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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,088 1,059 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.33% 8.86% 10.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.72% 22.51% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 579 640 1,379
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £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 £124,000 £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 5,517 4,704 8,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.95% 39.36% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,720 3,172 5,342
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -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 18 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 18 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 -20 117 £100,000 +11.11% 173
South London -24 21 £70,000 -15.15% 8
West London -8 17 £80,000 -3.03% 65
East London -7 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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 19 (1.75%) Apache
3 16 (1.47%) Camunda
4 13 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (1.01%) 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 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.092%) CICS
10 1 (0.092%) Hedera
10 1 (0.092%) IIS
10 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.092%) 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 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.092%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.092%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.092%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 522 (47.98%) AWS
2 223 (20.50%) Azure
3 195 (17.92%) GCP
4 76 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 72 (6.62%) GitHub
6 61 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (5.15%) SaaS
8 50 (4.60%) Serverless
9 32 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
12 23 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
13 22 (2.02%) Datadog
14 20 (1.84%) Amazon S3
14 20 (1.84%) Snowflake
15 18 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.47%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.38%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.22%) HTTP
2 16 (1.47%) Network Security
3 13 (1.19%) DMARC
4 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.74%) DNS
6 7 (0.64%) BGP
6 7 (0.64%) VPN
7 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.18%) Firewall
12 1 (0.092%) DHCP
12 1 (0.092%) IPv6
12 1 (0.092%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.09%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 49 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 33 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.84%) Big Data
7 18 (1.65%) Redis
8 17 (1.56%) Db2
8 17 (1.56%) MySQL
9 13 (1.19%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.92%) DTS
10 10 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
12 7 (0.64%) Power BI
13 6 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.55%) Flink
Development Applications
1 84 (7.72%) Git
2 72 (6.62%) GitLab
3 63 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 49 (4.50%) Cucumber
5 47 (4.32%) JIRA
5 47 (4.32%) TeamCity
6 31 (2.85%) Selenium
7 27 (2.48%) JUnit
8 22 (2.02%) Maven
9 19 (1.75%) Postman
10 17 (1.56%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.47%) Claude Code
11 16 (1.47%) Mockito
12 12 (1.10%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.92%) JMeter
15 9 (0.83%) Gradle
16 7 (0.64%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 466 (42.83%) Finance
2 244 (22.43%) Banking
3 220 (20.22%) Social Skills
4 94 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (8.00%) Law
6 74 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 72 (6.62%) Front Office
8 70 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (6.16%) Retail
10 63 (5.79%) Financial Institution
11 33 (3.03%) Back Office
12 25 (2.30%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.11%) Marketing
14 15 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.38%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.01%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.92%) Legal
17 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.83%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 301 (27.67%) Senior
2 269 (24.72%) Java Engineer
3 262 (24.08%) Software Engineer
4 236 (21.69%) Developer
5 148 (13.60%) Lead
6 136 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 101 (9.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (7.17%) Senior Java Engineer
9 77 (7.08%) Senior Developer
10 75 (6.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 62 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
12 51 (4.69%) Architect
12 51 (4.69%) Principal Java Engineer
13 49 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
14 40 (3.68%) Engineering Manager
15 38 (3.49%) Senior Java Developer
16 34 (3.13%) Consultant
16 34 (3.13%) Software Developer
16 34 (3.13%) Software Engineering Manager
16 34 (3.13%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (26.19%) Spring
2 236 (21.69%) Spring Boot
3 189 (17.37%) Kafka
4 139 (12.78%) REST
4 139 (12.78%) Terraform
5 84 (7.72%) React
6 79 (7.26%) RESTful
7 68 (6.25%) .NET
8 65 (5.97%) Node.js
9 48 (4.41%) AngularJS
10 39 (3.58%) OAuth
11 28 (2.57%) FIX Protocol
12 27 (2.48%) OAuth2
13 25 (2.30%) Middleware
14 24 (2.21%) Hibernate
15 23 (2.11%) Web Services
16 21 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (1.84%) Playwright
18 16 (1.47%) HTML
18 16 (1.47%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 232 (21.32%) Cloud Native
2 167 (15.35%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (11.95%) Product Ownership
4 116 (10.66%) Public Cloud
5 54 (4.96%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
7 40 (3.68%) e-Learning
8 35 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 31 (2.85%) Equities
11 26 (2.39%) Blog
11 26 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.21%) AI Agents
12 24 (2.21%) Fixed Income
13 22 (2.02%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.93%) Algorithms
15 18 (1.65%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.65%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (1.47%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.89%) Linux
2 29 (2.67%) Windows
3 16 (1.47%) Android
4 13 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.74%) Unix
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (41.73%) Software Engineering
2 375 (34.47%) CI/CD
3 319 (29.32%) Microservices
4 264 (24.26%) Agile
5 230 (21.14%) Test Automation
6 217 (19.94%) Mentoring
7 215 (19.76%) AI
8 213 (19.58%) DevOps
9 186 (17.10%) Roadmaps
10 185 (17.00%) Event-Driven
11 170 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
12 162 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
13 161 (14.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 129 (11.86%) Containerisation
15 124 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 120 (11.03%) Fintech
17 114 (10.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 104 (9.56%) Full-Stack Development
19 103 (9.47%) Computer Science
20 97 (8.92%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 328 (30.15%) Python
2 184 (16.91%) SQL
3 98 (9.01%) C#
3 98 (9.01%) JavaScript
4 83 (7.63%) C++
5 73 (6.71%) TypeScript
6 70 (6.43%) Go
7 57 (5.24%) Kotlin
8 47 (4.32%) Bash
9 32 (2.94%) C
10 31 (2.85%) Ruby
11 25 (2.30%) Rust
12 22 (2.02%) Scala
13 20 (1.84%) Perl
13 20 (1.84%) PHP
13 20 (1.84%) PowerShell
14 11 (1.01%) R
15 10 (0.92%) RPG
16 8 (0.74%) VBA
17 7 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 132 (12.13%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.02%) Degree
3 75 (6.89%) AWS Certification
3 75 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 66 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 44 (4.04%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.38%) OSCP
8 10 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.92%) CREST Certified
9 8 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.64%) CISSP
10 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.46%) CCSP
12 5 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.07%) QA
2 24 (2.21%) GDPR
3 22 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 10 (0.92%) GRC
6 9 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.83%) NIST
7 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.37%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.18%) PSD2
11 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (12.59%) Docker
2 18 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.092%) Firmware
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 227 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 69 (6.34%) Grafana
3 40 (3.68%) Ansible
4 26 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.64%) Argo
5 7 (0.64%) Kibana
6 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.55%) Puppet
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.37%) EnCase
8 4 (0.37%) FTK
8 4 (0.37%) Packer
8 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.18%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 67 (6.16%) Oracle
2 60 (5.51%) Microsoft
3 53 (4.87%) Google
4 31 (2.85%) IBM
5 29 (2.67%) Splunk
6 26 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 21 (1.93%) Palantir
8 19 (1.75%) VMware
9 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.29%) Foundry
12 13 (1.19%) SAP
12 13 (1.19%) SendGrid
13 12 (1.10%) Bloomberg
13 12 (1.10%) Solace
14 11 (1.01%) OutSystems
15 10 (0.92%) Databricks
16 9 (0.83%) AppDynamics
16 9 (0.83%) HP
17 8 (0.74%) Guidewire