Java Jobs in London

Java
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,262 2,195 3,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.61% 9.66% 13.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.13% 24.11% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 769 1,638 2,993
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £74,870 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £130,000 £140,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -3.13% +10.34%

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 5,455 9,103 13,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.56% 40.06% 46.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,613 6,907 11,099
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £103,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in London

Java
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in London.

Salary trend for Java in London

Java
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 2025. 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 -3 213 £97,500 +14.71% 66
South London +23 88 £82,500 - 37
West London +45 35 £30,000 -47.83% 20
East London -12 12 - - 12
North London - 7 - -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 179 (14.18%) Apache Airflow
2 152 (12.04%) Apache
3 54 (4.28%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.66%) Confluence
5 11 (0.87%) JBoss
6 10 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 8 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.32%) Traefik
12 3 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.24%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.24%) Mule
12 3 (0.24%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) Trello
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Endur
2 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.32%) Adaptiv
3 4 (0.32%) Maximo
3 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.079%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 730 (57.84%) AWS
2 219 (17.35%) Azure
3 187 (14.82%) GCP
4 172 (13.63%) dbt
5 137 (10.86%) Serverless
6 121 (9.59%) Snowflake
7 89 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
8 85 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
9 84 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
10 76 (6.02%) GitHub
11 74 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
12 69 (5.47%) Pulumi
13 39 (3.09%) OpenShift
14 37 (2.93%) Amazon S3
15 36 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (2.61%) Datadog
18 32 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
18 32 (2.54%) SaaS
19 19 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.55%) Broadband
2 23 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.43%) Network Security
4 7 (0.55%) DNS
4 7 (0.55%) VPN
5 4 (0.32%) DHCP
5 4 (0.32%) ICMP
5 4 (0.32%) Multicast
5 4 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.24%) SSL
7 2 (0.16%) LAN
7 2 (0.16%) SAN
7 2 (0.16%) SSH
7 2 (0.16%) WAN
7 2 (0.16%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.079%) Firewall
8 1 (0.079%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.079%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (14.03%) Amazon Athena
2 174 (13.79%) Apache Iceberg
3 170 (13.47%) Dremio
4 165 (13.07%) Relational Database
5 162 (12.84%) Apache Arrow
6 130 (10.30%) NoSQL
7 126 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
8 106 (8.40%) Apache Ignite
9 102 (8.08%) Data Lake
10 97 (7.69%) RDBMS
11 38 (3.01%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.77%) MongoDB
13 30 (2.38%) Big Data
14 25 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (1.82%) MySQL
16 21 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (1.35%) DynamoDB
17 17 (1.35%) Hadoop
18 15 (1.19%) KDB
19 14 (1.11%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 117 (9.27%) Git
2 109 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.31%) Jaeger
4 63 (4.99%) JUnit
5 40 (3.17%) JIRA
6 39 (3.09%) Mockito
7 38 (3.01%) Maven
8 37 (2.93%) Artifactory
9 34 (2.69%) GitLab
10 30 (2.38%) IntelliJ
11 24 (1.90%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.82%) JMeter
13 21 (1.66%) Selenium
14 18 (1.43%) SonarQube
15 17 (1.35%) Bitbucket
15 17 (1.35%) Postman
16 11 (0.87%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.87%) Gradle
17 9 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 653 (51.74%) Finance
2 407 (32.25%) Banking
3 311 (24.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 303 (24.01%) Front Office
5 274 (21.71%) Social Skills
6 215 (17.04%) Law
7 191 (15.13%) Investment Banking
8 110 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
9 59 (4.68%) Public Sector
10 55 (4.36%) Financial Institution
10 55 (4.36%) Marketing
11 31 (2.46%) Legal
12 17 (1.35%) Games
13 12 (0.95%) Retail
14 11 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.71%) Billing
17 8 (0.63%) Back Office
18 7 (0.55%) Publishing
18 7 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 458 (36.29%) Software Engineer
2 377 (29.87%) Developer
3 323 (25.59%) Lead
4 293 (23.22%) Java Engineer
5 281 (22.27%) Senior
6 251 (19.89%) Java Software Engineer
7 194 (15.37%) Java Developer
8 183 (14.50%) AWS Engineer
9 156 (12.36%) Python Engineer
10 154 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 145 (11.49%) AWS Software Engineer
12 139 (11.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 129 (10.22%) Senior Java Engineer
14 117 (9.27%) Python Software Engineer
