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 401 (38.05%) Finance
2 218 (20.68%) Banking
3 187 (17.74%) Social Skills
4 114 (10.82%) Front Office
5 103 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 87 (8.25%) Law
7 75 (7.12%) Retail
8 66 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
9 63 (5.98%) Public Sector
10 61 (5.79%) Financial Institution
11 44 (4.17%) Back Office
12 39 (3.70%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.47%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.80%) Games
16 16 (1.52%) Billing
17 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.76%) Marketing
18 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 347 (32.92%) Developer
2 277 (26.28%) Senior
3 264 (25.05%) Software Engineer
4 218 (20.68%) Java Engineer
5 199 (18.88%) Java Developer
6 165 (15.65%) Lead
7 107 (10.15%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (8.35%) Senior Developer
9 85 (8.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 71 (6.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 65 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 65 (6.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 58 (5.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 57 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
14 46 (4.36%) Principal Engineer
15 42 (3.98%) Architect
15 42 (3.98%) Development Engineer
15 42 (3.98%) Software Development Engineer
16 40 (3.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 36 (3.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (20.97%) Spring
2 186 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 157 (14.90%) React
4 136 (12.90%) Kafka
5 117 (11.10%) REST
6 86 (8.16%) Node.js
7 66 (6.26%) .NET
8 56 (5.31%) AngularJS
9 50 (4.74%) GraphQL
10 49 (4.65%) RESTful
11 39 (3.70%) Web Services
12 36 (3.42%) HTML
13 35 (3.32%) Redux
14 33 (3.13%) CSS
15 32 (3.04%) SOAP
16 31 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
17 25 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
18 24 (2.28%) Hibernate
19 23 (2.18%) Vue
20 22 (2.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 181 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 98 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 70 (6.64%) Public Cloud
5 52 (4.93%) Fixed Income
6 45 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (3.42%) Equities
8 35 (3.32%) Blog
9 32 (3.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (1.99%) FPGA
11 18 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.52%) Derivative
13 14 (1.33%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
14 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 104 (9.87%) Linux
2 25 (2.37%) Android
2 25 (2.37%) Unix
3 23 (2.18%) Windows
4 10 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) CentOS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (36.62%) Software Engineering
2 309 (29.32%) CI/CD
3 299 (28.37%) Agile
4 230 (21.82%) Microservices
5 215 (20.40%) DevOps
6 189 (17.93%) Mentoring
7 185 (17.55%) Test Automation
8 175 (16.60%) Full-Stack Development
9 172 (16.32%) Roadmaps
10 144 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
11 136 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
12 130 (12.33%) AI
13 121 (11.48%) Containerisation
14 116 (11.01%) Fintech
15 115 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 101 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (8.82%) Low Latency
18 78 (7.40%) Clean Code
19 76 (7.21%) Computer Science
19 76 (7.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 310 (29.41%) Python
2 174 (16.51%) JavaScript
3 154 (14.61%) SQL
4 112 (10.63%) TypeScript
5 111 (10.53%) Go
6 88 (8.35%) C#
7 75 (7.12%) C++
8 51 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.70%) Bash
10 31 (2.94%) C
11 22 (2.09%) Rust
12 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
12 17 (1.61%) Scala
13 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.76%) PHP
14 7 (0.66%) Perl
14 7 (0.66%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) VBA
15 5 (0.47%) Groovy
16 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 133 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 112 (10.63%) Degree
3 85 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.61%) OSCP
9 13 (1.23%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.04%) PhD
11 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.61%) QA
2 14 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.23%) GRC
3 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.57%) GDPR
6 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.38%) SLA
8 3 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.095%) MiFID
9 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 147 (13.95%) Docker
2 9 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.38%) KVM
3 4 (0.38%) Squid
3 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 227 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 136 (12.90%) Terraform
3 65 (6.17%) Grafana
4 43 (4.08%) Ansible
5 27 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.47%) Argo
7 15 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
10 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (3.70%) Google
2 30 (2.85%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.75%) Oracle
4 19 (1.80%) IBM
5 17 (1.61%) Palantir
6 16 (1.52%) Foundry
7 12 (1.14%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.14%) Splunk
8 11 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.04%) Solace
9 10 (0.95%) Informatica
9 10 (0.95%) Talend
9 10 (0.95%) VMware
10 8 (0.76%) Databricks
10 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.47%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.47%) HP