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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 914 1,184 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.95% 7.85% 9.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.22% 19.36% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 559 780 1,642
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,250 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 4,521 6,115 8,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.43% 40.57% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 3,974 7,753
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +3 153 £100,000 +8.11% 78
South London -3 14 £70,000 +12.00% 6
West London -10 12 £82,500 +175.00% 17
East London -5 4 £75,000 - 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 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.95%) Apache
4 15 (1.64%) Confluence
5 12 (1.31%) JBoss
6 11 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.44%) Appian
8 4 (0.44%) nginx
8 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) Liferay
9 3 (0.33%) Luigi
9 3 (0.33%) Mule
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Fidessa
1 7 (0.77%) Maximo
2 4 (0.44%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 413 (45.19%) AWS
2 143 (15.65%) GCP
3 121 (13.24%) Azure
4 87 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 77 (8.42%) SaaS
6 46 (5.03%) GitHub
7 43 (4.70%) Serverless
8 27 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (2.84%) dbt
10 24 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (2.52%) OpenShift
11 23 (2.52%) Snowflake
12 22 (2.41%) Datadog
13 20 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.08%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (1.75%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.50%) TCP/IP
2 19 (2.08%) Broadband
3 11 (1.20%) HTTP
4 10 (1.09%) VPN
5 8 (0.88%) Multicast
6 6 (0.66%) BGP
6 6 (0.66%) VLAN
7 5 (0.55%) AMQP
7 5 (0.55%) Firewall
8 4 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.22%) DHCP
9 2 (0.22%) DNS
9 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.22%) Internet
9 2 (0.22%) LAN
9 2 (0.22%) NAS
9 2 (0.22%) SAN
9 2 (0.22%) SNMP
9 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (8.97%) Relational Database
3 65 (7.11%) NoSQL
4 50 (5.47%) RDBMS
5 43 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (3.83%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.61%) Big Data
8 32 (3.50%) Hadoop
8 32 (3.50%) MongoDB
9 25 (2.74%) Data Lake
9 25 (2.74%) DB2
10 18 (1.97%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.86%) Apache Ignite
12 16 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.64%) MySQL
13 15 (1.64%) Neo4j
14 14 (1.53%) Apache Hive
14 14 (1.53%) Dremio
14 14 (1.53%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 58 (6.35%) TeamCity
2 57 (6.24%) Jenkins
3 48 (5.25%) Selenium
4 36 (3.94%) Git
5 33 (3.61%) JIRA
6 31 (3.39%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.41%) GitLab
8 20 (2.19%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.97%) JUnit
10 17 (1.86%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.75%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.75%) JMeter
12 13 (1.42%) WebDriver
13 9 (0.98%) Maven
13 9 (0.98%) Mockito
13 9 (0.98%) Postman
14 7 (0.77%) Gradle
15 6 (0.66%) Subversion
15 6 (0.66%) Vite
16 5 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 327 (35.78%) Finance
2 240 (26.26%) Banking
3 223 (24.40%) Social Skills
4 105 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (10.83%) Front Office
5 99 (10.83%) Law
6 88 (9.63%) Financial Institution
7 78 (8.53%) Investment Banking
7 78 (8.53%) Retail
8 65 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (5.25%) Back Office
9 48 (5.25%) Public Sector
10 25 (2.74%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.97%) Games
12 17 (1.86%) Billing
13 13 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.66%) Legal
15 6 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (34.25%) Developer
2 233 (25.49%) Senior
3 221 (24.18%) Software Engineer
4 180 (19.69%) Java Developer
5 158 (17.29%) Java Engineer
6 137 (14.99%) Lead
7 102 (11.16%) Java Software Engineer
8 83 (9.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 81 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
10 69 (7.55%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 56 (6.13%) Senior Developer
13 55 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
14 53 (5.80%) Architect
15 50 (5.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 44 (4.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 37 (4.05%) Senior Java Developer
18 33 (3.61%) React Developer
19 32 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
