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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 982 1,042 1,909
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.50% 8.05% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.05% 19.18% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 586 769 1,539
10th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £144,000 £146,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

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 4,898 5,434 9,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.42% 42.00% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,441 3,980 7,602
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,239 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -8 151 £100,000 - 113
South London -16 13 £62,600 -16.53% 2
West London -26 13 £61,250 +104.17% 11
East London -12 5 £75,000 - 14
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 31 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.22%) Apache
3 12 (1.22%) Confluence
3 12 (1.22%) JBoss
4 11 (1.12%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.81%) Anypoint
5 8 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.51%) Camunda
7 4 (0.41%) Appian
7 4 (0.41%) Moodle
7 4 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.31%) Liferay
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.22%) Maximo
2 7 (0.71%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.41%) Shopify
4 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 433 (44.09%) AWS
2 177 (18.02%) GCP
3 144 (14.66%) Azure
4 84 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (8.45%) SaaS
6 50 (5.09%) GitHub
7 31 (3.16%) OpenShift
8 28 (2.85%) Serverless
9 23 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (2.24%) dbt
11 20 (2.04%) Pulumi
12 19 (1.93%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
14 17 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.63%) Datadog
15 16 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (1.43%) Amazon S3
18 13 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.16%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.55%) Broadband
3 15 (1.53%) HTTP
4 7 (0.71%) VPN
5 6 (0.61%) BGP
5 6 (0.61%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.61%) Multicast
5 6 (0.61%) VLAN
6 5 (0.51%) AMQP
7 3 (0.31%) Firewall
8 2 (0.20%) DHCP
8 2 (0.20%) DNS
8 2 (0.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) LAN
8 2 (0.20%) NAS
8 2 (0.20%) Network Security
8 2 (0.20%) SAN
8 2 (0.20%) SNMP
8 2 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
1 75 (7.64%) Relational Database
2 68 (6.92%) NoSQL
3 44 (4.48%) RDBMS
4 33 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 29 (2.95%) DB2
6 24 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.14%) Big Data
9 18 (1.83%) Hadoop
10 14 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.43%) MySQL
11 13 (1.32%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.22%) Flink
12 12 (1.22%) Neo4j
13 11 (1.12%) Redis
14 10 (1.02%) Apache Hive
14 10 (1.02%) Pentaho
15 9 (0.92%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 66 (6.72%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.89%) Selenium
3 46 (4.68%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.97%) Git
5 30 (3.05%) Cucumber
6 25 (2.55%) GitLab
7 23 (2.34%) JIRA
8 16 (1.63%) Jaeger
8 16 (1.63%) JUnit
9 12 (1.22%) Gradle
10 11 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.12%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.02%) JMeter
12 8 (0.81%) Maven
13 7 (0.71%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.71%) Postman
14 6 (0.61%) Mockito
15 5 (0.51%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 363 (36.97%) Finance
2 225 (22.91%) Banking
3 198 (20.16%) Social Skills
4 123 (12.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (11.71%) Front Office
6 107 (10.90%) Law
7 90 (9.16%) Retail
8 86 (8.76%) Financial Institution
9 68 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
10 63 (6.42%) Public Sector
11 57 (5.80%) Back Office
11 57 (5.80%) Investment Banking
12 27 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 23 (2.34%) Games
14 17 (1.73%) Billing
14 17 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.81%) Marketing
16 8 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 349 (35.54%) Developer
2 265 (26.99%) Senior
3 254 (25.87%) Software Engineer
4 195 (19.86%) Java Developer
5 175 (17.82%) Java Engineer
6 146 (14.87%) Lead
7 101 (10.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 85 (8.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 82 (8.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 78 (7.94%) Senior Developer
11 69 (7.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 69 (7.03%) Senior Java Engineer
