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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,107 1,042 1,973
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.31% 8.79% 10.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.85% 22.57% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 571 630 1,351
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £68,125 £76,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £134,875 £142,500
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 5,576 4,617 7,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.71% 38.96% 41.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,728 3,108 5,260
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,563 £61,438 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -23 109 £100,000 +11.11% 166
South London -23 21 £70,000 -15.15% 11
West London -6 19 £80,000 -3.03% 61
East London -4 5 - - 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 42 (3.79%) Confluence
2 21 (1.90%) Apache
3 17 (1.54%) Camunda
4 13 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.36%) JBoss
7 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.27%) CMS
7 3 (0.27%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) Hedera
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.090%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.17%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.63%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.27%) Maximo
3 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.090%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.090%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 533 (48.15%) AWS
2 222 (20.05%) Azure
3 201 (18.16%) GCP
4 79 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (6.87%) GitHub
6 68 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (5.78%) SaaS
8 52 (4.70%) Serverless
9 34 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
13 25 (2.26%) Anthropic Claude
13 25 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.99%) Datadog
15 21 (1.90%) Amazon S3
16 20 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (1.81%) Snowflake
17 16 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.07%) HTTP
2 17 (1.54%) Network Security
3 16 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.36%) DMARC
5 10 (0.90%) BGP
5 10 (0.90%) VPN
6 8 (0.72%) DNS
7 6 (0.54%) IPsec
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.45%) IPv4
9 4 (0.36%) Broadband
9 4 (0.36%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) Firewall
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
12 1 (0.090%) MPLS
12 1 (0.090%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (7.86%) NoSQL
2 72 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (5.87%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 29 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.81%) Big Data
7 17 (1.54%) Redis
8 16 (1.45%) MySQL
9 15 (1.36%) Db2
10 14 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.17%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.90%) DTS
13 10 (0.90%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.72%) Flink
14 8 (0.72%) Power BI
15 7 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.63%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (7.59%) Git
2 75 (6.78%) GitLab
3 64 (5.78%) Jenkins
4 54 (4.88%) TeamCity
5 53 (4.79%) Cucumber
6 46 (4.16%) JIRA
7 30 (2.71%) Selenium
8 28 (2.53%) JUnit
9 22 (1.99%) Maven
10 20 (1.81%) Postman
11 18 (1.63%) Claude Code
11 18 (1.63%) Cypress.io
12 17 (1.54%) Mockito
13 16 (1.45%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.99%) JMeter
16 8 (0.72%) Gradle
17 7 (0.63%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 471 (42.55%) Finance
2 254 (22.94%) Banking
3 233 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 102 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (8.76%) Law
6 77 (6.96%) Retail
7 76 (6.87%) Public Sector
8 69 (6.23%) Financial Institution
8 69 (6.23%) Front Office
9 68 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (3.43%) Back Office
11 25 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.08%) Marketing
13 16 (1.45%) Tech for Good
14 13 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.99%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.99%) Legal
16 10 (0.90%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 306 (27.64%) Senior
2 278 (25.11%) Java Engineer
3 265 (23.94%) Software Engineer
4 235 (21.23%) Developer
5 148 (13.37%) Lead
6 139 (12.56%) Java Developer
7 97 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 81 (7.32%) Senior Java Engineer
9 78 (7.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 76 (6.87%) Senior Developer
11 66 (5.96%) Principal Engineer
12 53 (4.79%) Architect
13 52 (4.70%) Principal Java Engineer
14 48 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
15 39 (3.52%) Engineering Manager
15 39 (3.52%) Senior Java Developer
16 34 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 33 (2.98%) Software Engineering Manager
