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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,050 1,136 2,160
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.97% 9.29% 8.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.82% 22.31% 22.31%
Number of salaries quoted 588 708 1,644
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £148,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,299 5,092 9,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.08% 41.63% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,728 3,516 7,589
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -18 158 £100,000 +2.56% 63
South London -10 23 £60,000 -27.27% 2
West London -9 19 £80,000 +166.67% 4
East London -7 3 - - 5
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 19 (1.81%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.71%) Confluence
3 16 (1.52%) Apache
4 15 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.67%) JBoss
7 5 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.095%) CICS
11 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.095%) Endur
5 1 (0.095%) Findur
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 458 (43.62%) AWS
2 190 (18.10%) GCP
3 165 (15.71%) Azure
4 65 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
5 64 (6.10%) SaaS
6 49 (4.67%) GitHub
7 46 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (2.48%) Serverless
9 25 (2.38%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.81%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.52%) dbt
14 15 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.95%) HTTP
2 25 (2.38%) Broadband
3 24 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.86%) DMARC
5 4 (0.38%) IPv4
5 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.29%) BGP
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
6 3 (0.29%) VLAN
6 3 (0.29%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) AMQP
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.095%) Internet
8 1 (0.095%) LTE
8 1 (0.095%) MQTT
8 1 (0.095%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.33%) NoSQL
2 57 (5.43%) Relational Database
3 56 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.76%) RDBMS
5 26 (2.48%) MongoDB
6 22 (2.10%) Db2
7 20 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.14%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.05%) MySQL
11 10 (0.95%) Metadata
12 9 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.86%) Redis
13 7 (0.67%) Big Data
13 7 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.57%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (0.48%) Flink
Development Applications
1 55 (5.24%) Git
1 55 (5.24%) TeamCity
2 45 (4.29%) GitLab
3 44 (4.19%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.43%) Selenium
5 29 (2.76%) Cucumber
5 29 (2.76%) JIRA
6 18 (1.71%) JUnit
7 15 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.43%) Gradle
7 15 (1.43%) Jaeger
7 15 (1.43%) Maven
8 11 (1.05%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.76%) Postman
10 7 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.67%) Mockito
10 7 (0.67%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.48%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 414 (39.43%) Finance
2 214 (20.38%) Banking
3 167 (15.90%) Social Skills
4 110 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (10.00%) Front Office
6 87 (8.29%) Law
7 79 (7.52%) Retail
8 74 (7.05%) Public Sector
9 68 (6.48%) Financial Institution
10 57 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
11 46 (4.38%) Back Office
12 33 (3.14%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.62%) Games
15 15 (1.43%) Billing
15 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 332 (31.62%) Developer
2 261 (24.86%) Senior
2 261 (24.86%) Software Engineer
3 229 (21.81%) Java Engineer
4 192 (18.29%) Java Developer
5 157 (14.95%) Lead
6 98 (9.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 87 (8.29%) Senior Developer
8 81 (7.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 66 (6.29%) Senior Java Engineer
10 60 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 57 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
12 54 (5.14%) Senior Java Developer
13 53 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 46 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
15 41 (3.90%) Software Developer
16 40 (3.81%) Architect
17 37 (3.52%) Engineering Manager
18 36 (3.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 35 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (23.62%) Spring
2 207 (19.71%) Spring Boot
3 143 (13.62%) Kafka
4 128 (12.19%) React
5 113 (10.76%) REST
6 77 (7.33%) Node.js
7 58 (5.52%) .NET
8 54 (5.14%) AngularJS
9 51 (4.86%) RESTful
10 41 (3.90%) GraphQL
11 38 (3.62%) Web Services
12 34 (3.24%) Redux
13 31 (2.95%) HTML
14 27 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (2.38%) CSS
15 25 (2.38%) OAuth
15 25 (2.38%) SOAP
16 22 (2.10%) Hibernate
17 21 (2.00%) Middleware
18 19 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 195 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 104 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.14%) Product Ownership
4 85 (8.10%) Public Cloud
5 48 (4.57%) Fixed Income
6 45 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (3.24%) Blog
8 32 (3.05%) Equities
9 31 (2.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.90%) e-Learning
11 20 (1.90%) FPGA
12 15 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
13 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.05%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.05%) Derivative
14 11 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.81%) Linux
2 25 (2.38%) Android
2 25 (2.38%) Unix
3 21 (2.00%) Windows
4 11 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (36.86%) Software Engineering
2 317 (30.19%) CI/CD
3 296 (28.19%) Agile
4 242 (23.05%) Microservices
5 213 (20.29%) DevOps
6 208 (19.81%) Test Automation
7 197 (18.76%) Mentoring
8 175 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 155 (14.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 147 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
11 129 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (12.10%) Containerisation
13 124 (11.81%) AI
14 123 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
15 108 (10.29%) Fintech
16 97 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (8.57%) Low Latency
18 79 (7.52%) Clean Code
18 79 (7.52%) Event-Driven
18 79 (7.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 294 (28.00%) Python
2 155 (14.76%) JavaScript
3 148 (14.10%) SQL
4 107 (10.19%) Go
5 96 (9.14%) TypeScript
6 88 (8.38%) C#
7 85 (8.10%) C++
8 47 (4.48%) Kotlin
9 42 (4.00%) Bash
10 29 (2.76%) C
11 26 (2.48%) Rust
12 19 (1.81%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.71%) Scala
14 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.76%) R
15 7 (0.67%) PHP
16 6 (0.57%) Julia
16 6 (0.57%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.48%) Groovy
17 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 96 (9.14%) Degree
3 89 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.90%) DV Cleared
5 50 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 44 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.71%) OSCP
9 14 (1.33%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.95%) PhD
12 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.57%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.38%) CCNA
16 4 (0.38%) RHCE
16 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
17 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.29%) QA
2 15 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.33%) GDPR
3 14 (1.33%) GRC
4 13 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.29%) NIST
10 1 (0.095%) MiFID
10 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 133 (12.67%) Docker
2 10 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) KVM
4 4 (0.38%) Squid
4 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.38%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 230 (21.90%) Kubernetes
2 139 (13.24%) Terraform
3 73 (6.95%) Grafana
4 41 (3.90%) Ansible
5 32 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.90%) Argo
7 15 (1.43%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.76%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.19%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
13 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.095%) logstash
Vendors
1 42 (4.00%) Google
2 33 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.57%) Oracle
4 21 (2.00%) Palantir
5 18 (1.71%) IBM
5 18 (1.71%) Splunk
6 17 (1.62%) Foundry
7 12 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.14%) Solace
8 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.95%) VMware
10 9 (0.86%) SendGrid
11 7 (0.67%) Databricks
11 7 (0.67%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.48%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.48%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.48%) SAP
13 4 (0.38%) JDA