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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,104 1,039 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.33% 8.79% 10.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.78% 22.46% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 580 626 1,352
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £68,438 £76,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £122,625 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +1.91%

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 5,581 4,626 7,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.88% 39.12% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,750 3,118 5,217
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% -1.56% -1.54%

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 23 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 23 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 -20 116 £100,000 +11.11% 175
South London -23 20 £70,000 -15.15% 6
West London -12 18 £80,000 -3.03% 77
East London -4 4 - - 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 (3.71%) Confluence
2 20 (1.81%) Apache
3 17 (1.54%) Camunda
4 13 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.36%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) Hedera
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.091%) CICS
10 1 (0.091%) IIS
10 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.54%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.27%) Maximo
3 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.091%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 532 (48.19%) AWS
2 225 (20.38%) Azure
3 202 (18.30%) GCP
4 78 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 73 (6.61%) GitHub
6 67 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
7 61 (5.53%) SaaS
8 51 (4.62%) Serverless
9 33 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 22 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
13 22 (1.99%) Datadog
14 21 (1.90%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.81%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.17%) HTTP
2 17 (1.54%) Network Security
3 16 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.27%) DMARC
5 10 (0.91%) BGP
5 10 (0.91%) VPN
6 8 (0.72%) DNS
7 6 (0.54%) IPsec
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.45%) IPv4
8 5 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.36%) Broadband
9 4 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) Firewall
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
12 1 (0.091%) AMQP
12 1 (0.091%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (8.15%) NoSQL
2 73 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 49 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 32 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.81%) Big Data
7 18 (1.63%) Redis
8 17 (1.54%) MySQL
9 16 (1.45%) Db2
10 14 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.18%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.91%) DTS
13 10 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.63%) Flink
14 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.63%) Pinecone
14 7 (0.63%) Power BI
15 6 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 86 (7.79%) Git
2 75 (6.79%) GitLab
3 64 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.80%) TeamCity
5 51 (4.62%) Cucumber
6 47 (4.26%) JIRA
7 31 (2.81%) Selenium
8 28 (2.54%) JUnit
9 22 (1.99%) Maven
10 19 (1.72%) Postman
11 17 (1.54%) Cypress.io
11 17 (1.54%) Mockito
12 16 (1.45%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.36%) Claude Code
14 12 (1.09%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.91%) JMeter
17 9 (0.82%) Gradle
18 7 (0.63%) SonarQube
19 6 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 470 (42.57%) Finance
2 252 (22.83%) Banking
3 228 (20.65%) Social Skills
4 101 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (8.51%) Law
6 74 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 74 (6.70%) Retail
7 70 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
8 68 (6.16%) Financial Institution
8 68 (6.16%) Front Office
9 37 (3.35%) Back Office
10 24 (2.17%) Investment Banking
11 23 (2.08%) Marketing
12 16 (1.45%) Tech for Good
13 15 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
15 10 (0.91%) Legal
16 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.82%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 306 (27.72%) Senior
2 274 (24.82%) Java Engineer
3 262 (23.73%) Software Engineer
4 239 (21.65%) Developer
5 149 (13.50%) Lead
6 137 (12.41%) Java Developer
7 98 (8.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 81 (7.34%) Senior Java Engineer
9 78 (7.07%) Senior Developer
10 75 (6.79%) Java Software Engineer
11 64 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
12 52 (4.71%) Architect
12 52 (4.71%) Principal Java Engineer
13 49 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
14 40 (3.62%) Engineering Manager