17 33 (2.98%) Software Manager
18 32 (2.89%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (26.29%) Spring
2 243 (21.95%) Spring Boot
3 192 (17.34%) Kafka
4 152 (13.73%) Terraform
5 142 (12.83%) REST
6 84 (7.59%) RESTful
7 83 (7.50%) React
8 69 (6.23%) Node.js
9 64 (5.78%) .NET
10 49 (4.43%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.70%) OAuth
12 29 (2.62%) OAuth2
13 28 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.35%) Middleware
15 25 (2.26%) Hibernate
16 21 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (1.81%) Web Services
18 19 (1.72%) Playwright
19 16 (1.45%) LangChain
20 15 (1.36%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 245 (22.13%) Cloud Native
2 172 (15.54%) Distributed Systems
3 128 (11.56%) Product Ownership
4 116 (10.48%) Public Cloud
5 53 (4.79%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.79%) e-Learning
7 39 (3.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 39 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (2.80%) Equities
10 30 (2.71%) Blog
11 26 (2.35%) Fixed Income
11 26 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.17%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.99%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.90%) Algorithms
15 19 (1.72%) Data Structures
16 18 (1.63%) Mobile App
17 17 (1.54%) Derivative
17 17 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.78%) Linux
2 29 (2.62%) Windows
3 19 (1.72%) Android
4 14 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (42.01%) Software Engineering
2 396 (35.77%) CI/CD
3 334 (30.17%) Microservices
4 270 (24.39%) Agile
5 235 (21.23%) Test Automation
6 224 (20.23%) AI
7 220 (19.87%) Mentoring
8 217 (19.60%) DevOps
9 195 (17.62%) Event-Driven
10 177 (15.99%) Roadmaps
11 174 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
12 168 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 159 (14.36%) Technical Leadership
14 140 (12.65%) Containerisation
15 127 (11.47%) Fintech
16 125 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 118 (10.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 114 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
19 103 (9.30%) Computer Science
20 100 (9.03%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 340 (30.71%) Python
2 192 (17.34%) SQL
3 102 (9.21%) JavaScript
4 101 (9.12%) C#
5 86 (7.77%) C++
6 79 (7.14%) Go
7 75 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.24%) Kotlin
9 50 (4.52%) Bash
10 32 (2.89%) C
11 31 (2.80%) Ruby
12 26 (2.35%) Rust
13 24 (2.17%) Scala
14 20 (1.81%) Perl
14 20 (1.81%) PHP
14 20 (1.81%) PowerShell
15 11 (0.99%) R
16 10 (0.90%) RPG
17 8 (0.72%) VBA
18 7 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 136 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 107 (9.67%) Degree
3 77 (6.96%) AWS Certification
4 76 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 66 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 63 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (3.97%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.54%) OSCP
9 11 (0.99%) CREST Certified
10 10 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.63%) CISSP
13 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.45%) CCSP
15 5 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.32%) QA
2 24 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.08%) GDPR
4 17 (1.54%) ISO 20022
5 11 (0.99%) NIST
6 10 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.72%) GRC
7 8 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.36%) WCAG
10 3 (0.27%) MiFID
10 3 (0.27%) UCITS
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 144 (13.01%) Docker
2 18 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.45%) KVM
6 5 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.090%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 246 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 76 (6.87%) Grafana
3 40 (3.61%) Ansible
4 29 (2.62%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.63%) Argo
5 7 (0.63%) Kibana
5 7 (0.63%) Puppet
6 6 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.54%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.45%) EnCase
7 5 (0.45%) FTK
7 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.36%) Packer
8 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.27%) Rancher
9 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.27%) WSUS
10 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (5.69%) Microsoft
1 63 (5.69%) Oracle
2 60 (5.42%) Google
3 32 (2.89%) Splunk
4 29 (2.62%) IBM
5 25 (2.26%) Red Hat
6 19 (1.72%) Palantir
7 18 (1.63%) VMware
8 15 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.36%) SendGrid
9 14 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.17%) Foundry
10 13 (1.17%) SAP
11 12 (1.08%) Bloomberg
11 12 (1.08%) Solace
12 11 (0.99%) OutSystems
13 10 (0.90%) Databricks
14 9 (0.81%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.81%) HP
15 8 (0.72%) Guidewire