19 32 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (21.33%) Spring
2 157 (17.18%) React
3 145 (15.86%) Spring Boot
4 127 (13.89%) Kafka
5 106 (11.60%) REST
6 72 (7.88%) Node.js
7 61 (6.67%) .NET
7 61 (6.67%) RESTful
8 49 (5.36%) HTML
9 48 (5.25%) AngularJS
10 39 (4.27%) GraphQL
11 37 (4.05%) CSS
11 37 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
12 35 (3.83%) SOAP
13 34 (3.72%) Hibernate
14 31 (3.39%) Web Services
15 26 (2.84%) JSON
16 25 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
17 23 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
17 23 (2.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 195 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 141 (15.43%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (6.02%) Equities
4 52 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (5.03%) Product Ownership
6 40 (4.38%) Fixed Income
7 37 (4.05%) Derivative
8 36 (3.94%) Blog
9 32 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
10 30 (3.28%) Algorithms
11 25 (2.74%) Public Cloud
12 24 (2.63%) Hedge funds
12 24 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
13 21 (2.30%) FPGA
14 20 (2.19%) Data Structures
14 20 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (2.19%) Onboarding
15 18 (1.97%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.75%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.47%) Linux
2 27 (2.95%) Unix
3 21 (2.30%) Windows
4 17 (1.86%) Android
5 5 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.22%) CentOS
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (35.45%) Software Engineering
2 303 (33.15%) CI/CD
3 302 (33.04%) Agile
4 222 (24.29%) Microservices
5 179 (19.58%) Test Automation
6 178 (19.47%) DevOps
7 169 (18.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 151 (16.52%) Mentoring
9 146 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (12.47%) Fintech
11 107 (11.71%) Roadmaps
12 105 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (11.16%) Containerisation
14 97 (10.61%) AI
15 93 (10.18%) Low Latency
16 92 (10.07%) Computer Science
17 90 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
18 80 (8.75%) Clean Code
19 72 (7.88%) TDD
20 69 (7.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 293 (32.06%) Python
2 178 (19.47%) JavaScript
3 141 (15.43%) SQL
4 126 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 86 (9.41%) Go
6 85 (9.30%) C#
7 60 (6.56%) C++
8 57 (6.24%) Kotlin
9 41 (4.49%) C
10 36 (3.94%) Scala
11 28 (3.06%) Bash
12 27 (2.95%) Rust
13 14 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.88%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.77%) PHP
16 6 (0.66%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.66%) Ruby
16 6 (0.66%) VBA
17 5 (0.55%) R
17 5 (0.55%) RPG
Qualifications
1 119 (13.02%) Degree
2 118 (12.91%) Security Cleared
3 71 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (4.81%) DV Cleared
6 35 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.61%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.86%) PhD
9 16 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.98%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.98%) OSCP
11 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.55%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.44%) OSCE
14 3 (0.33%) ISEB
14 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.72%) QA
2 20 (2.19%) GDPR
3 18 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.64%) SOC 2
5 14 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.44%) SEPA
8 4 (0.44%) SLA
9 2 (0.22%) PSD2
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 147 (16.08%) Docker
2 15 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.88%) HDFS
6 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 239 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 105 (11.49%) Terraform
3 56 (6.13%) Grafana
4 41 (4.49%) Ansible
5 30 (3.28%) Argo
6 26 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.75%) Kustomize
8 13 (1.42%) Kibana
9 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.33%) Puppet
13 2 (0.22%) logstash
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.11%) Icinga
14 1 (0.11%) Nagios
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (3.72%) Google
2 30 (3.28%) Oracle
3 18 (1.97%) Databricks
3 18 (1.97%) IBM
3 18 (1.97%) Informatica
3 18 (1.97%) Talend
4 17 (1.86%) Guidewire
5 14 (1.53%) Atlassian
5 14 (1.53%) Microsoft
6 13 (1.42%) MuleSoft
6 13 (1.42%) Splunk
7 11 (1.20%) Dell
8 10 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.09%) Solace
9 9 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.66%) SAP
12 5 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.44%) Jitterbit