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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,080 1,163 1,968
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.60% 9.51% 9.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.56% 22.87% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 602 741 1,441
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
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 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -

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 5,522 5,085 7,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.49% 41.56% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,831 3,492 5,871
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -18 142 £100,000 +11.11% 93
South London -24 23 £70,000 -15.15% 8
West London -27 17 £80,000 +166.67% 20
East London -11 1 - - 12
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 32 (2.96%) Confluence
2 24 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.67%) Apache
4 17 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.48%) Camunda
6 14 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) JBoss
8 2 (0.19%) Moodle
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.093%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.28%) Moqups
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.74%) Maximo
2 6 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.093%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Endur
4 1 (0.093%) Findur
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.093%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.093%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.093%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 499 (46.20%) AWS
2 211 (19.54%) Azure
3 191 (17.69%) GCP
4 66 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 60 (5.56%) GitHub
6 58 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (4.54%) Serverless
8 42 (3.89%) SaaS
9 29 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.04%) OpenShift
13 21 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.76%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 15 (1.39%) Amazon EventBridge
18 14 (1.30%) AWS Control Tower
18 14 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.96%) HTTP
2 17 (1.57%) Network Security
2 17 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.20%) DMARC
4 10 (0.93%) Broadband
5 6 (0.56%) BGP
5 6 (0.56%) DNS
5 6 (0.56%) IPsec
5 6 (0.56%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.56%) VPN
6 5 (0.46%) Internet
7 4 (0.37%) IPv4
7 4 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.28%) Firewall
8 3 (0.28%) LAN
8 3 (0.28%) SAN
8 3 (0.28%) WAN
9 1 (0.093%) AMQP
9 1 (0.093%) LTE
9 1 (0.093%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (7.31%) NoSQL
2 64 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (5.46%) Relational Database
4 42 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 29 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.13%) Db2
7 18 (1.67%) Big Data
8 17 (1.57%) MySQL
9 15 (1.39%) Redis
10 13 (1.20%) BigQuery
11 12 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.11%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.93%) DTS
13 9 (0.83%) Metadata
13 9 (0.83%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.65%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.56%) HBase
16 5 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 75 (6.94%) Git
2 55 (5.09%) GitLab
3 49 (4.54%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.89%) TeamCity
5 38 (3.52%) Cucumber
6 37 (3.43%) JIRA
7 35 (3.24%) Selenium
8 21 (1.94%) JUnit
9 15 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.30%) Maven
11 13 (1.20%) Claude Code
11 13 (1.20%) Mockito
12 12 (1.11%) Gradle
13 10 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (0.93%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.93%) Postman
14 7 (0.65%) JMeter
15 5 (0.46%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.46%) WebDriver
General
1 462 (42.78%) Finance
2 201 (18.61%) Banking
3 197 (18.24%) Social Skills
4 110 (10.19%) Front Office
5 92 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 81 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 76 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
8 73 (6.76%) Law
9 57 (5.28%) Retail
10 54 (5.00%) Financial Institution
11 31 (2.87%) Investment Banking
12 29 (2.69%) Back Office
13 21 (1.94%) Marketing
14 16 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.20%) Tech for Good
16 11 (1.02%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.83%) Games
17 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.83%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 295 (27.31%) Developer
1 295 (27.31%) Senior
2 269 (24.91%) Software Engineer
3 241 (22.31%) Java Engineer
4 159 (14.72%) Java Developer
5 157 (14.54%) Lead
6 94 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 81 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 79 (7.31%) Java Software Engineer
