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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,067 1,030 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.09% 8.56% 8.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 20.87% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 599 698 1,622
10th Percentile £57,250 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £74,724 £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 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 5,335 4,936 9,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.46% 41.03% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,760 3,525 7,564
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £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 £120,000 £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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -13 158 £100,000 +2.56% 40
South London -15 23 £60,000 -27.27% 4
West London -17 18 £80,000 +166.67% 6
East London -7 3 - - 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 24 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.87%) Confluence
3 16 (1.50%) Apache
4 15 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.56%) JBoss
7 5 (0.47%) Camunda
8 4 (0.37%) CMS
8 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) Moodle
9 3 (0.28%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.094%) Appian
11 1 (0.094%) CICS
11 1 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.094%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.03%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.094%) Endur
5 1 (0.094%) Findur
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 462 (43.30%) AWS
2 195 (18.28%) GCP
3 170 (15.93%) Azure
4 68 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.19%) SaaS
6 50 (4.69%) GitHub
7 45 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.62%) Serverless
9 26 (2.44%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.78%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 18 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.50%) dbt
12 16 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.22%) Datadog
16 12 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.72%) HTTP
2 25 (2.34%) Broadband
3 24 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.66%) DMARC
5 4 (0.37%) IPv4
5 4 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 3 (0.28%) BGP
6 3 (0.28%) Network Security
6 3 (0.28%) VLAN
6 3 (0.28%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.094%) LAN
8 1 (0.094%) LTE
8 1 (0.094%) MQTT
8 1 (0.094%) SAN
8 1 (0.094%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 60 (5.62%) Relational Database
3 58 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.09%) RDBMS
5 28 (2.62%) MongoDB
6 26 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.16%) DB2
8 16 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.31%) MySQL
10 13 (1.22%) Big Data
10 13 (1.22%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.94%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.94%) Redis
12 9 (0.84%) Metadata
12 9 (0.84%) Pentaho
13 7 (0.66%) Flink
13 7 (0.66%) Neo4j
13 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (5.44%) TeamCity
2 53 (4.97%) Git
3 44 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 43 (4.03%) GitLab
5 38 (3.56%) Selenium
6 30 (2.81%) JIRA
7 29 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.50%) JUnit
10 15 (1.41%) Gradle
10 15 (1.41%) Jaeger
11 14 (1.31%) Maven
12 11 (1.03%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.75%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.75%) Postman
14 7 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.66%) WebDriver
15 6 (0.56%) Mockito
16 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 419 (39.27%) Finance
2 221 (20.71%) Banking
3 174 (16.31%) Social Skills
4 112 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 110 (10.31%) Front Office
6 92 (8.62%) Law
7 81 (7.59%) Retail
8 72 (6.75%) Public Sector
9 69 (6.47%) Financial Institution
10 63 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
11 47 (4.40%) Back Office
12 36 (3.37%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.59%) Games
15 16 (1.50%) Billing
15 16 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.84%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.66%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 350 (32.80%) Developer
2 265 (24.84%) Senior
3 263 (24.65%) Software Engineer
4 227 (21.27%) Java Engineer
5 201 (18.84%) Java Developer
6 161 (15.09%) Lead
7 102 (9.56%) Java Software Engineer
8 90 (8.43%) Senior Developer
9 83 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 67 (6.28%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 57 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 56 (5.25%) Lead Software Engineer
14 55 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
15 49 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
16 41 (3.84%) Software Developer
17 38 (3.56%) Architect
18 37 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 36 (3.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 34 (3.19%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (23.15%) Spring
2 208 (19.49%) Spring Boot
3 145 (13.59%) Kafka
4 135 (12.65%) React
5 114 (10.68%) REST
6 79 (7.40%) Node.js
7 60 (5.62%) .NET
8 55 (5.15%) AngularJS
9 52 (4.87%) RESTful
10 42 (3.94%) GraphQL
11 39 (3.66%) Web Services
12 34 (3.19%) Redux
13 32 (3.00%) HTML
14 29 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
15 27 (2.53%) CSS
15 27 (2.53%) SOAP
16 24 (2.25%) OAuth
17 22 (2.06%) Hibernate
18 21 (1.97%) Middleware
19 20 (1.87%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 195 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 107 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (8.81%) Product Ownership
4 80 (7.50%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.59%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (3.28%) Blog
8 33 (3.09%) Equities
9 32 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.87%) FPGA
12 19 (1.78%) e-Learning
13 16 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.31%) Derivative
15 14 (1.31%) Mobile Banking
16 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
17 12 (1.12%) Onboarding
18 11 (1.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.65%) Linux
2 26 (2.44%) Android
3 25 (2.34%) Unix
4 21 (1.97%) Windows
5 11 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (36.74%) Software Engineering
2 325 (30.46%) CI/CD
3 302 (28.30%) Agile
4 246 (23.06%) Microservices
5 221 (20.71%) DevOps
6 205 (19.21%) Test Automation
7 199 (18.65%) Mentoring
8 172 (16.12%) Roadmaps
9 160 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 144 (13.50%) Technical Leadership
11 131 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (11.81%) Containerisation
13 123 (11.53%) AI
14 122 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 114 (10.68%) Fintech
16 100 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 95 (8.90%) Low Latency
18 82 (7.69%) Clean Code
19 80 (7.50%) TDD
20 77 (7.22%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 302 (28.30%) Python
2 161 (15.09%) JavaScript
3 158 (14.81%) SQL
4 108 (10.12%) Go
5 98 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 87 (8.15%) C#
7 80 (7.50%) C++
8 50 (4.69%) Kotlin
9 42 (3.94%) Bash
10 30 (2.81%) C
11 24 (2.25%) Rust
12 21 (1.97%) Scala
13 19 (1.78%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.75%) VBA
15 7 (0.66%) PHP
16 6 (0.56%) R
17 5 (0.47%) Groovy
17 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.47%) RPG
Qualifications
1 140 (13.12%) Security Cleared
2 102 (9.56%) Degree
3 90 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 64 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 47 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.69%) OSCP
9 16 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.31%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.03%) PhD
12 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.37%) CCNA
16 4 (0.37%) RHCE
16 4 (0.37%) RHCSA
17 3 (0.28%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.03%) QA
2 16 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.31%) GRC
4 13 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.12%) SOC 2
6 10 (0.94%) GDPR
7 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.28%) NIST
11 1 (0.094%) MiFID
11 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.094%) SLA
11 1 (0.094%) WCAG
System Software
1 141 (13.21%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.37%) KVM
3 4 (0.37%) Squid
3 4 (0.37%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.37%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.094%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.094%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.094%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 235 (22.02%) Kubernetes
2 142 (13.31%) Terraform
3 74 (6.94%) Grafana
4 42 (3.94%) Ansible
5 32 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.97%) Argo
7 15 (1.41%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.75%) Kibana
9 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.37%) Packer
10 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.28%) 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
13 1 (0.094%) AWS Copilot
13 1 (0.094%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.094%) logstash
Vendors
1 41 (3.84%) Google
2 32 (3.00%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.72%) Oracle
4 20 (1.87%) IBM
5 19 (1.78%) Palantir
6 18 (1.69%) Splunk
7 17 (1.59%) Foundry
8 12 (1.12%) Solace
9 11 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.94%) VMware
11 9 (0.84%) Informatica
11 9 (0.84%) Talend
12 8 (0.75%) Databricks
13 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.66%) SendGrid
14 6 (0.56%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.47%) Guidewire