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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,089 1,037 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.29% 8.81% 10.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.62% 22.52% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 576 623 1,357
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,625 £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 £135,000 £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% +0.46%

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 5,551 4,604 7,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.86% 39.11% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,733 3,094 5,254
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,313 £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 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 22 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 22 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 -19 117 £100,000 +11.11% 169
South London -23 20 £70,000 -15.15% 11
West London -6 18 £80,000 -3.03% 66
East London -4 4 - - 11
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 41 (3.76%) Confluence
2 19 (1.74%) Apache
3 17 (1.56%) Camunda
4 13 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.092%) CICS
10 1 (0.092%) Hedera
10 1 (0.092%) IIS
10 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.37%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.28%) Maximo
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.092%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.092%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.092%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 522 (47.93%) AWS
2 223 (20.48%) Azure
3 194 (17.81%) GCP
4 76 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 73 (6.70%) GitHub
6 63 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (5.14%) SaaS
8 51 (4.68%) Serverless
9 33 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
13 22 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
13 22 (2.02%) Datadog
14 21 (1.93%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.84%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (1.47%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.21%) HTTP
2 16 (1.47%) Network Security
3 14 (1.29%) DMARC
4 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.73%) DNS
6 7 (0.64%) BGP
6 7 (0.64%) VPN
7 6 (0.55%) IPsec
8 5 (0.46%) Internet
8 5 (0.46%) IPv4
8 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.37%) Broadband
9 4 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) SAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) Firewall
12 1 (0.092%) DHCP
12 1 (0.092%) IPv6
12 1 (0.092%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.08%) NoSQL
2 69 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (5.69%) Relational Database
4 49 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 32 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.84%) Big Data
7 18 (1.65%) Redis
8 17 (1.56%) MySQL
9 16 (1.47%) Db2
10 13 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.92%) DTS
11 10 (0.92%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
12 7 (0.64%) Power BI
13 6 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.55%) Flink
Development Applications
1 84 (7.71%) Git
2 73 (6.70%) GitLab
3 63 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 49 (4.50%) Cucumber
5 48 (4.41%) TeamCity
6 47 (4.32%) JIRA
7 31 (2.85%) Selenium
8 28 (2.57%) JUnit
9 22 (2.02%) Maven
10 19 (1.74%) Postman
11 17 (1.56%) Cypress.io
11 17 (1.56%) Mockito
12 16 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.38%) Claude Code
14 12 (1.10%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.92%) JMeter
17 9 (0.83%) Gradle
18 7 (0.64%) SonarQube
19 6 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 461 (42.33%) Finance
2 244 (22.41%) Banking
3 223 (20.48%) Social Skills
4 96 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (8.17%) Law
6 74 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 69 (6.34%) Retail
8 68 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
8 68 (6.24%) Front Office
9 63 (5.79%) Financial Institution
10 33 (3.03%) Back Office
11 24 (2.20%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.11%) Marketing
13 15 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.38%) Tech for Good
14 11 (1.01%) Health Technology
15 10 (0.92%) Legal
16 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.83%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 302 (27.73%) Senior
2 271 (24.89%) Java Engineer
3 261 (23.97%) Software Engineer
4 234 (21.49%) Developer
5 149 (13.68%) Lead
6 137 (12.58%) Java Developer
7 98 (9.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 79 (7.25%) Senior Java Engineer
9 78 (7.16%) Senior Developer
10 75 (6.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 63 (5.79%) Principal Engineer
12 52 (4.78%) Architect
13 51 (4.68%) Principal Java Engineer
14 49 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (3.67%) Engineering Manager
15 40 (3.67%) Senior Java Developer
16 34 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 34 (3.12%) Software Engineering Manager
16 34 (3.12%) Software Manager
17 33 (3.03%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (26.45%) Spring
2 239 (21.95%) Spring Boot
3 189 (17.36%) Kafka
4 141 (12.95%) Terraform
5 138 (12.67%) REST
6 84 (7.71%) React
7 80 (7.35%) RESTful
8 68 (6.24%) .NET
9 65 (5.97%) Node.js
10 50 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 40 (3.67%) OAuth
12 28 (2.57%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.48%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.39%) Middleware
15 24 (2.20%) Hibernate
16 22 (2.02%) Web Services
17 21 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (1.84%) Playwright
19 16 (1.47%) HTML
19 16 (1.47%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 232 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 166 (15.24%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (11.85%) Product Ownership
4 116 (10.65%) Public Cloud
5 54 (4.96%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 40 (3.67%) e-Learning
7 35 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 29 (2.66%) Equities
10 26 (2.39%) Blog
10 26 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (2.20%) AI Agents
11 24 (2.20%) Fixed Income
12 22 (2.02%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.93%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.65%) Data Structures
15 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (1.56%) Mobile App
16 15 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.89%) Linux
2 29 (2.66%) Windows
3 18 (1.65%) Android
4 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.73%) Unix
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (41.87%) Software Engineering
2 379 (34.80%) CI/CD
3 322 (29.57%) Microservices
4 264 (24.24%) Agile
5 230 (21.12%) Test Automation
6 218 (20.02%) Mentoring
7 214 (19.65%) AI
8 211 (19.38%) DevOps
9 187 (17.17%) Event-Driven
10 183 (16.80%) Roadmaps
11 169 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 161 (14.78%) Technical Leadership
14 131 (12.03%) Containerisation
15 124 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 122 (11.20%) Fintech
17 115 (10.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 111 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
19 101 (9.27%) Computer Science
20 98 (9.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 326 (29.94%) Python
2 183 (16.80%) SQL
3 99 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 98 (9.00%) C#
5 83 (7.62%) C++
6 74 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 71 (6.52%) Go
8 58 (5.33%) Kotlin
9 47 (4.32%) Bash
10 31 (2.85%) C
10 31 (2.85%) Ruby
11 26 (2.39%) Rust
12 22 (2.02%) Scala
13 20 (1.84%) Perl
13 20 (1.84%) PHP
13 20 (1.84%) PowerShell
14 11 (1.01%) R
15 10 (0.92%) RPG
16 8 (0.73%) VBA
17 7 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 134 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 107 (9.83%) Degree
3 76 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 75 (6.89%) AWS Certification
5 64 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 64 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.47%) OSCP
8 11 (1.01%) CREST Certified
9 10 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.64%) CISSP
11 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.55%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.46%) CCSP
13 5 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.15%) QA
2 24 (2.20%) GDPR
3 22 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 10 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.83%) NIST
7 8 (0.73%) GRC
8 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.37%) WCAG
10 3 (0.28%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) UCITS
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) PSD2
12 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (12.58%) Docker
2 18 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) KVM
6 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.37%) Squid
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.092%) Firmware
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 230 (21.12%) Kubernetes
2 70 (6.43%) Grafana
3 40 (3.67%) Ansible
4 26 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.64%) Argo
5 7 (0.64%) Kibana
6 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.55%) Puppet
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.37%) EnCase
8 4 (0.37%) FTK
8 4 (0.37%) Packer
8 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.18%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 67 (6.15%) Oracle
2 61 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 54 (4.96%) Google
4 30 (2.75%) IBM
5 29 (2.66%) Splunk
6 26 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.74%) Palantir
7 19 (1.74%) VMware
8 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.38%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.29%) SendGrid
11 13 (1.19%) SAP
12 12 (1.10%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.10%) Foundry
12 12 (1.10%) Solace
13 11 (1.01%) OutSystems
14 10 (0.92%) Databricks
15 9 (0.83%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.83%) HP
16 8 (0.73%) Guidewire