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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 24 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,045 1,155 2,226
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.81% 9.49% 9.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.47% 22.81% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 593 735 1,699
10th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
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 £130,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +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 5,368 5,064 9,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.69% 41.59% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,789 3,525 7,669
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £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 24 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 24 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 -23 151 £100,000 +2.56% 30
South London -6 23 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -16 21 £80,000 +166.67% 12
East London -1 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 22 (2.11%) Confluence
2 21 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.53%) Apache
4 15 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.57%) Camunda
6 6 (0.57%) JBoss
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.29%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.096%) Liferay
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.096%) Endur
4 1 (0.096%) Findur
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 463 (44.31%) AWS
2 191 (18.28%) GCP
3 176 (16.84%) Azure
4 66 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
5 59 (5.65%) SaaS
6 52 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 52 (4.98%) GitHub
7 33 (3.16%) Serverless
8 24 (2.30%) OpenShift
9 22 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (1.44%) dbt
13 15 (1.44%) Pulumi
14 14 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.87%) HTTP
2 23 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.01%) Broadband
4 13 (1.24%) DMARC
5 7 (0.67%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) BGP
6 5 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.38%) IPv4
7 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.29%) Firewall
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DNS
9 2 (0.19%) IPsec
9 2 (0.19%) LAN
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) WAN
10 1 (0.096%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.37%) NoSQL
2 59 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.07%) Relational Database
4 29 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 23 (2.20%) Db2
5 23 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 22 (2.11%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.44%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.05%) Big Data
8 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.05%) MySQL
9 10 (0.96%) Metadata
10 9 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.86%) Hadoop
10 9 (0.86%) Redis
11 7 (0.67%) DTS
11 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 56 (5.36%) Git
2 53 (5.07%) TeamCity
3 50 (4.78%) GitLab
4 42 (4.02%) Jenkins
5 32 (3.06%) JIRA
5 32 (3.06%) Selenium
6 30 (2.87%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.72%) JUnit
8 15 (1.44%) Maven
9 14 (1.34%) Gradle
10 12 (1.15%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.05%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.05%) Jaeger
12 9 (0.86%) Postman
13 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.67%) Mockito
14 7 (0.67%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.48%) JMeter
15 5 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 410 (39.23%) Finance
2 200 (19.14%) Banking
3 168 (16.08%) Social Skills
4 103 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (9.76%) Front Office
6 82 (7.85%) Law
7 80 (7.66%) Public Sector
8 75 (7.18%) Retail
9 65 (6.22%) Financial Institution
10 60 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
11 44 (4.21%) Back Office
12 30 (2.87%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.82%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.63%) Games
15 14 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.15%) Billing
17 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.77%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 326 (31.20%) Developer
2 255 (24.40%) Senior
3 251 (24.02%) Software Engineer
4 221 (21.15%) Java Engineer
5 185 (17.70%) Java Developer
6 153 (14.64%) Lead
7 88 (8.42%) Java Software Engineer
8 82 (7.85%) Senior Developer
9 78 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (5.74%) Lead Software Engineer
12 51 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (4.78%) Architect
14 48 (4.59%) Senior Java Developer
15 47 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
16 46 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
17 42 (4.02%) Software Developer
18 39 (3.73%) Engineering Manager
19 36 (3.44%) Consultant
19 36 (3.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (24.59%) Spring
2 217 (20.77%) Spring Boot
3 150 (14.35%) Kafka
4 118 (11.29%) React
5 112 (10.72%) REST
6 83 (7.94%) Node.js
7 57 (5.45%) .NET
8 55 (5.26%) RESTful
9 53 (5.07%) AngularJS
10 40 (3.83%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.54%) Web Services
12 34 (3.25%) Redux
13 28 (2.68%) OAuth
14 27 (2.58%) HTML
15 24 (2.30%) Middleware
15 24 (2.30%) SOAP
16 23 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
17 22 (2.11%) Hibernate
18 21 (2.01%) CSS
19 20 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 200 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 104 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.19%) Product Ownership
4 89 (8.52%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.69%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (3.06%) Blog
8 30 (2.87%) Equities
9 29 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
10 24 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.11%) e-Learning
11 22 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.82%) FPGA
12 19 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.15%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.05%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
16 9 (0.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.53%) Linux
2 25 (2.39%) Windows
3 23 (2.20%) Unix
4 21 (2.01%) Android
5 9 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (37.13%) Software Engineering
2 321 (30.72%) CI/CD
3 292 (27.94%) Agile
4 252 (24.11%) Microservices
5 221 (21.15%) DevOps
6 209 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 200 (19.14%) Mentoring
8 172 (16.46%) Roadmaps
9 143 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
10 142 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 135 (12.92%) Containerisation
12 132 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (12.15%) AI
14 101 (9.67%) Fintech
15 97 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 91 (8.71%) Event-Driven
17 90 (8.61%) Low Latency
18 79 (7.56%) Clean Code
19 78 (7.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 309 (29.57%) Python
2 158 (15.12%) SQL
3 147 (14.07%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.76%) Go
5 95 (9.09%) C#
5 95 (9.09%) C++
6 93 (8.90%) TypeScript
7 47 (4.50%) Bash
8 44 (4.21%) Kotlin
9 35 (3.35%) Rust
10 34 (3.25%) C
11 20 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.91%) Scala
12 11 (1.05%) PHP
12 11 (1.05%) Ruby
13 9 (0.86%) R
14 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.77%) Perl
15 7 (0.67%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.67%) RPG
Qualifications
1 142 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 100 (9.57%) Degree
3 91 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 57 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 50 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.53%) OSCP
9 12 (1.15%) CREST Certified
9 12 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.86%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.86%) PhD
11 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.38%) CCNA
14 4 (0.38%) RHCE
14 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.88%) QA
2 17 (1.63%) GDPR
3 14 (1.34%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.34%) GRC
4 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 10 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 7 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.38%) NIST
9 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 134 (12.82%) Docker
2 12 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.48%) KVM
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.096%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.096%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.096%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 228 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 140 (13.40%) Terraform
3 77 (7.37%) Grafana
4 41 (3.92%) Ansible
5 33 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.44%) Argo
7 11 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.67%) Kibana
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (3.92%) Google
2 35 (3.35%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.16%) Oracle
4 25 (2.39%) IBM
5 24 (2.30%) Palantir
6 22 (2.11%) Splunk
7 17 (1.63%) Foundry
8 14 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.24%) SendGrid
9 13 (1.24%) VMware
10 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.05%) Solace
12 10 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.77%) SAP
14 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.57%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.48%) Databricks
15 5 (0.48%) Sybase
16 4 (0.38%) JDA