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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,092 999 1,871
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.21% 8.56% 10.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.79% 22.39% 24.15%
Number of salaries quoted 536 598 1,291
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £134,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.23%

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 5,518 4,461 7,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.27% 38.22% 42.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,608 2,981 5,085
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 October 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 October 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 -15 94 £100,000 +8.11% 155
South London -20 23 £70,000 -15.15% 9
West London -9 19 £80,000 -3.03% 25
East London -5 7 - - 13
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 39 (3.57%) Confluence
2 20 (1.83%) Camunda
3 18 (1.65%) Apache
4 14 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.37%) JBoss
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.27%) Hedera
9 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.27%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.092%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.092%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.64%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.092%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.092%) Maximo
4 1 (0.092%) Quorum
4 1 (0.092%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.092%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.092%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 514 (47.07%) AWS
2 202 (18.50%) Azure
3 199 (18.22%) GCP
4 81 (7.42%) GitHub
5 77 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (6.32%) SaaS
8 48 (4.40%) Serverless
9 36 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
11 30 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
12 28 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (2.01%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.92%) Snowflake
16 20 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (1.65%) Datadog
18 17 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
19 16 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.56%) HTTP
2 24 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.92%) Network Security
4 18 (1.65%) BGP
4 18 (1.65%) VPN
5 15 (1.37%) DMARC
6 9 (0.82%) Firewall
7 8 (0.73%) DNS
8 6 (0.55%) IPsec
9 4 (0.37%) Broadband
9 4 (0.37%) Internet
9 4 (0.37%) IPv4
9 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.37%) VLAN
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 1 (0.092%) MPLS
11 1 (0.092%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 66 (6.04%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (1.83%) Big Data
8 18 (1.65%) MySQL
9 15 (1.37%) Redis
10 12 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.10%) Db2
11 10 (0.92%) DTS
11 10 (0.92%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.92%) Power BI
12 8 (0.73%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.55%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.55%) Flink
14 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.55%) KDB
Development Applications
1 81 (7.42%) Git
2 74 (6.78%) GitLab
3 68 (6.23%) TeamCity
4 64 (5.86%) Jenkins
5 53 (4.85%) Cucumber
6 44 (4.03%) JIRA
7 31 (2.84%) JUnit
8 23 (2.11%) Claude Code
8 23 (2.11%) Selenium
9 21 (1.92%) Maven
10 20 (1.83%) Postman
11 19 (1.74%) Mockito
12 17 (1.56%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.28%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.19%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.01%) JMeter
16 10 (0.92%) Gradle
17 9 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 6 (0.55%) MLflow
18 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 467 (42.77%) Finance
2 257 (23.53%) Banking
3 235 (21.52%) Social Skills
4 112 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (9.34%) Law
6 85 (7.78%) Retail
7 76 (6.96%) Financial Institution
8 71 (6.50%) Front Office
9 65 (5.95%) Public Sector
10 63 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (3.94%) Back Office
12 26 (2.38%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.11%) Marketing
14 14 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.01%) Legal
17 9 (0.82%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 310 (28.39%) Senior
2 281 (25.73%) Java Engineer
3 263 (24.08%) Software Engineer
4 227 (20.79%) Developer
5 146 (13.37%) Lead
6 137 (12.55%) Java Developer
7 100 (9.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 87 (7.97%) Senior Java Engineer
9 77 (7.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 74 (6.78%) Senior Developer
11 67 (6.14%) Principal Engineer
12 54 (4.95%) Architect
13 52 (4.76%) Principal Java Engineer
14 46 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
15 39 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 37 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
17 36 (3.30%) Engineering Manager