15 111 (8.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 90 (7.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 83 (6.58%) Data Engineer
18 74 (5.86%) AWS Developer
19 71 (5.63%) Team Leader
20 64 (5.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (19.18%) Kafka
2 227 (17.99%) Spring
3 190 (15.06%) React
4 171 (13.55%) Spring Boot
5 127 (10.06%) Pandas
6 112 (8.87%) RESTful
7 108 (8.56%) NumPy
7 108 (8.56%) SciPy
8 107 (8.48%) Node.js
9 98 (7.77%) .NET
10 96 (7.61%) REST
11 94 (7.45%) AngularJS
12 93 (7.37%) PySpark
13 90 (7.13%) Elastic Stack
14 84 (6.66%) gRPC
15 80 (6.34%) Protocol Buffers
16 77 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
17 63 (4.99%) Web Services
18 51 (4.04%) HTML
19 47 (3.72%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 189 (14.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 187 (14.82%) Fixed Income
3 177 (14.03%) Equities
4 175 (13.87%) Cloud Native
4 175 (13.87%) Derivative
5 120 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
6 115 (9.11%) Hedge funds
7 69 (5.47%) Algorithms
8 65 (5.15%) Pricing Data
9 53 (4.20%) Public Cloud
10 44 (3.49%) Management Information System
11 37 (2.93%) Product Ownership
12 36 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
12 36 (2.85%) Onboarding
13 34 (2.69%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.98%) Virtual Team
15 23 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (1.74%) Mobile App
17 18 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
18 17 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 182 (14.42%) Linux
2 92 (7.29%) Unix
3 34 (2.69%) Android
4 19 (1.51%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.19%) Windows
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.16%) zOS
8 1 (0.079%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (59.27%) Agile
2 627 (49.68%) Software Engineering
3 381 (30.19%) CI/CD
4 313 (24.80%) DevOps
5 282 (22.35%) Microservices
6 227 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
7 218 (17.27%) SDLC
8 211 (16.72%) Containerisation
9 196 (15.53%) Asset Management
10 184 (14.58%) Mentoring
11 180 (14.26%) Fintech
12 151 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 143 (11.33%) Roadmaps
14 133 (10.54%) Computer Science
15 132 (10.46%) TDD
16 129 (10.22%) Investment Management
17 124 (9.83%) Test Automation
18 114 (9.03%) High Availability
19 112 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 112 (8.87%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 631 (50.00%) Python
2 344 (27.26%) JavaScript
3 230 (18.23%) SQL
4 211 (16.72%) TypeScript
5 205 (16.24%) Go
6 136 (10.78%) C++
7 130 (10.30%) C#
8 93 (7.37%) Bash
9 86 (6.81%) Kotlin
10 55 (4.36%) Scala
11 42 (3.33%) C
12 41 (3.25%) Shell Script
13 40 (3.17%) Rust
14 21 (1.66%) PowerShell
15 14 (1.11%) Groovy
15 14 (1.11%) Objective-C
16 13 (1.03%) Swift
17 10 (0.79%) Ruby
18 9 (0.71%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 167 (13.23%) Degree
2 109 (8.64%) AWS Certification
3 98 (7.77%) Security Cleared
4 69 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (5.23%) SC Cleared
6 61 (4.83%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 31 (2.46%) PhD
9 24 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.55%) CFA
10 7 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.55%) PMP
11 5 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.32%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.16%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.16%) Dell Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.96%) QA
2 24 (1.90%) GDPR
3 18 (1.43%) HIPAA
4 16 (1.27%) SLA
5 12 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.71%) NIST
8 6 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.24%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.16%) GRC
10 2 (0.16%) ITGC
11 1 (0.079%) COBIT
11 1 (0.079%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.079%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.079%) NCSC
11 1 (0.079%) WCAG
System Software
1 336 (26.62%) Docker
2 5 (0.40%) Apache Flume
3 3 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.16%) KVM
4 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.16%) Xen
5 1 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.079%) HDFS
5 1 (0.079%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 442 (35.02%) Kubernetes
2 235 (18.62%) Terraform
3 117 (9.27%) Ansible
4 114 (9.03%) Prometheus
5 80 (6.34%) Argo
6 73 (5.78%) Kustomize
7 43 (3.41%) Grafana
8 20 (1.58%) Kibana
9 13 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.48%) Puppet
12 5 (0.40%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.40%) Oozie
13 4 (0.32%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.32%) Packer
14 3 (0.24%) Control-M
14 3 (0.24%) Istio
15 2 (0.16%) CA Endevor
15 2 (0.16%) Mesos
15 2 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 124 (9.83%) Google
2 63 (4.99%) Oracle
3 50 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 32 (2.54%) Splunk
5 27 (2.14%) Dynatrace
6 22 (1.74%) Guidewire
7 21 (1.66%) Databricks
8 18 (1.43%) IBM
9 14 (1.11%) Foundry
10 13 (1.03%) Palantir
10 13 (1.03%) Solace
11 9 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.63%) Murex
12 8 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.55%) SAP
13 7 (0.55%) Sybase
14 6 (0.48%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.48%) Informatica
14 6 (0.48%) OpenLink