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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 26 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 875 1,213 2,035
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.98% 7.82% 10.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.85% 19.23% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 535 794 1,672
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
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 £140,000 £142,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -4.33%

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 4,408 6,308 8,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.11% 40.66% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,091 4,038 7,624
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +6 156 £100,000 +11.11% 70
South London +3 17 £62,600 +4.33% 11
West London -4 12 £82,500 +92.98% 15
East London -6 4 £75,000 -45.45% 17
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 40 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.66%) Apache
2 32 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.60%) Confluence
4 12 (1.37%) JBoss
5 11 (1.26%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.69%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.46%) Appian
7 4 (0.46%) nginx
7 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.34%) Liferay
8 3 (0.34%) Luigi
8 3 (0.34%) Mule
9 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.23%) Camunda
9 2 (0.23%) Moodle
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.57%) Maximo
3 4 (0.46%) Shopify
4 2 (0.23%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 408 (46.63%) AWS
2 134 (15.31%) GCP
3 124 (14.17%) Azure
4 83 (9.49%) Amazon EKS
5 72 (8.23%) SaaS
6 46 (5.26%) GitHub
7 43 (4.91%) Serverless
8 29 (3.31%) Snowflake
9 28 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.20%) dbt
10 26 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.51%) Datadog
12 22 (2.51%) OpenShift
13 20 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.17%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.83%) Pulumi
17 15 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.43%) TCP/IP
2 18 (2.06%) Broadband
3 13 (1.49%) HTTP
4 9 (1.03%) VPN
5 8 (0.91%) Multicast
6 5 (0.57%) AMQP
6 5 (0.57%) BGP
6 5 (0.57%) VLAN
7 4 (0.46%) DNS
7 4 (0.46%) Firewall
7 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.23%) Internet
8 2 (0.23%) LAN
8 2 (0.23%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) SMTP
8 2 (0.23%) SNMP
8 2 (0.23%) SSH
8 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (10.17%) Relational Database
2 88 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (6.97%) NoSQL
4 54 (6.17%) RDBMS
5 46 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (4.57%) SQL Server
7 36 (4.11%) Big Data
8 35 (4.00%) MongoDB
9 34 (3.89%) Hadoop
10 31 (3.54%) Data Lake
11 23 (2.63%) DB2
12 22 (2.51%) Apache Ignite
13 20 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (2.17%) Apache Arrow
14 19 (2.17%) Apache Iceberg
14 19 (2.17%) Dremio
14 19 (2.17%) DynamoDB
15 16 (1.83%) Neo4j
16 15 (1.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 64 (7.31%) Jenkins
2 50 (5.71%) TeamCity
3 48 (5.49%) Selenium
4 36 (4.11%) Git
5 33 (3.77%) JIRA
6 30 (3.43%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.51%) JUnit
8 21 (2.40%) GitLab
9 20 (2.29%) Bitbucket
9 20 (2.29%) JMeter
10 19 (2.17%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.83%) Jaeger
12 13 (1.49%) Mockito
13 12 (1.37%) WebDriver
14 11 (1.26%) Postman
15 9 (1.03%) Maven
16 7 (0.80%) Subversion
17 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
17 6 (0.69%) Vite
18 5 (0.57%) Gradle
General
1 313 (35.77%) Finance
2 232 (26.51%) Banking
3 228 (26.06%) Social Skills
4 96 (10.97%) Front Office
5 91 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (10.17%) Law
7 81 (9.26%) Financial Institution
7 81 (9.26%) Investment Banking
8 67 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (7.66%) Retail
9 47 (5.37%) Public Sector
10 42 (4.80%) Back Office
11 23 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.06%) Billing
13 16 (1.83%) Games
14 13 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.69%) Legal
16 6 (0.69%) Marketing
16 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 300 (34.29%) Developer
2 221 (25.26%) Senior
3 201 (22.97%) Software Engineer
4 173 (19.77%) Java Developer
5 150 (17.14%) Java Engineer
6 127 (14.51%) Lead
7 96 (10.97%) Java Software Engineer
8 80 (9.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 80 (9.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 70 (8.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 61 (6.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 57 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
