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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,058 1,072 2,001
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.39% 8.91% 10.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.11% 22.14% 25.01%
Number of salaries quoted 572 657 1,442
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £66,188 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £103,750
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +1.20% +15.28%
75th Percentile £100,813 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 5,537 4,841 8,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.97% 40.23% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,800 3,290 5,657
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,188 £61,250 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -18 131 £100,000 +11.11% 109
South London -21 22 £70,000 -15.15% 12
West London -20 16 £80,000 +33.33% 83
East London -6 1 - - 12
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 39 (3.69%) Confluence
2 19 (1.80%) Apache
3 17 (1.61%) Camunda
4 16 (1.51%) Palantir Foundry
5 14 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.095%) CICS
10 1 (0.095%) IIS
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle 10gAS
10 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.47%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.47%) Maximo
1 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg TOMS
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%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 505 (47.73%) AWS
2 227 (21.46%) Azure
3 186 (17.58%) GCP
4 69 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (6.43%) GitHub
6 51 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (4.54%) Serverless
8 46 (4.35%) SaaS
9 32 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
12 22 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
13 19 (1.80%) Datadog
14 18 (1.70%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.70%) OpenShift
15 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (1.32%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.21%) HTTP
2 17 (1.61%) Network Security
3 14 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.23%) DMARC
5 7 (0.66%) DNS
5 7 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.57%) BGP
6 6 (0.57%) IPsec
7 5 (0.47%) Broadband
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
7 5 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.38%) IPv4
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.28%) LAN
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.095%) AMQP
11 1 (0.095%) LTE
11 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.03%) NoSQL
2 68 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (5.29%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.54%) MongoDB
5 31 (2.93%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.80%) MySQL
7 18 (1.70%) Big Data
7 18 (1.70%) Db2
7 18 (1.70%) Redis
8 13 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.95%) DTS
11 9 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.66%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.57%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.57%) HBase
14 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 86 (8.13%) Git
2 64 (6.05%) GitLab
3 62 (5.86%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.16%) JIRA
5 43 (4.06%) Cucumber
6 36 (3.40%) TeamCity
7 35 (3.31%) Selenium
8 27 (2.55%) JUnit
9 20 (1.89%) Maven
10 17 (1.61%) Postman
11 16 (1.51%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.51%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.51%) Mockito
12 15 (1.42%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.95%) Gradle
14 10 (0.95%) JMeter
14 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.57%) MLflow
15 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 451 (42.63%) Finance
2 216 (20.42%) Banking
3 205 (19.38%) Social Skills
4 88 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 84 (7.94%) Front Office
6 80 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (6.33%) Law
8 66 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
9 55 (5.20%) Financial Institution
10 49 (4.63%) Retail
11 26 (2.46%) Back Office
11 26 (2.46%) Investment Banking
12 25 (2.36%) Marketing
13 16 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.23%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.04%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.57%) Aviation
18 6 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 293 (27.69%) Senior
2 257 (24.29%) Software Engineer
3 248 (23.44%) Developer
4 247 (23.35%) Java Engineer
5 149 (14.08%) Lead
6 140 (13.23%) Java Developer
7 103 (9.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (7.37%) Senior Developer
9 72 (6.81%) Java Software Engineer
10 69 (6.52%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.58%) Principal Engineer
12 51 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
13 47 (4.44%) Architect
14 46 (4.35%) Principal Java Engineer
15 39 (3.69%) Engineering Manager
16 38 (3.59%) Software Developer
17 37 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 35 (3.31%) Consultant
18 35 (3.31%) Senior Java Developer
19 33 (3.12%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (26.18%) Spring
2 226 (21.36%) Spring Boot
3 191 (18.05%) Kafka
4 135 (12.76%) REST
5 122 (11.53%) Terraform
6 89 (8.41%) React
7 78 (7.37%) RESTful
8 71 (6.71%) Node.js
9 68 (6.43%) .NET
10 48 (4.54%) AngularJS
11 38 (3.59%) OAuth
12 27 (2.55%) FIX Protocol
12 27 (2.55%) OAuth2
13 26 (2.46%) Hibernate
14 25 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (2.27%) Middleware
15 24 (2.27%) Web Services
16 23 (2.17%) GraphQL
17 20 (1.89%) Playwright
18 17 (1.61%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 213 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 160 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (11.53%) Product Ownership
4 109 (10.30%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.29%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 39 (3.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (3.21%) e-Learning
8 32 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (3.02%) Equities
8 32 (3.02%) Fixed Income
9 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (2.36%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.80%) Virtual Team
12 18 (1.70%) Blog
13 17 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
13 17 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.51%) Derivative
15 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 85 (8.03%) Linux
2 32 (3.02%) Windows
3 15 (1.42%) Android
4 13 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.85%) Unix
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (40.83%) Software Engineering
2 353 (33.36%) CI/CD
3 303 (28.64%) Microservices
4 274 (25.90%) Agile
5 219 (20.70%) Test Automation
6 217 (20.51%) DevOps
7 216 (20.42%) Mentoring
8 201 (19.00%) AI
9 192 (18.15%) Roadmaps
10 171 (16.16%) Event-Driven
11 160 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
13 157 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 130 (12.29%) Containerisation
15 117 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 109 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
17 107 (10.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 103 (9.74%) Fintech
19 92 (8.70%) BDD
19 92 (8.70%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 335 (31.66%) Python
2 169 (15.97%) SQL
3 106 (10.02%) JavaScript
4 100 (9.45%) C#
5 81 (7.66%) TypeScript
6 80 (7.56%) C++
7 76 (7.18%) Go
8 55 (5.20%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.35%) Bash
10 34 (3.21%) C
11 32 (3.02%) Ruby
12 28 (2.65%) Rust
13 23 (2.17%) PowerShell
14 21 (1.98%) Perl
14 21 (1.98%) PHP
14 21 (1.98%) Scala
15 11 (1.04%) R
16 10 (0.95%) RPG
17 8 (0.76%) VBA
18 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 138 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 107 (10.11%) Degree
3 79 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 69 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 62 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 49 (4.63%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.42%) OSCP
9 11 (1.04%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.66%) CISSP
11 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.47%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.47%) CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.05%) QA
2 21 (1.98%) GDPR
3 19 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 14 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.76%) NIST
7 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.38%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (12.57%) Docker
2 18 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.095%) Firmware
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 214 (20.23%) Kubernetes
2 57 (5.39%) Grafana
3 38 (3.59%) Ansible
4 24 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.66%) Kibana
6 6 (0.57%) Argo
6 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.57%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.47%) Puppet
7 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.19%) kaniko
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 60 (5.67%) Oracle
2 51 (4.82%) Google
2 51 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 31 (2.93%) IBM
4 29 (2.74%) Splunk
5 25 (2.36%) Palantir
6 20 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.80%) VMware
8 17 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.51%) Foundry
10 15 (1.42%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.23%) SAP
11 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
12 12 (1.13%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.13%) Solace
13 10 (0.95%) Databricks
14 9 (0.85%) HP
15 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.66%) Guidewire