9 67 (6.20%) Lead Software Engineer
10 66 (6.11%) Senior Java Engineer
11 55 (5.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 55 (5.09%) Principal Engineer
12 47 (4.35%) Architect
13 42 (3.89%) Senior Java Developer
14 40 (3.70%) Principal Java Engineer
14 40 (3.70%) Software Developer
15 39 (3.61%) Consultant
16 37 (3.43%) Engineering Manager
17 34 (3.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (25.65%) Spring
2 230 (21.30%) Spring Boot
3 205 (18.98%) Kafka
4 124 (11.48%) REST
5 120 (11.11%) React
6 92 (8.52%) Node.js
7 69 (6.39%) .NET
8 68 (6.30%) RESTful
9 57 (5.28%) AngularJS
10 45 (4.17%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.43%) Redux
12 34 (3.15%) OAuth
13 30 (2.78%) Web Services
14 28 (2.59%) OAuth2
15 25 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
16 24 (2.22%) Hibernate
16 24 (2.22%) Middleware
17 21 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (1.85%) Playwright
19 19 (1.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 206 (19.07%) Cloud Native
2 144 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (10.19%) Product Ownership
4 102 (9.44%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 53 (4.91%) Onboarding
7 46 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 34 (3.15%) Distributed Architecture
9 32 (2.96%) Equities
10 30 (2.78%) e-Learning
11 27 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.76%) Blog
14 18 (1.67%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (1.48%) Data Structures
17 15 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
18 14 (1.30%) Derivative
18 14 (1.30%) FPGA
18 14 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.89%) Linux
2 32 (2.96%) Windows
3 14 (1.30%) Android
3 14 (1.30%) Unix
4 13 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (39.91%) Software Engineering
2 354 (32.78%) CI/CD
3 309 (28.61%) Agile
4 292 (27.04%) Microservices
5 220 (20.37%) DevOps
6 219 (20.28%) Test Automation
7 208 (19.26%) Mentoring
8 192 (17.78%) Roadmaps
9 185 (17.13%) AI
10 159 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
11 155 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 151 (13.98%) Technical Leadership
13 135 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 135 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 134 (12.41%) Event-Driven
15 118 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (8.70%) Low Latency
17 91 (8.43%) Fintech
18 90 (8.33%) Computer Science
19 85 (7.87%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 356 (32.96%) Python
2 179 (16.57%) SQL
3 139 (12.87%) JavaScript
4 106 (9.81%) TypeScript
5 100 (9.26%) C#
6 93 (8.61%) Go
7 89 (8.24%) C++
8 48 (4.44%) Bash
8 48 (4.44%) Kotlin
9 33 (3.06%) C
10 31 (2.87%) Rust
11 29 (2.69%) Ruby
12 24 (2.22%) PowerShell
13 23 (2.13%) Scala
14 21 (1.94%) PHP
15 19 (1.76%) Perl
16 11 (1.02%) R
17 10 (0.93%) RPG
18 8 (0.74%) VBA
19 7 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 141 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 111 (10.28%) Degree
3 87 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 65 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 59 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 52 (4.81%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.30%) OSCP
9 10 (0.93%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.65%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.46%) CCSP
13 5 (0.46%) CISM
13 5 (0.46%) CISSP
13 5 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.37%) QA
2 22 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.76%) GDPR
4 14 (1.30%) GRC
5 9 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.83%) NIST
6 7 (0.65%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.46%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 131 (12.13%) Docker
2 18 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) KVM
5 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.093%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 219 (20.28%) Kubernetes
2 132 (12.22%) Terraform
3 64 (5.93%) Grafana
4 36 (3.33%) Ansible
5 26 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.65%) Kibana
7 6 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.46%) Puppet
8 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.37%) Packer
9 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 3 (0.28%) WSUS
11 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 51 (4.72%) Oracle
2 47 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.07%) Google
4 32 (2.96%) IBM
5 30 (2.78%) Splunk
6 23 (2.13%) Palantir
7 19 (1.76%) VMware
8 18 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.48%) Foundry
9 16 (1.48%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.48%) SAP
10 13 (1.20%) SendGrid
11 11 (1.02%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.02%) Databricks
11 11 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.02%) Solace
12 9 (0.83%) HP
12 9 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.74%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.65%) Dynatrace