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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,041 1,189 2,093
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.61% 9.64% 9.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.37% 23.01% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 595 767 1,556
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £134,000 £142,500 £150,000
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 5,373 5,168 8,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.78% 41.91% 40.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 3,568 6,491
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 23 July 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 July 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 -21 147 £95,000 -2.56% 64
South London -22 24 £70,000 -15.15% 4
West London -20 16 £80,000 +166.67% 13
East London -10 1 - - 10
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 30 (2.88%) Confluence
2 25 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.54%) Apache
4 15 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 14 (1.34%) Camunda
6 13 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) JBoss
8 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.29%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.096%) CICS
10 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.096%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.096%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.096%) Endur
3 1 (0.096%) Findur
3 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 474 (45.53%) AWS
2 192 (18.44%) Azure
3 180 (17.29%) GCP
4 67 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 64 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (5.09%) Serverless
7 52 (5.00%) GitHub
8 46 (4.42%) SaaS
9 31 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
10 28 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (2.40%) OpenShift
12 19 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.73%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (1.34%) AWS Control Tower
17 13 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (1.25%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.98%) HTTP
2 21 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.63%) Network Security
4 13 (1.25%) DMARC
5 10 (0.96%) Broadband
6 8 (0.77%) BGP
6 8 (0.77%) VPN
7 6 (0.58%) DNS
7 6 (0.58%) IPsec
8 5 (0.48%) Internet
8 5 (0.48%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.38%) IPv4
9 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.29%) Firewall
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
11 2 (0.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) VLAN
11 2 (0.19%) WAN
12 1 (0.096%) LTE
12 1 (0.096%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.49%) NoSQL
2 61 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.51%) Relational Database
4 35 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 25 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.31%) Db2
7 18 (1.73%) Big Data
8 14 (1.34%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.25%) Hadoop
9 13 (1.25%) Redis
10 12 (1.15%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.06%) MySQL
11 11 (1.06%) RDBMS
12 10 (0.96%) DTS
13 9 (0.86%) Metadata
14 8 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.67%) Apache Hive
15 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.58%) HBase
Development Applications
1 64 (6.15%) Git
2 55 (5.28%) GitLab
3 48 (4.61%) Jenkins
4 43 (4.13%) TeamCity
5 36 (3.46%) Cucumber
6 34 (3.27%) JIRA
7 32 (3.07%) Selenium
8 21 (2.02%) JUnit
9 13 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.25%) Gradle
10 12 (1.15%) Maven
10 12 (1.15%) Mockito
11 10 (0.96%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.67%) JMeter
13 7 (0.67%) Postman
14 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.48%) WebDriver
15 4 (0.38%) Spock
General
1 443 (42.56%) Finance
2 198 (19.02%) Banking
3 175 (16.81%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.66%) Front Office
5 85 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 78 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
8 68 (6.53%) Law
9 65 (6.24%) Retail
10 57 (5.48%) Financial Institution
11 34 (3.27%) Back Office
12 33 (3.17%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.25%) Marketing
15 10 (0.96%) Games
15 10 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.86%) Billing
16 9 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 298 (28.63%) Developer
2 267 (25.65%) Senior
3 238 (22.86%) Software Engineer
4 229 (22.00%) Java Engineer
5 164 (15.75%) Java Developer
6 145 (13.93%) Lead
7 81 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 77 (7.40%) Java Software Engineer
9 73 (7.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 61 (5.86%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 51 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (4.80%) Principal Engineer
14 46 (4.42%) Architect
15 44 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
16 43 (4.13%) Software Developer
17 41 (3.94%) Consultant
18 38 (3.65%) Engineering Manager
19 36 (3.46%) Principal Java Engineer
20 34 (3.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (24.88%) Spring
2 222 (21.33%) Spring Boot
3 182 (17.48%) Kafka
4 115 (11.05%) React
4 115 (11.05%) REST
5 90 (8.65%) Node.js
6 63 (6.05%) .NET
7 61 (5.86%) RESTful
8 56 (5.38%) AngularJS
9 43 (4.13%) GraphQL
10 37 (3.55%) Redux
11 32 (3.07%) Web Services
12 30 (2.88%) OAuth
13 25 (2.40%) OAuth2
14 23 (2.21%) Hibernate
14 23 (2.21%) Middleware
15 22 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
16 20 (1.92%) HTML
17 19 (1.83%) Playwright
18 18 (1.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 199 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 123 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (9.61%) Product Ownership
4 98 (9.41%) Public Cloud
5 54 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (4.13%) Onboarding
8 34 (3.27%) Equities
9 31 (2.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 28 (2.69%) e-Learning
11 27 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (2.31%) Blog
13 23 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.63%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (1.54%) FPGA
16 13 (1.25%) Derivative
16 13 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
17 12 (1.15%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 98 (9.41%) Linux
2 31 (2.98%) Windows
3 15 (1.44%) Android
4 14 (1.34%) Unix
5 11 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (37.94%) Software Engineering
2 337 (32.37%) CI/CD
3 302 (29.01%) Agile
4 269 (25.84%) Microservices
5 213 (20.46%) Test Automation
6 212 (20.37%) DevOps
7 191 (18.35%) Mentoring
8 177 (17.00%) Roadmaps
9 161 (15.47%) AI
10 146 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
10 146 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
11 144 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 125 (12.01%) Containerisation
14 111 (10.66%) Event-Driven
15 103 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (9.03%) Low Latency
17 89 (8.55%) Computer Science
18 86 (8.26%) Fintech
19 82 (7.88%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 342 (32.85%) Python
2 176 (16.91%) SQL
3 136 (13.06%) JavaScript
4 99 (9.51%) TypeScript
5 97 (9.32%) C#
6 94 (9.03%) C++
7 87 (8.36%) Go
8 50 (4.80%) Bash
9 39 (3.75%) Kotlin
10 35 (3.36%) C
11 34 (3.27%) Rust
12 26 (2.50%) Ruby
13 23 (2.21%) PowerShell
14 21 (2.02%) PHP
15 20 (1.92%) Scala
16 19 (1.83%) Perl
17 10 (0.96%) R
17 10 (0.96%) RPG
18 8 (0.77%) VBA
19 7 (0.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 139 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.47%) Degree
3 86 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.96%) AWS Certification
5 58 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 52 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.44%) OSCP
8 11 (1.06%) CREST Certified
9 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.86%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.58%) PhD
14 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) CCSP
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.19%) QA
2 21 (2.02%) GDPR
3 20 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.34%) GRC
5 10 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.77%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.67%) NIST
8 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.29%) MiFID
9 3 (0.29%) WCAG
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
10 2 (0.19%) UCITS
System Software
1 118 (11.34%) Docker
2 16 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.48%) KVM
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.096%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 206 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 130 (12.49%) Terraform
3 72 (6.92%) Grafana
4 34 (3.27%) Ansible
5 29 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.67%) Kibana
6 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.38%) Argo
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) Puppet
8 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Flashback
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) WSUS
11 1 (0.096%) Control-M
Vendors
1 45 (4.32%) Oracle
2 42 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 38 (3.65%) Google
4 33 (3.17%) IBM
5 29 (2.79%) Splunk
6 24 (2.31%) Palantir
7 17 (1.63%) Foundry
7 17 (1.63%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.63%) VMware
8 14 (1.34%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.34%) SAP
9 13 (1.25%) SendGrid
10 11 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.06%) Solace
11 9 (0.86%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.77%) Databricks
12 8 (0.77%) HP
12 8 (0.77%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.77%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.58%) Guidewire