14 40 (3.62%) Senior Java Developer
15 34 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 34 (3.08%) Software Developer
15 34 (3.08%) Software Engineering Manager
15 34 (3.08%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (26.36%) Spring
2 242 (21.92%) Spring Boot
3 192 (17.39%) Kafka
4 149 (13.50%) Terraform
5 139 (12.59%) REST
6 86 (7.79%) React
7 84 (7.61%) RESTful
8 68 (6.16%) .NET
9 67 (6.07%) Node.js
10 52 (4.71%) AngularJS
11 40 (3.62%) OAuth
12 28 (2.54%) FIX Protocol
12 28 (2.54%) OAuth2
13 26 (2.36%) Middleware
14 24 (2.17%) Hibernate
15 22 (1.99%) Web Services
16 21 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (1.81%) Playwright
18 16 (1.45%) HTML
18 16 (1.45%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 241 (21.83%) Cloud Native
2 172 (15.58%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (11.87%) Product Ownership
4 118 (10.69%) Public Cloud
5 54 (4.89%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.80%) e-Learning
7 40 (3.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 36 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 30 (2.72%) Blog
11 29 (2.63%) Equities
12 26 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (2.17%) AI Agents
13 24 (2.17%) Fixed Income
14 22 (1.99%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.90%) Algorithms
16 19 (1.72%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.63%) Mobile App
18 17 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
19 16 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.97%) Linux
2 30 (2.72%) Windows
3 19 (1.72%) Android
4 14 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 390 (35.33%) CI/CD
3 328 (29.71%) Microservices
4 269 (24.37%) Agile
5 234 (21.20%) Test Automation
6 222 (20.11%) Mentoring
7 218 (19.75%) AI
8 214 (19.38%) DevOps
9 193 (17.48%) Event-Driven
10 183 (16.58%) Roadmaps
11 173 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
12 168 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 162 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
14 132 (11.96%) Containerisation
15 128 (11.59%) Fintech
16 125 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 117 (10.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 114 (10.33%) Full-Stack Development
19 102 (9.24%) Computer Science
20 100 (9.06%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 335 (30.34%) Python
2 191 (17.30%) SQL
3 102 (9.24%) JavaScript
4 99 (8.97%) C#
5 84 (7.61%) C++
6 76 (6.88%) Go
6 76 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 58 (5.25%) Kotlin
8 51 (4.62%) Bash
9 31 (2.81%) C
9 31 (2.81%) Ruby
10 26 (2.36%) Rust
11 23 (2.08%) Scala
12 21 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.81%) Perl
13 20 (1.81%) PHP
14 11 (1.00%) R
15 10 (0.91%) RPG
16 8 (0.72%) VBA
17 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 108 (9.78%) Degree
3 77 (6.97%) AWS Certification
4 76 (6.88%) SC Cleared
5 66 (5.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 64 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (4.08%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.45%) OSCP
9 11 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.00%) CREST Certified
10 8 (0.72%) CISSP
10 8 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.54%) CCSP
12 6 (0.54%) CISM
12 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.07%) QA
2 24 (2.17%) GDPR
3 23 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.54%) ISO 20022
5 11 (1.00%) NIST
6 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.72%) GRC
7 8 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.36%) WCAG
10 3 (0.27%) MiFID
10 3 (0.27%) UCITS
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 140 (12.68%) Docker
2 19 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.09%) 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 (0.091%) Firmware
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 240 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 75 (6.79%) Grafana
3 41 (3.71%) Ansible
4 29 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.63%) Argo
5 7 (0.63%) Kibana
5 7 (0.63%) Puppet
6 6 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.54%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.36%) EnCase
8 4 (0.36%) FTK
8 4 (0.36%) Packer
8 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.27%) Rancher
9 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.27%) WSUS
10 2 (0.18%) kaniko
Vendors
1 67 (6.07%) Oracle
2 62 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 59 (5.34%) Google
4 30 (2.72%) IBM
4 30 (2.72%) Splunk
5 26 (2.36%) Red Hat
6 20 (1.81%) VMware
7 19 (1.72%) Palantir
8 16 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.27%) SendGrid
11 13 (1.18%) Foundry
11 13 (1.18%) SAP
12 12 (1.09%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.09%) Solace
13 11 (1.00%) OutSystems
14 10 (0.91%) Databricks
15 9 (0.82%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.82%) HP
16 8 (0.72%) Guidewire