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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,095 1,018 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.23% 8.63% 10.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.01% 22.38% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 551 606 1,312
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £69,375 £76,563 £76,250
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 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 5,471 4,549 7,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.15% 38.57% 42.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,616 3,035 5,115
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £132,500
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 8 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 8 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 -20 98 £100,000 +9.59% 156
South London -17 23 £70,000 -15.15% 12
West London -1 19 £80,000 -3.03% 27
East London -3 7 - - 10
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 (3.56%) Confluence
2 19 (1.74%) Camunda
3 18 (1.64%) Apache
4 13 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.91%) 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%) Hedera
9 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.27%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
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 (0.091%) IIS
11 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.91%) 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 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.091%) 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 (0.091%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.091%) Maximo
4 1 (0.091%) Quorum
4 1 (0.091%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.091%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 511 (46.67%) AWS
2 202 (18.45%) Azure
3 194 (17.72%) GCP
4 82 (7.49%) GitHub
5 77 (7.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
7 66 (6.03%) SaaS
8 50 (4.57%) Serverless
9 36 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (2.83%) Anthropic Claude
10 31 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
11 28 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.92%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (1.83%) Datadog
16 17 (1.55%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.56%) HTTP
2 20 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.74%) Network Security
4 15 (1.37%) DMARC
5 14 (1.28%) BGP
5 14 (1.28%) VPN
6 8 (0.73%) DNS
7 6 (0.55%) Firewall
7 6 (0.55%) IPsec
8 4 (0.37%) Broadband
8 4 (0.37%) Internet
8 4 (0.37%) IPv4
8 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.27%) LAN
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
9 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.27%) WAN
10 2 (0.18%) VLAN
11 1 (0.091%) LTE
11 1 (0.091%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.85%) NoSQL
2 81 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.83%) Big Data
7 18 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.64%) MySQL
8 15 (1.37%) Redis
9 12 (1.10%) Db2
10 11 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.91%) DTS
11 10 (0.91%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.91%) Power BI
12 8 (0.73%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.55%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.55%) HBase
14 6 (0.55%) KDB
Development Applications
1 80 (7.31%) Git
2 76 (6.94%) GitLab
3 64 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.66%) TeamCity
5 54 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 43 (3.93%) JIRA
7 30 (2.74%) JUnit
8 25 (2.28%) Selenium
9 23 (2.10%) Claude Code
10 21 (1.92%) Maven
11 20 (1.83%) Postman
12 19 (1.74%) Mockito
13 17 (1.55%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.19%) REST Assured
15 12 (1.10%) Bitbucket
16 11 (1.00%) JMeter
17 10 (0.91%) Gradle
18 9 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 6 (0.55%) MLflow
19 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 462 (42.19%) Finance
2 251 (22.92%) Banking
3 233 (21.28%) Social Skills
4 105 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (9.04%) Law
6 80 (7.31%) Retail
7 73 (6.67%) Financial Institution
8 71 (6.48%) Front Office
9 67 (6.12%) Public Sector
10 62 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (3.65%) Back Office
12 26 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.10%) Marketing
14 16 (1.46%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
16 11 (1.00%) Legal
17 10 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 307 (28.04%) Senior
2 285 (26.03%) Java Engineer
3 265 (24.20%) Software Engineer
4 230 (21.00%) Developer
5 148 (13.52%) Lead
6 140 (12.79%) Java Developer
7 98 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 85 (7.76%) Senior Java Engineer
9 80 (7.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 73 (6.67%) Senior Developer
11 69 (6.30%) Principal Engineer
12 53 (4.84%) Architect
12 53 (4.84%) Principal Java Engineer
13 45 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
14 38 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 37 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
16 36 (3.29%) Engineering Manager
17 34 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
18 31 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
19 30 (2.74%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (26.67%) Spring
2 246 (22.47%) Spring Boot
3 184 (16.80%) Kafka
4 154 (14.06%) Terraform
5 140 (12.79%) REST
6 82 (7.49%) RESTful
7 81 (7.40%) React
8 72 (6.58%) Node.js
9 61 (5.57%) .NET
10 56 (5.11%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.74%) OAuth
12 29 (2.65%) OAuth2
13 26 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
13 26 (2.37%) Hibernate
13 26 (2.37%) Middleware
14 21 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (1.55%) Playwright
16 15 (1.37%) AWS CDK
16 15 (1.37%) GraphQL
16 15 (1.37%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 252 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 174 (15.89%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (11.14%) Product Ownership
4 110 (10.05%) Public Cloud
5 55 (5.02%) Onboarding
6 46 (4.20%) e-Learning
7 43 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (3.29%) Blog
8 36 (3.29%) Distributed Architecture
9 34 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 31 (2.83%) Equities
11 30 (2.74%) Fixed Income
12 26 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (2.28%) AI Agents
14 23 (2.10%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.92%) Algorithms
15 21 (1.92%) Management Information System
16 20 (1.83%) Data Structures
17 19 (1.74%) Derivative
17 19 (1.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.48%) Linux
2 26 (2.37%) Windows
3 18 (1.64%) Android
4 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.73%) Unix
6 8 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (42.10%) Software Engineering
2 399 (36.44%) CI/CD
3 343 (31.32%) Microservices
4 266 (24.29%) Agile
5 237 (21.64%) Test Automation
6 232 (21.19%) AI
7 211 (19.27%) Mentoring
8 209 (19.09%) DevOps
9 192 (17.53%) Event-Driven
10 175 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (15.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 152 (13.88%) Roadmaps
13 145 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
14 136 (12.42%) Containerisation
15 129 (11.78%) Fintech
16 126 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 126 (11.51%) Full-Stack Development
17 116 (10.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 101 (9.22%) Computer Science
19 100 (9.13%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 333 (30.41%) Python
2 195 (17.81%) SQL
3 100 (9.13%) JavaScript
4 99 (9.04%) C#
5 85 (7.76%) Go
6 82 (7.49%) C++
7 78 (7.12%) TypeScript
8 53 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.20%) Bash
10 29 (2.65%) Ruby
11 28 (2.56%) C
12 26 (2.37%) Rust
13 22 (2.01%) Scala
14 20 (1.83%) PHP
15 19 (1.74%) Perl
16 16 (1.46%) PowerShell
17 11 (1.00%) R
18 10 (0.91%) RPG
19 8 (0.73%) VBA
20 7 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 131 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 99 (9.04%) Degree
3 81 (7.40%) AWS Certification
4 73 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 70 (6.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 58 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.65%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.28%) OSCP
9 13 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.10%) CISSP
11 9 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (0.82%) CCSP
11 9 (0.82%) CISM
11 9 (0.82%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.39%) QA
2 24 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.10%) GDPR
4 17 (1.55%) NIST
5 16 (1.46%) ISO 20022
6 14 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.73%) SOC 2
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 (12.42%) Docker
2 18 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.46%) KVM
7 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) Squid
7 3 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 247 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 78 (7.12%) Grafana
3 41 (3.74%) Ansible
4 29 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.00%) Argo
6 8 (0.73%) Puppet
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%) Cilium
9 5 (0.46%) Kibana
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.27%) Packer
11 3 (0.27%) Rancher
11 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.27%) WSUS
11 3 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.66%) Google
3 61 (5.57%) Oracle
4 32 (2.92%) Splunk
5 27 (2.47%) IBM
6 25 (2.28%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.64%) 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 (0.91%) Databricks
11 10 (0.91%) Foundry
12 9 (0.82%) HP
13 8 (0.73%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.73%) Guidewire