12 53 (6.06%) Architect
13 48 (5.49%) Senior Developer
14 47 (5.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 45 (5.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 32 (3.66%) Data Engineer
16 32 (3.66%) Development Engineer
17 30 (3.43%) Senior Java Developer
18 29 (3.31%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (21.14%) Spring
2 152 (17.37%) React
3 132 (15.09%) Spring Boot
4 117 (13.37%) Kafka
5 103 (11.77%) REST
6 68 (7.77%) RESTful
7 65 (7.43%) Node.js
8 60 (6.86%) .NET
9 53 (6.06%) HTML
10 48 (5.49%) AngularJS
11 38 (4.34%) CSS
12 36 (4.11%) Hibernate
13 34 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (3.66%) GraphQL
14 32 (3.66%) SOAP
15 28 (3.20%) Web Services
16 27 (3.09%) JSON
17 25 (2.86%) XML
18 23 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
18 23 (2.63%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 180 (20.57%) Cloud Native
2 137 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (7.20%) Equities
4 54 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 42 (4.80%) Derivative
7 37 (4.23%) Fixed Income
8 34 (3.89%) Algorithms
9 32 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (3.54%) Blog
10 31 (3.54%) Hedge funds
11 26 (2.97%) Onboarding
11 26 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (2.63%) Public Cloud
13 22 (2.51%) Management Information System
14 21 (2.40%) Pricing Data
15 20 (2.29%) Data Structures
15 20 (2.29%) FPGA
15 20 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 116 (13.26%) Linux
2 27 (3.09%) Unix
3 23 (2.63%) Windows
4 14 (1.60%) Android
5 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (33.83%) Software Engineering
2 290 (33.14%) Agile
3 285 (32.57%) CI/CD
4 209 (23.89%) Microservices
5 178 (20.34%) DevOps
6 169 (19.31%) Test Automation
7 161 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 146 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (15.54%) Mentoring
10 105 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (11.66%) Roadmaps
12 99 (11.31%) Containerisation
12 99 (11.31%) Fintech
13 97 (11.09%) Computer Science
14 92 (10.51%) Low Latency
15 89 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
16 87 (9.94%) AI
17 72 (8.23%) TDD
18 71 (8.11%) Clean Code
19 70 (8.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 292 (33.37%) Python
2 174 (19.89%) JavaScript
3 135 (15.43%) SQL
4 124 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 91 (10.40%) C#
6 72 (8.23%) Go
7 57 (6.51%) C++
8 55 (6.29%) Kotlin
9 41 (4.69%) C
10 40 (4.57%) Scala
11 24 (2.74%) Bash
12 23 (2.63%) Rust
13 16 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.91%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.91%) Ruby
15 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 7 (0.80%) PHP
16 6 (0.69%) Perl
16 6 (0.69%) VBA
17 5 (0.57%) RPG
Qualifications
1 120 (13.71%) Degree
2 114 (13.03%) Security Cleared
3 63 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (5.03%) DV Cleared
6 36 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 36 (4.11%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.29%) PhD
8 13 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (0.91%) CREST Certified
10 8 (0.91%) OSCP
11 5 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.46%) OSCE
13 3 (0.34%) ISEB
13 3 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.11%) QA
2 18 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.94%) GDPR
4 12 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 8 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.46%) SEPA
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.23%) PSD2
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (16.23%) Docker
2 15 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.91%) HDFS
6 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.23%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 222 (25.37%) Kubernetes
2 91 (10.40%) Terraform
3 44 (5.03%) Grafana
4 37 (4.23%) Ansible
5 30 (3.43%) Argo
6 21 (2.40%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.83%) Kibana
7 16 (1.83%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.34%) Nagios
10 3 (0.34%) Puppet
11 2 (0.23%) logstash
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (4.00%) Oracle
2 33 (3.77%) Google
3 22 (2.51%) Guidewire
4 19 (2.17%) Informatica
4 19 (2.17%) Talend
5 18 (2.06%) Databricks
6 16 (1.83%) IBM
6 16 (1.83%) Microsoft
6 16 (1.83%) Splunk
7 15 (1.71%) Atlassian
8 13 (1.49%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.26%) Dell
9 11 (1.26%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.80%) Solace
12 6 (0.69%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.69%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.69%) SAP
13 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.46%) SnapLogic