12 52 (5.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 51 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
14 50 (5.09%) Senior Java Developer
15 49 (4.99%) Architect
16 42 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
17 41 (4.18%) React Developer
18 39 (3.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 36 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (20.47%) Spring
2 180 (18.33%) React
3 153 (15.58%) Spring Boot
4 135 (13.75%) Kafka
5 109 (11.10%) REST
6 93 (9.47%) Node.js
7 69 (7.03%) .NET
8 61 (6.21%) AngularJS
9 59 (6.01%) RESTful
10 57 (5.80%) GraphQL
11 46 (4.68%) HTML
12 39 (3.97%) Web Services
13 38 (3.87%) CSS
13 38 (3.87%) SOAP
14 35 (3.56%) Redux
15 33 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
16 30 (3.05%) Hibernate
17 27 (2.75%) JSON
18 25 (2.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 191 (19.45%) Cloud Native
2 122 (12.42%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.80%) Fixed Income
4 51 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 51 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.38%) Equities
6 38 (3.87%) Blog
7 35 (3.56%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.75%) Derivative
8 27 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.14%) FPGA
11 19 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.53%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.43%) Algorithms
15 13 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (1.22%) Mobile Banking
17 11 (1.12%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 120 (12.22%) Linux
2 34 (3.46%) Unix
3 25 (2.55%) Windows
4 21 (2.14%) Android
5 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (36.25%) Software Engineering
2 313 (31.87%) Agile
3 308 (31.36%) CI/CD
4 219 (22.30%) Microservices
5 193 (19.65%) DevOps
6 192 (19.55%) Test Automation
7 191 (19.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 167 (17.01%) Mentoring
9 148 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
10 126 (12.83%) Roadmaps
11 125 (12.73%) AI
12 118 (12.02%) Fintech
13 117 (11.91%) Containerisation
14 112 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
15 99 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (9.57%) Low Latency
17 88 (8.96%) Clean Code
17 88 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (8.35%) Computer Science
19 68 (6.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 300 (30.55%) Python
2 196 (19.96%) JavaScript
3 149 (15.17%) SQL
4 134 (13.65%) TypeScript
5 115 (11.71%) Go
6 84 (8.55%) C#
7 67 (6.82%) C++
8 55 (5.60%) Kotlin
9 36 (3.67%) C
10 31 (3.16%) Bash
11 29 (2.95%) Rust
12 23 (2.34%) Scala
13 11 (1.12%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.81%) PHP
15 7 (0.71%) Ruby
16 6 (0.61%) Perl
16 6 (0.61%) VBA
17 5 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 132 (13.44%) Security Cleared
2 120 (12.22%) Degree
3 84 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 56 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.16%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.32%) CREST Certified
8 13 (1.32%) OSCP
8 13 (1.32%) PhD
9 10 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.61%) OSCE
11 4 (0.41%) ISEB
11 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.20%) CCSAM
13 2 (0.20%) GPEN
13 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.67%) QA
2 16 (1.63%) GDPR
2 16 (1.63%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.53%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.71%) GRC
7 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.41%) SLA
8 3 (0.31%) NIST
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) MiFID
10 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 139 (14.15%) Docker
2 10 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.31%) HDFS
5 3 (0.31%) KVM
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 253 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 130 (13.24%) Terraform
3 71 (7.23%) Grafana
4 40 (4.07%) Ansible
5 30 (3.05%) Argo
6 28 (2.85%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.63%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.81%) Kibana
9 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.10%) Puppet
12 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (3.56%) Google
2 24 (2.44%) IBM
2 24 (2.44%) Oracle
3 17 (1.73%) Microsoft
4 16 (1.63%) MuleSoft
5 14 (1.43%) Informatica
5 14 (1.43%) Talend
6 13 (1.32%) Databricks
7 12 (1.22%) Dell
7 12 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.12%) Splunk
9 10 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.02%) Foundry
9 10 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.02%) Solace
10 8 (0.81%) Palantir
11 7 (0.71%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.71%) SAP
12 6 (0.61%) Mercator
12 6 (0.61%) VMware