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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,080 1,054 1,971
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.34% 8.83% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.74% 22.50% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 577 635 1,374
10th Percentile £53,250 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +4.88% +13.89%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
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% +0.46%

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 5,472 4,684 7,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.99% 39.26% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,697 3,155 5,307
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -18 118 £100,000 +11.11% 165
South London -24 21 £70,000 -15.15% 13
West London -10 17 £80,000 -3.03% 63
East London -7 3 - - 11
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 41 (3.80%) Confluence
2 18 (1.67%) Apache
3 16 (1.48%) Camunda
4 13 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.093%) CICS
10 1 (0.093%) Hedera
10 1 (0.093%) IIS
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.093%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.56%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.37%) Maximo
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.093%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.093%) Endur
5 1 (0.093%) Findur
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.093%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.093%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 520 (48.15%) AWS
2 222 (20.56%) Azure
3 195 (18.06%) GCP
4 76 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (6.30%) GitHub
6 61 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (5.00%) SaaS
8 51 (4.72%) Serverless
9 32 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
13 21 (1.94%) Datadog
14 20 (1.85%) Amazon S3
14 20 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
14 20 (1.85%) Snowflake
15 18 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.48%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.39%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.33%) HTTP
2 17 (1.57%) Network Security
3 13 (1.20%) DMARC
4 12 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.74%) DNS
6 7 (0.65%) BGP
6 7 (0.65%) VPN
7 6 (0.56%) IPsec
8 5 (0.46%) Internet
8 5 (0.46%) IPv4
8 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.37%) Broadband
9 4 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) SAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.19%) Firewall
12 1 (0.093%) DHCP
12 1 (0.093%) IPv6
12 1 (0.093%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.15%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (5.46%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 32 (2.96%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.85%) Big Data
7 18 (1.67%) Redis
8 17 (1.57%) Db2
8 17 (1.57%) MySQL
9 13 (1.20%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.93%) DTS
10 10 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.65%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.56%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.56%) HBase
13 6 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 84 (7.78%) Git
2 71 (6.57%) GitLab
3 62 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 49 (4.54%) Cucumber
5 47 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 46 (4.26%) JIRA
7 31 (2.87%) Selenium
8 27 (2.50%) JUnit
9 21 (1.94%) Maven
10 19 (1.76%) Postman
11 17 (1.57%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.48%) Bitbucket
12 16 (1.48%) Mockito
13 13 (1.20%) Claude Code
14 12 (1.11%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.93%) JMeter
17 9 (0.83%) Gradle
18 7 (0.65%) SonarQube
19 6 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 461 (42.69%) Finance
2 242 (22.41%) Banking
3 215 (19.91%) Social Skills
4 94 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 86 (7.96%) Law
6 75 (6.94%) Public Sector
7 70 (6.48%) Front Office
8 69 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (6.20%) Retail
10 63 (5.83%) Financial Institution
11 33 (3.06%) Back Office
12 24 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.13%) Marketing
14 15 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.39%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.02%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.83%) Legal
16 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.74%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 299 (27.69%) Senior
2 265 (24.54%) Java Engineer
3 259 (23.98%) Software Engineer
4 234 (21.67%) Developer
5 149 (13.80%) Lead
6 134 (12.41%) Java Developer
7 101 (9.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (7.22%) Senior Java Engineer
9 77 (7.13%) Senior Developer
10 73 (6.76%) Java Software Engineer
11 59 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
12 50 (4.63%) Architect
13 49 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
13 49 (4.54%) Principal Java Engineer
14 40 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
15 38 (3.52%) Senior Java Developer
16 34 (3.15%) Development Engineer
16 34 (3.15%) Software Developer
16 34 (3.15%) Software Development Engineer
16 34 (3.15%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (26.11%) Spring
2 233 (21.57%) Spring Boot
3 186 (17.22%) Kafka
4 139 (12.87%) REST
5 137 (12.69%) Terraform
6 83 (7.69%) React
7 79 (7.31%) RESTful
8 68 (6.30%) .NET
9 64 (5.93%) Node.js
10 47 (4.35%) AngularJS
11 38 (3.52%) OAuth
12 27 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
12 27 (2.50%) OAuth2
13 24 (2.22%) Hibernate
13 24 (2.22%) Middleware
14 23 (2.13%) Web Services
15 21 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
16 20 (1.85%) Playwright
17 16 (1.48%) LangChain
18 15 (1.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 231 (21.39%) Cloud Native
2 165 (15.28%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (12.04%) Product Ownership
4 118 (10.93%) Public Cloud
5 54 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 40 (3.70%) e-Learning
8 35 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (2.69%) Equities
11 26 (2.41%) Blog
11 26 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.22%) AI Agents
13 23 (2.13%) Fixed Income
14 21 (1.94%) Algorithms
14 21 (1.94%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.67%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.67%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
17 15 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.04%) Linux
2 30 (2.78%) Windows
3 16 (1.48%) Android
4 13 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.74%) Unix
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (41.48%) Software Engineering
2 374 (34.63%) CI/CD
3 318 (29.44%) Microservices
4 264 (24.44%) Agile
5 231 (21.39%) Test Automation
6 218 (20.19%) Mentoring
7 212 (19.63%) AI
7 212 (19.63%) DevOps
8 186 (17.22%) Roadmaps
9 182 (16.85%) Event-Driven
10 167 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
11 161 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 159 (14.72%) Technical Leadership
13 128 (11.85%) Containerisation
14 124 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 119 (11.02%) Fintech
16 112 (10.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 104 (9.63%) Full-Stack Development
18 101 (9.35%) Computer Science
19 98 (9.07%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 327 (30.28%) Python
2 182 (16.85%) SQL
3 101 (9.35%) C#
4 97 (8.98%) JavaScript
5 82 (7.59%) C++
6 71 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 70 (6.48%) Go
8 57 (5.28%) Kotlin
9 48 (4.44%) Bash
10 33 (3.06%) C
11 32 (2.96%) Ruby
12 26 (2.41%) Rust
13 21 (1.94%) Perl
13 21 (1.94%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.94%) Scala
14 20 (1.85%) PHP
15 11 (1.02%) R
16 10 (0.93%) RPG
17 8 (0.74%) VBA
18 7 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 130 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.19%) Degree
3 75 (6.94%) AWS Certification
4 74 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 65 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (5.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 43 (3.98%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.48%) OSCP
9 11 (1.02%) CREST Certified
10 10 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.74%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.65%) CISSP
12 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.56%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.46%) CCSP
14 5 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.20%) QA
2 24 (2.22%) GDPR
3 21 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.48%) ISO 20022
5 10 (0.93%) GRC
6 9 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.83%) NIST
7 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.37%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (12.41%) Docker
2 18 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) KVM
6 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.37%) Squid
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.093%) Firmware
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 223 (20.65%) Kubernetes
2 69 (6.39%) Grafana
3 40 (3.70%) Ansible
4 26 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.65%) Kibana
6 6 (0.56%) Argo
6 6 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.56%) Puppet
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.37%) Packer
8 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) EnCase
9 3 (0.28%) FTK
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 66 (6.11%) Oracle
2 58 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 52 (4.81%) Google
4 30 (2.78%) IBM
5 28 (2.59%) Splunk
6 26 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 21 (1.94%) Palantir
8 19 (1.76%) VMware
9 16 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.20%) Foundry
11 13 (1.20%) SAP
11 13 (1.20%) SendGrid
12 12 (1.11%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.11%) Solace
13 11 (1.02%) OutSystems
14 9 (0.83%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.83%) Databricks
14 9 (0.83%) HP
15 8 (0.74%) Guidewire