18 32 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
18 32 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
19 30 (2.75%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (26.56%) Spring
2 241 (22.07%) Spring Boot
3 181 (16.58%) Kafka
4 159 (14.56%) Terraform
5 140 (12.82%) REST
6 82 (7.51%) RESTful
7 79 (7.23%) React
8 71 (6.50%) Node.js
9 60 (5.49%) .NET
10 55 (5.04%) AngularJS
11 39 (3.57%) OAuth
12 29 (2.66%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.38%) Hibernate
14 26 (2.38%) Middleware
15 21 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (1.56%) Playwright
17 15 (1.37%) AWS CDK
17 15 (1.37%) GraphQL
17 15 (1.37%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 255 (23.35%) Cloud Native
2 178 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (11.26%) Product Ownership
4 110 (10.07%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 45 (4.12%) e-Learning
7 42 (3.85%) Blog
7 42 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
9 35 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (2.93%) Equities
11 29 (2.66%) Fixed Income
12 25 (2.29%) AI Agents
12 25 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (2.11%) Management Information System
13 23 (2.11%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.92%) Algorithms
14 21 (1.92%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.92%) Mobile App
15 20 (1.83%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 70 (6.41%) Linux
2 27 (2.47%) Windows
3 17 (1.56%) Android
4 12 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.73%) Unix
6 8 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.092%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (41.85%) Software Engineering
2 400 (36.63%) CI/CD
3 342 (31.32%) Microservices
4 262 (23.99%) Agile
5 238 (21.79%) Test Automation
6 234 (21.43%) AI
7 206 (18.86%) Mentoring
8 203 (18.59%) DevOps
9 194 (17.77%) Event-Driven
10 181 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
11 170 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 150 (13.74%) Roadmaps
13 145 (13.28%) Technical Leadership
14 137 (12.55%) Containerisation
14 137 (12.55%) Fintech
15 128 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 123 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
17 117 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 100 (9.16%) Observability
19 99 (9.07%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 333 (30.49%) Python
2 202 (18.50%) SQL
3 98 (8.97%) C#
4 96 (8.79%) JavaScript
5 86 (7.88%) Go
6 81 (7.42%) TypeScript
7 80 (7.33%) C++
8 53 (4.85%) Kotlin
9 49 (4.49%) Bash
10 30 (2.75%) Ruby
11 29 (2.66%) C
12 26 (2.38%) Rust
13 23 (2.11%) Scala
14 20 (1.83%) Perl
14 20 (1.83%) PHP
15 17 (1.56%) PowerShell
16 11 (1.01%) R
17 10 (0.92%) RPG
18 8 (0.73%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 126 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 95 (8.70%) Degree
3 80 (7.33%) AWS Certification
4 69 (6.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 68 (6.23%) SC Cleared
6 55 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.37%) CISSP
9 13 (1.19%) OSCP
10 11 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 11 (1.01%) CCSP
10 11 (1.01%) CISM
11 10 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.73%) CREST Certified
13 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.55%) PhD
15 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.23%) QA
2 25 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.11%) GDPR
4 19 (1.74%) NIST
5 18 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.47%) ISO 20022
8 12 (1.10%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.92%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.37%) GRC
11 4 (0.37%) WCAG
12 3 (0.27%) MiFID
12 3 (0.27%) UCITS
13 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 136 (12.45%) Docker
2 19 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.46%) KVM
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.27%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle Clusterware
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 254 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 84 (7.69%) Grafana
3 43 (3.94%) Ansible
4 31 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.92%) Argo
6 8 (0.73%) Puppet
7 7 (0.64%) Cilium
7 7 (0.64%) EnCase
7 7 (0.64%) FTK
8 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.46%) Kibana
9 5 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.27%) Packer
11 3 (0.27%) WSUS
11 3 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (6.04%) Google
2 64 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 63 (5.77%) Oracle
4 34 (3.11%) Splunk
5 27 (2.47%) IBM
6 24 (2.20%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.74%) VMware
8 15 (1.37%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.37%) Palantir
8 15 (1.37%) SendGrid
9 13 (1.19%) SAP
10 12 (1.10%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.10%) OutSystems
10 12 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.10%) Solace
11 10 (0.92%) Databricks
11 10 (0.92%) Foundry
12 9 (0.82%) HP
13 8 (0.73%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.64%) Nuix